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Earlier text: Central Union Conference Summer School

Text-Books

By E. A. Sutherland

THE Romans had a legend that the founder of their nation, though born of human parents, was suckled by a wolf, and they traced the savagery of their own dispositions to the character imbibed from the milk of that beast, by that babe, Romulus. Although it is a legend, it illustrates a principle seen the world over,—the principle stated by Solomon in the words, “Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

The mental food which the little child eats is building the character for the man. Feed the child stories founded upon myths, and in the man you will reap infidelity. Feed the childish mind with thoughts of faith, love, and truth, and in the man you reap Christianity.

The question of study books has been a vital one in connection with every educational movement. When Confucius undertook to perpetuate his doctrines, did he bequeath them to the priests?—No; he put the children to reading them; for centuries the boys of China have read from the books of Confucius. Have they lost their reverence for these so-called sacred writings?—By no means. Some contend that if the children read the Scriptures in the day-schools, the sacred Word will become common. China’s history is an answer from which Christians might well learn a lesson.

The plan just mentioned was followed in the schools of Israel. A noted Christian writer has said, “Up to ten years of age the Bible was the sole text-book. Bible study began with the book of Leviticus; then came other parts of the Pentateuch; next the prophets; and finally the Hagiographa.” Think of putting a little child to studying the book of Leviticus. Many teachers at the present day would ridicule the plan, and yet the history of the Jews shows that wonderful results were attained from this course of study. Because their students wrestled with the strong Word, they were able in manhood to build up the nation until it held the place occupied under David and Solomon.

While the children of other nationalities were studying Egyptian wisdom, the mythology of Babylon, and the philosophy of Greece, the youth in Israel were fed the Word of God. As a result the kings of the earth came to Israel’s kings to seek wisdom. The Israelites’ strength was due to their education, to the study and obedience of God’s Word.

In the early Christian church the children were carefully taught by parents and teachers. One historian says, “The Bible was the entertainment of the fireside. It was the first, the last, the only school-book almost of the child.” Their object was to train their children in the fear of God, and the author just quoted says, “As a result they grew up without a taste for debasing pleasures. They acquired simple domestic tastes, and when the time came they took their place as consistent and earnest workers in the church.” We are working for the same results to-day, and the causes that produced such characters in the early days of the church, will, if put into operation, produce character in our children that will enable them to stand firmly for the truth when the adults will be prohibited from preaching the message.

It was necessary in the great Reformation of the sixteenth century, conducted largely by Luther and Melanchthon, to prepare proper text-books for the children of reformers. History states that they started schools, and then wrote text-books. In every case where reform was successful, the Bible was first put in the language of the common people, and then other books were prepared in harmony with the Scriptures.

It would be profitable, had we time, to study the methods advocated by the Reformers, and those who advocated a counter-reformation. The first presented principles, which developed faith in God’s Word. The second, represented by Jesuits, produced books filled with facts, to master which required a great amount of memorizing.

The presentation of principles, therefore, ought to be the chief characteristic of Christian text-books. Text-books, which teach facts but leave out the practical application of principles, and which do not compel the student to practise what he learns, will not develop lovers of truth. It is our duty to break away from the formal memorizing of mediæval days, which in education is the same as absolute monarchy in government.

Text-books built upon memory work bind and restrict. Wm. T. Harris says on this point: “Memory is the faculty that subordinates the present under the past, and its extensive training develops a habit of mind that holds up what is prescribed, and recoils from the new and untried. In short, the educational curriculum that lays great stress on memorizing produces a class of conservative people.”

The proper books for study must compel doing. Our physiologies should make health reformers and medical missionaries who go about doing good. Our geographies should inspire students to carry the gospel into foreign fields. Our language study should compel the student to think God’s thoughts and to speak his words. Speakers and writers ought to be developed after God’s order. The study of agriculture must no longer be a theory, but must result in bringing forth men who can cultivate the soil as God intends; men who will long to bring forth from the earth its wealth, and who, as a result, will be instrumental in starting an exodus from the cities.

E. A. SUTHERLAND.

The Machinery of Education

“You talk with college presidents,” says an editorial in one of the Chicago papers, “you hear the words ‘building,’ ‘endowment,’ ‘donation,’ ‘resources,’ ‘affiliation,’ ‘combination.’ You miss the conversation that you would like to hear on things of taste, on poetry, on history, on human life. You begin to fear that we are so busy with our machinery of education that we have no time to educate. You begin to fear that while we are developing the organs of education, the life is flickering out.”

Christian Education

By L. A. Hoopes; Frederick Griggs

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.

L. A. HOOPES, Chairman; FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.

Educational Convention Report

THE following articles by Elder Daniells and Professor Sutherland are reports of talks given by them at the educational convention held at College View, Neb. They are as important and inspiring now as when they were spoken a year ago; so are all the words which were spoken at that memorable meeting. The General Conference Committee considered the matter presented at that convention and the discussions which took place there of such importance that they decided to publish a report of the whole proceedings of the convention. Of course, such a report could not well be a verbatim record of a week's convention, but it is verbatim of many of the most important topics considered, and its editors faithfully endeavored to make it a correct interpretation of the doings and spirit of the entire convention. There are yet on hand a good number of these reports which can be had post-paid for twenty-five cents per copy by addressing the secretary of the Department of Education, Frederick Griggs, South Lancaster, Mass. They can also be obtained of the tract societies. This report should be in the hands of every one of our people who is interested in Christian education.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1904

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern New England ........ Sept. 1-10 Maine, Caribou, Aroostook Co. ........ Aug. 25 to Sept. 5 New York (State) ........ Sept. 8-18 New York, Hadley (local) ...... Aug. 18-28 Vermont, Hardwick ............ Aug. 18-28 Virginia, Stanleyton ........ Aug. 5-14 West Virginia, Clarksburg ..... Sept. 8-18

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Maritime ...................... Quebec ........................

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Cumberland, Rockwood, Tenn. .... Aug. 11-22 Florida, Plant City ............ Oct. 13-23 Georgia, Lawrenceville ........ Aug. 5-15 Mississippi .................... Tennessee River, Hazel, Ky. .... August 19-28

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

East Michigan, Flint .......... Sept. 15-25 Indiana, Martinsville ......... Aug. 18-29 Northern Illinois, Streator .... Sept. 1-11 Southern Illinois, Decatur ..... Aug. 17-28 North Michigan, Mancelona ...... Sept. 1-12 Ohio, Marysville ............... Aug. 11-22 West Michigan, Allegan ......... Aug. 18-29 Wisconsin, Oshkosh ............. Aug. 30 to Sept. 12

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Colorado, Longmont ............. Aug. 18-28 Kansas, Wichita ................ Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Missouri, Columbia ............. Aug. 11-21 Nebraska (State), Omaha ........ Sept. 1-11

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Russellville, Pope Co. . Aug. 11-23 Oklahoma, Guthrie .............. Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Texas, Hughes Springs (local) ... Aug. 16-26

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia, Vancouver .... Sept. 15-25 Western Oregon, Myrtle Point ... Aug. 18-28 Western Oregon, Ashland ........ Sept. 8-18 Southern California, Los Angeles . Sept. 1-11 Utah, Provo .................... Aug. 10-17

UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE

British Columbia, Vancouver .... Sept. 15-25 Southern Idaho ................. Sept. 12-18 Oregon, La Grande .............. Aug. 30 to Sept. 4

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.

Virginia, Notice!

By R. D. Hottel

Since advertising rates for the camp-meeting at Stanleyton, Page County, in the papers and on the bills, we are sure that there will not be fifty coming over those roads under the certificate plan, and in this case no reduction on the return trip could be secured. We now advise all who come over the Southern Railroad to buy round-trip summer excursion tickets to Luray. Luray is only seven miles from Stanleyton, the place of the meeting. Bear in mind that the fare will be $1.35 less if you do not want to go into the Caverns at Luray. These rates are from points on the Southern, and may be obtained on the other roads also. Make full inquiry before starting to the meeting. If the station is not a coupon station, you will have to notify the agent ahead in order to get your tickets. Those coming over the Chesapeake and Ohio will use the card orders, and those coming over the Norfolk and Western will get reduced rates, as advertised. We have sent this information to all who are likely to come under the certificate plan, and insert the notice in the REVIEW and the Gleaner in hopes that it will be seen by all in time. If you can not buy the summer excursion tickets, you will have to get the best rates you can. We are sorry that we can not do any better, but the roads mentioned say they can not, under the rules, change the arrangements.

In coming to Luray on the summer excursion ticket, you will of course have to pay your fare to Stanleyton from Luray, and look after your baggage. By seeing the conductor in time, perhaps you can do this without changing trains. R. D. Hottel.

Hazel (Ky.) Camp-Meeting

By N. W. Allee

THIS will be the general gathering for our Tennessee River Conference. The camp will be situated in a nice, shady place on the grounds recently purchased for the intermediate school. The time is August 19-28. The choice for the place of our camp-meeting was made at Hazel, Ky., as this will give the brethren and sisters of our Tennessee River Conference the most favorable opportunity to see the new location of the school just as plans are being made for the school, and the first work being done. Aside from this opportunity of seeing the location for the school and studying the principles of Christian education together, the general interests of our work in the message will be considered. We are planning to devote some time to each department of the work,—canvassing, Sabbath-school

healthful living, education, home missionary, etc.,—the central theme being the soon-coming Saviour. The usual conference business will be transacted,—auditing of laborers' accounts, election of conference officers, and laying of plans for future work. These questions are surely of sufficient importance to interest every one of our brethren and sisters in making reasonable efforts to attend. Brethren, we are expecting your presence.

New family tents, of comfortable size and height, will be on the grounds. We have applied for the usual reduced rates of travel on the railroads. Grocery stand and dining-tent will be provided. We shall have moonlight nights, and we trust pleasant weather. The grounds are shady, with quiet, restful places, where God may be sought in secret devotions. Best of all, God's Spirit is promised. Come, brethren, to this annual gathering, and share the blessings. Write immediately to W. D. Dortch, Hazel, Ky., for your family tent. The supply is limited.

N. W. ALLEE, President of Conference.

Local Camp-Meeting for Western Washington

By E. L. STEWART

We will hold our local camp-meeting for the Southern District at Ridgefield, August 25-31. This will be the first local meeting ever held in this section. We hope it will give an impetus to the work in that district. It is only a short distance from Ridgefield to all the churches in that part. Most of the members can come by team if necessary, although they are in reach of the railroad. Tents will be on the ground, for rent at the usual price. Good ministerial help will also be provided, and everything that we can do to make the meeting profitable will be done; but the blessing and real spiritual profit depend largely, if not entirely, upon the sincere desire and preparation of the individual. The meeting will be free from business, and wholly devoted to the work of drawing nearer to God. We hope and pray that every Sabbath-keeping family in that section may be represented at the meeting. There will be no dining-tent on the ground, but there will be a small tent supplied with health foods and provisions, where food may be secured. Let us begin at once to prepare for the meeting.

E. L. STEWART,

President Western Washington Conference.

Notice for Kansas

By C. McREYNOLDS

A TELEGRAM was sent to the Review Office last week [Received too late for insertion in the last issue.—Ed.] announcing that our conference and tract society office at Topeka had been quarantined on account of smallpox.

The situation is not so serious as first feared. Brother H. E. Meyer has the smallpox, but is not sick, though much broken out. He is quarantined in his home, but is ready for work as soon as it is safe for him to go out. The other laborers in the office worked in a separate room, and for the last two days before the true nature of the disease was discovered, they were not in the office; hence it is hoped that they will not be affected by the exposure.

The office was fumigated well, and we are now in it, and at work. Our paper will be issued regularly, missing only the one issue. My mail, consisting of many letters from the workers in various parts of our field, had been held for a week, awaiting my return to the office, which was unexpectedly delayed; and I was then forbidden to receive it out of the quarantined office, hence a still longer delay in reply to many questions pertaining to the work. We believe, however, that the Lord has directed his own work in each case where he has been made the workers’ Counselor.

C. McREYNOLDS.

Current Mention

— It is rumored that President Roosevelt will be asked to intervene in the meat strike, and take some measures to force a settlement, as was done in the great coal strike.

— England has been joined by the United States in protesting against the seizure of the vessels and cargoes of neutral nations by Russian ships of war. The sinking of the “Knight Commander,” a British ship, by a Russian cruiser, is regarded as unjustified by any rules of international warfare, and much feeling was aroused over the incident, which for a time threatened to bring on war.

— The friction between France and the Vatican has at last reached the point of open rupture, the pope having refused to accede to the last demand made by the French government, in the matter of the summoning of certain French bishops to Rome. The French representative at the Vatican will now be recalled, and the papal nuncio at Paris will be dismissed. This will terminate all diplomatic relations between France and the papacy.

— The Russo-Japanese war is marked by almost daily fighting between portions of the opposing armies in Manchuria, but the “great decisive battle” which in the newspaper reports has been imminent for a month or more, still holds off. The general movements of the armies show that the advantage in the fighting continues to be with the Japanese, who have been almost uniformly successful in the important engagements. Port Arthur still holds out, but it appears evident that the siege is being pressed with the intention of forcing an early capitulation, this being of the greatest importance to the Japanese in order that Admiral Togo’s fleet may be released from Port Arthur, and be free to prevent further raids by the Vladivostock squadron, which have demoralized shipping interests on a vast scale. It is stated that the latest raid by this squadron resulted in holding up in port for ten days 200,000 tons of chartered shipping, at a loss of over $7,000,000.

— The work of the assassin has again shocked the civilized world, the victim in this instance being the Russian minister of the interior, M. von Plehve, who was killed by the explosion of a bomb while riding in his carriage in St. Petersburg, July 28. Several other persons near him at the time were killed or fatally injured. The bomb was filled with a very powerful explosive, as was shown by its effects, the paving stones under the victim’s coach being reduced to powder, and every window within half a mile being broken. Minister Plehve and his coachman were killed instantly. The assassin was severely injured by the explosion, and was taken to a hospital. Another man carrying a bomb similar to that used by the assassin was arrested. Next to the czar, Minister von Plehve was regarded as the most powerful man in the empire. The czar was prostrated by the news. The assassin, who is believed to be connected with an international association of anarchists, declared that more assassinations were to follow.

Obituaries

McCONNELL.—Died at Springfield, Ill., July 18, 1904, of tubercular meningitis, little Florence Laeline, only child of Brother F. L. and Minnie McConnell, aged 11 months and 3 days. The parents and other relatives were comforted at the funeral with the hope contained in the precious promises of God. CHAR. THOMPSON.

WANE.—Died at the home of his parents at Ottawa, Kan., July 19, 1904, Russel L. Wane, aged 15 years, 6 months, and 25 days. Russel was always a model boy, taking delight in winning the affection of all by his kindness and his services of love. He leaves many friends to mourn their loss. Words of hope were based on John 3:16. C. E. PECKOVER.

HOLLENBECK.—Died at Bellingham, Wash., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Burch, of Bright’s disease, N. Hollenbeck, aged 77 years, 3 months, and 19 days. Father Hollenbeck accepted present truth about twenty-eight years ago, to which he adhered to the end. Two sons and two daughters mourn their loss, but with hope of reunion in the first resurrection. Funeral services were conducted by the writer at Mt. Vernon, Wash., where the interment took place. W. W. SHARP.

LEECH.—Died at Battle Creek, Mich., July 12, 1904, from the effects of paralysis, Sister Martha M. Leech, nee Gale, aged 71 years, 1 month, and 17 days. She was born in Colchester, Vt. At the age of eighteen she was converted, and joined the Methodist Church, of which she was a faithful and working member for thirty-four years. In 1884 she accepted Bible truth as taught by the Seventh-day Adventists, and united with their church. When she came to Michigan, she transferred her membership to Battle Creek. She was a firm believer in the near coming of Christ, and often said, I expect to see the day. The blessed hope was her support in her long sickness, and she manifested great patience through her suffering. At the funeral, words of comfort were spoken by the writer. L. D. VAN HORN.

A Study of the Covenants

THE August number of the Bible Training School is devoted to the important subject of the covenants. The following is the table of contents:—

When I Read My Bible Through (poetry). The Two Covenants, Mrs. E. G. White. Pioneers in the Third Message, J. N. Loughborough. The History of the Covenants, Mrs. S. N. Haskell. Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown? (poetry). Men of Tears. A Birthday Song, G. B. Thompson. Live the Truth (poetry). The Covenant Sealed, Mrs. S. N. Haskell. Christ and the Covenant, Mrs. E. G. White. Five Books, S. N. Haskell. The Old Covenant. The Blood of the Covenant, S. N. Haskell. Like Heaven (poetry). The Terms of the Two Covenants, Mrs. E. G. White. Bondage or Freedom. Choice selections. Covenants. History of the Keene Orphanage. When Will the Marriage Supper Be Celebrated? Lessons from the Sun. Bible Readers' Class. Wisdom, Helen McKinnon. How God Maintains the Justice of His Government, G. T. Wilson. Thoughts for Bible Students. A Tribute, Mrs. Philmon. Roll of Honor. Address Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass.

Vermont Camp-Meeting

By J. W. Watt

THE annual conference and camp-meeting for Vermont will convene at Hardwick, August 18-28. We expect excellent help from abroad. Elders H. W. Cottrell, W. H. Thurston, Professor Griggs, and others will be with us. The usual reduced rates have been secured on the different railroad lines running through the State. Ask your station agent for excursion rates to the Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting at Hardwick. If any of our churches have not yet elected delegates to the conference, they should do so at once. Each church is entitled to one delegate, and one for each additional fifteen members. We hope for a full delegation from each church in the conference. The Lord’s business is much more important than our worldly affairs.

Youths’ and children’s meetings will be held each day, so bring your children with you to camp-meeting.

We have had a larger number of laborers employed during the year than in former years, and will need quite a sum of money to meet our bills. If any of our church treasurers and isolated members have tithes in hand, we would be glad to have the same sent in before camp-meeting. The Lord says: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house.” Let us not be found robbing God in tithes and offerings, but let our means now be used to advance the cause of God.

Those who desire tents, rooms, stalls for horses, etc., should write to F. M. Daner, Hardwick, Vt., stating plainly what they desire. We shall need a few strong men to assist in pitching the camp; these should be on the ground not later than August 15. The plan for the past few years has been for each church in the conference to send us a man to assist in this work. These annual gatherings become more and more important as our work develops, and the end of all things draws near. Let us come up to this meeting seeking God very earnestly, that we may reach a higher state of spirituality and be better prepared to work for the Lord the coming year than ever in the past. Hardwick is comparatively a new field. Let us pray that God will by his truth help stir the inhabitants of this little city, and that souls may be converted to God and his truth. A few more such meetings and we shall be safe at home.

J. W. WATT.

Address Wanted

ELDER A. W. BARTLETT, former pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Indianapolis, Ind., desires the address of Brother E. J. Hammer, who suddenly left his home and family in this city last Decoration day. No word has come to his bereaved family since as to his whereabouts. Brother Hammer was a member in good standing of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Indianapolis, and is greatly missed by the church as well as by his heart-broken family. Please address Elder A. W. Bartlett, 816 Temple Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.

Local Camp-Meeting for Northeastern New York

By S. H. Lane

THERE will be a local camp-meeting held for northeastern New York at Hadley, Warren Co., August 18-28. Hadley is twenty-two miles north of Saratoga Springs, on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. A fine, well-watered grove has been secured a few rods west of the depot. We trust all the friends in northeastern New York will plan to attend this important meeting. No conference business will be transacted; the time will be devoted wholly to the spiritual upbuilding of those in attendance. S. H. LANE,

Publications Wanted

N. B.—Attention has been repeatedly called to the necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Cover papers well, so that they will be clean when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, while others have forwarded literature by express when it would have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four ounces for one cent.

[SPECIAL NOTE.—All who receive periodicals in answer to these calls are advised to examine them carefully before distributing them.—ED.]

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—

H. Crippen, L. Box 240, Alamogordo, N. M.

Mrs. S. A. Williams, 15604 Loomis Ave., Harvey, Ill.

J. W. Buckland, Box 218, Great Bend, Kan., REVIEW, Signs, Little Friend, Life Boat, Instructor, Watchman, also tracts on the immortality question and the Sabbath.

Violetta C. Kerr, Milton, Ore., has sufficient papers for the present.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.

WANTED.—A number of men to work through harvest and thrashing. Will give $2 a day till November 1. Address G. I. Cummings, Mooreton, N. D.

WANTED.—A competent hygienic vegetarian cook, who understands the manufacture of health foods, would like a position in a hygienic restaurant or sanitarium. Address L. F. P., Amherst, N. H.

FOR SALE.—Honey of the new crop, gathered from alfalfa, nice quality. Price of No. 1 comb, $3 per case of 24 sections. Extracted, in lots of 120 pounds, 7½ cents per pound. Cash with order. Address J. Q. Adams, R. R. No. 1, Manzanola, Colo.

FOR SALE.—Two lots, good 11-room house, two-room store, barn, shed, granary, wood shed, well of soft water, 14 bearing fruit-trees, 14 young fruit-trees; one block from S. D. A. college. Address Mrs. Adelia Allen, College Place, Wash.

FOR SALE.—Twenty-seven acres, a most desirable fruit farm adjoining Graysville, Tenn. Has a thousand peach trees, and all other fruits grown here, just coming into bearing. A new five-roomed cottage, barn, and outbuildings. Never-failing soft water springs. Address C. A. Hall, Graysville, Tenn.

FOR SALE.—Four-room house, with never-failing well of soft water, two acres of land, nearly all set with fruit. This property belongs to Hazel Intermediate School; the money it should bring is needed in the new building. A good home for some family desiring the benefits of Hazel school. Price, $450. Address Prof. C. L. Stone, Hazel, Ky.

Union College Calendar for 1904–05

The Union College Calendar for 1904-05 contains over one hundred pages, and gives the fullest information concerning the institution and its work. Some new features are worthy of special notice. A full statement is made of the plan of self-government, which has been adopted as the basis of college discipline. A school of music, under the supervision of a well-qualified director, is announced, and the department of industries has been enlarged, so that “more than twenty-five industrial studies have been pro vided for.” This calendar ought to be in the hands of the many young men and women in the central West who would be benefited by availing themselves of the educational advantages offered at Union College. It can be obtained by addressing the president, C. C. Lewis, College View, Neb.

Louisiana Sunday Law Memorial

IN the recent session of the Louisiana Legislature an effort was made to secure the passage of a Sunday law. This opened the way for the presentation of the truth concerning the nature and purpose of such legislation, and Elder S. B. Horton, the president of the Louisiana Conference, prepared and presented a memorial to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, session of 1904, petitioning against the enactment of a law relating to the observance of Sunday. The memorial is a pamphlet of twelve pages and cover, dealing with the general question under the following divisions: What is Sunday? Sunday Laws Are Religious Legislation, Religious Legislation Unconstitutional, The Realms of Church and State, and The Operation of Sunday Laws. Quotations are also made from leading periodicals and writers in support of the general principles of religious liberty. Our readers will remember that Brother Horton has already reported through the REVIEW the failure of this effort in behalf of Sunday legislation.

F. E. Painter Visits Office

BROTHER F. E. PAINTER, who has the oversight of the canvassing work in the Atlantic Union Conference, has been at this office during the past week. He will attend several of the camp-meetings in this union conference, beginning with the Virginia meeting.

Walter Bond Returning to Spain

BROTHER WALTER BOND and family made a short stay in Washington last week on their way from their field of work in Spain to their old home in California. It was necessary for them to make a visit to this country to attend to some business matters of a personal nature, but they are planning to return to Spain in a short time. They have seen and felt the needs of the great fields outside of this country, and they desire to continue their efforts to extend the knowledge of the truth among those who have never heard it.

Sister Armstrong’s Testimony of Healing

ON another page will be found a letter from Sister Mary E. Armstrong, of Michigan, in which she bears public testimony to a special experience of healing in answer to prayer. Sister Armstrong was one of the early advent believers, and has observed the Bible Sabbath for over fifty years. She is well preserved both mentally and physically, although advanced in years, but has no definite assurance that a longer period of life has been granted to her than will be required to complete the special work in which she is now engaged. Her testimony will certainly be an encouragement to many readers.

August Bible Training School Number

By Editor

THE leading theme considered in the August number of the Bible Training School (published by Elder S. N. Haskell) is the question of the covenants,—the fundamental truth of the gospel. From the table of contents, which will be found on page twenty-three, it will be seen that various phases of the subject are presented by different writers. This will be a good number of this publication to circulate widely. It may be a surprise to some to learn that thousands of copies are now being sold each month in some of our large cities, and that one brother sold two thousand copies in three weeks. Others have sold fifty or more copies in a few hours. The price of the paper is twenty-five cents a year, or two cents a copy when ordered in quantities. It retails for five cents a copy. The August number is now ready. Address Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass.

An Evidence of Confidence

In harmony with the suggestion recently made in the REVIEW, those who hold notes against the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association of Battle Creek, Mich., are assigning these to the Review and Herald Publishing Association of Washington, D. C., and receiving in return the notes of the Washington corporation.

As an indication of how some of these note holders feel, and of their confidence in the new association, we quote the following from a letter just received:—

“Seeing the request in the last REVIEW as to notes, we will send ours for three hundred dollars on the Battle Creek Review and Herald; will also send a check for two hundred dollars, for which please send us a note for five hundred dollars.

It is a source of great satisfaction to those who are connected with the office here to see how the hearts of our people are turning this way, and to know of their confidence in the new publishing house in Washington.

Washington, D. C.

By J. S. Washburn

A most encouraging list of donations has been received during the past week. The amount given to the $100,000 fund has now reached the sum of $24,248.61. Thus we were, when the list was compiled, within $751.39 of reaching one quarter of the amount to be raised. A wonderful spirit of sacrifice and of devotion to this great work is being manifested by our dear brethren and sisters. Many of them are making great sacrifices.

The need of help for the work in Australia has been strongly emphasized from time to time. The following letter from the president of the Australian Union Conference surely makes strikingly manifest the fact that the Spirit of God, which is the spirit of sacrifice, is swaying the hearts of all our dear brethren in this mighty movement to establish the greatest work on earth at the capital of the nation which leads the world:—

Of late I have been thinking of your work in Washington, and it has been impressed upon me that, although we need money so badly in this field, and have had to call upon the brethren in the States to help us, yet I want some part in establishing the new headquarters at Washington; and although the amount will be small, yet I feel that in this way, if in no other, I can speak and show that my sympathies are with the movement. Hence I am sending you an order in this mail for twenty pounds, which you may put down as my donation toward the work. I wish it were ten times the amount, or even a hundred times, for that matter; but as this can not be, I trust that the Lord will bless the small amount, and make it the means of influencing others to assist in the good work.

A brother who had already made a donation of one thousand dollars, and sends a second donation of the same amount, writes, “Now I double my original subscription. I say, Let the work in Washington proceed, though we should have to double again. Yours to finish the work and go home.”

Do not these letters constitute a mighty appeal to every one who has means to come forward at once to close up this work within the next few days? All desire a part in this great work, but we are certain that it will not be very long before the word must be sent out that the whole amount has been raised. Those who would have a part in this great work of which the Lord has spoken so positively and directly, must act very soon.

J. S. WASHBURN.