p. 9 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 26. (6/25/1902)

Earlier text: Sabbath Reform in the Wilderness

Faster Trains and Yaqui Massacre

A TWENTY-HOUR train service has now been inaugurated between New York City and Chicago on both the Lake Shore and the Pennsylvania road. In order to cover the distance in 20 hours, these trains run at a very high rate of speed over almost the entire trip. The great business rush in these money-mad centers has made necessary this reduction in running time. Other roads also are cutting down their running time between important points. Altho the great overland roads have been continually cutting down their running time, a speed war between several has been threatened for months. The Canadian Pacific also has made an important increase in the speed of its trains, reducing its time to 4 days and 1 hour between Vancouver and Montreal. With this increase in train speed the danger to the traveling public is increased in double proportion; but the risk is taken in order that men may the more rapidly heap together treasure in these last days.

REPORTS from Mexico indicate that a most cruel slaughter of Yaqui men, women, and children at the hands of Mexican troops has taken place in Uvalama Canyon. The women and children were left in charge of a few of the warriors in this deep ravine. The Mexicans surrounded the camping place, and at dawn advanced to the slaughter. Long after all the men had been killed, the troops continued to fire upon the defenseless women and children. The survivors, many of whom were wounded, were marched in chains to Hermosillo, whose inhabitants, shocked at the treatment which the Indians had received, are said to have done all they could for the prisoners. General Torres is now pursuing the main body of Yaqui warriors. The whole number slaughtered in the canyon is placed at 217.

THE volcano of Kilauea, H. I., is again in active operation. Violent explosions have occurred there, sending out dense columns of smoke and ashes. Two volcanoes in Nicaragua have recently begun to show signs of violent activity. Mount Fanno, in Oregon, is sending out smoke and steam and rumbling ominously. Advices from the island of Sicily state that deep underground rumblings are heard there, and the inhabitants are panic stricken, and earthquake shocks are reported from various parts of the island. Colonel Deming of the United States Geological Survey reports that recent observations in Pennsylvania show that there has been a marked increase in the elevation of many places where he has taken observations, and he attributes this to the disturbances in the West Indies.

JAPAN has entered the naval race with a determination to come behind in nothing. Her naval plans now contemplate the building of four 15,000-ton battle-ships, two 10,000-ton armored cruisers, four 5,000-ton cruisers, fifteen torpedo-boat destroyers, and fifty torpedo-boats. Her battle-ships will be as large as any afloat, her cruisers as swift and as well armored and as well armed. Her great fleet of torpedo-boats indicates that she intends to defend her coasts against the attack of any hostile fleet.

At a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society the announcement was made by Dr. R. G. Southwick that it was now possible to cure cancer, tumors, lupus, and tuberculous glands in all cases where the X-ray can be directly applied to them and exert its full power. He said that the cure had gone so far already that the X-rays were far superior to the surgeon's knife. It is said that one of the most remarkable things about the X-ray treatment of these diseases is the rapidity with which it works.

THE bill providing national aid for the irrigation of arid States passed the House on June 14 by a vote of 146 to 55, and went to conference with the Senate Committee. The slight differences were speedily adjusted, and the bill now awaits the signature of the President to become a law. This bill assigns the receipts from the sale of land in these States to the construction of storage reservoirs and other permanent irrigation works, the water thus available to be distributed under the laws of the several States.

THE city of Nanning, China, has been bombarded by an army of rebels, and between 300 and 400 of the inhabitants were killed by the missiles of the attacking Chinese. After the bombardment, the rebels returned to their fortified retreat in the hills. They are said to have been supplied with modern arms and ammunition. Boxers have been tearing up the rails near Tien-tsin and destroying the railroad bridges, forcing the Belgian engineers and assistants to discontinue their work.

MACHINES which are expected to revolutionize the glass business were put in operation at Alexandria, Indiana, on June 10. The machines will do away with a great amount of the hand labor heretofore necessary in the manufacture of glass. The glass blowing and other parts of the work will all be done by the machines, and as a result many thousands of laborers will be thrown out of employment. The glass machines will be installed in other factories as rapidly as possible.

NINE men and one woman were burned to death in a sanitarium fire in Chicago on June 9. The greater portion of the patients were seeking cure from the drink habit, and many of them were either strapped to their beds or were helplessly bound up in straight jackets. The fire was so sudden and spread so rapidly that the attendants were unable to get all of these to places of safety. On the same day five persons lost their lives in a fire at Saratoga, N. Y.

THE Corliss Pacific cable bill, by whose provisions the government was to take upon itself the work of laying a cable from San Francisco to the Philippines, was defeated in the House on June 11 by a vote of 116 to 77. A private company has already begun the work of laying a cable over the route which would have been taken by the government, had Congress passed the Corliss bill.

A REPORT from the Baptist mission situated at Kadiak, Western Alaska, states that garden vegetables planted there in April were ready for the table by the middle of May, while barley, oats, wheat, and other products were flourishing. Reports from several different parts of Alaska recently indicate that Alaska will yet have a place among the agricultural States of the Union.

ON June 13 President Roosevelt sent to Congress a message urging the importance of some kind of reciprocity arrangement with the Republic of Cuba. Reports from both houses after the reading of the message state that congressmen who are opposed to a reduction of the tariff between the United States and Cuba are still determined to oppose any measure of the kind.

GOOD progress is reported in the laying of the all-British Pacific cable from Vancouver Island to Australia and New Zealand. Spur cables have been laid, connecting Norfolk Island and Suva, Fiji; Norfolk and Queensland, Australia; and Norfolk and New Zealand, and these cables are now kept busy. The entire cable will be completed early in December.

ON June 14 a memorial arch was unveiled at Columbus, Ohio, and dedicated to the 2,250 Confederate soldiers who died in prison there during the civil war. The ceremonies were elaborate, and were participated in by many Southern men. The graves were decorated jointly by the Ladies of the Grand Army and the Daughters of the Confederacy.

THE great power of that steel trust known as the United States Steel Corporation is shown in the business which it controls. From official statements made at the directors' meeting held last month, it appears that the amount of business done by that trust reached considerably more than one million dollars a day.

TWO DESPERATE convicts, confined in the Oregon State penitentiary at Salem, escaped on June 9, killing three officers and one prisoner in their flight. Altho three companies of militia and several posses have been hunting the murderers, they have eluded their pursuers and disappeared in the dense forest.

THREE churches were struck by lightning in Chicago on June 15, and one of them was burned to the ground. During the storm two persons were struck by lightning and killed, and three were killed by the intense heat which preceded the storm.

THE latest report from South Africa states that 16,000 Boers have surrendered thus far, and others are coming in.

EVOLUTION and its progress must depend upon the inherent force in man and his environment. Surely it is a hopeless thing when measured by the past ages. Creation and regeneration are dependent upon the power of God, and man's willingness that God's power shall be exercised. The former is "scientific" infidelity, the latter is scientific Christianity.

ON June 14 Senator Elkins introduced a joint resolution in Congress providing for the annexation of Cuba as a State of the Union, to be called the State of Cuba. The introduction of this resolution has brought out the fact that a number of congressmen are in favor of such a move as this.

EXTENSIVE tests are now being made by the Navy Department with fuel oil and appliances for burning it. If satisfactory, the department will adopt oil as fuel in place of coal. So far the tests are reported to have showed 33% better results than were obtained from an excellent quality of coal.

JOHANN MOST, the anarchist who published an inflammatory article in his paper at the time of the assassination of President McKinley, will spend one year in the New York State penitentiary, the Court of Appeals at Albany having unanimously affirmed the judgment of conviction.

OVER one hundred counties in Texas are now under prohibitory liquor laws and prohibition officers have been elected to enforce them. So strong is the prohibition sentiment becoming in Texas that many large liquor firms are preparing to move to other States.

A STRIKE of 7,000 laborers is reported from Manila. The object of the strike seems to be rather indefinite, and the laborers are said to have quit work solely through fear, the strike leaders having threatened them with death if they continued to work.

THE number of immigrants arriving at New York during the month of May was the largest ever recorded for one month, amounting to 83,500. The immigration commissioner states that 53% of them are undesirable, having no trade or regular vocation.

TWO GERMAN war-ships have gone to the Venezuelan port of La Guayra to protect the interests of German residents there. A local revolution is reported to have broken out at La Guayra, and the town has been bombarded by Venezuelan gunboats.

A REPORT from Cape Wolf, Prince Edward Island, states that a rain of sulphur fell there on the night of June 8 to a depth of half an inch. It would seem that this sulphur dust must have been carried from the volcano of Martinique or St. Vincent.

ON June 9 the House passed the anarchy bill by a vote of 175 to 38. This is the bill for the protection of the President, Vice-President, members of the cabinet and foreign ministers and ambassadors, and for the suppression of the teaching of anarchy.

THE big ship-building trust, known as the United States Shipbuilding Company, has purchased the great armor-plate works at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This company is now able to build a battle-ship, armor and equip it, in its own works.

A STRIKE of street-car men is now in progress at Pawtucket, R. I., and considerable violence is reported. Troops have been ordered to the scene of disturbance, but have been unable to quell the rioters or make it safe to operate the cars.

CUBA has begun to enforce the law against the immigration of Chinese. Forty-three Chinese who arrived at Havana on June 11 were denied admission. Cuba's immigration laws are practically the same as those in force in the United States.

THIRTEEN thousand persons attended the annual communion services of the mother Christian Science church at Boston on June 15. The principal feature of the day's exercises was an address by the founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

ARTICLES of incorporation of the United States Shipbuilding Company, a trust, were filed in Trenton, N. J., on June 11. This new concern will be capitalized at $20,000,000, and will be bonded for $16,000,000.

A COMBINATION of cotton yarn mills is being organized in the South with a capitalization of $60,000,000. The object, as with all other trusts, is to fix prices, regulate production, and float bonds.

SIGNOR MARCONI reports that he has now invented a highly sensitive detector of electric waves, by which it is possible to read about thirty words per minute in wireless telegraphy.

THE Senate committee on territories has decided to postpone the consideration of the Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico statehood bill until the next session of Congress.

TWELVE persons were killed, many injured, and property said to aggregate $1,000,000 was destroyed, by a tornado which visited a section of Central Illinois on June 11.

THERE is no indication of the settlement of the great strike of coal-miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

GONZALA DE QUESADA, Cuba's first minister to the United States, sailed from Havana on June 9.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS ON HEALTH.

A MAN with a disabled stomach, who attempts to live upon improperly cooked food, goes through life half anesthetized, on account of the poisons produced by undigested food.

One of the quickest ways of getting disease is to get impure blood, for the actual condition of nearly any part of the body depends almost entirely upon the character of the blood; hence any food substance that produces pure blood is to that extent healing to the man.

It is an error to crowd food into the stomach while some of the previous meal is still there. When the digestive glands are compelled to continue to pour out the digestive juices to act upon food substances at short intervals, and at irregular times, they soon become worn out and deteriorated.

When the stomach and its contents are chilled by eating frozen foods and drinking iced drinks, such as ice-cold lemonade, ice-cream, fruit ices, etc., there is a complete cessation of all digestive activity until the stomach contents have been again warmed to very nearly the normal standard. Meanwhile, the germs that are present have had abundant opportunity to flourish and to begin their destructive work.

Condiments that can blister and irritate the outside of the body will the more readily blister and irritate the inside when applied to the delicate mucous membrane of the stomach, and will cause it to pour out in self-defense a large quantity of mucus.

The toasting, or browning, in the oven, of the various grains before they are cooked is an excellent thing, as it tends to partly convert them into dextrine, or a form of sugar which is very essential, especially to those with weak stomach power.

It seems strange that rational beings will suppose that they can steadily violate nature's laws, and then in some way atone for their violation by swallowing a few teaspoonfuls of some highly colored fluid.

It is a deep-seated error, which is very prevalent in the human mind, that somehow or other the elixir of life can be concentrated and stored up in a bottle, if only it is compounded with some vile and noxious substance, and the whole thing sold under some striking name.

Boiling is one of the best and most practical ways of purifying water. It is not necessary to boil it a great length of time, as the most dangerous germs are either paralyzed or killed when it is merely brought to the boiling point.

Morphine paralyzes the nerves, and in this way allays pain; but it likewise paralyzes the nerves of elimination, so that the poisons largely remain in the body, and continue to cause damage.

The common use of flesh-foods is perhaps doing more than any other single dietetic error to weaken the human system and make it a suitable lodging-place for disease germs.

THE CHILD

By Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D.

III. TEMPERANCE.

AMONG the enumerated virtues desirable for the child to possess was that of temperance. It would seem at first flush as if this were not a virtue suited to childhood; but we must remember that the foundation of all mature characteristics is laid during the period of immaturity. Sensations, constantly repeated, make impressions on the plastic brain, and there form pathways, as it were, over which pass the impulses which eventuate in action; and thus are formed the habits of life. A habit of regularity is the foundation of a life of temperance, if that regularity is in temperate experiences. We must not forget that temperance, or its opposite, may express itself in speech or conduct as well as in eating and drinking. And to be temperate, one must be moderate and well regulated in all life's manifestations. Adler says, "Regularity may not in itself be a moral quality, but the life of irregularity always tends toward immorality."

The first lessons in temperance, then, are to be found in the calm, self-poised, and well-regulated lives of those who are about the child, and then in the regulation of its own daily experiences.

It may seem impossible to set the little life to going with clockwork precision; but we can at least avoid starting the routine in objectionable ways.

The knowledge of a few simple physiological facts will be a great help here.

It seems to be a common idea that the child comes into the world in a starving condition, and therefore must have something put at once into its stomach. The premise being false, the conclusion is inevitably false. At birth the child, if normal, is fully fed, having been constantly taking in nourishment during its prenatal life. It can well afford to wait, fasting, for the arrival of its natural food. A little warm, unsweetened water is all it needs for the first two or three days. Oils, teas, or foods of any kind, only serve to irritate the digestive organs, and lay the foundation for future dyspepsia, and that bad condition continued in later life may produce a craving for stimulation.

The baby may be put to the breast every few hours in order to stimulate the mammary glands to action, and also for it to begin to learn its lesson of working for a living. The first secretion of the breast is its normal first food; and it is a great unkindness to feed it before that arrives. It is sad enough to be obliged to revert to artificial food because of the failure of the natural supply.

Some nurses give the new-born infant brandy and water, or quiet it with soothing syrups, both of which methods are direct lessons in intemperance. Soothing syrups are made up of alcohol, opium, and other deleterious substances, and are most dangerous both in their proximate and their ultimate effects.

The use of beer, ale, wine, or other alcoholic beverage is equally objectionable. The baby may sleep better because the mother takes beer, but it is the sleep of alcoholic stupor. It is stated by some authorities that in some localities in France and other European countries it is difficult to find a sober baby, as all are more or less intoxicated by the alcohol-poisoned milk of the beer- or wine-drinking mother.

Giving children food in order to stop their cries is a method which tends toward intemperance. It is teaching the lesson of quieting pain or forgetting discomfort by putting something into the mouth. The discouraged man who attempts to forget his discouragement by the aid of alcohol is following the same plan.

Overeating is in itself intemperance in the use of food, and tends to intemperance in drink. Unfortunately people have obtained the idea that because they feel the discomfort of a big dinner less after they have taken a glass of some alcoholic drink, they have therefore been benefited, when, on the contrary, digestion has been retarded, and they only feel better because sensation has been deadened by partial paralysis of sensory nerves. The use of alcohol in any form as a home remedy is a lesson in intemperance. The same may be said of its use in cooking.

Many a fond and pious mother is praying for the destruction of her children more effectually through her cookery than she is praying for their salvation by her agonizing petitions. Tea, coffee, spices, rich and highly seasoned foods, create irritations that demand soothing by the inundation of fluids. The "free lunch" of the saloons is a shrewd allurement based upon this fact. She is a most unwise mother whose home table offers a temptation to visit the saloon in order to quench the thirst her cooking has created.

A lack of knowledge as to the kind of food to give the growing boy in order to build up a complete and healthy body, may send him out from home with a craving for something, he knows not what. And this craving he may be led to attempt to satisfy by alcohol in some form.

In order that the children may learn temperance in early life, they should have nutritious food, simply prepared, without irritating additions; given at regular intervals, in appropriate quantities, with orderly surroundings, by quiet, calm, and well-poised attendants. And as the food can not be used by the system until thoroughly digested, and as the first process of digestion is in mastication, it is absolutely essential to teach the child to chew every mouthful of food most carefully. When this is done, nature can do its part after the food has passed from the child's control. This also greatly lessens the tendency to overeat. By this plan will be secured a body symmetrically developed, a nervous system generating orderly impulses, a brain accustomed to governing by reason, not swayed by desire or sense pleasure.

The child whose life is so ordered will be not only well in body, but happy in mind; for there is no happiness greater than the certainty which comes through regularity of life; and no more fruitful source of unhappiness than that which arises from never knowing what to expect next.

THE COMPLAINING PREACHER.

SOME years ago a pastor of a small church in one of the villages of Indiana became exceedingly discouraged, and brooded over his trials to such an extent that he became an inveterate grumbler. He found fault with his brethren because he imagined they did not treat him well. A brother minister was invited to assist him a few days in a special service. At the close of the Sabbath service our unhappy brother invited the minister to his house to dinner. While they were waiting alone in the parlor, he be

in charge of her baby sister. The girl wearied of the task, and to make the infant cry fed pins and needles to it.

"The family was ignorant, knowing nothing even of religion. This girl was visited, along with the other convicts, by members of our society. I called upon her one day with my little daughter, and left them alone in the cell together for an hour or more, tho I was warned against such trust in a young murderess. When I returned the girls were fast friends, engaged in cutting out dolls. The little convict's nature was changed. She became converted, and, being pardoned soon afterward, brought about the regeneration of the whole family. Later she married. She is now a fine woman."

It was the practical manifestation of trust and confidence that won the heart of this young convict. It is a more powerful influence in such work than many of us have thought it to be. Try it in your work for others; and remember that it is worthy of more than one trial. God used it in the gift of His Son; and tho He was slain by those whom He would have saved, God did not cast off the race. He still has confidence in the race—in you. Exercise the same toward those whom you would influence to be His.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

By Littell's Living Age

BEAUTIFUL faces are those that wear— It matters little if dark or fair— Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where earth-fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds, Yet whose utterance prudence girds. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest and brave and true Moment by moment the long day through. Beautiful lives are those that bless— Silent rivers of happiness, Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.

—Littell's Living Age.

WHAT THE BOXERS DID FOR THE BIBLE.

DID Christianity get a set-back from the recent persecution in China? A letter from the agent of the American Bible Society in Shanghai, Dr. John R. Hykes, answers that question pretty conclusively. He writes:

“We issued more Mandarin Bibles in the last three months of this year than would have been considered ample stock for eight years a decade ago. The total direct issues of Bibles for the year reached a total of 10,126, or just about one-fourth of the entire number sent out by the American Bible Society from the time it commenced distributing Scriptures in China, more than forty years ago, to the end of last year. The demand for Bibles and Testaments has not been confined to any district, but has come from all parts of the empire to which our missionaries have returned. . . . Never before have the colporteurs been so well received both in

towns and villages as during the past year. Unlike past years, when we used to sell so many Scripture portions and very few Bibles or Testaments, this year they want the whole Bible or Testament, and very few portions, comparatively, are being sold. Never before has there been anywhere in China such a spirit of inquiry and desire to purchase the Word of God; and not only to purchase it, but to read it. From all quarters come tidings of men who have bought the Scriptures, and who have gathered together to read, study, and pray over them without any missionary to help or preach to them.”

Does it not seem as tho the Lord was as well able to care for His Word and His workers to-day as He was in the days when “Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church”?—Sunday School Times.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A CHURCH of fourteen members was recently organized at Farmington, N. M.

EIGHT members were recently added to the church at Kokomo, Ind., as the result of labor by Brother A. L. Miller.

BROTHER F. W. FIELD reports the baptism of four candidates at Walamatsee, Japan, where Brother Kuniya has been laboring.

A NEW house of worship has been built at Brookville, Minn. It was dedicated on the 15th inst., Brother P. A. Hansen officiating.

A CAMP-MEETING for northwestern Nebraska and the Black Hills of South Dakota is announced for July 15-22, the location to be given later.

TWO TENTS have been placed in the field this season by West Virginia Conference, one located at Keyser and one at Wilsonburg. Steps have been taken to start the medical work in Parkersburg, and a house has been secured.

BROTHER M. C. STURDEVANT, a former laborer in the Southern Union Conference, reports to the Review that he has arrived at his new field of labor in Rhodesia, Africa. He was in good health, and found the laborers already in that field enjoying the same blessing.

DR. J. E. CALDWELL, who has been engaged in missionary work in the Australasian field for the past eight years, arrived in San Francisco, by way of Victoria, B. C., on the 16th inst. He is accompanied by one son, having left a son and daughter at the Avondale School, Cooranbong, N. S. W.

WRITING to the Nebraska Reporter under date of May 7, Brother N. P. Nelson says of the conference in London: "We have delegates here representing Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Bulgaria, Australia, Africa, India, and America."

UNDER date of May 8, Brother J. L. Shaw writes from Calcutta: "Our work is moving along quite encouragingly in India. We have baptism next Sabbath, and there are four candidates to be baptized. An interest is springing up in Burma, as the result of the sale of our books and papers, and I expect to go there next week."

WE have received a letter from Brother Robert King, until recently a Baptist, in which he expresses hearty thanks to God for having sent Brother T. H. Watson to Skagway, Alaska, to preach the truth about the Sabbath question, and other truths now being proclaimed by our missionaries and publications. This brother is simply carrying out the true Baptist doctrine, accepting all that is based upon a plain "Thus saith the Lord," and rejecting all that is not thus fortified.

THE Messenger, published at Toronto, Ont., has this to say: "There is a most excellent missionary paper published in Oakland, California, called Signs of the Times. The staff of writers are chosen with care, and the subjects dealt with are of a most instructive character. We do not know of a better paper published. It can be obtained from the publishers, post-paid, for one year, $1.50."

OUR readers will be glad to hear that Brother A. F. Ballenger is enjoying good success in his work in England. He has been engaged in the same work in which the Lord so greatly blessed His ministrations in America—that of watering the seed planted by others. He also announces that he is writing a new book, which he hopes will accomplish as much good as "Power for Witnessing." It is to be entitled "Proclaim Liberty."

AT the recent annual session of the Chesapeake Conference, the following officers were chosen: President, O. O. Farnsworth; secretary and treasurer, Charles D. Zirkle; secretary of the missionary department, Mrs. Myra Davis Zirkle; secretary of Sabbath-school department, Miss Helen V. Price. Four tents are now operated in the conference,—two being in Washington City, one in Cambridge, Md., and one in Oxford, Md.

THE plan of holding Sabbath-school conventions by our churches is productive of much good in the way of developing talent. At first the plan was to unite several schools in one convention, but this was so expensive that many members of the visiting schools were unable to attend; so only a part received a direct benefit. Now many of the schools are holding conventions of their own, preparing papers, addresses, etc., among their own members.

THE May number of the Practical Educator is the Year-Book of Union College for 1902-1903. It is a neat pamphlet of 72 pages, besides 8 full-page photo-engravings illustrative of buildings and grounds. The enrolment of students numbers 415. The pamphlet abounds in practical information. The college has complete Scandinavian and German departments. For copy of Year-Book, or special information, address L. A. Hoopes, president, College View, Neb.

IN THE Wisconsin Reporter of June 4, we find the following: "The Sanitarium at Madison has lately greatly improved its facilities for caring for patients. A beautiful piece of ground with 400 feet frontage on Lake Monona has been obtained, making a retired place within easy reach of the city, where the sick may find rest and quiet. A large dwelling-house on the place has been fitted and improved, in which facilities for giving the necessary treatments will soon be installed."

A new church edifice was dedicated at Indian Harbor, N. S., May 18. The services were conducted by Brethren George E. Langdon and W. H. Thurston. There was a large attendance. Brother Thurston writes that "the believers around the Harbor and St. Margaret's Bay love the truth, and some are leaving their nets to become fishers of men. There are four other places in the Maritime Conference where ground has been purchased for church buildings, and two of these are now being constructed. The believers in this part of the vineyard are not rich in this world's goods, but they are rich in faith."

FROM Brother W. H. Thurston, president of Canadian Union Conference, we have the following report: "At a general meeting held at St. John, N. B., May 29 to June 3, the Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) were organized into a conference, to be known as the Maritime Conference. Officers were elected as follows: President, George E. Langdon; vice-president, M. S. Babcock; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. George E. Langdon; executive committee, George E. Langdon, M. S. Babcock, W. R. Andrews, Wm. Guthrie, and James Hannah. The Spirit of the Lord was manifest during the entire meeting, and perfect oneness prevailed. The outlook is bright and prosperous, and the new conference starts out in faith, hope, and charity."

THE WORK ADVANCES.

By J. E. Fulton

WE are assured that there will be trophies of grace under the Third Angel's Message from every clime; and we believe that Fiji will be represented when we stand with the victors on the sea of glass.

We have evidence of the power of God working to turn the hearts of the people to the present truth. There is a widening interest to hear the truth. Since the beginning of the year, about fifty, counting old and young, have begun to serve God more faithfully and to observe the Bible Sabbath; and with three or four exceptions, the people of one small island of about thirty inhabitants, have turned to the truth. It is now just two years since we started our little native paper, Rarama. During that time we have distributed a considerable quantity of our literature; and we rejoice that the seed sown is springing up. We are publishing our paper every month. We know that it has been doing good. Our subscription list is small, but we are sure we are doing right to "scatter the literature as the leaves of autumn." Our little paper is about the only paper that amounts to anything in a religious line in the islands. We find many eager to read it. The number of subscribers is growing. We have a little book in the native language which we are selling with some success. One native brother has been doing very well selling it.

Just now there is a great need of means to do something more than we are doing in the educational line. We need native laborers. We must have schools in which to train these natives. We must have teachers. We need two now. But we must have means. Will not some who read these lines be stirred to realize our needs? Think of a people with a very meager literature, uneducated in English or any language in which many books are published. There has been nothing much done to educate them. Think of a comparatively intelligent race crying for help. We as a people have the light for this time. We have the help for which they long. Shall we longer delay? Can we withhold that which will raise our fallen brother? The interest here is good; the door of opportunity is open wide; and with the assistance of our brethren we shall enter. Send your donations to the Foreign Mission Board or to the office of this paper.

J. E. FULTON.

THE MEASURE OF LIFE.

By Joel Swartz

[Joel Swartz, D. D., in S. S. Times.]

"METHUSELAH lived," and this beside, "Nine hundred years and sixty-nine; Had sons and daughters, and he died." The record adds no other line.

Like some huge saurian on the strand Of some far-off, oblivious shore, He left these tracks upon the sand Of his long wanderings,—nothing more.

But three years, near another sea, One walked whose steps mark every shore; He died, the Man of Galilee, And lo! He lives forevermore.

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By Editor

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