My second suggestion is a vigorous effort to interest our young people in education through the medium of the Young People's work. It is an essential thing to always keep some great purpose before our young people. That kind of leadership in the Young People's work which stifles ambition for higher attainments, and arrests mental development, is a positive harm. “God does not bid the youth to be less aspiring. The elements of character that make a man successful and honored among men,—the irrepressible desire for some greater good, the indomitable will, the strenuous exertion, the untiring perseverance,—are not to be crushed out.” This vigorous effort to interest our young people in education should be carried on also through the medium of our school faculties by means of a vigorous correspondence work throughout the field, and through active work by the teachers in the field during the vacations. I know from experience that a vigorous correspondence work carried on by one who is imbued with a love for young people, and a desire to hunt for the goodly pearls scattered here and there, that they may be polished for the Master's work, is a wonderful help in turning the attention of our young people toward the training-school, and will pay for itself financially in an increased attendance. And it will pay for itself many times in the production of good workers. A bright, active girl who came to one of our training-schools the past year, and who gives promise of becoming a good worker, said that she had no idea that she would have come to school had it not been for the interest that was taken in her by certain ones who wrote to her several times, urging the necessity of a training in our schools. There are several others of like nature as a result of the very limited work of this kind done at this school. These young people, many of whom feel very backward about going away from home among strangers, feel, after such correspondence, that they have a friend at the school to whom they can go for advice and counsel.
This work is especially effective when supplemented by vigorous work during the vacations by the teachers in the field. The corresponding secretary, who is in touch with the whole field, can furnish these field workers with valuable data, and as they go from camp-meeting to camp-meeting, or better, from church to church, they can search out and interview these interested young people, while at the same time they can labor continually to awaken an interest in education among all. The work should extend further than the camp-meeting; for some of our brightest young people, and those who are able to attend the school, do not often go to camp-meeting. There is all the more need, therefore, of a vigorous effort for them. Such personal contact of the teachers and young people in their homes has a wonderful effect in drawing the youth to the school,22and a most beneficial effect upon such students when they come; for in most cases they will make these teachers their especial advisers, and if there is one thing more than another lacking in our larger schools, it is the personal heart-to-heart contact of teachers and students. Many sad occurrences might never have come if there had been that close friendship and personal and social contact between teachers and students that ought to exist.
There is another feature of this plan; for work done by the teachers in the interest of the young people in the field has a most salutary and beneficial effect on the teachers themselves, and hence upon the school. School life, at the best, is apt to be somewhat artificial, and if teachers never meet their pupils in their own homes and surroundings, they are apt to be ignorant of the very training those pupils need. It also has a very desirable effect for our teachers to unite with our ministers and other workers in earnest labor for souls. It helps them to understand one another better, and to sympathize with one another, and to appreciate the burdens which all are carrying, and hence reduces the tendency to criticize.
Some one is asking, Can the teachers do this work? I answer, They ought to be able to do it. I do not advocate that all teachers should be preachers; but if they are suited to teach in the "schools of the prophets," they are soul winners, and are skilled in the art of dealing with our young people, and presenting to them the claims of God upon them. It is customary nowadays for schools to make a specialty of some one line. It has often occurred to me that the specialty of every Seventh-day Adventist school is the science and art of soul winning; and the teachers in such schools must understand it. This great fact makes every true teacher tremble with the responsibility, and leads him to devote his life's energies to this one thing.
M. E. KERN.
(To be concluded)
Religious Liberty Notes
By K. C. RUSSELL
We are glad to place the Indiana Conference on the list of conferences which have organized religious liberty departments. Brother J. F. Steel, of Eaton, Ind., has been elected secretary of this department.
The religious liberty secretary of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, Brother George W. Spies, purposes to organize the work in his territory for a more aggressive campaign, and plans to hold a religious liberty convention in Harrisburg, Pa., the State capital, December 7-10.
The Washington Times of November 2, in referring editorially to the recent trouble in Russia, says that “the power of the people to block government by inaction will lead to a general disarmament among the nations is hardly to be expected. As a great English authority suggests, the nations will keep their powder dry and their rifles ready till the world in general has secured more firmly the principles of civil and religious liberty.”
“I do not desire to make a political speech on Sunday night.” These were the opening words of an address given by W. R. Hearst, one of the candidates for the mayoralty of New York City, Sunday evening, November 5, in Madison Square Garden, at the greatest political mass-meeting ever held in that city. It is interesting to observe the high regard in which Sunday is held by politicians. Mr. Hearst is more careful in this respect than some ministers we read of in these days.
Last Tuesday’s election in Maryland scored a signal victory for equal rights in the crushing defeat of the Poe Amendment bill to disfranchise the negro voters. The immortal words contained in the Declaration of Independence should never be forgotten: “We hold these truths to be self-evident—that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
“Away down in Maine” the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, through their chairman, L. T. Carlton, have issued a notice to their wardens to rigidly enforce the law against the Sunday shooting of birds and game. The purpose of this notice certainly could not have been because the shooting would disturb the inhabitants away back in the woods of Maine, and certainly the killing of innocent birds would be no worse on Sunday than on any other day, therefore the only reason that could be assigned for this order of the commissioners is because of the supposed religious character of the day. It is remarkable to observe how universally Sunday laws can be applied in every department of human life.
K. C. RUSSELL.
Field Notes
Six persons received baptism on a recent Sabbath at Wright, Mich.
A CHURCH of nine members has been organized at Naruna, Va.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for erecting a house of worship in Parkersburg, W. Va.
A LATE report from Hutchinson, Kan., mentions the addition of four persons to the church there.
AT Council Bluffs, Iowa, four persons were baptized, and six united with the church, Sunday, October 8.
SIX new members have been added to the church at Herman, Minn., making a total of twenty members there.
FOUR persons were baptized at Lorenton, Pa., during a recent course of meetings conducted by Elder W. H. Smith.
THE church at Moline, Ill., has been strengthened by the recent addition of six to its membership, all heads of families.
EIGHT persons received baptism at Covert, Mich., October 22, of whom five joined the Covert church, and one, the church at Bangor.
ELDER J. M. REES reports that there is good prospect for the organization at an early date of churches at Herrin, Urbana, and Mattoon, Ill.
A REPORT from Lexington, O. T., where Brethren Hans Bonde and Ezra Fillman have been holding meetings, states: “So far as we know, every one who attended our meetings regularly is convinced that we have the truth. Several remarked that that was the first time they had heard the Bible preached. But best of all, seven precious souls began keeping all the commandments of God, and several others may take their stand in the near future.”
IN a report of the close of the tent-meetings which have been held the past summer at Roanoke, Va., Elder M. S. Babcock says: “About twenty responded to an invitation to confess Christ before men, and by God’s grace through faith to surrender all to him, to keep all of God’s commandments and his holy Sabbath. We have engaged a nice hall for our use after November 1, and hope to hold the interest with a due increase until a goodly number shall unite to keep all the commandments of God.”
BROTHER E. J. H. writes from San Diego, Cal.: “The tent-meetings now being conducted by Elder W. W. Simpson, assisted by a singer, Brother Hoare, here in San Diego, Cal., are causing a stir among the churches, and also among the theosophists and socialists, for there are many faiths or beliefs and unbeliefs here. The meetings are well attended each night, and will probably continue until the end of November if the Lord is willing. Indications seem to justify our hopes for a goodly number of precious souls for our Lord and Master.”
Christian Education
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
FREDERICK GRIGGS, Chairman,
C. C. LEWIS, Secretary.
Current Mention
— Recent speeches made by Emperor William at Dresden and Berlin indicate that in the emperor's mind there is a strong probability that Germany will soon be involved in war.
— It is stated in official circles in London that an agreement has been arrived at between the powers concerning a naval demonstration against Turkey, owing to the porte's continual refusal to agree to the financial reforms proposed for Macedonia.
— A St. Petersburg dispatch says: "Practically all the powers have now accepted the invitation of Emperor Nicholas to be represented at the second peace conference, and the program which Russia will submit for the consideration of the delegates at The Hague is being elaborated at the foreign office. The date of the conference has been tentatively fixed for May next."
— The apparently successful movement for representative government in Russia is having great effect upon socialists and others in Austria, and a strong demand has been made for the such immediate assembling of the Reichsrath for the purpose of granting manhood suffrage in the place of the present "parliament of privilege." A general strike is threatened if this demand is not immediately granted.
— The chief questions pertaining to the construction of the Panama Canal are still involved in great uncertainty, according to reports from the isthmus. It appears that the difficulties attending the undertaking are found to be greater than was at first supposed, and estimates made by experts affirm that from ten to twenty years will be required to complete the work, with an outlay of $300,000,000. Engineers at the isthmus are also reported to favor letting out most of the work to private contractors.
— A Seoul, Korea, dispatch dated November 10 says: "The arrival of Marquis Ito to-night marks one of the most important events in the history of Korea. During his visit, the Hermit Kingdom, once an independent state, will probably become a Japanese protectorate. Marquis Ito, after investigating conditions and formulating his policy, will present the program of Japan. It is said that Marquis Ito hopes that the confidence displayed in him by the emperor of Japan will have its effect on the emperor of Korea, and induce a graceful submission to the inevitable loss of Korea's independence. The plans of Japan will be backed by army occupation and the presence of two cruisers at Chemulpo. Korean officers and people are anxiously waiting the developments of last month, and several secret agents have been dispatched to secure American and European intervention."
— The overthrow of the old regime of repression in Russia has brought anarchy and chaos in many places, and in the Baltic provinces riot and massacre have continued for days without restraint. Over that vast section of Russia hangs the shadow of one of the greatest horrors of modern times. The full force of the lust for blood and plunder was directed against the Jews, no Christians being molested, save as they sought to interfere with the work of the mob. No estimate of the number of victims is possible in the present chaotic condition of affairs, but it is known that many thousands have been massacred in the most barbarous fashion, without regard to sex or age. There is evidence that the police and troops made no effort to interfere with the mobs, presumably in obedience to orders from officials who desired an outburst of anarchy as an argument in favor of the continuance of autocratic government. November 8 a mutiny broke out at Kronstadt, a suburb of St. Petersburg, 3,000 sailors and a battalion of artillery from one of the forts joining together in revolt. The mutiny was quelled by troops hastily sent from St. Petersburg, but there is great fear of the effect it may have upon the morale of the troops, which has been greatly shaken by the revolutionary propaganda. Another concession has come from the czar, in the shape of immediate universal suffrage, and the removal of Governor-General Trepoff from his powerful position, this official now being assigned only to the duty of guarding the life of the czar. A late St. Petersburg dispatch says: "Amid the virtual chaos now existing in the Russia, there is beginning to develop certain ominous features which leave little hope of averting a general political cataclysm. The contending forces are divided into four camps: First, the reactionaries, including the court party, some military leaders and some bureaucrats, who for the past ten days have been inciting the dregs of the population to murder and outrage in order to frighten the czar into a withdrawal of the recent concessions; second, Count Witte and his followers, including many bureaucrats, and some upper class Liberals; third, the whole commercial class and the moderate reformers, who are best described as zemstvoists; and fourth, the socialistic workmen, who created the present situation by a general strike. The peasantry do not figure in the problem as yet, and the rank and file of the army is still an uncertain quantity." Count Witte has completely failed to secure the co-operation of the zemstvoists and of the socialistic workmen in his program of government, and his downfall is considered among the possibilities. The reactionaries boldly talk of naming a successor to the czar, and St. Petersburg is in a panic of apprehension. Poland is attempting to follow the example of Finland, which has demanded and has seemingly gained autonomy, but the Russian government, though shaken as it is to its foundations, has determined that Poland must be held, and martial law has been proclaimed in that country. This may lead to an armed uprising on the part of the Poles, in which event it would be a question whether Russia could send troops to suppress it without fatally weakening itself at home.
— The recent elections in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland, were of more than ordinary significance, since they represent the triumph of a popular uprising against political "machine" control and "boss" domination. In New York City District Attorney Jerome, who has achieved national fame as the active and relentless foe of the evils which usually find shelter under "boss" rule in the large cities, though without a party or an organization behind him, was re-elected to office by a strong majority against the candidate of the "Tammany" machine, which has so regularly controlled elections in New York City, while William Randolph Hearst, Municipal Ownership League candidate for mayor, fell but a few thousand votes behind the number sufficient for election, and is contesting the election of the "Tammany" candidate, George B. McClellan, with some prospect of securing a reversal of the result. Whether he succeeds or not, the vote is a great blow to the machine, and indicates that the people of the metropolis are bent on trying the experiment of municipal ownership and control of public utilities. Still more effectively broken is the Philadelphia machine, which has long been the bulwark of "graft" and public plunder in that city. The vote in Maryland gave an overwhelming defeat to the Poe suffrage amendment, the purpose of which was to disfranchise the negro. The vote in Ohio, which elected a Democratic governor, the first to be chosen there in fifteen years, is taken as a revolt of the people against the Republican State machine with its State "boss."
Obituaries
ADELBERG.—Died at her home at Bancroft, Mich., Oct. 28, 1905, Sister F. A. C. Adelberg, aged 68 years. She accepted present truth under the labors of Elders R. F. Cottrell and J. N. Andrews in New York State in 1864. A husband, a son, and a daughter feel keenly the loss of a loving companion and mother. At her request, words of comfort were spoken from Ps. 23: 1 by the writer.
E. K. SLADE.
WEST.—Died in Ashland, Ore., Aug. 15, 1905, of peritonitis, Sister Rebecca West, aged 58 years, 3 months, and 16 days. She had just passed through a serious surgical operation. She was a faithful member of the College View, Neb., church, and died with a bright hope of a glorious resurrection not far in the future. She had been a widow for nineteen years. She leaves three sons, one daughter, and one brother to mourn. Funeral service was conducted at the house by the writer.
R. D. BENHAM.
PARR.—Died near Hanover, Kan., Sept. 3, 1905, of cholera morbus, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Barr. Mother accepted the Sabbath when but a child, but never had the privilege of joining a church of like precious faith. The REVIEW AND HERALD and Signs of the Times were her only preachers, and she dearly loved to peruse their pages. She ever sought to relieve the sick and the sorrowing. She was the mother of seven children, one of whom died in infancy. We mourn our loss, but not as those without hope. The funeral service was held at the family residence, six miles northwest of Hanover, Kan., conducted by Dr. Leeper (Baptist).
MRS. B. A. MAKER.
THOMPSON.—Died at Wichita, Kan., Oct. 8, 1905, Mrs. Harriet Thompson, aged 69 years, 11 months, and 3 days. Sister Thompson was one of the oldest Sabbath-keepers in the church here, having accepted present truth at Chesaning, Mich., forty-four years ago, under the preaching of Elders Andrews and Bates. During all these years she has remained faithful to the cause, and in her humble way sought to advance its interests. In the weeks of her final illness, she was strengthened and cheered by a bright hope for the future. Her death breaks another of the bands that join the present with the days of the pioneers, but makes stronger the one that binds us to the future.
B. E. FULLMER, M. D.
SPIRE.—Fell asleep Oct. 14, 1905, Mrs. Sallie Baird Spire, wife of B. W. Spire, manager of the Nashville Sanitarium, after a long and painful illness. Sister Spire gave her heart to God in early childhood, and accepted the third angel's message under the instruction of the late Elder C. L. Boyd in 1893. Until a year ago, when her serious sickness began, she was always active in work for others, and had served the church efficiently as church clerk for five or six years. She leaves a husband, a father, three brothers, and a sister to mourn their loss. The funeral service was conducted in our newly purchased church, where, as a member of the Baptist Church, she worshiped so long before she became an Adventist. She now sleeps in beautiful Mount Olivet Cemetery.
J. E. CALDWELL.
WILLIAMS.—Died at Ogden, Utah, Sept. 12, 1905, Robert Elmer Williams, aged 27 years, 6 months, and 8 days. The immediate cause of death was hemorrhage of the bowels, the results of ptomain poisoning with typhoid complications. Although young in years as well as in a knowledge of present truth, Brother Williams had become known in the little church at Ogden and throughout the Utah Conference as one of those burden-bearers whose loss is always deeply felt by the cause of truth. He leaves a wife and two little boys to mourn their loss.
W. A. ALWAY.
CURTIS.—Died near Marcus, Wash., of black erysipelas, Sept. 9, 1905, Vivian Porter Curtis, youngest son of O. F. and A. M. Curtis, aged 9 years, 10 months, and 15 days. Vivian was a very exemplary boy, always rendering willing obedience to his parents, taking delight in learning the Scriptures and his Sabbath-school lessons, and in earning money for missionary purposes. The parents and brothers and sisters are comforted with the hope of meeting him at Jesus' coming. Funeral discourse was given by Rev. Carmichael (Congregationalist); text, Rev. 14: 13.
F. D. STARR.
HOWE.—Died at the home of her sister in Bradford, Pa., Oct. 23, 1905, Sister Ida Howe, aged 53 years. Her disease was supposed to be internal cancer. Sister Howe bore her sufferings patiently, and seemed resigned to the will of the Lord. In early life she gave her heart to God, and united with the Baptist Church. Eight years ago she heard and accepted the present truth under the labors of Elder K. C. Russell, and united with the Bradford church, of which she was still a member at the time of her death. She leaves one sister, two brothers, and other friends to mourn their loss, but they sorrow not without hope. A good audience assembled at the time of the funeral, and listened attentively to a discourse by the writer from Rev. 14: 13.
J. W. WATT.
TUCKER.—Marcia Phelps Tucker was born in Ohio, June 23, 1813. The time of her long pilgrimage here was 92 years, 4 months, and 8 days. She was one of that generation of whom all shall not pass away until all things be fulfilled. Her death thus reminds us again that we are nearing the day of the realization of all our hopes. She experienced the toil and hardships of pioneer life in Missouri, Iowa, and Colorado. With her own hands for more than half a century she prepared food and manufactured clothing from the raw materials. And yet it is long ago that she hung up her candle molds, pushed back into a corner her loom and spinning-wheel, and endeavored to become accustomed to the conveniences and improvements of an age and a generation whose ways seemed always strange and new. What wonder that the aged are often lonely in a world so changed! She often witnessed to the truth of the prophecy that in the last days knowledge shall be increased. She was twice a widow. Thirteen children knew her as mother. Seven of these were her own, six of whom survive her, with many children's children, even to the fifth generation. In early womanhood she became a member of the Methodist Church, in which she remained for many years. At the age of seventy-five she accepted the faith of the remnant church. The long day, with its morning of hope, its noontide of toil and care, and its evening of rest, is ended.
MRS. ALMA MCKRIBBIN.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By M. L. WOODALL
Notice!
THE office of the Georgia Conference and Tract and Missionary Department is now located at 613 E. Fair St., Atlanta, Ga.
M. L. WOODALL, Sec. and Treas.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Missionary Nurses Wanted
By J. E. FROOM
FROM time to time we are called upon to help in selecting nurses for pioneer fields. At the present time India is urgently calling for a single male nurse to work in the Calcutta Sanitarium.
Another one of our Oriental fields is in pressing need of two nurses, a man and his wife. We would be pleased to correspond with medical missionaries who are ready to consider the needs of these fields. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” These opportunities will enable workers to transfer their interests more definitely to the kingdom of God.
In replying to this call, we hope that each nurse will give definite statements as to health, age, Christian experience, professional training and experience, together with references to his church elder, and also to some well-known Adventist pastor.
J. E. FROOM, M. D.,
Sec. Gen. Conf. Medical Council.
“Addresses for Young People”
THE new book for the youth, entitled “Addresses for Young People,” by Pres. C. C. Lewis, of Union College, is ready for delivery. The titles of the addresses are as follows: (1) Christian Manliness; (2) Reason, Revelation, and Faith; (3) Manual Training in the Public Schools; (4) Ideals and Ambitions; (5) The Sure Foundation; (6) A Higher Standard of Christian Education; (7) Workmen Approved of God; (8) The Art of Questioning; (9) Acquaintance with God; (10) Habit and Education; (11) Behold He Cometh; (12) The True Sabbath; (13) The Keeping of the Heart. The book is handsomely and durably bound in dark-blue cloth, with side and back titles in white. No more appropriate birthday or holiday present for a young man or woman could be procured.
Price, post-paid, $1. Five copies for $4, carriage prepaid. Liberal terms to agents. Address all orders and inquiries to Union College Press, College View, Neb.
Special Testimonies
By E. T. RUSSELL
AT the time of the annual meeting of the International Publishing Association held at College View, Neb., Sept. 5-7, 1905, there were received special Testimonies regarding the foreign publishing work. These were addressed to the brethren connected with the foreign publishing work at College View. Before this meeting there had been quite a division of sentiment among the different nationalities in regard to the foreign work in the United States; some had been advocating the separation of the three nationalities represented in the International Publishing Association, and some were also advocating separate conference organizations for the German, Swedish, and Danish-Norwegian people.
These Testimonies were received on the morning of the first meeting of the publishing association, and they brought light and harmony into the meetings of the association. What had appeared to some as confusion and chaos, through the entrance of the light which they contained, appeared as harmony. These Testimonies are printed in English, and make a thirty-two page tract. All desiring copies of this tract should address Miss Katie Coleman, College View, Neb.
E. T. RUSSELL.
Business Notices!
WANTED.—A first-class broom maker, one who understands sorting. Please give reference. Write to Healdsburg College, Healdsburg, Cal.
WANTED.—First-class bread baker. Steady employment and good salary for a capable and energetic man. Adventist preferred. Address Julius Paulson, Care American Bakery, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
FOR SALE.—Ripe olives in various-sized packages, at low prices for medium and small sizes. Pure extracted mountain honey. Pure olive-oil. Other purely vegetable cooking oils. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Riverside Co., Cal.
ABSOLUTELY the purest and best peanut butter, only 10 cents a pound in 50-pound cans, or 12 cents in neat 1-pound packages. Cash with order. Will positively not get rancid. Vegetarian Meat Company, 309 Bond Building, Washington, D. C.
New Nurse Arrives at Sanitarium
The force of workers at the Sanitarium in this city was increased last week by the arrival of Miss Amelia Webster, a nurse of long and successful experience, who has spent about ten years in pioneer work in South Africa. Miss Webster has spent a few months in Battle Creek, Mich., since her return from Africa, and comes from that place to Washington.
A National Reform Amendment to the Constitution
The judiciary committee of the United States Senate has been instructed to submit to that body within thirty days after the assembling of the next Congress an anti-polygamy amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The National Reformers are entering upon a special campaign to have this amendment so worded that “it shall contain an acknowledgment of the laws of Jesus Christ as the basis and standard of such legislation.” Among other things they propose “to arrange for an effective hearing before the judiciary committee,” and “to send some one to Washington for the months of December and January for continuous labor with the members of both Houses.”
Having failed thus far in their efforts to secure such a change in the Constitution as would serve as a basis for religion by law, these reformers will now seek to gain their end by attaching a written religious rider to the proposed amendment. This is a call for faithful work in setting before all the people the real meaning of this movement, and what will be involved in its success. This issue should be met promptly and vigorously.
Week of Prayer
The week of prayer will be observed December 9-16. The readings for that occasion will be printed in the next REVIEW.
Elder W. C. White Visits Nebraska
WE learn by letter from Elder W. C. White that he will come to Nebraska to attend the medical missionary convention at College View. He will doubtless visit other important centers while in the East.
Young People's Day in Lake Union
By Editor
The announcement is made in an article on the nineteenth page that Sabbath, December 2, will be observed as Young People's day in the Lake Union Conference. Our readers in that conference should give particular attention to the plans set forth in the article.
Elders Attend Iowa State Meeting
Elders A. G. Daniells, G. B. Thompson, and J. S. Washburn are attending a State meeting at Parkersburg, Iowa, this week. From this meeting Elder Daniells will go to the medical missionary convention at College View, Neb., where Elder G. A. Irwin will join him.
Catholic Populations in Major Cities
IT is stated on Catholic authority, that in the city of Chicago there are more Irish Catholics than in the city of Dublin, more German Catholics than in the city of Berlin, more Polish Catholics than in the city of Warsaw, and more Bohemian Catholics than in the city of Prague.
Medical Missionary Convention at College View
On Tuesday of next week the medical missionary convention which has been announced to be held under the auspices of the Medical Council of the General Conference, will open at College View, Neb. An article of general interest relating to this meeting appears in our Editorial department.
The Message Enters Siam
The brief word from Siam in this number means that another field has been entered with the message. True, only a touch, yet it is a beginning, which must bear fruit in due season. Slowly but surely this message is girdling the earth. Soon every nation, kindred, tongue, and people will hear the word; then shall the end come.
Atlantic Union Conference Appointments
At the recent session of the Atlantic Union Conference Elder E. W. Farnsworth was elected president, and Elder W. J. Fitzgerald vice-president. It was also arranged for Elder O. O. Farnsworth to take the presidency of the Vermont Conference, and for Elder Morris Lukens to take the presidency of the Chesapeake Conference. Elder H. W. Cottrell, who has so acceptably filled the office of president of this union conference since its organization, has accepted an official invitation to labor in the Pacific Union Conference, and will remove to that field in the near future. We shall publish a full report of this meeting in a later issue.
Adventist Teaching Exposed Again
ONCE more the teaching of Seventh-day Adventists is being exposed. This time it is done by a correspondent of The Malaysia Message, a monthly paper conducted by the Methodist Episcopal Mission at Singapore, Straits Settlements. This writer begins by stating that his contribution “is intended to expose the absurdity of the Seventh-day Adventist position,” and ends by declaring that “it will be seen at a glance that the Adventist position is unscriptural and unhistorical, and consequently utterly indefensible.” The body of the article is filled with the usual claims concerning the Sunday institution. Such exposures serve to call attention to the truth, and to create a demand for it.
Church Elders, Notice!
By Estella Houser
The readings for the week of prayer are to be mailed from the office of the Mission Board at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., the last week of this month. If there are church elders who are not receiving the second Sabbath readings regularly, they may know that their names are not on the lists in the Mission Board office. Such will favor us by sending their addresses immediately. This will insure their receiving the week of prayer readings. If any State secretaries know that their list of church elders in the Mission Board office is not the latest, will they not kindly send a revised list, so that we may have it in time to mail these readings? A limited quantity of the REVIEW containing the readings will be sent as usual to the State tract society offices. If any State secretary will require more than were sent out last year, let us know at once.
