Central N. E. Conference ........$ 36.70
Chesapeake Conference .......... 1.00
Eastern Pennsylvania Conf. .... 45.78
Greater New York Conf. ........ 76.50
Maine Conference ............... 1.22
New Jersey Conference ......... 145.00
New York Conference ........... 241.75
Southern N. E. Conference ..... 18.33
Vermont Conference ............. 95.33
Virginia Conference ............ 50.00
Western Pennsylvania Conf. .... 27.74
West Virginia Conference ....... 1.25
Total .........................$ 740.60
Conference not specified .......$ 202.25
British Columbia Conference ... 10.00
Montana Conference ............. 3.00
Upper Columbia Conference ..... 8.75
Western Washington Conf. ...... 55.00
Total .........................$ 279.0021
Northern Union Conference
Manitoba Conference ............$ 10.00
Minnesota Conference ........... 211.25
South Dakota Conference ........ 12.00
North Dakota Conference ........ 285.82
Total .........................$ 519.07
Pacific Union Conference
California-Nevada Conf. ........$ 1.50
Southern California Conference 22.40
Utah Conference ............... 10.00
Total .........................$ 33.90
Southern Union Conference
Tennessee Conference ..........$ 12.00
Florida Conference ............. 8.75
North Carolina Conference ..... 6.25
Total .........................$ 27.00
Australia ......................$ 5.00
China .......................... 3.00
South Africa .................. 120.73
Jamaica ........................ 3.17
Yukon Territory ................ 10.00
England ....................... 245.51
Gold Coast, West Africa ....... 10.00
Mexico ......................... 1.50
Costa Rica ..................... 1.00
India .......................... 9.60
South America ................. 23.35
Total .........................$ 432.86
Grand Total ...................$3,318.28
I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.
Current Mention
— A ukase recently issued by the czar of Russia permits the peasants to abandon their shares in the communal ownership of village land and become individual freeholders.
— The report of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw shows for the past year a surplus of $25,669,322.61 in the government receipts above the expenditures. There was a deficit of more than $20,000,000 the previous year.
— November 29 the town of Annen, Germany, was reduced to ruins by the explosion of a near-by factory manufacturing roburite, an explosive nearly equal to dynamite. Not a house escaped injury, and many lives were lost.
— Twelve prisoners are dead in Manila as the result of experimenting with cholera virus by the authorities. Inoculation with this virus is quite common there as well as in Spain and other countries. The press of Manila is demanding an investigation to determine the responsibility for these deaths.
— The famine is so terrible in the provinces of Kazan, Russia, that some of the peasants are openly selling their daughters to avert death from starvation. Relief officials just returned from the famine-stricken provinces report that the situation is even worse than described by the earlier accounts. Sickness follows in the track of famine. An epidemic of scurvy has broken out in the Saratov Province.
— Since August 28, when the railroad-rate law passed at the last session of Congress went into effect, there have been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission 133,002 schedules. More than eighty per cent of these were reductions of previous charges. It might well be thought that a still greater reduction could be afforded when it is known that the net earnings of the railroads of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1906, amounted to $920,221,859, or $250,000,000 more than the government receipts for the same time; while the taxes paid amounted to but six tenths of one per cent of the value of the railroads.
— The President's message read at the opening of Congress on December 3 was one of the longest messages Congress has received, and deals with a multitude of very important matters. His declaration in reference to the school controversy in California has caused much adverse comment, especially among those from the Pacific Coast, who interpreted his words to mean that he would use military force to compel the Californians to admit the Japanese to the public schools attended by whites. The President's own explanation of the expressions in question is that he will protect the lives, property, and peace of the Japanese with force if necessary, while the matter of their attendance at the public schools will be left to the federal courts to determine. There has been considerable talk of the probability of war between the two countries over the matter; but Japanese officials profess to be satisfied with the good intentions of the American government.
— Wireless telegraph messages were exchanged December 4 between the government stations at Loma Linda, Cal., and Puget Sound, a distance of 1,200 miles.
— The practise of sending money in the registered mail in Russia will be abandoned because of the almost daily robbery of mail trains by bands of armed revolutionists whose booty from this course of procedure has reached such large proportions that the government has to repay the senders in instalments.
— A cable dispatch from The Hague announces the termination of a war which has lasted 243 years. The Dutch have been these centuries waging unceasing war against the savage Macassars of the island of Celebes in the East Indies. The last thousand made their final stand in the crater of an extinct volcano.
— During the trial of the president of the Chicago teamsters' union, a witness who has turned States evidence says that during the strike of 1905 the hired pickets were told to break the arms and legs of the strike-breakers. When this failed, they were ordered to throw eggshells filled with acids at the horses driven by non-union men. These missiles were furnished at the headquarters for the pickets, and their use was responsible for many runaways.
— Disasters to vessels have been unusually numerous of late. Confusion of signals caused a night collision on Puget Sound November 18, between the Sound steamer “Dix” and the Alaskan steamer “Jeanie.” The “Dix” sank immediately, and fifty of her passengers and crew were drowned. In a similar manner the ocean liners “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse” and the “Orinoco” collided in the British Channel the night of November 21; but as neither vessel sank, the loss of life was less; nevertheless thirteen were either crushed to death or drowned, and as many more injured. On the same day a storm was raging on the Great Lakes; and three vessels are known to have been lost, and with them forty-three persons.
— A fast train on the Baltimore and Ohio ran into an open switch fifteen miles from Pittsburg, December 1, killing four persons and fatally wounding another. On the same day a gravel train crashed into a passenger on a down grade in Vermont, killing three women and seriously injuring twelve others. On Thanksgiving day a rear-end collision of two passenger-trains on the Southern Railroad caused the death of seven persons, Samuel Spencer, president of the road, and three of his friends, just starting for a week's outing, being among the number. Possibly his death may awaken the country to the reckless methods of railroad operation in the United States. It is said that the persons killed and crippled by railroad accidents in this country and England respectively are in the ratio of 2,000 to 20. It is gratifying to learn that Attorney-General Moody has directed that suits be brought against a large number of railroad companies to recover penalties for violation of the safety-appliance law through failure to keep their equipment in proper condition. These cases were reported to him by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He Got Up in the Night to Read
By LYMAN D. RANDALL
THE following letter from a faithful sister in North Carolina breathes so fully the spirit of real missionary effort that it will be read with interest by all:—
“Although alone Sabbath, I carried out the program sent us for November 10. I had a good meeting, and decided to increase my order for the special Watchman. In the afternoon I held a Bible reading with a new Sabbath-keeper. I think she, too, will sell The Watchman. Friday a woman bought a paper from me, and then said, ‘I want that paper for a year,’ and gave me her order.
“I have asked the Lord to give me an order for The Watchman each week, and he has, but I believe I shall ask for more, and I believe he will give more. One woman said her husband enjoyed The Watchman so much that he got up in the night and read it.”
Does it pay to work with our periodicals? Such experiences as the one related above, and many others which might be mentioned, are very positive answers. Individuals are successfully devoting their entire time to selling The Watchman.
If you are interested in this good work and desire further information and suggestions, I shall be glad to correspond with you. Address me at Nashville, Tenn., in care of the Southern Publishing Association.
LYMAN D. RANDALL.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By Jeannette Stewart
Notice!
ALL absent members of the Bay City (Mich.) church are requested to report either in person or by letter at the January quarterly meeting. Please give this immediate attention as we wish to revise our church record. JAENNETTE STEWART, Clerk.
Rome and National Reform
By K. C. R.
The Boston Citizen of Oct. 13, 1906, contains a paper read at a National Reform convention, in Boston, by the editor, October 9, from which we quote the following:—
“Rome’s aims are directly opposed to the welfare of the United States. She is rapidly building up a rival government—an absolute tyranny—in our midst. How rapidly she is accomplishing her purposes may be shown by the following figures:—
“In 1894, twelve years ago, there were seven million Romanists under the United States flag. To-day there are more than twenty millions, and including Cuba, which may be annexed, there are twenty-two millions. In this estimate we include the Philippines, for Rome bases her claims for recognition or reward at the hands of our government upon her adherents ‘under the flag,’ and not upon her actual number of voters. Thus she calls herself ‘one fourth of the total population,’ though in reality in the United States proper she is but one seventh. But there are now, including Cuba, twenty-two million Romanists under our flag.
“Romanists increase by birth three times as fast as Protestants. They increase by immigration ten times as fast—that is, of the eleven hundred thousand immigrants landed upon our shores last year, just about 85,000 were Protestants, over 800,000 were Romanists, and the remainder were Jews and Greeks.
“Ten years ago (1895) we received less than 400,000 Romanist immigrants; the past year we received over 800,000, and the number is increasing each year.”
The writer has truly said that the aims of Rome are opposed to the welfare of the United States; and, too, she is gaining prestige and influence at an alarming rate. One, however, who is acquainted with the principles underlying the National Reform party, is led to ask why this arraignment of Rome when they themselves are pursuing a policy similar to the one Rome is pursuing in this country, as indicated in the paper read before the National Reform convention.
No organization is exerting a stronger and more determined effort in bringing pressure to bear upon Congress and the state legislatures to enact religious laws and to unite church and state than is the National Reform Association. Its policy is clearly outlined in Article Two of its Constitution, as follows:—
“To secure such amendment to the Constitution of the United States as will declare the nation’s allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions, and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land.”
What more could Rome desire in this country than to have the United States Constitution so amended that religion could be placed upon a legal basis in the fundamental law of the land? It requires no argument to show that such would be a veritable union of church and state, and would lead to religious intolerance and persecution. To demonstrate that this movement possesses a spirit that will in the end lead it to do what the papal church did in the days of the Inquisition, when all religious sects that she regarded as false were suppressed, I will herewith quote the words of Mr. M. A. Gault, who was one of the secretaries of this association, as given in the Christian Statesman of Jan. 13, 1887:—
“Our remedy for all these malefic influences is to have the government simply set up the moral law, and recognize God’s authority behind it, and lay its hand on any religion that does not conform to it.”
We have but to scan the terrible history of the past and note the awful effect upon the welfare of those nations where the civil law had placed “its hand” upon the religions which were not supported by the state.
The array of figures that the editor of The Citizen has given concerning the rapid growth of Roman Catholicism is a question which should concern every thoughtful soul, when we stop to consider that her influence in every way is being brought to bear upon this government in her endeavor to obtain help in the interest of “the church.”
Let the reader pause and contrast the numbers of those who are committed to the principles of National Reformism with the Roman Catholic Church membership in the United States, and he will see that the danger that threatens the welfare of our country is not alone from the papacy, but from the National Reform party as well, with all of her powerful allies which consist of many influential organizations. Among these organizations are the W. C. T. U., Y. M. C. A., Christian Endeavor, Epworth League, The American Sabbath Association, besides the great Inter-Church Federation movement which was launched last fall, twenty million strong. I appeal to you, dear reader, in all candor, if in the face of these combined forces seeking to dominate and control this government in the interests of their cherished ideas, as the papacy is attempting to do, is it not high time for every true Christian and patriot to awaken to the seriousness of the situation?
K. C. R.
Religious Liberty Work in the Northwest
ELDER A. J. BREED, president of the North Pacific Union Conference, writes: “Each conference in the North Pacific Union passed a resolution authorizing the appointment of some individual to act as secretary of the Religious Liberty department of the conference. I understand that persons running for office in State, county, and town, have pledged themselves to work either for or against Sunday legislation. It will be a live question in Washington the coming winter. Many city councils are being pressed to make it a finale issue to close all places now open on Sunday, with certain exceptions; so we are trying to agitate the question of liberty. We are therefore placing Liberty in the hands of lawyers, editors, and other men who will be benefited by it.”
College View Church Membership Notice
By Libbie Collins
Notice!
It is greatly desired that all persons knowing themselves to be members of the College View (Neb.) Seventh-day Adventist church not resident in College View should report to the clerk before Jan. 1, 1907. Many whose names are on the books, have moved away, and their whereabouts are unknown. Kindly attend to this matter at once if you are a member. MRS. LIBBIE COLLINS, Clerk.
Nebraska Conference
By A. T. Robinson
The thirty-first annual session of the Nebraska Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at College View, Neb., December 24 to 30, inclusive. Elder K. C. Russell, of Washington, D. C., Brethren James Cochran, of Kansas City, and H. H. Hall, of Mountain View, Cal., are expected to attend this meeting. Full delegations from all our churches and representatives from unorganized companies are urged to be present at the opening meeting, Monday evening, December 24.
A. T. ROBINSON, President.
Young People's Manual
I HAVE still on hand a supply of the “Manual of Organization of the Young People's Society.” These are made up of carefully selected quotations from the spirit of prophecy relative to organizations of young people for work. I can furnish these without cover at 75 cents a hundred, post-paid, to any address, or will be glad to print any conference directory on cover, and bind the same, and furnish them to conferences at $1 a hundred in lots of five hundred or more. Address J. G. Lamson, Adelphian Academy, Holly, Mich.
“The Southern Work” — You Can Get a Copy
By Editor
We are glad to be able to announce that we have secured a number of signatures of that valuable booklet, “The Southern Work,” practically out of print for nearly a year past. This booklet is a valuable little compilation of Testimonies, several of which have never been printed in any other form. The signatures secured have been bound in limp covers, and will be sent post-paid, at the old price, 15 cents a copy, as long as they last. Address Southern Missionary Society, North Station, Nashville, Tenn.
The Nebraska Sanitarium and Benevolent Association
By W. A. George
The next annual meeting of the constituency of this association will be held in connection with the Nebraska Conference, at College View, Neb., Dec. 25, 1906, at 2:30 P. M. This meeting is for the purpose of electing officers and members of the board of trustees whose term of office expires, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The members of the association include the delegates to the Nebraska Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the regular employees of the Nebraska Sanitarium, and all graduate physicians and nurses engaged in medical missionary work in Nebraska, under the supervision of, and in harmony with, this association.
W. A. GEORGE,
Pres. Neb. San. and Ben. Assn.
Christian Liberty
By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord
Reports, Notes, and Comments. Pertainingto the Current History of theRights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL. — — — — ChairmanW. A. COLCORD. — — — — Secretary
Business Notices
By Editor
BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers.
Display advertising will not be accepted, nor do the publishers solicit advertising of any kind for this paper.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures, in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send with their advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing and send it.
WANTED.—Ten first-class carpenters and joiners. None others need apply. Recommendations required. Wages 40 cents an hour. Address I. H. Evans, Takoma Park, D. C.
WANTED.—A good dairyman; also a gardener who understands all about vegetable growing. Single man preferred. Correspondence invited. Address Loma Linda Sanitarium, Redlands, Cal.
WANTED.—Work among Seventh-day Adventists, by a young man (single), where he can keep the Sabbath. Prefers to work by the month. Address Frank E. Stevens, R. F. D. 23, Kent City, Mich.
WANTED AT ONCE.—A gentleman graduate nurse who is competent to take charge of a bath-room. None but those who are thoroughly competent need apply. Address Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, Cal.
FOR SALE.—New crop ripe olives; mainly two sizes; at 55 and 70 cents a gal. A large lot of pure olive-oil. Samples sent. Pure extracted mountain honey. Send for price list or tiny samples. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.
WANTED.—An elderly lady, Seventh-day Adventist, wants a good and steady place with a small Seventh-day Adventist family, or as housekeeper. Address Miss Priscilla A. Sorensen, R. F. D. 3, Box 63, Benson, Neb., Care of J. Christensen.
FOR SALE.—Pure vegetable cooking oil; best we know of. We supply sanitariums. Prices low. Write us. Best Graham and gluten flours, malt honey, canned corn, cereals of all kinds; sanitarium foods; apples and nuts. Address New York Food Co., Oxford, N. Y.
WANTED AT ONCE.—Two consecrated Seventh-day Adventist graduate nurses (or man and wife) who understand surgical nursing; and in addition, I can use two more nurses, ladies or gentlemen, who desire experience in surgical nursing, for sanitarium work. I also wish a competent man and his wife to run established Turkish bath and treatment rooms on salary or shares. Excellent chance. Address, with references, Wm. P. Schuster, 214 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, Ind.
WANTED.—Girl or woman, in family of four adults; good home, good wages. Correspondence desired. Address Mrs. John Barland, 183 Greenwood Ave., Kankakee, Ill.
FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful, best vegetable oil for cooking or salads; no odor; keeps indefinitely. Gal. can, $1; 5-gal., $4.50. Also olive-oil of the purest grade; gal., $2.75; half-gal., $1.40; quart can, 85 cents. Send for samples. Also write for prices on California ripe olives and honey. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.
Publications Wanted
[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth. —ED.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
Mrs. Lula Frye, Milan, Tenn., German tracts on present truth.
Mrs. H. M. Burleigh, Johnstown, Neb., Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts.
Mrs. Henry Hayen, Murillo, Ark., Signs, Life and Health, Instructor, and tracts.
Addie Draper, Claremore, I. T., Signs, Watchman, Bible Training School, and tracts.
Earl W. Culver, 1929 Girard Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., Signs, Watchman, and tracts on the Sabbath question and Christ’s second coming; could use quite a number each week.
Miss Mary Moore, Box 38, Decatur, Ark., Signs, Watchman, Sabbath School Worker, Instructor, Little Friend.
W. H. Loose, 317 South Woodyear St., Baltimore, Md., Little Friend, Liberty, Hausfreund, Sendebud, and tracts on all important points of present truth.
Inez Brasier, Box 77, R. F. D. 1, Cadott, Wis., Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Instructor, Little Friend, Life Boat, also German papers, tracts, and leaflets.
Noblesville Church Members Requested to Report
Notice!
THE following-named members of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Noblesville, Ind., are requested to report to that church: Mattie Abram, Nathan Clover, Sallie Clover, Susana Kendall, Sarah Mc Vey, Minnie Tuckwiller, Mr. Shannon. Please address Mrs. Donna Priddy (clerk), 132 North St., Noblesville, Ind.
Wichita Church Members Requested
By Editor
Notice!
WE would like the addresses of the following-named persons, who are members of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Wichita, Kan., so that we may be able to keep in touch with them through correspondence: Florence Thompson, Lizzie Dickinson, Adah Kirch, C. Horn, A. A. Horn, Hazel Hoag, Gladys Bennett, and Olive Shipman. Address the church clerk, Florence Ketring-Harper, 418 North Millwood Ave., Wichita, Kan.
Annual Session of the West Michigan Conference
By A. G. Haughey; E. A. Merriam
The fifth annual session of the West Michigan Seventh-day Adventist Conference will be held in the academy chapel at Cedar Lake, Mich., Dec. 24-28, 1906. The delegates to this conference are all our conference employees, one delegate for each church organization, and one additional delegate for every fifteen members. We expect a quiet, profitable meeting.
A. G. HAUGHEY, President.
E. A. MERRIAM, Secretary.
Nebraska Conference Association
By A. T. Robinson
The regular annual meeting of the Nebraska Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the Seventh-day Adventist church at College View, Neb., on Thursday, December 27, at 2:30 P. M. This meeting will be held for the purpose of electing a board of trustees and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. All accredited delegates to the conference are voters in the meetings of this association.
A. T. ROBINSON, President.
Manitoba, Notice!
By W. M. Adams
THE second annual meeting of the members of the corporation known as “The Manitoba Conference of Seventh-day Adventists” will be held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, beginning Friday morning, Dec. 28, 1906, at nine o’clock, central time, for the purpose of hearing reports, electing a board of trustees for the coming year, and transacting any other business that may properly come before the meeting. This meeting will be our regular conference session.
W. M. ADAMS, Chairman.
Addresses
The post-office address of Elder J. K. Humphrey is 2364 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The post-office address of Elder John S. Wightman, Religious Liberty Secretary of New York and Western New York Conferences, is Watertown, N. Y.
L. M. SLOCUM
Obituaries
SLOCUM.—Died in North Brookfield, N. Y., of rheumatism with complications, Mrs. Olive Slocum, aged 63 years. Early in life the deceased united with the Baptist Church, but when the truths of the third angel's message came to her knowledge through the printed page, she gladly accepted them. It was never her privilege to live near one of our churches, consequently she never openly united with this people, but she lived the truth so consistently that her husband was convinced and embraced the message, and died in the faith. Sister Olive was a great sufferer for years, and especially the last few months, but endured patiently “as seeing him who is invisible.” The end came peacefully, and she sleeps in Jesus.
L. M. SLOCUM
WEAVER.—Died in Battle Creek, Mich., April 2, 1906, of acute indigestion, Mrs. Ovilla Weaver, in her seventy-ninth year. She with her companion accepted the truths of the third angel's message many years ago, and they walked hand in hand in the good way until he was taken from her. She continued to generously use the means left her, in advancing the cause of God until her own life-work was finished, and the remainder was then placed where her husband had arranged, to be used in the message which they had espoused and loved together. She was a member of Elder S. H. Lane's family for several years, and her funeral service was conducted at the house and also in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Watertown, N. Y., to which place her remains were taken.
MRS. P. H. LANE.
BINGER.—Died in Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 31, 1906, Mrs. Sarah Emily Binger, aged 54 years, 4 months, and 8 days. Sarah E. Reed was born in Parkville, Mich., June 23, 1852. At the age of twenty-one she was united in marriage to William Ludwig Binger, whose birthplace was Oederquart Province, Hanover, Germany. Mrs. Binger was the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living, and with the husband and father, were present at the funeral. With her widowed mother, who still lives, she removed to Battle Creek when sixteen years of age. The cause of her death was a painful and lingering malady which made her an invalid for a number of years. When Sister Binger was a mere child, her mother began the observance of the Bible Sabbath; in this she was joined by her daughter until about the time of her marriage. From this period until the beginning of her fatal affliction, she lived like the world, though not without the conviction that she was failing to obey God. During her painful sickness, she was repeatedly visited by sympathizing members of the church, who talked and prayed with her, until she found peace in the Lord Jesus Christ. Then, although sorely afflicted, she requested that a baptistery be improvised so that she could follow the Saviour in the ordinance of baptism; and last July, in the yard near her residence, she was immersed by Elder A. C. Bourdeau, in the presence of the family and a few friends. The funeral was a private one, and the services were conducted by Elder E. W. Parmelee of this city, who took for his text the words, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Gen. 18: 25. Very appropriate and of a consolatory nature was this discourse.
G. W. AMADON.
The Week of Prayer
By Arthur G. Daniells
DECEMBER 15 brings to our people another season of prayer and devotion. It seems most fitting that the “church militant” should pause at the close of another year and spend a season in earnestly seeking the Lord.
Many other denominations set apart a “week of prayer.” Some have a “self-denial week,” and even the Catholics have their season of Lent. If other religious denominations feel the necessity of an annual season of devotion, how much more should God’s remnant church realize their need of spiritual help.
From the very time when our people began the observance of the week of prayer, it has been a source of great spiritual uplift to those who have entered into its spirit. Hundreds have been converted during this season of devotion, while many churches can testify of great spiritual awakenings in their membership, as they annually observe this time of seeking God.
Shall not the year 1906 close with a pentecostal blessing upon the remnant church? Is it not time to put away our sins and to make every wrong right, with both God and man? Is there alienation between brethren? Have we been “robbing God” in tithes and offerings? Is there some cherished sin unconfessed? Some habit not yet overcome? Shall not this season of prayer bring to us relief from a guilty conscience, and deliverance from Satan’s power? God grant that this may be so.
The readings for this occasion have been sent to the church elders and leaders, but we earnestly bespeak that these readings be supplemented by much prayer and by good social meetings.
In our seasons of prayer, let us pray for ourselves, that God will cleanse our hearts, and make of us unto himself “an holy people, a royal priesthood.” Let us pray for victory over every evil habit. Let us lay our children before the Lord, and give them in consecration to his service. Then, too, let us daily pray for our missionaries in all parts of the world, that God will send them showers of the latter rain and “pentecostal power” in preaching the message to those in darkness. Pray for the General Conference Committee, our local conference committees, our schools and institutions everywhere.
Let us with one heart and voice plead for cleansing from sin, that the Holy Spirit may be given in large measure to the people of God at this time.
A. G. DANIELLS.
A. N. Allen Takes Furlough
WE learn that Brother A. N. Allen, of Spanish Honduras, is taking a short furlough in New Orleans, to recuperate his health, and at the same time to take some work in a dental school to add to his usefulness in the field.
Help for Central America
ELDER E. L. CARDEY and his wife, of the Southern Illinois Conference, were booked to sail from New Orleans, December 6, for Belize, British Honduras. For a long time Elder H. C. Goodrich has been the lone ministerial laborer in north Central America. We are glad help is going forward.
Brother Claude Morgan Called to Central America
BROTHER CLAUDE MORGAN and his wife, of southern California, have doubtless sailed this week from New Orleans for Central America. They go to answer the call for teachers in that part of the field. Whether they will labor on the mainland or in the Bay Islands will be determined after their arrival in their new field of labor.
Professor Frederick Griggs Visits Washington
PROF. FREDERICK GRIGGS was with us two days last week. He came to Washington to attend the funeral of Miss Floy Willson, daughter of Brother and Sister J. V. Willson, who are carrying on medical missionary work in Kimberley, South Africa. Full particulars of Sister Willson's death will appear in our next issue.
General Meetings in West Virginia
Too late for insertion in its proper place we received the notice of a series of general meetings to be conducted by Elder E. W. Farnsworth in West Virginia. He will meet with the brethren at the following places on the dates specified: Clarksburg, December 14-16; Parkersburg, December 18-20; Kanawha Station, December 21-23.