THE following letter has been sent to each member of the House of Representatives by the Religious Liberty Bureau through its secretary, W. A. Colcord:—
“To the Honorable, the Members of the House of Representatives,
“RESPECTED SIRS: There are elements at work in this country seeking to gain control of the civil power for the purpose of coercing men in matters of conscience. This is manifested chiefly in the growing demand for Sunday legislation. No less than five Sunday bills have been introduced into the present Congress.
“One of the latest of these bills (H. R. 16483), entitled, ‘A Bill requiring certain places of business in the District of Columbia to be closed on Sunday,’ was introduced by Mr. Wadsworth, of New York, March 9, 1906.
“The provisions of this bill make it unlawful ‘for any person in the District of Columbia to sell or to offer for sale, or to keep open any place of business for the sale or delivery of, any groceries or meats or vegetables or other provisions on Sunday, except that from the first day of June until the first day of October meats sold prior to Sunday may be delivered at any time before ten o’clock in the morning of that day,’ and subject the offender to a maximum penalty of one hundred dollars’ fine, or one year’s imprisonment, or both.
“We are opposed to this bill for the following reasons:—
“1. Because it is religious. As a sabbath, or day of rest, Sunday is itself religious. All laws requiring cessation from business or labor on this day must, therefore, be religious.
“2. Because, being religious, it is unconstitutional. The Constitution declares that ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.’ The making of a Sunday law is the first step toward a religious establishment. Church and state were united in the fourth and fifth centuries by this very means. All existing Sunday laws are relics of this union.
“3. Because it violates natural rights,—the right to liberty in the choice of one’s religion, and of one’s own time for rest, religious devotion, and labor. As is well known, there are religions—the religion of the Jew, the Seventh-day Baptist, and the Seventh-day Adventist—which do not recognize Sunday as a day of rest; and there are individuals who, not being religious, observe no weekly day of rest. No man who observes a certain day, no set of men who observe such a day, has a right to compel another man to observe that day.
“4. Because the state has no more right to compel men to rest, and to say when they shall rest, than it has to compel them to labor, and to say when they shall labor. Rest presupposes labor, and naturally follows it. A compulsory labor law ought, therefore, logically, to precede a compulsory rest law. But both the are out of place in civil government, and either means slavery and oppression.
“5. Because it is class legislation. It is designed to give protection against competition and loss in trade to men engaged in certain lines of business who observe, or who wish to observe, Sunday; but it does not give, nor does it attempt to give, any such protection to those who observe, or who may desire to observe, another day than Sunday. Its passage would mean that those who observe Sunday shall have especial protection, and be a preferred class—that they shall have a law compelling all competitors in trade to rest when they rest. It requires all who sell the daily provisions most essential to life to cease doing business on Sunday, but makes no such requirements of dry-goods merchants, tobacconists, news agents, and others supplying less vital commodities.
“6. Because no one in the District of Columbia needs any such ‘protection’ as this bill assumes to give. Because certain men in certain trades desire to observe Sunday as a day of rest, they have no right to compel others by law, engaged in the same trades, to rest on that day in order that they themselves shall suffer no loss in trade. Why should a man who does not desire to keep Sunday be compelled to do so? If the physical, social, and spiritual benefits derived from Sunday rest are not sufficient to compensate men for any losses they may sustain thereby, they would better abandon it. It is certainly not consistent for them to ask the state to protect them against loss in trade by compelling others to rest when they rest. If men in one trade keeping one day need such protection, then men in all trades keeping all days whatsoever need, and are entitled to, the same protection. But no one in the District of Columbia needs or is entitled to such ‘protection,’ nor is it the province of civil government to grant it.
“7. Because it implies an unwarranted assumption of power of man over man in both civil and religious affairs. It is not the province of the civil power to direct men by law in religious things, nor is it proper for it to treat as a crime any act of honest trade or toil whenever performed. Religious matters should be left to each individual soul and God, and only crime should be treated as crime. Not honest trade and toil, but oppression and persecution have been the bane and the ruin of civil government in all ages.
“8. Because it makes a crime of an act performed on Sunday that is considered perfectly legitimate on any other day. It is the day rather than the deed, therefore, that is in question. It makes a crime also of the delivery of provisions after ten o’clock on Sunday in summertime that it permits before that hour during this season. Why this provision?—Presumably in order that there shall be no interference with ‘church attendance’ on that day. In this is revealed the religious character and intent of the bill. Crimes are not determined by the day nor the time of day when they are done.
“9. Because it would establish a dangerous precedent for further legislation of the same character. This, if passed, will be simply ‘the camel’s nose in the tent.’ Other like measures restricting the rights and liberties of the people , and still further will be demanded later.
“10. Because it is contrary to the law of God. It enjoins as a day of rest a day which the divine law includes among the six working days. As men have no right to attempt to enforce the worship enjoined in the law of God, they certainly have no right to attempt to change the law of God, and to enforce worship that is not enjoined in it, and that is contrary to it. To attempt to do so is neither Christian nor constitutional.
“For these reasons, we respectfully but most earnestly urge that this bill be not passed.
“For Congress to enter upon a course of religious legislation, requiring certain classes of citizens in the District of Columbia to cease doing business on Sunday, would be contrary to the express terms of the Constitution, a flagrant violation of one of the most sacred principles upon which the national government was founded,—that of religious liberty, with its consequent separation of church and state,—and would presage a revival of ecclesiastical domination and religious tyranny and oppression in this country.
“We therefore wish to raise a note of warning against all legislation of this kind. Let us still have liberty in this country. Let the principles of the founders of this government prevail. Let bigotry and intolerance be repressed; let them find no footing in national legislation.”
Our Educational Convention
By F. G.
Our educational workers in all parts of the world have been looking forward with much interest to the educational convention soon to be held. This convention was decided upon at the General Conference held in Washington last May. The Department of Education, at a meeting held at that time, appointed committees to prepare reports to be submitted to this convention.
The time, place, and general features of this convention received due consideration at the meeting of the General Conference Council just held in Washington, and it was decided to hold it on the Pacific Coast in the early part of July, provided suitable accommodations for entertainment and place of meeting could be secured. The Department of Education has received a number of most cordial invitations from different localities for this convention, and until the meeting of the council it had been thought that it would be held in the central portion of the country. But in view of the fact that the National Educational Association is to hold its meeting at San Francisco early in July, and that great reductions are made in the transportation rates, it was thought by the council that the total expense to our people of holding the convention on the coast would be no greater than to hold it in the central portion of the United States. Naturally our conventions which are held from time to time will21be in the central portion of the United States, owing to a very great extent to this item of expense; and inasmuch as there is now given us the opportunity of going to the Pacific Coast at no additional expense to our people as a whole, it seems wise to embrace it.
It will undoubtedly be a long time before we shall have an opportunity to hold another of our educational conventions in the far West, and we are certain that our educational workers in this portion of the country will all avail themselves of it. Our teachers in the western portion of the United States have been very enthusiastic in their work, and they will be able to offer many practical suggestions to our teachers from other portions of the country, which may be of very material help in their work. We are unable to announce at this time the definite date of the convention and the exact rates, but as we have said, the convention will be in the early part of July. We shall make a definite announcement shortly.
The question naturally arises as to who should attend. In reply we would say that every one of our educational workers ought to be present at this meeting. We shall have with us not only our own educators, but the leading workers of the General Conference and the Young People's work. The educational secretaries of our union conferences, the State superintendents of our church-schools, and the presidents and principals of all our colleges, academies, and intermediate schools should certainly plan to be present; and our conferences and institutions should take it upon them to see that these workers are delegated to attend the convention. We also earnestly hope that just as many of the rank and file of our teachers as possible will arrange to come.
We desire that this convention shall mark the beginning of a period of great advancement in all phases of our school work. The committees which were appointed have been carrying forward their work, and should have very valuable suggestions for consideration. Altogether we hope for great results from this convention.
F. G.
Christian Education
By Frederick Griggs; C. C. Lewis
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
FREDERICK GRIGGS, Chairman,
C. C. LEWIS, Secretary.
Western Washington Intermediate Schools
By F. M. Burg
THERE are two intermediate schools in this conference, one located three or four miles from Mt. Vernon, a thriving little town about seventy miles north of Seattle on the Great Northern Railway, and the other at or near Manor, in a good farming district in Clark County, about sixteen miles northeast of Vancouver, and about two miles from a branch road of the Northern Pacific.
Forest Home Industrial Academy, as the school at Mt. Vernon is called, has been in operation for about two years, and a very encouraging work has been done for the youth who have attended. During the year just closing there have been at the school about fifty young persons; and from what I learned by a short visit at the school recently, there has been a work accomplished for many of them that will yield a rich harvest in eternity.
This school for the northern section of the conference has two good buildings erected, though only partly finished and very plainly furnished. These buildings are sufficient to accommodate very comfortably about fifty students. There are about twenty acres of land connected with the school, all of which, except a small parcel which the students and their teacher have thus far cleared, is unimproved. It will take work to clear it; but the land will be productive when it is brought under cultivation. More land adjacent to this twenty acres can be secured if wanted by the school.
The survey for the county road direct from Mt. Vernon promises a good graded road before long, which will reduce the distance to town and to the railroad station to about two miles and a half.
When the pledges which have been made for these intermediate schools in western Washington are paid, their buildings, furnishings, and equipments can be put into better condition. It is hoped that before another year's work opens, there will be paid into the conference treasury a goodly sum for the carrying on of this work for our dear youth.
The Meadow-Glade Intermediate School at Manor, in the southern part of the conference, is not so far along in its buildings and other improvements as the northern school. But notwithstanding all this,—the lack of buildings, furnishings, and facilities,—there has been excellent work done at this school, with most gratifying results.
I have just made a visit to the place, and am glad to have had this privilege; for what I have seen of the good results of the work done in the school, and a survey of the immediate vicinity and of the possible constituency and the prospect for students in the southern section of the conference, have disabused my mind of some unfavorable impressions that I had had. There is a good community of people and a good farming district surrounding the Manor school—as good an average chance to get a home and make a living out of the soil as you can find.
This school has also twenty acres of unimproved land. But though unimproved, six or eight acres of it can very quickly and with no unreasonably hard work be put under grass for pasture. Between one and two acres is now under cultivation, and will produce an excellent crop. There is quite a supply of good, marketable timber on the place. The campus can, in a little while, be made very attractive. But buildings are needed. If the readers of this sketch could have visited the school with me, it would not be necessary for me to say this. Buildings, furnishings, and facilities for the work that is started at Manor should be supplied before another school term begins.
I am glad to say that a number of our brethren who are near enough to have seen the working of this school and to know its prospects are fully aroused; and the Board has decided to start the erection of a building which will be more in keeping with the interests involved. I should state that lumber is already on the ground and paid for, to put up the frame of a building thirty-two by forty feet, and to enclose it. This will be done at once; and then money will have to be solicited to finish and furnish it.
I appeal to our people in western Washington in behalf of our dear youth who are just at that age where the world is bidding for them. No longer regard these schools as an experiment, but recognize them as a permanent factor among us. If our brethren and sisters will fall into step with this good work for our promising young people, both of these schools in western Washington will be taxed to their utmost to accommodate them.
In another paper I will present a few thoughts concerning the object of these schools, their possibilities for good, who should attend them, and will also tell what the young people of the Manor school did during my visit among them that illustrated in a beautiful way to the community the value and merit of the work that the school is doing.
F. M. BURG.
A Source of Income for School and Student
By JOEL C. ROGERS
(Concluded)
The growing of fruit-trees could be undertaken by some schools. A student interested in this industry could get employment in a nursery where he could learn to raise the trees; or a teacher, by working in a nursery during vacation, might fit himself for teaching the industry. There is no field of nature study presenting more interesting subjects than the growing, budding, grafting, and pruning of fruit and ornamental trees. Root grafting and preparing scions would furnish employment for students in the winter, when suitable work is often hard to find. Planting of seedling trees, caring for nursery stock, summer budding and grafting, would give work for some students in vacation.
Ornamental plants, shrubs, and seeds could be grown by girls. Their propagation from seeds, cuttings, and scions would furnish interesting and instructive employment. Bulbs could also be profitably grown in most places. Perhaps no classes of ornamental plants are in greater demand and afford a better income than roses, carnations, and hyacinths. These are extremely easy of propagation and of rapid multiplication. Of the seed-producing ornamentals, the pansy and aster are good types.
Where necessary and desirable, a teacher or student could connect with an agricultural college for a short course, to make himself proficient for leading out in these industries. Thus, the present truth might be given to teachers and students in those secular schools.
Remunerative vacation employment for students who must obtain means for their own schooling is a matter that may well be studied by school board and faculty. Seeds, plants, shrubs, and trees grown by the school could be sold by students in vacation with a good income, both to the student and to the school. Older students, qualified for salesmen, should do the selling, while others could better work at growing and caring for the plants and trees. While selling, students could carry literature to the people, and in other ways act as missionaries, as well as finding more students for the school.
Any school may undertake this line of industry with but very little outlay of means. Start with a few things; for example, potatoes and cabbage, selecting the very best, and growing especially for seed; roses and carnations best adapted to the locality; apple- and pear-trees of best varieties, to start the nursery, or berry plants, if more desirable.22If only one or two of these classes of plants can be grown at first, select an early and a late variety of that best adapted to the soil, easiest grown, and most needed for home consumption by the school. If students are sent out to sell the school products, other things of the same class necessary to handle could be purchased at wholesale as required. When one is selling rose-bushes in a city, purchasers would call for tulips and hyacinths. The latter could be bought to fill the orders taken.
When undertaking any of the suggested lines of industry, a teacher who is interested in a particular line, would, of course, be asked to lead out in that industry. Let him select at once the thing decided upon, and make a start this spring. Make a specialty of one or two things, get the best-known variety, stick to it, and the thing must succeed, with God's help, which is freely offered.
JOEL C. ROGERS.
Business Notices
BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted.
All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column.
In the case of poor persons who wish employment, the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement.23
FOR SALE OR TRADE.—A 5-room, 1½ story house, on ordinary lot; good cistern, and some fruit, such as cherries, strawberries, and grapes. Address F. A. Hungerford, R. F. D. 4, Battle Creek, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Vegetable cooking oil, odorless, fine shortener, good keeper. Prices, freight prepaid east of Colorado, west of Pennsylvania: one 5-gal. can, $3.50; two cans, $6.50; three cans, $9.25. Address R. H. Brock, Arkansas City, Kan.
RANCID-proof peanut butter, 10 cents a pound. Purest cocoanut oil, 15 cents in 5-pound, 14 cents in 25-pound, and 13 cents in 50-pound lots. Agents wanted everywhere. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Bond Building, Washington, D. C.
WANTED AT ONCE.—An experienced farm-hand, by month, the year round. Can furnish house. Will sell 40 or 100 acres of my farm. Church and school privileges. A good chance for some one. Address J. H. Crandell, R. F. D. 2, Albion, Ind.
FOR SALE.—Five acres, at College View, Neb., 6-room house, barn, well and windmill, cistern; two acres in orchard, two acres clover pasture, one in garden. A snap if sold at once. For particulars address U. G. Albert, 1339 O St., Lincoln, Neb.
FOR SALE.—Forty-acre farm ¼ mile from Adventist church, 2 miles from town; 5-room house, farm buildings, orchard, 2 horses, cow, wagon, sleigh, and farming implements. Price, $1,500; easy terms. Address Carl Adam, R. F. D. 1, Copemish, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Good farm, 220 acres, 25 acres in good timber, 6-room house, barn, outbuildings, another fair set of buildings, large orchard; seven miles from Cabool, eight miles from Mountain Grove; price, $2,500. Address Mrs. Ida Lovell, Cabool, Mo.
FOR SALE.—Forty acre farm 3½ miles northwest of Lupton, Ogemaw Co., Mich., 12 acres under cultivation, 20 acres easily cleared, young orchard, fair buildings, wire fences. $200 down, $300 on time, or $450 cash. Address Alden Hurd, Rose City, Mich.
WANTED.—A carpenter—young man, Sabbath-keeper; must be a hustler, and capable of becoming foreman of shop. Permanent position. State weight, age, and salary expected. Address Karr Portable House Co., Cor. Belleplaine Ave. and E. Ravenswood Pk., Chicago, Ill.
FOR SALE.—A 2-story house of nine rooms, with about nine acres of land, barn and other outbuildings, good well of soft water, fruit-trees and grape-vines; within half mile of Hildebran, N. C., Seventh-day Adventist school. Healthful locality. Address D. T. Shireman, Toluca, N. C.
WANTED AT ONCE.—Ten young men, and fifteen young women, all Seventh-day Adventists who have had good religious experience, to make immediate arrangements for entering the Glendale Sanitarium nurses' training-school. Want those only who are desirous of fitting themselves for active medical missionary work. Address Dr. Winegar Simpson, Glendale, Cal.
FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful, best vegetable oil for cooking or salads; no odor; keeps indefinitely. Gal. can, $.90; 5-gal., $3.50. Also olive-oil of the purest grade; gal. can, $2.50; half gal., $1.35; quart can, $.75. Send for samples. Also finest whole-wheat flour in U. S. A. Will deliver free in Greater New York. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.
FOR SALE.—Housekeeper's Ideal Friend; saves all climbing, saves your back, saves you. Works like the human hand on hardwood floors, mopboards, above doors, windows, and moldings; washes windows, porches, puts up curtains, hangs pictures on the molding, hook and all. Half a million in use. One brother has just sold 525 in 32 days in territory previously worked. Mail orders promptly filled. Seventy-five cents, prepaid. Agents wanted. Address W. E. Brackett Co., Station E, Toledo, Ohio.
Important Change of Address
By C. P. Bollman
THE address of the Southern Missionary Society has been changed from Edgefield, Tenn., to Twenty-fourth Ave., Nashville, Tenn. All mail-matter of whatever kind for this society should hereafter be sent to the new address. The new headquarters is in connection with the office of the Southern Union Conference and the Southern Publishing Association. All remittances intended for the colored work in this field should be sent to the Southern Missionary Society, as formerly, only using the new address instead of the old. Post-office money-orders should be made payable at Nashville instead of Edgefield.
C. P. BOLLMAN,
Secretary Southern Missionary Society.
(State papers, please copy.)
Western Washington, Attention!
By E. L. Stewart
We have already called attention to our camp-meeting at Puyallup, May 10-20, in the REVIEW AND HERALD, the Pacific Union Recorder, and the North Pacific Gleaner. Instructions concerning railroad rates and baggage have also been given. We wish at this time to call attention to some general principles which will tend to bring a blessing to all: 1. Begin now to pray and plan. Talk with the brethren and with your neighbors, and if possible induce them to attend the meeting. 2. Prepare to entertain others. Bring plenty of food and bedding. Many newly come to the faith will come on the ground wholly unprepared to care for themselves. Some will come in the night, and will not be able to get their baggage till morning. Let us be prepared to entertain such on a moment's notice. 3. Order your tents as early as possible. Do not neglect this and then expect things ready for you. If you desire a floor, stove, bed-springs, or other extras, be sure to order all you wish. The tents alone will cost $2 and $2.50 each. All extras will cost extra. Send your order to W. C. Raley, 309 Second Ave., North Seattle. 4. Bring your own tools, as a saw, hammer, hand-ax, etc. 5. A conference tent will be pitched, where the president's office will be located, and where a list of all committees, and program of meetings, can be found. Upon reaching the camp, go directly to this tent for all information. 6. Bring a word of encouragement to the busy and faithful workers the first thing you do. Give no encouragement to complainers or fanatics. Bring only sunshine. 7. Bring an offering for the work, remembering the different branches. This instruction, if heeded, will insure a grand meeting.
E. L. STEWART, Pres. W. Wash. Conf.
Current Mention
— Bubonic plague has arrived at Philadelphia on a steamship from Bombay. There were four cases, all of which were placed under strict quarantine.
— The Italian newspaper Vita says that Austria is preparing to occupy soon Novibazar, in Turkey, under a clause of the Treaty of Berlin. Austria is said to consider this as a favorable moment, because of diminished Russian influence and Germany’s irritation against Italy growing out of the Algeciras conference. The plan is said to be supported by Marshall Beck, the head of the general staff.
— Figures showing the extent of recent border warfare in the Balkans are given in a dispatch from Belgrade, Servia, which states: “Official reports of the border conflicts last year state that the Bulgarian revolutionaries engaged in seventy-five skirmishes with the Turks, during which they lost 335 killed and 858 wounded and prisoners. The Turks lost 1,000 killed and 670 wounded. The Servians engaged in fourteen fights with the Turkish troops, during which they lost 97 killed and 313 wounded, while the Turkish loss was 360 killed and 262 wounded.”
— Regarding the recent eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, Professor Matteucci, director of the observatory situated on the slope of the mountain, is quoted as saying: “Compared with other great eruptions, this is one of the most important in the history of Vesuvius. Its effects are less terrible than those of the eruption in the year 79, when Pompeii was buried, but it equals in intensity the great eruptions of 1631 and 1872.” A special phenomenon of this eruption was the intense electrical display which accompanied it, causing incessant lightning and thunder. Professor Matteucci believes the electricity was generated by friction of the particles of matter thrown out of the crater. The territory surrounding Vesuvius for a number of miles is covered with a considerable depth of “ashes,” and it is stated that the land will be worthless for cultivation for a period of eight or ten years. No accurate estimate of the loss of life due to the eruption has yet been given.
Change of Address
THE address of C. H. Jones, western transportation agent, is changed from Pacific Press to R. F. D. 18, Mountain View, Cal.
Rates to the Western Washington Camp-Meeting
By W. W. Sharp
The Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways will give a rate of one and one-third fare for round trip to those attending the camp-meeting at Puyallup. When you purchase your ticket, pay full fare, but be sure to ask the agent for a receipt. When the receipt is signed by the secretary of the conference, you can present it to the agent at the close of the camp-meeting, and obtain a return ticket for one-third fare. Those coming on the Northern Pacific Railroad should buy ticket through to Puyallup. Those coming on the Great Northern Railroad should buy ticket to Seattle, and there buy a ticket to Puyallup. They should ask for a receipt each time they purchase a ticket.
Those coming by boat to Tacoma will take the street-car at the wharf and transfer to the Puyallup branch of the interurban. This car will be found on C Street. The fare is twenty-five cents for round trip, trunks twenty-five cents each way. Trunks taken from the railway station in Puyallup to camp-ground for fifteen cents. Please preserve this for reference. W. W. SHARP.
“Save the Boys”
By Editor
THE Year-book for 1906, page 108, places this journal in the list of denominational papers. The publisher is very thankful for this moral support. He now hopes that our people will give it their financial support by placing it in thousands of homes where it may be a blessing. If this could be so, the price could be reduced one half. But if you will give us another thousand subscribers, the price shall be 30 cents. And we now offer it at this price, 30 cents, for the next 30 days.
The Spirit of God has been urging this people to do more in the cause of temperance. Do the very best we may, we can snatch but a few from the seething mass of corruption that is engulfing millions of our youth. Let us rally to the rescue, and throw out the life-line. Scatter this journal wherever boys and girls can be found. Order direct of the publisher. Address Save the Boys, Washburn Park, Minneapolis, Minn.
(Will our local papers please copy?)
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By M. Alace Mantz
Annual Meeting
NOTICE is hereby given that a legal meeting of the constituency of the Iowa Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will be held in Boone, Iowa, Tuesday, June 5, 1906, at 3 P. M., in connection with the annual camp-meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists, for the purpose of electing members of the board of trustees, and transacting such other business as may legally come before it.
M. ALACE MANTZ, Secretary.
Review and Herald Publishing Association
By W. W. Prescott
The members of the Review and Herald Publishing Association are hereby called to convene at 9 A. M., Wednesday, May 16, 1906, at Berrien Springs, Mich., for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the corporation. The members of this corporation are the board of trustees of the corporation; the executive committees of the following-named conferences: General Conference, Atlantic Union, Canadian Union, Lake Union, Northern Union; the executive committees of the local conferences composing the above-named union conferences; and the stockholders of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, a corporation formerly existing in the State of Michigan, who have duly transferred their membership to the Review and Herald Publishing Association of Washington, D. C.
By order of the Trustees,
W. W. PRESCOTT, President.
Obituaries
WELKEE.—Died at Oakland, Cal., Feb. 18, 1906, of typhoid pneumonia, Mrs. Mary Welkee, aged 54 years, 10 months, and 19 days. She embraced present truth fifteen years ago in the city of Stockton, under the labors of Brother Buckner. She was a consistent Christian until her death, and she was laid away in the blessed hope of the soon coming of Jesus. Words of comfort were spoken at the funeral by the writer. ANDREW BRODSEN.
WHITNAH.—Died at Roswell, N. M., Feb. 3, 1906, of apoplexy, Cathrine Whitnah, aged 87 years and 10 months. The sufferings of her last illness were borne with a Christian fortitude long to be remembered by all who were with her. The last three years of her long and exemplary Christian life were lived in obedience to the truths of the third angel's message. She fell asleep in the sweet hope of a glorious resurrection at the coming of her Lord. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. MILO D. WARFLE.
COE.—Died at Altona, Mich., Jan. 31, 1906, of paralysis, Samantha M. Coe, aged 82 years, 7 months, and 24 days. She had been a faithful and consistent member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for more than thirty years. She leaves two sons and two daughters and fifteen grandchildren to mourn their loss. She has gone to her rest, soon to hear the voice of Him who shall call to life the righteous dead at his soon coming. The funeral discourse was preached by a Free Methodist minister. H. H. PERKINS.
BURGESS.—Died at his home in Honolulu, H. I., Feb. 21, 1906, of cerebral embolism, N. F. Burgess. At the time of his death he was the deacon and treasurer of the Honolulu church. We greatly feel the loss of our dear brother, as he was one of the most faithful and zealous workers in the church. Many will remember his hospitality and kindness which he was ever ready to bestow upon the traveler, and especially upon those of the household of faith. We feel assured that he sleeps in Jesus. C. D. M. WILLIAMS.
ORME.—Died in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 22, 1906, Daisy Edwards Orme. The deceased was born near Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 27, 1878, and the greater part of her life was spent in this city. She was converted, baptized, and united with the church at the age of thirteen. She lived a consistent life. She leaves a husband, little son, father, and brother. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer to a large and sympathizing audience, the text being 2 Sam. 14:14, after which we laid her in the beautiful Kokomo Cemetery to await the coming of the Life-giver. J. M. REES.
GOODHUE.—Fell asleep at Spokane, Wash., Jan. 16, 1906, Sister Marcia Goodhue, aged 91 years, 11 months, and 7 days. Grandma had been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for over fifty years. Her faith was strong, and she passed away like one going to sleep. She was the mother of five children. The latter part of her life was spent with her son Henry and his wife, and as she became helpless and feeble, every attention was shown her by her children. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. In accordance with her request she was buried by the side of her husband on the family lot at Stevens Point, Wis. C. E. FORD.
SUTTON.—Died at Downs, Kan., Jan. 20, 1906, of typhoid fever, Mrs. Ida M. Sutton, wife of Elder N. T. Sutton, aged 31 years, 4 months, and 28 days. At a meeting of the Methodist people in 1893 Sister Sutton was converted, and one year later accepted the light of present truth, which always remained dear to her heart. After teaching public school for three years, her interests were enlisted with the church-school work, to which she devoted two winters. After her marriage to Elder Sutton, she was a great help to him in his ministerial work in the State, and the people of Kansas feel that they have lost a devoted laborer for the cause of truth. Her husband, a father, mother, four brothers, and six sisters mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from 2 Sam. 14:14. I. F. THORN.
HOUSE.—Died at his home in Kreinersville, Wis., Jan. 29, 1905, of tuberculosis, J. L. House. The deceased was born in New York in 1834. He accepted present truth at Hutchinson, Minn., thirty-three years ago, and was ever an earnest Christian worker. For a number of years he was connected with the Minnesota Conference as a Bible reader. He was especially gifted in visiting the people in their homes. His manifest piety and Christian bearing opened the homes of the people to him wherever he went. His companion, two sons, and a daughter are left to feel their loss. We laid him to rest under some spreading oaks in a cemetery near Faribault, Minn., where in former years he had buried two of his children. Comforting scriptures were read at the cemetery by the writer. C. W. FLAIZ.
SCHULER.—Died at Duluth, Minn., Feb. 20, 1906, of peritonitis, Vera Nutting-Schuler, aged 30 years and 7 months. She was the daughter and only child of Brother and Sister E. W. Nutting, and niece of Sister A. G. Daniells. She committed her case into the hands of the Lord, and seemed to have perfect confidence that she would be restored to health, nevertheless she said, “The Lord’s will be done;” and this attitude she maintained till the very last. She had no fear of death, her peace having been made with God, and she calmly fell asleep in Jesus to await the morning of the great resurrection. She leaves a husband, a son, father and mother, and a large circle of friends to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 21:4. J. F. POGUE.
GREEN.—Died at Berrien Springs, Mich., Jan. 11, 1906, in her seventieth year, Mrs. Annie M. Green. Sister Green was formerly a member of the Episcopal Church, or Church of England, but in 1876 she became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Oakland, Ill. Salvation through Jesus Christ was always her hope. In disposition she was kind and gentle, naturally sociable, tender-hearted, affectionate, and very conscientious. During the past four years she had been in poor health, which finally resulted in partial internal, or medullary, paralysis. She leaves two brothers, two sisters, and four children to mourn their loss. She died a firm believer in the soon-coming Saviour, and in hope of a resurrection with the just. A brief funeral service was conducted at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Haughey, by the writer, after which the remains were taken to the family burying-ground at Vermillion Grove, Ill. N. W. KAUBLE.
HUDSON.—Died at her home, in Fennville, Mich., Feb. 28, 1906, Sister Almira C. Hudson, in the last half of her eightieth year. Until about three months before her decease, she was remarkably well and active for one of her years. Her decline was very gradual. On the day of her death she walked to her couch, where for some time she seemed to be sweetly sleeping, but without awakening she quietly breathed her last. When sixteen years old, she united with the Congregationalist Church. Later investigation led her to be baptized and unite with the Baptist communion. The same love for Scriptural accuracy caused her to accept the third angel’s message, and in the Seventh-day Adventist Church she remained a consistent member nearly half a century. She taught school many years, mostly in Michigan. Her earnings were devoted to the cause of God, and she was among the first to take shares in the Review Office and in the old Health Institute at Battle Creek. L. C. HUTCHINS.
Visiting Ministers in Washington
The pulpits of our churches in the District of Columbia were again occupied by some of the visiting ministers last Sabbath. Elder George I. Butler spoke to the Takoma church, dwelling upon the manifestation of the gift of prophecy in this advent movement, and dealing with the subject both from the standpoint of the teaching of the Scriptures and also from the standpoint of his own experience in this message. Elder E. W. Farnsworth spoke at the Memorial church, and Elder Allen Moon at the Eighth Street church. Our brethren and sisters of the several churches have enjoyed the opportunities of hearing these brethren from different parts of the field on the two Sabbaths of their stay in Washington.