In the beginning God made a revelation of his character in the things which he created. Had man never sinned, the great book of nature, spread out before him as a lesson-book, would have continued to unfold the character of the Creator, until it would have revealed fully the character of him whom to know aright is life eternal. But after the earth was marred and defiled by sin, it reflected but dimly the Creator. As sin and wickedness increased, the mind of man became so darkened thereby that he could read no traces of God in his created works.
This world was then in need of another revelation, by which man might gain a knowledge of his Creator. The Lord did not leave the world to perish in this need. He gave to men his written Word. “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” Thus the character and will of God were made known anew to men.
But there came another time when even those who read and interpreted the written Word every Sabbath day, “knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets.” Those who were the teachers of the people knew so little of him whom the Scriptures revealed, that they fulfilled the very scripture they were reading in the synagogue every Sabbath day, “in condemning him.” This world was then once more in need of another revelation of God. The Lord did not leave the world to perish in its need. He “so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.” John 1:14.
Now, in these last days, with the great book of nature—science, falsely so-called—exalted above the knowledge of God; the Bible misinterpreted in thousands of pulpits; the character and work of Jesus Christ misrepresented by the great mass of his professed followers, this world can no longer read aright the character of a God of love and justice. Once more the world is in need of another revelation of his character. The Lord does not leave the world to perish in its need, but in the last great message of his everlasting gospel to a lost and perishing world, he makes the grandest and fullest revelation of himself, through the revelation of Jesus Christ in his remnant people. “For I think,” says the apostle, “that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a theater unto the world, and to angels, and to men.” 1 Cor. 4:9. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” Before the church can shed this light upon a lost world, she must “have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” 2 Cor. 4:6, 7.
When “darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people,” the Lord sets his remnant church as a light amid the moral darkness, bidding her, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. . . . And his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” Isa. 60:1-3.
Lesson XI—The Fall of Babylon
The closing part of the first angel’s message—“worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters”—is an appeal to the Christian world, and to the whole world, to come back and walk in the commandments of God and hallow his Sabbath. It was the rejection of this message, a refusal to walk in the commandments of God, that caused the fall of Babylon. Therefore the fall of Babylon must be a fall away from God’s commandments. God’s commandments are called a “way.”
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.” “They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.” “Make me to understand the way of thy precepts.” “I will run in the way of thy commandments.” “Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes.” “Make me to go in the path of thy commandments.” Ps. 119:1, 3, 27, 32, 33, 35. The fall of Babylon therefore, being a fall away from the commandments of God, must be a departure from the Lord’s right way, into a wrong way of man’s choosing.
“The priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: . . . but ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law. . . . Ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.” Mal. 2:7-9.
“Her priests . . . have done violence to the law.” Zeph. 3:4.
“And many among them [when the Lord’s coming is near] shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.” Isa. 8:15-17.
“The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.” Isa. 59:8.
“As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.” Ps. 125:5. “Great peace have they which love thy law.” Ps. 119:165.
“Because my people have forgotten me, . . . they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up.” Jer. 18:15.
“Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.” Jer. 23:12.
“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the latter day: that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.” Isa. 30:8-11.
“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.” Jer. 6:16.
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman [the church], and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Rev. 12:17.
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14:12.
“They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble.” Jer. 31:9.
A. T. ROBINSON.
Field Notes
A CANVASSER'S institute is to be held at Poplar Bluff, Mo., January 6-19.
A NEW church building was recently finished at Glenwood Springs, Colo.
A CHURCH of sixteen members was organized at Rocky Ford, Colo., November 7. *
THREE persons were added by baptism to the church at Fort Collins, Colo., November 21.
BROTHER F. L. LIMERICK reports eleven persons keeping the Sabbath near Huntsdale, Mo., where he has recently been holding meetings.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL was recently organized at Owensville, Mo., where there are ten adults who are keeping the Sabbath, most of whom received the truth through the recent labors of Brother and Sister H. E. Meyer.
WE have just received a letter from the Drs. Selmon and Miller, announcing their arrival in Yokohama. They were eager to press on, expecting in a few weeks to reach Inland China. A company of seven hundred Chinamen on board their ship had given them some opportunity to study their field. All were of good courage and rejoicing in the privilege of carrying the gospel to some of China's millions.
Current Mention
—Canton, China, is the center of several railway lines which are built or under construction at the present time, the work being in charge of the American China Development Company.
—The revolution in San Domingo has proved successful, an act of capitulation being signed November 24 by President Wos y Gil, who afterward took refuge in the British consulate. A new president is to be chosen on February 27 next.
—The Chicago street-car strike was ended November 25, and the trainmen ordered back to work. The company retains the right to discharge, discipline, and hire its men without interference of the union in any way. Employment is to be open to union and non-union men alike. Other differences were submitted to arbitration.22
—Reports of the condition of Emperor William, who recently underwent an operation for the removal of a soft tumor in his throat, are less reassuring than those first received. In spite of the apparently simple nature of the emperor’s affection, it refuses to disappear as readily as it was believed it would, and there is fear that it may assume a malignant form, it being remembered that both the emperor’s parents died of cancer.
—Senor Manotas, of Colombia, has arrived in the United States as an envoy from Colombia to act with six other envoys from that republic in an effort to arrive at some understanding with the government at Washington over the seizure of Panama. The Colombian government has issued orders to raise the army footing to 100,000 men in the event of General Reyes’s mission to Washington proving fruitless. There is talk in Colombia of an invasion of Panama.
—Prohibition has received a severe backset in Texas. The State Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest Texas tribunal, has rendered a decision that practically makes the local option law of the State inoperative. It has declared the law of 1901, which sought to prevent the shipment of liquor in unbroken packages into local option precincts, unconstitutional, and that such sale of liquor is legal. The effect of the decision is to permit individuals, clubs, or other purchasers to have quarts, gallons, or other unbroken packages shipped to them regardless of local option regulations.
—A dispatch from Karachi, India, dated November 16, gives particulars of the contemplated invasion of Tibet by a strong British expedition, which has been ordered to occupy the Chumbi Valley, the key to Tibet, and to advance to a point one hundred and fifty miles distant from Lhassa. The expedition is said to be for the purpose of discussing with Tibetan authorities their non-observance of treaties, which have injured trade between Tibet and India. It is expected the Tibetans will fight, and the latter hope to receive assistance from Russia.
—It is reported from Vienna, on the authority of a Russian nobleman who had returned from visiting his estates near Moscow, that the Russian peasantry and artisans were in a state of dangerous insubordination, and apparently ready for an uprising which will be directed against the Jews and Germans first, and then against the nobles. The people, he said, had a scowling expression, and they were no longer respectful. Many had lost their religion, and nearly all seemed to be filled with the revolutionary spirit. He apprehended extensive massacres of Jews before long.
The Educational Department of the Review and Herald
By Frederick Griggs
At the meeting of the General Conference Council recently held at Washington, D. C., the following recommendation was made with reference to this department: “That an Educational Department in the REVIEW AND HERALD be established, to be conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.”
The question of Christian education is one which has elicited no small amount of attention from our people during recent years. The Lord has given us some very decided instruction concerning the principles which should govern us in this work. The world is rapidly accepting the greatest delusions and including them in its educational systems. God’s truth is to shine out bright and clear in this rapidly increasing darkness.
The purpose of the General Conference in establishing this department in the REVIEW AND HERALD, is to assist in giving to our people, and thus to the world, the principles of education from a Christian point of view, and to discover and apply the relation of these principles to God’s present and last message to the world.
Principles are more clearly understood when they are applied, and we shall freely discuss in this department the working out and the practical application of the grand truths which have been given this people in this matter of education. There will also appear frequent reports from our training schools throughout the world, and from intermediate and church schools, when there are items which may be of general interest.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
The Week of Prayer and Our Schools
By W. T. Bland
The one event that is common to all our schools at the same time, and is perhaps of greater importance than any other in the entire school year, is the week of prayer. No other occasion is of so great significance, or is fraught with consequences which are so far reaching as this. The faithful teachers have, from the opening days of the school, looked forward to this time with feelings of much anxiety. When careful, progressive instruction has been given not only in the general meetings, but in the regular class work and in personal interviews, it is but reasonable to expect good results from this occasion.
The Primary Object
First of all, the teachers are anxious for the conversion of every student who has not yet made a profession of religion. They also greatly desire to witness a genuine revival in the Christian experience of the entire school. It is certainly proper that the earnest efforts of every teacher should be directed in such a manner that these results may be brought about. This is one of the distinctive features wherein the Christian and the public schools differ, and only as this phase of the denominational school is made successful can it truly
be called a Christian institution. The converted student who enjoys a living, Christian experience will do better work in his studies, and will get from his school privileges more results that are lasting and far reaching than he could possibly otherwise obtain. Hence the very object of these schools is to provide an education for their students which is positively Christian in character, and which will thoroughly develop Christian workers. For this reason the week of prayer is always looked forward to as the one special time when all previous efforts shall culminate in a unity of spirit and sentiment throughout the entire school. When this has been successfully done, the efforts during the remainder of the school year may be properly devoted not only to the development of Christian growth, but to preparation for definite future endeavor.
Preparation for Missionary Work
The week of prayer is also an occasion affording one of the best opportunities of the school year for presenting to the students the subject of the great mission fields of the world and their needs, not only of funds with which to carry forward the gospel work already begun, but of men and women upon whom have been laid the burden to go to these fields, and who are willing to consecrate their lives to this work, and to make the necessary preparation to carry it successfully forward. Many a student whose heart has been made tender by the influence of the Spirit of God during the week of prayer has been impressed to consecrate his life to some particular phase of Christian work, and often have the great mission fields of the world seemed most inviting. When it is remembered that the gospel of the kingdom is to go to all the world, certainly the importance of the work in foreign fields can not be easily overestimated.
Never in the history of God's truth in the earth has there been so great need of Calebs and Joshuas as at the very present time. Young men and women are needed who are acquainted with God, who have thoroughly prepared themselves for his service, who have an abiding faith in his Word, and who keep themselves humble, and are willing to deny themselves in order that they may do the greater work for him. That this may be accomplished there rests with every school—from the church school, where the first impressions are made, and seeds of truth planted, to the college, where the final work of preparation is completed—grave responsibilities; and the effective work of the week of prayer is the pivot upon which many of these things turn.
The Annual Donation
While every church and every individual member of the church is now earnestly considering the annual offering, which is one of the features of this time, and while all are anxious that the fund thus raised this year for foreign missions shall be greatly increased over that of former years, it is a matter that should not be overlooked in any of our schools. It is an occasion that can be made both interesting and profitable. Let all be especially impressed with the fact that this is a fund raised for carrying forward the work in the most needy fields. Even the children of the church school and the Sabbath-school may take an active interest in raising this fund.
Much of this money will be used in bringing about the conversion and education of children and youth in heathen lands, and every one who contributes to it will to that extent be actually engaged in foreign mission work. While some may donate to this fund in a general way, there may be others, either individual members or entire schools, who may be particularly interested in some special country or enterprise to which they may desire their contribution to go. Whatever plan will stimulate the greatest interest in the work and bring the greatest blessing not only to the one who gives, but to the object of the donation itself, will be the best to adopt.
May it not be that all our schools will take hold of this work in all seriousness; that they will make it an occasion of spiritual awakening and genuine growth; and may not the contributions received create a large fund to carry forward a greater work in our mission fields during the year 1904 than that of any previous year?
We shall be glad to receive reports from every school thus making a special effort during this time, to know the results of the week of prayer, and the amount of the fund raised for the foreign work, or any special feature of it. Certainly the Lord will bless these schools, and every effort that is put forth in them to advance his cause in the earth.
Parents may be able at this time to encourage their children greatly by sending to them an extra allowance for their week-of-prayer offering; even the little ones at home, perhaps in the church school, may also be helped to have an active part in this work. We are told that in India the expenses in our mission school are only one dollar a month for each student. Already some of our people have taken up this matter, and are supporting one or more students. Similar conditions exist in the mission fields of Africa and some of the islands of the sea. To-day there are those who have been students and teachers in our schools of this country who are pushing forward the gospel work in all these lands. In a little while others will go out to unite with them in their efforts, or to open up new fields, and every donation to this work, with every prayer offered in its behalf, will be a source of great help and encouragement to those engaged in it. W. T. BLAND.
Christian Education
Conducted by the Educational Department of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPES, Chairman; FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By Mrs. M. E. Kern
Notice to Members of College View (Neb.) Church
THERE are on the membership list of the College View, Neb., church the names of quite a number of persons who have not reported for some time—some even for a number of years. A new membership list is to be made out at the beginning of next year, and all absent members who do not report before that time, and whose whereabouts can not be ascertained, will be no longer considered members of the church, and their names will be dropped from the church roll.
MRS. M. E. KERN,
Church Clerk.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Summary of the Canvassing Work Reported for October
AGENTS
ORDERS
VALUE
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine
4
6
$ 21 80
Cen. New England
3
47
194 35
So. New England
3
32
122 00
East'n Pennsylvania
7
95
248 18
Wes'n Pennsylvania
10
176
466 20
Vermont
2
12
24 25
New York
4
6
21 80
Southern Union Conference
Georgia
6
221 50
Tennessee River
7
520 10
Alabama
4
122 00
Cumberland
6
571 30
Carolinas
8
347 06
Louisiana
1
49 15
Florida
2
19 25
Mississippi
3
285 35
Lake Union Conference
Ohio
3
149 82
Indiana
4
101
282 20
So. Illinois
10
167
455 90
Wisconsin
4
25
58 25
North Michigan
1
16
16 00
East Michigan
2
46
58 50
Central Union Conference
Colorado
15
287
610 96
Missouri
11
151
535 25
Pacific Union Conference
Washington
1
40
227 75
Northern Union Conference
North Dakota
4
11
35 50
Minnesota
11
105
205 65
Southwestern Union Conference
Texas
8
389
719 26
Arkansas
4
311
819 90
Oklahoma
20
498
1,058 95
European General Conference
Great Britain
73
1,484
3,385 53
Germany
844
2,898 12
Summary
A. U. C.
33
374
1,098 58
S. U. C.
37
2,135 71
L. U. C.
24
355
1,020 67
C. U. C.
26
438
1,146 21
P. U. C.
1
40
227 75
N. U. C.
15
116
241 15
S. W. U. C.
32
1,198
2,598 11
E. G. C.
73
2,328
6,283 65
Grand totals
241
4,849
$14,751 83
Notice!
The Chicago South Side church desires to hear from the following-named persons: Mesdames Mahana Walling, S. M. Bennett, Sarah Paten, Mattie Morgan, Lizzie Aldrich, Laura Dotterer, Philip A. Rogers, Julia Williamson, Emma McLay, Seretta Stoughton, Barbara Stabie, Fannie Bogens, Carrie Scrope, Mary Howe, and Mary Murphy, Misses Kittie Miller, May Dirksen and Gertrude Williamson, Messrs. J. T. Scott, William Foster, Will Geo. Hall, Albert G. Grohens, James Brown, W. H. Dunbar, J. E. Moore, and C. L. Butcher. It will be necessary to drop from the record the names of those from whom we receive no word by Jan. 1, 1904. So please write; addressing Mrs. Rachael T. Mitchell, clerk, 2816 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Missionary Training School of Correspondence
THIS School of Correspondence has been called into existence to meet the needs of the hour. There are in almost every community people who, if circumstances were different, would be glad to enter one of our schools to prepare for active missionary work. They know that the Lord has a place for them, and a work for them to do. Some are prevented from attending school by home duties, others are detained for financial reasons. Nevertheless, these would make just as good workers as those who become resident students in our various schools. They are as earnest and as thoroughly Christian as those differently situated.
There are families that feel that they should work as families in the cause of God. There are mothers who have a deep longing to better understand God's will concerning them and the training of their children. These are the people who have created a demand for the work of the Missionary Training School of Correspondence. It is for them that the Missionary Training School of Correspondence has been opened.
Possibly those who are detained from our schools have felt that they must live always under great disadvantages, but this is not true. Many a man has advanced by doing his studying after the ordinary day's work. Lincoln is a notable example of such industry. We often read of men who were obliged to work hard all day, but who utilized every spare hour in self-improvement.
If men working for worldly advantage will put forth such an effort, should Christians be satisfied when they do less? The long winter evenings may profitably be devoted by many Christian families to a study of the Word of God. In many of our homes, neighbors may gather to study God's truth. The course of instruction offered in Bible by the Missionary Training School of Correspondence will enable parents to work side by side with their children. It will make it possible for Christian fathers and mothers to study with their neighbors. It is an opportunity which none can afford to miss.
You should at least read the circulars issued by the Missionary Training School for Correspondence, and see for yourself23what you may do by studying in your own home. Address Missionary Training School of Correspondence, Berrien Springs, Mich.
Bible Training School Office Relocated
By Editor
Notice!
THE office of publication of the Bible Training School has been removed from 896 Eighth Ave., New York City, to South Lancaster, Mass.
The management of the paper will not be changed in any way. It will still be devoted to the interests of house-to-house work. The managers of the Bible Training School hope greatly to increase the usefulness of the paper during the coming year. The paper will be filled with the third angel’s message in its simplicity.
The subscription price of the paper is twenty-five cents a year. All communications should be addressed to Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass.
This Will Interest You
The Correspondence School for Nurses connected with the Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training School will begin a new class the first of January, 1904. Lessons are sent weekly to students who are unable to leave home duties in order to take a regular course at one of our sanitariums. This is the sixth year this work has been in progress, and hundreds are availing themselves of it. Our enrolment for 1903 shows an encouraging increase. Studies in eleven subjects are given, among which Christian Help work and the care and treatment of the sick are prominent. Our lessons have recently been rewritten and enlarged, and are in every way improved.
The tuition fee is five dollars for the entire course. This amount is to cover the cost of sending out lessons, correcting the replies, and returning the reports to the pupils. The few text-books required for this work are furnished at actual cost price. We shall organize a new class in January, which will continue one year. By taking double lessons, some students finish in six months. We shall be glad to hear from all who are interested. A descriptive circular giving full particulars, also testimonials from those who have taken the course, will be sent free on application. Address Correspondence Department, Sanitarium Training School, Battle Creek, Mich.
Gone to Rest
Obituaries
KING.—Died at her home in Greenfield, Ind., Nov. 14, 1903, of typhoid fever, Samantha A. King, nee Plessinger, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. She was married to Levi J. King, June 15, 1856. Seven children have been born to them, five of whom are now living. She sleeps in Jesus. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from John 11:25. W. D. CURTIS.
BOULDEN.—Died at Fremont, Neb., Nov. 4, 1903, Mrs. Elizabeth Ramzie Boulden, aged 89 years and 2 months. Mother accepted present truth at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1887, through Bible readings conducted by Mollie R. Long. She loved to talk of a soon-coming Saviour. Funeral services were conducted at the house by Elder McCrory. We sorrow not as those without hope.
MATTIE BOULDEN.
HOUSE.—Fell asleep in Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 15, 1903, after a protracted illness of several months, Charles Ralph House, aged 28 years, 2 months, and 26 days. Brother House accepted present truth about one year ago, and although a great sufferer, he died triumphing in Christ and in the assurance that he should soon answer the Life-giver’s call to immortality. He leaves a wife and three children, who sorrow not as those who have not that blessed hope. Funeral services were conducted by the writer. J. D. RICE.
SIMONDS.—Fell asleep in Jesus, at Lincoln, Ark., Nov. 9, 1903, S. Simonds, aged 73 years, 4 months, and 8 days. He accepted the truth of the third angel’s message forty-five years ago, under the labors of C. W. Hall and M. E. Cornell, at Bowling Green, Ohio, and was firm in the truth until the close of his life. After he accepted present truth, most of his time was spent in active service for the Master, preaching and canvassing, and he often expressed a longing for the Lord to come and redeem his people. A son and a daughter are left to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the pastor of the M. E. Church. G. E. NORWOOD.
ARROWSMITH.—Died at her home near Fenton, Mich., July 4, 1903, Sister Lucinda C. Arrowsmith, in the eighty-second year of her age. About twenty-two years ago she and her husband accepted present truth under the labors of Elders Daniells and Corliss, uniting with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, remaining a faithful member of that organization till her death. After the death of her husband, in 1895, she was the special care of her daughter, Sister M. E. McOmber, who resided in the home, and was her constant companion and attendant. She bore the intense suffering of the last few days of her life with Christian fortitude and patience. But thanks to him who “giveth his beloved sleep,” she is resting in Jesus with the full assurance of a part in the first resurrection. Funeral services were conducted by the writer; text, Rev. 14:13. C. H. KNIGHT.
NELSON.—Died at Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 1903, of smallpox, William Sullivan Nelson, aged 66 years, 3 months, 25 days. Over two years ago he moved from his home in Cedar Lake, Mich., to Portland, Ore. Last spring his companion, who had walked with him for forty-three years, was suddenly taken from him by death. Though isolated from his family, and with a prospect of a fatal outcome, his courage and hope were unshaken. He said very feelingly to some of us who visited him at the Isolation Hospital, “I have trusted all to Christ.” His attendants say that he passed away quietly and peacefully. Of his family of eleven daughters, six survive him. The blessed hope sustains them. We laid Brother Nelson to rest by the side of his wife, a few friends only gathering at the grave. On Sabbath, November 7, a memorial service was held in the East Portland church, conducted by the writer; text, Job 14:10-15.
F. M. BURG.
Gone to Rest
COVERT.—My beloved father, Daniel Covert, was born March 15, 1814, in Clark County, in what was then the Territory of Indiana, and died at Hutchinson, Kan., Oct. 21, 1903, having reached the advanced age of 89 years, 7 months, and 6 days. He was a member of the Methodist Church for about twenty-five years, but in the summer of 1868, through Bible study, he accepted the truth as taught by Seventh-day Adventists. With our people he retained church connection till the day of his death. Our family record shows that father and mother (her maiden name was Catherine L. White) were married in Bartholomew County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1837. To them were born four sons and nine daughters. All these sons, and seven of the daughters, are yet living. The total living posterity of my parents, as nearly as I can ascertain, consists of eleven children, forty grandchildren, forty-eight great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren. These at present comprise thirty-seven families, and by counting them as families the whole household numbers one hundred and forty persons. Besides these who yet live, thirty-three of their offspring are dead. Funeral services were held in the Seventh-day Adventist church at Hutchinson, Kan., in the evening of October 21. He was then taken to Indiana, that he might be laid by the side of mother, who had gone to rest seventeen years before father’s decease. Now they sleep together in the Albrecht Cemetery, a little distance south of Kokomo. But our numerous family sorrow not without hope. We believe father and mother sleep in Jesus, the blessed Life-giver, and surely he is coming from heaven soon to raise to immortal life those who sleep in him. Often have I heard father and mother speak of that wonderful meteoric shower of Nov. 13, 1833, and tell about how the people thought the day of judgment had come. They would then refer to the Saviour’s promise that the generation who had seen that sign would not all pass away before the second coming of Christ should take place. And even last March, when in conversation with father about these things, he expressed it as a hope which he yet entertained that he would live until the second coming of Christ. It is true that not many of that generation remain to witness the closing work of Christ in the gospel work, but we are thankful for the blessed promise which yet remains.
WM. COVERT.
Publications Wanted
N. B.—Attention has been repeatedly called to the necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Cover papers well, so that they will be clean when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, while others have forwarded literature by express when it would have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four ounces for one cent.
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—
Ada Hunt, 725 Jarvis St., Ft. Worth, Tex.
Miss Emma L. Runck, College View, Neb.
Henry Tonjes, 21 Morton St., New York City, N. Y.
Mrs. Edw. Reinhard, Box 27, Fairmount, N. D., periodicals and tracts.
Mrs. C. W. Crowell, Gravette, Ark., Signs, Sentinel, Life Boat, Instructor.
C. A. Hansen, Box 530, Manton, Mich., Signs, Sentinel, Little Friend, and tracts.
Mrs. E. Chromster, Box 44, Farmington, N. M., REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, Watchman, Good Health.
Mrs. Amanda Malony, 667 Hoyt Ave., Muncie, Ind., REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, etc.
C. A. Johnson, Colfax, Iowa, Signs, Sentinel, Watchman, and tracts. A good supply could be used.
L. Trowbridge, City Mission, Omaha, Neb., Signs, Good Health, REVIEW, Sentinel, Vaktare (Swedish).
Mrs. S. Clement, Gentry, Ark., Signs, REVIEW, Good Health, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts.
Mrs. S. H. Lawrence, Bridgeport, Ala., Instructor, Little Friend, Pacific Health Journal, Medical Missionary.
Michigan Central
“The Niagara Falls Route.”
SPLENDID TRAIN SERVICE
In both directions, in connection with Boston & Albany and New York Central, between CHICAGO and DETROIT, and NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON, and Eastern points, with finest equipment of Through Sleeping, Dining and Buffet-Library Cars.
All day trains stop five minutes at Falls View, directly overlooking Niagara Falls. Send 4 cents postage for NIAGARA FALLS ILLUSTRATED.
O. W. RUGGLES,
Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent,
CHICAGO
