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One Sister’s Work in Mexico

By J. A. P. Green

In the past, some of our people have not believed that women could make a success of the canvassing work in Mexico. In reply to these doubts, I present the following report. This sister first began by accompanying another canvasser, from whom she learned how to present the book to the people. After about two weeks, she tried it alone, and succeeded. At the time she began, we were working with a health book which was very popular, but the report given here is for “Patriarchs and Prophets,” which is not so popular. This sister has worked only among the women, leaving the commercial portion of the territory to the brethren. The women here, as a rule, are very timid, and some refuse absolutely to buy anything without the permission of their husbands, fathers, brothers, or sons; consequently, it requires special effort to get their orders. The reports of this sister for eight weeks are as follows:—

WK. ENDING	HOURS	ORDERS	VALUE
March 17	9	14	$59.75
April 7	10½	20	84.00
April 28	7	15	73.00
May 26	15	8	36.00
June 2	21	19	86.00
June 9	20	26	117.50
June 16	19	24	102.00
June 23	32	24	110.50
Totals	133½	150	$668.75

This report shows that for each hour’s work, this sister took orders to the value of $5 Mexican money, or $2.50 United States currency. Up to June 29, her deliveries had averaged one hundred per cent. We trust that these good reports may help some who are timid, to enter the work. There are great opportunities in Mexico, and now is the time to improve them.

J. A. P. GREEN.

Good Work in Central America

By N. Z. T.

Aim—Forty Hours a Week

BROTHER G. C. JENKS, field agent of the West Caribbean Conference, reports that during the months of March, April, and May, with an average of about thirteen canvassers, fifteen hundred books were delivered in that conference, with a total value of $3,108.53. Brother Jenks says:—

“The men in the field are doing good work. I am trying to get them to come up to the forty-hour-a-week plan, and hope to see this accomplished before long.”

If canvassers in that hot climate can work forty hours a week, those in more favorable climates ought to be able to do the same. N. Z. T.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

The “Watchman”

The Present Truth Evangelizer

THIS world is, after all, divided into two classes,—one class striving after the things of this world, and the other after things eternal. This fact is vividly portrayed on the cover page, illustrating two cities. Compare the great city of light with the great Babylons that men have made, and then “choose you this day whom ye will serve.” Joshua 24:15.

Our leading editorial, entitled “The Eternal City,” will be an excellent article to hand to your neighbor to read. As you know, the popular theory places our loved ones in heaven at death, far removed from this world's troubles. Is it true? Where is heaven? A straightforward Bible answer to this perplexing question.

G. B. Starr answers the important question, “Will Jesus Come?” Will he come to our world to gather the redeemed? Many doubt it because of the great advance being made toward universal peace. The popular idea is that he comes into the hearts of men to reign. Is this true? A true explanation of the deluding peace movements that lull society to-day. Will sin always exist? Will God always permit it? Are other worlds involved in the rebellion? The editor will give a very thoughtful treatise on “Our World an Object-Lesson.” It will be shown that we are but actors in the great and dreadful drama, enacted for the instruction of God's universe, to expose to sinless beings the exceeding sinfulness of sin. The finale is being watched with intense interest by a heavenly audience. Soon it will close, and our world will have given its object-lesson, and sin and sinners will be no more. Excellent to show to your doubting neighbor.

The Watchman will have a full report of the progress of the National Reform movement. This movement held a recent convention, and its principles and workings will be quite thoroughly reviewed. Is America free? Most people regard the principles of Protestantism and free America as synonymous. Few realize that they are being repudiated in this country. The principles are opposed to the broader ones of religious liberty, as vouchsafed to us by that great instrument, the American Constitution. Every lover of religious and civil liberty should read this article. Get a dozen copies of the Watchman to distribute to your friends and neighbors.

Do you not think this is a strong number dealing with the vital issues of the present hour? The September number had an unprecedented sale, the entire edition being exhausted before the appearance of the October number. We expect this edition to go the same way.

Hurry in your standing order that we may give it our best attention. Fifty cents will purchase ten copies, which you may sell for one dollar and buy twenty more, and so on. The possibilities of this plan are limitless. Rates in quantities: five cents up to 40 copies; over that number, four cents. Order to-day through your tract society.

New England Sanitarium Training-School for Nurses

QUITE a large number of applicants for entering the nurses' training-school have been received, but there is still room for a few more. Every effort is being made to make the course as strong and beneficial as possible.

Only consecrated workers and those who have had an active Christian home experience will be accepted. Our object is not to train nurses to go out and do commercial work, but to become true medical missionaries.

Requirements: All applicants must have completed the tenth grade of school work, and be at least twenty years of age. A two years' course is arranged for men.

The nurses' catalogue in which a more detailed description is given, will be sent to any one desiring the same. Address, The New England Sanitarium, Melrose, Mass.

Florida Sanitarium and Benevolent Association

THE fourth annual session of the Florida Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will convene Oct. 2, 1911, at 10 A. M., on the Seventh-day Adventist camp-grounds at Sanford, Fla., to transact such business as may be brought before it by recommendation of the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

R. W. PARMELE, President; LEROY T. CRISLER, Secretary.

Study at Home

By W. E. Howell

“There’s a Way”

ANY one who will take the pains to connect the ten facts we gave last week, with the voluntary expressions by students given herewith, will be able to estimate with fair justice the value of the work done through the Fireside Correspondence School. We can give only a few of the many good things said to us by students of their own accord, but believe the interested reader will appreciate some of this sort of testimony.

From a student in grammar and United States history:— “I am enjoying my work, and am so glad I took it up.”

From a canvasser in the field:— “I am enjoying the lessons intensely, and am sure I shall receive great benefits in self-culture.”

From the same person later:— “I receive great blessings through these studies, and enjoy them more and more.”

From a student in Bible doctrines:— “The lessons are not only a great pleasure to me, but a wonderful revelation of the infinite love of God toward his creatures. While urging a friend to begin the study, the objection being raised that the price was higher than other schools, I told her I thought the course was worth a hundred times the price.”

From a student who has completed first year Latin:— “The work is very satisfactory. It is much better than I had anticipated.”

From a Bible worker just completing New Testament Greek, first year:— “I am so happy to have this opportunity to learn the very words that fell from the lips of my Jesus and his disciples. It brings me much closer to them all. Learning these words is like lifting the shades so the Sun of Righteousness may shine into the darkened mind, and reveal to the soul the wonderful thoughts of God. I hope to have the privilege of being a pupil as long as there is a Correspondence School.”

From a student in advanced rhetoric:— “I have quit using the expression, ‘I haven’t the time;’ I have left off thinking that way. So far, I have not been obliged to neglect my other duties. I simply use the time I should perhaps have idled away in useless talk with some of my friends. Ruskin says, ‘It is far better to spend the time with some good book than to converse with the coachman.’ I find more solid enjoyment in preparing a lesson than in talking about commonplace things.”

“I believe, if one wishes to get hold of the working principles of literary production, he can do no better than devote some of his spare time to such a study as I am taking. I feel well repaid for the small outlay of money (only eight dollars) that I have made.”

The third annual opening is on October 2. For a calendar of full information, address Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, D. C., or—

W. E. HOWELL, Principal.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— In a wreck occurring on the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad, September 4, four persons were killed and forty injured.

— An appalling mortality from cholera is reported among the Turkish troops at Constantinople. It is stated that 850 deaths have occurred in the last few days.

— At Toledo, Ohio, September 2, in the midst of preparations for Labor-day celebration, a thirty-five-foot craft was rammed by a barge, resulting in the death of seven by drowning.

— Dr. Cook of arctic fame is again in the limelight. He announces that he will prove before the International Geological Congress to convene in Rome, Italy, in October, that he was the first and only discoverer of the north pole. He states that he will present elaborate scientific proof of his polar attainment, and will answer specifically every charge which has been made against him.

— A great flood during the last few days has devastated a large section of country in the Chinese empire, extending from Ichang, in the province of Hupeh, to Shanghai, a distance of about 700 miles. It is believed that more than 100,000 persons have been drowned. Farmhouses and brush huts have been submerged throughout the entire district, or are floating down the river. The loss to property and to crops is extensive.

— The Italian government has been battling with a severe epidemic of cholera for some weeks. Since the beginning of the year the total number of deaths, it is claimed, has passed the 20,000 mark. Terror and superstition are causing outbreaks of violence among the inhabitants. Health measures are opposed by the people, and this makes the work of curbing the epidemic a severe one. The government is putting forth most energetic measures to meet the situation.

Florida Conference Association

By R. W. Parmele; B. W. Spire

The fifth annual session of the Florida Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting at Sanford, Fla., Sept. 28 to Oct. 9, 1911. The first meeting will be held on Friday, September 29, at 10 A. M. The officers of the association will be elected, and such other business will be transacted as may properly come before the constituency.

R. W. PARMELE, President; B. W. SPIRE, Secretary.

Camp-Meetings for 1911

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Maritime, Williamsdale Academy, Sept. 11-18

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Nebraska (local), Norfolk ..... Sept. 11-18

West Colorado, Grand Junction ..... Sept. 14-24

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

New Jersey, Trenton ............ Sept. 7-17

Chesapeake, Dover, Del. ........ Sept. 14-24

West Virginia, Parkersburg, Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

East Michigan, Oxford ............ Sept. 7-17

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Tennessee River, Waverly, Tenn. ............ Sept. 7-17

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Florida, Sanford ........ Sept. 28 to Oct. 9

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Fort Smith .......... Sept. 7-17

South Texas, San Antonio, Oct. 26 to Nov. 5

Southern Training-School

By M. B. Van Kirk

Fall Term Opens Sept. 13, 1911

THE Southern Training-School offers the following courses of study: Literary, scientific, ministerial, elementary and advanced normal, Bible workers', commercial, stenographic, and vocal and instrumental music. For a preparation, these courses require the finishing of the tenth grade, or an equivalent. For the benefit of those who need this preparation, a preparatory course consisting of grades eight to ten, inclusive, and for the benefit of resident students principally, a primary and an intermediate department are maintained.

The climate is excellent. Good water comes from the mountain springs.

Tuition rates and expenses are as reasonable as could be expected from a school of its class.

Students desiring to enter should correspond with the principal.

Remember the opening day, September 13. Our new calendar sent free on request. Address the undersigned at Graysville, Tenn.

M. B. VAN KIRK, Principal.

Loma Linda Postgraduate Course for Nurses

By Julia A. White

So many graduate nurses on the Coast have been writing to the Loma Linda Training School in the past few weeks for postgraduate work, that our faculty has decided to give such a course, beginning October 2 and closing June 26.

It is after we have finished a course of study and had experience in the real practical work that we discover our deficiencies, and know how to make use of educational advantages. This is certainly true of nurses, and they should endeavor to do more efficient work each year. Hence they must be constantly studying and seeking opportunities for advancement.

In speaking of their experience, many graduate nurses deplore their lack of training for Bible missionary evangelistic work. They find themselves crippled for any work outside of their profession, and soon become medical mercenary, instead of medical missionary, nurses. Many are not satisfied with this kind of experience; but few know how to remedy the matter.

The Lord has been making definite calls for medical missionary evangelists, and who are better fitted to answer this call than our graduate nurses? Realizing the great need of such workers, we have decided to offer a course of study that will fit these students for service.

This course may be elective from the medical and the third-year nurses' course, at the discretion of the faculty. Each student will carry three classes daily. Bible and pastoral training will constitute one complete line through the year. Advanced work in physiology, obstetrics, diseases of women, and children's diseases will complete the other two lines. It will be possible for these students to meet the greater part of their expenses by work in the institution. We shall be glad to hear at once from any who may be contemplating taking such a course.

JULIA A. WHITE, M. D.,

Superintendent of Nurses.

The “Signs” Monthly

For October

appears in an attractive and interesting cover, which portrays vividly the trying conditions of the times.

The first ten or twelve pages are filled with short articles, all to the point,—a sort of symposium of the conditions, with head-lines and titles that will attract attention and aid much in the sale of the magazine. Conclusions are drawn and applications made so that each article carries weight.

Then follows the usual run of good, strong, timely articles, a few of which are:—

“The Hope of Peace,” a reprint from the Chicago Tribune. Certainly a flimsy hope, as viewed by some.

“The Mystery of Life’s Functions,” by J. O. Corliss. The second of this interesting series.

“The Gods of Evolution,” by an ex-college president, considering a few of the many inconsistencies.

“How Not to Be Saved,” by George B. Starr.

“Later English Reformers,” by Mrs. E. G. White.

“The Messiah,” by William Covert.

“Natural Methods in Curing Disease,” by J. E. Froom, M. D.

“A Sure Cure for Constipation,” by H. F. Rand, M. D.

A good strong line of current topics.

Good illustrations.

In all, a splendid number.

A city magazine with a city message.

Order five or ten copies of your tract society at once.

Business Notices

This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him “known” to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.

We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of two dollars 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 five cents.

No discount for several insertions.

WANTED.—Home for two boys, aged 11 and 8 years; on farms preferred. Also to hire out a strong boy 17 years of age; good milker. Address John Schott, R. F. D. 1, Mosinee, Wis.

PLUMBER WANTED.—Experienced plumber wanted at once. Prefer single man, or with wife who can do domestic work. Must be Sabbath-keeper. Steady work for right person. J. G. White, New England Sanitarium, Melrose, Mass.

1,000,000 Bible Mottoes. Size 12 x 16. They are sweet ones. Every home should have one. English, German, Spanish; 250, $10. More you buy, less they cost. Father and Mother lead. Express prepaid. Address Hampton Art Co., Nevada, Iowa.

LIBERAL OFFER.—Highly refined Cooking Oil, guaranteed pure and wholesome. 1 gallon, 90 cents; 5-gallon can, $3.60; 10 gallons, $7; ½ bbl. (32 gallons), 60 cents gallon; 1 bbl. (54 gallons), 58 cents gallon. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

VEGETABLE SHORTENING.—Before ordering write for our free literature telling you all about how Cooking Oil is made, with latest prices and formulas for using Dr. Godsmark’s Hygienic Cooking Oil or Vegetable Shortening. Address Hygienic Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

FOR SALE.—On easy terms, modern eleven-room house, barn, chicken-house, six acres good land, fifty fruit-trees—all varieties. Beautiful location. Eighty rods from Adelphian Academy (S. D. A.). Adapted to gardening, fruit, and poultry. Address E. K. Slade, Holly, Mich.

FOR SALE.—144 acres good farm land in Skokomish Valley, Washington. Fourteen miles from Shelton, ten miles from Union City. About 40 acres in hay and pasture; some valuable timber. Four-room house. Price reasonable; payments easy. Address O. T. Aubol, Mohrweis, Wash.

Reported Death of Elder O. E. Davis

The sad news comes by cable from Georgetown, British Guiana, that it is believed that Elder O. E. Davis has been killed in the interior. It was in May, we believe, according to a letter to the Mission Board from Mrs. Davis, that her husband started from Georgetown to visit our stations among the Indians up the Essequibo River. Through these Indians he had received a request from a tribe, still farther in the interior, that had never been visited by the white man, asking that the “God-man” come and teach them the message of salvation. Elder Davis, therefore, planned to visit this tribe, and plunged into the interior, expecting to return about the last of July. Now comes the cable message announcing his death. May the Lord comfort and strengthen his sorrowing companion; and may Elder Davis’s death, in his efforts to reach souls in the regions far beyond, quicken the onward march of the message, and lead many a young heart to consecration to the work of carrying the light of truth into dark lands.

By report of the Ohio camp-meeting by Elder B. G. Wilkinson, received too late for insertion in this number, we learn that Elder E. K. Slade, of East Michigan, has been elected president of the Ohio Conference. Brother Slade’s address hereafter will be Mount Vernon, Ohio.

News from Africa and Jerusalem

IN August our brethren in Europe received by cable the news of the death of Mrs. Anna Kaltenhauser, of the new Victoria Nyanza Mission, in the heart of Africa. She died of the blackwater fever, that scourge of the African interior. Thus another life is laid down on the altar of Africa. Our prayers and sympathies are with Brother Kaltenhauser and the little band of missionaries on the Victoria Nyanza.

THE publishers of the Protestant Magazine have just received an order to send two copies of that magazine for one year to one of our brethren in old Jerusalem. This brother says he can use a number of copies of our English magazines, “especially the Protestant Magazine.” If the truth were known, however, there is even more urgent necessity to circulate the Protestant Magazine in America than in old Syria, now under the dominion of the progressive Young Turk party.

Poetic Contributions

By Editor

THE concert of song is especially pleasing as found in our poetic contributions of this number.

Foreign Mission Seminary School Year

The Foreign Mission Seminary begins the next school year on September 20. The prospect is for a good attendance, and we trust that this may be realized not only by this school, but by our other educational institutions as well.

Adventist Leaders Return to Washington

RETURNING last week from camp-meetings in the South and Middle West, Elders A. G. Daniells, G. B. Thompson, M. E. Kern, and J. N. Anderson are again looking after the work of their respective departments in Washington.

Progress in Europe

ANOTHER cheering word of progress comes from Europe. Elder L. R. Conradi writes: “The second quarter of the year, to all appearances, will prove the best we have ever had, so far as net increase is concerned. The Latin Union report is not in yet; but by reports thus far received there was a net increase of members during the second quarter of nearly 1,400.”

Literature Distribution Expands

THE extensive circulation of our literature during the last few months is indeed most gratifying. Brother C. H. Jones speaks of the splendid record made by the Pacific Press, on page 21. The shipments from the Review and Herald have been equally as good. From the Washington office has been shipped an average of twenty tons of periodicals and fifteen tons of books, monthly, thus far this year. During the months of July and August, the shipment of books amounted to fifty tons. In the Lake Union Conference, agents’ orders taken during the first seven months of this year equal the total number of orders for the twelve months of 1910. The branch office at South Bend, Ind., shipped out an average of five hundred dollars’ worth of books, retail, every week-day during August. Let us pray that the Spirit of God may attend these many pages of books, tracts, and periodicals, and find for them an entrance into the hearts and homes of the people.

Young People Preparing for Service

ONE of the most encouraging features connected with the work of this message is the large number of young men and women now attending our schools. For the most part, these are preparing for work in connection with this movement. Many are not waiting for the close of their school work to begin service; hundreds have been out during the summer months selling our publications, connecting with tent efforts, and assisting in various ways. Let all pray that as our schools begin work for another year, and these young men and women return to their studies, the blessing of Heaven may rest upon them, and speed their efforts in securing a training for carrying this message to earth’s remotest bounds.

Mrs. Evans Leaves for China

LAST week Mrs. I. H. Evans bade good-by to her many friends in Washington, and left for a visit to friends in New York City and Michigan, en route to the Pacific Coast, from which, with her husband, a little later she will sail for China. During the last year Sister Evans has rendered efficient service in connection with the editorial department of the Review and Herald. And with other faithful workers who have left the home land and connected with the work in the great regions beyond, her services will be greatly missed in connection with the work at home.

Changes in the Quebec Conference

SOME changes are scheduled in the Quebec Conference, whose annual meeting has just closed. Elder W. J. Tanner, formerly of Haiti, West Indies, has been chosen president, in place of Elder Geo. H. Skinner, who feels it duty to work near his people in the West for a time. Elder Tanner has spent about twelve years in the West Indies, and on account of his wife's health is compelled to change to a more northern climate. Some other laborer, however, must quickly be found for the French-speaking republic of Haiti.

Liberty Subscriptions for California Attorneys

By Editor

A LETTER just received from the Pacific Union Conference office, encloses 1,300 yearly subscriptions for Liberty. The magazine will thus be sent, during the next year, to that many prominent attorneys in the State of California. Accompanying the order are these words: “We hope to at least double this order soon.” Could not the Religious Liberty departments of other local and union conferences also provide for sending this magazine to the attorneys in their respective territories? At the present writing, our Liberty mailing list stands the highest it has ever stood.