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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 19.

Evil Speaking
Earlier text: The Christian Amendment to the National Constitution

“Mine Hour Is Not Yet Come”

JESUS’ “hour is not yet come;” Let this word thine answer be, Pilgrim asking for thy home, Longing to be blest and free: Yet a season tarry on— Nobly borne is nobly done.
While oppressing cares and fears, Night and day no respite leave, Still prolonged through many years, None to help thee or relieve; Hold the word of promise fast, Till deliverance comes at last.
Every creature, hope, and trust, Every earthly prop or stay, May be prostrate in the dust, May have failed or passed away. Then when darkest falls the night, Jesus comes, and all is light.
— Selected.

Nebraska Conference Workers’ Meeting

By A. T. Robinson

PURSUANT to appointment, the Nebraska Conference spring workers’ meeting was held in the Seventh-day Adventist church at Hastings, Neb., April 14-24. With one or two exceptions, every worker on the conference list was present, and nearly every one from the beginning to the close of the meeting.
The united testimony of all was that it was the best meeting of the kind ever held in the Nebraska Conference. From the beginning to the close we held before ourselves a picture of the small results that have been seen in our home work and the great dearth of workers and means in foreign fields. The Spirit of the Lord witnessed to our study of this subject, and every worker who goes out from this workers’ meeting goes with his soul afire with a determination to see greater results of his labors the coming season, or step aside and give place to others. The conference committee felt called upon to give a very searching study to the revision of the list of conference workers, and as the result five persons were retired to make room to take in young persons who have been trained in the ministerial class in Union College.
A carefully prepared program had been previously arranged, and different ones had given special study to subjects assigned them. These topics were presented in a most striking manner, and many of the papers presented were followed by an interesting and profitable discussion. Several of the evening services were devoted to a strong revival effort, when large numbers in the congregation renewed their consecration to the service of God. Backsliders were reclaimed, and six young people gave their hearts to God for the first time. We look forward with bright hopes to the coming season’s work.
A. T. ROBINSON.

Self-Supporting Schools in Cuba

By Edwin A. Sutherland

ABOUT four years ago Brethren Calvin Kinsman and Oren Wolcott, with their wives, all students of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, opened a mission school near Nuevitas, Cuba, on the self-supporting plan.
These four young people pioneered this kind of work in Cuba. They have had many experiences during these four years, some of which have been trying indeed. Many of their hardships were due to conditions which might have been overcome more easily had they been trained in Cuba before attempting the establishment of the school. But the Lord has greatly blessed their efforts, and now Cuba has four mission schools, which are all in a good, healthy condition.
Elder E. W. Snyder, president of the Cuban Mission field, has manifested a deep interest in these schools, and is taking an active part in their establishment and development. He and the teachers on the island have long felt the need of a small training-school in which American teachers can take a brief course upon entering the island. They appealed to the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute to send some one to visit their schools and to help them establish this much-needed training-school. These appeals were read to the faculty of the Madison school, and it was decided that I should visit the island to assist them in this matter. Last January I went to Cuba, accompanied by Mrs. Emma Gray, formerly of California, now business manager of the Madison school. We spent about four weeks in the island, visiting among the schools.
Cuba impressed me most favorably. I had a good opportunity to see the island, as I traveled by rail from the extreme western part to Santiago, which is located in the eastern end of the island. I was surprised to find such great advantages in climate, soil, and cheap land, and such unusual productiveness. With scientific cultivation of the soil Cuba will far surpass California and Florida in producing grapefruit, oranges, lemons, and limes. Its production of bananas, pineapples, sugar-cane, etc., shows what can be done even with land that has been tilled without proper care for several hundred years.
Two conditions exist which have given many a wrong impression of Cuba. The first is the lack of adaptation to Cuban conditions by people who have gone there from the United States. Many of these persons are having experiences similar to those of the children of Israel in the wilderness. Israel was never satisfied with the things God gave them, but constantly longed for the old life in Egypt. Likewise some of the people from the United States, instead of being happy, and instead of feeling thankful for the excellent fruits and vegetables so easily produced in Cuba, reject native foods, and import a large part of their food from the United States in tin cans, and in various other ways make their living expensive and unsatisfactory.
It calls for more money than the average person from the United States can make in Cuba to provide all the Irish potatoes necessary for a family, at a cost of five to eight cents a pound. But they may have other tubers, just as wholesome, for the digging. I found more people wrecking their happiness over Irish potatoes and Elgin creamery butter than over any other one thing. Both of these articles are expensive and hard to obtain, and the valuable elements found in both of them can be obtained from native products with very little trouble or cost.
Missionaries should never go to Cuba for financial gain, and every missionary who would have success must learn the lesson of adaptation. I greatly appreciated learning of the experiences of the teachers in the self-supporting schools in Cuba. I found them in harmony with the idea that they should continually study to make use of the native resources, and not depend upon articles of diet to which they have been accustomed, but which are a luxury in Cuba.
After visiting these schools, and then meeting many Americans who are dissatisfied, I felt that the success of the missionary work in Cuba will depend largely upon the kind of training given to the new workers at the beginning of their stay in Cuba.
The second supposed difficulty is the lack of proper facilities for transporting native products to the United States markets. There are two reasons for this difficulty. The United States is protecting California and Florida citrus fruit-growers by putting a high tariff on Cuban citrus fruits.
Again, most of the land is held in very large estates. Only about one tenth of it is under cultivation. As these large estates are broken into small farms, better facilities for transportation will be developed. No portion of the South is so far behind in material progress as Cuba. Ten years ago it was unlawful to import a Protestant Bible or to hold a Protestant service. Cubans were forbidden to raise grape-vines or olive trees, by the unjust laws favoring the mother country and the Catholic Church. During the last ten years wonderful progress has been made, and the time is ripe for our people to press into this island to hold up the light of the third angel's message in hundreds of places.
Brother Kinsman is now well established at San Lucia, near Nuevitas. He has about forty acres of land, with a good cottage, and a new schoolhouse in process of building. He intends to take a number of boarding students in connection with his day-school.
Brother Guy Holmes is located near Las Minas. He has twenty acres of land, and sufficient house room to enable him to take in a number of boarding students, besides his day students. Brother Holmes has been very active in distributing papers and tracts and in giving Bible readings. I met six natives who are keeping the Sabbath as a result of his work. Some of them are young men who are anxious for a training to become missionaries.
Brother J. E. Anderson is now located at Las Tunas. He and his wife are conducting a fine school, and are doing much paper and Bible work. They are beginning to see results of their efforts.
Brother and Sister Henry Carnahan are conducting a school at San Claudia. Sister Carnahan also has a private school for Cubans at Cabanas, which she teaches in the afternoon. She has had a long experience in Porto Rico and Cuba, and carries a great burden for the natives.
Elder Snyder showed his deep interest in the work by accompanying us practically all the time in our travels. I had the pleasure of being with Elder U. Bender for several days at Omaja and Santiago. This gave us an opportunity to talk over many things concerning the work in Cuba.
We all felt that a training-school should be established. We are now praying that the Lord will put it into the hearts of the proper ones to undertake this enterprise. The Lord has already sent us a Spanish teacher who has been engaged in self-supporting work for several years, and who is ready to enter the training-school as a self-supporting teacher as soon as it is opened. We feel that the prayers of workers in Cuba and those here have been heard, and Cuba will soon have a training-school where teachers from the United States can receive a special training to fit them for their work among the Spaniards.
God calls for consecrated young men and women to enter Cuba. We wonder who has heard this call and answers, “Here am I.”
E. A. SUTHERLAND.

Sabbath-School Convention in Chile

By Ed. W. Thomann

ENCOURAGED by the good results of the convention held in our mission school in Pua, in southern Chile, the conference committee decided that others should be held, and the next one was in the city of Santiago, central Chile. Sabbath, Dec. 17, 1909, representatives from several Sabbath-schools, and a goodly number of conference laborers, came together for a two-days' convention. From beginning to end, we had a blessed time. The great possibilities of the Sabbath-school were made clearer than ever before to all.
Papers dealing with different subjects were read. Of great interest also were the several poems recited by children, and the stanzas sung by the little ones. And one of the things that awakened the greatest interest was a practical demonstration of how thoroughly even kindergarten classes can be interested and kept attentive.
When finally the question was presented to those present as to whether they thought it worth while to have such conventions, notwithstanding the expense in time and money, the whole congregation stood to testify to the fact that the good obtained more than repaid for the expenditure of funds and of time spent in traveling to attend. We are sure that future sessions will be appreciated.
The following resolutions passed unanimously:—
“We recommend, 1. That each member of the Sabbath-school have his lesson pamphlet.
“2. That both teachers and pupils study the lesson so well during the week that they will be able to dispense with lesson pamphlet and the reading of the Bible text in the class.
“3. That the Sabbath-school always be opened and closed at the fixed hour, to induce all to be present on time.”
ED. W. THOMANN.

The Largest Book for the Least Money

By O. E. Davis

As a rule, mankind is on the lookout for good bargains. The largest amount for the least cost, is the maxim; however, this is not a safe rule in all cases, for often the largest value is not in quantity, but in quality. When one is so fortunate as to get both of these, quality and quantity, for a small sum, he usually thinks it strange that others do not make an investment. Now, reader, what do you think of getting over twenty-five hundred pages of the size of an ordinary book, of the choicest and most helpful reading-matter, for the small sum of $1.75?
I now have seven volumes of such a work. It is issued annually, and you can not procure back volumes, but the present issues are just as good, and of increasing interest to all who are looking for the second coming of Christ. You inquire the title of this work? It is called the REVIEW AND HERALD, and is fresh every week, not only from the press, but, in a large measure, from the throne of God, as much of its contents is heaven inspired; and no believer in the soon-coming Saviour can afford to be without this work at hand.
As a reference work it never becomes obsolete. Most of the matter is not procurable in any other work published. For instance, the editorials and contributed articles can not be found elsewhere, and they are an inspiration to all.
Again, take the reports of the rise and progress of the work in the different parts of the world; these reports, when first read, were present occurrences; now those same reports have become history to us. Another very important point that should be noticed is the articles from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White that appear in the REVIEW. Most of these are not procurable elsewhere.
My first subscription to the REVIEW, about twenty years ago, cost two dollars, and I have always considered it the cheapest paper on earth because of the message it bears. The value of these messages can not be counted in dollars and cents.
As I reread the articles that appeared after the burning of the Review and Herald Office at Battle Creek, and the earnest appeals that followed, my soul is fired with zeal to push to my utmost the triumphs of this message. It seems to me that we have not correctly valued the good old REVIEW.
How shall we get these volumes? First, subscribe for the paper; then write to the Office for a binder, which will cost only twenty-five cents, and each week carefully place the paper in the binder, and at the year’s end you will have a volume that you would not let go for far more than it cost you. Try the plan, brother, and I feel sure you will not miss your subscription to the REVIEW, and the price will look smaller as you see the volumes accumulating. As we near the end, the heaven-sent messages will grow more precious. O. E. DAVIS.

The Baker Mountain Home

By D. T. Shireman

THE Baker Mountain Home for Orphans is located seven miles west of Hickory, N. C. Here we have eighty acres of land. When this is paid for, and the home furnished, we expect to obtain the living for the family from the products of this farm, thus making it a self-sustaining work. At present we are putting in our first crop, but it will require much work to bring the land up to produce a full crop. We have a nice young peach orchard, and we are expecting some of the trees to bear this year. Some strawberry plants have also been put out, and it is our desire, by the help of the Lord, to make this a model home.
This home is dedicated to the orphan work, and is under the charge of Brethren Charles Maples and A. W. Sanborn, and their wives.
It is my intention to spend my time in raising money by selling our magazines and books to finish paying for the land, and I would be glad to have some of our young people who are interested in this project and the sale of our magazines, join with me in sending the profits to the Baker Mountain Orphan Home, R. F. D. 5, Box 26, Hickory, N. C., to help pay for this land between now and January, 1911. You will be placing precious reading-matter in the homes of the people who need it, and will also be helping us pay the debt of the home.
D. T. SHIREMAN.

New Jersey

By W. H. Smith

NEWARK.—Sabbath, April 9, was a day of rejoicing among all our people in this part of the field. I had the pleasure of burying eighteen souls in the watery grave. Quite a few others are keeping the Sabbath, two of whom were prevented from being baptized because of sickness. The others were not quite ready, but these will doubtless be baptized the next opportunity. Four of the above were not of the Newark company. This makes, in all, forty-four baptized in Newark within the last ten months.
Sabbath, April 16, was another memorable day for the company here. Fifteen were received into the church, by the right hand of fellowship, after which all took an active part in celebrating the ordinances of the Lord’s house. We all felt that we had great things for which to thank the Lord. The one all-pervading sentiment of the entire company was a desire for a deeper consecration to God for service.
We are looking forward to our summer’s work with great expectation. We earnestly ask all who read these lines to remember us at the throne of grace, that God may continue to bless, until the last honest soul has been sought out of the city of Newark. W. H. SMITH.

Among the Churches

By J. S. Hart

SINCE February 27 I spent two Sabbaths at Minatare, Neb., and held meetings, in which a good degree of interest was manifested, and visited from house to house.
From there I went to Lincoln, and spent a profitable Sabbath with the church. The good testimonies borne in the social meeting gave witness that those present had been greatly encouraged by the words spoken. From there I went to Cortland, and held quarterly meeting with the church. The service was one of interest, and all the new members, as well as the old, were greatly encouraged.
March 29 Brother L. N. Muck and I went to St. Joseph, Mo. We spent ten days soliciting funds from those not of our faith to furnish reading-matter for the blind people in Missouri. We spent two Sabbaths with the church at St. Joseph, and held four successful meetings. A good interest was manifested by all, and we enjoyed our visit at this place very much. We found a friendly welcome at the home of Elder H. L. Hahn and at other places.
At all these places I was pleased to meet with old and tried friends, and also to form some new acquaintances.
J. S. HART.

Bearing the Cross

The heaviest cross, the stronger faith; The loaded palm strikes deeper root; The vine juice sweetly issueth When men have pressed the clustered fruit.
And courage grows where dangers come, Like pearls beneath the salt sea foam. The heavier cross, the heartier prayer; The bruisèd herbs most fragrant are;
If wind and sky were always fair, The sailor would not watch the star; And David's psalms had ne'er been sung, If grief his heart had never wrung.
—Selected.

Behavior in the House of God

By CLARENCE SANTEE

THAT there is a growing tendency on the part of many to regard the house of God with less respect and reverence than formerly, has been remarked many times. But God is as holy now as in ancient days. His name demands the same honor. His people will soon stand in his presence, and be at home in his courts. Surely, then, instead of slackness there should be a more earnest seeking of God for that solemn reverence and faith with which angels come into his presence.
God has not left us untaught in this matter. Paul says: “These things write I unto thee, . . . that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” 1 Tim. 3: 14, 15.
While this text refers to more than the behavior of a person in the church building, it evidently embraces this also. In “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. V, page 491, we read: “From the sacredness which was attached to the earthly sanctuary, Christians may learn how they should regard the place where the Lord meets with his people. There has been a great change, not for the better, but for the worse, in the habits and customs of the people in reference to religious worship. . . . The reverence which the people had anciently for the sanctuary where they met with God in sacred service, has largely passed away.”
This is how God regards these matters. It is a serious condition. We hear some boast of their liberty and freedom to speak and do as they choose. If they would choose God’s way, it might be a safe guide, but a man’s own way invariably leads downward. From the text quoted above it is plain that God would have order in his church.
Please study the following quotation from the Testimonies on this subject:—
“There should be rules in regard to the time, the place, and the manner of worshiping. . . . When the worshipers enter the place of meeting, they should do so with decorum, passing quietly to their seats. . . . The whispering and laughing and talking which might be without sin in a common business place, should find no sanction in the house where God is worshiped. . . . Let there be no stopping in the aisles to visit or gossip, thus blocking them up so that others can not pass out. . . .
“Parents, elevate the standard of Christianity in the minds of your children; help them to weave Jesus into their experience; teach them to have the highest reverence for the house of God. . . . Brethren, will you not devote a little thought to this subject, and notice how you conduct yourselves in the house of God, and what efforts you are making by precept and example to cultivate reverence in your children? . . . God gave rules of order, perfect and exact, to his ancient people. Has his character changed? Is he not the great and mighty God who rules in the heaven of heavens? . . . Parents should not only teach, but command, their children to enter the sanctuary with sobriety and reverence.”—Id., pages 491-496.
One serious feature that leads to the disrespect shown by many children in the house of God, is found in the statement, “They are too often found in groups away from their parents, who should have charge of them.”
And ministers need to exercise care. “There should be a radical change in this matter all through our churches. Ministers themselves need to elevate their ideas, to have finer susceptibilities in regard to it. It is a feature of the work that has been sadly neglected.”—Id., page 499.
The lack of respect that is so often manifested by both parents and children, as indicated in the above Testimony, produces results even beyond the days of meeting and character building in this world. I will quote another most solemn Testimony:—
“In heaven there is perfect order, perfect obedience, perfect peace and harmony. Those who have had no respect for order or discipline in this life would have no respect for the order which is observed in heaven. They can never be admitted into heaven; for all worthy of an entrance there will love order and respect discipline. . . . When Christ shall come, he will not change the character of any individual.”—Id., Vol. IV, page 429.
When we see a child quiet and orderly in the house of God, choosing a place by his parents, rather than by those of his own age in some back part of the building, we say, “If that child is not led off by later associations, he will be found in the active work of God.” On the other hand, when we see a child loud, violent, and coarse in the sacred place of worship, resenting the interference of church officials, sometimes upheld by parents in the same spirit, seeking out a place where he will be encouraged by others, inexperienced like himself, to disturb and annoy, we can but say, from the light God has given, “If that child is not changed, made over new, as surely as the message came to Eli that his sons were lost beyond pardon, so surely the message must come to such parents that the order of heaven can never be marred with such as these.”
Some parents may be tempted to feel that they have delayed too long in taking up the burden, but let them remember that God’s resources are infinite; that the love of his heart for the wayward child, be it son or daughter, is boundless; and that abiding faith will accomplish all things.
“All things are possible to him that believeth.” CLARENCE SANTEE.

West Africa

By D. C. Babcock

BOURRE SHERBRO.—From the beginning of our effort at this point, it seemed that Satan hindered us. There were many obstacles in our way. And just when we were ready to start, news reached us that Brother W. H. Lewis and family would be here by the next boat. We spent a few days with them, and left them to care for our home for six weeks. It seemed a little hard to leave so soon after their arrival; but the Lord's work must come first. Thursday morning we boarded the steamer, but we did not sail until midnight. They would not sell us second-class tickets, so I bought a first-class ticket for Mrs. Babcock, and I took deck. Things went pretty hard with us, and finally I frankly told the steward that I never had met such treatment aboard a steamer in all my life. He told the captain what I said, and that officer sent for me. He was a tough old Englishman; but we entered into conversation calmly, and I was frank with him. It worked like a charm, and when we left the ship, they gave us food, and our little boy was loaded with presents.
Our ship lifted anchor on Thursday, at midnight. On Friday morning, a little after daylight, about ten miles from shore we struck a rock, and stuck fast. About noon we got off the rock, but soon found we were on a sand-bank, with only six feet of water. There we stopped until Sabbath evening about four o'clock, when we were freed again. When in good water, we anchored until Sunday morning. At daybreak we started up the Sherbro River. Bouthe is an inland town fifty miles up the river.
We have many difficulties to encounter, but my courage was never better. We have received kind treatment since our arrival, and the prospects are bright. Every night the tent is crowded, and many have to stand outside. The first night the Sabbath question was called for. D. C. BABCOCK.

Sabbath Keepers at Adamson

TEN have begun keeping the Sabbath at Adamson, Okla., through the labors of Brother W. F. Talburt. There are others who evince good interest in this truth.

Reason for the First Amendment

By K. C. R.

THE Ralston (Pa.) Herald of April 28, contains the following editorial:— “We wonder how many of our readers have read the history of New England’s colonial times? of the persecutions, the whipping of the Baptists and Quakers, and the banishing of Roger Williams, by the Puritans? The Puritans were not worse than other people; in fact, they were honest, hard-working people. You ask, Then how could they persecute inoffensive people?—Simply because they were following wrong principles in government. They failed to make any separation between the church and the state. They thought that the stability of the state depended on the people’s observing certain religious forms, and as the Baptists and Quakers would not conform to the religio-political order of government, they were punished, or rather persecuted. It was to prevent a repetition of such persecutions that the First Amendment to the Constitution was added. Did our forefathers make a mistake in separating the church from the state? If not, let us keep them separate. Liberty — both religious and civil — is safe only so long as the people understand the principles on which it is based.”
It is refreshing in these times when men are departing from the true principles of religious liberty to know there are newspapers that dare to defend freedom of conscience. K. C. R.

Teaching American Principles in Rome

By William A. Colcord

In an editorial explaining “what Methodists are doing in Rome,” the New York Christian Advocate of April 14 says: “The Methodists in Rome are in the vanguard of that section of the Italian people which demands perfect liberty of conscience for every man and woman in Italy; that the public schools shall be absolutely free from clerical interference and from ecclesiastical control; that no taxes shall be levied upon the people for the support of any church, of any bishop or priest, or of any ecclesiastical institution. . . . In short, the Methodists stand firmly with those who demand the separation of church and state in Italy.”
As every one will readily recognize, these are strictly American principles of civil government (and Christian as well), quite at variance with ancient, medieval, and Old-World ideas. It is to be hoped that our good Methodist friends in this country will be as true to these principles as this showing represents them as being in Rome. If they are, they will not be demanding of either city, State, or national government laws compelling people to keep Sunday as the Sabbath; for such laws are an interference with “perfect liberty of conscience,” and are not in accord with the principles of “the separation of church and state.”
Civil government has no more right to tax the people one seventh of their time to support or show respect to some religion or ecclesiastical institution than it has to tax them one seventh of their means for the same purpose. Let all who desire to keep a day do so; but let there be no compulsion.
At a hearing on a Sunday bill before the House District committee, Feb. 15, 1909, Representative McMillan, of New York, spoke wisely when he said, “I would rather have a love and a respect for the Sabbath day implanted in a man’s heart than all the laws you could put on the statute-books.” This is the true American and Christian idea of religion and religious observances—love, not law; faith, not force; conviction, not coercion. W. A. C.

A Burlesque on Sunday Legislation

By K. C. R.

THE May number of Collier's Magazine contains an illustrated article entitled “The Law-Abiding Man.” The article seems to be a burlesque on many of the provisions in our State and municipal codes.
Some six columns, strikingly illustrated, are devoted to different phases of the subject. The leading character described in the article is a man who sought to instruct every violator of the Sunday ordinances. He is represented as a typical detective of violators of Sunday laws, who is seeking to spy out the liberties of his neighbors who do not observe the Sunday laws according to his interpretation of them. K. C. R.

Religious Liberty Notes

Such has suddenly become the exclusiveness of the Vatican in these modern stressful days that even Bishop Paret, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Maryland, was a few days ago refused an audience with “His Holiness,” and this in face of the fact that he went armed with a letter of introduction and recommendation from “His Eminence,” Cardinal Gibbons. The papal secretary, Cardinal Merry Del Val, by note informed the bishop that “His Holiness is neither a picture nor a statue to be inspected and criticized.”
The Chicago Israelite (Jewish weekly) quotes the following extract from Ex-Governor Folk’s article in the Saturday Evening Post of February 12, on “The Limitations of Reform:” “The Sunday laws of various States have been the subject of warm controversies during recent years. As to whether a thing should be prohibited on Sunday is, from the standpoint of government, a question of public morals and good government, not of religion. We are devoted to our religious faith that enjoins the observance of the Sabbath, but the law can not compel such observance on religious grounds. As individuals we can be controlled by the religious aspect, but the law can not recognize any religion, for the bars would then be down, and the next step would be religion by law, which is the thing our forefathers escaped. The law can not know either Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Protestant, or Jew. It can not fix fast-days or feast-days. Separation of church and state must ever be one of the cardinal tenets of free government.”

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. HANSEN.

Institute Work

A SERIES of institutes has just been held in the Columbia Union Conference, one in each local conference. This is in line with the recommendation of the recent General Conference Committee Council, although this union has the credit of having led out in the plan. The recommendation was as follows:—
“That where it is practicable, institutes be held at an early date, for the instruction of workers, who shall, in turn, visit the various churches to instruct the members concerning the campaign and how to engage in it.”
The conference workers are called together for two or three days, to spend the time in a careful study of the relief campaign and methods for carrying it on. Ample time is allowed for a full consideration of various questions that may arise. A clear understanding is obtained of the general situation of our sanitarium work and its relation to the cause. Among the subjects considered are the following:—
General Outline of Campaign, Reasons for the Campaign, Prospective Results, Causes of Sanitarium Indebtedness, Hopeful Indications and Prospects, Development of Sanitarium Work, What Sanitariums Are Doing, Place of Health Work in Our Cause, How We Can Help, Definite Plans, Canvassing Methods.
These subjects are considered in detail. Statistics and figures are given, interesting items of progress are presented, experiences that show the attending blessing of God upon this branch of the work are related, and there is given a drill in canvassing methods. Instruction is given on gaining entrance to homes, approaching people, and so forth.
After spending a short time in this way the workers feel better prepared to present the campaign work to others and to give instruction as to how to proceed with it.
We have been favored with the help of the union conference president, Elder B. G. Wilkinson, as his time would permit; the full co-operation of all the conference presidents, and the very efficient assistance of the missionary field secretary, I. D. Richardson.
Our people are usually willing to engage in any worthy line of work presented to them, if they only know how to take hold. There are many, however, who feel that they do not know how or where to begin. They are honest in their belief that they can not do this or that. While this is often greatly exaggerated, it is well to provide such instruction and training as may be possible and practicable. Effort in this direction is well spent.
Further information regarding the conduct of institute work will be gladly given to those desiring the same.
L. A. HANSEN.

Humility Toward All

To be humble to superiors, is duty; to equals, is courtesy; to inferiors, is nobleness; and to all safety; it being a virtue, that, for all her lowliness, commandeth those souls it stoops to.—Sir Thomas More.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the

Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL   -   -   -   -   Secretary
W. A. COLCORD   -   -   -   Corresponding Secretary

Current Mention

— In three cities arrests have recently been made of men concerned in one of the greatest jewelry frauds ever perpetrated in this country. The loss to jewelers is estimated at from $500,000 to $2,000,000.
— A recent decision of the Louisiana court at New Orleans lays down the principle that where the law of the State for the separation of white and colored races specifies Negroes, it does not apply to octroons or quadroons.
— A report from Cheyenne, Wyo., states that a number of commercial concerns operating in that State have been charged with fraudulent transactions amounting to several million dollars. Suit has been brought in the United States Court at Cheyenne against the promoters of these concerns.
— A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., states that the attorney who is prosecuting the Pittsburg grafters openly charges that a large sum of money has been raised by some of those who have been indicted, the intention being to use this money in bribing jurors not to convict. Thus does fraud aid fraud, and set the law at naught.
— “A new use has been found for aluminum in the making of books for the blind — books which are read by passing the fingers over the embossed letters printed upon the pages. It is said that these books are much easier to read than the best paper books, especially by those who have become blind late in life, and whose fingers are not very sensitive.”
— There is threat of open war between the anticlericals of Italy and the Catholic Church. The anticlericals are protesting vigorously to the government against religious services in the army, and against soldiers taking any part in religious exercises anywhere. They propose, if possible, to prevent soldiers even attending church. The despatch states that religious tolerance is unknown in Italy by either the clericals or anticlericals.
— A new building in Washington, D. C., known as the Bureau of American Republics, was dedicated on April 26. Twenty-one American republics were represented at the dedication. The principal speakers at the dedication were President Taft, Andrew Carnegie (who had given $750,000 toward the erection of this one-million-dollar structure), Secretary-of-State Knox, former Secretary-of-State Elihu Root, and the ambassador of Mexico.
— One of the greatest disasters that has befallen the agricultural interests of this country in many years came as a result of the recent cold wave and snowstorm throughout the Middle and Southern States. It is difficult to estimate the loss to the fruit and cotton crops. Some place the loss at $50,000,000, while others estimate it at several hundred millions. In large sections all the young cotton plants have been killed and the land must be replanted, while it is questionable whether sufficient seed can be obtained to replant the cotton fields.
— The State of Minnesota has led the way in very radical statutory legislation against the cigarette, making it penal to sell or give away cigarettes or cigarette-papers. Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana have had laws against this obnoxious and deleterious practise, which is especially destructive to the young. The medical examiner for West Point applicants has publicly stated that of candidates refused many were cigarette smokers.
— Few States, if any, in the Union are better governed than Kansas. It is a progressive commonwealth. It keeps pace with its neighbors in the matter of public improvements. Yet, while Missouri property owners pay in taxes seventeen cents on the one hundred dollars, and Iowans forty cents, the total levy for all State taxes in Kansas is only twelve and one-half cents on the one hundred dollars. Missouri and Iowa are mentioned in comparison only because they are neighboring States. Both are well governed, and both are probably making satisfactory returns to the taxpayers. But the point is that Kansas, which for a number of years has strictly enacted prohibitory liquor legislation seems to be doing particularly well.
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