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TOTAL DONATIONS FOR NASHVILLE CHURCH

Responses

A FEW weeks ago an appeal appeared in the columns of the REVIEW for aid in erecting two churches for the colored people, one in Nashville, Tenn., and the other in Jackson, Miss. We are glad to report the following sums received, to be divided equally between the two. Most of those who made these donations have specified that they are to be used for this purpose. Some have requested that their donations should be appropriated where they will do the most good, and we have felt clear in applying them to the building of these churches:—

W. H. and E. H. Kynett, $100; H. A. St. John, $20; Mrs. M. Burlson, $11; Mrs. M. E. Coffin, $10; John Biron, $10; Geo. and Tillie Hough, $6; Edwin Squires, $6; Betsy J. Carpenter, $5; O. F. Bowen, $5; Mrs. O. F. Ward, $5; a friend, $5; Mrs. J. Schriver, $5; Gertrude Uhri, $5; A. M. Pillsbury, $5; Mrs. Alice Fisher, $4; E. and J. Tregauza, $4; May L. McCabe, $3.70; Mrs. E. Spicer, $3; Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Wager, $3; Mrs. S. J. Myers, $2.26; C. W. Smouse, $2.10; Mrs. Millie Adams, $2; Miss E. Anderson, $2; Mrs. T. Heald, $2; John A. Lauck, $2; J. B. Stuyvesant, $1.80; Mrs. E. L. Mason, $1.40; Mrs. C. E. Glover, $1; Mrs. Lillie Berry, $1; Mrs. V. Housengton, $1; R. H. Miller, $1; Alex. B. Campbell, $1; Emma J. Campbell, $1; Jennie R. Hewett, 90 cents; Louisa Stone, 70 cents; Mrs. G. W. Hiller, 50 cents; A. D. Landeau, 50 cents; Mrs. Jane Holford, 50 cents; Alice Lawson, 50 cents; Mrs. B. Montgomery, 25 cents; Mrs. E. A. South, 25 cents; total, $241.36.

TOTAL DONATIONS FOR NASHVILLE CHURCH

Amount previously reported . . . . $327.75 One half of donations reported above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.68 Total received to date . . . . . $448.43

TOTAL DONATIONS FOR JACKSON CHURCH

Amount previously reported . . . . $185.00 One half donations reported above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.68 Donations received by M. C. Strachan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.55 Church at Milton, Ore. . . . . . . . 10.00 Brother and Sister Raymond . . . 10.00 Sales—“Story of Joseph”—in Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.31 Sister Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.35 H. C. Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00 F. R. Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Donations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Total received to date . . . . . $399.89

An apparent discrepancy appears in “amount previously reported” for the Jackson church. The one hundred dollars from the company at Jackson, and the same amount from the church at Vicksburg, were given to apply on purchase price of lot, and have not all been paid yet.

Owing to recent advance in the cost of building, it will take about two hundred dollars more to complete each building, including painting and seating it ready for dedication and use. Both these structures are well under way, and are developing into neat, commodious buildings, which will properly represent the work in these places.

By the last of January, 1904, it is expected that both these buildings will be completed. We earnestly desire that every bill shall be paid at that time, and the buildings be dedicated free from debt. It would be a much greater satisfaction if the balance of about three hundred dollars deferred payments on each of the lots could be also met, so that there would be no debt whatever remaining. Brethren, can not we do this during the month of January? Address Southern Missionary Society, Nashville, Tenn., Station K.

1904—The Keynote—Our Schools

By E. C.

TIME rolls swiftly on. It has been rolling on just as swiftly for six thousand years; but its end is at hand. Time is soon to become eternity. How soon we do not know, except that it is to be in this generation: this we do know; “for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” Are you looking for him, at the moment of whose appearing time is to be changed to eternity? If so, to you he will come with joy; for to those, and to those only, “that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” All such will hail his coming with joy.

The year 1903, with its burden of successes and failures, joys and griefs, has forever gone. The year 1904, with its opportunities,—and there were never greater,—is here. These opportunities are responsibilities. As there were never greater opportunities, so there were never greater responsibilities. What are these opportunities?—They are solely those of hastening the coming of this Prince of Peace in this generation. The work of God is to increase in strength as the end draws near. But this will not be accomplished until the believers in this coming King definitely and forcefully proclaim his return. This proclamation is the keynote of our message. The harmony and effectiveness of a piece of music depend upon its keynote. If there is no keynote, or if it is not used as a basis of harmony to which all other sounds recur, all is discord. Just so it is in our work. When all that is thought, said, and done, finds its dependence upon this keynote,—the return of our Saviour,—then all is success, progress, victory. “When the true keynote is struck, God will reveal himself as a God of mercy and love.” The keynote is our opportunity; to sound it is our responsibility.

Seventh-day Adventists, the professed sounders of this keynote, have thousands of children and youth in our schools. What an army of workers these students may make. But they can not make an effective army unless they are well organized and drilled. And there is no note of organization but this same keynote. It must be struck in the schools with a greatly increasing force and regularity. But it must be correspondingly struck in the homes. Every child of every believer in the advent should be

continually under the sound of this keynote. If this is true, as it certainly is, there will be an especial effort on the part of every believer to place his children in those schools where the coming of the Saviour is the central, and indeed the all-absorbing theme. The teachers in these schools will have all the facts of knowledge to be taught set in their proper relation to this event—the greatest event, and indeed the desire of all ages. The year 1904 means nothing to our schools if it does not mean the sounding of the keynote in its harmonious setting, and the sounding of nothing else.

E. C.

Christian Education

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.

L. A. Hoopes, Chairman; Frederick Griggs, Secretary.

Field Notes

THIRTEEN persons have recently accepted present truth in western Oklahoma, as a result of work done by Brother Wm. Braily.

Nine Begin Serving God at Perry

At Perry, O. T., on a recent Sabbath nine persons made a start in the service of God, of whom eight were students in the church school at that place.

Revival Season at Union College

AMONG the week-of-prayer reports is one from Union College, stating that that institution “has not witnessed so great a revival season for many years.” Many of the students have given their hearts to God.

Seven New Sabbath-Keepers at Lone Elm

BROTHER F. H. CONWAY reports seven new Sabbath-keepers at Lone Elm, O. T., where a series of meetings was begun by him November 26. These will unite with the Perry church, the two towns being but nine miles apart.

A New Miehle Press

A NEW Miehle press has been purchased by the International Publishing Association at a cost of $2,750, to be used in printing the German, Danish, and Swedish papers, also books, tracts, and pamphlets in these languages.

New Church Building at Shattuck

The new church building at Shattuck, O. T., was dedicated free of debt the first Sabbath during the week of prayer. The following Sabbath, nine persons joined the church, bringing the present membership up to about ninety.

Evangelistic Campaign in Omaha

THE Nebraska Conference is planning for a vigorous campaign in the city of Omaha, the beginning of which will be a house-to-house canvass by a competent corps of workers during the winter. Revival services will be held also in the church, preparatory to a strong public effort to be made about the end of March.

Words From Schools in Foreign Lands

China Mission

The China Mission has at present only one worker that can properly be counted as a teacher,—Miss Ida Thompson, who is conducting an Anglo-Chinese school in Hongkong.

The school has an enrolment of about twenty. It was opened last fall, and while it presents encouraging features, yet it is an experiment, and may not continue beyond the first of the coming year.

J. N. ANDERSON.

Avondale School

We had a very good school the past year, the increase over the year before being about fifty per cent. I have just returned from a trip in the interest of the school; and the prospects seem to be favorable for a good attendance the coming year. Our school opens in January; we are planning to have our first teachers' institute during the holidays this year. We hope to have a profitable time.

Our yearly balance sheet has just been made out, and shows that we have made a gain in running of about fifteen hundred dollars during the past year. Our effort with “Christ’s Object Lessons” has paid off about half of the original indebtedness of the school, and we hope the good work will continue until the debt is entirely liquidated.

C. W. IRWIN.

Buluwayo Mission

We have about fifty in the school home and seventy in the day school. In addition to this number we have nearly one hundred and fifty who are attending the schools that are taught by our faithful boys in the kraals at a distance from us.

We are trying to follow the instruction that has been given us so many times to train burden-bearers. Yet it is here as it is elsewhere,—there are few that one can depend upon. There are many whom we can depend on some of the time and in some places, but to find one whom we can depend on at all times and in all places and under the most trying circumstances is difficult.

We need men who are masters of any situation. They will be placed many times far from outside help. They will have to erect their own buildings. They will have to grow their own feed. They will have to be the leader and instructor in every enterprise. They will have to stand alone when everything seems against them. They must know this truth will triumph, and be determined to triumph with it in spite of all appearances. They must be able to endure, seeing him who is invisible.

Yet when we see the change that God has wrought in the few years that we have been here, we are found saying many times that these people are farther advanced than we are; that is, in comparison to the light they have had.

We open a school as the first step in raising up a church; we send out a teacher first, and the preacher follows him. Or I might more properly say that the teacher is the preacher, and the preacher is the teacher. A preacher who is not an educator is of no use to us here; and a teacher who can not teach the science of salvation, and who does not make it his first, last, and only work to prepare pupils for the kingdom, is of no use to us.

W. H. ANDERSON.

Current Mention

— Twenty people were killed and a larger number seriously hurt in a “head-on” collision of a passenger train with a cattle train on the Rock Island Railway near Willard, Kan., January 6.

— Paris, France, is deeply interested over the alleged hypnotic murder of a woman by two of her neighbors who are Spiritualists. The latter had exercised a hypnotic influence over the woman, under the spell of which she had executed a will in their favor, cutting off the natural heirs of her property.

— Fire in a wing of the Iowa State Capitol building, January 4, did damage to the amount of $500,000. Valuable books and documents were saved only by the exertions of the governor and firemen in removing them to a place of safety. The alleged cause of the fire was the dropping of a lighted candle by an electrical worker.

— According to the Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Mail, “Governor Taft had a secret conference with the Marquis Ito this afternoon [January 7] at the United States consulate at Yokohama,” at which “Governor Taft assured the marquis that the United States will observe a friendly neutrality toward Japan in the event of war, and that if necessary, it would grant the use of American ports in the far East to the Japanese fleet.”

— A Paris dispatch of recent date says: “The diplomats are making inquiries as to the attitude of the powers in case of war, that to be adopted by the United States being regarded as particularly important.” The Japanese minister is credited with saying: “The attitude of the United States will mean much. She has negotiated a treaty with China for the opening of three ports in Manchuria to the commerce of the world. These ports have been occupied by Russia, and thus her treaty rights have been violated.” The outlook still continues very warlike.

— The weight of evidence touching the origin of the Chicago theater tragedy shows it to have been caused by the “flood light,” a very powerful electric light used to illuminate the stage in a manner demanded by the play. The great heat from this light set fire to a curtain which was swinging near it, and at times, moved by currents of air, came almost in contact with it. Evidence gathered by those charged with the duty of official investigation shows that much loss of life would have been averted if the ventilators over the stage had been opened, or the skylights not been fastened shut. Fire Inspector Fulkerson said: “All the testimony given me forms a story of incompetence, blunders, carelessness, and neglect upon the part of builders and managers of the theater.” From the latest figures obtained, it appears that almost one in three of the people who attended the matinee lost his life, the percentage being a trifle over thirty-one per cent. The theater seated 1,666 people, and in addition to these 236 had been admitted after all seats were sold, making a total of 1,842 people in the theater, of whom 591 were killed. Of the victims, all but a few were in the galleries.

— A special meeting of the American hierarchy of the Catholic Church has been called, the place and time of the gathering to be Washington, January 31. As stated “authoritatively” to a reporter of the New York Sun, “the hierarchy will be convened to discuss the project of creating a primate in the United States, and the findings of the council will be carried to Rome by Archbishop Farley. This will be one of the most important councils of the hierarchy since that of Baltimore in 1884.” “The Sun’s informant said that the establishment of a primate in this country would result in the withdrawal of the apostolic delegate at Washington, and the transfer of Mgr. Falconio to some European post. It is said that Cardinal Gibbons is the only member of the hierarchy who has been mentioned by the bishops for the new honor. The cardinal’s present rank of quasi primate is only honorary, carries no jurisdiction, and comes through the fact that tradition has made the Archbishop of Baltimore by courtesy the primate of the hierarchy of America. It is said on authority that Pope Pius has expressed his belief that the United States should have her own primate with a jurisdiction covering that now held by the apostolic delegate. . . . Another project to come under consideration at this special meeting of the hierarchy will be the convocation of another plenary council. It is stated that if the primacy is not established, the calling of the council will follow.”

The Year Book For 1904

By W. A. Spicer

The denominational Year Book for 1904 is now going through the press, and orders can be filled very soon. The chief features of the book may be stated as follows: A complete directory of the General Conference and all its officers, committees, departments, and laborers; complete directories of all union and State conferences and union and local mission fields throughout the world, with the territory, population, membership, and churches thereof specified, as well as the names and addresses of officers, committees, departments, and laborers given, and church schools in operation therein so far as reported; directories of colleges, academies, and intermediate schools, with boards, faculties, and branches taught; directories of publishing houses, with boards, officers, and departments connected therewith; a complete list of periodicals published under the auspices of the denomination, with specifications as to frequency of publication, price, size, and editors thereof; a directory of sanitariums, with boards and faculties; treatment rooms, restaurants, cafes, and benevolent institutions. The work also contains a summary of officers, with their addresses, a directory of ordained and licensed ministers, and of physicians, together

with statistical reports, and the Constitution of the General Conference.

We are sure that the many new and excellent features which the work contains will make it of great value to all who desire a correct understanding of the various features of our organized work. It is larger than preceding directories, is revised to date, and is issued in a convenient form, and at a low price. Price, 25 cents. Orders should be sent to your State Tract Society, or to the General Conference, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C. W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

Obituaries

WILSON.—Died at Cripple Creek, Colo., Sept. 2, 1903, Sister Ruth Wilson, in her forty-eighth year. She was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Cripple Creek, Colo., having accepted the truth about ten years ago. She sleeps in Jesus, waiting the return of the Life-giver. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. C. H. BATES.

WHITMARSH.—Died at Vanderbilt, Mich., Dec. 19, 1903, Dotta Whitmarsh, aged 62 years, 11 months, and 27 days. Without a moment's warning, heart disease closed his life. About twenty-five years ago he accepted this message, and the Saviour was dear to him at the time of his death. His companion and eight children survive him, four sons and four daughters, who greatly miss their father's counsel. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Ps. 116:15. E. A. BRISTOL.

VAIL.—STOTENBERG.—Death enters two families of the Stockton (Cal.) church in one week. On December 19 Platt Vail, the husband of Sister Vail, but himself a member of the Baptist church in Elk Point, S. D., died, aged 75 years. December 23, Sister M. E. Stotenberg, aged 45 years, died of pneumonia. She leaves a husband and four daughters. She was a beloved companion, a tender mother, and a worthy member of the Stockton church. At each of these funerals words of consolation were read from the Scriptures by the writer. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

CLAY.—Died in San Diego, Cal., Nov. 7, 1903, of cancer, Cyprian Clay, aged 90 years, 7 months, 27 days. Brother Clay accepted the message of present truth about sixteen years ago. He was a humble, faithful, patient servant of Christ till the end of his pilgrimage. He was born near New Orleans, and was a nephew of Henry Clay of historical note. Mary A., one of five children who still survive, was his constant companion and helper during the last twenty-seven years of his life. "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord." Funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by Dr. T. S. Whitelock; text, 2 Sam. 14:14. S. THURSTON.

JENKINS.—Died at the home of her mother in Breckenridge, Minn., Dec. 14, 1903, of tuberculosis, Ivy I. Jenkins, nee Wilson, aged 23 years, 2 months, and 28 days. At the age of nineteen years she gave her heart to God, was baptized, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Sauk Center, Minn. The blessed hope sustained her through many weary months of decline. Funeral discourse was given by Rev. P. Cook (Baptist), from Rev. 14:13. MRS. J. D. WILSON.

SOULE.—Died in Denver, Colo., Dec. 22, 1903, of tuberculosis, Sister Alice A. Soule, in the forty-sixth year of her age. Sister Soule was born in the State of Maine, in 1857. She came to the State of Colorado about ten months ago, but the dread disease had obtained such a firm hold upon her that she only received temporary relief. The last few weeks before her death she failed very rapidly. She died in the blessed hope, and was laid to rest in the Fairmont cemetery, to await the coming of the blessed Saviour whom she loved. She leaves a husband and three sons, and many friends. Funeral services were conducted by the writer. G. W. ANGLEBARGER.

BOYER.—Died at his home near Mill Grove, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1903, Elijah Boyer, aged 82 years, 6 months, and 4 days. He was a member of the Alden church at the time of his death. Funeral services were conducted by the pastor of the M. E. Church, at Alden, N. Y. Six years ago mother was laid away to rest. They leave three sons, one of whom was adopted, and two daughters. We mourn their loss, but not without hope that we shall see them when the Life-giver comes to claim his own. Father's mind was clear till the last. He prayed that God's blessing might rest upon the cause, his children, grandchildren, and friends, and quietly fell asleep. MRS. ROXANA HOFFMAN.

PHIPPS.—Died at his home, in St. John, New Brunswick, Dec. 25, 1903, of neuralgia of the heart, Calvin S. Phipps, aged 76 years. While attending to his barn work in the morning, he expired suddenly. For about thirty-five years he was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church. Ten years ago, when Elder F. I. Richardson and R. S. Webber held tent-meetings here, and brought out a company to observe the Bible Sabbath and look for the soon coming of the Saviour, he united with them, as he had believed these truths for several years. Sterling integrity, deep piety, loyal devotion, strong faith, and wide usefulness were life-long characteristics. His wife, five daughters, and one son survive him. The funeral service was held in a crowded house, December 27, and was conducted by the writer, using for his text 2 Tim. 4:7, 8, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Long, pastor of Victoria Street Freewill Baptist church. Interment was in the cemetery at Bellisle. F. A. TRACY.

KELLOGG.—Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. N. Stilwell, in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 9, 1903, Sister Lucinda S. Kellogg, formerly Sister McClure, aged 84 years and 9 months. Sister Kellogg, nee Richmond, was born in LeRoy, N. Y., in August, 1819. At an early age she was converted and united with the Christian Church. She came with her parents to Michigan in 1838. About forty-five years ago she became interested in the third angel's message, and joined the Seventh-day Adventist church in Greenbush, Mich. Later she moved to Cedar Springs, of which church she was a pioneer and abiding member. She possessed an uncommonly meek and quiet spirit, combined with great firmness and persistency of purpose, and was faithful in the discharge of duty. Although age had impaired her reason and memory, she always remembered the Sabbath day to keep it holy, and would read her Bible and the REVIEW, and looked forward with joy and confidence to a home on the new earth. Funeral sermon was preached by Elder Kilgore, from 1 Thessalonians 4, beginning at the thirteenth verse. Burial in Cedar Springs, where rest in hope her venerable parents, David M. and Lois Richmond, and others of “like precious faith.”

Church Officers of Tennessee River Conference, Notice!

By N. W. Aller

WILL the church clerks please send the names and addresses of all church and Sabbath-school officers to Mrs. E. C. Spire, Franklin, Ky., as soon after the annual election as possible? We need this revised list as soon as it can be obtained, at our conference office, also at the offices of our publishing houses. Important communications are often to be sent to our churches, and it is quite necessary to have the names and addresses of the proper persons. Please, church clerks, send the names of the officers as requested.

N. W. ALLER, Pres. Tenn. River Conf.

H. G. THURSTON

By H. G. Thurston

Mississippi

A SESSION of the Mississippi Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Vicksburg, Feb. 7-9, 1904, for the purpose of electing officers, and laying plans for future work. We trust this meeting may prove of great benefit to the work in the State.

H. G. THURSTON

Business Notices

By Editor

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.

Farm Workers Wanted

WANTED.—A young married man and his wife, to tend to a farm in Buffalo County, Neb. Must be well recommended. Address Sara Hansen, Sartoria, Neb.

Cook Wanted for Hygienic Cafe

WANTED.— At once, a competent person to take charge of cooking in first-class cafe. Custom principally from university. Address Hygienic Cafe, 426 State St., Madison, Wis.

For Sale Cheap

FOR SALE CHEAP.—A good little home in College View, Neb., about 6 blocks from college. Good 4-room cottage, excellent cellar, good barn, pleasant location. Address L. N. LaBonte, Mountain View, Mo.

Well-Improved Oklahoma Farm for Sale

FOR SALE CHEAP.—Well-improved deeded farm of 320 acres in Oklahoma, 4½ miles from county seat, S. D. A. church and church school; land nearly all tillable, 30 acres in growing wheat, young orchard, abundance of good water. Address H. B. Tilden, Woodward, O. T.

Farm Work Position Available

WANTED.— To correspond with a man, or man with wife, who has had experience in general farm work, and would like a position by the year on a fruit and stock farm in southeastern Illinois, near county seat. Write for particulars, giving age, experience, and reference. An opportunity for the right person. Address W. T. Bland, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Clothing Needed for Colored Members

WANTED.—Box of clothing for distribution among the colored members of our denomination. Both children and adults are in great need. Any cast-off garments can be made good use of. One colored minister who is laboring here is very much in need of clothes. He has a large family, and has been giving his time to the cause without financial support. Those sending are requested to notify W. H. Armstrong, 331 N. Green St., Greensboro, N. C., and to prepay the transportation.

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:—

G. W. Vaughen, Lenoir, N. C., periodicals and tracts.

Mr. L. F. Sparhawk, Waldo, Ore., Signs, Life Boat, health journals, and tracts.

Miss Birdie Cruzan, 1213 West 9th Street, Joplin, Mo., REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, and tracts.

Vesta Cash, Holland, Ill., Signs, Sentinel, Youth's Instructor, Little Friend, and Good Health.

L. F. Elliott, 1035 Green St., Norristown, Pa., Signs, Youth's Instructor, and tracts, also health literature.

Joseph Clark, Ceballos, Cuba, periodicals in English or Spanish. Send by mail, same rate as in United States.

J. F. Agard, 2014 Magazine St., New Orleans, La., periodicals in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Scandinavian.

S. B. Taft (Post Wheelwright), Fort Ringgold, Starr Co., Tex., Signs, Sentinel, Little Friend, Youth's Instructor, health journals, tracts, and pamphlets. Also papers and tracts in Spanish.

Pacific Health Journal on Alcoholism

By Editor

The January number of the Pacific Health Journal is devoted to the subject of “Alcoholism.” Among the leading articles are the following: “Is Alcohol a Food?” “Is Alcoholic Medication Necessary?” “Physiological Effects of Alcohol,” “Mental, Moral, and Social Aspects of Alcoholism,” “The Liquor Traffic” (Mrs. E. G. White), and “Masked Alcoholism.” Such a study of the temperance question lays a solid foundation for permanent reform. This issue of the Journal ought to have a wide circulation. The subscription price is only fifty cents a year.

A Contemplated Change

The following paragraph which we take from The Signs of the Times, will be read with interest:—

For years the management of the Pacific Press Publishing Company have felt that the land now occupied by their publishing house is too valuable, and land surface too cramped in the heart of a large city in a residence district, for factory purposes, and that it was wisdom in many ways to seek some rural place where land was less valuable, where homes in healthy surroundings could be secured by employees, with space sufficient for gardens, fruit trees, and breathing room; and where shipping advantages would be good. Such a place has been found and secured in the village of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, thirty-nine miles south of San Francisco, a place which combines many of the advantages of the city with the benefits of a healthy country life. We shall say more about this in the future, and shall have plenty of time to say it, as we shall not be able to move the plant until next summer. We believe that God has guided in this move, and we are sure our friends will be glad to congratulate us. We wish their prayers still, that the same kind Father may be over us in the establishment of the plant, and all that is incidental to it or connected with it.

The instruction which has been given with much clearness concerning the location of our institutions emphasizes the advisability of going to the country with them, and it will certainly be a good move in this direction if the close of the present year shall find both the Pacific Press and the Review and Herald, the two leading publishing houses of the denomination, well settled in new quarters with rural surroundings. There is doubtless more meaning than we now see in this counsel to avoid the large cities in selecting homes for our institutions, but by following the counsel we shall be prepared for what the future may bring to us. We congratulate our co-workers of the Pacific Press on the action which they have taken.

Has Your Subscription Expired?

By Editor

THIS is the last paper you will receive if your time expired during the last half of December, and you have not yet renewed.

Please look at the date on your wrapper, and if your subscription has run out, renew at once, so as not to miss any copies of the paper.

A subscriber who recently ordered the REVIEW says: “Since receiving the paper, I have wondered how I did without it so long. I certainly do enjoy reading every article.”

To those whose subscriptions expired in October, November, and early in December, and who have just renewed, we wish to say that we can not supply back numbers beyond the issue bearing date of Dec. 31, 1903.

German East Africa Fund

THE Oakland General Conference voted to ask for $5,000 to assist our brethren of the German Union Conference in establishing a strong mission in German East Africa. The believers in Germany have taken hold with a will, and the article from Brother L. R. Conradi, on page 14, shows that the time has come to open the lists and invite response from those who wish to share in the blessings of this enterprise. Gifts should be sent to the Treasurer of the General Conference, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C., and will be acknowledged in the REVIEW. Two sisters in New York City have already responded as follows:—

M. Tasto ......................... $ 50.

Wilhelmine Brunjes ................ 50.

Thanks

By Editor

WE wish to thank our ministers, elders of churches, tract society officers, librarians, and all others who have recently sent us such good lists of new subscribers for the REVIEW. We have not been able to write a personal letter to each one, but their efforts are none the less appreciated.

The pages of the REVIEW are filled with messages of truth and warning, and with reports of the world-wide work. You who read the paper know that all our people need the help which it gives. Will you not continue your efforts in behalf of those who do not take it?

Africa Loses a Worker

By W. A. Spicer

LAST week our brethren in Cape Town, South Africa, penned, with heavy hearts, we know, the sad message that came to us by cable, “Watson dead, fever.” The reports from Brother J. H. Watson, of Nyassaland, which have lately been appearing in the REVIEW, so full of courage and information, make it difficult to realize the sad fact that the writer has laid down his work at the Master’s feet, and that our hearts are now bound to Nyassaland by a new and tender tie. In the last issue of the old year we printed his message that away in the heart of Africa the workers felt the impulse of this new time. “As the glad notes of ‘Homeward bound’ came echoing down the line,” he wrote, “we are assured that the land of promise is in view.” Now he awaits the entry to that land under the blessed benediction for this time. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: ‘Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.’” Our sympathies are with the wife and little one and others who are so sadly bereaved. We are glad that this mission station is under the supervision of the South African Union Conference, so that provision may be made for the work without long delays. Brother T. H. Branch and family were associated with Brother and Sister Watson in the work at this station. One of the hard things to the missionary in the distant fields is the fear that in case of failing health or death others will be deterred from stepping in to fill up the ranks. So it has ever been in the story of missionary anxiety. But we thank God that loyal hearts are ever ready to catch up the standard that drops from the hands of a falling comrade. If the South African Union Conference finds it necessary to call for another helper from America, hearts will certainly respond, for the message is to be quickly carried. In a recent letter Brother Watson wrote: “I am satisfied that this great continent of Africa is not to be warned of the coming of the Lord without much hard work and some real sacrifice. But so many seem to think that the Lord will perform wonderful miracles while we stand by and look on and see the results.”

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

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Foreign Mission Board Annual Meeting

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