p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 22. (6/3/1902)

Earlier text: List of Missionary Acre Pledges

Important Notice to Church-School Teachers

By P. T. Magan

ARRANGEMENTS have been made with the Central Passenger Association whereby those who are bona fide church-school teachers can obtain annual clergy permits covering the lines controlled by the Central Passenger Association.

Generally speaking, the Central Passenger Association controls railways east of Chicago, west of Buffalo, and north of the Ohio River. Church-school teachers desiring permits over these lines should apply to their local ticket agent for the Central Passenger Association for a clergy application blank, and then fill the blank out carefully, and have the local agent indorse it, and mail it, together with draft for one dollar, to F. C. Donald, at the office of the Central Passenger Association, Eighth Floor, Monadnock Building, Chicago, Ill., and their annual permit will be forwarded directly to them.

Those who desire permits on lines west of Chicago should apply to the undersigned, at Berrien Springs, Mich. I cannot obtain annual permits on lines west of Chicago, but I can obtain trip permits, which will be furnished without cost from my office to the applicant.

P. T. MAGAN.

Duplicate REVIEW Subscriptions From List Merger

By Editor

If any of our readers are receiving two copies of the REVIEW as the result of merging the Missionary Magazine list with the REVIEW list, they are requested to notify us at once, and the matter will be properly adjusted.

Call for Training in Medical Missionary Work

IN an announcement on the twenty-third page a call is made for those who desire to receive a training for the medical missionary work. There are hundreds who ought to respond. Perhaps you are one of them.

How Do You Regard the Tobacco Evil?

By David Paulson

Three billion cigarettes were smoked by the boys of this country last year; and thinking men, irrespective of religious belief, are becoming aroused over this question. The following is from a personal letter which I received from Prof. Jay W. Seaver, physical director in Yale College: “Tobacco has a demoralizing influence only, and our race cannot afford to undo the moral stamina that has been the choicest product of generations of struggle and high endeavor. I greatly fear that if we do not make smoking unpopular, it will not be many years before American women will be smoking. And why should they not, if there is a surplus of benefit to a man above the debit of harm from its use?”

It is far more difficult for these boys to give up the cigarette habit than it is for the habitual drunkard to give up liquor; so we will do our greatest work by training the boys away from this evil before they acquire the habit. We cannot regard with indifference the inroads of these dreadful evils, and at the same time accomplish the work that Providence intends us to do.

The desire to supply our people everywhere with literature which almost any boy or man will gladly read, has prompted us to issue the June Life Boat as a Special Anti-Cigarette and Tobacco Number. It contains a most helpful article from Lucy Page Gaston, who is giving all her time and energy in trying to save American boys from the tobacco evil. Dr. Kellogg’s article will also be appreciated by thousands. Professor Ogg, superintendent of public instruction in Kokomo, Ind., tells how he and his associates practically swept the cigarette curse from the city schools. Professor Blanchard, the well-known president of Wheaton College, furnishes a stirring article for this number. Other writers outline the cause and cure of the tobacco habit. This number also contains an invitation for every tobacco user who sincerely desires to be delivered from his slavery to correspond with us. We will freely and cheerfully give such the benefits of our experience in dealing with many of these cases.

For the sake of the good that can be done thereby, we earnestly invite all our brethren to order immediately from twenty-five to one hundred copies of this number for the purpose of either selling or giving them to their neighbors, for they will appreciate them. Price, 1½ cents a copy, or 25 cents a year. Address The Life Boat, 28 Thirty-Third Place, Chicago.

DAVID PAULSON.

Proofs of Illustrations for the Coronation Number

By Editor

We have received proofs of the principal illustrations to be used in the Coronation Number of the Signs of the Times, particulars of which are given on page 23. The number will evidently be an attractive one, and will doubtless find a ready sale. Orders may be placed at once.

Repeated Attempts to Destroy Oakwood School Property

PARTICULARS have reached us from Brother B. E. Nicola, of repeated attempts to destroy the property of the Oakwood Industrial School at Huntsville, Ala., which culminated in the burning of their large barn on the night of Wednesday, May 21. The local paper says:—

The burning of the barn on the premises of the Oakwood school for the industrial education of negroes, on Wednesday evening, is one of the boldest incendiaries that has ever occurred in this county.

This is not the first attempt. At midnight on Tuesday last a burning ball of rags saturated with kerosene was thrown into the boys' dormitory, but was discovered and extinguished before any damage was effected. The citizens of the neighborhood, recognizing the good work of this school, are very indignant, and a reward of one hundred dollars is offered for the arrest and conviction of the guilty party. The dastardly wretch who perpetrated this crime should be run down, and punished to the full extent of the law; and all good citizens should assist in the detection of the criminal.

Our fellow workers at Huntsville may be assured that they have the hearty sympathy of all our people in this trying experience, and we earnestly hope that they may be delivered from further trouble.