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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 49.

Alone With God
Earlier text: GEO. O. STATES

Italy

By Chas. T. Everson

ANOTHER large city has been entered, and a signal-station for the unfurling of the banner of truth has been erected in the land of the papacy.
Turin, the ancient capital of Italy, is considered one of the most beautiful cities of Europe. Its broad, regular avenues, many beautiful parks and monuments, together with the charming river Po flowing gently at the base of the verdure-covered hills that surround the city, form a delightful panorama.
Turin is a very ancient city, being mentioned very early in history. In 218 B. C. it was destroyed by Hannibal, but was afterward rebuilt by the Romans.
GENERAL VIEW OF TURIN, ITALY
GENERAL VIEW OF TURIN, ITALY
During the middle ages it was the residence of the dukes of Savoy. The title, Duke of Savoy, brings to mind the fierce persecution waged by that house against the Waldenses, whose headquarters is not very far from Turin.
The present government of Italy was situated at Turin until 1865, when it was removed to Florence, and thence to Rome, when the overthrow of the papacy was effected under the victorious arms of Garibaldi.
The city contains upward of three hundred and forty thousand inhabitants, and is about the size of San Francisco before the earthquake. The part of Italy where Turin is situated is well equipped with schools and analphabets are quickly disappearing in that section.
The city is quite Catholic, and is considered by the Vatican as one of the places upon which it can count as favorable to the church. Brethren Fant and Benezet are now there, and have begun work in a hall in a good part of the city. Professor Fant was invited by the brethren at the recent camp-meeting to enter the work. He therefore resigned his position as director of an institute here at Rome, and went to help in opening up the work in Turin. He is now engaged in giving this glorious message to his countrymen.
I have received encouraging reports from the workers located there. The attendance is good, and they have plenty of work to do. We ask the prayers of God's people for the work and workers of Turin, that the Lord may richly bless them, and that many souls may be gathered also from that place when the King shall claim his own.
CHAS. T. EVERSON.

Sanitarium Work in Washington

By G. T. Harding, Jr., M. D.

There should be no doubt in the minds of any that God in his wisdom directed that a sanitarium be established in connection with the work in Washington. From the many hindrances to the easy and rapid development of the work here we thoroughly believe that Satan himself has realized better than many of God's own children of how much advantage it would be to the cause of truth if this people should maintain a thriving, well-conducted medical missionary institution in Washington, heartily supported by every Seventh-day Adventist. But God has blessed the work, so that now before the busy winter season has scarcely opened, the Washington Branch Sanitarium is filled with patients, and is treating a goodly number of outside patients and sending missionary nurses into the homes of the city. A large number of persons visit the sanitarium to receive treatment, to attend the health-school lectures, to visit friends or to inquire about our work; and hundreds of citizens pass by our institution daily. Thus our sanitarium in the city serves to introduce our work and calls the attention of many to the principles for which it stands.
It is to be regretted that the building at Takoma Park is not already prepared for occupancy, but rapid progress is being made in the work there; and all that is needed to complete the Washington Sanitarium is prompt and liberal financial support on the part of those of our people who are able to give such help.
More well-equipped and thoroughly consecrated young people will soon be needed to assist in the work here, and, in fact, a few are already necessary to meet the needs of our work in the Washington Branch Sanitarium.
G. T. HARDING, JR., M. D.

The Chinese Worship of the Dead

The Chinese spend annually $151,752,000 in their worship of the dead.

Canvassers’ Summary for September, 1906

AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE MEMBERS AVERAGE
Atlantic Union Conference
Central New England 6 313 120 $319.90 1,037 $.31
Chesapeake 3 134 25 59.00 547 .10¾
Eastern Pennsylvania 7 158 33 584.65 989 .59
Greater New York ... ... ... ... 659 ...
Maine 1 30 14 19.75 548 .03½
New Jersey ... ... ... ... 440 ...
New York 8 288 77 361.24 1,750 .20½
Southern New England 4 197 102 178.99 420 .42
Vermont 1 14 6 8.00 542 .01½
Virginia 7 356 127 200.90 423 .47
Western Pennsylvania 8 364 102 281.25 750 .37½
West Virginia 5 196 93 266.95 220 1.21
Totals 50 2,050 686 $2,281.73 8,286 $.27½
| Canadian Union Conference | | | | | | | | Totals | 3 | 42 | 33 | $85.50 | 1,095 | $.07½ |
| Lake Union Conference | | | | | | | | East Michigan | 4 | 233 | 41 | $118.50 | 1,951 | $.06 | | Ohio | 13 | 502 | 262 | 756.75 | 2,350 | .21 | | Indiana | 6 | 299 | 63 | 119.10 | 2,100 | .05½ | | Northern Illinois | 9 | 638 | 282 | 776.85 | 1,188 | .65 | | North Michigan | 3 | 55 | 18 | 192.65 | 809 | .22½ | | Southern Illinois | ... | ... | ... | ... | 725 | ... | | West Michigan | 9 | 158 | 57 | 128.20 | 5,000 | .02½ | | Wisconsin | 6 | 161 | 30 | 127.75 | 3,268 | .04 | | Totals | 49 | 2,046 | 753 | $2,220.00 | 17,391 | $.12½ |
| Southern Union Conference | | | | | | | | Alabama | 2 | 160 | ... | $216.95 | 314 | $.69 | | Cumberland | 4 | 631 | ... | 592.85 | 500 | 1.18 | | Florida | 5 | 224 | ... | 232.70 | 450 | .53 | | Georgia | 4 | 203 | ... | 112.10 | 190 | .59 | | Louisiana | 8 | 157 | ... | 255.25 | 260 | .98 | | Mississippi | 2 | 95 | ... | 276.50 | 243 | 1.13 | | North Carolina | 10 | 383 | ... | 186.95 | 250 | .74 | | South Carolina | 8 | 721 | ... | 614.77 | 80 | 7.68 | | Tennessee River | 5 | 104 | ... | 58.25 | 534 | .11 | | Totals | 48 | 2,408 | ... | $2,546.32 | 2,821 | $.90 |
| Northern Union Conference | | | | | | | | Alberta | 1 | 145 | 69 | $223.50 | 162 | $2.00 | | Manitoba | ... | ... | ... | ... | 429 | ... | | Minnesota | 10 | 528 | 275 | 448.95 | 2,049 | .21½ | | North Dakota | 3 | 85 | 24 | 74.25 | 639 | .11½ | | South Dakota | 11 | 458 | 87 | 298.20 | 1,040 | .28¾ | | Totals | 25 | 1,270 | 455 | $1,044.90 | 4,319 | $.24 |
| Central Union Conference | | | | | | | | Colorado | 9 | 344 | 200 | $606.78 | 2,500 | $.24 | | Iowa | 10 | 439 | 41 | 163.00 | 3,821 | .04 | | Kansas | 11 | 375 | 122 | 473.10 | 3,270 | .14½ | | Missouri | 11 | 681 | 262 | 819.20 | 1,500 | .55 | | Nebraska | 8 | 491 | 126 | 310.50 | 2,117 | .14½ | | Totals | 49 | 2,326 | 451 | $2,372.48 | 13,208 | $.18 |
| Southwestern Union Conference | | | | | | | | Arkansas | 3 | 79 | 23 | $90.50 | 555 | $.16 | | Oklahoma | 6 | 282 | 154 | 385.65 | 1,650 | .23 | | Texas | 22 | 1,524 | 403 | 1,029.05 | 1,165 | .88 | | Totals | 31 | 1,885 | 580 | $1,505.20 | 3,370 | $.45 |
| North Pacific Union Conference | | | | | | | | British Columbia | ... | ... | ... | ... | 140 | ... | | Montana | ... | ... | ... | ... | 400 | ... | | Upper Columbia | 2 | 152 | 89 | $401.50 | 1,475 | $.27 | | Western Oregon | 4 | 115 | 82 | 189.25 | 1,500 | .12 | | Western Washington | 6 | 162 | 92 | 210.20 | 1,114 | .18 | | Totals | 12 | 429 | 264 | $800.95 | 4,629 | $.17 |
| Pacific Union Conference | | | | | | | | Arizona | ... | ... | ... | ... | 152 | ... | | California-Nevada | 17 | 1,136 | 783 | $1,553.85 | 4,000 | $.39 | | Southern California | 21 | 716 | 312 | 762.40 | 1,432 | .53 | | Utah | ... | ... | ... | ... | 200 | ... | | Totals | 38 | 1,852 | 1,095 | $2,315.25 | 5,784 | $.40 |
| South African Union Conference | | | | | | | | Cape Colony | ... | ... | ... | ... | 317 | ... | | Natal-Transvaal | 11 | 597 | 378 | $1,296.56 | 106 | $12.23 | | Totals | 11 | 597 | 378 | $1,296.56 | 423 | $3.06 |
| British Union Conference | | | | | | | | Irish Mission Field | ... | ... | ... | ... | 124 | ... | | North England | ... | ... | ... | ... | 497 | ... | | South England | ... | ... | ... | ... | 579 | ... | | Scotch Mission Field | ... | ... | ... | ... | 126 | ... | | Welsh Mission Field | ... | ... | ... | ... | 170 | ... | | Totals | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1,496 | ... |
| Australasian Union Conference | | | | | | | | Queensland | 12 | 1,001 | 327 | $2,514.25 | 289 | $8.70 | | New South Wales | 12 | 1,119 | 429 | 2,193.31 | 863 | 2.54 | | New Zealand | 27 | 1,219 | 452 | 2,089.50 | 592 | 3.53 | | North Queensland Miss. | 3 | 359 | 66 | 215.00 | ... | ... | | South Australia | 9 | 441 | 174 | 574.62 | 320 | 1.78 | | Tasmania | ... | ... | ... | ... | 254 | ... | | Victoria | 9 | 418 | 181 | 664.31 | 680 | .97 | | West Australia | 6 | 371 | 86 | 318.75 | 331 | .96 | | Malaysian Mission | ... | ... | ... | ... | 9 | ... | | Totals | 78 | 4,928 | 1,715 | $8,569.74 | 3,338 | $2.57 |

General Summary

AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE MEMBERS AVERAGE
Atlantic Union Conf. 50 2,050 686 $2,281.73 8,286 $.27½
Canadian Union Conf. 3 42 33 85.50 1,095 .07½
Lake Union Conference 49 2,046 753 2,220.00 17,391 .12½
Southern Union Conf. 48 2,408 ... 2,546.32 2,821 .90
Northern Union Conf. 25 1,270 455 1,044.90 4,319 .24
Central Union Conf. 49 2,326 451 2,372.48 13,208 .18
Southwestern Un. Conf. 31 1,885 580 1,505.20 3,370 .45
North Pacific Un. Conf. 12 429 264 800.95 4,629 .17
Pacific Union Conf. 38 1,852 1,095 2,315.25 5,784 .40
South African Un. Conf. 11 597 378 1,296.56 423 3.06
British Union Conference ... ... ... ... 1,496 ...
Australasian Union Conf. 78 4,928 1,715 8,569.74 3,338 2.57
Grand Totals 394 19,833 6,410 $22,038.63 66,160 $.33

Notes of Progress

Our summary for September is both late and incomplete. Doubtless the publishers' convention has had something to do with this, for several of our fields which have reported promptly before have been slow this time. Let us improve upon this point, and do our utmost to send in the reports for each month by the middle of the following month.

The Convention Report

We have received from the Review and Herald copies of the “Proceedings of the Publishers’ Convention.” We are greatly pleased with its arrangement and general appearance. It contains all the papers read at the convention, and quite a full digest of the discussions, and a summary of recommendations. It contains 256 pages. The price, post-paid, is only ten cents.
This report will be valuable for reference. A comprehensive index, prepared by Brother Rogers, statistical secretary of the General Conference, has added a practical feature; for instance, the name of every person attending the convention appears in the index, and following his name there is a reference giving the topic and page of each paper and each remark made by him during the convention.
On the other hand, each topic considered also appears in the index, followed by reference to the pages where statements or papers are found on that topic. The good work done by Brother Rogers on the index will be particularly appreciated by our workers. Every Seventh-day Adventist ought to have a copy of this report, and read what the Lord has been doing for the publishing work, and what plans have been laid for its future progress.

Reasons for Thanksgiving

We have reached the season of the year when it is customary in a special way to count our blessings. It is well for us to do this frequently, for our blessings are so many that the recounting of them will often chase away the shadows of doubt and fear. The following are a few of the blessings which have come to the Publishing Department during the recent past:—

Publishers’ Convention

A publishers’ convention has been held, in which the officers of the General Conference, members of the General Conference Committee, conference presidents, treasurers, and tract society secretaries joined with the members of the Publishing Department in an earnest study of the needs of the world-wide work from morning till night for a full week. We were thankful for this great privilege and the general interest expressed in the publishing work, and have reason to believe that days of splendid progress are before us.

Universal Prosperity

We are thankful days of progress have begun. Without any exception the publishing work is prospering and increasing in importance and volume in every union conference and mission field in the wide world. The evidences of this which come to us in the reports from month to month are a cause of great rejoicing.

Opening Doors

Several countries in Europe and Asia, which in years past have been largely closed to our publications, have now been opened, and the work is made easier.

Spanish Literature

Demands are increasing rapidly for literature in the Spanish language. Where orders for hundreds of copies were received a few years ago, we now receive orders for thousands of copies. Active efforts are being put forth by the Pacific Press Publishing Company and by the Hamburg Publishing House to produce a first-class up-to-date literature in the Spanish tongue.
For the past two months Professor Caviness, of Mexico, has been in Mountain View, engaged in this work with the Pacific Press. In a few days “Coming King” will be issued in Spanish, and will doubtless fill a long-felt want for a book about that size and style for canvassers in Spanish fields. Elder Conradi also reports from Europe that “His Glorious Appearing” is now ready. “Christ Our Saviour,” “Gospel Primer,” and “Steps to Christ” have been revised, and are now ready.

Valparaiso

An interesting report has recently been received from Brother Steele, manager of our publishing office in Valparaiso, Chile. The depository was destroyed by the earthquake and fire, but the paper stock was saved. They immediately issued a special number of their paper, and within a few days sold more copies than have been sold under normal conditions in a year; and Brother Steele writes that they will soon bring out another special, which they believe will have an equally large circulation. Thus the Lord has used apparent calamities for hastening on the gospel, and we are able to “rejoice in tribulations.”

Australasian Union

Reports recently received from the Australasian Union Conference bring us the good news that the publishing work during the past two years in Australasia has been more prosperous than ever before in the history of that field. For more than ten years the work in Australasia has been developing upon a strong, consistent basis, and we rejoice that the work is still onward and upward.
Steps were taken at this union conference to establish a small printing plant in Singapore for publishing a paper, and tracts and pamphlets for the Malaysian Peninsula and the East Indies.

Australasian Publishing House

A letter recently received from the manager of the Signs of the Times Publishing Association in Australia, brings us the good news that the publishing company has moved up into the Warburton Mountains, and has been running successfully there on denominational work only, for the past five months. In fact, they have had more work than they could do. Thus it always is when we work wholly for God. We never look for work. The old publishing plant in the city of Melbourne is being disposed of.

Pacific Press

The Pacific Press Publishing Company is arising with strength and courage from the ashes of its factory. The loss has been great, the embarrassments have been many, and the work now is being done under adverse conditions, and yet there is great cause for thanksgiving as we study the true condition of this office. For the first time in many years they are entirely free from commercial work, and even under present adverse conditions they are doing better work for the third angel’s message than has been done for a long time. There is no uncertainty in the board of management as to the policy of the office. The employees are contented and of good courage, and rejoice that they are working only upon our denominational work. We thank God for what he is doing for the Pacific Press.

Review and Herald

The Review and Herald has become well established again, and has a clean, well-organized, splendid office. The atmosphere from the basement to the garret is denominational. There is harmony and strength among the workers, and the Lord is blessing them in the office and in the field. There is cause for thanksgiving, and for thanksgiving only, as we see how the Lord has led this office through fiery trials and out into the strength of a clean, strong gospel work.

Southern Publishing Association

The Southern Publishing Association has moved out from Nashville, and is improving its work in quality and in volume, and the managers express the hope that soon they will be able to cut out commercial work entirely, and have their hands more than full of the message.

International Publishing Association

After many discouragements and trying experiences, the International Publishing Association at College View, Neb., is doing a better and more successful work each year in supplying literature to the hundreds of thousands of Germans and Scandinavians in the United States. A movement has just been started there which promises to expand their work and increase its importance. The representatives of the German, Swedish, and Danish languages will each undertake to promote the circulation of literature among the people of one, two, or three kindred languages in the United States. Thus, many who have been neglected will be supplied. Other steps are also being taken to supply literature to the people who are coming to the United States from many lands.
Thus it is that God is working for this department in all parts of the world. Even our most isolated mission fields report progress and good courage.
Sec. Gen. Conf. Publishing Dept.

What Church Elders Can Do

By W. J. Fitzgerald

In our system of organization the church elder occupies a very important and influential place. He may exert strong, active influence either for good or for evil in the church of which he has been elected chief officer. Again, he may assume such a neutral or passive attitude on questions of general interest to the denomination, that he may prove a mere figurehead, or less.
Elders are supposed to be true shepherds and leaders of the churches. The Scripture admonition to elders is, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.” The last word of this quotation shows what the true position of the elder is. He is an overseer of others. He is to act a leading part in the doing of the work of the church, but he is not to do it all. He is to see that others perform their share of whatever work falls to the church.
It is a wise and safe plan for every church-member to act an individual part in response to every call from the General Conference for a general movement either to raise funds or to do some phase of missionary work. An elder should never rest until he has led each and every member under his care to act faithfully and well his individual part.
If all the elders throughout the Atlantic Union Conference will vigorously shoulder their responsibility as regards both precept and example, it will require but a few weeks to raise our share of the $150,000 fund.
Marvelous, indeed, will be the rapidity with which this apparently great undertaking will be accomplished, if all our elders act their part faithfully and vigorously. So soon will this fund be raised, that all will be encouraged to undertake some other great and far-reaching plan for the upbuilding of the general cause.
If the plan to raise the $150,000 in a brief period, brings every church elder to assume an active part, and through the elders brings every church-member to do his individual part, the fact that the fund will be raised will not be the greatest thing accomplished. The raising of the fund will then serve as a means to bring our whole people into strong and concerted action for the carrying forward of the work to a successful finish.
May we not depend upon the church elders to nobly do their part in this great undertaking? Will they not rally their churches for a great Thanksgiving offering as the beginning of this great work? — W. J. Fitzgerald, in Atlantic Union Gleaner.

Field Notes

BROTHER and Sister Milo D. Warfle report four baptized at Trinidad, Colo., November 3.
BROTHER GEO. FOWLER reports that eight new members have been added to the church at Stanley, N. D.
BRETHREN A. L. MILLER and R. W. Leach, writing from Seymour, Ind., report eleven new Sabbath-keepers, with others deeply interested.
THE work in Greater New York is making substantial gains. In addition to the work among the Italians, reported in another column, twelve members have recently been added to the Swedish church in Brooklyn, with a good interest still in South Brooklyn.
SIX have accepted the truth at Fargo, Okla., where Brethren Hayhurst and Braley are laboring.
As the result of meetings held at Mount Bullion, Cal., fourteen have taken their stand for the truth.
BROTHER GEO. W. SPIES reports that on Sabbath, November 10, two were baptized and three united with the church at Northumberland, Pa.
At the close of a seven weeks' tent-meeting in Niles, Mich., by Brethren H. C. Pitton and E. F. Collier, seven are rejoicing in the truth.
AT Cleveland, Okla., six have begun to keep all the commandments as the result of meetings held by Brethren A. E. Field and J. B. Hampton.
BROTHER JOHN F. ANDERSON, holding meetings in Thief River Falls, Minn., reports that ten have recently accepted the truth there, and others are interested, some of whom are keeping the Sabbath.
BROTHER P. G. STANLEY reports the baptism of seven persons recently in Urbana, Ill. The church there now numbers forty-four. These have been brought out through Brother Stanley's labors in Urbana during the last year and a half.
SINCE the camp-meeting at Versailles, Mo., Brother E. A. Merrill has baptized six persons. These and three others who had been immersed in other churches are all firm in the truth. A Sabbath-school of twenty-four members has been organized there, and Sister Warnock is holding Bible readings with others who are interested.
AFTER the local camp-meeting at Holton, Kan., Brethren A. R. Ogden and L. F. Trubey continued the work, and were still conducting meetings in the tent on November 11, with growing interest and attendance. Some results already appear, as the attendance at Sabbath-school increased from fifteen to fifty, and about twenty-five have decided for the truth.
OUR sanitarium work in Japan is a living testimony of what may be accomplished by beginning in a small way, letting the work enlarge as the needs demand. In 1903 our first organized work was begun, with a capital of four hundred dollars. It has increased during the three years until the present worth of our medical facilities is about four thousand dollars, with no debts.
ON Sabbath, October 27, a new Swedish church of about twenty-five members was organized in New York City, with Brother G. E. Nord as elder; and on the same day Brother C. H. Edwards baptized eight, most of whom came into the truth through Bible readings held by Sister M. A. Scribner. Within a week Brother M. L. Andreasen baptized eight, and Brother J. K. Humphrey nine believers in the third angel's message. The most of these were the first-fruits of the tent-meetings held the past summer. On Sabbath, November 17, Elder O. E. Reinke baptized ten believers among the Germans.

My Position

By James Edson White

From time to time my attention has been called to remarks by others to the effect that my faith regarding the authenticity of the Testimonies had been shaken. I have, therefore, felt called upon to express myself publicly so that no one could misunderstand my position. I can do this no better than by quoting, word for word, a letter written by me some months ago in response to an inquiry of this nature:—
“All my life I have been in close touch with the manifestations under consideration, and have as good an acquaintance with them as most people. I have seen the manifestations in all phases, have been acquainted intimately with the communications to others, and have had my share of them concerning my own work, my mistakes, and accompanying instructions.
“From the time when I became old enough to understand the nature of the communications, I have never for a moment had a doubt as to their authenticity. I have seen too many evidences that were far and away beyond any mortal insight to attribute them to anything but their heavenly origin.
“My faith to-day in the Testimonies is as strong as ever, as the circumstances in my own recent life will attest. I have, during the past year, received communications correcting me for mistakes, and reproving me for errors in my work. Not for a moment have I doubted the correctness of these communications, and this is evidenced by the immediate changes that I have made in order to meet the instruction so received. It will take more than the breezes now blowing to affect my belief in the Testimonies.”
Since writing the foregoing my sentiments have not changed in any particular. J. E. WHITE.

A Faithful Laborer at Rest

By C. H. Edwards

GEORGE A. KING died of pneumonia, at his home in New York City, Sunday night, November 4, aged fifty-nine years and seven months. Brother King was born at Toronto, Canada, in 1847. His father being a “class leader” in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he was reared in the doctrines and tenets of that denomination.
At the age of twenty he came to the United States with the avowed intention of taking up a claim of land in the great West. On this westward journey he was attracted to a gospel tent located in a small Western town. From the lips of Elders R. M. Kilgore and D. M. Canright he first heard the third angel’s message. This revolutionized his entire life. Instead of looking for land in the West, he turned his feet toward a land where the inhabitants may hold their claims forever. Never for a moment has he faltered, and his last public testimony was that never in his experience had the truth seemed so precious to him.
Within a few years from the time he embraced the truth, he was publicly proclaiming the message which had done so much for him. His first series of public lectures was held in connection with our late lamented Brother S. H. Lane. Even to-day there are those living who stand as monuments of their faithful labors. Although he felt that his work as a public speaker was blessed of the Lord, yet he felt especially called to scatter the printed pages containing the message.
As nearly every member of his father’s family had died of consumption, he had a lingering dread of that fearful disease. When the light of healthful living came to him, he hailed it joyfully, and it was his candid conviction that, owing to his adoption of those principles, he was spared for many years’ service. Before his last sickness he was remarkably active for a man of his years.
His appreciation of health reform led him into the work of selling health literature. This he continued till he felt deeply impressed that we ought to present the entire truths of the message to the world in an attractive form. It was at the General Conference held in December, 1881, that he urged very strongly the idea of printing “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation” in an attractive manner. Steps at that time were taken to carry out this idea, and from that suggestion has come the splendid list of publications we have to-day. He at once inaugurated among the brethren the system of canvassing for our denominational works which has been such a mighty factor in building up our work in the earth.
At that early date he was the pioneer canvasser of the denomination, and nearly all the older and successful canvassers received encouragement and instruction from him. For over thirty long years he never laid the harness off, but through hot or cold, summer or winter, Brother King was at his post of duty. Never complaining or discouraged, but firm in the conviction that God had called him to this work, he surmounted every difficulty, and died with the harness on.
After successfully laboring in Indiana, Colorado, and New Mexico, he went to the Southern States, where he left the printed page as a witness of his labors. Later he went to British Guiana, South America, where he met with excellent success, but the climate forced him away. Another trip into the West Indies resulted in leaving several thousand dollars’ worth of books containing the message. The fruits of that labor are being seen even to-day. But a short time ago a stranger visited one of our large gatherings in New York. During a short testimony which he bore he asked for Brother George A. King. Upon seeing him he burst into tears, and declared that he first received the light from him in Jamaica when he canvassed there years ago. This man is one of the officials connected with our Caribbean Conference.
From Jamaica Brother King came to Greater New York, and decided to remain here, because, as he declared, it was his belief that it was the hardest field in the world. For over nineteen years he has traveled the streets of this city, and probably, no more faithful worker has ever connected with the work in any land than Brother King. While in a private conversation with the writer, he acknowledged that during this time he had sold over twenty-five thousand dollars’ worth of publications. Modesty always kept him from reporting his sales. Although always enthusiastic about the work, yet his own personal work was always hidden from sight.
In his death, New York has lost one of its most devoted workers. His place can not now be filled, but this may be God’s means of inspiring us all with a greater zeal for the work, and a heavy burden to complete the work begun by our beloved brother.
He died as he had lived, a devoted worker, a loving father, and a faithful, loyal brother.
Under the blessing of the third angel’s message he is resting till the Life-giver shall come, when he will come forth to see the fruit of his tireless labors, and to enter the joy of his Lord.
C. H. EDWARDS.
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