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Medical Missionary Association Meeting Business
By Editor
IN connection with the notice of the annual meeting of the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association printed on the twenty-second page, we are requested to state that “probably the only business that will come before the meeting will be to secure the support and indorsement of the members in carrying out the recommendations of the General Conference Committee at its late meeting at College View, Neb.”
A Good Work in Michigan
Two of the Michigan Conference presidents responding to the admonition, “Our people should make greater efforts to extend the circulation of the REVIEW,” are continuing the campaign with encouraging results. From recent letters we quote the following:—
We are trying earnestly to put the REVIEW into every Seventh-day Adventist home in our conference. We have five men now in the field visiting the churches, and they expect to leave every family readers of the REVIEW.
S. E. WIGHT.
We are still continuing the REVIEW campaign. We now have about twenty-five churches and companies in which every resident family is taking the REVIEW. We expect to continue this campaign, and, if possible, place every church and company in the Michigan Conference on the roll of honor. We believe that once successful in securing the weekly visits of the REVIEW to our membership, it will be much easier to do real progressive missionary work in all lines.
A. G. HAUGHEY.
Washington, D. C.
By J. S. WASHBURN
On page 19 will be found a most interesting article describing the present Sabbath agitation in Washington. The three leading papers of Washington, which by their position are among the most important papers in the United States, and in the world, have, during the holiday week, given at least seven or eight full columns of matter most favorable to our people and our work. An open appeal to the ministers of Washington, a most direct and pointed argument on the Sabbath question, was published on the last page of the Washington Post of December 26. A very friendly editorial article was published in the same paper of December 28, making several remarkable admissions on the Sabbath question. A most favorable report of the mass-meeting protesting against Sunday legislation was also published in the same paper, December 29. A united campaign of the ministers of Washington to secure Sunday enforcement for the District of Columbia began with the first Sunday of the new year. Stirring, thrilling times are before us in the work here. Some things which have been pending for a long time have just been settled. Just now is the time to work for Washington.
We are so thankful to say that a real revival has begun also in the interest shown by our people in raising the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund. A Canadian brother heads the present list with a donation of two hundred dollars, and during the last week we have received nearly twelve hundred dollars, more than twice as much as we received during the preceding week, so that now only $48,224.35 has yet to be raised before the one hundred thousand dollars is completed. See list on page 20.
We are positive that there are those who expect to send one thousand dollars before the General Conference in May, that, with the united help of others, the work may be finished by that time. Remember, to do this there must be an average of at least twenty-five hundred dollars a week. We fear that some who are intending to help will wait so long that their donations will not be needed. It is not too late now; it surely soon will be. This fund will be raised quickly. This no one can doubt. Will you not send a large donation the very day you read this appeal? There is still opportunity for those who can not give a large amount at once to send in their names with pledges to give a certain amount regularly until the fund is completed.
J. S. WASHBURN.
Interesting Articles on Washington Work
INTERESTING articles relating to recent developments in our work in Washington will be found on pages 17 and 19.
Beginning the Eighty-Second Volume
By Editor
WE can not especially celebrate the beginning of our eighty-second volume by giving to the REVIEW a new dress of type, as it has a fresh face each week, but we make some slight changes which we hope will meet the approval of our readers.
The Review in West Michigan
ACCORDING to the last report in their conference paper the REVIEW now visits every family in thirty-six churches and companies in the West Michigan Conference. If other conferences would follow this example, the list of the REVIEW might still be largely increased.
Encouraging Week-of-Prayer Reports
THE week-of-prayer reports thus far received are uniformly most encouraging. It was a season of revival in many churches, and in a good share of the reports comes the encouraging news of additions to the number of believers. This is a good preparation for another year of more successful effort in behalf of this message.
The Caribbean Watchman Holiday Issue
By Editor
THE December number of The Caribbean Watchman is a special holiday issue, filled with excellent matter, well arranged. It is the first number set up and made ready in our own local office in Trinidad. The workers in the West Indies are taking up a campaign to make the circulation of this paper ten thousand monthly.
A Chinese Mission in San Francisco
WHILE waiting for the word to go on to China, Dr. Law Keem and his wife are assisting in starting a mission in San Francisco. Dr. Richards writes: “I hope before they are called to go to China, a Chinese mission will be fully equipped and in running order, with a godly worker at its head.” The Mission Board hopes to be able to send these workers on, however, without any long delay.
Increased Week-of-Prayer Donations
By H. Shultz
THE week of prayer just passed has been one of the most blessed experiences of our people wherever I have been. I have never seen the people more willing to give to the work than at the present time. Our German churches have all increased their donations, some doubled, some trebled, and some gave nearly four times as much as last year. For instance, the church at Tampa, Kan., gave, last year, about forty dollars; this year, one hundred and seven; the church of Valley View, Tex., gave, last year, about forty-three dollars; this year, one hundred and sixty dollars; the church near Otis, Kan., more than doubled its donation this year. I am sure if all the churches everywhere have increased their donations in proportion to our German churches, the eighty thousand dollars will be raised.
H. SHULTZ.
Holiday Issues in London
By Editor
Our London house has brought out special holiday issues of the Present Truth and the British Good Health. The former paper has a special cover title, “Greetings,” and aside from a good array of general matter, deals specifically with the fulfilment of prophecy and the message for the time. Brother W. C. Sisley writes, under date of December 14:—
We are much encouraged at the way our work is moving. We have already received orders for fifty-seven thousand of our two-penny holiday number of Present Truth, and are expecting quite a number more. We have printed seventy thousand copies of the holiday Good Health, and all are gone but five or six thousand. The number of our workers is increasing, and the prospect before us is very encouraging.