p. 386 | Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 24. (6/11/1901)

Earlier text: THE WORK IN PARAGUAY

CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1901.

By General Conference Committee

EASTERN UNION CONFERENCE.

Pennsylvania, Erie, June 6-16

Quebec, Coaticook, June 13-23

New England, Springfield, Mass., June 20-30

Vermont, Barre, Aug. 22 to Sept. 2

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE.

Graysville, Tenn. (educational institute), June 13 to July 4

Louisiana, Crowley, July 12-22

Louisiana, Grand Cane, Aug. 11-

Mississippi, Hatley, July 26 to Aug. 4

Georgia, Aug. 9-

North Carolina, Aug. 23-

Tennessee River, Sept. 9-

Alabama, Sept. 20-

Florida, Nov. 1-

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE.

Wisconsin, Grand Rapids, June 12-23

Michigan, Alpena (local), June 13-23

Michigan (State), Aug. 15-25

Ontario, Toronto, June 20 to July 1

Illinois, Kankakee, Aug. 24 to Sept. 1

Indiana, Tipton, Aug. 21 to Sept. 1

NORTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE.

Minnesota, Anoka, June 4-12

Dakota, Sioux Falls, S. D., June 18-24

Manitoba, Morden, June 21-30

Manitoba, Carberry, July 5-14

S. Dakota, Custer (local), July 16-23

Nebraska, Cambridge (local), Aug. 13-20

Nebraska, Seward (State), Sept. 3-16

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE.

Arkansas, Rogers, July 18-29

Kansas, Burlington, July 25 to Aug. 5

Missouri, Boonville, Aug. 1-12

Texas, Aug. 8-19

Oklahoma, Enid, Aug. 15-28

Colorado, Denver, Aug. 28 to Sept. 9

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE.

California, Oakland, June 4-16

EUROPEAN UNION CONFERENCE.

Sweden, Örebro, June 20-30

Switzerland, July 4-14

Germany, Friedensau, July 18-28

British, London, Aug. 2-12

The presidents of the Union Conferences are requested to forward to the office of the General Conference the location of the various meetings as soon as determined.

GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

POSTERS

POSTERS advertising the Midsummer Good Health, for use at news-stands and in stores and other public places, can be obtained by addressing the undersigned. Address Good Health Pub. Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

CAMP-MEETINGS IN LOUISIANA.

THE fourth annual camp-meeting for Louisiana will be held in Crowley, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, July 12–22, to be followed by a series of tent-meetings. At this meeting the matter of Conference organization will be considered, and we trust that each church will be represented, and will take part in this important meeting. Elder R. M. Kilgore, president of the Southern Union Conference, will be present, as well as I. A. Ford, A. F. Harrison, and Dr. O. M. Hayward, also the State laborers.

Another camp-meeting will be held in Grand Cane, on the Texas Pacific Railroad, beginning about August 11 and continuing for three or more weeks, for the benefit of the brethren in northern Louisiana. We hope to have extra help for this meeting also. Tents will be provided at both these meetings. For further information, address S. B. Horton, 61 N. Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, La.

ADDRESS

The permanent address of Elder W. D. Curtis, and of Mrs. Lou Kirby Curtis, secretary of the Illinois Sabbath-school Association, is 514 St. James St., Peoria, Ill. All Sabbath-school secretaries and others having business with the State secretary, please take notice.

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, and others have expressed literature when it would have been cheaper to send by mail, at four ounces for one cent.

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—

Wm. Brain, Morrilton, Ark., Signs, Sentinel, tracts.

S. D. Miller, Mobile, Ala., REVIEW, Signs, Life Boat, tracts.

Robt. Sawyer, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn., Little Friend, Instructor.

M. D. Smith, Antlers, I. T., literature on Sabbath question and coming of the Lord.

BUSINESS NOTICES.

Brief business notices and “wants” will be published in this department, subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of four lines or less, and of twenty-five cents for every line over four, 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.

WANTED.—Employment by young married man as artist, where he can keep the Sabbath. Address Otto Handel, Avenida Anna Costa 6, Santos, Estado do Sao Paulo, Brazil.

WANTED.—A woman desiring a home in S. D. A. family. Must be an Adventist, and understand the care of children. References required. Address Mrs. May Handley, Wellington, Ohio.

The Marvel of Nations

By Uriah Smith

OUR COUNTRY; Its Past, Present, and Future, and Its Place in Prophecy.

BY ELDER URIAH SMITH,

Nearly fifty years editor of the ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD.

Night Scene of the Late Panic in Wall Street.

“THE MARVEL OF NATIONS,” was first issued twenty-five years ago, and more than a quarter of a million copies of this volume have been sold. The large circulation of the book demonstrates the demand for a work setting forth in broad, liberal terms the nature of our Government; the remarkable growth and progress of the nineteenth century in the arts and sciences; the development of the country’s natural resources in mineral, agricultural, grazing, and timber lands; the great improvement of our agricultural resources, such as the production of corn, wheat, cotton, etc.; unlimited manufacture of iron, steel, lumber, cotton and woolen fabrics; the system of railway trunk lines traversing the country in every direction. Surely we are living in the time which is foretold in Dan. 12:4, the “time of the end,” when

“Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

There were more than a quarter of a million copies of the first edition of “The Marvel of Nations” sold. The paper used in the manufacture of these books, if each sheet was spread out, would cover a farm of about 450 acres. The cloth used in the covers would, if cut in a strip nine inches wide, extend 47 miles. If the books were laid end to end, they would make a path 31 miles long; and if piled one on top of the other, they would make a pyramid over three miles high. Eternity alone will reveal the results accomplished by the sale of this wonderful book, in the way of circulating a knowledge of the times in which we are living, of the rapid development of our own country, and the knowledge and progress of the grand principles of truth portrayed in the Scriptures and their relation to, and bearing upon, the events which are now occurring IN OUR GREAT COUNTRY.

The numerous calls for a revised edition of “The Marvel of Nations,” have encouraged the author to undertake the work, and no pains have been spared in a careful revision of the text, in statistics, of the increase in productions and manufactures, the discoveries in the field of art and science. The manner in which the author correlates the Third Angel’s Message and the fulfillment of the prophecy as related to these events, MAKES THIS WORK ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE OF ALL TWENTIETH-CENTURY BOOKS.

“The Marvel of Nations” will be a subscription book. No pains have been spared by our artists in preparing suitable and appropriate illustrations for the work. It will contain about 340 pages; 150 illustrations, colored emblem of OUR COUNTRY; table of contents; list of illustrations, and general index. Ready for delivery about midsummer. Price and exact date of delivery will be announced later. Will be printed in four languages, English, German, Danish, and Swedish.

The revised edition of “The Marvel of Nations” will be one of the most rapid-selling books that we have ever issued, it being a twentieth-century publication, giving up-to-date statistics, having a direct bearing on, and connection with, the Third Angel’s Message. It is desired by the publishers that we have at once the names of a thousand persons who will engage in the sale of “The Marvel of Nations.” Send your name to your State agent, and if in the REVIEW AND HERALD territory send to the REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO., and if in the Pacific Press territory, send your name to the Pacific Press Pub. Co., and arrangements will be made with you so you can engage in the sale of the book when it is first issued.

Usual Liberal Discounts to Agents

Address your TRACT SOCIETY; the REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO., Battle Creek, Mich.; or the PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., Oakland, Cal.

Growth of Uncle Sam— As he was one hundred years ago and as he is to-day

The Religious, Social, and Political History of our Country from the Landing of the Pilgrims to 1901.

Lifting with the Angels.

By William A. Spicer

We shall soon be sending out from the Mission Board office the reading for Sabbath, July 6, the day of prayer and offering for the relief of the Christiania publishing house. Church elders will receive envelopes for distribution the Sabbath previous, so that every family may be prepared to bring an offering to swell the grand total that is to lift the burden in Christiania. Isolated Sabbath-keepers will also receive the reading so far as we have their addresses. It is always a happy task to “undo the heavy burdens.” The special message to us in this matter is, “Angels are your helpers.” What cannot be done if angels lift with every one! How many angels are our helpers?—“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” The promise will be verified that “this very work will prove a great blessing in the experience of all who lay hold of it.” Plan for the day of blessing, and talk for it, and do not ask the angels to help lift just a little load. Let us take on a burden worthy of a cause in which, by the tender mercy of our God, we shall have the good angels that excel in strength lifting with us. Other things than the Christiania debt will then be lifted. God himself will lift us all up on higher ground.

W. A. SPICER, Cor. Sec. Mission Board.

Editorial Notes.

By Editor

We have received, just too late for this number, a good report from the Confederate Reunion at Memphis, and the work among the old soldiers on that occasion. Literature was eagerly taken. Report next week.

The Keynote of the Message.

By Editor

SEE the dream of Elder F. D. Starr, on page 372. The conclusion to which he was led was that “certain victory is before the Third Angel’s Message.” This is the keynote for our work at the present time. Only hope and courage are the watchwords henceforward.

Organization of R. & H. Board.

THE Review and Herald Office Board, May 28, 1901, adopted the following organization for the transaction of business during the coming year:—

President and General Manager . . . . . . . I. H. EVANS

Vice-president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U. SMITH

Secretary and Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . C. D. RHODES

Auditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. M. CHRISTIANSEN

Elder G. A. Irwin having left for Australia, he tendered his resignation as a member of the board, which was accepted, but no one has as yet been elected to fill the vacancy.

R. & H. Book Committee.

At a meeting of the Review and Herald Board, May 28, 1901, the following persons were elected to act as a Book Committee, the coming year:—

G. W. Amadon, chairman, I. H. Evans, Sands H. Lane, U. Smith, H. E. Osborne, W. A. Spicer, W. W. Prescott, Adelaide Bee Cooper, Leon A. Smith, D. W. Reavis, Augustin J. Bourdeau.

A Tramp Writer's Leaflet on Scripture Prophecy

A TRAMP writer who seems to think himself capable of discussing the weightiest themes of Scripture, sends us a leaflet containing one of his presentments, which opens thus: “The law and the profits were until John.” The amount of the profits is not stated, but it is remarkable that they lasted so long.

The Tabernacle Sabbath Service, June 8.

Prof. B. G. Wilkinson, of Union College, Neb., stopped a few days last week on his way to his new field of labor in France and Switzerland, to which he was assigned by the late Conference in this place. He granted us the benefit of a discourse in the Tabernacle, Sabbath, June 8. The theme of discourse was the sublime development of God’s work in the past as delineated in the book of Revelation. This book comprises two grand divisions: the first eleven chapters are devoted to the opening of the controversy between truth and error, which it portrays, and the last eleven chapters describe the close of that controversy. These two divisions are subdivided into three sections each, the burden of which is the three great struggles of the Church with hostile powers, classified according to the agents called into action by the enemy of all truth to try to break down and to abolish the work of God from the face of the earth. These occurrences, studied and understood, with the thrilling manifestations of the providence of God in preserving and defending His truth, in the darkest ages, and amid the fiercest opposition of the world, furnish the strongest kind of a foundation in reference to the past, and the best material for hope for the future. A celebrated evangelist long ago said that a genuine and stable religious experience demands two things: some great and well-authenticated fact in the past, on which to build and rest, and some definite and well-supported object of faith in the future, to which to look forward. It was illustrated by reference to the incarnation, the death, and resurrection of Christ, for the great fact in the past, and the predictions and multiplying signs of the second coming of Christ to complete His work as the hope of the future. Having these before the mind, one has something to build upon with reference to the past, and something definite to look forward to, and prepare for, in the future.

This advantage the student of prophecy has in its fullness to-day. Experience and history show that the conflict of the Church with opposing powers has been a definite, real, tangible, and historical conflict. Another period of this struggle is still before us, the final collision with the second symbol of Revelation 13, and this will be no less definite, real, and tangible than those of the past; and when the overcomers shout victory on the sea of glass before the throne, it also will become historical, celebrated in the song of Moses and the Lamb. Rev. 15:3. This struggle is now on, and will wax fiercer and more determined till a hundred and forty-four thousand stand redeemed on Mount Zion.

In his classes in school, the speaker said he found too many who seemed to be drifting, having no fixed and determinate purpose in life. But the message we are set to give to this generation, is a definite message; it has a fixed purpose in view. Tremendous issues are involved in it. And if ever one should sink his whole life into the cause in which we are engaged, and anchor himself to the firm foundation with links of steel, it is now. No people ever had in their hands a nobler mission. The fields are white for harvest, and the voice is calling, Who will go for me to-day?

Missionary Magazine to Feature Scriptural Studies

A SPECIAL feature of the Missionary Magazine, beginning with the July number, will be a Scriptural study upon some phase of the gospel message. The subject of the first study will be “Immanuel,” as the power and the hope of “the advent message to the world in this generation.” This magazine ought to be in every family. Price, fifty cents a year; seventy-five cents to foreign countries. Address the Mission Board, Battle Creek, Mich.

Europe's Resentment of American Commercial Power

IN discussing the position of this country as a world Power, the Church Standard says that the United States “has risen to a rank among the world Powers which exposes it to general dislike. Its amazing progress in commerce and industry is making prodigious inroads on the commercial and industrial domains of other nations. Again and again proposals have been made in various quarters for a general alliance of the Continental Powers of Europe, to check the progress and resist the commercial invasion of the United States. But that is not all; for, while we have become the most dangerous commercial and industrial competitors of all other nations, our tariff system excludes them from the same free competition with us which we enjoy with them; and, what is even more resented, the Monroe doctrine absolutely excludes European Powers from establishing colonies in the vast and practically unoccupied regions of South America.” These are straws which indicate the possible direction of future winds of war.

Principles of True Science.

THIS is the title of a compilation of Testimonies on the subject of science and nature. It consists of 332 pages, bound in red leather, and is of convenient size to carry.

Only a small number of these books were printed, so the price is higher than it would otherwise be. The book will be sent to any address, postpaid, for one dollar. Christian workers and teachers should avail themselves of the opportunity of procuring it, as it contains the principles of true science, which will enable them more readily to discern between the science that is in harmony with the Bible and the science that is according to the world.

In order to secure a copy of this work, it will be necessary to order at once, as the edition is very small, and several of the books have already been taken. It is especially adapted for the use of teachers in our church schools. All orders should be addressed to Prof. M. E. Cady, Healdsburg, Cal.

Wanted, Immediately: A Home for a Baby Boy

Wanted, Immediately.—A home for a bright boy baby about a week old. This is a very urgent case. The mother recently died, leaving several children. This little one is now in the care of the grandmother, an aged and feeble sister in the Edmore church, this State. Correspondence may be directed to Mrs. E. H. Whitney, Battle Creek, Mich., in care of the Sanitarium. Before her death the mother of this babe requested that he might be placed where the Sabbath is observed, as she herself had been a member of the Edmore church for several years.