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Earlier text: The Third Angel’s Message to Macedonia

Field Notes

FIVE persons, adults, were baptized at Royal Center, Ind., July 22.

FIVE persons received baptism in the Los Angeles, Cal., church, July 15.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty-one members was recently organized at Goodson, Mo.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twelve members has been organized near Burbank, southern California.

BROTHER W. L. BRANDON reports five new converts to the truth at Ratcliff, Tex., gained in the face of great opposition.

FIVE persons were baptized and added to the Keene, N. H., church July 8, and two others joined at the same time by letter.

FIVE new converts to the truth have been gained at Tahlequah, I. T., by a course of tent-meetings which closed July 16.

A TEACHERS’ institute for southern California will be held on the camp-ground following the camp-meeting at Los Angeles, Cal.

AMONG recent reports from Maine is one that “several of our scattered Sabbath-keepers have organized Sunday-schools in their respective localities, and are doing a good work.”

AN eight-week’s course of meetings at Plains, Tex., closed with an addition of eight to the number of commandment-keepers there. A Sabbath-school of eighteen members was organized.

THE Pacific Union Recorder states that Elder H. J. Dirksen has been holding meetings at West Union, Ore., which have resulted in bringing a number to accept the truth.

ELDER A. R. OGDEN, who has been holding meetings for some weeks past in Logan, Kan., says that “several have begun keeping the Sabbath, and are rejoicing in the truth, who, a few weeks ago, knew nothing about it.”

BROTHER F. E. FAIRCHILD reports that as the result of meetings which were begun at McMinnville, Ore., July 6, “eleven precious souls have said they would give their hearts to God and walk in the light that he would reveal.”

BROTHER FRANK F. FRY says in a report from eastern Pennsylvania: “The gospel tent-meetings which are being conducted by Elder Schilling in the city of Lancaster are still being well attended. There are prospects that a goodly number will take hold of the truth at this place.”

THREE tent companies are in the field in western Oregon. Elders Decker and Benham are laboring at Cottage Grove. Elder J. M. Cole and Brethren G. E. Johnson, T. L. Thuemler, and Elson Emmerson are at Scott’s Mills, near Silverton. Elders C. J. Cole and J. J. Clark are located at Kings Valley.

A REPORT from Elder D. E. Scoles, who with Brother W. A. Miller is holding tent-meetings in Springfield, Mo., says: “Eight have begun to keep the Sabbath. Among them are the German Congregational pastor here, and his wife.”

A REPORT from the tent company at Roulette, Pa., says: “Several earnest, substantial souls have already decided to obey the Lord, and there are good indications that others who are yet in the valley of decision will take their stand for all God’s commandments.”

THE East Michigan Banner reports: “Brethren Stureman and Lauda, who have been conducting a tent effort at Sanilac Center, are just moving their tent to Elmer, a place four miles distant from Sanilac Center. They report ten souls rejoicing in the truth as a result of their meetings at Sanilac Center.”

IN a report from Preston, Kan., Brother A. E. Johnson says: “Sabbath, July 8, three new members were received into the church. Sunday, the ninth, three others were baptized, and there are as many more ready to follow their Lord in baptism. Our church building is now ready but ceiling. The dedication will, however, be deferred until the busy time is mostly over.”

A STATEMENT which we would commend to the consideration of all our workers is the following, in a report from Elder A. R. Ogden, who is holding meetings at Downs, Kan.: “I am learning that our best policy is to dive right into the real living message, and not lose several nights (and a large part of the congregation too) by ‘paving the way.’” The outlook at Downs is very encouraging.

THE Northern Illinois Recorder says: “Sabbath, July 15, was a good day at the Chicago Forty-sixth Street church. After a stirring sermon by Brother W. S. Sadler, fifteen dear souls received baptism, Brother Sadler officiating. Ten of these were those who had accepted the truth as a result of the meetings begun at Brookline Mission last winter, and continued this summer by the camp-meeting and tent effort.”

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1905

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

New York (local), Hadley ........Aug. 10-20 New York (conference), Phelps ...Sept. 7-17 Southern New England, Willimantic, Conn. ........Aug. 31 to Sept. 11 Vermont, Windsor ............Aug. 17-27 Maine, Lewiston ........Aug. 24 to Sept. 4 Western Pennsylvania, Bradford ........Aug. 30 to Sept. 3 Western Pennsylvania, Greensburg, Sept. 8-17 West Virginia, Clarksburg ......Aug. 17-27

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Georgia, Smyrna ............Aug. 3-13 Tennessee River, Nashville ......Aug. 17-27 Mississippi, Amory ............Aug. 3-13 Alabama, Mobile ................Aug. 11-20 Florida, Plant City ............Oct. 5-15 Cumberland, Spring City, Tenn. ........Aug. 31 to Sept. 10

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec ................Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 Ontario, Lorne Park ............Sept. 7-17

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Southern Illinois, Mattoon ........Aug. 3-13 Ohio, Mansfield ................Aug. 10-21 North Michigan, East Jordan ........Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 West Michigan, Allegan ........Aug. 17-28 Wisconsin, Janesville ........Aug. 30 to Sept. 10 Indiana, Connersville ............Sept. 7-18 East Michigan, Holly ............Sept. 12-19

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Missouri, Sedalia ............Aug. 6-13 Nebraska, Omaha ............Aug. 10-20 Colorado, Denver ............Aug. 17-27 Kansas (conference), Hutchinson ........Aug. 24 to Sept. 4

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas, Hillsboro ............Aug. 3-13 Arkansas, Bentonville ........Aug. 17-27 Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

California, Hanford District ......Oct. 19-29 California, Guernville ........Aug. 17-27 Southern California, Los Angeles ........Aug. 11-21 Utah, Ogden ............Aug. 15-22 Western Washington, Seattle ........Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Montana, Whitehall ............Sept. 15-25 Southern Idaho ............Sept. 12-17 British Columbia, Victoria ........Sept. 7-17

GENERAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE

British Union (joint meeting) ....Aug. 4-13 Scotland and Ireland ............Aug. 14-30

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.

Wisconsin Annual Conference

By Wm. Covert

The next annual session of the Wisconsin Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Janesville, in connection with the State camp-meeting, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10, 1905. The members of good standing in their respective churches who attend the camp-meeting will be delegates to the conference.

At this session the interests of the different departments of the conference will receive careful attention by committees, and also in open counsel with the delegates. The officers to be elected for the coming year are a president, a secretary and treasurer, an auditor, an executive committee of seven members, a board of five conference association trustees, a school board of seven members for Bethel Academy, a Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association board of seven members, a church- and Sabbath-school superintendent, a secretary and treasurer of the Tract Society Department, and a field secretary for this department, and a camp-meeting committee of nine members.

Wm. Covert, President of Conf.

Annual Meeting of the International Publishing Association

By E. T. Russell; J. F. Stary

IN accordance with the by-laws of the International Publishing Association, due notice is hereby given that the second annual meeting of said association will be held at College View, Neb. The sessions will begin on Tuesday, September 5, at 9 A. M., and will continue until all business matters that may be presented shall be disposed of.

The membership of the association consists of the following persons: the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Central Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Northern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Southwestern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the board of trustees of the International Publishing Association, the seventeen counselors of the International Publishing Association, and the editors of the foreign periodicals published by the International Publishing Association.

A full attendance is desired. All our representative German, Danish, and Swedish brethren are especially invited to attend these meetings.

E. T. RUSSELL, Chairman.

J. F. STARY, Secretary.

Western Washington Camp-Meeting

By E. L. Stewart

THE time has come for another general meeting. As no local meetings are to be held this season, and as the very best time in the year has been chosen, this meeting should be the largest gathering ever held in this conference, and no doubt it will be. We

have in view an ideal ground on the bank of Green Lake, in the city of Seattle.

This will also be one of the most important meetings ever held. Each year brings new issues which call for advanced moves and broader plans.

We are now fully in the midst of the perils of the last days, and the spirit of sleep is stealing over many. All manner of evil is set in operation against the people and work of God. Do we realize this, brethren? Then let us put forth corresponding effort to attend this meeting. The living issues of our day will be clearly brought out. God has ordained this means of keeping his church in a healthy, working condition, and those who do not appreciate and improve such privileges will be in danger of losing their hold upon God.

E. L. STEWART, Pres. W. Wash. Conf.

Notice!

By E. L. Eggleston

NOTICE is hereby given that the regular annual meeting for 1905 of the Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will be held in the city of Battle Creek, Mich., in the chapel of the college building, on North Washington Avenue, at 3 P. M., Aug. 17, 1905. By order of the Board,

E. L. EGGLESTON, Secretary.

North Michigan Conference Association

By S. E. WIGHT; E. A. BRISTOL

For election of officers and such legal business as may of necessity be transacted, the first meeting of the third annual North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists is called at 10:30 A. M., Thursday, Aug. 31, 1905, on the camp-ground at East Jordan, Mich. All accredited delegates to the conference are delegates to this association.

S. E. WIGHT, Pres., E. A. BRISTOL, Sec.

Western Washington Conference

By E. L. STEWART

THE first meeting of the fourth session of the Western Washington Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp-ground in Seattle at 9 A. M., Thursday, August 24, for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may come before it.

Let each church elect its delegates as follows: one delegate for each organized church irrespective of numbers, and one additional delegate for each ten members. Alternates should also be chosen.

E. L. STEWART, Pres. W. Wash. Conf.

Wisconsin Annual Camp-Meeting

By WM. COVERT.

We have definitely arranged for our annual camp-meeting and conference to be held in the city of Janesville, August 30 to September 10. We have secured excellent grounds, well located for the people in the city, and we confidently believe that we shall have an excellent meeting.

We call the attention of our people in Wisconsin to this camp-meeting, and ask them to begin at once to make preparations to attend it. Let no small consideration keep any one away.

We will give information with reference to help and other essential features of the meeting, as fast as we can learn about these things. WM. COVERT.

North Michigan Conference

By S. E. Wright; Edith McClellan

NOTICE is herein given that the first meeting of the third annual conference of the North Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at 8 A. M., Thursday, Aug. 31, 1905, on the camp-ground at East Jordan, Mich. Each organized church in the conference is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and one for each ten members.

S. E. WRIGHT, Pres., EDITH MCCLELLAN, Sec.

"Save the Boys"

By H. F. PHELPS.

To those who are inquiring as to the religious connection of our journal, I will say that it stands upon the true platform of Christian temperance; the soon coming of the Lord is the keynote, and a desire to save souls is the motive of its publication. It is published by an aged minister, who, having had fifty-three years of the experiences and victories of this last message to a perishing world, sees a great sea of humanity—the boys and girls—rushing over the Niagara of ruin by rum and tobacco. It is printed on the press of the Minnesota Tract Society. The editor sincerely asks for the co-operation of all who love Christ, and the souls for whom Christ died, in the circulation of this journal. Only 30 cents a year. Address Save the Boys, 118 W. Minnehaha Boul., Minneapolis, Minn.

H. F. PHELPS.

Quebec Camp-Meeting and Conference

By H. E. Rickard

The camp-meeting for Quebec will be held at South Stukely, Quebec, Aug. 31 to Sept. 10, 1905. Besides our local workers, Elder W. H. Thurston, president of the Central Union Conference, will be in attendance, and General Conference help is also expected. This is a central and convenient place to hold the meeting, and we hope for a large gathering. The Lord is willing to pour out a blessing upon all who will place themselves in an attitude to receive it. Then let us heed the admonition of the words of inspiration: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”

There will be held in connection with the camp-meeting the annual session of the Seventh-day Adventist conference of Quebec, in which the election of officers and the transaction of other legal and important business will be attended to. The first session will be held at 9 A. M., Friday, Sept. 1, 1905. Let all the churches attend to the election of their delegates, so that they may be fully represented. Board, furnished rooms, and a few tents (unfurnished), and also feed and stable for horses, can be obtained at reasonable rates. Those desiring such accommodations should write early to Harvey McClary or W. H. Libby, South Stukely, Quebec, stating just what they need. All who will come at the beginning of this meeting and stay until it closes, and work with an earnest desire to help the cause, encourage others, and win souls to Christ, will receive a rich blessing, and enjoy a precious season together. “And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

H. E. RICKARD, President.

West Virginia Camp-Meeting Again

By B. F. Purdham

THIS meeting has already been mentioned several times in our papers, and advertised in different ways, and from present indications we hope for a good meeting and good attendance. We hope none of our people will slacken their efforts to attend and to make this meeting just what the Lord would have it. Once a year is not too often for these important gatherings, and we should be willing to make a sacrifice in order to attend; and if we make the proper effort and earnestly seek the Lord, we shall often see the way opened in a remarkable manner.

The Lord has favored us in many ways in planning for this camp-meeting. Clarksburg is a beautiful little city, centrally located, a good railroad point; and contains a fine class of people, many of whom I believe will accept the truth when it is properly presented to them. I hope this meeting will be a source of strength and blessing to the little church recently organized in this place. The old fair-grounds, where our meeting is to be held, is an excellent place for a gathering of this kind, is well shaded, and otherwise suited for this purpose.

We have also been fortunate in securing reduced rates on all lines of the B. & O. R. R. The “card orders” for the reduced rates are good any time from August 15 to 26 for going, and good for returning any time till August 29. All who expect to attend should at once send to P. W. Province, Box 524, Parkersburg, W. Va., for these cards.

We desire to begin the meetings as advertised, on August 17 at 9 A. M., and all should, if possible, come to be present at the first meeting and to attend every service till the close, on August 27. Let us all seek the Lord that we may each bring into this gathering an angel of light and love, that the Lord may use us to his own honor and glory in this solemn and fast-closing work.

B. F. PURDHAM, Vice-Pres.

The Southern New England Conference

By W. A. Westworth

The annual session of the Southern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Willimantic, Conn., August 31 to September 11. The election of officers, granting of licenses and credentials, and planning for the work for the ensuing year will be attended to.

We trust there will be a general rally of the people of our conference as this will be a most important meeting. Good help is promised, besides the presence of all the conference laborers.

Tents can be ordered at the following prices: 12 x 14, $3.50; 10 x 12, $3 each. If floors are desired, they will be furnished at one dollar for the larger tents and eighty cents for the smaller size. Chairs, cots, and tables will be hired at the usual rates. Dining and grocery tents will be provided.

The camp will be located on South Main St., about ten minutes' walk from the railroad station, and on the line of the electric cars for Baltic, connecting with Norwich and New London. Those coming to the meeting should get off at Quercus Street.

We urge all to order tents early, as it is essential for us to know how many tents to provide; and as these must be shipped from Boston, unless they are ordered early, delay and inconvenience are apt to ensue. Order of the undersigned at the conference office, 61 Whitmore St., Hartford, Conn.

Let all church clerks return the delegate blanks duly filled out to the conference secretary.

May the united prayers of the conference go up to the mercy-seat that there may at this conference be a great outpouring of the Spirit of God for every need.

W. A. WESTWORTH, President.

Addresses Wanted

MRS. F. L. FINDLAY, of Ashland, Ore., wishes the addresses of Edith Wood, Dora Shawver, and Wm. Graves.

The addresses of the following persons are desired: A. E. Zytkoskee, Brother Vinson, J. C. Williamson (students at the Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich., in 1903), and Paul Rowe, a student at the Chicago Medical Mission in 1898. Please send information to M. E. Yergin, 113 N. Vermillion St., Streator, Ill.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted.

All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column.

In the case of poor persons who wish employment, the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement.

WANTED.—Harvest hands to work through harvest and thrashing. Wages, $2 a day. Address G. I. Cummings, Mooreton, N. D.

NOTICE.—I offer a home for an aged Seventh-day Adventist brother who can do some farm work. Will pay wages in summer. Address C. W. M. Reed, Sheldon, Wyo.

FOR SALE.—Vegetarian restaurant; established three years; good paying business in heart of city. A bargain if sold within 30 days. Reason for selling, desire country life for children. For further particulars address 36 West Eighteenth St., New York City.

FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.—160 acres of choice, sandy loam land in the Uncompahgre Valley; will grow anything adapted to this latitude. Farmed by irrigation, and all under the great Gunnison tunnel; 65 acres now in high state of cultivation. Sickness compels sale. Tools, stock, and crop with place if desired. Terms to suit. Address John Gibauer, Olathe, Colo.

MICHIGAN SANITARIUM OF KALAMAZOO (MICH.) TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR NURSES (Incorporated).—Next class now forming. We teach Bible, physiology, surgical, practical, and obstetrical nursing, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, disease and their treatments, children's diseases, gynecology, massage, bandaging, Swedish movements, and materia medica. Only energetic young people who are willing to work are wanted. Address T. H. Midgley, Supt.

Obituaries

By N. P. Neilsen; F. I. Richardson; G. W. Morse; W. M. Healey; Lee S. Wheeler

Rohrbacker.— Died at Weyauwego, Wis., June 3, 1905, of bronchitis and meningitis, Willie, son of Brother and Sister Rohrbacker, aged 1 year, 9 months, and 6 days. He leaves a father, mother, one little sister, and many other relatives to mourn their loss, but they are comforted with the blessed hope of meeting him again when these little ones shall come again from the land of the enemy.” The funeral service was held in the Baptist church, conducted by the writer, assisted by the Baptist pastor; text, Jer. 31:16, 17. N. P. Neilsen.

Vickery.— Died at National City, Cal., May 28, 1905, Robert Vickery, aged 69 years, 11 months, and 26 days. Brother Vickery was born in Chayhanger, Devonshire, England. When sixteen years of age he came to America, and in the winter of 1869 accepted the truths of the third angel’s message at Belvidere, Ill., through the labors of Elders Stewart and Andrews. With firm, unwavering faith he held to the truth until heart failure ended his days. A widow and an adopted daughter survive to mourn their loss. The funeral service was conducted by the writer in the Seventh-day Adventist church in San Diego. F. I. Richardson.

Morey.— Died at his residence in Battle Creek, Mich., July 12, 1905, of heart failure superinduced by a severe shock of electricity during a thunder-storm, Alonzo G. Morey, aged 61 years, 6 months, and 19 days. Brother Morey had been a believer in the truths of the advent message for about forty years, and was an active Christian worker for many years. He was a music teacher by profession, a man of most excellent character in all respects. His wife and two children mourn his death. The funeral was conducted by the writer, the text of the discourse being Ps. 46:1-3. The burial took place at Hillsdale, Mich., where a daughter sleeps in Jesus. G. W. Morse.

Whitelock.— Died in San Diego, Cal., June 23, 1905, of heart-disease, Mrs. M. E. Tucker Whitelock, aged 72 years, 1 month, and 22 days. Sister Whitelock joined the Baptist Church at the age of fifteen, her father, Eber Tucker, being a minister of that denomination. About 1855 she, with her husband, Sidney W. Whitelock, settled in Minnesota, where in 1872 they both accepted present truth, and helped form the Adventist church at Hutchinson, Minn. They afterward moved to Colorado, then to San Diego, shortly after which Sister Whitelock suddenly fell asleep. Her husband and three grown daughters mourn their loss, but there seems no doubt of her acceptance. W. M. Healey.

Smith.— Died at West Wilton, N. H., July 1, 1905, Samuel Smith, brother of Elder Uriah, and John and Annie Smith. The deceased was born at West Wilton, June 13, 1830. His mother, a woman of fine intellectual qualities and strong faith, looked for the Lord to come in 1844. After the passing of the time she received the light upon the sanctuary and the third angel’s message. She was soon followed by her sons and daughter. All are now sleeping in “the blessed hope.” When Uriah and Annie early connected with the publishing work, Samuel, with his mother and John, remained at the old home in West Wilton, where for the past forty years Brother Smith engaged in the manufacture of wooden bureau knobs. He was earnest in the truth of the message until his death, and his consistent Christlike life has been a faithful witness in his home and community. He leaves a wife and two sons, Prof. Archie Smith, of Elizabeth, N. J., and Dr. Fred Smith, of Somerville, Mass. The funeral service was conducted by the writer at the Baptist church in West Wilton. Lee S. Wheeler.

Suppression of Evidence

By Editor

After reading the article in The Free Methodist to which reference is made in our editorial columns, the editor of the REVIEW wrote a very moderate reply, consisting almost wholly of the testimony from Sunday observers in favor of the present translation of the texts in question, but this contribution was returned with this remark: “In justice to our readers we feel that we can not admit a discussion at this time over the Greek text.” After permitting such groundless and misleading assertions to appear in his paper, it seems to us that justice to his readers would require the editor of The Free Methodist to give them the benefit of the testimony of some reliable and unprejudiced scholars. It looks to us like a suppression of evidence for fear of the consequences.

Help for the Work in the South

By Editor

THE action of the General Conference Committee recommending that special appeals be made for the benefit of various phases of the work in the Southern field has already been printed in the REVIEW, and several articles have also appeared bearing upon this matter. We have also asked our people to continue their donations for the work in Washington in order to provide money to assist in the erection of a suitable printing plant for the Review and Herald Publishing Association, with the understanding that the overflow of the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund would be applied for this purpose.

We have, however, just received instruction through the spirit of prophecy which makes it clear that these plans should be changed. We will print some paragraphs from this instruction in order that our people may have a clear understanding of the matter. The Testimonies are dated July 19 and July 20, and were received in Washington last week. We quote as follows:—

“During the time that I was in Washington, the Lord was working upon my mind in the night season. Light was given me while I was there that the first five thousand dollars of the overflow above the one hundred thousand dollars sent in for the work in Washington, was due to the Southern field, and that it ought to be appropriated to the present urgent needs of the work in Nashville.”

“The work in Washington is important and essential, and great efforts have been made to call the attention of our people to that field. But now the Lord would have us consider the work in the South.”

“The Lord would have those of his people who are willing to give of their means for the advancement of his work, now turn their attention to the work in the South, and especially just now to Nashville.”

“The Southern field is a very hard, needy field, and it must receive assistance. Chosen men should be appointed to receive the funds that will now be called for in behalf of the enterprises that must now come to the front in this most needy field.”

Acting upon this instruction, the members of the General Conference Committee now in Washington have requested the trustees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association to release any claim which they had upon the first five thousand dollars of the overflow of the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund on account of previous action appropriating this overflow to their use, and these trustees have voted to do so. Thus the way is now open for the General Conference Committee to follow the counsel given in regard to the disposition to be made of these funds.

In view of this instruction, there will be no further appeals in behalf of the work in Washington, and the trustees of the Review and Herald Association will make other plans for securing the money which they had expected to receive by this means for their work.

It has seemed proper to make this statement in order that our people might understand the situation clearly, and might act intelligently in directing their liberalities in harmony with the counsel of the spirit of prophecy. This counsel has been followed implicitly in all the plans for the establishment of the work in Washington, and it should be followed with the same spirit when it directs that the tide of gifts should now be turned in another direction.

The various enterprises in the Southern field which must now receive attention will be placed before our people from time to time, so that they may appreciate the need of help, and may render such help understandingly according as the Lord has prospered them.

Missionaries Sailing for Australia

ELDERS O. A. OLSEN and L. A. Hoopes and their families were booked to sail for Australia from San Francisco, August 10.

Elder Tanner’s Work in Haiti and Jamaica

ELDER W. J. TANNER, who sails for Haiti early in September, has been spending a few days in Washington, and spoke in the city and at Takoma Park last Sabbath on the work in Jamaica, where he has labored for five years.

Workers Returning to China and Japan

Elders Anderson and Field were listed to sail from Vancouver August 7, on their return journey to their fields in China and Japan. Miss Amanda Vanscoy goes with the party as a worker for China, under pay of the Nebraska Conference.

Support for Hindustani Mission Work

Brother and Sister L. J. Burgess, who have been on furlough from India on account of his health, are planning a canvassing campaign, selling a special number of the Bible Training School, to raise a fund for Hindustani work in India. Little has been done for the eighty millions of Hindi-speaking people in India, and their enterprise, which Elder Haskell reports in another part of this paper, is certainly worthy of the hearty support of any who may be able to help dispose of the special number of the Bible Training School.

Death of Elder C. A. Washburn

THE sad news was received here last Sabbath of the death of Elder C. A. Washburn, of Iowa, which occurred that morning. His son, Elder J. S. Washburn, left the same evening to attend the funeral service. Elder Washburn has been for many years a faithful laborer in this message, and is well known to many of the early believers, all of whom will be grieved to learn that he has fallen in death. Sister Washburn, a daughter of E. P. Butler, of Waterbury, Vt., who was among the first to embrace this message, and a sister of Elder Geo. I. Butler, will have the hearty sympathy of many who mourn with her. We shall publish later a suitable sketch of Elder Washburn’s life and labors.

The Third Appeal

By J. S. WASHBURN

THOSE who have obeyed the call of God in response to the appeals of the spirit of prophecy to send help for the building up of the work in Washington do not regret that they have heard and answered the call. In the Testimony given by Sister White, written at Nashville, Tenn., June 4, 1904, is found the following statement: “The message must be proclaimed in Washington, and must go from that place to the other cities of the South.” And now the time has come for the message to go to the other cities of the South. In a Testimony just received, dated Sanitarium, Cal., July 20, 1905, I find the following definite instruction: “The work in Washington is important and essential, and great efforts have been made to call the attention of our people to that field, but now the Lord would have us consider the work in the South.” This is definite and clear. Another article on this page fully explains the situation.

We joyfully obey this, the latest call, and we shall open at once a fund for the South. The five thousand dollars has already been appropriated for the church in Nashville, and now, with the utmost confidence, we appeal to our loyal people who have so cheerfully and quickly supplied more than enough (1) to pay for the Memorial church here in Washington, and (2) a surplus above the one hundred thousand dollars called for for Washington, to respond to this, the third appeal. The South is in great need of immediate help. We ask our people who are not weary in well-doing to supply the great need that appeals to us pathetically from that field. God’s blessing will certainly fall upon those who hear and answer. We believe there are those who are waiting to head the list of donations to be opened in the REVIEW with gifts of from one hundred to one thousand dollars. What a blessed privilege to have a part in the work of the remnant people who “keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

J. S. WASHBURN.