How Can We Combine Most Effectively the Evangelical and Medical Features of Our Message?
G. B. STARR: "For a long time I have had the conviction that we should give greater prominence to the health and temperance phase of our message. It is represented by the spirit of prophecy as the 'right arm of our message,' and also as an 'entering wedge' in pioneer work. I believe there is more meaning and significance in these illustrations than many of us have realized. The right arm is one of the most important and useful members of the body for achievements. The right arm accomplishes with comparative ease what it would be very difficult to do without it. And we all know the great value of the entering wedge in timber work and in granite and marble quarrying.
"I do not believe that we should look upon the health phase of our message as an advertising medium for our doctrines. That is not what is meant by representing it as the right arm and as an entering wedge. That phase of our message is of great value in itself. It will greatly benefit all who receive and apply it, as thousands will testify. But it will do more: it will remove prejudice and lead to a favorable consideration of our entire message. In his ministry Jesus gave the people health and other physical blessings that 'he might incline the hearts of men to receive the gospel of his grace.'
"Believing what I have just expressed regarding our medical missionary work, I have for a number of years endeavored to make it prominent in my work. I have done what I could to inform myself on the various phases of the subject, so that I could present them in public. Mrs. Starr has made healthful cookery a careful study, so that she could join me in teaching the women along this line. When we have worked alone, we have presented this phase of our message the best we could, and I am free to say, with encouraging results. But I prefer to have with me a physician and a nurse or two. During my short stay in New York City, I was associated with Dr. D. H. Kress. I have evidence that there was laid, during that time, the foundation for a good work. Since going to the Melrose Sanitarium, I have worked in and around Boston with ministers, physicians, and nurses. Our health work has opened doors into hundreds of excellent homes. I feel sure there are great victories for us in our evangelistic work, when we combine with it the health and temperance side of our message as we should."
L. A. HANSEN: "All our ministers may not be able to secure medical workers to labor with them, or there may be other reasons why they can not put into practise some of the methods of conducting medical work of which we have just heard. It may not be possible to have a specially trained medical evangelist with every tent, nor even a nurse. It may not be practicable to make use of the stereopticon. This need not hinder a minister or an evangelist from doing medical missionary work. There should not be such a distinction made in the two lines of work we are considering. In fact, they should be considered more as one work. It is difficult to draw a line in Christ's work, making a difference between the ministrations to the spiritual and to the physical needs of man.20
"Temperance can be made a very interesting and helpful part of our public work; and who should be able to present it more effectively in its relation to our other stirring and important truths than can our own ministers? The time was when nearly every one of our ministers included Christian temperance and Bible hygiene in his series of discourses. It should be so now, more than ever.
"Health and temperance work must not be done as an advertising feature, but as a work in itself. The work must be done for the love of the work itself. At the same time, health, hygiene, and temperance are most popular subjects today, discussed in papers, journals, and magazines, and before clubs, societies, schools, etc.
"There are many helps that are available to our workers, such as charts and valuable statistics. Current news items will often give good material for lessons. I would recommend keeping a scrap-book for such items and for good articles. It will not be difficult to gather a fund of information that will enable every worker to give good talks on health.
"A woman nurse in connection with a tent effort can hold meetings with the women two or three times a week in the afternoons. The most practical subjects should be presented, giving the things the people need most. Instruction in simple treatments, with demonstrations, will be helpful. Tell how to care for the children, what is proper in food, clothing, dress, cleanliness, ventilation, etc.
"Our work is to help people where they are, showing them how to do better. We have the principles of truth exactly suited to the work God has given us to do. The task is not such a complicated or difficult one as we may think. There is really nothing mysterious about the doing of medical missionary work. Its accomplishment does not depend so much upon mastering an art or learning a lot of technique as it does upon willingness to do it. The more training we have, the better work we can do; but missionary work, whether medical or otherwise, must be missionary, and it takes a missionary to do it.
"The question of where to work is answered; for the sick and needy are everywhere about us. What to do should not be difficult to settle; for the very needs of the people tell it. The time of doing it is also clear; for the needs are present ones, and demand attention at once. There is plenty to do if only people can be found to do it. A nurse in connection with a tent effort can find her time well occupied, and her ability taxed. There should be no question as to whether a nurse can be kept busy.
"Health literature should be used. Life and Health could be utilized to advantage as a means of introduction to homes. Ministry of Healing is an excellent book to place with people. We have a duty in placing before the world the truth on divine healing, especially when so much error is extant, and our truths will find ready acceptance with many. Our good literature fills an important place, and we should use it freely.
"Let us make the most of such facilities as we have, and we shall find a broad field of usefulness opening up to us in the extension of our medical missionary work, carried forward in connection with other lines of work."
THE CHAIRMAN: "We should not overlook the fact that this phase of our message has two distinct parts. One relates to people who are well, and the other to people who are sick. One is applied by teaching, the other by ministry. The evangelist, as well as the physician and nurse, can teach regarding food, drink, ventilation, exercise, etc.; but it requires professional knowledge and skill to diagnose, prescribe, and give treatments when people are sick.
"I understand that both these features can be used to excellent advantage in our city work. I know from personal experience that the teaching feature can. During the last years of my evangelistic work I gave at least one night each week to the health and temperance question. I first dealt with the evil effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other stimulants and narcotics on the body. Then I took up various classes of foods, showing their digestibility, nutritive values, etc. Ventilation, disease germs, exercise, rest, sleep, etc., proved most interesting topics. My health talks were noised around, and the tent was generally full on temperance night. Soon calls began to come from various temperance societies for me to give these temperance and health lectures in different parts of the city and country. Through this our people became known in those localities as leaders in a broad temperance work.
"I believe every minister should qualify for this kind of work, even though he may be fortunate enough to have with him in his work a physician or a qualified nurse.
"I found that when we deal thoroughly with the teaching side, as I have just explained, there springs up a great demand from the sick for a work that only a doctor or a nurse can do. For this reason, I am convinced that in planning for a staff of workers in the large cities, we should by all means include a doctor or a well-qualified nurse. I believe this will add much to the results of the effort."
At the close of the discussion the following recommendation was adopted by the council:—
"In view of the importance of the health and temperance phase of our message, and the great prominence given to it in the writings of the spirit of prophecy, it is our deep conviction,—
"1. That the medical missionary work in all its phases should be made more prominent in our evangelistic work than it has in the past.
"2. That our ministers be encouraged to make adequate preparation by personal study and by securing charts and other equipment to enable them successfully to carry forward this line of work.
"3. That one night or more of each week in evangelistic work be devoted to health and temperance questions.
"4. That in our city efforts earnest endeavors be made to visit the needy sick, and render such help as is possible to relieve their suffering and to teach them how to live healthfully.
"5. That in making up companies of workers for our large cities, there should be included such medical workers as may be required to carry forward the medical missionary work efficiently."
A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman;
THADDEUS LEGG, Secretary.
News and Miscellany
By Editor
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— Nearly 1,000,000 women will vote for presidential electors this year.
— Eramus Page, 103 years old, the oldest newsboy in the world, is believed to be dying at his home in Joliet, Ill. He was stricken while selling papers at a railroad station, his stand for years.
— Recently 150 athletes, representing the best in the United States, sailed for Stockholm, Sweden. This month these men represent this country in the Olympic games, and they will be in competition with the chosen athletes of all nations.
— Nineteen cases of bubonic plague, with seven deaths, have been reported by the authorities in Porto Rico. Some cases of the plague have also been found in Havana, Cuba.
— The American government and people began the new fiscal year with $3,640,407,621, of which all but $363,621,008 is in circulation; this is held in the Treasury vaults as the assets of the federal government.
— The most severe earthquake ever recorded in Alaska occurred at Fairbanks at ten o'clock on the night of July 7. The earth rocked continuously for forty seconds, and less violent shocks occurred at intervals during the night.
— Damage estimated at $150,000 is reported as the result of a severe electrical storm that beat upon Chicago, Ill., for more than five hours on the afternoon of July 7. Twelve houses were struck by lightning during the storm, and five inches of rain fell.
— While groping its way through a dense fog in Narragansett Bay early on the morning of July 7, the Fall River Line steamer "Commonwealth" rammed the United States battle-ship "New Hampshire," which was at anchor near the Newport, R. I., naval training station. Both ships sustained considerable damage, but no fatalities nor injuries resulted from the collision.
— Paris is threatened with a bread famine, owing to the high price of flour. This commodity is $4.60 a sack higher now than it has been for ten years, being $14.60. Flour from the new harvest can not reach the market until August, and the prospect is alarming. The conditions are more serious on account of the seamen's strike, which will prevent the arrival of flour from Algeria.
— Recent despatches from Cuba announced that the rebels had been badly defeated in battle, and that General Estenoz, leader of the rebellion, had been killed. It was also reported that General Lecoste, another leader, had been captured by the federals. Cuba is rejoicing over the success of the government arms; and an announcement from President Gomez to the effect that tranquility in all but one province has been secured, tends to strengthen confidence and set the wheels of business and industry moving. Officials in Cuba are loud in praise of the President of the United States, whom they call the "illustrious friend of Cuba."
— On the fourth of July Uncle Sam unfurled the new flag, with its forty-eight stars. Over every public building and government reservation throughout the land the new emblem was flung to the breeze, gloriously typifying the culmination of the great plan outlined by our forefathers of 1776. The new flag had an addition of two stars, one for each of the two new States—Arizona and New Mexico. The admission of these two States marks the end of the chapter. There can be no more States admitted to the Union, as all the Territories of continental United States have now reached Statehood, and the only possibility of additional stars being added is the partition of Texas into two or more States, which was reserved as a constitutional right by that State upon its coming into the Union.21
— During the last week ten aviators were either killed or injured.
— Forty or more passengers were injured in a collision near Greensboro, N. C., July 6. The Southern Railway Limited No. 38, collided head-on with a freight-engine.
— Early on the morning of July 4, forty-one persons were killed and sixty injured, when an excursion train bound for Niagara Falls was wrecked by the Lackawanna express near Corning, N. Y.
— Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, and Gov. Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, were chosen, July 3, by the Democratic National Convention as party candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States.
— A writer in Aircraft explains the "holes in the air," which have been so dangerous to aviators. They are "regions in the atmosphere where the wind happens to be blowing in the same direction as the aeroplane's flight, and with equal speed."
— It is estimated that between 400 and 500 persons were killed, and a property loss of $14,000,000 was entailed, by a tornado that, after a day of thunderstorms and high wind, swept through Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the evening of June 30. Six hundred families are homeless.
— Two thousand Chinese troops have mutinied in the city of Tsi-nan because their wages had not been paid. They burned, shot, and looted the stores. They were careful not to hurt any of the foreigners. Poor China is traveling a hard road. The governor of the province was forced to take refuge in a mission station.
— It is estimated that more than $5,000,000 was expended in Chicago by delegates, politicians, and convention visitors during the Republican National Convention at Chicago. Of this sum it is estimated $3,500,000 was expended for food, drink, and sleeping-rooms, the remainder being distributed among the theaters, amusement parks, and retail stores. Chicago entertained 200,000 visitors during the convention.
— The Bunker Hill Monument Association of Boston presented to the Canadian government a request that a small cannon, which for many years has been shown to visitors at the citadel in Quebec as a capture by the British at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, be given up in order that it may be treasured hereafter by the association as a relic of the battle. The Canadians have refused to grant this request.
— Some alarm has been caused by reports of volcanic symptoms in the neighborhood of the Panama Canal. According to the Telegraph's New York correspondent, "great excitement prevails among the workmen on the canal, owing to the clouds of steam and blue smoke arising from the ground in many of the deep cuts, principally the famous Culebra cut; and the heat in many places is so intense that it quickly chars wood and demolishes paper. The canal geologist insists that the phenomena are caused by the oxidation of pyrites; but despite official denials, the rumor about a volcano persists, and much hindrance has already been caused by the refusal of the men to use dynamite in the drill-holes, for fear of a premature explosion."
— The Russian government has barred the Salvation Army from the Russian empire.
— The people of Sweden have subscribed $3,360,000 for a battle-ship to be given to the nation.
— The dust collected from numerous vacuum cleaners has proved to be a valuable fertilizer, and its sale has become a regular business in Paris.
— An Italian inventor, following in the path of his famous compatriot Marconi, has, it is announced, successfully completed an instrument called the "wireless iconograph," by means of which autographs and sketches may be sent by wireless telegraphy just as verbal messages are now sent.
— A woman in a typewriting contest in Paris recently won a victory over more than 150 competitors by writing 16,500 words in four hours. A man wrote 17,000 words, but he made so many mistakes that he was ruled out. An American woman has surpassed the French woman's record, for in the ordinary course of business she once wrote 10,500 words in two and one-half hours, and made three copies as she went along.
— High hopes of solving the mystery that has shrouded the birthplace of England's first historian, Venerable Bede, are centered on the proposed excavation of the foundations of the ancient monastery of St. Peter's, Wearmouth. This monastery was founded in the seventh century, and is now part of the fabric of Monkwearmouth parish church. The foundations of the building, believed to have been part of the monastery, are situated near the west side of the tower, and they have never been explored.
— Sixty-seven per cent of all the telephones in the world are in the United States. Canada has only a little over 2 per cent of all the telephones in the world. Europe has 25 per cent. In all the world 12,453,000 telephones and 29,566,000 miles of telephone wire are in use, and $1,729,000 is invested in telephones. The annual number of telephone conversations in the world is 22,000,000,000. And it is only thirty-five years since the telephone was invented. The following figures show the number of telephones in use in different parts of the world: North America, 8,729,000; South America, 120,000; Europe, 3,239,000; Asia, 166,000; Africa, 41,000; Australasia, 124,000; Oceanica, 17,000; West Indies, 17,000.
— The transmission and receipt of telegrams in the Chinese empire is not so easy as in Western countries, because the Chinese language lacks an alphabet and expresses itself by characters and signs that represent words. In consequence, for purposes of telegraphing, an exact list has been made of signs in quantity sufficient for ordinary correspondence, and to each one of the signs a different number is given, which is transmitted by the Morse telegraphic system. The code consists of 9,800 ciphers, the whole forming a pamphlet of forty-nine pages, each one of which contains ten series of twenty characters with their corresponding numbers. On receipt of a telegram, the operator looks up in his books the characters represented by the numbers transmitted by the apparatus, and transcribes them into legible Chinese.
North Texas Conference Association
The annual meeting of the North Texas Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Cleburne, Tex., in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting, July 25 to Aug. 4, 1912. The first meeting of said association, a legal corporation of the State of Texas, will be called at 10 A. M., Monday, July 29, 1912. Association officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the delegation. Regularly accredited delegates to the conference are delegates to the association.
W. A. McCUTCHEN, President;
C. E. SMITH, Secretary.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1912
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Northern New England . . . Aug. 21 to Sept. 1
New York, Utica . . . . . . . Aug. 23 to Sept. 1
Maine, Norridgewock . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 8
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Maritime, Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia . . Sept. 3-10
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
East Kansas, Emporia . . . . . . . . Aug. 8-18
Colorado, Denver . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25
Nebraska, College View . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
South Missouri, Clinton . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
North Missouri, Hamilton, Aug. 29 to Sept. 9
West Kansas, Salina . . . . . . . . . Sept. 5-15
West Colorado, Delta . . . . . Sept. 26 to Oct. 6
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
West Virginia, Fairmont . . . . . . July 18-28
Ohio, Springfield . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25
West Pennsylvania, Washington . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Southern Illinois, Greenup, July 29 to Aug. 5
Indiana, Kokomo . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-11
East Michigan, Bay City . . . . . . . Aug. 12-18
Northern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 19-25
North Michigan, Traverse City . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 26 to Sept. 1
West Michigan, Kalamazoo . . . . . Sept. 3-11
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 2
Georgia, Barnesville . . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4
South Carolina, Columbia . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11
North Carolina, High Point . . . . . Aug. 15-25
Cumberland Conference, Sweetwater, Tenn.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
Florida, Ocala . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 3-14
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Louisiana, Baton Rouge . . . . . . . July 18-28
Mississippi, Jackson . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4
Alabama, Fairhope . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11
Kentucky, Elizabethtown . . . . . . . Aug. 8-18
Tennessee River, Camden . . . . . . Aug. 15-25
Mississippi, Brookhaven (colored) . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 30 to Sept. 8
Alabama (colored) . . . . . . Sept. 27 to Oct. 5
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Arkansas, Little Rock . . . . . . . . July 11-21
North Texas, Cleburne . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4
West Texas, Abilene . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11
New Mexico, Fort Sumner . . . . . Aug. 15-25
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Saskatchewan, Bulyea . . . . . . . July 11-21
The Indiana Association of Seventh-day Adventists
THE first meeting of the regular annual session of the Indiana Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp-ground at Kokomo, Ind., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1912, at 10:30 A. M., in connection with the Indiana camp-meeting. At this meeting members of the board of directors will be elected, and such other business transacted as may come before the association. The legal voters of this association are the regularly appointed delegates from the different churches to the Indiana Conference, the members of the executive committee, and such other persons as are employed by the Indiana Conference.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
W. A. YOUNG, Secretary.
East Michigan Conference
The tenth annual session of the East Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the Bay County fair-ground at Bay City, Mich., in connection with the annual camp-meeting, Aug. 12-18, 1912. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 13, at 9:30 A. M. The session is called for the purpose of electing conference officers for the ensuing year, and for transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Sections 2 and 3 of Article 4 of the East Michigan Conference constitution provides for the membership of the conference, as follows: "The voters of this conference shall be such duly accredited delegates as shall receive delegates' credentials from their respective churches; the executive committee; all persons holding ministerial or missionary credentials or licenses in the conference; and such heads of departments as the executive committee shall furnish with credentials.
"Each church shall be entitled to one delegate for each fifteen members or fraction thereof."
H. H. BURKHOLDER, President;
T. E. BARR, Secretary.
Southern Illinois Conference Association
The Southern Illinois Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation of the State of Illinois, will hold its tenth annual meeting in connection with the camp-meeting at Greenup, Ill., July 29 to Aug. 4, 1912. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M., Tuesday, July 30, 1912. The purpose of this meeting is to elect a board of trustees, and to transact such other business as may come before the association at this time. All accredited delegates to the Southern Illinois Conference are delegates to this association.
E. A. BRISTOL, President;
R. B. CRAIG, Secretary.
Maritime Conference Association
THE annual session of the Maritime Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) will be held in Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia, in connection with the camp-meeting of the Maritime Conference, Sept. 3-10, 1912. The first meeting will be held Thursday, September 12, at 10 A. M. Officers, constituting a board of trustees, will be elected for the ensuing year, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the association. All delegates to the conference are delegates to the association.
J. O. MILLER, President;
LULA VAN BUSKIRK, Secretary.
Oklahoma Conference
The nineteenth annual session of the Oklahoma Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Oklahoma City, Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the conference. The first meeting of the conference will be held at 9 A. M., August 23. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to an additional delegate for each fifteen members or the major part thereof.
DAVID VOTH, President;
WILLIAM VOTH, Secretary.
Oklahoma Conference Association
By David Voth; W. L. Adams
The annual session of the Oklahoma Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) will be held in Oklahoma City, in connection with the camp-meeting and conference of the Oklahoma Conference, Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, 1912. The first meeting of the association will be held on Thursday, August 29, at 9 A. M., for the transaction of such business as should properly come before the association. Each delegate to the conference is a member of the association.
David Voth, President;
W. L. Adams, Secretary.
Indiana Conference
The thirty-ninth annual session of the Indiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting in Patterson's Grove, Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 5-11, 1912. The first meeting will be called at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 6. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to one additional delegate for each fifteen members. This meeting is for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. A full delegation is desired from all our churches.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
H. H. RANS, Secretary.
The Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association
NOTICE is hereby given that the first meeting of the regular annual session of the Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will be called at 11 A. M., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1912, in connection with the camp-meeting in Patterson's Grove, Kokomo, Ind. At this meeting members of the board of directors will be elected to fill the places of those whose terms of office expire, and such other business will be transacted as may come before the association. The legal voters of this association are the regularly appointed delegates from the different churches to the Indiana Conference, the members of the executive committee, and such other persons as are employed by the Indiana Conference.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
F. A. LOOP, Secretary.
Mississippi Conference Association
By W. S. Lowry
THE regular annual meeting of the Mississippi Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting of the Mississippi Conference at Jackson, Miss., July 25 to Aug. 4, 1912. The first meeting of the association will be held at 9 A. M., Tuesday, July 30, for the transaction of such business as may come before the members. All the elected delegates of the Mississippi Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (unincorporated) are voters in the above-mentioned association.
W. S. Lowry, President.
Seventh-Day Adventist Association of Kentucky Conference
The regular annual meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Association of Kentucky Conference will be held in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting of the Kentucky Conference, at Elizabethtown, Ky., Aug. 8-18, 1912. The first meeting of the association will be held at 9 A. M., Monday, August 12, for the transaction of such business as may come before the members. All accredited delegates to the Kentucky Conference are delegates to this association.
B. W. BROWN, President;
H. E. BECK, Secretary.
East Michigan Conference Association Meeting
The annual meeting of the East Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the Bay County fairground at Bay City, Mich., in connection with the annual conference, Aug. 12-18, 1912. The purpose of this meeting is to elect a board of trustees, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association. The first meeting will be held Wednesday, August 14, at 10:30 A. M.
All regularly elected delegates to the East Michigan Conference (unincorporated) are members of the East Michigan Conference Association, and, as such, are entitled to vote on all questions coming before the association.
H. H. BURKHOLDER, President;
FRANK HINER, Secretary.
West Pennsylvania Camp-Meeting
By B. F. Kneeland
THIS important meeting will be held in Washington Park, Washington, Pa., August 22 to September 1. The beautiful grounds and fine pavilion make this an excellent location for the meeting. Special efforts will be made for the spiritual instruction and help of all, both old and young. Every church should have a number of its members present at this meeting, where so many of the vital issues of the day will be presented by those whom God is using as leaders among his people.
Expenses will be made as low as possible. Tents, with flies, will rent as follows: 10 x 12, $2.50; 10 x 14, $3; 12 x 16, $3.50. Orders should be sent at once to the West Pennsylvania Conference, 7049 Hamilton Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
All the church-members and officers who possibly can should attend this meeting, where special instruction will be given in various departments of church work.
B. F. KNEELAND, President.
New Mexico Conference
THE third annual session of the New Mexico Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fort Sumner, Aug. 15-25, 1912, for electing officers for the ensuing year, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The first meeting of the session will be held Friday, August 16, at 9 A. M.
Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization and to one additional delegate for every fifteen members or major part thereof. Every delegate should be in his place at the first meeting, and to make this possible, each church should attend to the matter of electing its delegates immediately, sending their names to the conference secretary, Box 286, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Tents, 12 x 14 feet, will rent for three dollars, as usual, and orders for same should be sent in early to the secretary.
H. L. HOOVER, President;
W. A. T. MILLER, Secretary.
Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Wis. Nurses' Course
Our next class for nurses will begin Sept. 4, 1912. We shall be glad to correspond with young men and women who desire a preparation for medical missionary work. Calendars with outlines of course, requirements for admission, etc., will be sent upon request. Address Superintendent of Nurses, Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Wis.
Nurses Wanted
The Paradise Valley Sanitarium Training-School for Missionary Nurses desires twenty consecrated young men and women who are willing to devote their lives to the Master's service.
This school affords a most thorough and up-to-date training in all departments. Its location is ideal. Its climate is the very best, warm and sunny in winter, and cool in summer. New commodious home for nurses just completed. Class begins Oct. 1, 1912. Write at once for illustrated booklet. Address Superintendent of Training-School, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal.
The "Watchman," the Present-Truth Evangelizer
By Editor
THE Watchman for July certainly proved to be a winner. Our increased printing order was readily exhausted, and many encouraging letters were received. The entire edition was several thousand short of filling all orders. As with the previous number, we are compelled to rush the August edition to early press.
The theme for August will be one that should interest every individual, that of Armageddon. The cover design will be unusually unique and interesting, including an actual photo of the place where the Scriptures say this great battle will be fought. It will possess many selling points for the agent. The editor will answer the following vital questions concerning Armageddon: What is it? Where is it? What does it mean? With the many symptoms of strife about us, and the powers of earth marshaling their forces for the last great battle, we believe this number will be one of exceptional interest to scatter among your neighbors. The contents will be up to the usual standard. Space forbids detail mention, as we desire to insert the following letter, which is but one of many we receive in the mail. This indicates the great success that our workers are having:—
"132 Forest St., Spartanburg, S. C.
"DEAR BRETHREN: I have been intending for some time to write you concerning my work with the Watchman, and how the people are falling in love with it here. Miss Putnam and I began our work here in this State in March. We sell in the business sections each month. The first month the people did not seem to know the magazine. We have regular readers among the very best class of people. We visit them each month, doing a systematic work. It does my soul good to hear the words of praise for the Watchman. It just makes me bubble over with enthusiasm. I would that there were one hundred workers to scatter out through this broad union to do systematic work for the Watchman every month. As the people are becoming acquainted with this good magazine, we shall try to get as many subscriptions as we can. I love this work. How good the Lord is to give us a humble part in carrying this precious message-filled magazine to the people! I have a burden for the neglected business class who have their hearts set on money-making and forget their own souls' salvation. I believe God has many honest hearts among these people who must be searched out. I believe the Watchman will be one of the main instruments in doing this. Pray for the work here. God's Spirit is working on the hearts of these dear readers.
"Your sister in the good work,
"MRS. R. M. CARTER."
This letter should inspire every loyal Seventh-day Adventist to "go and do likewise." Who will volunteer to join our rapidly growing band of 1,000 earnest workers who each purpose to secure 10 subscriptions to the Watchman during the next three months? What a wonderful result when we all pull together—10,000 regular readers to the Watchman! If you desire to enlist in this good work, drop a card to the Southern Publishing Association, 2123 Twenty-fourth Ave. N., Nashville, Tenn.
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