SIR FREDERICK TREVES, the illustrious surgeon, speaking at a London temperance meeting in May, made a sensation by his outspoken condemnation of the use of alcohol. The Quiver says:—
The high rank of the speaker, his distinguished position in the world of science, and his extraordinary popularity in society, combine to give a distinction to his deliverance upon alcohol which must compel the attention of those whose habit it is to give a wide berth to the consideration of the temperance question. Sir Frederick’s testimony stands out among medical opinions for the simplicity and clearness of its statement. He says:—
“The point with regard to alcohol is simple enough. It is a poison, and it is a poison which, like other poisons, has certain uses; but the limitations in the use of alcohol should be as strict as the limitations in the use of any other kind of poison.”
Sir Frederick Treves’s indictment of alcohol may be summarized in the following sentences, which are given as nearly as possible in his own words:—
1. It is Not an Appetizer. “No appetite needs to be artificially stimulated. There is no need, supposing this property of alcohol to be true, to use anything that will excite an appetite. So on that ground I think there is not much to be made out for its use.”
2. It is Not a Work Producer. “Alcohol has undoubtedly a stimulating effect, and that is the unfortunate part of it. The effect, however, lasts only for a moment, and after it has passed away, the capacity for work falls. It does this: it brings up the reserve forces of the body and throws them into action, with the result that when these are used up, there is nothing to fall back upon.”
3. It Leads to Physical Bankruptcy. “I was with the relief column that moved on to Ladysmith. It was an extremely trying time, apart from the heat. In that column of some thirty thousand men the first who dropped out were not the tall men, nor the short men, nor the big men, nor the little men—but the drinkers; and they dropped out as clearly as if they had been labeled with a big letter on their backs.”
4. Its Action on the Heart. “Alcohol produces an increased heart beat, a fuller pulse, and a redder skin. It calls upon the reserve power of the organ, but the moment the effect has passed off, the action of the heart is actually weakened.”
5. Its Action on the Nerves. “It first stimulates the nervous system, and then depresses it, and, as with other poisons which act upon this part of the body, the higher centers are affected first.”
6. The Testimony of Professional Men. “I am much struck with the fact that many professional men have discontinued the use of stimulants in the middle of the day. Why? For no other reason, probably, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, than that they find they can do better work without it.”
7. Alcohol and Young Men. “A young man can not be fit if he takes alcohol. By no possibility can he want it. No one who is young and healthy can want alcohol any more than he can want strychnin.”
8. Alcohol and Surgery. “Having spent the greater part of my life in operating, I can assure you that the person of all others that I dread to see enter the operating theater is the drinker. I share with the late Sir James Paget his absolute dread of the secret drinker.”
Two Preachers
Two preachers went to the post-office to get their mail; one of them had been writing a sermon, and continued to think on the subject as he walked down the street. He decided to change the language on the last page, and elaborate more fully an argument in the middle of the sermon. He got his letters from the office, went home, made the changes he intended, and was utterly unconscious he had done anything wrong. But he had angered a sensitive man, offended two middle-aged ladies, and forever insulted a young mother who was out with her three-months-old baby. He had passed them all without seeing them, for he was lost in himself, and was utterly oblivious to all others.
The other preacher was writing a sermon also; but when he left his study, he left his thoughts with his pen and manuscript. He passed down the street a few minutes after the other. He met the sensitive man, and said: “Why, how do you do, brother? I’m real glad to see you. How is your wife? Fine day!” and then passed on. Next he met one of the ladies and stopped to shake hands with her, and as the other one came up, he said, “Well, I am in luck to-day in meeting so many friends, and here comes Mrs. So-and-so with her baby.” As the young mother came up with her heart’s treasure, he said to the baby, “O, you little darling!” and to the mother, “You have a beautiful baby.” He went to the post-office, got his mail, and went home, without any idea that he had done anything unusual. But he had made four people feel glad. He had drawn to himself the good feeling and kind thoughts of four hearts, and they all went to hear him preach the next Sunday morning, for people love to be noticed; every human heart loves to be appreciated, for God has made that a part of our common nature.
Both these men were perfectly natural; both were good preachers and Christian gentlemen; each one had acted according to his nature; but one was fortunately constituted in being naturally sociable, and the other had a very unfortunate defect and a very small congregation, for “a man that hath friends must show himself friendly.” Prov. 18:24. This is just as true now as in Solomon’s day. —Selected.
Wireless Telegraphy in Africa
“Many explorers have commented on the speed with which news travels among savage tribes,” says Amateur Work. “A curious observation as to a possible solution of the problem of their methods has been made by the Rev. A. Rideout, who, as a missionary among the Basutos, has noticed their method of sending messages from village to village by means of a signal drum or gourd. This gourd, covered with the dried and stretched skin of a kid, gives out a sound which travels and can be heard at distances of from five to eight miles. The transmission and reception of messages on these drums is entrusted to special corps of signalers, some one of whom is always on duty, and who beat on the message in what is practically a Morse alphabet. ‘On hearing the message,’ says Mr. Rideout, ‘the signaler can always tell whether it is for his chief or for some distant village, and delivers it verbally or sends it on accordingly, and it is thus carried on with surprising rapidity from one village to another till it reaches its destination. King Lerothodi granted me the privilege of sending messages to our missionary workers by his great telegraph system, and never have I known a message sent by it to fail to reach the person for whom it was intended in its proper form. All that took place in the Boer War, victories and reverses in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, was known to us by gourd-line message hours before the news ever reached us by field telegraph. The natives guarded the secret of their code carefully. To my knowledge, messages have been sent a thousand miles by means of it.’ This is probably one of the earliest forms of wireless telegraphy.” — Literary Digest.
Greetings From the Field
By The Delegates from Other Lands
A MEMORIAL presented to the churches in America from the foreign delegates at the General Conference.
To Believers in America,
Greeting:—
The delegates who have come to the General Conference from lands abroad, representing all the great mission fields of the world, desire to send this united greeting and memorial to our beloved brethren in America.
We come from populous lands, where vast millions lie unwarned in the darkness of error. But we can tell our brethren that the power of God is in the fields to-day, and we know that we are well able to go in and possess the lands. In behalf of these peoples—our brethren and sisters, whatever the tribe or race—we thank our beloved brethren in America for the help in men and means that has been sent into the fields. The knowledge that your prayers are with them, and that a loyal body of believers is ready to sacrifice for the needy fields, is daily strength and cheer as your missionaries endeavor by God’s grace to press the battle to the gates in all the countries of the earth.
But, brethren, still the cry of our fields goes up to God, and it rings continually in our ears,—the cry of earth’s perishing millions who know not the way to life, but are wandering untaught in the darkness.
With this cry ever in our hearts, we ask you to pray and plan, and work without ceasing for the strengthening of the cause of this message in the great mission fields. We are not envious of our brethren and conferences in the home land of this movement for the development and multiplication of facilities with which to work. We rejoice at all that strengthens the stakes in order that the cords may be lengthened to reach to the uttermost parts of the earth. But we beseech you to look upon our need in fields abroad, where the work is growing upon our hands. We ask no provision for the multiplication of institutions as pioneer agencies. But with our resources taken up in field work, which brings abundant fruit in converts to the truth, we sorely need here a mission station, there a small training center, and facilities for producing a literature for the many-tongued millions.
In the roll-call of continents and great field divisions we respond as follows:—
L. R. Conradi, for Europe: To Europe, from ancient times, was the promise given: “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.” Gen. 9:27.
While the thousands of faithful believers from all portions of Europe, and speaking more than a score of different tongues, send greeting to this World’s Conference, they with their greeting mingle joyful praises unto God for his wonderful fulfilment of the prophecy quoted above, as applied to the spread of this message. They are living witnesses to the power of this last message, in not only raising up a people among the different nations of Europe, but its workers are already pressing their way into Asia, the land of Shem, into Canaan of old, and into northern Africa, the land of Ham. To-day again we hear the call from Macedonia, Greece, Siberia, Servia, yea, from Asia Minor, Persia, and northern Africa, “Come over and help us to finish the work among the five hundred millions of people living in this field.”
W. S. Hyatt, for Africa: The Lord has sent us the message: “Thus saith the Lord, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia . . . shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; . . . they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee.” Isa. 45:14. And now by the spirit of prophecy it is declared that “Ethiopia is stretching out her hands unto God.” We testify to you that this is the truth to-day.
Therefore we earnestly request you to hear the cry of the millions of Africa, as it ascends to heaven, pleading for the light of the everlasting gospel, and to place men in training for this work; also that missions be opened as soon as possible in a few great centers, such as Algeria, Sudan, Uganda, and the Kongo country, in order that the light of present truth may shine into the heart of darkest Africa, and thus assist in the fulfilment of the prophecy, and in giving the bread of life to Ethiopia, as she waits, pleading with outstretched hands.
“They are waiting in the wild,
Sick and weary and defiled,
And the Saviour’s healing word
They have never, never heard;
Ever hungry and unfed,
Left without the living Bread—
Waiting! Waiting!”
J. L. Shaw, for India: We have made a beginning. There are a few flickering lights among the darkened sons of India, but their need—the need of the uplifted cross of Christ—is more than words can tell. They are moving, mighty multitudes are surging, hurrying on to Christless graves, without hope and without God. We feel helpless to tell their need. There are the eighty-seven million Hindi people, without a representative of present truth among them. The great city of Bombay remains still unentered. Madras, and southern India, with her wealth of responsible and intelligent men and women, have scarcely heard a note of the message. There is the cry of Burma and Ceylon. Some one must learn and lead the way among the Hindi, Marathi, Telegu, Gugerati, Tamil, Punjabi, and scores of other tongues of India. Where are the workers, trained, tried, and true, to pioneer the way among these people? Now is the hour of opportunity in India, and we have the message for the hour.
“Come, for time is quickly fleeting,
Come along without delay;
India needs more faithful workers,
Come for Christ’s dear sake we pray.”
J. N. Anderson, for China: According to God’s geography (Isa. 49:12), China is one of the four parts of the entire world; not in square miles, but in blood-bought souls. Four hundred millions are living, nay, existing, there. In a million villages and a few large cities they are gathered. Amid this surging mass of humanity stalk the giants of superstition, idolatry, degradation, and despair. Despite her national pride, China has absolutely no light, no hope. Her need is the one all-sufficient remedy, “This gospel of the kingdom.” We have been made the responsible trustees of this sacred treasure. Present truth means present duty. Already three different provinces have been opened; a mere nucleus of our literature has been created. The advance guard of the last message has entered the land of Sinim. The situation calls for a steady stream of consecrated reinforcements. The next four years should see no less than twenty-five additional workers13among China’s millions. Shall we have them? Who will go?
“O church of the living God!
Awake from thy sinful sleep!
Dost thou not hear yon awful cry
Still sounding o’er the deep?
Is it naught that one out of every three
Of all the human race
Should in China die, having never heard
The gospel of God’s grace?
Canst thou shut thine ear to the awful sound,—
The voice of thy brothers’ blood?
A million a month in China
Are dying without God!”
REPAIRING A CHINESE HOUSE
J. W. Field, for Japan and Korea: Japan, the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, and Korea, the Land of Morning Calm, with over fifty millions of people, are open and waiting to receive the closing message of the gospel. The work has but fairly begun in these fields, yet good beginnings have been made. With but two families assigned to evangelical work in Japan, the need of increasing this force is urgent. Not for over three years has an evangelistic worker from abroad been added to our field. But more urgent still, if possible, is the need of pioneer workers for Korea, to take charge of this new and promising field, where the truth is spreading like a blaze. The truth must be published in these two languages, and funds are needed for the work. Not even a beginning has yet been made in publishing the truth in Korean. Yet scores of Korean Sabbath-keepers appeal to us to lead them on. We see the fiery pillar of God’s providence leading the way amid the night of error. Brethren, we must follow on. The new East is awakening to hear the message of the coming King.
J. W. Westphal, for South America: South America is still “the Neglected Continent.” Its unentered fields, long bound down in Romish error, call loudly for help, and the working force in those already entered needs to be increased. The once closed lands of Ecuador and Peru now call imperatively for an ordained minister for each to join the two lone colporteurs who have entered these two republics. It is surely a modest, too modest request, to ask for one colporteur to be sent to take up the work in waiting Bolivia, where as yet the banner of this truth has never been unfurled. One additional minister to the four already in Brazil is certainly not too much to reach the twenty-two millions of that land. Good office help is needed in Brazil. Argentina calls for a French laborer. Definite steps must soon be taken to reach the hundreds of thousands of Indians in our great field. “The King’s business” and his speedy coming demand haste.
G. M. Brown, for Mexico: Nearest to your own borders lie these needy mission fields. Persons have recently begun to keep the Sabbath in three districts of Mexico, and we need workers of some experience to follow up and extend these interests. Two active men are needed who can instruct the people, and work from house to house. And besides, we should have in Mexico three more field colporteurs to sell our literature. In that priest-ridden land we shall have to support such workers, and the answer to this call would mean eighteen hundred dollars added to our Mexican appropriations. Further, we need funds for the production of literature.
A. J. Haysmer, for the West Indies: The work is spreading from island to island, and everywhere honest souls are found waiting for the message that we hear. Broken up into island fragments, our field requires more laborers to watch over and develop it than would be needed if it were one land. But our hearts are one, and the believers among the isles greet you in the common faith, praying that a few more workers be added, that we may reach out to unentered parts. Cuba calls for its first minister, and Hayti’s voice, long heard, now cries from the wayside anew that it be not passed by.
E. H. Gates, for Oceania: “The isles shall wait for his law.” So wrote the prophet of God twenty-six hundred years ago. For ages Oceania waited in the South Seas to hear the precepts of the law of love which is to be written in the heart by the Spirit of God. Between Eastern Asia and the Americas are thousands of islands, with a population of between fifty and sixty millions. Of this vast multitude, millions are pagans, other millions are Mohammedans, while great numbers are cannibals.
To evangelize these millions before the close of the generation which saw the signs of Christ’s coming, we have at present, including ministers, licentiates, nurses, doctors, teachers, and canvassers, less than twenty-five workers. The spirit of prophecy says to us, “Send an alarm through the length and breadth of the earth. A great crisis is just before us. God is now restraining the forces of evil, that the last warning may be given to the world. There should be one hundred workers where now there is only one.”
The Philippines, with seven to ten millions of people, just arousing from their four hundred years’ slavery to Romish superstition, cry aloud for release from Satan’s shackles. Twenty-five millions in Java, many of them fierce, fanatical votaries of Islam, demand a share of our missionary efforts. The quarter of a million in Singapore, representing almost every language on earth, presents a most interesting field. Melanesia’s savagery and ignorance call loudly for the gospel of peace and light. Australasia is standing manfully by this work for the populous fields round about.
This, our beloved brethren, is our briefest answer to the roll-call of the nations. Truly has it been said to us by the spirit of prophecy: “From India, from Africa, from China, from the islands of the sea, from the downtrodden millions of so-called Christian lands, the cry of human woe is ascending to God.”—Christ’s Object Lessons, page 179. And devoutly do we thank God for the added words: “That cry will not long be unanswered.” We can see the gleams of the golden morning piercing the darkness of our fields. The coming of Christ, the Desire of all nations, is heaven’s answer to the world’s cry. For this let us work and watch and pray together until the victory is won.
In the bonds of the common faith, we greet you, and thank you once again in behalf of our brethren, of many nations and kindreds and tongues and peoples, who are to-day thanking God that you have sent to them this glorious message of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
THE DELEGATES FROM OTHER LANDS.
A CORNER OF AN AFRICAN VILLAGE
Alberta
By J. W. Boynton; Paul Curtis
EDMONTON.— Soon after our good camp-meeting at Wetaskiwin, we pitched our tents in Edmonton, and Tuesday evening, July 25, we began meetings with a small attendance. We had a pleasant location in one of the best parts of the city, with new tents, comfortably seated with folding seats. We advertised the meetings by means of bills and invitation cards, and announcements through the two daily papers; and day after day our company would go out with Signs, tracts, and invitation cards, and leave them in the homes of the people. Our congregation was small, but they soon became interested and came regularly. About twelve promised to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
During the meeting we sold upward of twenty dollars’ worth of literature, and received in donations $9.55, besides some special offerings for foreign work. We also had the blessed privilege of baptizing five adults, and several others promised to go forward in that ordinance soon. We closed our meeting September 10, as the nights were getting so cool that we could not make the people comfortable. Brother and Sister Curtis remain to follow up the work with the interested ones for a time. We praise God for the work that was accomplished, and long to see more and more of his power manifest in saving souls.
J. W. BOYNTON,
PAUL CURTIS.
Mississippi
By Jas. Beillinger; Carrie Beillinger
Mississippi
GREENBRIER.—During the latter part of July and the first of August, in company with Elder Shaeffer, we held a tent-meeting at Tupelo, Miss. Three persons were reclaimed, and one man promised to keep the Sabbath as soon as he could get his business in shape. August 11 we came to Hatley, and attended the last two days of a general meeting then in session at that place.
After taking a few days' rest we pitched our old forty-foot tent in Greenbrier. We held our first meeting Sunday forenoon, with a good attendance. Sunday night the tent was full, and we had a good meeting. After leaving that night, some one cut nineteen of the short ropes and two of the center-pole ropes, and let the tent fall to the ground, tearing it badly. But some of the neighbors helped me put it up the next day, and we continued our meeting for two weeks, without further disturbance, and with good attendance and deep interest. The Lord blessed in a most remarkable way. While all who hear will not accept, many were convicted of the truth for this time, and acknowledged it. One sister who had been keeping the commandments for some time, was baptized. Four other persons manifest a deep interest, and two of them have begun keeping the Sabbath; we are anxiously waiting to see them all take a firm stand on the side of God's commandments. One of these is a prominent man, a leader in the Methodist church and Sunday-school.
We are of good courage, and never before have we so fully realized the necessity of pushing the battle to the front.
The yellow fever has hindered us somewhat in our work. But this is just an omen of what is coming. We expect to go from here to Fulton, Miss., to hold a few meetings. The calls are more than we can fill. We want to do all we can to hasten the glad day when Jesus shall come to gather his children home.
Jas. Beillinger,
Carrie Beillinger.
A Word From Mexico
By G. W. Caviness
I RECENTLY spent a few weeks in Torreon and its vicinity, where I found an interest had been awakened through the distribution of papers and tracts. Brother Blachly and his family, with whom I stayed while in that place, now live in Lerdo, a suburb of Torreon, with which it is connected by electric car-line.
Brother Colunga and his wife, the former having begun the observance of the Sabbath recently and desiring to engage in the work as colporteur, also were with me. Daily studies in the special points of present truth were given to this brother and his wife, to establish them in the message and prepare them to enter the work. While studying, Brother Colunga canvassed Lerdo, and took over forty subscriptions for our Spanish paper. It might be interesting to know that Sister Colunga is a doctor, and has lived four years in the United States, part of which time she spent at Battle Creek. She is very favorably inclined toward our work. Brother Colunga is an intelligent and capable man about forty years of age.
In Gomez Palacio, also a suburb of Torreon, I found two keeping the Sabbath as a result of reading-matter left with them some time ago. One, a brother, is a storekeeper, and is doing missionary work among his acquaintances with the paper. The other is a sister, and is in very poor health.
In Torreon I found two families, four persons, who had begun the observance of the Sabbath about four weeks before I arrived. I spent considerable time studying the Bible with them and confirming them in the truth.
There is also an independent Baptist church in Torreon that separated from the regular Baptist church because they were introducing diversions and entertainments into the church which these brethren did not think were in harmony with the sacredness of the house of God. The pastor of this independent church is friendly to us. He asked me to preach in his church, which I did almost every Sunday that I was in that part of the country. I also gave him Bible studies on the message. I hope he will yet obey all the commandments of the Lord, and bring the greater part of his flock with him.
I expect to return a little later with some canvassers if possible, and hold a series of meetings, and fill these places with our literature. It seems that with these brethren and sisters and Brother Blachly’s family as a nucleus, we ought to gather in a few more and organize a little church in that part of Mexico. Pray for the work in this difficult field.
G. W. CAVINESS.
Indiana Camp-Meeting
By E. W. Farnsworth
This meeting was held according to appointment, at Connersville, September 7-18. Connersville is a town of about ten thousand inhabitants, situated in the southeastern part of the State, about equally distant from Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
It will be seen that the location of the meeting was somewhat to one side of the State. There was, however, a fair attendance of our brethren from the different churches, there being about five hundred and fifty present.
The circumstances which led the brethren to locate the meeting in this town were somewhat peculiar. Several years ago Dr. McDougall started treatment rooms here. Gradually the work enlarged, and at the same time gained the confidence of the leading citizens of the place, till they donated between three and four thousand dollars to furnish a sanitarium. Dr. W. W. Worster and his wife finally took charge of the work, and under their supervision it has continued to grow in influence and favor. At the present time it seems to be held in high esteem by every one in the place. The physicians furnish patronage by sending patients to the sanitarium.
During the development of the medical work a few Sabbath-keepers came to the city to live. Others accepted the message, till a little company is now established. They felt the need of a church building, and so went to work to build it. The citizens, seeing the situation, and knowing the poverty of our people, donated about seventeen hundred dollars to assist this enterprise. This enabled the brethren to erect and finish a neat, respectable house of worship, which is nearly paid for.
With such an exhibition of good-will and kindness on the part of the people, our brethren naturally concluded this would be a good place for a camp-meeting. When the meeting opened, the people showed their hospitality by taking many of our brethren and sisters into their homes without charge.
There has been a reasonably good interest in the camp-meeting since it began. At this writing it has closed, but the meetings are still being continued with the expectation of good results.
There are a few features connected with this meeting which we wish to mention. The leading brethren have made a careful study of the Testimony in Volume VI concerning camp-meetings and how they should be conducted. They believe that the nearer we can follow the light given, the greater the results will be; hence for the past two years they have refused to locate their camp-meetings a mile or two out of town, away15from the people; but have searched for and found vacant blocks of land in the cities, and have there pitched camp in the midst of the people, as the Testimony directs.
The Testimony also says: “If a press can be secured to be worked during the meeting, printing leaflets, notices, and papers for distribution, it will have a telling influence.”—Vol. VI, page 36. The brethren in Indiana, for the past two years, have issued a Camp-Meeting Daily Bulletin, a four-page daily paper, and in it they publish all they can of the most vital parts of the sermons preached, and any other matter calculated to interest and profit the people. In this way they can publish the truth in a way that the daily papers will not permit.
When the camp-meeting opens, a large number of the brethren and sisters volunteer to go out each day and distribute the Bulletin. Each afternoon, from four to six, is set apart for this work. The town is thus canvassed every day, and the people are given a personal invitation to attend the meetings. By this means rays of light are placed in every home. Many people are persuaded to attend the camp-meeting who otherwise would not come. Our own people are greatly blessed in doing the work, and the two hours thus spent are the most profitable of any in the day. The expense of issuing the paper is met by advertisements obtained from business men in the city. These are published in a supplement, and distributed with the paper. Our brethren in Indiana are much pleased with the results attending their efforts in this direction thus far.
Another feature of the meeting is this: the Testimonies say that after the camp-meeting a strong company of workers should be left to continue work, and that it is a great mistake for all, or nearly all, to go away and leave the interest to die out. Nearly fifty persons are keeping the Sabbath at Martinsville, where the camp-meeting was held last year, as a result of heeding this counsel. The brethren have planned to follow up the work the same way this year. We might write of other interesting features of the meeting suggested by a study of the Testimonies, but space forbids.
One of the most impressive and profitable meetings we had during the camp-meeting, was the second Sabbath missionary meeting. The reader will remember that the second Sabbath has been set apart each month as a missionary Sabbath. It was deemed best to carry out the program sent to the churches at the camp-meeting. Preaching was dispensed with, and the reading furnished by the General Conference was substituted. The blessing of God came in, and one of the most precious meetings we have had this summer was the result. Our churches will find that they can do nothing better for their own interests than to follow the suggestion of the General Conference in this respect. The contemplation of mission work, and a liberal offering following, will prove to be a cure for many personal ills.
The Indiana Conference of 1905 will be remembered by those who attended it as a good one. The utmost harmony prevailed. The officers elected for the ensuing year remain about the same as last year. Elder W. J. Stone was unanimously elected president. A spirit of liberality was manifested, the brethren giving about three thousand dollars in cash and pledges for various phases of the work. The brethren and sisters present promised to take two thousand copies of the “Ministry of Healing,” and sell them. A goodly number banded themselves together to arise and finish the work on “Christ’s Object Lessons.” We hope and believe they will not faint till that work is done.
Five new churches were admitted to the conference, and over two hundred converts to the faith were made during the year. The indebtedness on different enterprises in the conference has been reduced over twelve thousand dollars during the past two years. All these things brought courage and inspiration to the hearts of our brethren, and they felt strengthened to renew the work of reducing their indebtedness still more, and to carry the light of truth to every household in the State.
We were all glad to meet Elder G. A. Irwin, who was with us a part of the time. His testimony was a great source of strength to the people. Elders William Covert of Wisconsin, J. M. Rees of Illinois, and N. W. Kauble of Berrien Springs, Mich., were present, and rendered valuable assistance in many ways. Elder Allen Moon, president of the Lake Union Conference, was also present. We were sorry to learn that his health was not better, and that his recovery has been so slow.
The writer greatly enjoyed this meeting and the blessing that came to all the people of God. We believe the brethren in Indiana have reason to be of good courage. E. W. FARNSWORTH.
Colorado Conference Proceedings
By G. F. Watson; Meade MacGuire
THE twenty-third annual session of the Colorado Conference convened in Denver, Colo., Aug. 18, 1905. More than one hundred delegates were present from the various churches. Four new churches were received into the conference, and plans were laid which it is hoped, with the blessing of God, will bring prosperity and success to our work the coming year.
Earnest and careful consideration was given to the various lines of conference work, including educational, tract society, Sabbath-school, and religious liberty work. Much interest was manifested in the foreign mission work, and especially in the enterprise undertaken early in the year by the young people of this conference, to support a missionary in Japan and one in China. Means are now at hand to support these native workers the coming year, in addition to the two now being sustained in Africa. Steps were also taken by the youth to support one or more native workers in India. Though we discontinued the support of our worker in Holland some months ago, we are steadily increasing our representatives in other foreign fields.
The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, G. F. Watson; Vice-President, W. Ziegler; other members of the Conference Committee, F. M. Wilcox, H. M. J. Richards, and Wm. Kennedy; Conference Secretary, Meade MacGuire; Treasurer, Mrs. Bertie L. Herrell; Tract Society Secretary, Mrs. Minnie MacGuire; Treasurer, Mrs. Bertie L. Herrell; Field Secretary of Sabbath-school and Young People's Work, Meade MacGuire; Canvassing Agent, A. G. Bodwell; Religious Liberty Secretary, Dr. W. W. Hills; Educational Secretaries, F. M. Wilcox and B. A. Wolcott.
A number of important resolutions were passed, which, if carried out in the fear of the Lord, will add much to the power and efficiency of our efforts the coming year.
G. F. WATSON, President,
MEADE MACGUIRE, Secretary.
