p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 41. (10/12/1905)

Earlier text: Second Annual Meeting of the International Publishing Association

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of 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.— Homes for two little boys, aged eight and ten years, in a good Seventh-day Adventist family. Address Laura E. Charlton, Greenwich, Kan.

APPLES, chestnuts, walnuts, butternuts, maple sugar and sirup, honey, etc.; B. gluten flour, cooking oil, sweet malt sirup, etc.,—write at once if you wish any of the above from us. New York Food Company, Oxford, N. Y.

FOR a short time we will fill your orders for strictly first-class peanut butter at 10 cents a pound in 50-pound cans or 12 cents in neat one-pound packages. Cash with order. Vegetarian Meat Co., Bond Bldg., Washington, D. C.

A NEW dewberry, originated at Keene, Tex., has been fruiting for five years, and is highly recommended by many horticulturists in Texas and other States. For folder giving a full description and price of plants, address J. T. Chesnut, Keene, Tex.

WANTED.— A teacher for family school to begin about November 1. It may be that others will join, making a school of ten or twelve. Children not far advanced. Write at once to R. D. Hottel, New Market, Va. State age, and wages wanted.

WANTED.— To correspond with lady medical missionary consecrated nurses. Opportunity for consecrated trained nurse to labor in the South. Live Christian experience and devotion to God’s special work in the earth, requisite. Address Sanitarium Treatment Parkers, 510 Walnut St., Knoxville, Tenn.

Medical Missionary Convention

By J. E. FROOM

THIS convention, appointed by the General Conference Medical Council in session at Washington last May, and mentioned in the REVIEW of July 27, will be held at College View, Neb., November 21-26.

Other departments of our work, that is the educational and Sabbath-school, know by experience the benefits derived by holding annual conventions wholly in the interest of their special work. This is the first convention arranged for by the medical council, but we are pleased with the hearty approval of the plan by the General Conference Committee, together with their assurance to do all they can to make it a profitable occasion. The program will be published later.

Efforts are being made to secure a representative attendance of physicians, nurses, and persons interested in any phase of the health work. The general attendance of nurses from the near-by sanitariums will afford them opportunities seldom enjoyed outside of our largest institutions.

The convention is to be truly medical and missionary, but neither one to the exclusion of the other. The Lord's plan is beginning to be realized. Educational institutions located at various places throughout the field are being better fitted to train workers and advance the medical missionary work. This is giving a broader mold, and developing individual experience with the Lord, who has given explicit instruction regarding our medical missionary work from its inception.

There is every reason to expect God's blessing to attend our efforts to advance the medical work of this cause, not by detracting from or antagonizing other lines of work, but by studying its relation to other lines. The scope of this work is broad, and we need our vision broadened. As a means to this end, let all interested in medical missionary work contribute their influence, their presence, or their views submitted in writing.

J. E. FROOM, M. D., Secretary Gen. Conf. Med. Council.

Missionary Convention Plans

By Editor

“WE hope that the plans have already been made in all our churches for a profitable missionary convention next Sabbath. We should be glad to receive brief reports of any special experiences in connection with the meetings held on that day.

Good Health Circulation Increases

By Editor

WE are gratified to note that the Australasian Good Health, of which Dr. D. H. Kress is the editor, has had a steadily increasing circulation until the edition for September was 12,500 copies. This magazine has doubled its circulation during the last three years.

Avondale School Expansions

ON account of the increase in the number of students attending the Avondale School for Christian Workers at Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia, it has been found necessary to build an addition to the dining-hall and ladies' dormitory. It is expected that the new buildings will be ready for use at the opening of the next school year in February, 1906. This institution has been greatly prospered in its work.

Pacific Press Training School

For the benefit of its employees the Pacific Press Publishing Company of Mountain View, Cal., has established a training-school with evening sessions. The usual common school studies and the Bible are taught during the week, while Saturday evening is reserved “for entertaining instruction in the form of literary programs, reading circles, lectures on mechanical arts, travel, current topics, science, discussions, spelling-matches, vocal and instrumental music, etc.” This is a worthy effort, and we hope it will result in much good.

Religious Liberty

IN an editorial comment upon a case of arrest for keeping open store on Sunday, reported in another part of this paper, the Star of Shunk, Pa., says:—

Heathen gods and religions require the civil power to hold them up, but the Christian religion relies not on the puny arm of civil power, but on the mighty arm of the Creator of the universe, for the accomplishment of its glorious purposes. Whoever is not willing to accord the same privileges to his opponent in religious belief and conduct as he asks for himself has yet to learn the A B C of religious liberty.

These are sound principles which are too often overlooked.

Systematic Missionary Work

By Editor

We are sure that the following note from Brother H. H. Hall, of the Pacific Press, will be read with interest:—

One of the most encouraging features of the missionary campaign upon which we have entered is the systematic work many are planning to do. For example, here is an order just received: “Please mail one hundred sets of the Third Angel’s Message Series of The Signs of the Times to John Adams, Logan, Kan., for which you will find ten dollars enclosed; also one hundred each of The Signs of the Times Leaflets, for which I send you $1.95.” Scores of orders are being received asking for a quantity of some of the special periodicals, together with one, two, three, or five pounds of leaflets. Such orders indicate a determination not only to circulate the papers, but to follow up and develop the interest they may awaken.

The Sacred Form of Address

By Editor

THE following paragraph from The Signs of the Times expresses our own views so clearly that we commend it to the attention of our readers:—

There are good men, most earnest men, who use a form of address to the Deity which to many refined ears and true, reverential, sensitive hearts, is shocking. The invariable Bible form of address to the Deity is “Thou,” “Thee,” “Thy,” “Thine,”—second person singular. That form has become inwrought into the heart and speech of every lover of good classic English. To such it sounds shocking to hear “you” used instead of “thou,” “your” instead of “thy,” “yours” instead of “thine.” It smacks of irreverence and thoughtless familiarity. It is a term one would expect to hear from a person who had just begun to pray, and was ignorant of Bible language. One does not expect it from a minister, and it strikes hard on the ear of the heart to hear it. We have heard a devoted minister in one sentence use in his prayer a beautiful Biblical expression in which “thou” was used, and finish the sentence in his own words, addressing Deity by “you.” Read the prayers of prophets, apostles, and of Jesus Christ. Use the sacred, solemn form, brethren. The other hurts your influence with the best of people, and helps no one.

The Appeal for the South

By J. S. Washburn

THERE are many indications that the collection on Sabbath, October 7, for the work among the colored people in the South has been a very liberal one, although it is too early yet to state anything in regard to the amount received. We are hoping soon to be able to set forth definitely the exact needs, that the present situation may be clearly understood.

The Nashville Sanitarium needs immediate help. As far as we are able to understand, this institution should be the first to receive our contributions. And yet this is but one of the many openings where a great work can be accomplished, and where there is suffering need of immediate help. Among others is the school for colored people at Huntsville, Ala. Speaking of this very institution, in a letter written by Sister White to one who was interested in the Southern work, I find these words:—

“You speak of the Oakwood Industrial School for colored students as not having sufficient buildings to accommodate the students, twelve in number occupying one room. My brother, is it not the duty of some one laboring in this line to labor for the creation of a fund to supply this need? Let appeals be made to our people. Let each give a little, even among the poor. Without delay, encourage the brethren to erect a humble building large enough to accommodate the students. Ask the people to heed the words of Christ, ‘Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.’ The example of Christ is for our imitation.”

Since the preceding was written, more definite instruction in regard to the need of this particular institution has been given. This will be published later. But will not those who have abundance prepare to lift unitedly, and do the great work for which the Spirit of the Lord has so long sent to us most earnest appeals?

J. S. WASHBURN.