DURING the first nine months of the present year our five native colporteurs in Spain sold 30,289 copies of our Spanish paper Señales de los Tiempos (the Signs of the Times), 1,288 tracts, 167 copies of “His Glorious Appearing” and the Bible. These sales were made in 5,662 hours of work, the total value of literature disposed of amounting to 3,452.05 pesetas, or $690.35.
Our brethren in the Spanish field write that they have printed editions of 10,000, 15,000, and 25,000 copies of our Spanish quarterly, the Señales de los Tiempos. In writing of the progress of the periodical work Elder Walter G. Bond says: “A few days ago an official in the Spanish army subscribed for the paper, paying for sixteen years in advance. Two of our five canvassers sell an average of about one thousand papers each a month. The others sell less. One of our canvassers has just written me that four or five persons have begun to keep the Sabbath where he is working. From a number of places invitations come to us to go and teach the message, but there is no one here to go.”
In an interesting letter written from Barcelona, Spain, under date of September 29, Elder N. Z. Town relates the following incident illustrating the influence20of our periodicals in that far-off field: “A young Oxford student, an Irishman, called at the office of the British Bible Society here, and saw on the counter a copy of our Spanish paper, Señales de los Tiempos. He at once became interested, obtained Elder Bond’s address from the agent of the Bible Society, and went to visit Brother Bond. He told him he was going to take a trip to the island of Majorca (Balearic Islands), and that he wanted five hundred of those papers to circulate. He paid cash for the papers, and took them with him to sell.
“He took very little extra money with him for expenses, so that he would be obliged to get the money out of the papers. After landing in Majorca, and before leaving the beach, he thought he would have a swim in the sea. He accordingly walked down the beach to a retired spot to take his plunge, and there found an artist painting a landscape. Before he left, he gave the artist one of his papers.”
“The artist was so deeply interested in the paper, and so pleased with it, that he wrote Brother Bond that same day, sending him the subscription price for one year. He said that it was the best paper he had ever seen, and also asked for other literature. Later on, when Brother Bond visited the island, he met this gentleman, and learned that since beginning to read the paper, he had given up both his wine and his tobacco. Since I have been here, another letter has come from him, containing ten pesetas (about $2) to pay for more literature.”
The sale of our periodicals is truly accomplishing a great work for many people at home and in foreign lands.
A. J. S. B.
Sunday Liquor Sales in Honolulu
IN the city of Honolulu, saloons are not allowed to be open on Sunday, but when the Pacific squadron of armored cruisers called there on their way to the Philippines, a large quantity of liquor was purchased outside the city on Saturday and was delivered to the sailors on Sunday in the streets of Honolulu. As the liquor was not sold on that day, and not sold in saloons, the authorities could do nothing. The Attorney-General is threatening to have the brewery people prosecuted under an old ordinance which forbids work on Sunday. It need not be at all surprising if this should result in a resurrection and enforcement of this obsolete Sunday law.
The Diamante (Argentina) School
By Walton C. John
DIAMANTE, ENTRE RIOS.— How thankful we are that God has permitted us to come here! Every day has brought us new lessons, and we in turn have been able to help others.
The school is growing — outgrowing the new quarters so rapidly that I am perplexed to know how best to meet the demands. Everybody is united in pushing the work here, and with that it makes smooth sailing. Last year the school enrolled eighty. We now have one hundred eighteen. A number of non-Adventists are so much stirred up over the fact that the Adventist children are so far advanced in their studies and music that they are breaking down the old walls of prejudice, to fall into line. It is a great pleasure to teach here, because of the appreciation shown.
The return of Dr. R. H. Habenicht will strengthen our work, and inject new enthusiasm into some of our departments. We had a canvassing campaign on July 9, the “Fourth” of Argentina. Thirty students and teachers spread out in battle-line from Diamante, Parana, Crespo, Ramirez, Nogoya, down to Victoria, over a length of about one hundred miles. These towns and environs have a population of about eighty-five thousand. In the short time in which we worked—on the average of two and one-half hours apiece—we took sixty subscriptions for Verdad Presente, and sold about seven hundred papers at ten cents each. A hard rain-storm stopped us, or we would have undoubtedly sold twice as many.
We are glad for the new workers. Brother Max Trummer has come just in time for a six-weeks’ special course for workers. This course will take up three branches of work—six weeks of review in Bible doctrines, six weeks in hygiene and practical nursing, and six weeks of canvassers’ institute and special studies.
The REVIEW brings us good news, and we are greatly encouraged by its reports. We hope that the work throughout the great field will advance as never before.
WALTON C. JOHN.
Christian Education
By Frederick Griggs
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
FREDERICK GRIGGS - - - - Secretary
Battle Creek (Mich.) Industrial Academy
By Clifford A. Russell
THE Battle Creek Industrial Academy opened for the year 1909-10, September 13, with an attendance of one hundred. This has been increased to one hundred eleven.
Upon invitation, many of the patrons and friends of the school attended the opening exercises. An earnest prayer was offered by Elder G. W. Amadon, who also made a few well-chosen remarks. Brother J. Q. Foy spoke of his interest and confidence in the cause of Christian education. Mrs. Ella King-Sanders spoke feelingly of the uppermost desire in her heart, that of seeing every student dedicating his life to God for service. The principal followed, outlining in a general way the policy of the school.
This school is carrying eleven grades of work this year. Our industrial lines embrace woodwork, sewing, and domestic science.
The outlook before us is bright, and our settled purpose is to make the school a credit to the denomination.
CLIFFORD A. RUSSELL.
The Missionary and Publishing Work
Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature.
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER — — — — Secretary
N. Z. TOWN — — — Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU — — Missionary Secretary
The Printed Page an Aid to Foreign Missions
By A. J. S. B.
An account of the helpful relation of the printing-press to the advance of foreign missions would fill volumes. In the words of E. W. Gilman, “The nineteenth century presents to the twentieth printed copies of the Holy Scriptures in about four hundred languages.” By means of the press these translated Bibles have been distributed to the tribes in earth’s remotest bounds. The British and American Bible societies have generously sent millions upon millions of Bibles and Testaments to the countless heathen who know not the gospel.
Our English and American ideas of liberty, civil and religious, having been developed from a continued reading of the Word of God by the common people, it is but fitting that these nations should become the custodians of the Bible. In other words, the Anglo-Saxons, who first received, through Wickliff, the Scriptures in their own tongue, should, in the words of the historian Wylie, “put them into the hands of all the nations of earth, that they, too, might be guided to truth, order, and happiness.”
What better support, it may be asked, can the gospel possibly have than the powerful assistance, direct and indirect, of the printing-press? Surely thus far its equal has not been found.
A. J. S. B.
Summary of Magazine Sales for September, 1909
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine
26
53
1686
...
...
...
1765
$ 176.50
Vermont
28
20
52
...
...
...
100
10.00
New Hampshire
18
7
517
...
...
...
542
54.20
Massachusetts
440
209
1480
40
25
325
2519
251.90
Rhode Island
15
16
11
...
...
...
42
4.20
Connecticut
28
79
789
...
...
...
896
89.60
New York
1978
419
4119
212
210
...
6938
693.80
September totals
2533
803
8654
252
235
325
12802
1280.20
August totals
1751
828
9554
4061
1358
453
18003
1800.30
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Columbia Union Conference
Pennsylvania
532
163
1262
300
25
100
2382
238.20
New Jersey
291
65
1543
100
25
...
2024
202.40
Delaware
2
...
51
...
...
...
53
5.30
Maryland
5
21
288
...
...
...
314
31.40
Virginia
32
16
56
25
25
...
154
15.40
West Virginia
7
211
415
...
...
...
633
63.30
Ohio
1605
772
1991
25
6
...
4399
439.90
District of Columbia
69
85
137
80
...
...
371
37.10
September totals
2543
1333
5743
530
81
100
10330
1033.30
August totals
4648
930
9614
1296
1409
1075
18972
1897.20
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Lake Union Conference
Indiana
825
181
543
3
3
...
1555
155.50
Illinois
298
432
4068
...
5
...
4803
480.30
Michigan
1374
358
3086
175
110
...
5103
510.30
Wisconsin
175
142
542
200
100
...
1159
115.90
September totals
2672
1113
8239
378
218
...
12620
1262.00
August totals
7905
2600
13861
4995
1745
1013
32119
3211.90
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Canadian Union Conference
Maritime
...
...
100
...
...
...
...
....
Newfoundland
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
....
Ontario
...
...
220
...
...
...
...
....
Quebec
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
....
Alberta
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
....
British Columbia
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
....
Manitoba
...
...
10
...
...
...
...
....
Saskatchewan
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
....
September totals
665
129
487
...
...
125
1406
140.06
August totals
1536
204
4104
...
382
36
6262
626.20
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Southern Union Conference
Kentucky
7
94
2321
...
25
...
2447
244.70
Tennessee
44
564
131
...
...
...
739
73.90
Alabama
53
615
76
...
...
...
744
74.40
Mississippi
136
211
183
25
...
...
555
55.50
Louisiana
54
619
502
...
...
...
1175
117.55
September totals
294
2103
3213
25
25
...
5660
566.00
August totals
627
3304
5569
150
411
...
10061
1006.10
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Southeastern Union Conference
North Carolina
30
71
476
...
...
...
577
57.70
South Carolina
...
110
9
25
...
...
144
14.40
Georgia
32
237
1972
...
450
...
2691
269.10
Florida
5
508
351
...
...
...
864
86.40
September totals
67
926
2808
25
450
...
4276
427.60
August totals
658
685
2389
...
235
25
3992
399.20
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Southwestern Union Conference
Arkansas
708
136
37
25
5
...
911
91.10
Oklahoma
599
251
527
...
310
25
1712
171.20
Texas
1567
1525
1398
...
60
...
4550
455.00
New Mexico
4
36
15
...
...
...
55
5.50
September totals
2878
1948
1977
25
375
25
7228
722.80
August totals
1991
4622
2779
55
646
...
10093
1009.30
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Central Union Conference
Missouri
1011
79
1580
...
5
...
2675
267.50
Kansas
1439
314
471
25
...
...
2249
224.90
Colorado
154
476
891
25
30
...
1576
157.60
Nebraska
913
387
504
400
...
...
2204
220.40
Wyoming
44
17
19
...
...
...
80
8.00
September totals
3561
1273
3465
450
35
...
8784
878.40
August totals
4024
1474
4421
1483
1521
...
12923
1292.30
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Northern Union Conference
North Dakota
38
82
70
...
...
...
190
$ 19.00
South Dakota
620
181
172
...
...
...
973
97.30
Minnesota
81
107
977
7
...
...
1172
117.20
Iowa
2119
353
1656
450
...
...
4578
457.80
September totals
2858
723
2875
457
...
...
6913
691.30
August totals
2779
344
3415
531
912
1225
9206
920.60
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
North Pacific Union Conference
Oregon
2455
96
307
...
10
150
3018
301.80
Washington
2853
1219
1653
...
25
...
5750
575.00
Idaho
216
53
120
...
...
...
389
38.90
Montana
225
19
637
75
...
...
956
95.60
Alaska
...
2
...
...
...
...
2
.20
September totals
5749
1389
2717
75
35
150
10115
1011.50
August totals
11469
900
3886
4594
857
105
21811
2181.10
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Pacific Union Conference
Southern California
1862
...
...
...
...
...
1862
186.20
California-Nevada
6805
336
6206
...
105
25
13477
1347.70
Utah
19
4
26
...
...
...
49
4.90
Arizona
110
9
180
...
...
...
299
29.90
September totals
8796
349
6412
...
105
25
15687
1568.70
August totals
9339
793
5692
3043
1110
300
20277
2027.70
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
Foreign and Misc.
1686
4246
255
...
25
...
6212
621.20
Grand totals
34302
16335
46845
2217
1584
750
102033
$10203.30
Comparative Summary for Four Months
Signs Monthly
Watchman
Life and Health
Liberty
Protestant
Instructor Temp. No.
Total No.
Value
June
27607
15501
58185
35352
10308
101050
248003
$24800.00
July
48011
15891
79400
15161
1549
2918
162930
16293.00
August
54689
18500
65537
20233
10945
4232
174136
17413.60
September
34302
16335
46845
2217
1584
750
102033
10203.30
Totals
164690
66227
249967
72963
24386
108950
687102
$68709.90
The Summary
By A. J. S. B.
OUR fourth monthly summary of magazine sales shows quite a loss as compared with the August sales. This is easily explained by the fact that hundreds of our student agents have left the field and entered upon their school work.
If the thousands of Seventh-day Adventists who are not engaged in the Master's work will now step in to fill the ranks previously filled by our student agents, the summary of sales will increase steadily month by month.
As will be seen, our September sales fall short of the August sales by 72,103 copies, valued at $7,210.30. The cessation of the efforts of our students is thus equivalent to depriving the reading public of the benefits of nearly one month's circulation of two of our magazines—for instance, Life and Health and The Watchman.
The sales in the Canadian Union Conferences are reported under one head. Next time we hope to report the sales in each of these union conferences as separate items.
An agency for any of our ten-cent magazines means interesting home missionary work, good wages, and ready money day by day for any intelligent Seventh-day Adventist. Pick out the magazine you desire to handle, send one dollar to your conference tract society for twenty-five copies, and begin work as soon as possible. You will be more than pleased with what you are able to accomplish in this pleasant and profitable work. A. J. S. B.
The Bible in Reformation Times
By A. J. S. B.
WONDERFUL, indeed, was the transformation that came over the working people of France during the Reformation as a result of the distribution of “copies of the Gospels” and of the entire Bible among them. In his well-authenticated “Historical Studies” (Harper & Brothers, N. Y.), Eugene Lawrence says: “Swiftly there spread over the manufacturing towns of France a reign of saintly purity. Men once more shrank from vice and clung to virtue. The gross habits of the Middle Ages were thrown aside; the taverns and theaters were deserted, the morris-dancers and jongleurs no longer amused; the rude dissipation of the peasantry . . . awakened only disgust; but in every village, prayer-meetings were held, and the Bible was studied by throngs of eager students, who, for the first time, were now enabled to listen to the voice of inspiration. . . .
“No profane word was any longer uttered, no ribaldry nor coarse jests were heard. Drunkenness and disorder disappeared; vice hid in the monastery or the cloister. In every factory the Gospels were read as a message from above, and the voice of prayer and thanksgiving mingled with the clamor of the shuttle and the clash of the anvil. The rude and boisterous artisans were converted into refined and gentle believers, ever seeking for the pure and the true; and the sudden impulse toward a higher life, . . . awakened by the teachings of Farel and Lefevre, stirred, like an electric shock, every portion of diseased and decaying France. . . . Men trusted the word of a Huguenot when the oath of the Catholic noble awakened only distrust. They brought honesty into commerce, and the domestic virtues into every home. They softened their enemies by a tolerant patience; they strove to convert rather than to destroy; their brilliant leaders, adorned by rare talents and eminent virtues, attracted the admiration of the age.”—Pages 250, 252.
Such have been the beneficial effects of the circulation of God’s Word in all ages among all peoples. Its uplifting teachings have developed “the salt of the earth” in every land.
A. J. S. B.
Our Missionary Example
By A. J. S. B.
We believe that our many canvassers, periodical agents, and other house-to-house workers will be greatly encouraged, as we ourselves were, by the following thoughts presented by Elder Luther Warren to the canvassers assembled at one of our camp-meetings in the West. He said:—
“Jesus said, ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock.’ In that he was just like the canvasser. He also said, ‘If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in.’ This is also what the Christian canvasser says.
“Jesus has something to sell. ‘I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and the white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, . . . and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.’
“He is like the canvasser in another respect. If the people in the house do not answer when He stands at the door and knocks, he goes on. But, like the faithful canvasser, he does not become discouraged, but comes back to that same home and stands at the door and knocks again. He keeps at it. Yet he is so patient with his customers, so gentle, and so kind with us all.”
Jesus prays for his house-to-house messengers. And not only for them, but also for the people whom he wishes them to visit. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.” With these thoughts before us, who will not feel like doing more aggressive, Christlike missionary work than ever before? A. J. S. B.
Current Mention
— A $25,000,000 union railway station is to be built in Chicago.
— Seven persons were killed and three seriously injured by the explosion of a boiler near Eldorado, Ark., on October 18.
— The night riders of Kentucky are again threatening trouble. The governor of the State has advised those who have been threatened by the night riders to remain firm, and promises them the protection of the State troops.
— A revolution is now in progress in Nicaragua, under the leadership of General Estrada. The government professes to be able to crush the revolution; nevertheless the revolutionists seem to be steadily increasing in numbers, and report gains in the number of towns captured.
— There is every indication that there will be a tariff war between France and the United States, beginning the first of November. There is prospect of a similar commercial war between Canada and the United States because of the new tariff rates on goods entering the United States from Canada.
— Knud Rasmussen, the half-Danish, half-Eskimo scientist and author, has sent out from Greenland, by way of Copenhagen, a long report of his investigations among the Eskimos concerning the claims of Dr. F. A. Cook regarding the discovery of the north pole. Because of the lateness of the season, Mr. Rasmussen was unable to reach the northernmost village where the two Eskimos live who were with Dr. Cook; but the Eskimos who have talked with Dr. Cook’s companions confirm Dr. Cook’s statements in reference to the trip to the pole. Mr. Rasmussen himself, as a result of his investigations, gives unqualified credence to the claims of Dr. Cook.
— The recent unhappy developments in Spain, and the strong protests from all parts of the world against the injustice of Professor Ferrer’s execution, have finally resulted in the resignation of the Spanish cabinet, under the leadership of Señor Maura. Señor Moret, a moderate Liberal, has formed a new cabinet. The policy of the new cabinet will be conciliation. The “conservative” cabinet, which has just gone out of existence, was known to be under the domination of the clericals, and all Europe holds that element responsible for the execution of Professor Ferrer, whose work in establishing schools independent of church control made the Jesuits his bitter enemies. Their attitude toward him and his work is in perfect harmony with the recent declarations of the Catholic clergy in France against the government schools, and also with the position of that church in America against the American public-school system.
Business Notices
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Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—
Conditions
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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
WANTED.—A good stenographer. Address C. P. Farnsworth, Chamberlain Sanitarium, Chamberlain, S. D.
INDIA RIVER ORANGES.—Sweet, juicy, thin-skinned, smooth, beautiful, delicious. Box of about 200 for $3.50; half box, $2. Will prepay express south of Dixie line and east of Mississippi for $1 extra on package. Address Royal Hubbell, Hawks Park, Fla.
WANTED.—Agents to sell “The Practical Guide to Health.” This book is at once a concise yet comprehensive work on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, written in a fascinating manner, and is a valuable compendium of necessary information regarding the treatment of common diseases and the care of the sick. It may be had in cloth binding, $3; library, $4; full morocco, $5.
Who would not greatly appreciate a member of the family who could answer thousands of practical questions, and furnish the information needed in every household emergency? Any one may have just such a friend in “Home and Health,” a health book of 589 pages, dealing with more useful subjects than any other book ever written. This practical and valuable friend may be made a member of any household for $3, cloth; $4, library; $5, full morocco.
The Otter Lake (Mich.) Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, in addition to doing a general line of work, makes a specialty of the care and treatment of the insane, for which we have a special ward. We have had most excellent success in our work, but we are especially thankful for the success granted us in the treatment of the insane. We have just finished a new addition to our building, and our facilities are better than ever for the care of those whom the Lord sends to us for treatment.23
SHEET MUSIC.—For sale, a beautiful song, “Supplication,” by Elder Milo D. Warfle, Boulder, Colo. Price, 25 cents, post-paid.
WANTED.—Home for a little girl, three and one-half years old; brown hair and eyes; nice looking. Those applying must be Adventists. Address Box 37, Takoma Park, D. C.
HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—The oil used by our people. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Can crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 60 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
WANTED.—A good, strong, competent Seventh-day Adventist girl, or woman (without children), to assist with housework on a farm. State age and wages. Church and Sabbath-school privileges. Address Mrs. Laura Cotton, R. F. D. 1, Canton, Ohio.
FOR SALE.—Ripe olives, 50c, 70c, 90c. A good, pure olive oil for $1.50. Corn oil, 90c; cotton oil, 80c. 10 tons pure extracted honey at special rates. All goods in 5-gal. cans. 20 gallons gets lowest freight rate. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.
FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10c a pound; 100 pounds, freight paid, $12. Write for special low prices on Vegetarian Meat; Cocoanut, Peanut, Olive, and Cooking Oils; Cereal Coffee; Whole-wheat Flour, etc. All guaranteed pure. Vegetarian Meat Co., Washington, D. C.
CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUITS.—Shipped direct from ranch in Napa Valley to families, schools, restaurants, and sanitariums. Larger variety, better facilities, prompt shipment. Write for circular “R,” giving full information. St. Helena Home Fruit Co., Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
RELIGIOUS SPECIALTIES.—We are wholesalers of religious specialties. Send us 25 cents, and we will mail you at once five beautiful samples, post-paid; also literature and full particulars concerning our lines. Don’t delay. Write to-day. The Waterbury Specialty Co., Wholesalers, Brandon, Wis.
FOR SALE.—Shops, stock and tools, house and barn. Value, $900. Good established custom trade in building to order and repairing buggies and wagons. Shops 16 x 24 and 24 x 42. House, 16 x 24, 1½ stories, and wing, 14 x 24. Barn, 24 x 25. All new and painted. J. H. Graham, Toluca, N. C.
FOR SALE.—Unable to leave my business at Fremont, I offer for sale my stock of general merchandise at College View, Neb. Nice clean stock, invoice about $2,000. I own building, and same can be rented reasonably for any length of time. This ad. will appear but once. Address A. P. Peterson, Fremont, Neb.
BEAUTIES! BIBLE MOTTOES, SIZE, 12 x 16. 1,000,000 Father and Mother Mottoes for Sale, besides the many other Beauties in Stock. The Father and Mother Mottoes lead. Xmas will soon be here. 100, assorted, $5; 200, $9. Father and Mother Mottoes alone, 200, $12. Write quickly. Address Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.
FOR SALE.—An excellent location for a school. 320 acres of very desirable land, near Armstrong, British Columbia, to be cut up into small tracts. A good location for fruit raising, and particularly adapted to early gardening, being exceptionally free from frost. Good markets four miles and six miles away. Land very productive. Water-system from mountains. Healthy location. Mild winters. Easy terms. An exceptional opportunity for those of limited means to make a living, and have a church-school. Very saleable. Also about 400 acres adjoining that can be bought at a reasonable price. Write for information to P. P. Adams, Silver Creek, British Columbia, or the writer, W. M. Adams, Port Hammond, British Columbia.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Publications Wanted
THE following-named persons desire for missionary use late, clean copies of our denominational papers. These should be neatly and carefully wrapped, and sent post-paid:—
T. Godfrey, 1911 Fourth Ave., Huntington, W. Va., desires late, clean copies of papers and tracts to use in his work in the city.
Mrs. James F. Woods, 322 S. Detroit St., Warsaw, Ind., desires for missionary purposes late clean copies of Signs, Watchman, Life and Health.
W. H. Brown, 212 McCoy St., Joplin, Mo., desires clean copies of the REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, or any of our monthly publications, for use in missionary work.
Mrs. L. E. Williams, 767 Kinau St., Honolulu, Hawaii, desires copies of REVIEW, Signs of the Times, Instructor, and Little Friend. Postage same as in United States.
Mrs. C. F. Clark, Granby, Mo., wishes to thank the brethren and sisters who sent papers in answer to her last request, and wishes a continuous supply of Life and Health, Liberty, Little Friend, and tracts.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
November Watchman
THIS is a reduced facsimile of the first cover page of the November Watchman. The following are the leading subjects discussed: “What Is the Matter With the Churches?” by the editor; “The Sabbath Before the Exodus,” by the associate editor; “The Eastern Question,” by P. T. Magan; “The Sanctuary in Heaven,” by C. Santee; “Christ Our Sacrifice,” by Mrs. E. G. White; “The Immortal Declaration,” by S. B. Horton; “Revival of Old-Time Southern Education,” illustrated. Interesting and instructive in contents, and artistic in mechanical make-up, this number should have a place in every home.
Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Training School for Nurses
A NEW class will be started in the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Training School for missionary nurses, Jan. 1, 1910. Young men and women nineteen years of age and upward, whose lives are consecrated to the work, who have a good education, and who are physically well and strong, are desired to make up this class. It is the purpose of those in charge of this class to maintain the very highest standard of theoretical and practical instruction; and students are wanted who have high ideals, and whose only object is to work for the salvation of souls and the advancement of the third angel's message.
Write at once for the new announcement and application blank to the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Boulder, Colo.
Atlantic Union Conference
By W. B. White
NOTICE is hereby given that the fifth biennial session of the Atlantic Union Conference will be held at South Lancaster, Mass., Nov. 14-28, 1909. The first meeting is called at 9 A. M., Sunday, November 14. All accredited delegates are requested to be present, if possible, at the first meeting.
W. B. WHITE, President.
Atlantic Union Conference Association Meeting
By E. W. Farnsworth
Notice!
THE fourth meeting of the Atlantic Union Conference Association will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church in South Lancaster, Mass., at 12 M., Monday, Nov. 15, 1909. This meeting is called for the purpose of electing officers and transacting such other business as may legally come before the association.
E. W. FARNSWORTH, President.
Field Notes
Two persons were recently baptized at Alexandria, Minn.
As a result of a tent effort at Leonard, Minn., three persons were baptized.
A CHURCH of twenty-three members has been organized at Amarillo, Tex.
THREE persons were baptized in West Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday, September 28.
SABBATH, September 25, three persons followed their Lord in baptism at Springfield, Ill.
H. C. GOODRICH reports the baptism of one person, a Chinese brother, at Cristobal, Mexico.
R. E. HARTER reports that nine persons were added to the church at Huron, Minn., Sabbath, October 2.
AT Millvale, Pa., eight are reported as keeping the Sabbath as a result of a summer’s work with a tent.
EIGHTEEN new members have been received into the church at Duluth, Minn.,—ten by letter and eight by baptism.
BROTHER DELL PICKARD, who has been conducting tent-meetings at Warrenton, Va., reports four new converts.
ELDER LESLIE MUNCE states that so far six have united with the church at Norfolk, Va., as a result of his tent effort there.
TWENTY-FOUR persons followed their Lord in the sacred ordinance of baptism the last Sunday at the Fonda, N. Y., camp-meeting.
SUNDAY, September 12, twenty-two souls were buried with their Lord in baptism at the camp-meeting in Southern New England.
SEVERAL have embraced the truth in North Philadelphia, as a result of a tent effort conducted by Brethren C. Baierle and B. M. Heald.
ELDER W. H. HECKMAN baptized ten adults at Scranton, Pa., Sunday, September 12—the result of the faithful Bible workers’ efforts in that field.
FIFTY-TWO persons were baptized at the Los Angeles, Cal., camp-meeting, and others presented themselves for baptism at their home churches.
A CHURCH of eighteen members has been organized at Haywards, Cal. Four of these members are keeping the Sabbath for the first time, and one has been baptized.
THE report from the East Michigan camp-meeting states that twenty-six were baptized, and others presented themselves for baptism at their home churches.
BROTHER U. D. PICKARD reports some keeping the Sabbath at Warrenton, Va. Four miles from that place, where he is holding meetings, he reports that a deep interest has been awakened. Many are investigating. One has already begun to keep the Sabbath.
