THE reports that come to us week by week through the REVIEW show clearly that God is using his servants in all parts of the earth in a marked way. Our hearts have been cheered in Kentucky as we have seen the progress that the message is making in this conference. Every branch of the work has made advancement. Our workers have carried a burden for perishing souls. As the colporteurs have gone from door to door, God has blessed them in placing the printed page in many homes, and as a result of their labors a number of persons are keeping the Sabbath. Since the first of this year our people throughout the conference have been praying and working to double our membership.
In several places a series of meetings has been held, and there has been a company or church organized in each of these places. Our workers have gone out in the hills, many miles from railroads, and planted the banner of truth. It means some hardships to give the message in the rural sections of the conference. Yet Christ died for these poor souls as well as for those who are blessed17with comfortable homes and pleasant surroundings; and when these poor people learn the truth, they love it as much as any class I have ever met.
We have one church with nineteen members, many miles from the railroad, and not one of this number has a wagon or any vehicle that goes on wheels. When the time for the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering comes, these poor people carry a chicken to the nearest store that pays cash, and obtain their offering. The accompanying picture shows the Sewellton church building, which was dedicated August 7 of this year. This building is twenty-six by thirty-two feet, and was erected by Elder Dow, fifty miles from a railroad. When we decided to build this church, it was necessary to go into the timber and cut the logs and saw them. While the lumber was seasoning, Brother Dow preached the message in another neighborhood. Then came the work of planing all the lumber by hand. When the building was completed and painted, we organized a church of twenty members, with a prospect of several others joining soon. When we go to these hill churches, it is necessary to go on muleback or on foot, yet the Lord blesses us for all the sacrifice we make.
Elder White has been laboring in the city of Covington, and the Lord has blessed his efforts so that we now have an organized church in that city.
There have been six churches organized, and one hundred and fifty-five persons added to the conference, the first half of the present year.
At this writing Elder Lawrence, with other helpers, is holding a tent effort for the colored people of Lexington, and the prospect is bright for a good company of believers. There were one hundred present at the Sabbath service last week.
For all that has been accomplished in this field we render thanks to the Lord, and pledge ourselves to more earnest service for the Master.
B. W. BROWN.
Arkansas. Colored Camp Meeting
By Methuselah Jones
The Arkansas colored camp meeting was held in the city of Pine Bluff, from July 22 to August 1. We had an excellent representation of our own people during the day, while at night the attendance at the services was all that any one could wish. Our large pavilion was crowded to overflowing, and many had to seat themselves on the green grass and on the floor of the rostrum.
The president of our conference, Elder W. E. Baxter, and Brethren C. J. Dart and H. Wilcox, came each by turn to our assistance, while Elder M. G. Nunes, formerly of the West Indies, but who now labors in the North Texas Conference, joined with the writer and gave invaluable help during the entire time. There was a marked readiness on the part of the people to yield to the Spirit's pleadings, for which we cannot cease to praise God. Confessions and reconsecrations were made to the Lord, and all manifested a greater desire to attain a higher standard of righteousness. At the close of these services the ordinance of baptism was administered to eight candidates, the majority of whom joined the church at Pine Bluff. One was added without baptism, and nine others signified their intention of soon joining the ranks of those who keep the commandments of God.
In making offerings, however, there is much room for improvement. Many fail to realize that it is a duty as well as a blessing to give to the cause of God. While the rich and wealthy can more easily give of their substance, the poor are by no means excused, as can easily be seen from the lesson of the poor widow, who gave the two mites, as recorded in Mark 12:42. It is true the present financial condition of affairs among the poorer classes is quite a problem, yet even this should not be made an excuse for failure to demonstrate to the dear Saviour a keen appreciation of his love. Only a small collection was taken in cash and pledges, but we hope there will be a reform in this particular, if the instructions received on this point are pondered and lived out.
While this camp meeting has been in advance of all others held in Arkansas among the colored people, the goal is not yet reached; but we hope that the day has already dawned when God's people will attempt great things for him, and expect great things from him.
METHUSELAH JONES.
Porto Rico
By D. D. FITCH
SANTURCE.— Can you imagine the condition of a member of a Seventh-day Adventist Church who does not see a copy of the dear old REVIEW AND HERALD, and whose children cannot go to an Adventist Sabbath school and come home with a copy of the Little Friend or the Youth’s Instructor? If so, you have an idea of the conditions under which most of the native English-speaking Sabbath keepers here have to live. Cannot something be done to help relieve the condi tion of those here who are too poor to subscribe for these papers? If there are any who, after reading their papers, would be willing to send them to us, we should indeed be glad to place them for the senders. It costs no extra postage to send mail to this place. Address the writer, at 12 Cerra St., Santurce, Porto Rico. D. D. FITCH.
Calcutta, India
By L. J. Burgess
THE prospects for the work in this metropolis of India were never brighter. Brethren J. M. Comer and W. S. Mead have been conducting evangelistic services here for some time, and the European population of the city have had an opportunity to hear the last message of warning for this generation. Many have availed themselves of the opportunity, and the meetings have been well attended. Since the beginning of the year eight souls have decided to unite with God's people by baptism. Others have accepted the message, and we hope will soon take the final step to identify themselves with us. Tithes and donations are increasing, and many of the members “have a mind to work.”
At the beginning of the present hot season, work was also opened in Darjeeling, a hill station in the Himalayas, north of Calcutta. A number of the leading men and women of this station have manifested an interest in the meetings, and it is hoped that before the end of the season some fruit may be seen.
The Calcutta treatment rooms, in charge of Brother J. H. Reagan, have had a prosperous year thus far, in fact, the best in their history. This work has been more than self-sustaining for a number of years, and some of the leading residents of Calcutta have been among the patients who have come for treatment. L. J. BURGESS.
ROBERT E. STEWART
By Robert E. Stewart
From the Philippines
A NUMBER of months have passed since we sent our last report. We are in good health and enjoying many blessings. All our needs have been supplied, our efforts have been blessed, and the goodness of the Lord has followed us daily. Truly the Lord is gracious to those who devote their lives to his cause. As a Provider, he never fails; as a Helper, he is always near; and as a Counselor, his way is always best.
By the time this report reaches you, it will have been two years since we turned our faces toward the Philippines. These years have brought many and varied experiences, but, after all, we can say, with the apostle Paul, “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” We cannot tell what may come in the future, but we do know that we must work harder and have greater experiences than in the past, for God’s message is going rapidly, and that means that his servants must make greater efforts in his service.
When I reported last, we were just beginning colporteur work in the island of Cebu. The island province of Bohol has been entered, and canvassed with “Home and Health,” and we have now just entered the province of Negros Oriental.
This is the third province of the four assigned to me to canvass; the fourth is the island of Leyte. These four provinces belong to the group called Bisayas, which includes also the island of Panay and the province of Negros Occidental, also the island of Samar. In the first four provinces, the same dialect is spoken, so we have a large field to work. Evangelistic work must be carried on also as soon as the books are placed in the hands of the people.
We now have a small book on the prophecies of Daniel, and we recently held our first canvassers’ institute, with five young men in attendance, at Argao, Cebu, where Dr. Fattebert is stationed. Brother Floyd Ashbaugh met with us and gave much valuable help. As fast as the way opens we will train young men and get them into these four provinces, where the people are living in darkness and superstition.
About the first of next year, I hope to begin with “Patriarchs and Prophets” and cover my territory again, then follow with “The Coming King.” The native boys, in the meantime, will work with the cheaper book in the dialect, as only a few can be reached with an English or Spanish book. The Filipinos are very desirous of becoming educated, and books are in demand, especially among the young people. The outlook for the canvassing work in the Philippines is very bright. The young men who are canvassing on the island of Luzon, near Manila, are having very good success, and the work has just begun.
ROBERT E. STEWART
Field Notes
THE baptism of six persons is reported from Dubuque, Iowa.
During the Fijian Mission council seventeen were baptized.
SEVEN gospel tent companies are working in Greater New York.
TWELVE members have been added to the North Creek church in eastern New York.
A NEW church building at Jacksonville, Fla., was recently dedicated to the service of God.
AT Woodland Park, eastern Colorado, six new believers have recently signed the covenant.
SIX persons were baptized during a recent visit to Elder C. F. McVagh to Carson City, Mich.
A SABBATH school was recently organized at Concord, Vt., and eight persons were baptized there.
SIX candidates, all adults, were baptized on a recent Sabbath by Elder H. H. Votaw, at Columbus, Ohio.
THE Grand Junction church, western Colorado, reports six new members, and the company at Montrose, seven.
THE report of eleven new church members and the organization of a Sabbath school comes from Hope Villa, La.
ELDER E. L. SANFORD baptized eleven new believers at Portland, Maine, recently, and seven have received baptism at Milo.
TWENTY-TWO persons in Lawrence, Mass., are keeping the Sabbath as the result of a tent effort conducted by Elder J. K. Jones.
ELDER C. H. PARKER writes of the organization of a Sabbath school, with a membership of thirty-one, at Atchin, New Hebrides.
ELDER ANOL GRUNDSET reports nine persons baptized, and four awaiting baptism, at Lockhart, Minn., where he has been in charge of a tent effort.
EIGHTEEN have accepted the truth in Kansas City, Kans., as a result of the summer's work there, and six in Coffeyville. A Sabbath school has been organized in Hill City.
AT the close of tent meetings in Crawford, Nebr., twenty-four arose, indicating their intention of obeying the commandments of God. At Lincoln twenty have already taken their stand for the truth.
THIRTY-EIGHT persons received baptism at the Western Washington Conference camp meeting, held at Tacoma.
FROM Republican Grove, Va., comes the report of the baptism of fourteen persons, and the organization of a church whose membership list holds the names of nineteen heads of families.
A SABBATH school and a church of eight members were organized recently at Marsh, Mont., and what is known as the Blue Mountain church has been organized near Wibaux, by Elder U. Bender.
THE workers engaged in the tent effort at Ithaca, N. Y., report twenty-two persons obeying the commandments of God as the result of their efforts. Their Sabbath school has a membership of thirty-five.
The Divine Pattern for Seventh-Day Adventist Medical Missionary Work
By David Paulson, M. D.
God could not trust Moses, with all his skill and learning, to build the tabernacle in the wilderness according to his own ideas. Moses was strictly admonished, “See . . . that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.” Heb. 8:5; Ex. 25:40. Are our natural abilities, even when consecrated to the Lord as Moses’ were, more capable of developing this Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium movement?
Several years ago Dr. Hurd, who was then president of the American Hospital Association, said, at the annual meeting of the association, in explaining the difference between sanitariums and hospitals, “You know the Battle Creek Sanitarium was started by a vision.” And that is the real fact; for before there was a stone laid in the foundation of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, God gave Sister White the ideals that should govern that work, and subsequently, before each new development in this work, a divine plan has always been outlined in advance of human workmen.
I am thoroughly convinced that the most crying need of our sanitarium work today is not more money, nor more patients, nor better workers, nor more abundant facilities, but a determination, born first of all in the hearts of the leaders, to prayerfully and earnestly study the plans and specifications until we become convinced that we know the will of God concerning the work that has been intrusted to our hands.
Before sensible business men construct an important building, they hire an expert architect to make a blue print and furnish the necessary plans and specifications. No contractor would take the contract for such a building without fully acquainting himself with even the smallest details of not only the blue print, but also of the plans and specifications. And after he has accepted the responsibility, no contractor will keep in his employ for a single day a workman who is not willing faithfully to follow these plans and specifications.
It is high time that our sanitarium leaders should become sanitarium experts. A good lawyer prides himself on knowing the law, or at least where to find the necessary information in his law books. By careful study he has faithfully classified all the essential principles so as to have them at his fingers’ ends on a moment’s notice at any time. Is it reasonable to expect that God will accept anything less from our hands?
Those sanitarium managers and heads of departments who do not already possess the entire nine volumes of the Testimonies, should buy them at once, for the same reason that a medical student buys medical books, and the competent lawyer fills one side of his office with a comprehensive law library. The very next thing to do is to go through, carefully and prayerfully, and classify, in a properly indexed loose-leaf binder, the various important subjects that relate to this sanitarium work. Two hours of study daily for a month will speedily enlighten any one as to what is the matter with our sanitarium work; and no amount of resolutions, learned discussions, and brilliant human ideas will accomplish one tenth as much for our sanitarium work. So much for the shepherds.
What about the sheep? Every worker in our sanitariums, be he nurse, domestic helper, call boy, or even fireman in the heating department, should be encouraged to buy immediately, first of all, “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VII. It contains more detailed information as to what God expects in this sanitarium work, and of sanitarium workers, than any other one of the nine volumes. Any worker, unless absolutely dead to the call of God, cannot read the following words without being thrilled through and through with a new vision and a new determination: “There are many who recognize no distinction between a common business enterprise, as a workshop, factory, or cornfield, and an institution established especially to advance the interests of the cause of God. But the same distinction exists that in ancient times God placed between the sacred and the common, the holy and the profane. This distinction he desires every worker in our institutions to discern and appreciate.”—Page 101.
If the sanitarium shepherds are themselves classifying the plans and specifications found in the entire nine volumes, they will have no difficulty in stimulating the workers to do the same in their study of Volume VII. I can scarcely conceive that a worker who for three weeks does what I have suggested, could permit himself to shrivel up spiritually by making the common mistake of substituting service for humanity for communion with God, or that he could ever be content to spend his time as many now are doing—merely studying sanitarium methods, instead of acquiring sanitarium principles.
The day is past—more than past—for any one to be content to any longer carry on the kind of sanitarium work19that we have been carrying on for years. God wants to transform our so-called Christian sanitarium work into genuine medical evangelistic work. That is an institution where nurses, helpers, and patients are taught to bring leaves from the tree of life to sin-sick souls; it is an institution where the Bible is not merely sandwiched in between the medical studies, but becomes the groundwork of each, and its principles are blended with them all; it is an institution where nurses are learning how they can naturally connect spiritual truths with the most commonplace incidents that daily occur; where we doctors make as careful and discriminating spiritual diagnosis as we do physical diagnosis; where we learn to prescribe for the soul maladies as well as the physical maladies; and that means that the doctors and nurses will have frequent earnest, prayerful consultations. In a medical evangelistic institution a nurse will report as faithfully on the patient’s spiritual nourishment and spiritual treatment as she will on the physical condition. Such a nurse will watch and pray as eagerly for spiritual healing as she now does for physical healing.
Our sanitariums have not been worldly enough to suit the worldly class, and they have not been spiritual enough so that God could trust them in a special manner with those who have a genuine aching of heart for spiritual help; and that situation will never be any different until the spiritual is made primary, and the physical is made secondary. The principles for just such a sanitarium are in the Bible, and the plan for it is fully outlined in the Testimonies. Prayerful study and more than human effort to develop such a sanitarium work will be required. Every one who would undertake it must have a special spiritual preparation before the Lord will intrust him with such a responsibility.
I believe the hour has come for us to bend ourselves to the task—to co-operate with the Lord to bring about this very result. We have encompassed this mount long enough. I positively believe Christ is walking through our sanitariums these very days to cleanse them as he did the temple of old. If he does not succeed, he will e’enlong say to us, as he did to the Jews, “Your house is left unto you desolate.” He will raise up a humble group of medical missionary evangelists who will go out with their souls on fire with these principles, and he will use them to finish this medical missionary work in the earth—without the help of any of these institutions, just as in the early dispensation of the church he used the disciples without the temple and its elaborate services which he himself had instituted.
The Educational and Missionary Volunteer Conventions
By M. E. KERN; FREDERICK GRIGGS
We have spoken in the REVIEW of the work of the council held at St. Helena, Cal., June 4-14, but little has been said concerning the conventions. We think that a word from some of the delegates to the different conventions will be of interest as expressive of the spirit and results of their work at these conventions.
Rosa N. Kozel, Bible worker in Chicago: “The required attendance at all meetings and the devoting of a part of the study time to services of consecration were two features which impressed and profited me most.”
J. L. Shaw, president of the Washington Missionary College: “The educational and Missionary Volunteer conventions held during the summer have been a source of education and inspiration to workers in these two departments. I regard the conventions as the strongest effort that has yet been made to build up and unify these lines, both in the North American Division as a whole and in the respective union conferences and college districts in which they have been held.”
C. A. Russell, educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Lake Union Conference: “I consider the educational and Missionary Volunteer convention held at Emmanuel Missionary College a pronounced success, both professionally and spiritually. All class work at the summer school was laid aside for the week, thus affording the nearly one hundred teachers the privilege of attending the daily sessions. Including these, there were 225 in attendance. Many important steps toward unifying our educational work were taken, while the Missionary Volunteer plans discussed and papers rendered were greatly appreciated by all.”
W. A. Long, educational superintendent and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Missouri Conference: “I think it was one of the best conventions I ever attended. The subjects that were studied were dealt with in a practical way. Many problems that I was grappling with had been solved by those long in the work, and a solution was given, so that I am on vantage ground in my local work. However, the most inspiring feature of the convention to me was to see all the educational men and women united with energy and determination to bring about an educational system that could be adopted in every conference to develop strong workers for the speedy finishing of the third angel’s message in the earth.”
O. Montgomery, president of the Southeastern Union Conference: “‘It was a grand success,’ was the verdict of all who attended. I feel confident that it will mean a great advance step and a new impetus which will be clearly seen in the educational and Missionary Volunteer work in this field.”
H. A. Morrison, president of Union College: “I am much pleased with the result of the work of the convention at Union College for Union College district. I feel that this has caused us to make rapid progress in the unification of our educational work. It has also helped us to appreciate the close relationship that should exist between the Missionary Volunteer Department and the Educational Department; and on the whole, it means that we are presenting a solid front in the work for our young people.”
A. N. Atteberry, principal of the Southern Training School: “The convention recently held in Graysville will, I feel, prove a greater uplift to the educational and Missionary Volunteer work throughout the South than anything else in its history thus far. The teachers and workers have received new ideals and new inspiration. The spirit of consecration and earnestness manifested by those in attendance insures the infusing of this same spirit through the entire field. We look forward to a new era in both these lines of work in the great Southland.”
M. B. Van Kirk, educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Northern Union Conference: “The educational and Missionary Volunteer convention at College View resulted in uniting our school men of the Northern Union Conference as never before. The spirit of cooperation has been strengthened, and new courage and inspiration born. The Missionary Volunteer secretaries got a broader vision and a new grasp of their work. This meeting must bring splendid results to this union conference.”
N. W. Lawrence, Missionary Volunteer and educational secretary of the North Pacific Union Conference: “The spirit of this convention was one of progress. The keynote—‘Deeper consecration; greater efficiency’—sounded at the beginning, continued to the very close, and still works. A greater appreciation of the value and importance of our work for the youth of our denomination, and of what still remains to be done, is an immediate result of the convention. Unity of plan and purpose throughout the field is another.”
L. A. Hoopes, Bible teacher in the Southern Training School: “The convention was a great spiritual and intellectual uplift to both the educational and Young People’s Missionary Volunteer work in this Southland. The great variety of school interests, so essential to the progress of the cause in the South, needed a unifying power that would cement in one grand system, and yet preserve the individuality of each. The convention met this need.”
Katherine French, a member of the Glenwood (Iowa) local Missionary Volunteer Society: “The convention at College View gave to me general inspiration and uplift, definite help along certain lines where I had been failing, and a deeper realization of my own responsibility. I am so thankful I was there.”
S. E. Jackson, president of the North Dakota Conference: “From what I was able to gather at the convention, I inferred that a more lengthy discussion would have been appreciated by the participants. This perhaps, however, was impossible, owing to the shortness of time. Our educational people here feel benefited, and have a desire to cooperate with the plans suggested as far as practicable.”
W. W. Ruble, Missionary Volunteer and educational secretary of the Central Union Conference: “I had never attended a convention that was so freighted with blessings as the one recently held at College View, Nebr. Every one present seemed to feel that this was true. I can see the effect of this convention in our field, and I surely shall see it more and more during the coming year. The Lord was certainly present at this meeting.”
E. C. Kellogg, president of Walla Walla College: “To my mind the educational and Missionary Volunteer convention which was held in College Place this summer, was of much benefit to this field. This is especially true in two particulars: First, the matter presented by20the men of the General and Division Departments, and the full and free consideration and discussion of the same, did much to unify the work throughout the North Pacific and Western Canadian Union Conferences; second, this meeting together in convention and giving careful attention to the needs and possibilities of our rapidly developing work deepened the sense of individual responsibility and increased the determination to push on to a successful conclusion.”
R. A. Underwood, president of the Central Union Conference: “The results of your convention in College View have proved to be a great blessing to all the teachers, and to the educational work in general.”
O. J. Graf, president of Emmanuel Missionary College: “The educational and Missionary Volunteer convention held at Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich., was a great inspiration in every way, and a great benefit to these lines of work in the Lake Union Conference. It was a great spiritual uplift to many, and has greatly increased the efficiency and unity in the work of both departments. We thank God for the blessings of the convention.”
Mrs. A. N. Loper, Missionary Volunteer leader, Dinuba, Cal.: “The sentiment of our convention was, ‘Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.’ ‘Israel’ obeyed. The glimpse of the higher vision still remains. Efforts toward harmonious unification of our work, and greater thoroughness, were eminently successful. Surely a new epoch dawned in California.”
Leo Thiel, educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Southeastern Union Conference: “‘Unity, consecration, and efficiency’ was the keynote of the Graysville convention. Coming, as it did, at the close of the summer school, it served to bind up the work of the whole summer. Great good is promised the field because of the determination formed to strive harder. The teachers, secretaries, and superintendents united for advance in the work of these departments.”
C. L. Stone, educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Columbia Union Conference: “Attending a convention such as was held at Washington Missionary College has been to the less experienced educational and Missionary Volunteer workers what attending camp meeting is to those who have recently embraced the third angel’s message. At a single sitting, the plans and activities of these departments are thrown upon the curtain, and a distinct impression of the whole and of all the parts is left upon the mind.”
Lynn H. Wood, educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Southern Union Conference: “For the Southland I am sure this series of conventions has united the interests of the educational and Missionary Volunteer work in a positive way, and will lead to a deeper study of the spirit of prophecy concerning the proper methods to use in saving our young people. It lighted the consuming fire in my life.”
To us not the least feature of benefit to our departments from these conventions, taken together with the council preceding them, is the unifying of our efforts in our common work of qualifying our youth for gospel service. We thank God for what has come to us through this series of meetings. We are now upon the line of advance.
M. E. KERN,
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— Thirty-nine of the leading college newspapers of the United States and Canada voted, at the recent annual convention of the Associated College Newspaper Publishers, to debar liquor advertisements of all kinds from their columns. These papers have a circulation of more than 100,000. Expulsion from the organization will be the punishment for violation of the new rule.
— Property damage estimated at $2,000,000 resulted from a fire which originated in a Chesapeake and Ohio grain elevator at Newport News, Va., about midnight, September 4, and spread to near-by buildings and to a big grain pier. The grain was being shipped to certain of the warring nations of Europe.
— That the Pennsylvania Railroad will offer the United States a reserve army of 100,000 men was the announcement made at Philadelphia recently. The plan of the officials is to grant every suitable employee a month's leave to go to any United States training camp the federal government may choose, for instruction.
— For the first time in our history, the United States has become the world's greatest exporter. During the last fiscal year, according to figures given out at Washington, American exports totaled $2,768,600,000 as compared with $2,170,100,000 for Great Britain, the next largest exporter. This was an increase of seventeen per cent for the United States, against a decrease of thirty per cent for Great Britain.
— Foreign influences in Haiti, working to block plans of the United States to pacify the republic and rehabilitate its finances under American supervision, made it necessary to declare martial law in Port au Prince, the capital, and in practically all but two of the country's open ports, on September 4. Rear Admiral Caperton, acting within his general instructions, explained that his action in declaring martial law was taken because of a situation that was beyond the control of the local government.
— The China Inland Mission has recently celebrated a half century of wonderful achievement. In that time it has baptized over 50,000 converts, more than 5,000 of these being baptized during the last year. It has established and maintains 754 local churches. Its 227 stations, with resident missionaries, and its 1,100 outstations, are established in fifteen of the original eighteen inland provinces of China, and are served by 1,036 consecrated men and women from twenty-two countries. The story of this mission will always remain one of the great romances of the modern movement for Christian world evangelization. The mission was founded in 1865 by J. Hudson Taylor.
— That recent discoveries and commercial arrangements have practically freed American industry of dependence on Germany for dyes, and have given American farmers a dependable source of potash fertilizers, was the announcement last week of Dr. Thomas H. Norton, of the Department of Commerce. According to Dr. Norton an American chemist, whose name is withheld, has perfected a new process for the manufacture of dyes from coal tar derivatives, which will make possible a reduction in the cost of present methods. At the same time an improved method of drying kelp for the production of potash has been worked out, and the product can be shipped from the Pacific coast, where it is manufactured, through the Panama Canal, and laid down on the gulf and Atlantic coasts at prices that will probably compare favorably with those quoted by Germans before the war.
What Have We Done Today?
By Nixon Waterman
We shall do so much in the year to come,
But what have we done today?
We shall give our gold in a princely sum,
But what did we give today?
We shall lift the heart and dry the tear,
We shall plant a hope in the place of fear,
We shall speak the words of loving cheer;
But what did we speak today?
We shall be so kind in the afterwhile,
But what have we been today?
We shall bring to each lonely life a smile,
But what have we brought today?
We shall give to truth a grander birth,
And to steadfast faith a deeper worth,
We shall feed the hungering souls of earth;
But whom have we fed today?
We shall reap such joys in the by and by,
But what have we sown today?
We shall build us mansions in the sky,
But what have we built today?
'Tis sweet in idle dreams to bask,
But here and now we do our task.
Yes, this is the thing our souls must ask:
“What have we done today?”
— Nixon Waterman.
Patience, Faith, and Hope
By George B. Vosburgh
BE patient. Keep sweet. Do not fret or worry. Do your best, and leave results with God. Believe firmly in God, in the fulfillment of his purposes, and in the march of his providences. God's laws are immutable, and work with undeviating regularity. Walk in fellowship with God, and every year you will be a stronger, better, happier, and sweeter man. Do not mar your peace or power by needless worry. Live by faith in the Son of God, who loves you and gave himself for you. On some bright tomorrow you will come to anchor under a heaven of sapphire, and a harbor of calm, with chimes ringing their welcome from the spires that sentinel the city of God, while from the battlements millions will shout, “Well done!” while God himself will say, “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”— George B. Vosburgh.
“THE pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible.”
The Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Training School for Medical Missionary Nurses
Our next nurses' class will begin Jan. 1, 1916, and young men and women who desire a thorough missionary training for nurses will find an excellent opportunity to receive such training here.
We desire to keep the educational standard as high as possible, and will not consider applicants who have not completed at least the ninth grade. Capable young men are especially needed.
Write for our new nurses' calendar. Address Superintendent of Nurses' Training School, Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Boulder, Colo.