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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17.

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Earlier text: Decisions and Recommendations of the General Conference Committee

Earthquake and Fire

By L. A. S.

The following is a statement of facts obtained from press reports, descriptive of what is doubtless the greatest catastrophe in point of wide-spread destruction, that has occurred in modern times.
At 5:13 o'clock in the morning of April 18, a large section of central California adjacent to the coast was shaken by a terrific earthquake, several shocks following each other with diminishing severity, the first one being the most violent. The duration of the first shock was one minute, and in those places most affected the earth's surface was agitated during this time like a storm-swept sea. Many of the older and less substantially built structures collapsed, burying their occupants beneath the ruins, or were so damaged that they fell at the next vibration. Only the strongest modern steel structures were able to withstand the shock without serious damage.
San Francisco, the metropolis of the Pacific Coast, with its miles of lofty buildings and its four hundred thousand inhabitants, was of course the center of interest, destruction, and horror. The cheap lodging-houses and hotels near the water front, where the shock was worst, collapsed at once, causing the loss of several hundred lives. The collapse or wreck of warehouses, tenements, and other structures in the low-lying district of the city was general. Some of the largest buildings were likewise demolished. The great city hall, to erect which required seven million dollars and twenty years' time, was laid in ruins; likewise the new two-million-dollar post-office. A great section of the shell of the Call building, the tallest structure in the city, fell to the ground. The roofs or top floors of other large business buildings fell in, and only the fact that they were not occupied at that early morning hour prevented great loss of life.
Awakened, and in many cases thrown from their beds, by the first violent shock, the inhabitants of the city rushed into the streets with no thought but that of escape from burial beneath the wreck of their homes. Thousands did not take time to dress. In the streets they were still menaced by swaying walls, with each recurring vibration of the earth. It was impossible to reach a place of safety. All lights in the city were extinguished. Confusion and consternation reigned supreme.
When the first dread agency of destruction had spent its violence, another at once took up the work which it had begun. Fire, from crossed electric wires and broken gas-mains, broke out in a number of places. The water-mains had also been broken by the violence of the upheaval, and the water system of the city was rendered useless. The firemen responded to a general alarm, but were without water to fight the flames. The fire made steady and rapid headway, fanned by an east wind which carried it directly toward the heart of the city. There remained but the one hope of saving the city from destruction by the use of dynamite.
It was nine o'clock before the police, firemen, and the troops from the fort at the Golden Gate, had the populace under control, and then by order of the mayor the city was put under martial law, and efforts began to arrest the conflagration by blowing up buildings in its path. No building was spared if its destruction seemed necessary, but every effort to stop the advancing sea of flame by this last resort was fruitless. Van Ness Avenue, with a width of ninety feet, was selected as a place to make a determined effort, and along this avenue a mile of buildings were leveled. But when the flames reached it, they leaped across the intervening space. Finally the supply of dynamite became exhausted, and even this last hope of arresting the onward march of destruction was gone. The city was wholly given over to the devouring element.
As the fire's grasp upon the city became more complete, and it became evident that no section would be spared, the terror-stricken people sought the wide open space of Golden Gate park and the Presidio, the only remaining refuge from the flames, except the sea. Here the greater part of the population were sheltered in tents, or slept in the open air, being supplied with food and water by the troops. Exit from the city, or ingress to it, was prevented by the troops, acting under orders; but before martial law had become established, many thousands took passage across the bay to Oakland, where the earthquake had not inflicted serious damage.
The streets of that city became lined with homeless, penniless refugees who had nothing to do but wait until some one came and offered them food and shelter. A description in the Washington Post says: “Every few minutes there float through the suburbs into the town these processions of miserable, smoke-blackened, haggard, weeping people which made yesterday the beginning of this hell. Now and then you recognize some man, dressed like a tramp, dirty, dragging a miserable woman, as a prosperous business man or a sleek clerk whom you have known in San Francisco. They come to us hungry, mainly penniless, fairly begging something to eat from the public kitchens which the soldiers have set up in the streets.”
Speaking of the futile effort to stop the advancing conflagration at Van Ness Avenue, this description says:—
“At four o'clock Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police Dinan decided that the only hope of saving the western addition, with its forest of frame dwellings, and the Richmond district, with its thousands of homes, was to check the fire at Van Ness Avenue, which crosses the city from north to south, where the residences begin. This avenue is ninety feet wide, and the possibilities of checking the march of the flames there looked hopeful. Huge cannons were drawn to the avenue to aid the dynamiters in blowing up the mansions of the millionaires on the east side of Van Ness Avenue. Every available pound of dynamite was hauled to this point, and the sight was one of stupendous and appalling havoc, as the cannons were trained on the palaces, and the shot tore into the walls and toppled the buildings in crushing ruins.”
No account could portray in full the features of this appalling picture. “Marius, sitting among the ruins of Carthage,” says one writer, “saw not such a sight as presents itself. Ruins, stark naked, yawning at fearful angles and pinnacled into a thousand fearsome shapes, mark the site of what was three fourths of the total area of the city.” Of the mental condition into which the people have been brought by the catastrophe, a survivor says: “We are so drunken and dulled by horror that we take such stories [of heroism and fatalities] calmly now. We are saturated.” An observer in Oakland says: “People are crying, praying, muttering to themselves on the streets, and no one pays any attention. We have become a city of the mad.”
Of San Francisco, the proud metropolis, little is left that would suggest a former abode of human beings. The very streets are gone, swallowed up beneath the heaps of debris left by the destroying elements. The destruction is more terrible and complete than that which came upon Chicago in the great fire of 1871. Hundreds of thousands of its former inhabitants are left homeless. How forcibly is the truth of the Scripture shown, “Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth”!
At some other places the violence of the earthquake was as great as at San Francisco, and the damage sustained was proportionally almost as great. The entire business sections of Santa Rosa and San Jose were laid in ruins. The buildings of Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto were shaken down. Reports state that nineteen lives were lost at San Jose, and one hundred or more at Santa Rosa. Oakland, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Healdsburg, and other places suffered from the visitation, though the damage was comparatively slight. Accurate estimates of the loss of life and amount of property destroyed are not yet obtainable, but all reports state that as regards the latter, this fire is the greatest in the history of the world, far outranking the great fire of London, and the destruction of Chicago in 1871. From $200,000,000 to $500,000,000 loss is the present estimate.
The one relieving feature of the situation is the promptness with which the entire nation came to the relief of the stricken populace of the ruined district, several millions of dollars being promptly subscribed for their relief. Supplies of provisions were speedily sent from all sides, and the danger of famine, which threatened the vast multitude camped in Golden Gate park and other open spaces of San Francisco was averted, but the problem of preventing an epidemic owing to the lack of sanitation, has become a serious one. The contents of the San Francisco banks were saved, and no one questions but that the city will be rebuilt.
L. A. S.

Current Mention

— A new union station to cost $10,000,000 is to be built in Mexico City for the railways centering there, and $60,000,000 is to be expended for new railway lines and improvements in that country.
— It is announced that The Hague peace congress which had been called to meet next summer, has been postponed to next October, to suit the convenience of the United States, which is soon to participate in a Pan-American congress.
— The final arguments to decide the question whether Senator-elect Reed Smoot, of Utah, is entitled to a seat in Congress, have been made before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. The indications are that Mr. Smoot will be excluded from the Senate.
— Announcement is made of an association to be formed at Columbus, Ohio, May 1, 2, for the purpose of securing a more stringent enforcement of the Sunday law in that State. It is stated that “the formation of the organization is in the hands of Protestant clergymen of the State.”
— Dr. Seale Harris, professor of medicine in the University of Alabama, is authority for the statement that the negro race is dying off in the South through the prevalence of tuberculosis among that class, and that the death-rate among the Southern negroes now exceeds the birth-rate.
— There is a disagreement between Russia and China over certain concessions held by Russia in Manchuria which the Chinese declare were never rightfully obtained. Russia wants the Chinese government to ratify the concessions, but the Chinese, it is stated, are bent on resisting everything in the nature of foreign aggression.

Notices and Appointments

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1906

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Eastern Pennsylvania May 31 to June 10
Western Pennsylvania June 14–24
Virginia July 26 to Aug. 5
New Jersey Aug. 2–12
West Virginia Aug. 16–26
New York Aug. 23 to Sept. 3
Maine Aug. 23 to Sept. 3
Vermont Aug. 23 to Sept. 3
Southern New England June 14–24
Central New England Sept. 13–23
Greater New York Sept. 23
Chesapeake May 18–28

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Ontario Aug. 23 to Sept. 2

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Louisiana Aug. 2–12
Georgia Aug. 2–12
South Carolina Aug. 9–16
Alabama Aug. 16–26
Tennessee River Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Cumberland Sept. 6–16
North Carolina Sept. 7–16
Florida Nov. 1–11

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Southern Illinois Aug. 2–12

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Minnesota June 1–10
South Dakota June 7–17
North Dakota (English) June 19–24
North Dakota (German) June 19–24
North Dakota (English) June 26 to July 1
Alberta July 10–17

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Iowa, Boone May 31 to June 10
Wyoming June 21 to July 1
Nebraska July 19–29
Missouri Aug. 2–12
Kansas Aug. 9–19
Colorado Aug. 23 to Sept. 3

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Texas Aug. 2–12
Arkansas Aug. 6–26
Oklahoma Aug. 23 to Sept. 2

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
California, Willows May 6–13
California, Merced May 6–13
California, Dinuba May 20–27

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Western Washington, Puyallup, Wash. May 10–20
Upper Columbia, Milton, Ore. May 17–27
Western Oregon, Woodburn, Ore. May 31 to June 10
Montana June 21 to July 1
British Columbia Latter part of May

AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Location Date
Union Conference session, Cooranbong, N. S. W. Sept. 13–23

EUROPEAN MEETINGS

Location Date
Norway and Scandinavian Union, Christiania, Norway June 6–11
Denmark, Randers June 13–18
Sweden, Westeras (near Stockholm) June 19–24
German-Swiss, Lake Zurich June 29 to July 4
Roman-Swiss and Latin Union, Gland, Switzerland July 5–10
General European, Gland, Switzerland July 11–15
German Union, Friedensau, Germany July 19–29
British Union, near Birmingham Aug. 3–12
Holland Aug. 16–19
France Aug. 21–26
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any additional information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made, of either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for 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.
FOR SALE.—New 4-room, plastered house; orange, lemon, and olive trees in bearing. Five minutes' walk from college. Price reasonable if sold at once. Address A. S. Booth, Fernando, Cal.
WANTED.—Baker or apprentice; young man that can furnish good reference, must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good standing. Address Geo. E. Keppler, 419 E. Chestnut St., Hamilton, Ohio.
FOR SALE.—640-acre homestead; 30 acres farm land, rest pasture. U. S. deed in 5 years. Price, $150. Will hire farm-hand 7 months. Fully explained for two red stamps. Address J. B., Box 91, Rushville, Neb.
FOR SALE.—Vegetable cooking oil, odorless, fine shortener, good keeper. Prices, freight prepaid east of Colorado, west of Pennsylvania: one 5-gal. can, $3.50; two cans, $6.50; three cans, $9.25. Address R. H. Brock, Arkansas City, Kan.
WANTED.—A gentleman nurse, to work in treatment rooms and do such other work as occasion may demand. A single man preferred, one who wishes permanent employment. Address R. L. Mantz, 201-4 Granby Blk., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
RANCID-PROOF peanut butter, 10 cents a pound. Purest cocoanut oil, 15 cents in 5-pound, 14 cents in 25-pound, and 13 cents in 50-pound lots. Agents wanted everywhere. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Bond Building, Washington, D. C.
WANTED.—A good industrious man to work on farm for the season or year. In replying state age, experience, and wages wanted. Send recommendations signed by responsible men. Come West and find your fortune. Address N. C. Kier, Hurley, S. D.
WANTED AT ONCE.—Ten young men, and fifteen young women, all Seventh-day Adventists who have had good religious experience, to make immediate arrangements for entering the Glendale Sanitarium nurses' training-school. Want those only who are desirous of fitting themselves for active medical missionary work. Address Dr. Winegar Simpson, Glendale, Cal.
FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful, best vegetable oil for cooking or salads; no odor; keeps indefinitely. Gal. can, $.90; 5-gal., $3.50. Also olive-oil of the purest grade; gal. can, $2.50; half gal., $1.35; quart can, $.75. Send for samples. Also finest whole-wheat flour in U. S. A. Will deliver free in Greater New York. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.
I WILL start a few in a paying manufacturing business on a $5 capital that will bring them a good living, enabling them to keep the Sabbath. I will find everything to start them, and give full instructions. Experience not necessary. This offer is limited, so write at once. Can not answer any from California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, or Arizona. Address Alfred Mallett, Elkridge Sta., Baltimore, Md.

Addresses

THE address of Elder E. W. Webster is 1017 Pendleton St., Greenville, S. C.
The post-office address of Elder W. H. Thurston is 123 Albert St., Ottawa, Canada.

Publications Wanted

[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and we urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—Ed.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
W. F. Mayers, Comfort, Tex., Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Life and Health.
Mr. J. A. Oppy, R. F. D. 1, Siloam Springs, Ark., Signs, Instructor, Little Friend.
John K. Lane, Corpus Christi, Tex., tracts on the Sabbath and immortality questions, also Spanish tracts.
Geo. R. Close, 201 Temple Court Bldg., Denver, Colo., Signs, Life and Health, Little Friend, and tracts.
I. T. Reynolds, 617 Napoleon Ave., New Orleans, La., periodicals and tracts in English and other languages.
J. A. Poteete, Box 4, R. F. D. 2, Cedar Grove, Tenn., a large and continuous supply of periodicals and tracts.
Mary Moore, Decatur, Ark., Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts, especially those on the Sabbath.
Lorain Ave. Mission, 4223 Lorain (near Orchard), West Cleveland, Ohio, Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, and tracts.
Mrs. H. C. Lyle, Ridgefield, Wash., Signs, Instructor, Life and Health (none preceding the issues of January, 1906), and tracts.
Mrs. May L. Carr, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Life Boat, and tracts; also periodicals in the Danish-Norwegian and the German.
Mrs. Mary Cool, R. F. D. 2, Murdocksville, Pa., has all the papers she can use at present.

Review and Herald Publishing Association

By W. W. Prescott

THE members of the Review and Herald Publishing Association are hereby called to convene at 9 A. M., Wednesday, May 16, 1906, at Berrien Springs, Mich., for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the corporation. The members of this corporation are the board of trustees of the corporation; the executive committees of the following-named conferences: General Conference, Atlantic Union, Canadian Union, Lake Union, Northern Union; the executive committees of the local conferences composing the above-named union conferences; and the stockholders of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, a corporation formerly existing in the State of Michigan, who have duly transferred their membership to the Review and Herald Publishing Association of Washington, D. C.
By order of the Trustees,
W. W. PRESCOTT, President.

Mary M. Gallup, Clerk

By Mary M. Gallup

Notice!

At the last quarterly meeting of the church at Council Bluffs, Iowa, action was taken concerning members who still have their names on the church book, but who do not report. After considerable discussion it was decided to accept the advice given at the General Conference, and after four quarterly meetings have passed without receiving a report, to consider the member dismissed without further notice. The clerk was requested to kindly inform each one of this decision, and urge each one to report, also to send this notice to the REVIEW AND HERALD and Bulletin for publication.

Mary M. Gallup, Clerk

To the Absent Members of the Battle Creek Church

At the last business meeting of this church, it was voted that all members whose addresses could not be learned should be placed upon what should be known as the retired list, and not be counted with the other members of the church. This is done with the understanding that as soon as any of these members are heard from, their names shall be added to the regular list of members, provided they have remained faithful in the truth.
All members who have not regularly reported to the church are hereby requested to do so, that the officers of the church may have proper information upon which to base a division of the members. Address A. L. Bayley, Clerk, 271 West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich.

Capital and Labor

By A. O. Tait

ONE of the very best issues of The Signs of the Times that we have ever published was the one devoted to the discussions of the problems of “Capital and Labor” in the light of prophecy. Those who have seen it will remember the very strong and very striking picture that occupied the whole of the front cover page. That picture alone creates an impression that is not easily shaken off. The articles in the paper are invaluable and timely.
We still have several thousand of this Capital and Labor number of the Signs, and they are just as timely as ever. Do you not want to help distribute them?
Order your supply from the Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.; 50 or more for 1¼ cents a copy; in lots less than 50, 1½ cents a copy. A. O. TAIT.

Annual Meeting

By M. Alace Mantz

NOTICE is hereby given that a legal meeting of the constituency of the Iowa Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will be held in Boone, Iowa, Tuesday, June 5, 1906, at 3 P. M., in connection with the annual camp-meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists, for the purpose of electing members of the board of trustees, and transacting such other business as may legally come before it.
M. ALACE MANTZ, Secretary.

Please Take Notice!

By Allen Moon

ALL delegates and visitors desiring to attend the Lake Union Conference to be held at Berrien Springs, Mich., May 8-18, should provide themselves with the following articles: straw ticks, sheets, pillows and pillow-cases, with blankets or comfortables for covering. Bedsteads and springs will be provided by the conference. In case two persons come together, they may be able to unite in providing for one bed, and arrangements will be made for them to occupy the same cottage and bed. Please observe these directions carefully.
ALLEN MOON, Pres. Lake Union Conf.

“Save the Boys”

You can still get a supply of that 24-page anti-tobacco booklet, “Save the Boys,” at the rate of 65 cents for 100, post-paid. You can do a good work by its distribution. There is yet room for millions of them. Order now. Address Save the Boys, Washburn Park, Minneapolis, Minn.

Notice!

I WISH to correspond with young persons who desire to take a course in a preparatory school, and need to pay their way in work. Only those who wish to engage in the Master's work need apply. See my article in the REVIEW of April 5. Address C. G. Howell, Cumberland Industrial School, R. F. D. 2, Daylight, Tenn.

Obituaries

ROLKE.—Died at the home of his parents, near Ramah, Colo., March 1, 1906, of pneumonia, Laverne Everett Rolke, aged 5 months and 1 day. His parents are confident that if they are faithful, he will be restored to their arms when the Life-giver comes. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. A. G. BODWELL.
McCAY.—Died in Denver, Colo., Jan. 28, 1906, of tuberculosis, Sister May McCay, in the thirty-fifth year of her age. Sister McCay became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Denver several years ago, and died firm in the faith. She leaves a husband, a daughter, a father, two brothers, and three sisters. She rejoiced in the blessed hope until the last. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. G. W. ANGLEBARGER.
BOURNE.—Died in Denver, Colo., Jan. 30, 1906, of tuberculosis, Mrs. Edith Bourne, aged 21 years, 10 months, and 22 days. She was converted last June, and with joy embraced the Seventh-day Adventist faith, in which she rejoiced until the end. She leaves a husband, two little children, a boy and a girl, a father and a mother, two brothers, and three sisters. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. G. W. ANGLEBARGER.
KEENON.—Died at her home in Covington, Ky., March 15, 1906, of heart-disease, Mrs. H. D. Keenon, in her seventy-first year. Sister Keenon had been a Christian for almost fifty years, having united with the Presbyterian Church in her youth. For the past sixteen years she was a devout Seventh-day Adventist, a member of the Cincinnati (Ohio) church. She leaves two daughters and three sons to mourn. Interment took place at Georgetown, Ky. C. A. PEDICORD.
CUTTS.—Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Greerson, of St. Paul, Minn., March 11, 1906, of paralysis, Mrs. Sarah Cutts, aged 76 years, 11 months, and 28 days. She was converted when a child, and accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith about ten or twelve years ago, and ever after was a faithful and consistent member of that church. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Job 19:25, after which the remains were taken to Wisconsin for burial. F. A. DETAMORE.
HAFER.—Died at Colon, Mich., March 8, 1906, after an illness of three weeks, Mrs. Julia A. Hafer, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 19 days. Early in life she united with the Baptist Church, and in 1858 joined the Seventh-day Adventists. Hers was an earnest Christian life. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. H. C. Goodrich, who, three years ago, came from Central America to care for her aged mother. Two grandchildren and many other relatives and friends were in attendance at the funeral, held at the Baptist church, Rev. W. H. Hickman, of Battle Creek, preaching an impressive sermon. Interment took place in the Colon Cemetery, where her husband and five of her children were buried. J. H. GOODRICH.
RADER.—Died in Roseburg, Ind., Feb. 23, 1906, of a complication of diseases doubtless resulting from three gunshot wounds received while in the great battle of Chickamauga, Simeon W. Rader, aged 71 years, 9 months, and 13 days. He was converted and united with the Christian Church in 1864. In 1876, at Marion, Ind., he attended a tent-meeting held by Elders S. H. Lane and Arthur Bartlett, at which time he fully accepted the truth. He was a faithful worker in both church and Sabbath-school. He leaves a wife, two sons, and two daughters to mourn their loss. He is greatly missed by the little church and Sabbath-school at Michael, to which he belonged. Words of comfort and consolation were spoken to a large and sympathizing audience by the writer; text, Ps. 90:1-10. J. M. REES.
ROBERTS.—Died at Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 9, 1906, Arthur C. Roberts, son of A. G. and Lydia Roberts, of Salem, Ore. Arthur was born Nov. 12, 1884. He gave his heart to the Lord at Walla Walla College during the week of prayer, 1904; and he fell asleep in Jesus, having had a good experience till the last. His death resulted from a form of tuberculosis. The remains were taken to Salem, Ore., for burial; and the funeral took place on Sabbath, January 20, with a large congregation of friends in attendance. The discourse was given by the writer from Col. 3:1-4. T. H. STARBUCK.
LEA.—Died at the Buffalo Sanitarium, Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1906, of cancer of the stomach, Brother E. C. Lea, in the fiftieth year of his age. Brother Lea was reared a Sabbath-keeper, his parents being Seventh-day Baptists. Later they embraced the views of Seventh-day Adventists, and he also became identified with this denomination. His health had been failing for some years, and he sought relief at the sanitarium. At first he seemed to improve, but a return of the symptoms baffled the skill of the physician. The funeral service was held in his home, to which he was taken, interment being made at Churchville, near his birthplace. A wife and four children survive him. S. B. WHITNEY.
COOK.—Died Sept. 4, 1905, of pneumonia, Minerva W. Cook, near Sharpless, aged 76 years, 10 months, and 13 days. She joined the Baptist Church very early in life, and continued her church relation with that people until about thirty years ago, when she heard Elders St. John and Waggoner preach the third angel's message at West Unity, Ohio. She became convinced of the truth, and ever after lived in harmony with its principles. Her husband and elder daughter preceded her in death, the younger daughter surviving to mourn her loss. The funeral service was held in the college chapel at Academia, Ohio. 1 Peter 1:24, 25, being chosen as a basis for words of consolation. Interment took place at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. M. C. KIRKENDALL.
BABCOCK.—Died at her home near Jackson Center, Ohio, March 19, 1906, of typhoid fever, Ada Myrtle Polan Babcock, daughter of Chas. L. and Frances A. Polan, aged 30 years, 8 months, and 20 days. At the age of ten years she professed faith in Christ, and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church. In the spring of 1896 she joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which she remained a faithful member until her death. She was a kind and affectionate wife and mother, and was respected and loved by her many friends. She leaves a husband, two daughters, father and mother, three brothers, and three sisters, who deeply mourn for her. Words of comfort were spoken by J. D. Jones (Seventh-day Baptist), from Deut. 32:29. I. T. BABCOCK.
ROGERS.—Died in Jacksonville, Fla., March 3, 1906, our beloved father, E. L. Rogers, aged 76 years, 10 months, and 18 days. Father was converted at the age of fourteen under the preaching of the first angel's message, and during all the years since has been a faithful witness for the Saviour. Nearly twenty-one years ago his attention was called to the third angel's message, and he gladly accepted it, and had the privilege of seeing all his children walk in the light. He leaves a wife and four children, two sons and two daughters, to mourn their loss. They were with him at the time of his death, and are assured that all is well with him. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder L. H. Crisler from Isa. 53:5, a text of father's choosing. MRS. C. D. WOLFF.
MCPHERSON.—Died at her home in Hollywood, Cal., March 13, 1906, after a protracted illness, Mrs. Lillian Otis McPherson, daughter of Gen. Harrison Guy Otis and wife of Alfred M. McPherson. Sister McPherson was a member of the Los Angeles church. She was true to her convictions, and earnest and devoted in her church work. Free and hospitable in her disposition, she was active in her charities. She loved her Bible, and made it her counselor in all things. She was a lover of the beautiful flowers, which she regarded as expressions of the thoughts of her Heavenly Father. We laid her away to sleep in Jesus until he shall come. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder G. W. Reeser. RODERICK S. OWEN.
CARPENTER AND DICKIE.—Died at the home of her father, Brother John Dickie, of Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, March 11, 1906, of tuberculosis, Annie, beloved wife of Arden Carpenter, of Leominster, Mass., aged 31 years. Sister Annie, with her parents, accepted the message about ten years ago, and after laboring some time in missionary work in her native province, took the nurses' course in Clinton, Mass. Here, in the discharge of her duties, she contracted the disease which five years later caused her death. At the hour appointed for the funeral, her sister Ruhie, aged 29 years, who contracted the disease from Annie, also fell asleep in Jesus. The two sisters lie side by side, awaiting the Life-giver's call. Besides a father, mother, two sisters, and two brothers, Sister Annie leaves an affectionate husband and a sweet little girl of four summers. The services were conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder McLarren (M. E.); texts, Matt. 5:4, 5; John 12:21, last clause. L. D. LONGARD.
UNDERWOOD.—Fell asleep in Jesus, at Wayne, Ohio, March 15, 1906, Alfred B. Underwood, at the ripe age of nearly ninety years, having been born in Casanova, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1816. Father was united in marriage to Mrs. S. Morse Allen, April 27, 1847. He leaves to mourn, our dear mother, who is in her eighty-ninth year, also eight children, thirty-four grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild, and many other relatives and friends. He was converted when seventeen years old. He labored for many years as a successful minister among the Baptists. In the summer of 1864 he heard Elder J. H. Waggoner present the claims of the Sabbath, and soon united with the Seventh-day Adventists. He resigned his position as pastor of a large Baptist church, and fully identified himself with the movement foretold in Rev. 14:6-12. His faith and interest ever increased in the precious hope of the soon coming of Christ to raise the dead, destroy sin, and bring an end to the suffering of this world. He was one of eleven children, and survived them all. He often expressed the hope that he might live to see the Lord come in power and great glory. The generation in which father and mother have lived covers the most eventful achievements of the world's history. When he was born, the population of the United States was less than eight million. He was eleven years old when the first railroad was chartered. He had seen twenty-four summers when Mr. Morse sent his first telegraphic message from Baltimore to Washington, D. C. Well do I remember the days when mother took the wool (after father had sheared the sheep), washed, carded, spun, colored, wove, and made the same into garments for winter clothing for the family, also how the linen was made from flax grown on the farm, and manufactured in the humble manner of those days. I remember grandfather's reaping the grain with the sickle, and thrashing it with a flail. Father often referred to the marvelous changes that came in his lifetime, as a sign (Dan. 12:4) of more wonderful changes to take place at the soon coming of Christ. By his request the writer spoke words of comfort from Rev. 14:13 and Ps. 115:15 to a large number of relatives and neighbors. Dr. Knapp, the local pastor of the Congregational church, also made appropriate remarks. We laid our dear father to rest with the precious faith that he sweetly sleeps in Jesus, soon to awake to immortal youth, where there will be no more death and sorrow. R. A. UNDERWOOD.

Review and Herald Plant Moves to Washington

By Editor

Since our last mention of the matter, considerable progress has been made in the work of establishing the Review and Herald printing plant at Washington. The building is now practically ready for occupancy, and ten car-loads of machinery, stock, etc., have already been received. All the personal property has been shipped from Battle Creek, and ought to arrive during the present week. Last week Brother S. N. Curtiss, the business manager of this association, who has been in Battle Creek since the latter part of December arranging for this transfer, returned to Washington, accompanied by such employees as will continue their work in the new location. Those who understand what is involved in the removal of a printing plant will appreciate the fact that there is a large amount of work to be done before we can actually begin operations ,in the new building, but we feel that the most trying part of the experience is now in the past, and we are hopeful that we shall be able to send out the REVIEW from its new home some time next month.

Lucifer’s Rebellion in Heaven

“REJECTING with disdain the arguments and entreaties of the loyal angels, he [Lucifer] denounced them as deluded slaves. The preference shown to Christ he declared an act of injustice both to himself and to all the heavenly host, and announced that he would no longer submit to this invasion of his rights and theirs. He would never again acknowledge the supremacy of Christ. He had determined to claim the honor which should have been given him, and take command of all who would become his followers; and he promised those who would enter his ranks a new and better government, under which all would enjoy freedom. . . . He declared that all who should submit to the authority of heaven [after having taken the first steps in rebellion] would be stripped of their honor, degraded from their position. For himself, he was determined never again to acknowledge the authority of Christ. The only course remaining for him and his followers, he said, was to assert their liberty, and gain by force the rights which had not been willingly accorded them. . . . Lucifer had at first so conducted his temptations that he himself stood uncommitted. The angels whom he could not bring fully to his side, he accused of indifference to the interests of heavenly beings. The very work which he himself was doing, he charged upon the loyal angels. It was his policy to perplex with subtle arguments concerning the purposes of God. Everything that was simple he shrouded in mystery, and by artful perversion cast doubt upon the plainest statements of Jehovah. And his high position, so closely connected with the divine government, gave greater force to his representations.” — “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 40, 41.

Normal Lessons for Sabbath-School Workers

The June number of the Sabbath School Worker will begin a series of “Normal Lessons for Sabbath-school Workers.” See notice of this series on second page of this issue.

Meetings at Bath, New York

Brother John S. Wightman, of the New York Conference, spent a day or two at the headquarters in Washington last week. Brother Wightman is conducting a series of meetings at Bath, N. Y., with a very encouraging interest.

Elder Farnsworth’s Reply

By Editor

A QUESTION of general interest to all members of this denomination was asked Elder E. W. Farnsworth during his stay in Battle Creek. An abstract of his reply will be found in this issue of the REVIEW, and we believe that it will be perused with interest by all our readers.
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