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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 32.

The Power of Prayer
Earlier text: The Message Among the Aymara Indians of Peru

Facing Life’s Storms

By Sam Jones

I WAS once standing with a friend on Staten Island, and he called my attention to a great storm-cloud gathering in its fury. When the lightnings began to flash, and the thunders began to roll, we watched every little sailboat and rowboat and fishing-smack come hurrying to the shore; and just as the storm was bursting in its fury, we saw a great old ocean steamer move out from the shore, and, right in the face of the storm, ride out to sea in safety. When the storms of life come upon us, the little fellows seek earthly shelters; but the Christian goes out on the bosom of God's love and mercy. The storms we can safely face are determined by the strength of our Christian character,—Sam Jones.

Gospel Workers' Department

By A. G. Daniells

Their divine calling, qualification, and preparation. Methods of labor, plans, etc.
Conducted by A. G. DANIELLS

A Spirit-Filled Ministry

By R. D. Quinn

Luke tells us, in Acts 1:1, that his former treatise (the Gospel according to Luke) is a record of how Jesus began both to do and to teach. Then the Gospels are the record of how Jesus began and closed his work, and surely his was a Spirit-filled ministry. The Acts of the Apostles, which might be truly said to be the acts of the Holy Ghost, is a record of how the disciples continued that ministry. It is left for us to finish the work that Jesus began, and that was continued by those who succeeded him.
What is being recorded in the books of heaven respecting his followers to-day? Are we seeking as earnestly for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as the disciples did on the day of Pentecost? If not, why not? Are not the needs as great, and the promises just as sure?
“Before giving us the Holy Ghost our Father will certainly try us to see if we will live without him. If we will we may; and it is only when we give signs of a resolution which will take no denial, but detains the angel with its imperative importunity, and vows its unalterable determination to be blessed,—it is only then that God, who has never been really reluctant, and had only been testing us, turns to us with a smile and says, “O child, great is thy importunity!; be it unto thee even as thou wilt.”
“The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
But if we may have the Spirit, then we must have it. Is not the positive command in Eph. 5:18, “Be filled with the Spirit,” as authoritative as the negative, “Be not drunk with wine”? To be Spirit-filled is the normal condition of the truly converted and surrendered man. If we find a barrenness and lack of the Spirit in our lives and labors, we can trace it to but one thing,—sin and an unwillingness to pay the price and fulfil the conditions. May God help us to find our way back to the upper chamber, and there, by confessing and forsaking sin, by earnest prayer and consecration of our lives to God, to prepare for the outpouring of the Spirit in pentecostal power for victory over sin and for the conversion of men.
R. D. QUINN.

Young People's Work at Camp-Meeting

By M. E.

The readers of the REVIEW will be interested to know that many young people have been converted on the camp-grounds this year. In a letter recently received from Miss May Bell, Missionary Volunteer secretary of Southern Idaho, she says:—
“Last night I returned from our camp-meeting at Ontario, Ore. It was indeed a feast of good things. I thank the Lord over and over for the victories that were gained on that camp-ground. It was our great pleasure to have Elder Luther Warren with us during the latter part of the meeting, and his talks and sermons were ‘meat in due season.’ I am sure there are many of our young people who have gone to their homes to live different lives. Even among those who previously made a profession, a reformation will be made. There were twenty-eight baptized; with two or three exceptions, all were young people.”
A letter from Miss Nellie B. Underwood, Missionary Volunteer secretary of South Dakota, also contains an interesting report. She writes:—
“The young people's meetings were well attended from the first early morning meeting. We had over one hundred fifty young people on the ground (not counting those who would attend the children's meetings), and of course among these were a large number who were unconverted. Elder Ruble stood right by us, and bore a large share of the burden of the meetings. The Lord did not disappoint us in blessings, if they did come through some other channel than we had planned.
“Elder R. D. Quinn bore much of the responsibility of the spiritual services in the English tent, and he also gave us some valuable aid in our young people's tent. As early as Thursday the Spirit of the Lord worked mightily upon hearts, and there was a beginning of the revival at the forenoon service. In the afternoon meeting in the youth's tent we had a continuation of the same blessing, and again on Friday evening at the youth's meeting. These meetings continued until seven o'clock, or after, making them two or more hours in length, but no one seemed to be restless, and the Lord gave us mighty victories. Then on Sabbath all hearts seemed touched, and there was much joy in the camp. Sunday we had baptism; and out of forty-nine candidates, forty-one were young people and children, taking their first stand for God and his truth. We felt that much of this was due to the faithful work done by our prayer bands, and I think that some had such a good experience in this work that we shall have no difficulty in getting them to continue the work in their home churches. You will be interested in the resolution we passed:—
“Recognizing the direct call of God to our young people to organize for prayer and service, that the gospel of the kingdom may go to all the world in this generation; therefore,— “Resolved, (a) That the youth in every church who really love Jesus be encouraged to organize themselves as Missionary Volunteers, making the prayer and personal workers' bands the basis of their effort.
“(b) That our young people be encouraged to cooperate in every aggressive movement adopted by the conference.
“(c) That the Morning Watch be observed in every home.
“(d) That the Youth's Instructor be introduced into every home.
“(e) That the parents encourage their young people to take at least one of the Reading Courses each year, and to strive to secure the Standard of Attainment certificate.
“(f) That every conference laborer become intelligent in regard to the Missionary Volunteer movement, and give it his hearty cooperation.”
Miss Lida M. Ackley, Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Northern California-Nevada Conference, has a good report in her union conference paper. She says:—
“The first Sabbath of the camp-meeting found about one hundred twenty-five intelligent young people in attendance. The numbers increased daily. Each meeting found the tent full to overflowing. Although the Spirit of God was felt many times, yet there seemed to be a cloud hanging over the work, and in some ways it looked discouraging until the last Sabbath, when there were nearly one hundred seventy-five young people present. At the close of the eleven o'clock meeting a call was given to all who wished to consecrate themselves wholly to the Lord. The young people were the first to press to the front, until it was necessary to call them to a separate tent. The Spirit of the Lord was present in a marked degree. The cloud seemed to rise, and we enjoyed such a manifestation of God's presence as had not been felt before.
“The meeting continued for more than three hours. Nearly fifty young persons presented themselves as candidates for baptism. The greater number of these were baptized the following day. Some desired to wait until they returned to their home church.
“Eighty individuals pledged themselves to avoid all literature that tends to separate one from God, and to give themselves more fully to the reading and study of the Bible and the writings of the spirit of prophecy, and to such other good works as will aid in giving the third angel's message to the world. Surely our youth, if thoroughly converted, will be a mighty power for good in the world.”
A copy of the pledge used on the camp-ground has just reached this office, and we give its contents below:—
“Knowing that, as Christians, we should jealously guard our minds against all thoughts that tend to corrupt morals and to undermine and destroy faith and hope in God,—
“We, the undersigned, hereby pledge ourselves against the reading of novels and all other literature which will unfit us to do the work of the third angel's message,—
“And we hereby further pledge ourselves to a faithful reading of the Bible, the writings of the spirit of prophecy, and such other works as will directly strengthen and prepare us for service in God's cause.”
Elder J. J. Reiswig, Missionary Volunteer secretary of North Dakota, writes:—
“Our camp-meeting this year was one of the best ever held in this conference. There were about sixty persons baptized, nearly all of whom were young people. In all, there were about two hundred fifty young people on the grounds. Many of these came unconverted, but those that were on the Lord's side came with the determination to be a help to others. It did not take long to organize our prayer bands, and I believe the success we enjoyed is largely due to them. Some of the societies that did not have prayer bands, have written that such bands were organized when they returned home.”
An excellent resolution, very similar to the one found in the South Dakota report, was passed. M. E.

Young People's Work

By Milton E. Kern; Matilda Erickson

Conducted by the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference
M. E. KERN  Secretary MATILDA ERICKSON  Corresponding Secretary

A Word to Parents

By M. E.

In a recent letter a Missionary Volunteer secretary relates the following experiences:—
“When we as secretaries get the true spirit of service, and can inspire those under our watch-care with the thought that the aim is ‘Every one won for Christ,’ we shall see of the salvation of God. ’Tis a noble work, and how my heart aches as I see the children of Sabbath-keepers drifting into the world! A few days ago I was in the station waiting for my train, when in came a crowd of children, and many of them had their parents with them. They proved to be the public-school children in a place where we have a good church-school, and they had been on a picnic. After the picnic, the teacher had taken them to the theater, and among the number I counted three mothers who had been members of our church, and one was for years the most enthusiastic librarian and deaconess. All the children were below the eighth grade, and most of them still going to our Sabbath-school. Some of these parents would not allow their children to come to the church-school for fear they would not keep up in their grades with the public school. It was a picture to make angels weep.
“I am so thankful for some strength to work still for the youth in my conference, and am praying for grace to be wise in winning souls.
“Someway it seems as if we were too late; for what can we expect of the children when the parents pursue such a course as one mother, who is a member of our church, did recently? When her girl said, ‘I am going to learn my Sabbath-school lesson, and go to Sabbath-school to-morrow,’ the mother replied, ‘Won’t you be too tired to go there and attend the grange in the evening?’ The daughter attended the grange.
“Well, I am comforted to-night with the text, ‘Is anything too hard for the Lord?’ And I know there is not, and the Lord is strong to save to the uttermost.”
Will not the parents who read the experiences just related renew their covenant to cooperate with God for the salvation of their children? Will you not ask yourselves the question, “Lord, is it I? is it I who am responsible for the waywardness of my children?”
M. E.

Sanitarium News Items

By L. A. H.

Some changes have been made in the managing force of the Nashville (Tenn.) Sanitarium. Drs. W. A. George and Lyra H. George have resigned their positions, in order that he may connect with the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists, in which he has been appointed an instructor. Dr. R. M. Clarke takes the superintendency of the institution. With previous sanitarium experience, as well as considerable private practise, Dr. Clarke is meeting with favorable reception by patients and workers. A new nurses’ class begins with bright outlook.
C. H. Moyers, of Graysville, Tenn., is now business manager of the Nashville Sanitarium. Having had a successful personal business career and more or less sanitarium experience, formerly as nurse and later as an active member of the board, Brother Moyers may be expected to manage wisely the business affairs of his new position.
B. W. Spire, former business manager of the Nashville Sanitarium, is now connected with the Florida Sanitarium, at Orlando, and with the Florida Conference, in various official positions, with plenty to do.
At the Graysville (Tenn.) Sanitarium, T. S. Dock assumes the business management, in place of R. L. Williams, who finds it necessary to devote his entire time to increasing outside business interests, and resigns after a year and a half of service to the institution. Brother Dock comes with a long sanitarium experience, lately with the Wichita (Kan.) institution. His place there is now filled by L. C. Christofferson, who has before served in that position.
Dr. O. C. Godsmark and wife have connected with the Atlanta (Ga.) Sanitarium, he as a general worker, and she as matron. Thus is fulfilled a long-cherished wish of Dr. Godsmark’s, to be again connected with the cause in an active capacity. He has disposed of his dental practise and business interests, and is devoting himself fully to his present work.
With the appointment of W. H. Williams, former business manager of Oakwood School (Huntsville, Ala.), to the office of secretary and treasurer of the Southeastern Union Conference, his assistance is secured to the Atlanta Sanitarium, thus filling the vacancy made by the leaving of R. T. Dowsett to connect with the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium, as manager.
The Washington Sanitarium and the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary have recently united their educational and business interests so as to give nurses better opportunities for Bible and history training, and Seminary students the opportunity of some medical instruction, before they go to their foreign fields. A thorough medical missionary postgraduate course, to begin soon, will greatly strengthen the educational feature. It is arranged for the nurses to receive special training at one of the hospitals in the city of Washington.
The patronage of the Washington Sanitarium has been excellent for the last nine months, and constant. Just now there are more patients in the institution than at any other time in its history, every room in the building with one or more occupants, and a dozen or more patients in the hospital building. What was formerly the nurses’ dormitory has been converted into a hospital, with full and modern equipment. This was made necessary by an increasing patronage and an urgent need for special hospital facilities. The friends of this institution will be glad to know that its four years’ existence gives promise of such positive success.
Dr. R. S. Ingersoll, superintendent of the Washington Sanitarium, has just returned from a few weeks’ postgraduate course with the Mayo Brothers, in Minnesota. Dr. H. N. Sisco is taking a two months’ postgraduate course in New York City.
Dr. A. L. Gregory, recently from Guadalajara, Mexico, is spending a few weeks at the Florida Sanitarium, attending to the duties that belong to the medical superintendent, Dr. J. E. Caldwell, during his absence in the North. Dr. Gregory has identified himself permanently with Florida to the extent of purchasing a home there. Dr. Lydia Parmele is improving the opportunity of taking some special advanced work in the north.
Dr. W. E. Bliss, of the New England (Melrose, Mass.) Sanitarium, has just spent some time visiting various sanitariums in the West, receiving and giving benefit and pleasure by these visits. He was accompanied by Mrs. Bliss.
Dr. and Mrs. David Paulson, of Hinsdale, Ill., recently received a brief rest from pressing institutional duties by a trip West, attending the meeting of the American Medical Association and the medical council at Loma Linda.
Dr. A. B. Dunn, superintendent of the Kansas (Wichita) Sanitarium, accompanied by Mrs. Dunn, also attended the medical meetings in the West.
L. A. H.

A Gospel-Medical Missionary Tent Effort

By L. A. H.

WE recently gave a report of a gospel-medical winter campaign at Hartford City, Ind., carried on by Brethren J. H. N. Tindall and C. E. Garnsey. The friends of the work at Hartford City gave a large tent worth three hundred dollars to these brethren, who are now conducting a gospel-medical missionary tent effort at Indianapolis, under the direction of the Indiana Conference. It is too early to speak of final results, but the present developments are such as to be of interest. Especially may it be well to give some information concerning the methods used in this kind of tent effort; for they help to solve a problem of long standing, and one that has confronted many who have been anxious to follow urgent and oft-repeated instruction on the importance of combining the medical work with the evangelical. In many respects this work follows the general plan of holding tent-meetings. The usual subjects are presented, beginning with those that are non-antagonistic, such as the following: Existence of a Personal God; Authenticity of the Bible; Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation; Who Is Satan? and Why Did Not God Destroy Him? etc.
Printed announcements, in circular and card form, are distributed each week, giving the program for the following week. A special music and song service of fifteen minutes is held before each meeting. The tent is well located, is lighted by electricity, and is neatly decorated. It is known as the Gospel-Medical Missionary Tent, being thus announced on the printed programs.
Health lectures are advertised along with Bible subjects, on programs and in the evening announcements. At the health lectures the gospel services are freely spoken of, and attendance thereon is urged. The gospel service and the health lecture are opened in the same way and conducted in like manner, with prayer and song and use of the Bible. The one carrying the health work is known as the medical evangelist.
Two nights in the week are given to health topics,—Monday and Wednesday nights. These nights are not so good for attendance as others, so the brethren, looking upon the health work as the “right arm,” and not the body itself, give the best nights to the message proper. The attendance is very good, however, though not quite so large as that at the other meetings. The same people largely attend both meetings. A different class of people attend the health lectures at first, and later they become interested in other phases of the truth. The plan of work appeals to W. C. T. U. people and others interested in temperance.
Among the topics of the health lectures are these: Diseases and Their Causes; Foods and Their Relation to Health; How to Live; Foods—Healthful and Unhealthful; Diseases and Results From Overeating; What Foods Cause Disease; How to Replace Harmful Foods With Good; The Meat Question and Economy; Simple Treatments Versus Poisonous Drugs; Demonstration of Simple Treatments.
The first printed announcement of this work states that it is its purpose to teach the people how to live temperately and healthfully; instructing them how to obey the laws of nature, and helping them to know the true causes of disease. The entire tent effort is announced as “a school of learning, set down in your neighborhood to teach you the way of life,—physical, mental, spiritual.”
An announcement is made at the first, of special cooking classes to be held later, and from time to time invitation is given to those interested to send in their names and addresses. It is stated that this is not in the interest of any health food establishment, but is a practical, curative, missionary work. Those forming the cooking classes furnish the material used in demonstrations, and the prepared dishes are divided among them. No admission fee is charged. The equipment is not elaborate, costing but seven dollars. The classes are held at different homes each week, so that the hostess may invite in her own circle of friends. This brings the work before a large number of people, and constantly multiplies the attendance. Meeting announcements are given out at the classes. As the attendance increases, the cooking class is held in sections, with about fifteen members to each. There were eighteen in attendance at the first one held in Indianapolis. At Hartford City it became necessary to hold the class in three sections. Just one different lesson is given each week.
Another feature of special interest is the practical work for the sick that is done in connection with the visiting work. Several Bible workers, who are receiving daily instruction in the treatment of the sick, are working in connection with the effort, inviting the people to the tent, and treating and praying with those who are sick. Services are given free of charge. The patient is especially instructed and impressed with the principles of right living. In taking treatment, the individual assumes the responsibility relative to the physician’s attitude. Almost no antagonism has been met with from physicians. The workers do not pose as doctors.
A good stereopticon lantern is used almost every evening, to good advantage, for illustrating salient points of both features of the message, especially the health work.
This combination of gospel and medical work appeals to people as consistent missionary effort. Expressions of hearty appreciation are heard from many, especially business men and the better class of people. All classes are reached, and prejudice is allayed.
The expense of the effort is borne by the conference, the same as for any other tent effort. This method may offer suggestion to other conferences as to how medical workers may be employed to advantage. It also offers to this class of workers a wide field of usefulness, and, with a willingness to share and fare with evangelical workers, opens the way for the exercise of talents and abilities for the fullest advancement of the message.
The printed programs and announcements referred to may be desirable to others, offering, as they do, good suggestions and hints for arrangement and attractiveness. Brethren Tindall and Garnsey will be pleased to supply such of these as they can, and will gladly answer questions or give detailed information concerning their work and plans. Address them at 606 East Nineteenth St., Indianapolis, Ind.
L. A. H.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
D. H. KRESS, M. D.   -   -   -   Secretary
L. A. HANSEN   -   -   -   Assistant Secretary

Seventy-Two Arrested for a Violation of the Maryland Sunday Law

By K. C. R.

Hundreds of Dollars in Fines

WHOLESALE arrests for the violation of the Sunday law of Maryland took place at Glen Echo, July 24. Glen Echo is located just beyond the boundary of Washington, D. C.
From the published accounts of the affair, it appears that on Sunday, July 23, the mayor of Glen Echo thought that the meager and fast-diminishing water-supply must be conserved; so he attempted to shut off the water-supply from the amusement park. This enraged the amusement park people, two or three of whom were councilmen, and they demanded that the mayor resign because of his alleged disorderly conduct in attempting to shut off the water-supply, and threatened to have him indicted if he did not comply with their demand. The mayor refused to resign, but instead proceeded to have the people connected with the amusement park arrested for violating the Maryland Sunday law. It is reported that upward of seventy persons were arrested, and that fines have been received amounting to hundreds of dollars.
There is one fact we wish to note in connection with this incident. Wherever Sunday laws are in force, trouble, discord, and strife among the citizens are always in evidence. They are the certain fruit of the enactment of these wicked and un-American laws.
The Pittsburg Dispatch of Aug. 31, 1904, gives the following account of the enforcement of the Sunday laws in that city, which points the same moral:—
“Following the hearing before Alderman Walter Wadsworth, of Allegheny, in which Harry W. Starkey, and his brother, Nelson C. Starkey, detectives of the Allegheny County Sabbath Observance Association, were held for court on charges of perjury and conspiracy to indict, the former shot and killed one man, and injured another. The shooting took place [Aug. 30, 1904] while a hooting, howling mob of nearly one thousand people was following Power Torrence Gamble, chief detective for the association, and his two detectives from the alderman’s office, along East Ohio Street, near Middle Street.”
From the reports concerning the Glen Echo affair, it seems evident that the mayor was more concerned in wreaking vengeance on his alleged enemies than in the enforcement of the Sunday law. No one will believe for a moment that the mayor was seriously burdened over the desecration (?) of the day. This conclusion is borne out by the fact that for years Glen Echo has been a “wide open” resort. But the Sunday law was a convenient weapon to employ to personal advantage against those who had threatened him with an indictment. This is precisely the use which has been made of Sunday laws in the past in various States of this Union. They have been used in communities against citizens who observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, contrary to the custom of the majority, because they performed labor on Sunday, although done quietly so as not to interfere with any one’s observance of Sunday. This iniquitous tool, the Sunday law, may be used thus by any person having a real or a fancied grievance against a seventh-day observer, even though he himself cares nothing for religion or Sunday-keeping. He would, thus, flee to the Sunday law as a sure weapon against his neighbor who observed another day.
This Glen Echo incident will teach the citizens of the District of Columbia what they may expect should Congress provide them with a Sunday law. Do such laws produce “domestic tranquillity,” which the preamble to the Constitution of the United States declares to be one of the ends to be secured by the establishment of the Constitution?
It is rumored that this Glen Echo event may grow into a State-wide campaign on the Sunday-closing issue. The liberty-loving citizens of Maryland should take warning from the incident.
K. C. R.

Religion in the Public Schools

By S. B. H.

One of the panaceas suggested by so-called “reformers” for the unrighteous condition of the body politic is to teach a modicum of religion in the public schools of our country. It does not seem to occur to them that in this suggestion they are asking for a union of church and state to that extent. In an address before the Paterson (N. J.) high school teachers and graduates recently, Judge Francis Scott said, among other things:—
“The United States surpasses all other nations in the opportunity it affords to its children of getting an education. . . . In our State, education is compulsory. The constitution provides that there shall be a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for all children between the ages of five and eighteen years.”
“Besides the public schools, we have private schools, and unfortunately in my judgment, we have religious schools. Religion should be taught in the church and Sunday-school, but not in the public school. If there is any one thing that has helped to make this country great, it is the fact that there is no religious creed in the school calendar. Our forefathers were wise enough to keep religion out of the Constitution. Education is compulsory, but religion is voluntary; and that is the way it should be. Each individual should be permitted to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. The combination of church and state is accountable for a great many ills of the past, and has soiled the historical records of many nations. The public school in the United States is the place where all creeds and where all nationalities may assemble without reference to their religious faith. The most intelligent thought in this country at the present time is clear that there must be no religious distinction, so far as the public schools are concerned, and no instruction upon this important subject in the public schools.”
With the exception of his observation on the question of religious schools, we take pleasure in commending Judge Scott’s speech, together with the following from the Detroit Free Press (quoted in the Washington Herald of July 21), to those who would intrude upon the public-school system with their false ideas of reform:—
“The very essence of religious differences is often, if not always, found in different views of the historical events that brought them about, and each different view is inoffensive only to those whose particular denomination it favors. To all others it seems biased, unfair, or untruthful. This is only one of the thousand difficulties that arise inevitably in the management of schools to whose support all denominations contribute, to which children of all denominations go for the rudiments of education, and which can please all only by a negative attitude on all questions that are contentious religiously in history or dogma.”
S. B. H.

For the Lord Jesus

ANDREW FULLER once asked an old friend for money for foreign missions. The friend said: “I will give you five pounds, Andrew, seeing it is you.” Fuller handed it back. “I will take nothing,” he said, “seeing it is I.” The man saw the point, and replied: “Andrew, you are right. Here are ten pounds, seeing it is for the Lord Jesus!” — Home Herald.

Understanding Others Through Love

We shall never understand others until we are friendly toward them. This is why we so often fail to see the good in people around us. We do not see them through the clear atmosphere of love, but through the clouded glass of distrust. In the memoir of Tennyson by his son we are told that the poet once said: “You must love Wordsworth before he will seem worthy of your love.” How many lives we misjudge because we do not have a sympathetic knowledge of them! It is hard to be misunderstood, but it is infinitely worse to misunderstand.—Selected.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; S. B. Horton

Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to the current history of the rights of conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL           -       -       -           Secretary
S. B. HORTON            -       -       -           Assistant Secretary

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1911

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Northern New England . . . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Maine, Norridgewock . . . . . . . . . Sept. 1-10

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec, South Stukely . . . . Aug. 25 to Sept. 3 Maritime, Williamsdale Academy, Sept. 11-18

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

South Missouri, Springfield . . . . . . . Aug. 3-13 East Kansas, Fort Scott . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 10-20 Colorado, Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 17-27 Nebraska, College View . . . Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 Nebraska (local), Norfolk . . . . . . . Sept. 11-18 North Missouri, Hamilton . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 West Kansas, Wichita . . . . Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 St. Louis Mission Field . . . . . . . . Sept. 6-13 West Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 14-24

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

West Pennsylvania, Ford City . . . . Aug. 10-20 Ohio, Wooster . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 17-27 Virginia, Richmond . . . . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 New Jersey, Trenton . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 7-17 Chesapeake, Dover, Del. . . . . . . . Sept. 14-24 West Virginia, Parkersburg, Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Indiana, Indianapolis . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 3-13 West Michigan, Muskegon . . . . . . . Aug. 17-27 Northern Illinois, Phillips Park, Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 3 North Michigan, Traverse City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Southern Illinois, Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 East Michigan, Oxford . . . . . . . . . Sept. 7-17

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Iowa, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 23 to Sept. 3

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern California, Long Beach . . Aug. 7-21

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

North Carolina, High Point . . . . . Aug. 3-13 Georgia, Forsyth . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 10-20 Cumberland, Lenoir City, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Florida, Sanford . . . . . . . . Sept. 28 to Oct. 9

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alabama, Decatur . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 3-13 Kentucky, Pleasureville . . . . . . . Aug. 17-27 Mississippi, Jackson . . . . . . . . Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 Mississippi (colored), Meridian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 7-17

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas, Dallas . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 3-13 West Texas, Ovalo . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 10-20 New Mexico, Corona . . . . . . . . . Aug. 17-27 Oklahoma, Enid . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Arkansas (colored), Pine Bluff . . . Aug. 10-20 Arkansas, Fort Smith . . . . . . . . Sept. 7-17 South Texas, San Antonio, Oct. 26 to Nov. 5

European Division

BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE

Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 10-13 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 17-20 Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 24-27 South England . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 31 to Sept. 5

(Concluded from Field Department)

By M. E. Kern

A Postgraduate Course for Nurses

“I WANT to advance in my work,” said a graduate nurse recently, “and I think the postgraduate course offered at Washington is just the thing for me.” Doubtless this expresses the sentiment of many others. Arrangements have been made whereby graduate nurses can work their way while doing this advanced work, thus making it possible for any one to take it.

Dispensary and Hospital Work

In our study of the needs of the foreign fields, and of the great centers of population at home as well, we have seen the urgent need of medical missionary nurses who have had dispensary and hospital training. So a part of the plan for the opening of a postgraduate course was the establishment of a hospital in connection with the Sanitarium here. We were also planning to start a small dispensary in Washington when there were offered to us facilities for this training which we, with our limited means, could probably never have procured. The Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital of the city of Washington has asked us to furnish nurses for their work, and we have arranged to have our postgraduate students spend a definite time there. These nurses will room in a well-regulated dormitory adjacent to the hospital, and will have the privilege of doing some class work even while engaged in the work there. Last year more than twenty-one thousand cases were treated at the Emergency Hospital, over three thousand of which were surgical. This excellent practical experience, together with the advanced study in minor surgery, electricity, physical diagnosis, obstetrics, special diseases, and various other subjects, will equip the nurse for more independent work in our foreign mission stations, where the direction of a physician can rarely be obtained, and for responsibilities in our sanitariums at home.

An Urgent Need

“Medical missionary work is to be carried forward with an earnestness with which it has never yet been done.” “In our medical missionary schools, many workers are to be qualified with the ability of physicians to labor as medical missionary evangelists.” The postgraduate work in nursing, with the practical courses in evangelical work offered at the Foreign Mission Seminary, are designed to give this training. “Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel,” and there is a great demand to-day from the home and foreign fields for well-qualified workers. The nurses who desire to enter the postgraduate nurses’ course at Washington should apply at once. Write for full information and application blanks to the undersigned at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
M. E. KERN,
President Washington Foreign Mission Seminary.
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