ABOUT four years ago the first effort was made to open an industrial school on a self-supporting basis in Cuba. A year and a half later Brother G. F. Holmes, of Wisconsin, after a brief stay at the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, located near Las Minas, on a ten-acre tract of land. Brother Holmes and his wife have had some good experiences as they have worked among their Cuban neighbors, and several of the people have begun to keep the Sabbath.
The way finally opened for Brother Holmes to obtain the use of a fifty-acre farm adjoining his property, on which is a comfortable seven-room house. In December, Sister A. F. Burgos, a trained nurse, and a Cuban by birth, joined Brother Holmes and his wife.
Brother Charles Franz and his wife, two young people known to some of the Michigan churches, heard the call of Cuba while they were students in the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute. They sailed for Cuba in January last. Last year, also, Mrs. E. C. Gray, of California, Prof. E. A. Sutherland, and Elder E. W. Snyder, superintendent of the Cuban Mission Field, spent some time together planning for this little training-school.
These young people go out to their field with no promise of a salary. Writing from Las Minas, Sister Franz says: “We like it here very much, and the prospects for a good school year are encouraging. Our Sabbath-school is small, but we have interesting meetings.” Brother Franz writes: “Sunday, the twenty-second, we had our first faculty meeting. After considering the matter fully, we five decided to put our all and our lives into the work of starting a training-school.”
Prof. H. R. Salisbury visited us at Madison on his return from his recent visit to Cuba. While he did not have an opportunity to see the place at Las Minas, he did visit the school of Sister Ida Fisher-Carnahan at San Claudio, and he made an earnest appeal to our students to do a similar work elsewhere in the island.
That the Lord is blessing in this effort to send self-supporting workers into Spanish fields, is further shown by the fact that in February four young people, Brother and Sister Howard Loften and Brother and Sister Carl Snow, left Nashville for Honduras, where they will join Brother Herbert Owen in his industrial school at Siguatepeque.
M. BESSIE DEGRAW.
Medical Missionary Work in Boston
By G. B. STARR
It is a pleasure to report steady progress in this work. The Massachusetts Conference employs four persons for local medical missionary work, and for the spiritual work and teaching connected with the New England Sanitarium, at Melrose, Mass. This teaching force includes two graduate nurses, Mrs. Starr, and the writer.
The interest of the Melrose church in this work, and their faithfulness in the payment of the tithe, have resulted in an amount being paid into the treasury each month just about equal to the wages and expenses of these four workers. We hope that it will soon exceed the full expense. We feel sure that this co-operation on the part of the church, the conference, and the sanitarium is meeting the mind of the Spirit of God.
We are at present conducting five schools of health each week. The first of these is in Social Hall, at Tremont Temple, in the very center of the city of Boston. It is the plan to keep this school, or “institute of health,” as we advertise it, open every Tuesday afternoon throughout the greater part of the year. This institute is attended by from forty to fifty women. We notice a change in faces, and form new acquaintances, each week; so we know we are reaching more than fifty separate families. This company includes many of the most active and influential women in the city. Through them we receive invitations to gatherings of societies and churches and to visit private homes; thus many doors are opened wide to us, friendly associations are formed, and prejudice is removed. Many of these persons visit the sanitarium, and thus that institution and its work are becoming more widely known. The collections at Tremont Temple nearly meet the hall expense.
At this institute we are assisted by the sanitarium physicians, the chef, and the physical instructor, who lecture and answer questions.
At Cambridge we conduct a school of health every Wednesday morning, at the Y. W. C. A. parlors. Here we secure an attendance ranging all the way from fifteen to thirty-four, including the mothers and wives of some of Boston’s leading educators.
Wednesday afternoon we have a school of health at West Newton, in the large parlors at Mrs. Yelland’s. Here we have a regular attendance of eighteen ladies.
In the W. C. T. U. parlors at Lynn we have a night school, attended by from ten to fifteen persons.
At these schools, the health talks are given by Mrs. Starr and the writer, and the demonstrations by the nurses. Here at the sanitarium we prepare all the foods used in these demonstrations, and in this are assisted by our able cooks. If our people could see us crossing the city, morning after morning, with from one to two valises each, I am sure we should have their prayers for the success18of the work. We rejoice to be able to do “errands for Jesus;” and the people are so appreciative, and so ready to adopt the reforms suggested, that we are quite repaid for the labor put forth. Many are leaving off tea, coffee, and flesh foods. We are keeping a list of all who take this stand, and hope to be able to report later the results in improved health and also spiritually.
The time has come when dietetic reform should be presented to our own and other people, and when there should be a response to it; and there always is a response when the matter is presented calmly, earnestly, and intelligently by those who believe and practise it themselves. The Lord has entrusted this people with precious light on this subject; and when it is heeded by us, and carried to others, it will be received and appreciated by them. G. B. STARR.
Canvassing in Chile
By Thos. H. Davis
SOME of our native canvassers are having fair success of late with the large books, especially “Patriarchs and Prophets” and “Home and Health.” One of the city workers obtained permission to take orders in the large maestranza, where hundreds of persons are employed in the railroad shops. He writes that the Lord is giving him good success.
I have just heard of a young man who has accepted the truth through reading “Home and Health” in Spanish, and has asked permission from his father to let him off on the Sabbath.
The priests are very bitter against our workers and books, but by the Lord’s help we are protected. That the printed page may soon be scattered all over these neglected fields, is our earnest prayer.
THOS. H. DAVIS.
Panama Conference
By N. V. Willess
ON the evening of January 31, Elder C. Bender, Elder H. C. Goodrich and family, and the writer, with a number of others, started from Colon for Bocas del Toro, to attend the conference to be held at that place. We had a very pleasant passage, and landed the next morning about eight o'clock. On landing we found a comfortable home all arranged for us by the brethren in Bocas. This made our stay very pleasant. The house in which we stayed extended out over the water several feet, so that from our back door we could plunge into the sea for our sea bath. This was a great relief from the oppressive heat of the tropical sun.
The conference opened on the morning of February 3, with a fair attendance from all parts of the field, except the northern. These brethren could not reach Bocas in time for the meeting, as the regular boat, on which they expected to sail, failed to make the trip. Two young men from this part, who would not be deprived of the blessing of the meeting, walked about twenty-five miles to the next place where they could get a boat, arriving the day after the conference opened. These brethren seemed greatly to enjoy the meetings, as we always do when we sacrifice to attend them.
The business of the conference was quickly and harmoniously disposed of, in five short sittings. The reports of the secretary and treasurer showed a gain in tithe and offerings of $782.85, and also of 18 in membership. This is a good showing, especially when one considers the conditions that exist in this field.
We were all glad to hear this little conference declare itself self-supporting, the brethren proposing to supply their needs from their own resources. We hope this will be the experience of other conferences in the West Indian Union soon. The Jamaica Conference, I understand, proposes this year to support its own work.
Elder H. C. Goodrich, who has served as president for some time, was asked to take the work again. Although Brother Goodrich is not strong, and the effect of hard, trying labor can be seen on him, yet he seems full of courage and energy to push the work into the unworked corners of his field.
Brother G. C. Jenks, who arrived during the conference, was given the direction of the canvassing work; and a revival of this work is expected as a result of his efforts. This will greatly aid in more rapidly working the field.
Meetings were held in the evening for the public, and these were well attended. The house was always full and sometimes to overflowing. Brother J. B. Stuyvesant spoke twice in Spanish to those who did not understand English. He had a fair hearing. The leading officials of the place came out, including the governor. All expressed themselves as well pleased.
Elder Bender gave an excellent discourse the last evening on the subject, Why We Exist as a People, at the close of which Brother Stuyvesant was set apart to the gospel ministry. The ceremony was very solemn and impressive. The duties and responsibilities as well as the privileges of a minister for God were very clearly set forth in the charge given by Elder Bender.
May the blessing of Heaven rest upon the laborers and brethren of this field, and many souls be gathered in during the year to come. N. V. WILLESS.
South India
By G. G. Lowry
OUR work in South India is moving along well. In my last report I spoke of the need of a school building. I am glad to say that the mission has appropriated the money with which to put up the necessary buildings. We have bought the land, and are beginning the work. By the time this reaches you, the building will be well under way.
After returning from the general meeting, we organized our people into a Sabbath-school, which now numbers about one hundred, including the teachers. This was a new experience both for us and for the people, so we naturally expected we might have some trouble in getting things started, but everything has gone on quite smoothly so far, and the people seem to enjoy it very much. For our lessons I am translating into Tamil the series of Sabbath-school lessons that we have just finished on the life of Christ.
As to our language work, we are still at it, and seem to be making good progress. I am teaching a class in our Sabbath-school without the aid of an interpreter, and last Sabbath I preached my first sermon in Tamil. The people said they understood all that was said. I am glad the Lord is just as able to help us in language study as in anything else. He has blessed us wonderfully, for which we are thankful.
Very encouraging reports were given at the general meetings by workers from various parts of the field. Since that meeting, we have been holding meetings every night for the people here. During this time we have presented our different doctrines, dwelling especially upon the importance of changing our lives, and following the example of Christ. At the close of the series of meetings, last week, sixteen persons were baptized. Three of these were our school-teachers.
G. G. LOWRY.
Korea
On his return to Korea from Japan with Elder I. H. Evans, Brother H. A. Oberg, secretary of our Korean Mission, writes under date of February 24:—
“When I left here, January 3, our brethren were just starting on a campaign with a ten-thousand edition of our Korean paper, Sei Chyensa Eui Kenipyel (Three Angels’ Message). They sold at five sen ($.025) a copy. Last week we shipped the last of the edition off, and I can assure you we are happy. This is our first attempt in this work, and we feel that we have made a fair start. I have helped in selling the paper. On one trip, I sold seventy-three copies, and on another 138 copies. One day I sold fifty-six copies, and in two hours, twenty-five. It seems odd that in this country, with a people so different, one falls back into the way he canvassed in America. I really think canvassing is like swimming. When one once learns the system, one does not forget.”
Field Notes
SEVEN persons have accepted the truth near Mt. Union, Pa.
THERE are four new Sabbath-keepers at Kezar Falls, Maine.
Two young men were recently baptized at Houston, Tex.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich., seven persons were baptized recently.
Two persons were baptized at Springfield, Ill., on a recent Sabbath.
AT Stanley, Va., twelve members have been added to the church by baptism.
AT Hayden, Colo., five have taken their stand to keep all the commandments of God.
FOUR adults have taken their stand for the truth at Artesian, S. D. Others are deeply interested.
Two Germans, a man and his wife, have begun the observance of the Sabbath at Detroit, Mich.
AT San Antonio, Tex., three adults are obeying the truth, and at Fort Worth five have united with the church.
ELDER A. A. MEYER reports seven baptisms (Germans) as the result of meetings held in the vicinity of Hooker and Tyrone, Okla.
THE president of the Central American Conference, Elder N. V. Willess, writes thus of the work in his field: “Our work here in the city of Guatemala is beginning to bear fruit. Some have accepted it, and others are deeply interested. I feel sure that the work here should be pushed now. Our workers are getting the language, and are thus able to begin effective work. I shall soon start for the eastern part of our field, and will spend about two months there before our camp-meeting and conference. Pray for us; for we are indeed small and weak.”
From Sanitarium Workers
From Dr. Mary Sanderson, Springfield, Mass., comes the following:—
“I would like to bear testimony to the fact that the medical work in Springfield has been of great value to the church, and has been instrumental in bringing quite a number to the faith. Some have gone to other towns, but are keeping the Sabbath, and are good workers where they are. When I started six years ago, the field was entirely untried in this locality, and the physicians in town prophesied failure, and were not in any way disposed to support such a work. During the first two years I found the question of diet aroused some prejudice; but the Lord has blessed us wonderfully, and given us every proof that loyalty to the standards he has set for us will assuredly bring success. Now we have the support of all the leading physicians, and they give testimony, both personal and by report, of our conscientious work and of the good results accomplished.”
“The conference workers who have been sent to this locality have universally borne testimony to the assistance of the institution and to its work. I find it difficult to express in words the courage, the development, and the confidence that have come to me in my six years’ experience. If I needed anything to strengthen my faith in the third angel’s message and in the second coming of my Saviour, I have certainly had it; and the Lord has graciously brought here many hungry souls, who I feel were sent that they might come in contact with this truth. My constant prayer is that this work may be a continual means of helping people to understand God’s efforts to bring his people out of error.”
Dr. David Paulson, of the Hinsdale (Ill.) Sanitarium, writes:—
“The most interesting item in our institution is the general Bible class that we undertook at the beginning of this year. Up to that time we had only two regular Bible classes for our nurses. Now we have organized a Bible class for those outside of the nurses’ class,—chambermaids, dining-room girls, cooks, call-boys, etc. All, both nurses and these workers, study the same lesson. The interest taken is something remarkable. Practically every worker attends, and studies in a most earnest and prayerful manner. It is helping to fuse the whole family together. We are constantly emphasizing the importance of becoming Bible Christians,—people of the Book, as the early Christians were called.”
“We are overwhelmed with patronage. Practically every room in the house is full. The Spirit of God is felt among us, for which we are profoundly grateful. We are only reaching up our hands for more, believing that we are in a time when we may expect the outpouring of God’s Spirit without measure. I am satisfied that the secret of success in our sanitariums is to give earnest attention to Bible study, and to follow its principles in all our work.”
Dr. Isadore L. Green, of Watertown, N. Y., gives a brief account of experience in beginning work at that place, adding:—
“Our work has been a modest undertaking, yet the Lord has signally blessed the simple efforts, and some good has been accomplished morally and physically. We had to change our location about two years ago, going farther out; and there being no street-car line near us, we have lost some patronage. The old patients have continued, however, and some new ones have come to us. My office work has been seriously influenced, as I earned considerable from transients, who also turned house patients toward us. We bought our present location, which needs some additions to enlarge our treatment-rooms, but, with less work and on account of running expenses, I have not deemed it wise to add to our indebtedness, so have turned my attention to relieving ourselves of debt as fast as possible.”
“We pay an honest tithe upon every cent taken in, before any expense is considered. No matter what the source of income, one tenth has been taken out. We also keep up our weekly and annual donations, and endeavor to give something to every enterprise among our people. We are glad to be numbered with those who are doing their best, even though it may be small as compared in results with those who are doing more and have a larger constituency. The present year has been a trying one for me, but my heart is in the continuing of this work until the finish.”
“I am glad that medical missionary work and sanitariums are receiving more consideration from our people. Perhaps we are learning to place a proper estimate upon the light God has given concerning health questions. I know of nothing needing more of a revival than to return to the simple truth given us long ago upon these vital questions. In this age of degeneracy and demoralization we must have the key to the situation,—temperance and self-control in all things.”
Dr. Franklin Richards, medical superintendent of the sanitarium at Wahroonga, Australia, writes:—
“For many weeks past, our sanitarium at Wahroonga has been filled with patients, and the outlook for continued patronage is good. The Lord is blessing in this institution, and for this the workers thank him and take courage. Both old and new patients who come, speak kindly of the sanitarium. Many others write appreciative letters. One former patient, a Sabbath-keeping sister, writes as follows:—
“I am sending a small donation for the sanitarium, with my best wishes for its future good work. May God bless you. I am keeping well. We all have much to thank him for.”
“A gentleman not of our faith remarked, as he was leaving:—
“I want to thank you for your kindness. You have all been very good to me. My bad knee is as sound as ever, and I am perfectly well. Of course I know the Lord has done the healing, but you have been the instrument in his hands. I feel very thankful to you all, and shall always look back upon my visit with feelings of gratitude and pleasure.”
“A Queensland judge and his wife, who have been with us for several weeks, are highly pleased with the treatment, diet, and general conduct of our health institution. During a recent consultation the judge remarked:—
“‘Before coming to your institution, I had always associated vegetarianism with cabbage, turnips, and the like. I have been agreeably surprised. You have so many nice dishes, and such an abundant supply of what I call good ordinary food—milk, cream, eggs, bread and butter, fresh vegetables, and fruits. I am also surprised at the progress I have made.’”
“This widely known and much esteemed judge and his wife are regular and interested attendants at the daily morning song and praise service and other religious exercises. Among many other remembrances received during the holidays was one from an old New Zealand patient who was with us several years ago. He never fails to wish us a ‘Happy New-year,’ and on this occasion his letter runs:—
“A Happy New-year to you and your staff. I suppose there are not many there now of those I remember; but if there should be any, please let them know that I have not forgotten their kindness. I look back to the few weeks spent among you as the happiest in my life.”
Medical Missionary Work the Right Arm of the Message
By W. J. Stone
We have been told that the medical missionary work sustains the same relation to the third angel's message that the right arm has to the body. This is a wonderful statement; and if fully comprehended, this branch of our work would receive far greater assistance than we have heretofore given it.
“The right arm of the body of truth is to be constantly active, constantly at work, and God will strengthen it. But it is not to be made the body. At the same time the body is not to say to the arm, I have no need of thee. The body has need of the arm in order to do active, aggressive work. Both have their appointed work, and each will suffer great loss if worked independently of the other.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI, page 288.
It always enlists our pity and sympathy to see a right arm cut off or paralyzed so that it can not perform its proper function. We feel that one so afflicted is greatly crippled in his efforts in life. If an artisan, he is almost incapacitated for service. No matter what his occupation, his work is likely to be deficient. So with the third angel's message. “True missionary work is that in which the Saviour's work is best represented, his methods most closely copied, his glory best promoted. Missionary work that falls short of this standard is regarded in heaven as defective.”—Id., page 230. “During his ministry, Jesus devoted more time to healing the sick than to preaching.”—“Desire of Ages,” Trade Edition, page 407.
The right arm wields a mighty power in the battle of life. It performs not only the hardest tasks but the most menial. It is the member which not only earns the livelihood, but whose daily duty20is to feed the body. The body could not well receive proper nourishment without the aid of the right arm; and unless the body is nourished, it can not furnish the vitality needed for the arm. Each is equally dependent upon the other.
This reasoning is true of the medical missionary work,—the right arm of the message. Properly nourished, the medical work can be a great help to the evangelical work, by educating more efficient workers, by raising up churches, by tithe-paying, and by bringing large donations to the assistance of our work. Not the least is its influence upon leading men of the world in favor of our work.
The medical work, once well established, is self-supporting. The means invested is not consumed, but remains year after year, adding to its possessions greater value and more efficiency, accomplishing greater good, with no drain on the body. It is important, then, that the right arm of the message be kept in a healthy, active condition.
Our sanitariums throughout the world treat annually about twenty-five thousand patients. These persons are brought under a favorable influence and hear much of present truth. Many accept the message. Two thousand workers are employed in these institutions, earning a wage of nearly six hundred thousand dollars a year, a tithe of which would be about sixty thousand dollars. Add to this the large number of students who earn enough to pay their way while gaining an education, and we have about one hundred thousand dollars annually saved to the denomination in educating our young people. These are some of the reasons why the right arm of the message should receive our hearty support.
W. J. STONE.
Medical Missionary Department
By D. H. Kress; L. A. Hansen
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
D. H. KRESS, M. D. — Secretary
L. A. HANSEN — Assistant Secretary
Medical Work in Tropical Mexico
By Carlos Fattebert
I AM working on a sugar plantation at Rascon, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The plantation has an elevation of fifteen hundred feet above sea-level. Vegetation here keeps green all the year round. The hot months are from March to June, when the rains begin, lasting until October, although there are rains occasionally all through the year. Frost is rare, though it nipped the cane last year in January, stopping its growth, and completely destroyed it four years before.
The hacienda, or ranch, employs from three hundred fifty to seven hundred men, according to the season. There is a resident population of eight hundred. Large numbers come for from two to four weeks, and then go away. This makes it difficult to estimate the number of persons actually on the place during the year, probably twenty-five hundred.
I was here all last year, and in the twelve months gave 12,500 treatments. This number represents only the principal ailment in each case, secondary ones not being reported, although several often needed attention. Most of these cases were seen at the office, although 1,680 visits were made, including fifty trips at a distance averaging five miles. None of these figures include private work on other haciendas, of which there was considerable, as there are but two other physicians within thirty miles.
Deaths during the year were thirty-three reported by me, and some more of which I knew nothing, as the law does not require notification.
Other diseases varied in number from one to sixty. Had four cases of tuberculosis, and five of appendicitis, one of which required operation. Be it understood that operations under general anesthesia are done only in cases of absolute necessity, owing to lack of assistants and conveniences, as I have to return patients to their huts after operation. Did not have a single case of smallpox, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, nor other epidemic diseases, during the year.
Anemia is common, but seems due mainly to malaria and malnutrition, and yields readily to good food and tonic treatment. Some claim it is due to hookworm; but I have not found any, though the careless habits of the people would lead one to look for it.
Obstetrical work is entirely in the hands of women who are ignorant and untrained. The physician is called only in case of trouble. The law does not protect physicians and registered midwives, so in many places these women reign supreme, and do much harm, as there is no disease they will not undertake to treat. They usually collect good fees for their work, too.
Each man employed here pays one day's wages a month for medical attention. This amounts to from thirty-one cents to $2.50 (gold), and includes treatment for their families. When the medical department was first organized, it was necessary to treat some of the sick almost by force, as they had no idea what a physician was for. It is easier now, and I have been able to teach many how to care for themselves, and the value of the bath, fresh air, and certain foods. This is slow work, however, and the instruction has to be repeated many times. But those who do learn will teach others, who often value more the opinion of one of their kind than that of one above them.
Over twenty families here are reading one or another of our papers. These include all of the better class, and the majority of those who can read at all. Many will converse about the Bible, but few dare to read it. This is the best we can do for them at present, as the management is not friendly to evangelical work. CARLOS FATTEBERT, M. D.
Nebraska
By M. E. Ellis
ONE of the departments of home missionary work receiving attention in the Nebraska Conference this season is the “Ministry of Healing” campaign. It has been my privilege to meet with several of our churches during the last few weeks, and the results are briefly summarized below. There has been very little said about “quota.” The instruction by the spirit of prophecy has been presented, and the burden laid on the hearts of the people that each one ought to do his best; and without urging it has been left for each one to decide for himself what he would do.
At our general meeting at Omaha this work was presented to a small audience, Sunday, February 12, and fifty-four books were taken. On the same evening the young people’s society took forty more.
February 18 I met with the church at Grand Island, where fifty-two books were taken by the little company present; twenty-four had been taken previously.
February 25 the church at Hastings heard more fully about this work, and took 105 books; and on the following Monday the students of the intermediate school here took fifty more. With books previously taken, this makes 324 for the Hastings church.21
March 4 I had the privilege of presenting the question to the Lincoln church, and 107 books were ordered. The following Sabbath a larger audience was present, and the number of books was increased by 145. Monday, March 13, the students and faculty of Union College started the week by taking 320 books; the sanitarium took thirty-five the following night; and the church ordered 190 more on March 18.
During these weeks I have received orders from our workers and brethren for eighty-six more, which have gone out by express, making the total number delivered to our people during the past five weeks, 1,189.
We are thankful to God for the way the work is starting up again; and we are confident that when our people in this conference really get thoroughly interested in this matter, a large work will be accomplished. Since our camp-meeting last September, when this enterprise was launched, we have handled about three thousand copies of “Ministry of Healing.”
Our workers are rendering valuable help in pushing this campaign in our territory, and our people are getting interested in it. We hope by the blessing of God to see thousands of homes made better and happier this year through reading and practising the beautiful lessons of this book, and thousands of dollars brought in from outside our ranks to establish more firmly our medical work.
M. E. ELLIS,
Missionary Secretary.
Church Work in Bands
“WE are organized into bands,” writes a member of the Salem, Mass., church, “each band having charge of a certain line of work. We have eight different bands. Blanks are given out for each to report on every week, and every fourth Sabbath is our missionary day. When the tracts which we ordered arrived, some of the packages had become dim from lying on the shelf, but the precious truths which they contained were all up-to-date. They rebuked us and said, ‘You have been a long time coming.’”
Sanitarium Relief Campaign
“Ministry of Healing” Items From Nebraska
THE Culbertson church recently sent in a remittance of seventy-two dollars for “Ministry of Healing” taken by them.
Elder J. W. Christian sent in an order for thirty copies of “Ministry of Healing” last week for the believers in the vicinity of Vesta and Crab Orchard.
A few days ago sixty dollars came from the Cortland church, in part payment for fifty copies of “Ministry of Healing” taken by them a few weeks ago.
One of our sisters in Omaha writes: “I sold four copies of ‘Ministry of Healing’ the next morning after you left, and two more since. It is a fine seller and a good book.”
A brother who recently received five copies of “Ministry of Healing” sent us the pay for them the other day, saying he found no difficulty in disposing of them, as he sold a copy in every house but one that he went into.
So far as we know, Brother H. A. Hebard, of Hastings, holds the record in Nebraska for individual sales of “Ministry of Healing,” having sold fifty-four copies the last time we asked him about it. Probably he has sold more by this time.
Sister W. F. Dunbar, of Comstock, writes: “I took twenty-two copies of ‘Ministry of Healing,’ and have sold seventeen, and given away two for birthday presents—the best book for that purpose I know of. I am sure I can sell the others. Every one likes the book at first sight.”—Nebraska Reporter.