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State and Church

By Editor

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of Religious Freedom, and the Campaign "to Make America Catholic."

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Association.

W. W. PRESCOTT - - - - - SECRETARY

Seventh-Day Adventists and the Roman Peril

Some Information Concerning the Plans and Purposes of the Roman Catholic Church in America — What These Things Mean to Those Who Are Giving the Final Gospel Message

Did you know that Roman Catholics deny that this is a Protestant country?

Did you know that the Roman Catholic hierarchy has repeatedly announced its purpose "to make America dominantly Catholic"?

Did you know that precedence over all officials is claimed for the Roman Catholic cardinals at all state functions?

Did you know that Roman Catholics declare that the future religion of this country will be the Roman Catholic religion?

Did you know that the Roman Catholics are seeking to have a law passed which will exclude from the United States mails all publications making attacks on their faith?

Did you know that in 1776 the ratio of Roman Catholics to the total population of the United States was one in one hundred twenty, but now it is one in six?

Did you know that the Roman Catholics are multiplying their spectacular celebrations of the mass which are attended by state officials, including the President?

Did you know that the Roman Catholics are persistently seeking for the division of the public-school funds, so that a portion may be used in the support of their parochial schools?

Did you know that the Roman Catholics practically hold the balance of political power between the two great parties, and are therefore in a position to dictate the nominations?

In the brief space available it is difficult to present an adequate view of the Roman Catholic situation. There are many evidences of what has been designated as "the invasion of Protestant lands by Rome in a spirit of fierce aggressiveness, resolute determination, infinite craft, rigid exclusiveness, and uncompromising intolerance." We shall refer to some of these evidences.

Until about two years ago, the United States was treated by Rome as a missionary country, but at that time it was classed as a Roman Catholic country and a greater measure of self-government was granted to it. Since that time, the Roman Catholic hierarchy in America has put forth the most determined efforts to advance the interests of the Papacy, and to extend the membership and influence of the Roman Church.

Rev. F. C. Kelley, the president of the Church Extension Society, read a paper at the third Washington Conference in the interest of the mission work of the Catholic Church in this country, held in Washington in 1909, in which he said:—

"Again, how fond are many of calling this a Protestant country! Is it? We deny!"

Having declared that this is not a Protestant country, the Roman Catholic leaders have organized a mission movement for the purpose of making the United States dominantly Catholic. Here is their own statement:—

"The spirit of the mission movement in America is the spirit of Saint Francis de Sales. It excludes all controversy and condemns all rancorous religious discussion. At the same time, it devotes itself to showing forth the inner beauty of Catholic doctrine and practise, believing that if the non-Catholic people of America only knew the old mother church of Christendom as well as we do, they would love her as ardently. Our motto is, 'We come not to conquer, but to win. Our purpose is to make America dominantly Catholic.'"

In the attempt to realize this purpose, nothing is spared, and Pope Pius X is cooperating in the heartiest way with the hierarchy of America. New dioceses are being formed, and additional bishops are being appointed. Instead of one resident cardinal, there are now three. Spectacular functions are being multiplied, and no opportunity is lost to impress upon the public mind that Protestantism is dead; that Roman Catholicism is the original apostolic Christianity, and will be the future religion of this country.

Demands are being made, and claims are being asserted, which were absolutely unknown a few years ago. For example:—

At the dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, held in Boston on St. Patrick's day, at which President Taft was a guest, Cardinal O'Connell demanded a seat at the banquet and a position on the program of speakers before the governor of the State of Massachusetts, and next to the President of the United States. The claim for such precedence is based upon the assertion that a cardinal is "a prince of the blood," and therefore entitled to a position above all state officials, outranking even ambassadors from other countries, and the Vice-President of the United States.

For three successive years, the President and many members of his official family have attended an annual Thanksgiving mass at St. Patrick's Church in Washington, and this gathering has been designated as "the official celebration of Thanksgiving." For two successive years a military field mass has been celebrated upon government grounds in connection with the naval station at Brooklyn. For two successive years a military field mass has been celebrated upon the Monument lot in Washington, attended last year by the President and other officials of state, and this year made a leading event in connection with the unveiling of the statue of Christopher Columbus. An annual celebration of the mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City has now been established as

honor of the firemen who died in that city during the preceding year. A tablet has been affixed to the wall of the custom-house in New York City, announcing that on that spot the first mass was celebrated in America. This tablet was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies and accepted in behalf of the government by William Loeb, Jr., the collector of customs of the port of New York.

In twenty-nine States legislation has been secured under Roman Catholic influence, setting apart Columbus day as a holiday, and every one familiar with the facts knows that on this day Roman Catholic societies parade the streets, masses are celebrated, and orations are delivered, glorifying the achievements of Columbus as a Catholic, and claiming all the results of his work as belonging to the Roman Catholic Church. Under the leadership and influence of Roman Catholics, an appropriation of $100,000 was secured from Congress for the erection of a monument to Christopher Columbus in the city of Washington. This monument was unveiled June 8, and the unveiling was in a large degree a Roman Catholic affair. Tens of thousands of members of the Roman Catholic order, the Knights of Columbus, assembled from all parts of the country and constituted the chief feature in the unveiling ceremonies and the subsequent parade. Pressure is now being brought to bear upon Congress to secure a law designating one day in the year as Columbus day in the District of Columbia. The evident purpose of all this is the glorification of the Roman Catholic Church.

During the last century, there has been such a large number of Roman Catholic immigrants coming to these shores, and they have been so skilfully manipulated, that at the present time they hold a controlling influence in the leading cities of this country, such as New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco. New York is regarded as the strongest center of the Papacy in the world, being a much more Roman Catholic city than even Rome itself. In 1776 the ratio of Roman Catholics to the total population of the United States was one in one hundred twenty, but now it is one in six.

The influence of the Roman Catholic hierarchy upon the highest officials of America, including the President himself, is most marked, and has become the subject of discussion in nearly all the Protestant papers of the country. Evidences of this are seen in the intimate relations between the President and the leading members of the Roman hierarchy, such as Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Mgr. Russell, of Washington, and other prelates; in the ease with which these men secure favors from the government, such as the suspension of the religious-garb order, issued by Commissioner Valentine; and in the assertion made by Very Rev. John P. Chidwick, in a sermon at the laying of the corner-stone of the church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York City, Sunday, April 28, 1912: "In this country the church and the government are in sympathy."

There are other pertinent facts which might be cited, but these are sufficient to emphasize the fact that the Roman hierarchy has entered upon a definite program, and that it is carrying out that program with a zeal worthy of a better cause.

Those who are familiar with the interpretation of prophecy that Seventh-day Adventists have publicly presented for a half-century and more, know that they have predicted a revival of Roman Catholic influence in this country, and that they have endeavored to prepare the people so that they might recognize this fulfilment of prophecy, and know how to relate themselves to it. Now that we are beginning to see worked out in current history what we have declared would come, it is certainly fitting that we should recognize the advantage which this development brings to us, and that we should devote ourselves with greater intelligence and an increasing zeal to the work of proclaiming the threefold message announcing the perversion of truth by the Papacy, and warning the dwellers upon the earth against worshiping the beast and his image. It is doubtless true that there are very many people who up to this time have seriously questioned the correctness of our application of this prophecy, but who now might be convinced that our interpretation is fully warranted in view of recent events. It is certain in any case that a large number of Protestants have become greatly aroused by the facts and occurrences mentioned in this document, and that they are beginning to realize as never before that the Roman Catholic Church is seeking to capture America for the Papacy. This is indicated by the widespread discussion concerning the encroachments of the Roman hierarchy and its determined purpose, now so evident, to use governmental influence in furthering its ends. This makes the present a most opportune time to enter upon the most aggressive campaign which we have ever undertaken for proclaiming the truths of this message, and for exposing the false doctrines and the political aims of the Papacy.

The experience of the past three years has indicated that the Protestant Magazine is a most successful medium through which to reach clergymen, teachers, and other professional men, and to bring to their attention those fundamental principles of Protestantism which lie at the very foundation of this second advent movement. A most remarkable interest has been shown in this magazine by those who have maintained their devotion to the true principles of Protestantism, and we have received most encouraging letters and long lists of subscribers from such persons. We are confident that there are hundreds of thousands of others whom we have not yet reached, who would just as heartily welcome this exponent of Protestantism and give it their support.

In order to make this magazine a stronger factor in advancing our message, we have decided to issue it monthly, commencing with October of the present year, and we desire to enlist the efforts of all our people in securing for it a large circulation. With the hearty cooperation of those who believe in the message which it bears, we could soon have a list of 100,000 subscribers. We are not drawing on our imagination when we say this. One anti-Catholic publication which has been in the field only a little over one year, has already secured a list of nearly 200,000 subscribers, and the number is still rapidly growing. There is no other publication which occupies exactly the same field as the Protestant Magazine, and with the present interest in the Roman question, subscriptions can be more readily secured than at any previous time.

We suggest two definite plans of action. First, that each one make an effort to secure five yearly subscriptions to this magazine, forwarding three dollars, and retaining two dollars commission. The same result will be obtained if each one sends in five names with three dollars to pay for the magazine one year to each name. Second, that conference officials undertake to send this magazine to every minister in their territory, securing subscriptions as far as possible, and meeting the remainder of the expense by donations. It will be impossible to estimate might be accomplished in a very short time if our people throughout the country would carry out these suggestions. To give a clear understanding of terms and discounts, we submit the following statement of prices:—

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We are earnestly hoping that there will be a cordial response to this appeal, and that we may commence the monthly issues of this magazine with a very largely increased list.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— The United States navy's largest wireless station is nearing completion at Fort Myer, Va., and within a month the big, 650-foot steel tower, the only one of the three which has not been completed, will be ready to receive the wires, or antennæ, which will take from and send into the air Uncle Sam's messages for a distance of more than 5,000 miles.

— The red trousers of the Austrian soldier are to be discarded, and garments of a less conspicuous color substituted. This change follows a similar one in the French army, in which this feature of the uniform — introduced, it is said, by Napoleon I for economic reasons — had long been conspicuous. Khaki is becoming the soldiers' favorite service costume the world over.

— The act of Congress appropriating $300,000 with which army transports are to be equipped with life-boats and rafts to accommodate all persons and members of the crews transported on them was signed June 14 by President Taft. All ocean steamers entering American ports in future must be equipped with life-boats sufficient to carry at one time every passenger and member of the crew, according to new regulations adopted by the steamboat inspection service.

— Professor Melladra, assistant director of the observatory on Mt. Vesuvius, has, it is reported, accomplished the daring feat of descending into the crater of the volcano and making a series of moving pictures showing the emission of vapor, and other phenomena.

— Cabole, a beautiful tree that grows on the west coast of Africa and is also found on the island of St. Thomas, is said to furnish the most costly wood in the world. It somewhat resembles teak, and takes on a very high polish. Its price is quoted as about $3,500 per cubic meter.

— Hand cooperage is now almost an extinct industry. In no department has wood-working machinery been more highly specialized. There are machines for working the staves, for making the hoops, for shaping the heads, for assembling the parts, and for finishing the barrels.

— Despatches from Ungava, the great district north of old Quebec, announces the discovery of diamond deposits which may prove extensive enough for commercial exploitation. A prospecting expedition from Ottawa and Montreal is now on its way north to make a complete survey.

— Not everybody knows that the United States has a 2,000-mile mail route operated by dog-sleds during a good part of the year. Such is the fact, however, over the trail between Cordova and Nome, in Alaska. But for these mail facilities the dwellers of the bleak northern peninsula during the long winter months would be without mail service, owing to the close of navigation.

— A fine of $100, the first to be imposed under the wireless telegraph law of 1910, was recently collected from the captain of the coastwise steamer "Sabine" for sailing without a wireless operator. The law requires all vessels that carry more than fifty passengers and crew, and go 200 miles or more without stopping, to be equipped with wireless apparatus and to have a wireless operator.

— After lying dormant for many years, four volcanoes in southwestern Alaska have sprung into life, and are terrifying the surrounding country by terrific eruptions. Kodiak and Wood Island villages are buried under a foot of ashes, sand, and hot pumice-stone as a result of the eruption of Katmai volcano, located on the mainland of Alaska. It is feared that the total population of 200 persons has perished.

— It is reported that a company is being formed for the construction of an elevated railroad from New York to Chicago, and probably on westward to San Francisco. The inventor is Dr. William D. Gentry, of Chicago. He has secured the aid of the greatest financiers of the country. The new railroad will make a speed of more than 100 miles an hour, and will carry only passengers, mail, and light freight. It will be kept level by means of tunnels and trestles. The time from New York to Chicago is estimated at eight or nine hours. The new railroad will be single-track — one rail — for the lower section, or running-bed, of the car. The car itself will rest on steel platforms, and be attached by another running gear of top tracks to a single rail overhead.

— The Mississippi River has, an exchange estimates, added 1,200 square miles to our domain in the course of its history, by its deposits in the Gulf of Mexico.

— Night letters by telegraph, the president of the Western Union Telegraph Company is reported as saying, brought in $1,000,000 to the company the first year of their introduction.

— British sailors are agitating for an increase of pay. They are said to have had but one raise in more than fifty years, and they think their turn has come for better pay and larger privileges.

— The need of automatic stops for railway trains is emphasized by the report that 171 persons lost their lives and 931 were injured last year in accidents caused by engineers running past danger-signals. Such automatic stops are said to be perfectly practicable, and to be in successful use on some electric systems.

— Last month there returned to his own fair country an Italian organ-grinder, enriched by $50,000 through the simple occupation of turning a crank emitting discordant notes. That is considerably in excess of the lifetime compensation of a cathedral organ player dwelling among the masters of music.

— The trial of the steel magnates has begun in New York, and testimony is now being taken in the government's action for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation. Several witnesses testified regarding the alleged pool on horseshoes, and the barbed-wire pool was also under discussion. The investigation will probably be a prolonged one.

— A dime-in-the-slot photographic machine is, it is announced, about to be put on the market. The sitter places the coin in the slot, and pulls a lever; the mechanism turns on an electric light, drops a plate into position behind the lens, opens the shutter for three seconds, develops, fixes, and washes the plate, and in fifty-seven seconds delivers the picture, finished and in a neat frame. If the mechanism should fail to work, the dime is automatically returned.

— Galveston, Tex., recently celebrated the completion of its great causeway, the third and last of great protective measures adopted after the disastrous storm of ten years ago. The sea wall was the first of these. It is four and one-half miles long, and eighteen feet above the waters of the Gulf. The second protective work was the filling in of the flooded section, raising it ten feet above its former level. Now the causeway is done. It is wide enough to permit abreast a passenger-train, a freight-train, an interurban train, wagons, buggies, automobiles, and pedestrians. In time of peril it would be abundantly large to permit of the evacuation of the city in safety. It is about two miles long, stretching from the island city across Galveston Bay to the mainland. In its center is a huge roller lift bridge. With these great enterprises completed, Galveston begins a new era of prosperity. Its channel admits the largest ships, its geographical location makes it the center of a great and growing commerce, and its enterprise has made its disaster of ten years ago minister to the city's new and larger life.

— The first trial by jury ever held in China was held in Shanghai recently. The defendant was accused of murder.

— Last month in the markets of Chicago, meat advanced to the highest price that has been recorded since the civil war. The shortage of cattle is ascribed by the packers as the cause.

— The Arabs in southeastern Arabia took 4,500 Bibles from the American Bible Society last year. But the attack of Italy on Tripoli has embittered them against the Christian religion, as the Italians call themselves Christians, and they are now refusing Bibles.

— In no other country in the world, perhaps, are seaweeds utilized to the same extent as in Japan. At all seasons of the year this product of the deep is harvested. It forms not only a large item in the food of the people, but furnishes the raw material from which many articles of commerce are manufactured.

— The new Chinese postage-stamps, according to the New England Stamp Monthly, have begun to arrive in America. The name of the new republic, as indicated by these stamps, is Chung Hua Min Kuo, or Middle Flowery People's State. This name is apparently adapted from the familiar designation of China as the Flowery Kingdom.

— Missouri has a farm that annually produces more than 1,000,000 bushels of corn. One field on this farm aggregates 6,000 acres, and forty-two two-row cultivators may be seen at one time working in it, looking like an army of chariots ready to charge. The corn produced is not usually sold, but is fed to stock, of which there are 10,000 steers and 25,000 hogs.

— The signagraph is an invention that will be welcomed by the business man who has to sign large numbers of checks, bonds, or other documents. The movements of the pen held in the writer's hand are exactly duplicated by a series of other pens arranged over other sheets of paper. One New York financier is reported to have affixed his signature to 6,000 documents in thirty-eight minutes by the use of this device.

— Every child in the elementary schools of the United States would be card-catalogued, and a running history of his entire school career in the grades kept permanently on file, under a plan formulated by investigators whose report has just been issued by the United States Bureau of Education. The plan has the approval of the National Education Association, and about 300 cities already have begun to keep the cards. Eventually, it is thought, about 6,000,000 pupils will be thus tabulated.

— On May 1, on a lot in Spartanburg, S. C., which at dawn had been vacant, the Bethel Methodist church, a neat edifice with a seating capacity for 800 persons, stood that same night, having been erected, painted, papered, furnished with pews and altar, and equipped with electrical and plumbing fixtures between the rising and the setting of the sun. The feat was performed in the presence of 18,000 persons, while the band played lively airs, and moving-picture men reeled off thousands of feet of films. One hundred twenty workmen were engaged in the task of erecting the building.

Business Notices

By Editor

This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

No advertisements of "agents wanted," or "partners wanted," and no "promotion" nor "colonization" enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him "known" to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.

We open no accounts for advertizing, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of two dollars will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost five cents.

No discount for several insertions.

FOR SALE.—Ripe Olives, for summer use: Small, 55c, and medium, 75c, per gal. in 5-gal. cans; 20 gal. to East for $2.85 freight. Honey 7 1/2c in 60-lb. cans. Olive Oil. W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.

WANTED.—Young sister desirous of helping in treatments and assisting about institution. Good wages while learning, with increase each month for six months. Must be Seventh-day Adventist. Write age, weight, and desire for applying. Jared Sanitarium, Logansport, Ind.

WANTED.—Position by man, with family of six, who have just accepted the truth. He desires a place where the Sabbath can be kept and his family provided for. His trade is that of stone-mason and concrete worker. A place where church-school privileges can be had would be especially acceptable. Communicate with the Maine Tract Society, 1377 Washington Ave., Woodfords, Maine.

FOR SALE.—In Walla Walla, Wash., a modern house of four rooms below and two unfinished rooms above. Full, first-class plumbing. Cement foundation, and cement basement of 12 x 24 ft. Lot, 54 x 186 ft. with fruit. Actual cash value bank appraisal, $2,000. Mortgage of $1,000. Will sell at a sacrifice for cash, with reasonable payment and some time on balance; or exchange for acreage. Address C. H. Castle, 327 McIntyre Block, Salt Lake City, Utah.

COOKING OIL direct from refinery; pure, healthful, delicious. Eight 1-gal. cans, $7.35; 5-gal. can, $4.10; 10 gal., $8.10; 30-gal. bbl., $21.96; 50-gal. barrel, $36. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

COOKING OIL.—Noted for quality. Free from animal fat. Keeps indefinitely. Eight 1-gal. cans, $7.50; 5-gal. can, $4.20; 2 5-gal. cans, $8.20; 30-gal. bbl., $22.50; 50-gal. bbl., $37. Cash with order. Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

COOKING OIL.—Best quality. Delicate flavor. Purely vegetable. Guaranteed. Extensively used by best cooks. Five gal., $4.15; 10 gal., $7.90; 8 1-gal. cans, $7.36; 6 5-gal. cans, $22.50; 30-gal. bbl., $21.90; 50-gal. bbl., $36. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Camp-Meetings for 1912

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western New York, Dunkirk . . . . .June 20-30 Northern New England . . . .Aug. 21 to Sept. 1 New York, Utica . . . . . . . Aug. 23 to Sept. 1 Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 5-15

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec, Ayre's Cliff . . . . . .June 27 to July 7

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

East Kansas, Emporia . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 8-18 Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 North Missouri, . . . . . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 8

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

Eastern Pennsylvania, Allentown, Pa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 19-30 New Jersey, Plainfield . . . . . .June 27 to July 7 West Virginia, Fairmont . . . . . . . .July 18-28 Ohio, Springfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25 West Pennsylvania . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Wisconsin, Wausau . . . . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Southern Illinois, Jacksonville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 29 to Aug. 5 Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-11 East Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 12-19 Northern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 19-25 North Michigan, Traverse City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 West Michigan, Kalamazoo . . . . . . . Sept. 2-8

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

South Dakota, Redfield . . . . . . . . June 23-30 Iowa, Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 2

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Montana, Missoula . . . . . . . . . . . June 24-30

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

California, Santa Rosa . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Southern California . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-18 Arizona, Phoenix . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 17-27

SOUTHEASTERN UNION

Cumberland Conference, Vestal (colored) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 5-14 Georgia, Barnesville . . . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4 South Carolina, Columbia . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11 North Carolina, Hickory . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25 Cumberland Conference, Sweetwater, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 Florida, Ocala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 3-14

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Kentucky (colored) . . . . . . . . . . . . July 5-14 Louisiana, Baton Rouge . . . . . . . July 18-28 Alabama, Fairhope . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11 Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 8-18 Tennessee River, Camden . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25 Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4 Mississippi (colored) . . . . . . . . . Sept. 13-23 Alabama (colored) . . . . . . . . Sept. 27 to Oct. 5

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

South Texas, San Antonio . . June 27 to July 7 Arkansas, Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . July 11-21 North Texas, Cleburne . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4 West Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11 New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25 Oklahoma, Oklahoma City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1

WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Alberta, Strathcona . . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Manitoba, Winnipeg . . . . . June 27 to July 7 Saskatchewan, Bulyea . . . . . . . . . July 11-21

Arkansas Conference Association

The annual meeting of the Arkansas Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual conference on the Little Rock campground, July 11-21, 1912, for the purpose of electing trustees for the ensuing year, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the association. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M., July 15, 1912.

J. W. NORWOOD, President; C. J. DART, Secretary.

Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association of Wisconsin

By W. H. THURSTON, President; P. L. LARSON, Secretary

THE annual session of the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association of the State of Wisconsin (incorporated) will be held at Wausau, Wis., in connection with the camp-meeting of the Wisconsin Conference, June 20-30, 1912. The first meeting of the session will be held on Tuesday, June 25, at 11:30 A. M. At this session officers and trustees will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before this body. The accredited delegates to the Wisconsin Conference are delegates to this association.

W. H. THURSTON, President; P. L. LARSON, Secretary.

Seventh-Day Adventist Book Society of West Virginia

The Seventh-day Adventist Book Society of West Virginia will hold a special meeting in connection with the camp-meeting at South Side Park, Fairmont, West Va., July 26, at 9 A. M., for the purpose of adopting by-laws for the organization, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

F. H. ROBBINS, President; J. S. BARROWS, Secretary.

South Texas Conference Association

The South Texas Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will meet on the campground in San Antonio, Tex., Tuesday, July 2, 1912, at 10 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the delegates. The regularly accredited delegates to the conference are delegates to the association.

J. I. TAYLOR, President; E. L. NEFF, Secretary.

New Jersey Conference Association

The fifth annual session of the New Jersey Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Plainfield, N. J., June 27 to July 7, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the meeting. The first meeting will be called at 10:30 A. M., June 28.

A. R. SANDBORN, President; W. B. WALTERS, Secretary.

West Virginia Camp-Meeting

By F. H. Robbins

The West Virginia camp-meeting will be held at Fairmont, W. Va., July 18-28. The Fairmont & Clarksburg Traction Company has granted us, free of charge, South Side Park, for the place of meeting. The grounds are large, level, and have a grand stand, which is lighted with electricity, and is capable of seating 2,000 persons. Those coming from the railroad station, should go to the court-house, and take the Watson electric car, which runs to the camp-ground every fifteen minutes.

Two large tents and about thirty family tents will be pitched. Those planning to attend should order tents or rooms at once, as we wish all to be provided for when they come. Tents will rent at $3.50 each, for the ten days, and rooms can be secured at a reasonable price. Those who tent should bring bedding and all other necessary articles for tenting. Beds and cots, also straw, will be provided on the camp-ground.

The following-named speakers are planning to be present: E. R. Palmer, F. M. Wilcox, and A. J. Haysmer, of the General Conference; Prof. S. M. Butler, of Mount Vernon, Ohio; N. S. Ashton, Pittsburgh, Pa.; I. G. Bigelow, Washington, D. C.; Charles Baierle, Fairmont; John F. Steele, Martinsburg; F. E. Gibson, Charleston; I. D. Richardson, Wheeling; T. W. Thirlwell, Parkersburg; and F. H. Robbins, of Morgantown.

Although a large number of good speakers will be present, your presence and influence will be needed to make the meetings a success. F. H. ROBBINS.

Change of Address

By Editor

PERSONS wishing to communicate with Elder W. H. Green should address him at 1830 Thirteenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C., instead of 1409 First St., N. W., as formerly.

Publications Wanted

By Editor

The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent postpaid:—

C. F. Volz, Seymour, Ind., R. F. D. 6, requests copies of the Signs of the Times and Watchman for distribution.

English tracts, magazines, and periodicals (except the REVIEW), for free distribution, will be appreciated by J. J. Jobe, Navasota, Tex.

Mrs. Martha Thomas, Box 363, Lakeland, Fla., requests copies of the Signs of the Times, REVIEW AND HERALD, and Watchman for free distribution.

College of Medical Evangelists of Loma Linda, Cal.

By Editor

Nurses' Course

Our next class will begin work Aug. 29, 1912. We want twenty-five students who wish to train for medical missionary nurses to engage in the Master's service. Eighteen years of age and ten grades preparatory work are required. Besides the regular nurses' course, we offer a special course of one year for Bible workers, and a postgraduate course for graduate nurses. Write for calendar and application blank. Address Superintendent of Nurses, Loma Linda, Cal.

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