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Danger in “Preserved” Foods

The experiment conducted for nearly two years by Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, to determine the effect of the stale preserved foods on human health, has been brought to a conclusion. The report is not yet published, but the conclusions are given out. They are adverse to the use of preservatives in all kinds of canned and preserved foods. The results obtained from the experiments show that even in doses not exceeding a half gram (seven and one-half grains) a day, boric acid and borax as preservatives are prejudicial to health when consumed for a long time; that the only safe rule is to exclude them from foods for general consumption. When mixed with food, they are absorbed into the circulation from the intestinal canal. Even a half grain a day will cause periods of loss of appetite and bad feeling. With larger doses these symptoms are more rapidly developed. They also tend to diminish slightly the weight of the body; and when the doses are increased to three grams a day, there is a slight clouding of the mental processes.

A year ago last August twenty young men of good health in the government employ were selected, who agreed to enter on a systematic diet which embraced suspected preserved foods. A civil service cook was engaged; everything eaten was weighed, and all the excrements, fluid and solid, were analyzed day and night. Some of the young men were so affected by the consumption of boracic preservatives that the physicians employed to watch the subjects recommended that they be withdrawn from the contest. Experiments are still going on in regard to salicylic acid. Between the microbes and the chemicals we are between the deep sea and the personified embodiment of pernicious activity. Meanwhile the food experts are declaring that peanuts are the best conveyors into the human system of proteid muscle-making food, and fruit and eggs are all that we need.

The report says: “It is undoubtedly true that no patent effects may be produced in persons of good health by the occasional use of preservatives of this kind in small quantities, but the young, the debilitated, and the sick must not be forgotten, and the safe rule to follow is to exclude these preservatives from foods for general consumption.”

It also demands that all foods preserved by borax shall be honestly labeled, so that the consumer may know what he is getting. . . .

We venture the remark that within two months a multitude of well-paid and plausible experts in the employ of the purveyors of the things condemned, will be sending forth publications, plausible and persuasive, stating that borax is a prolonger of human life, or if they can not do that, that they have found an antidote to the damaging effects of borax, which at the same time allows the use of the borax as a preservative.—New York Christian Advocate.

Faith, Patience, and Love

“FAITH, patience, love, we need to cultivate, Our faint hearts are so ready to despair, So prone to cry, The burden is too great For us to bear. He sends the bitter who has sent the sweet, And it is best, And often ’tis in sorrow and defeat That we are blessed.”

HARRY ARMSTRONG

By Harry Armstrong

Ceylon

HARRY ARMSTRONG

A LITTLE over one month ago we left Calcutta, and sailed out of the “sacred” river into the Bay of Bengal. We did not leave India because the work there was finished, for notwithstanding all that is being done by our faithful brethren and sisters, its needs are multiplying day by day. India is a stricken land, and its need can never be written in words. No artist can ever picture the dire distress of its people and the loneliness of soul felt by those who are still held in the chains of darkness and superstition. Nothing will ever answer this need, except the love, fellowship, and brotherhood of the Lord’s Christ in his people. We need one hundred young, loyal-hearted Seventh-day Adventists, those who are burdened for the truths for this time, to dedicate their lives to the service of God, and come over and help us.

Considerable work has been done both in India and in Burma, but Ceylon has been an unentered field. For this reason we sailed toward the island, entering its capital, Colombo, that by the grace of God the standard of present truth might be lifted up, and a memorial established for the Lord and his truth.

Ceylon is a beautiful island, and because of its beauty and fruitfulness it is called the “Eden of the East.” Many poets have sung its praises, and many hearts have been inspired to worship by its beauty and loveliness. O. W. Holmes says:— “When Ceylon sweeps thee with her perfumed breeze, Through the warm billows of the east- ern seas.”

Because of its location, being an island in the Indian Ocean, it nearly always enjoys the cooling breezes of the “eastern seas;” and being a land of spices and perfumery, these sea breezes are soon changed into the “spicy breezes” of which we love to sing.

“What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.”

Although it is the premier crown colony of the British empire, Ceylon is not very large. In comparative size it is about equal to Belgium and Holland, about three fourths the size of Ireland, one eighth the size of France, or three eighths the size of the State of Missouri. Its extreme length from north to south is 270 miles, and greatest width 137 miles. Its total area is 25,481 square miles, and the population is 3,629,986.

Perhaps there is no other island that yields such a wealth of treasure. In its gem pits are to be found a liberal supply of many precious stones, such as the sapphire, chrysoberyl, ruby, cat’s-eye, aquamarine, topaz, garnet, and cinnamon stone. Also in the Gulf of Manar, choicest pearls are sought and found at regular intervals, known as the “pearl fisheries.”

The island is also rich in vegetation. The chief vegetable products are cocoanuts, rice, tea, cinnamon, tobacco, and rubber; and among valuable timbers, ebony, satinwood, and calamander may be mentioned. Ceylon is also famous for its elephants, from whose tusks ivory is procured. There are other large wild animals which live in the jungles, such as the bear, leopard, buffalo, deer, and wild boar.

Colombo is the capital of Ceylon, and in this place we have decided to open up the work. Its harbor is visited by ships of all nations, and is in itself a good field for missionary operations. The harbor is protected by a breakwater, and an accompanying picture shows a common sight during the “monsoon” season. The monsoon has burst with all its fury since we came here, and much distress, attended with loss of life, has been caused by the floods. Railway lines and bridges have been swept away, and many of the poorer classes have been made homeless.

The people of Ceylon are called “Cingales.” The greater portion of them are Buddhists; the rest are “Christians,” mostly Roman Catholics. We believe there is a great work to be done here among this people. They are, as all heathen are, “very religious,” but they are still worshiping “an unknown god.” We have come to declare the true God unto them by presenting the third angel’s message as a final appeal for all to “fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Our hearts are of good courage; for we believe the Lord will establish the work of our hands in raising up a memorial to the third angel’s message and the coming of his kingdom.

Colombo, Ceylon.

The Gospel in the Sudan

THE British government has been slow to permit anything in the nature of Christian missions in the Mohammedan Sudan. It fears a stirring of fanaticism, but recently Christians belonging to the United Presbyterian churches in Egypt are moving into the Sudan for business reasons. These are arranging to have pastors and preachers. This the British government can not refuse. So the gospel is to be preached in the Sudan.

Eighteenth Annual Conference in Norway

By Guy Dail

GUY DAIL

This meeting was held June 14-19, in the delightful and beautifully located Norwegian capital. There is probably no foreign city with which our people in other lands are more fully acquainted than this, as they so manfully assisted in saving the cause of God from financial reproach by preserving the integrity of the Christiania publishing house a few years ago. We are thankful indeed that, while there is perhaps no marked change for the better in the commercial world in Norway, some can see tokens of improvement in the next year or two. Those who prophesy easier times, state that the power of the social democratic party is near its end, and there will be a renewal of business activity, and men who have money will be freer to invest it. However, within the last week, two more banks in the city have gone into bankruptcy, making eight Christiania banks to dissolve within the last four years, and during this time of business stagnation, the Norwegian banks have lost $11,000,000. Only the future will tell as to whether rock bottom has been reached or not. Overspeculation in land and buildings was largely responsible for the money panic that has been reigning here so long.

Delegates from our churches in Arendal, Bergen, Drammen, Frederiksstad, Hamar, Horten, Christiania, Christiansand, Larvik, Mandal, Moss, Sandnæs, Stavanger, Tromsø, and Trondheim were present; the churches in Fredrikshald, Gjøvik, Hadsel, Lille Vandve, Porsgrund, Skien, and Vardø sent no representatives.

Brethren P. A. Hansen, N. Clausen, and H. L. Henriksen, of Denmark, are here; from Iceland is Brother D. Östlund; while Brother O. A. Olsen, of Great Britain, has been with us. Brother L. R. Conradi had sufficiently recovered from the malaria he had contracted in German East Africa, to enable him and the writer to leave Hamburg Wednesday night; we arrived here Friday morning.

We found the routine business of the conference well under way. As some of the brethren had been richly blessed in their labors the past year, I have thought it might not be out of place to relate a few of their experiences. In one city, the wife of the chief civil engineer of the district, had, for a long time, been deeply interested in our work. She began to attend the course of lectures that was in progress in the town, but her husband was much opposed to the idea. To prevent her going, he locked up her best dresses, and refused to give her the key; she went to church in her working-dress, and this caused her husband to feel disgraced. He then tried other plans, which proved unsuccessful. Thus, after a number of years of waiting, she broke every tie that held her, determined to follow the Lord at all hazards.

Another interesting case was referred to: The sister of a gentleman who was much opposed to us, became convinced that we were presenting the Bible truth for these times, and she desired, also, to go forward in baptism; but her brother declared he would not allow it. The evening of the proposed celebration of this sacred rite, he was present on the shore of the lake, and very closely watched every candidate that stepped into the water. When the last one had been immersed, the gentleman inquired: “Was not my sister also going to be baptized?” The answer was, “Did you not see her as she went down into the water?” “Why,” exclaimed the astonished man, “she has not been baptized?” “Yes,” was the reply, “she was baptized quite a while ago.” Thus, in some way the man’s eyes had been holden, so that he had not seen what had occurred.

Another man, who wished to create still more bitter opposition to the truth, rented a large hall, at a cost of between twenty and thirty kroner for the night (a dollar is 3.70 kroner). He issued tickets, for which he proposed to charge fifty ore apiece, stating that the proceeds of the sale of these tickets would go toward establishing a fund to fight Adventism. He gave six of his friends complimentary tickets. The time of the appointed gathering arrived. These six friends came. The lecturer waited and waited; no other hearers were to be seen. He left the hall in disgust, bitterly railing at the townspeople and the members of the established church, because they had failed to support him in his opposition to the third angel’s message. In the cities in which these events took place, fifteen have already been baptized as the result of the effort put forth, and the interest continues.

At Stavanger, where one of our ministers worked two winters, we have a

church of fifty members. While engaged in proclaiming the truth there, he also held lectures in Sandnæs, and here we have a church of seventeen. Seven months ago he began laboring in Haugesund, where the established church had absolute sway. It seemed that everybody was opposed to him. Still his audiences ranged from three to six hundred each night, and many times the hall was so crowded that there were large numbers who had to go home, unable to find even standing room. The donations covered his expenses, as he received five hundred and fifty kroner to defray hall rent, light, fuel, etc. During Passover Week, representatives from Bergen and Stavanger were able to come over, so there were about sixty Sabbath-keepers together, and they had a good meeting.

The visiting brethren were largely entertained by the citizens of the city, free of charge. These brethren went out to Haroldstøtten, the national monument erected in memory of the king who first united Norway, and who was buried here A. D. 872. The accompanying illustration shows the group. People in Haugesund still desire to hear, and already sixteen have accepted the truth. The effort here will be continued during the summer. In this place we have had a great deal of opposition from Sabbath-keepers who once were our brethren, but have now formed themselves into a Seventh-day Zionist society: their purpose it is said to be to see the Jews reinstated in Palestine, and to oppose the spirit of prophecy.

The past year there were three church-schools in operation in Norway. The one at Hamar had fifteen pupils; it must keep its doors open nine months of the year, as this is required by law, in the cities. The young lady teacher receives ten kroner per month, and has board free. She follows the custom sometimes practised in earlier days in the West, of boarding around with each family interested in the school, for a week at a time. Thus she becomes better acquainted with the home life of her pupils, and the parents become better acquainted with her. The school at Hadsel has twelve pupils, and the one at Lille Vandve (on a little island in the land of the midnight sun) has eight pupils, and their term of school is three months, respectively, so that the same teacher is able to teach in both places. These schools are supported by tuition and donations. There was also a four months’ school for workers held in Christiania last winter. Twelve were in attendance. Seven hundred and twenty kroner was donated toward the enterprise. The common branches, book-keeping, and Bible were the principal studies. In the afternoon the students canvassed, thus assisting in defraying their expenses. Most of these pupils are now in the canvassing work.

The brother who is running the simple

treatment rooms in Hamar brings us a good report. He numbers among his patients many of the leading citizens of the place—lawyers, government officials, churchmen, merchants, etc. He considered the plan of starting a vegetarian restaurant. He did not have the money. He was not sure it would pay. He let his friends know of his project, and they advised him to try the experiment, and loaned him the utensils necessary to make it. He now serves two meals a week, and if he sees that the demand warrants it, he will open up this sort of work permanently. I was much interested in this man. I learned authentically, though indirectly, of one experience he had. It was just the day before Christmas. For the morning meal the family had eaten the last bit of food there was in the house. They had no money. The three or four holidays of the Christmas week were right upon them. The wife and mother was anxiously waiting for the father to get through giving his last treatment, that she might have the kroner and a half he expected to receive from his patient, to buy a little food before the stores should close at six o’clock. The door-bell rang. The postman came. He brought a letter. In the letter were ten kroner, sent by a friend who felt impressed of God to forward the money. God had answered their prayer. This brother can tell of other similar answers to his prayer of faith. He is always contented, never complains, works hard, and is a light to the neighborhood. God blesses him. A great many such men will be used in closing up the loud cry of the third angel. They may not be rich, nor have wonderful talents; but if they are rich in faith, and work hard, and are economical, and have good common sense, and love their neighbors, they will be useful Christians.

Our treatment rooms in Christiania and the Christiania publishing house have done well the past year, the property paying its way. The publishing house has printed a selection from “Sabbath Readings,” a neat book of two hundred and fifty-five pages; and the following tracts have been issued: “The Great Threefold Message;” “Christ’s Second Advent;” “Which Day Is the Sabbath?” “The Health Question;” and “The First Seven Steps on the Way of Life.”

There is another brother, of whose work I might speak. He has for years been doing what he could for others in Christiania. Now he has opened a vegetarian restaurant, where he plans to serve meals to five hundred a day. He already has one hundred and fifty for dinner, and about fifty for supper, though he is not really established in his work, as yet. He showed me the four floors he has rented, and told me that he takes his business affairs to God in prayer three times a day. He has within easy access of the patrons of his restaurant, our tracts and papers, and does what he can in this way to spread the truth. He is anxious to help others, and I believe that

if he keeps on as he has begun, he will be able to accomplish much good.

The brethren appointed to nominate officers for the coming year offered the following report, which was adopted: President, O. A. Johnson; Secretary, C. B. Jensen; Treasurer, A. C. Christensen; Missionary and Sabbath-school Department, Johan Nelson; Conference Committee, O. A. Johnson, O. P. Norderhus, O. J. Olsen, John Lorntz, J. Narem, N. P. Nelson, and O. R. Jordahl.

For 1903 the tithe of this field was four thousand dollars; offerings were nearly seven hundred dollars. Sixty-two persons were baptized. During the last seven months the conference debt was reduced about two hundred kroner, and five hundred kroner have been raised during the year for a tent, which will be used this summer. Nearly one hundred dollars was subscribed for the material fund at the meeting. The book sales amounted to forty-eight hundred dollars in 1903, and we hope this sum will be materially increased in 1904. The number of subscribers to our Norwegian health paper is twenty-three hundred, more than twice as many as a year ago, and for the religious journal we have thirteen hundred subscribers. The outlook is encouraging for a good year. Remember this field, with its six ministers, three Bible workers, and 2,200,000 people.

Christiania.

Bible Work for the Chinese

By A. C. Selmon, M. D.

A. C. SELMON, M. D.

THE most effective worker among the Chinese is the thoroughly converted native, who has a good knowledge of the Bible. It is encouraging to see the interest that is manifested among the common people in the study of the Bible. This is especially true of the people who live in the country, and who are, as a rule, much more ready to accept the gospel than those in the cities. Many of them have already become dissatisfied with their heathen religions, and some have come to us, saying they found it of no use to pray to their gods, for their prayers were never answered. It is a blessed privilege to take such an inquirer as this, and tell him of the prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God. From our own experiences, we can testify more fully now than ever before that we have such a God; for, among a class of priests and people devoted to the worship of Satan, we can see the Lord’s protection manifested in many ways.

Through the work carried on by the large Bible societies, the Bible can be placed in the hands of all who wish it. A complete Chinese Bible can be secured for less than fifteen cents in gold, and Bible portions, such as one of the Gospels, for half a cent.

In teaching these people the Bible, and in presenting any of the truths of Christianity, a difficulty one meets at the outset is this: their terms for love, friendship, kindness, pity, mercy, etc., do not mean the same to them as these words do to us. Their word “love” has the same force to them as the word “like” has to us. Where we would say, “I like this horse or this food,” they would get the same idea from this as if the word “love” were used. In fact, there is very little love among them, until it has been developed by a knowledge of the One who is love.

When one thinks of the conditions of their life, it is not so strange that this should be so; for how can the young man love the bride that he has never seen previous to the day of their marriage?—this is the custom that is followed in their marriages. How can the little girl love her mother, when that mother from day to day is inflicting upon her daughter the most cruel torture by binding her feet? Where is the mother-love, when a Chinese mother will take her living infant and cast it away by the roadside, or in some neglected spot, to become a prey for the birds and dogs?

But we know the Holy Spirit can enable their darkened minds to understand the precious Bible truths, and can awaken in their hearts a love for the One who gave his life for them. The Lord has declared that his word would accomplish that whereunto it was sent, and the faithful in this land of Sinim, who are to be gathered out, will receive the gospel.

Mission Notes

SINCE last July there have been twenty-five baptized in Kobe, Japan. Five of these are young men, all of them actively engaged in the canvassing work.

Two nurses have recently gone from Australia to connect with the sanitarium work in Samoa, and a company of workers was expected to reach Singapore early in July.

THE total number of ordained missionaries in the foreign field is 5,863. Of these, 1,999 are from America, 2,017 are from Great Britain, and 910 are from Germany and the Netherlands.

SIX native Filipinos will probably attend the University of Missouri next year at the expense of the government. This is a part of the plan to Americanize the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands.

IT is said that the widows of India are four times as many as the total population of London, and that the children of India, should they walk four abreast and two feet apart, would make a procession five thousand miles long.

THE Japanese War Department gave permission for the distribution of Scriptures among the soldiers as they embarked for the seat of war. A special thin paper-covered edition of separate Gospels was prepared and given to the soldiers. A bound copy of the New Testament was given to each officer.

O. SOULE

By O. SOULE.

Oregon

ROSEBURG.—Six adults and four children have taken their stand for the truth, as a result of meetings held at a schoolhouse, nine miles east of Roseburg. A Sabbath-school has been organized with twelve members.

O. SOULE

J. H. ROGERS

By J. H. Rogers

California

RIVERSIDE.—In December, 1902, we came from South Dakota to Los Angeles, Cal., the rigorous climate of Dakota being too severe for my wife’s health. Our work and associations while in South Dakota very much endeared that people to us. After arriving in Los Angeles, I built us a little cottage home, worked as a carpenter about one year and a half, and in the meantime went out among our people and churches at the suggestion of the conference president and the request of our people. I enjoyed this work very much.

Nearly all my early associates in the message have laid down the armor in death, to await the glad morn when He shall come to claim his own, and “take them home to glory.” Some have “fallen out by the way;” for O, while it is a glorious time for the people of God who are heeding the bugle call, “On to victory,” it is a dreadful time for the faithless who are “murmuring by the way.”

Having watched the movements of this cause for over forty years, I am more sure than ever that God is leading this message and people to a glorious consummation. The move to Washington with the work has to my mind been exactly in the Lord’s leading for the speedy spread of the message to every nation and kindred and tongue and people. And what an opportunity is afforded now for those who have means, to invest in the cause of God! In a little time from now hoarded capital will be of no use or value. Remember, brethren, if this message is to all the world in this generation, now just now, is the time to show how much we believe it. When I see worldly inducements influencing this people to make investments, I know that the god of this world is “blinding their minds.” Surely we are standing on the crumbling sands of the last days of human probation.

At a recent meeting of the conference committee I was requested to locate in Riverside to look after the interest of the work here. Elder Simpson has done a good work in this city in bringing quite a number into the truth, and building a comfortable house of worship. He has since been called to Los Angeles to carry on evangelistic work.

So we are now located and at work in a city of about fifteen thousand inhabitants, some sixty miles east of Los Angeles. We feel very much the need of divine guidance and the spirit of wisdom to work for the master.

J. H. ROGERS

Emmanuel Missionary College

By William Covert

In harmony with plans laid by the Emmanuel Missionary College Board and the Lake Union Conference Executive Committee, May 26, 1904, a special committee and a quorum of the college board met at Berrien Springs in Study Hall, June 12, 13, to transact business and advise as to work to be done in the college during the current season.

The advice given three and one-half years ago for the removal of the college from Battle Creek is a matter of denominational history well known to our people. The subsequent movement to Berrien Springs in response to this advice is also well known. Much counsel from the same source that advised the moving of the college, has been given concerning the school work at Berrien Springs. This advice has also been followed, and the work done has been indorsed by Testimonies concerning it.

During the time of the biennial session of the Lake Union Conference, arrangements were made which were approved by Sister White for Professors Sutherland and Magan to go South and engage in the educational work there. They proceeded almost immediately to carry out their plans for work in the South. This procedure made it necessary for this special meeting to be called to provide for the work of Emmanuel Missionary College.

At the meeting of May 26, Prof. H. A. Washburn, of Bethel Industrial Academy, of Bethel, Wis., was selected to take the place made vacant in Emmanuel Missionary College by the resignation of Professor Sutherland. At the meeting of June 13, 14, arrangements were made for Professor Sutherland’s official connection with the college to close with the close of the summer school for teachers, August 16, and for Professor Washburn’s formal connection with the college as president to begin at the same time.

A local executive committee and financial class will have charge of the details of business of the school. Elder Allen Moon, president of the Lake Union Conference, was made treasurer of the institution. Elder Moon’s close relation to the finances of the school comes in the place of that which Professor Magan resigns on going South.

Professor Washburn will prepare the calendar for the coming year, but the industrial and Christian features of education in the school will remain unchanged. We are sorry to see these brethren leave Berrien Springs, but they are going to a needy field where the Lord has an abundance of work for them to do. By this move, the Lord’s work will be extended, and we hope, too, without injury to the cause of education in the place which they are leaving.

WM. COVERT.

Our Panama Mission

By Carrie Knight

We have no discouraging report to bring, but one of good courage. God is with us; that tells the whole story.

Since my return from the States, I have been very busy, as much writing for the field had accumulated during my absence. That, with helping in meetings, has taken all my time since my return. We went last week down the lagoons to Punto Robolo. The United Fruit Company has a large banana plantation at this place, where several hundred men are employed. We reached there just at sunset, and at once announced a meeting for that night. During our stay of five days we were kindly received and entertained by the superintendent of the plantation, an American.

I often wish our people in America could see us as we travel about holding meetings. Many times we can be seen under the shade of some large tree, our congregation sitting about us on the ground. Sometimes we have the good fortune to secure a shed, and sometimes we can get a house-lighter. This is a flat boat, fourteen by forty feet, being afloat, of course. It is not a very steady place, but it is quite comfortable.

At Punto Robolo a house-lighter was offered us. But just as we had our organ in place and the seats arranged, it began to rain, and we had to vacate, so we began our meetings in a large shed which the company used as a work shed, with the hogs lying about under work-benches, and crabs as large as a man's hand crawling around. Thus we gave this poor people the message. As we began our song service, a large crowd gathered, and seemed intensely interested. This interest continued all through our meetings with them. Although it rained sometimes, at meeting time they were there just the same.

We were invited to hold some meetings up farther in the plantation where the company has a commissary, and where many of the men who work the plantation live. When the night came, the superintendent had the train ready to take us, and all who might want to go up to the place of meeting, a distance of three miles. About sixty went with us from the Port, and a large crowd gathered there. We stood on the railroad in the open air, and our congregation sat about on the porch of the commissary, the platform, and the steps, while many were obliged to stand. We had a barrel for a pulpit, and a lantern gave us light. But, as I said before, God is with us, so the meeting was a success. One woman said to me after the

service, “I was starving, O, so hungry, but now I am full, praise the Lord!” Many were touched while Mr. Knight talked to them on the thought, “God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

On our way home we visited the Bethel church. This company numbers nearly forty. They have a nice new church building. One of our brethren donated a church bell. This is quite a novelty, as there are but few bells in the republic of Panama. While in the States, I spoke on the work in this field in the Methodist church in Wauneta, Kan., also in Humboldt, and at both places this question was asked: “When that people are converted, do they prove to be true and firm?” My answer was, “Indeed, they do. We have many men among us firm, true, and faithful—of whom we are proud. Not many of our own American people are more true.” The work may be slow, sometimes trying. It may be hard—more so than in America. But the final results are just as good.

We go now to Colon, and from there to Costa Rica, where we have two church buildings to be dedicated. Our courage is good. Remember us at the throne of grace when you pray.

MRS. CARRIE KNIGHT.

Indiana

By J. C. Harris; U. S. Anderson; J. F. Olmsted

BEDFORD.—June 10 we began meetings in the tent at this place, and the attendance has been good from the first. Bedford is a city of about ten thousand inhabitants. The truth had never been presented here. There does not seem to be as much prejudice as in some places. A few have decided to obey, and others are deeply interested. Among them is a German Methodist minister and a Baptist minister. As we visit the people, we find them very friendly. We are praying for the Lord to so clothe his servants with the power of this message that the people may realize that this is not a “cunningly devised fable,” but that it is present truth. Pray for the dear souls in this place. J. C. HARRIS, U. S. ANDERSON, J. F. OLMSTED.

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