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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 44.

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Earlier text: The Earthquake in Chile

C. B. RULE

By C. B. Rule

Virginia

CLEARMONT.—I have just closed a good meeting at this place. Fifteen signed the covenant, six were baptized, and we hope that others will follow their example soon. A fine lot for a church was given, and about one hundred and twenty-five dollars was subscribed toward erecting the building.
May the Lord prosper this little company that it may grow in numbers and in power, and continue faithful.

C. B. RULE

South Africa

By Mrs. F. B. Armitage

GWELO, RHODESIA.— Elder Hyatt is with us. We are enjoying his visit very much. He expects to leave for the Buluwayo Mission next week.
We hope to have baptism in a few days. Five of our native schoolgirls and three boys expect to go forward. There are several others who have desired to be baptized, but we must go slowly with this people.
These are our first girls. We are very happy to see them take a stand. We have labored long and hard for the girls, without seeing any result of our labor, but I believe there are brighter days before us in our work for them. We have sixteen in our home now, and all are nice, bright girls, from fourteen to eighteen years of age.
I have been in the field eleven years now, and have never been away from the work for a rest, except when I have been compelled to leave on account of sickness. My health has been excellent till this last fever season. I feel that if I could only have three months’ rest and sea air, I should be strong again.
We are not discouraged in our work. Though some of those who we had hoped would make workers, leave us, others come to take their places. God’s work will not fail in the earth.
MRS. F. B. ARMITAGE.

W. C. HANKINS

By W. C. Hankins

KULANGSU, AMOY.—A short time ago I wrote you of the opening up of the work in the city of Tsoan Chiu. Last week Elder B. L. Anderson, Elder Keh, and I went again to this city, and stayed from Thursday until Monday. Sabbath morning I spoke to a company of about thirty, who assembled at the home of one of the brethren; my subject was the second coming of Christ. The Holy Spirit was present to impress on the hearts of the listeners the words spoken.
After the service, many of the congregation collected in little groups of three or four, discussing what they had heard, and other important subjects, while they waited for the afternoon service. In the afternoon Elder Keh spoke on baptism, and at the end of the service two aged men arose, and expressed their desire to be baptized. One of these, the elder I mentioned in my previous report, is sixty-five years old, and the other is seventy-six. After the service, we repaired to the river, outside the city walls, and there in a quiet spot they were baptized.
Then the spirit of prayer came upon many of those present, and a number of fervent, earnest petitions ascended to God, the two candidates taking part in this service. It would be an inspiration to our brethren in America, I am sure, as it is to us, if they could see how eagerly these brethren seize every opportunity for Bible study. They sit and study, or listen to us, for hours, without showing the least signs of fatigue. I feel that these words come very far short of giving a real idea of what it is like. It must be seen to be appreciated.
We read with glad hearts of the educational convention held at College View, and how those present volunteered to go where the Lord should call. We hope that good news of ripe harvest-fields in China will cause conferences in the States to send laborers at their own expense to our help. We need two men now to come here and help in this work. At least one should be an experienced teacher, who could train young men in the message. As soon as they can get here and acquire the language, will be none too soon. Whoever comes should be of good health, and if married men, their wives, too, should have good health. This climate is very enervating, and it requires all the power of a healthy person to stand it. But by careful living, and with the protection God extends to his children, we may hope to have reasonably good health.
My heart longs for the time when our brethren in the States will really sense the needs of these vast Asiatic fields, and when the conferences will send at least half their workers to these fields, and support them. It must be done some time; why not now? We have hardly touched these fields yet; and they must be warned in the next few years. Brethren, it is nearly time to go home. Let us arise and finish the work that the Master has given us to do, that when he comes, we may not be ashamed to meet him. May God send reapers into these whitening harvest-fields is my prayer.

W. C. HANKINS

Porto Rico

By J. C. Brower; Mrs. J. C. Brower

ARECIBO.—We arrived in Porto Rico safely, and are both well, and glad to be here. Brother and Sister Connerly met us in San Juan, and the next morning we were privileged to witness the baptism of two intelligent English- and Spanish-speaking ladies, who will be of help to us, we trust.
We came to Arecibo the same day, Thursday, and for a few days boarded in the home of a cultured Spanish donna. We like her very much; she is so motherly. But we can not converse.
The city is overfull, and rents are higher than in some other places. A healthful location rents for from twenty-five to thirty dollars a month, but Elder Connerly and his wife, after praying and searching, found one for us for sixteen dollars, for the present. We are in it with our trunks, our freight not having arrived, and are encamped, as it were, until further settlement is possible.
We are soon to arrange with our teacher, and expect for a time to make the study of the language our business. If I speak understandingly in a year, I shall be glad.
How weak we have felt! But the Lord has been our strength. The morning after our arrival, an earthquake shook the entire north side of the island, but a great calm settled upon us, while many were terrified.
The work is progressing. El Centinela de la Verdad has a circulation of several thousand, and we are told that from nine to ten thousand persons read it. That is the largest circulation of any magazine on the island.
MR. AND MRS. J. C. BROWER.

EMILIO HOELZLE

By Emilio Hoelzle

Brazil

CLARO.—Some weeks ago I left Taquary, and returned to Parana, where I found my family of good courage. I spent some days at Porto Uniao, south of Parana, where the Lord came near to us. Four souls were baptized, and a goodly number began to obey the Lord. Every night we had many visitors. Some of these were unbelievers. One of them published an article against us; but this helps us.
In Paranagua we had to wait six days for a steamer. This was very expensive, as my family was with me.
In a few months I hope to have more time to spend in visiting the people. We conduct two evening services,—one in German, the other in Portuguese,—and some are interested already. May the Lord help us to guide them to our Saviour. It would be a help if we had a small organ; but we have had so many expenses that we can not buy one.
This town has ten or twelve hundred inhabitants. Not far from here are several larger towns; so we shall have work for a long time. What we need is canvassers. We hope that some Brazilian brethren will come to help us. Before we came to Claro, some had been interested. But because our ministers who came had no time to spend in this place, the people became cold, and are now more hardened than others. I have organized a little church of twelve members, and also a Sabbath-school.
Pray for us and our work. We are very glad that our brethren in North America are interested in our labors.

EMILIO HOELZLE

The Work for the Colored People in the South

By W. H. Swait

WHAT we need most in this southland is men filled with the Holy Spirit. The colored man is not able to instruct himself in all the phases of the message. The previous education of the negro has not been in harmony with the third angel's message. He has many false ideas in regard to an education. If we can understand the conditions and environments, then we can begin our work properly.
I have been working for this people a number of years, in their homes and otherwise, and truly it is a difficult task. About twenty months ago I came to this place to teach a church-school for the colored people. This was the hardest task I ever attempted. I sought the Lord by prayer and fasting, and he came very close to me, and gave me power for the work before me. I had received no special training for this work, and it seems that there are none who are trained for this work. My heart aches when I contemplate the conditions of this downtrodden and benighted people, but the Lord has assured me that he would bring some of them to his kingdom that they may behold his glory.
We have a substantial building and forty acres of land at this place for a beginning of the work among these people, but there is none to begin it properly. The Lord's work is one in all the nations of the earth, but there seems to be a gap in it in this southland.
While I was praying for this cause, the Lord whispered, “They are trying to do this work by proxy.” Is there not some white brother or sister who is willing to forsake home and people and come South and begin work for this sin-cursed, degraded race, and from among them gather some sheaves for the Lord's harvest?
We have no colored man trained to do the work needed at this place. A novice will not do.
Let this prayer go from the heart of every true believer in the cause: Lord, send some one to begin this neglected work. W. H. SWAIT.

Caterham (England) Sanitarium Nurses’ Training-School

By W. T. Bartlett

Graduation of the First Class

Our sanitarium at Caterham has been the occasion of not a little rejoicing during its brief history, as we have witnessed the results that have attended its work, not only on the bodies, but also on the hearts of those who have come to it for the recovery of health. A special note of joy and gratitude, however, was sounded on the eleventh of October, when a large company gathered for the graduating exercises of our first nurses’ class. Five young men and women—Brethren Alf. P. Guyton, Sidney Brown, and Wm. M. Scott, and Sisters Mary Jacques and Winifred Mainwaring—have completed their three years’ course with credit to their training, and with perfect satisfaction to all who have watched their development. Each one has profited in many ways during the training, not the least in their personal health. Brother W. C. Sisley, the president of the Good Health Association Ltd., remarked that the Board had originally entertained doubts as to the ability of some members of the class to stand the work, but now there was no hesitation whatever in accepting all as fully qualified for the work of the medical missionary.
After an excellent hygienic meal, to provide seats at which taxed the utmost accommodation of the institution, all assembled in the gymnasium, which was tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens. The words “Go Ye,” worked in leaves and hawthorn berries, surmounted a drawing of the mariner’s compass, at one end of the room, reminding the graduates of their liability to be called for service to any part of the world.
Some influential local persons were present, as well as a number of one-time patients, who felt a deep interest in the nurses by whose help they had been restored. Some were present in health and strength who were pitiable and almost hopeless wrecks when they first came to the sanitarium.
Brother W. C. Sisley occupied the chair. The principal address of the evening was given by Prof. H. R. Salisbury. It was a graphic and powerful plea for entire consecration to the ministry of healing instituted by the great Medical Missionary. We read that the Saviour saw the multitude and had compassion on them and healed their sick. Was it not because their own eyes had been opened to the needs of the multitude, and their ears had heard its cry for help, that the nurses who were being graduated had decided to devote their lives to the service of humanity? By many apt illustrations the speaker drove home the truth that to us is given even a greater privilege than to entertain angels; we may perform acts of loving service to Christ himself in the person of his little ones.
Brother E. E. Andross spoke of the trials that lie before the nurses in their life-work. These would come to reveal defects, that, by abandoning wrong principles and methods, the workers might go on to perfection, and finish the work given them to do.
FACULTY AND GRADUATING CLASS
FACULTY AND GRADUATING CLASS
Brother W. H. Wakeham quoted the statement once made by Elder James White that the qualifications of a good missionary were summed up in grit, grace, and gumption. He spoke particularly of the latter, and gave some interesting illustrations of the worthlessness of medical work that lacked this element, drawn from his own personal observation in Egypt.
Brother W. D. MacLay was to have spoken, but ill health prevented him from being present.
Dr. F. R. Richards, superintendent of the Leicester Sanitarium, spoke of “The Nurse We Want,” and referred to the growing appreciation of good nursing by the medical profession.
Dr. A. B. Olsen then presented diplomas to the five graduating nurses, addressing a few personal words to each. He gave the class an impressive charge to be faithful to their high calling as disciples of the pattern Medical Missionary. He said, “Let your hearts ever be soft and tender, warmed with the feeling of compassion and sympathy for the lonely hearts of those that are wandering in darkness. Always be ready to tender the cup of living water to the thirsty soul, and minister the bread of heaven to the hungry, starving souls all about you. It is your double duty, and, I must also add, your double privilege, to minister not only to the body, to the physical suffering of mankind, but also—and more sacred still—to minister to the perishing, sin-stricken soul. This you will always do with tenderness and gentleness, realizing that it is through the avenues of the suffering body that one often finds the gateway to the inner citadel of the soul. And, if you ask, ‘Who is sufficient for these things?’ then I answer, No one is sufficient in his own strength; but the God of love, who sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to heal the sick and to save the lost, gives you the heavenly commission, and it is he who sends you into the world as his true disciples, his representatives on earth, his sons and daughters, to help him carry the gospel of his kingdom to the people of the earth, to succor the suffering ones, to sympathize with the sorrowing ones, and to make known his loving-kindness to the children of men.”
Brother Wm. M. Scott replied on behalf of the graduating class. He referred to some of the early experiences, when the work at Caterham was just beginning, and facilities were few. Those experiences were not very pleasant at the time, but now he looked back to them with special satisfaction, as being the means of teaching valuable lessons. He almost pitied the classes that would follow, as they would be deprived of some of the privileges of this kind which the pioneer class had enjoyed.
There was an unmistakable note of high Christian principle about the meeting, and many present were impressed with a new sense of the meaning of our sanitarium work. A Roman Catholic patient, who has kept away from our religious services, was present and expressed her admiration of the spirit manifested.
Our brethren in America, who sacrificed in order to help us purchase the Caterham Sanitarium, made a good investment, which must greatly increase in value as it sends forth laborers of its own training to extend the conquests of the third angel’s message.
W. T. BARTLETT.

An Important Part of Our Publishing Work

Words of Counsel

“A FAR greater effort should be made to extend the circulation of our literature in all parts of the world. The warning must be given in all lands and to all peoples. Our books are to be translated and published in many different languages. We should multiply publications on our faith in English, German, French, Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and many other tongues; and people of all nationalities should be enlightened and educated that they, too, may join in the work.
“Let our people do all in their power to diffuse to the world the light of heaven. In every way possible call the attention of the people of every nation and tongue to those things that will direct their minds to the Book of books.”
“There are thousands in America perishing in ignorance and sin. And looking afar off to some distant field, those who know the truth are indifferently passing by the needy fields close to them. . . . Wake up, wake up, my brethren and sisters, and enter the fields in America that have never been worked. After you have given something for foreign fields, do not think your duty done. There is a work to be done in foreign fields, but there is a work to be done in America that is just as important. In the cities of America there are people of almost every language. These need the light that God has given to his church.
“The Lord lives and reigns. Soon he will arise in majesty to shake terribly the earth. A special message is now to be borne, a message that will pierce the spiritual darkness and convict and convert souls. ‘Haste thee, flee for thy life,’ is the call to be given to those who are dwelling in sin. We must now be terribly in earnest. We have not a moment to spend in criticism and accusation. Let those who have done this in the past fall on their knees in prayer, and let them beware of how they put their words and their plans in the place of God’s words and God’s plans.”
“I approve of the efforts that have been made to establish our German and Scandinavian publishing work at College View. I hope that plans will be devised for the encouragement and strengthening of this work.
“The whole burden of the work must not be left with our foreign brethren. Nor should our brethren throughout the field leave too heavy a load on the conferences near College View. The members of these conferences should lead out and do their best, and all should come to their assistance. The truth is to be proclaimed to all nations and kindreds and tongues and peoples.” — Mrs. E. G. White, in “Spirit of Unity,” Series B, No. 4.

Supplying Literature in Foreign Languages

THE most important work in the world to-day is the proclamation of the everlasting gospel to all nations. The International Publishing Association, located as it is in the United States where we have representatives from every nation in the world, must stand as an important agent for the carrying forward of this great work.
The main object of its establishment as set forth in the minutes of organization is to print, publish, and sell religious, health, and educational literature throughout the United States in the German, Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, and other foreign languages.
The importance of its mission must be apparent to all when they consider that annually about one million immigrants land on the shores of the United States and Canada; thus a wonderful opportunity presents itself for doing foreign missionary work in this country, and also in the Canadian provinces. As in this country there are representatives from every nation, there is thus afforded an opportunity to place a knowledge of present truth before other nations. Through representatives of other countries receiving the message here, and from this country conveying it to their home land, the work has been opened up in many of the dark corners of the earth. Wonderful examples of the planting of present truth in other lands have occurred, of which I will present a few illustrations.

How the Work Started in Russia

Nearly a quarter of a century ago an aged brother by the name of Behthold, who had an impediment in his speech, went from South Dakota to Russia, taking with him a large supply of our tracts. When he arrived there, he went from house to house, and, not being permitted to preach the message, he would take the tracts and hand one to some person, saying, “Please read this tract for me.” The person would read it for him, and the authorities could not arrest the brother for teaching heresy, as the people termed it, for he was only asking them to read for him. Those who thus read the tracts could not help knowing for themselves what they contained. Sometimes he would leave the tracts with them.
Frequently he would take a book and say, “I have a little book here. I wish you would read it for me.” And so he kept on from place to place, until he had in various neighborhoods well circulated our literature, getting the people to read it for him. In this way the truth began to find its way into Russia, and thus many people accepted the message.
Also our German brethren in this country who came from Russia wrote letters and sent reading-matter, such as papers and tracts, to their friends in that country, helping in this way also to spread the message in that country. Ministers were then sent over from the United States to follow up the work thus begun. The truth has now spread throughout the Russian empire until it is known in nearly every province, and Sabbath-keepers in Russia are numbered by the thousands.
The work was begun in Switzerland by a Polish Catholic convert to Protestantism in America, who learned something of our work, and returned to Europe and taught the Sabbath truth in Switzerland.

How the Work Began in Scandinavia

Elder J. H. Matteson, a Dane, accepted the truth in this country, and returned to Europe to open up the work in the Scandinavian countries. Before returning to Europe he learned typesetting in Battle Creek, Mich., in order to print the first tract in the Danish language. Through his efforts the publishing work was started among the Scandinavians in this country.

The Work in Turkey

A Greek shoemaker, Brother Anthony, of California, returned to his former home in Constantinople in 1859. He taught the truth to Z. G. Baharian, an Armenian student. Brother Baharian went to Basel in 1890 to study, and through study to become better acquainted with the truth; and after a time he returned to Turkey, and began translating and preaching. At present there are about two hundred and twenty-five Sabbath-keepers in that empire.

Seed Scattered in Argentina

About nineteen years ago two Russian-German brethren by the names of Riffel and Frick, in Kansas, felt impressed that they ought to go to Argentina, South America, and assist in spreading the truth in that country. About sixteen years ago they sold out in Kansas, and moved with their families to Crespo, Argentina, where our school is now located. As a result of their labors many have accepted present truth.
Many more illustrations might be given to show how the truth has been carried to other lands by foreigners who have accepted it in this country, and then have returned to their home land or gone to other countries to spread the light of truth.
As the International Publishing Association has been established to place the message of the soon-coming Saviour before the foreign-speaking people of North America, all must realize the importance of its mission. It was organized in the fall of 1903, and in the spring of 1904 began active operations in a small factory in College View. Since then its work has gradually increased, so that at present its factory is running to its utmost capacity. That it may be provided with much-needed facilities in order to more effectually carry forward its work, it is imperative that it have several thousand dollars. The General Conference Committee, knowing of its needs, has set apart Sabbath, November 3, as the time when a general collection should be taken for its benefit in all our churches throughout the United States and Canada. Let all assist by a liberal contribution, and may our prayers ascend to heaven in its behalf.
E. T. RUSSELL, Chairman International Publishing Association.

The Present Outlook

“AND IF one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Eccl. 4:12.
In the past there has been some uncertainty regarding the field and work of the International Publishing Association. But during the recent meetings of the Publishing Department, in Washington, D. C., and more especially in the actual meeting of the association just held in College View, these uncertainties have been cleared away. Now as never before is there a well-defined plan of united action and hearty co-operation fully established between the association and the Pacific Press, for supplying our precious literature to the many thousands who do not read English, in the Central, Northern, Pacific, and North Pacific Union Conferences, and also between these two publishing houses and the European publishing associations, for the supplying of foreign literature to the non-English-speaking people of the Eastern States.
Well-studied plans are being considered for the establishment of a polyglot book depository in Greater New York. This will greatly facilitate the distribution of present-truth literature in the East.
At the same time the International Publishing Association is planning to employ corresponding secretaries, to help forward the tract and missionary work among the Germans, Swedes, and Danish-Norwegians in the United States and Canada.
More literature is greatly needed. Will you help to secure its publication? W. C. WHITE.

Canvassers’ Summary for August, 1906

Atlantic Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Central New England 5 294 55 $ 193.80 1,037 $.1875
Chesapeake 3 108 38 105.75 547 .20
Eastern Pennsylvania 7 526 362 409.41 989 .41
Greater New York .. ... ... ...... 650 ..
Maine 2 3 13 31.00 548 .055
New Jersey .. ... ... ...... 440 ..
New York 13 1,523 881 1,442.80 1,750 .825
Southern New England 3 201 64 109.25 420 .26
Vermont 2 41 32 40.00 512 .08
Virginia 6 381 90 251.15 423 .59
Western Pennsylvania 13 541 320 679.21 750 .90
West Virginia 2 95 16 47.89 220 .215
Totals 55 3,713 1,871 $3,310.26 8,286 $.40

Canadian Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Totals 7 ... 172 $416.75 1,095 $.38

Lake Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
East Michigan 8 562 129 $ 270.95 1,951 $.14
Ohio 15 584 364 676.15 2,350 .28
Indiana 11 835 200 438.25 2,100 .208
Northern Illinois 9 1,097 473 1,048.05 1,188 .88
North Michigan 7 246 74 241.20 809 .30
Southern Illinois 4 ... 59 127.50 725 .176
West Michigan 3 93 20 35.95 5,000 .007
Wisconsin .. ... ... ...... ... ...
Totals 57 3,417 1,319 $2,838.05 17,391 $.163

Southern Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Alabama 2 111 ... $ 115.50 314 $.36
Cumberland 10 470 ... 763.00 500 1.53
Florida 4 189 ... 171.60 450 .38
Georgia 1 107 ... 58.10 190 .31
Louisiana 13 514 ... 790.19 260 3.00
Mississippi 8 224 ... 407.62 243 1.67
North Carolina 8 558 ... 463.60 250 1.85
South Carolina 6 262 ... 266.25 80 3.32
Tennessee River 15 744 ... 546.58 534 1.02
Totals 67 3,179 ... $3,582.44 2,821 $1.27

Northern Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Alberta 2 38 37 $ 81.00 162 $ .50
Manitoba .. ... ... ...... 429 ..
Minnesota 12 832 317 733.20 2,049 .36
North Dakota 9 489 140 483.50 639 .75
South Dakota 10 1,446 476 1,196.20 1,040 1.15
Totals 33 2,805 970 $2,493.90 4,319 $.5775

Central Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Colorado .. ... ... ...... 2,500 ..
Iowa 22 1,131 315 $ 907.90 3,821 $.237
Kansas 13 878 247 1,034.20 3,270 .315
Missouri 21 1,049 343 1,044.65 1,500 .696
Nebraska 9 539 128 336.10 2,117 .157
Totals 65 3,597 1,033 $3,322.85 13,208 $.251

Southwestern Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Arkansas 2 32 10 $ 29.85 555 $.054
Oklahoma .. ... ... ...... 1,650 ...
Texas 16 608 297 782.15 1,165 .67
Totals 18 640 307 $812.00 3,370 $.24

North Pacific Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
British Columbia 1 53 16 $ 47.50 140 $.34
Montana .. ... ... ...... 400 ..
Upper Columbia 14 912 381 1,304.40 1,475 .88
Western Oregon 13 602 242 553.50 1,500 .368
Western Washington 16 889 456 1,101.00 1,114 .988
Totals 44 2,456 1,095 $2,996.40 4,629 $.647

Pacific Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Arizona .. ... ... ...... 152 ..
California-Nevada 29 2,294 1,744 $4,147.00 4,000 $1.03
Utah .. ... ... ...... 200 ..
Southern California 15 993 545 995.85 1,432 .69
Totals 44 3,287 2,289 $5,142.85 5,784 $.87

British Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Irish Mission Field 7 539 304 $ 457.25 124 $3.68
North England 24 1,425 605 832.60 497 1.67
South England 17 576 202 311.95 579 .54
Scotch Mission Field 17 985 508 532.14 126 4.22
Welsh Mission Field 6 302 228 125.91 170 .74
Totals 71 3,827 1,847 $2,259.85 1,496 $1.51

Australasian Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Queensland 11 442 178 $1,299.12 289 $4.50
New South Wales 17 916 332 1,460.60 863 1.59
New Zealand 25 1,190 416 1,898.12 592 3.25
North Queensland Mission 3 279 120 305.06 ... ...
South Australia 13 640 226 696.93 320 2.17
Tasmania 5 222 76 217.87 254 .857
Victoria 9 607 211 909.31 680 1.33
West Australia 5 469 93 431.87 331 1.30
Malaysian Mission .. ... ... ...... 9 ..
Totals 88 4,765 1,652 $7,219.88 3,338 $2.16

South African Union Conference

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
3 Cape Colony 8 162 162 $ 442.68 317 $1.39
4 Natal-Transvaal 15 835 601 1,717.48 106 16.20
Totals 23 997 763 $2,160.16 423 $5.36

General Summary

Conference Agents Hours Orders Value Members Average
Atlantic Union Conference 55 3,713 1,871 $3,310.26 8,286 $.40
Canadian Union Conference 7 ... 172 416.75 1,095 .38
Lake Union Conference 57 3,417 1,319 2,838.05 17,391 .163
Southern Union Conference 67 3,179 ... 3,582.44 2,821 1.27
Northern Union Conference 33 2,805 970 2,493.90 4,319 .5775
Central Union Conference 65 3,597 1,033 3,322.85 13,208 .251
Southwestern Union Conf. 18 640 307 812.00 3,370 .24
N. Pacific Union Conference 44 2,456 1,095 2,996.40 4,629 .647
Pacific Union Conference 44 3,287 2,289 5,142.85 5,784 .87
1 British Union Conference 71 3,827 1,847 2,259.85 1,496 1.51
2 Australasian Union Conf. 88 4,765 1,652 7,219.88 3,338 2.16
S. African Union Conference 23 997 763 2,160.16 423 5.36
Totals 574 32,683 13,318 $36,555.39 66,160 $.552

Current Mention

— Rifle shooting is hereafter to be included in the curriculum of the British public schools.
— The legislature of Western Australia has voted to secede from the rest of the Australasian Commonwealth.
— An explosion occurred in the Wingate Colliery near Durham, England, on October 14, which resulted in the death of twenty-five miners and the temporary entombment of 200.
— On October 20 a Russian vessel leaving Vladivostok, ran upon a floating mine and sank immediately. The steamer carried 200 passengers, all of whom, with one exception, were drowned.
— The report of the officials of the Washington public libraries for the past year shows that sixty-eight per cent of the books taken from the library for home reading were books of fiction.
— The amount of breadstuffs exported from the United States during the last nine months aggregated $130,607,719, an increase of $43,607,654 over the corresponding period of last year.
— The British steamer “Hankow,” from Canton, was burned at Hongkong, China, October 14. It is reported that several hundred Chinese passengers were burned. A valuable cargo was also destroyed.
— The Circuit Court at Bellefontaine, Ohio, on October 22 handed down a decision ousting from the State of Ohio the four bridge companies which failed to surrender at the bridge-trust hearing two weeks previous.
— The New York Central Railroad and its traffic manager have been found guilty of granting illegal rebates to the sugar trust on shipments of sugar. The road and its manager have each been fined in the sum of $120,000.
— A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., states that dime-novel reading is responsible for eleven attempts at train wrecking on the lines of the New York Central in the last two weeks. In every case the would-be wreckers were boys from ten to fifteen years of age.
— A riot occurred in Philadelphia, Pa., on the evening of October 22, at the entrance of a theater where a play entitled “The Clansman” was being given. Prominent negroes are protesting against the presentation of this play, charging that it incites to lynching. The mayor of Philadelphia ordered that the play be given no more in Philadelphia.
— The chairman of the legislative committee of the National Wholesale Druggists’ Association makes the statement that the use of habit-producing drugs, such as morphin and cocain, is rapidly increasing in this country.
— Articles of incorporation of the Trans-Alaska-Siberian Railway were filed at Trenton, N. J., on October 24. The company is authorized to issue stock to the amount of $6,000,000. The road is to reach Siberia from Alaska by means of a tunnel under the Behring Sea.
— King Leopold of Belgium is using his influence to prevent the proposed international conference regarding the existing conditions in the Kongo. He has even asked the assistance of the pope to that end, but it is said that this request has not yet been granted. Italy is in favor of such a conference, but has not yet officially agreed to the proposal.
— On October 22 nearly the entire country between the Rocky Mountains and the Missouri River was visited by a severe storm. During the storm about twenty inches of snow fell in Denver, Colo. There has been a heavy loss of live stock and of late fruit. The railroads were able to move few trains on account of the disorganization of the telegraph service.
— The composition of the new French cabinet is reported to be very distasteful to the pope of Rome. He is quoted as saying that the affairs of France cause him greater pain than any physical suffering. This would indicate that he does not expect any alteration in the stand taken by the French government over the question of the associations for the holding of church property.
— Some time since the United States Express Company refused to receive, transport, or deliver any packages containing liquor. Suit was brought by a representative of the liquor men to compel the company to accept such business, and the federal court, at Clarksburg, W. Va., on October 24 handed down a decision in harmony with the demands of the liquor men.
— President Roosevelt has announced several changes in the cabinet. The present postmaster-general, Geo. B. Cortelyou, is to be secretary of the treasury; Oscar S. Straus, former minister to Turkey, is to be secretary of commerce and labor. Geo. Von. L. Meyer will be postmaster-general; Chas. J. Bonaparte, the present secretary of the navy, will be attorney-general; and Victor H. Metcalf will be secretary of the navy.
— There is much agitation going on in Japan over alleged discrimination against Japanese in the United States. The two governments are endeavoring to quiet the agitated feelings of the Japanese, but newspaper articles in Japan are keeping the feeling alive. The two chief causes of this feeling are the attitude of organized labor in this country toward Japanese laborers and the placing of Japanese children in schools by themselves in California. The matter has gone to such an extent that other countries are taking note of the unfriendly feelings now existing in Japan against the United States.
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