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Canvassers’ Institute in Mexico

By N. Z. T.

AUGUST 1 I left Washington, D. C., en route for Mexico City to assist in a canvassers’ institute appointed to begin on the fifth. On the way I stopped off in Kansas City to counsel with Brother H. H. Hall, of the Pacific Press, concerning the Spanish publishing work. We had a profitable day together, and in the evening were joined by Elder E. R. Palmer, who also gave us valuable help in planning for the future of our Spanish book work.

Leaving Kansas City on Tuesday night, I arrived in Mexico City Sabbath morning, August 6. Elder G. W. Reaser, Brother J. A. Green, and Mrs. G. W. Caviness were at the station waiting for me, and took me directly to the Sabbath services in the city. The meeting was held in an upper room, which was filled with attentive listeners. Brother J. F. Blunt has been working in the city since his arrival in Mexico, and although he is not yet able to speak the Spanish language freely, the Lord has blessed his efforts. The attendance at the meetings has steadily increased, and several have accepted the truth since they began work there.

I appreciated very much the privilege I had of meeting with the brethren who have been pioneering the book work in that difficult field. When they began work last year, all they knew of the Spanish language was the printed canvass for “Coming King,” which they had committed to memory almost parrotlike. Probably no company of canvassers ever stuck more closely to their “story” than did these brethren. But from the very start they did well, and have successfully solved several hard problems which presented themselves in connection with the canvassing work in Spanish Catholic fields. The average value of books delivered by each canvasser during the year has been ninety-one cents, gold, an hour. This compares very favorably with the general average made by our canvassers in the United States.

The attendance at the institute was not large, but we had a profitable time together. Those who had been working with “Coming King” developed and learned during the institute a new canvass for the book, better adapted to the conditions in Mexico. We were also able to prepare a canvass for over half of “Home and Health” in Spanish, from advance sheets which the Pacific Press sent us.

During the time of the institute Elder Reaser called a meeting of the mission committee to consider plans for the advancement of the work in that field. The outlook there never was better than at present. There are twenty-four awaiting baptism in different parts of the republic. Wherever the Spanish paper El Mensajero de la Verdad has been circulated, new Sabbath-keepers are springing up, and calls are coming in for further labor.

The canvassers returned to their field with renewed courage. A report just at hand from Brother J. L. Brown states that in three and one-half-hours’ work, he and Brother Robinson took twenty-five orders for “El Rey Que Viene” (Coming King).

After the institute closed, I spent one day visiting some of the interesting historical places in and around Mexico. The last place we visited, which was perhaps the most interesting to me, was the one represented in the accompanying cut. It is a view of the place where Brother A. A. Reinke is buried. All that marks the spot is a small piece of tin, with the following inscription:—

The workers there are planning to erect a tombstone over his grave. Many of the readers of the REVIEW will remember the sad circumstances of his death from typhoid fever. It was a severe blow to the other workers; but instead of bringing discouragement to them, it led them to renew their consecration to the work in needy Mexico. One young man, who, before Brother Reinke’s death, had decided to return to the United States, determined he would remain at his post, and there he is still helping to fill the gap. N. Z. T.

The Sunday Saloon a “Desecration of the Sabbath”

By W. A. C.

THE following from the National Advocate for August, 1909, the oldest temperance paper in the United States, under the heading, “Heavy Fire on Sunday Saloon,” shows not only that the Catholic Church is lending its influence to the Sunday closing of saloons , but that in doing this it does so, not simply in the interest of temperance, but with the idea of protecting the sanctity of the day,—of preserving it from “desecration:” —

“While in no wise mitigating the evil of the week-day saloon, the Sunday saloon was singled out for withering fire by the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Illinois. It was declared a desecration of the Sabbath which should be eliminated absolutely.”

When in the temperance movement Sunday is singled out for special attention, we may pretty well rest assured that religious sentiment and religious reasons lie at the bottom of the legislation demanded. W. A. C.

Interest Increased by Opposition

By W. A. C.

REPORTING to the Field Tidings concerning tent-meetings being held at Sumter, S. C., by Elder Sydney Scott and himself, Brother W. M. Jackson says:—

“We are having good meetings, although the devil has been very active. One of the leading first-day preachers took the clippings from the paper of the arrest of Brother Sullivan Wareham and those associated with him in the charge of Sabbath-breaking, and tried to down the meetings here, but, praise the Lord, the more he said, the larger the crowds were, until we had reached the mark of about five hundred fifty, having every night from three hundred to five hundred. We are not able to accommodate them with seats. The interest is great. . . . The influence of the meetings here has spread out to a distance of at least sixty miles, as we had two or three here Sunday night that had heard them, and had come that distance to attend them.”

All this simply illustrates the truthfulness of Dr. Albert Barnes's comment on Acts 4:3, 4: “There is no lesson which men have been so slow to learn as that to oppose and persecute men is the very way to confirm them in their opinions, and to spread their doctrines.”

W. A. C.

The Sunday Mail Question Again

By Frederick Bliss

The Homiletic Review sees great promise in a new impetus given the old movement for “Sunday mail reform.” It says that a letter from a New York City mail-carrier to the secretary of the Reform Bureau, at Washington, was by that organization sent to the Social Service Commission of the Federal

Council of the Churches of Christ; by that body brought to the attention of the New York preachers’ meetings, composed of five leading denominations, to the New York Sabbath Commission and to the National Lord’s Day Alliance; that these bodies severally considered the appeal, and jointly drew up a letter to the Postmaster-General, asking redress not only at the New York post-office, but throughout the country. We wonder if any one of them ever read the Senate Sunday Mail Report, of January, 1829, or the House Report, of March, 1830. And we wonder also if the nation now has a Johnson to formulate another report which will meet present-day exigencies as those reports met the exigencies of that period.

FREDERICK BLISS.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL - - - - Secretary

W. A. COLCORD - - Corresponding Secretary

Connecticut “Blue-Laws” Still Stand

By W. A. C.

WORD received from Mr. Matthew H. Rogers, Secretary of State for Connecticut, informs us that although the Latimer bill, liberalizing matters in regard to Sunday observance, “passed the legislature, it was vetoed by the governor,” and that “the veto was sustained.” The Connecticut “blue-laws,” therefore, still remain in force as heretofore, for which the strenuous opposition of the clergy to anything like a repeal or a relaxation of these laws is doubtless largely, if not wholly, responsible. Four sevenths of the bill referred to consisted of exceptions, the total number of these in the bill being thirty. W. A. C.

Maine Again to the Front

By W. A. C.

THE question of enforced Sunday observance is becoming a live one in the State of Maine. At Rumford Falls a certain druggist recently became convinced that he should close his store on Sunday. The proprietor of another drugstore in the place soon received official notice to close his store. Supposing the order to be general, he complied; but, finding everything else wide open, after the first Sunday he disregarded the order, whereupon he was subjected to repeated fines, and finally to imprisonment.

The indignation of the citizens was aroused at this manifest injustice and partiality in enforcing the law, and on the evening of August 8 held a mass-meeting in the Cheney Opera House. Elder C. S. Longacre was invited to deliver the address. He responded, presenting a very earnest, able, and eloquent argument against religious legislation and its natural and attendant evils. Following the address, a resolution was passed almost unanimously, disparaging all such legislation, and calling for the repeal of the State Sunday laws. The address was published almost in full in one of the daily papers of the place, the Oxford County Citizen, and alongside of it a report of a sermon by Elder A. J. Verrill on the Sabbath question.

This is the third mass-meeting held in the State of Maine during the past few months in which resolutions have been passed calling for the repeal of all Sunday laws on the statute-books of the State. W. A. C.

Catholics Notice “Liberty”

By W. A. C.

THE Catholic Columbian of August 13, published at Columbus, Ohio, contains an editorial notice of the last number of Liberty. It thinks that “practically every article in this quarterly contains a venomous attack on the Catholic Church,” and says that “the sole object of the publication seems to be to arouse suspicion in the minds of non-Catholics.” In an article in this number “dated from Rome,” it says the writer “attacks all denominations that seek to have Sunday laws enforced.” This last doubtless explains how it understands that practically every article in the magazine contains “a venomous attack on the Catholic Church;” for, with only two or three exceptions, none of the articles in it mention the Catholic Church.

Nearly all the articles in Liberty do, however, attack the principle of a union of church and state, particularly as manifested in Sunday enforcement; and, as the Catholic Church stands for both a union of church and state and Sunday enforcement, it naturally in any case of this kind considers itself “attacked.”

We are sorry that this church is not the only one which stands for these things, and thus lays itself open to such attacks. But both the gospel and the gospel idea of civil government are opposed to these things; and, as Liberty believes in both the gospel and good government, it, too, must oppose them.

W. A. C.

Why Oppose Sunday Laws?

By L. A. Spring

We should not oppose religious legislation simply to be battling against some one, but that we may the more forcibly and effectually present good and true principles. God is permitting the agitation concerning Sunday laws, to give us better opportunities to present the truth for this time. Many will be reached through the agitation over religious legislation who would never listen to the truth presented in some milder way. How important, then, it is for us who know, to enlighten those who do not know. The following from “Great Controversy,” pages 605 and 610, emphasizes these thoughts:—

“Heretofore those who presented the truths of the third angel’s message have often been regarded as mere alarmists. Their prediction that religious intolerance would gain control in the United States; that church and state would unite to persecute those who keep the commandments of God, has been pronounced groundless and absurd. It has been confidently declared that this land could never become other than what it has been, a defender of religious freedom. But as the question of enforcing Sunday observance is widely agitated, the event so long doubted and disbelieved is seen to be approaching, and the third message will produce an effect which it could not have had before.

“But so long as Jesus remains man’s intercessor in the sanctuary above, the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit is felt by rulers and people. It still controls, to some extent, the laws of the land. Were it not for these laws, the condition of the world would be much worse than it now is. While many of our rulers are active agents of Satan, God also has his agents among the leading men of the nation. The enemy moves upon his servants to propose measures that would greatly impede the work of God; but statesmen who fear the Lord are influenced by holy angels to oppose such propositions with unanswerable arguments. Thus a few men will hold in check a powerful current of evil. The opposition of the enemies of truth will be restrained that the third angel’s message may do its work. When the final warning shall be given, it will arrest the attention of these leading men through whom the Lord is now working, and some of them will accept it and will stand with the people of God through the time of trouble.”

Dear reader, these things being true, ask yourself, Am I doing all that lies in my power to get these truths before the rulers of our State and nation?—L. A. Spring, in Nebraska Reporter.

Current Mention

— The Cunard liner “Lusitania” now holds the record for the fastest trip across the Atlantic, the time being 4 days, 11 hours, and 42 minutes.

— As a result of the activity of the governor of Texas in hunting out violators of the State liquor law, 3,000 saloon-keepers in that State will be denied a renewal of their licenses.

— A severe earthquake shock was experienced on the Isthmus of Panama on August 30, which, though covering a considerable extent of territory, did not occasion serious damage or affect the canal.

— Because of the failure of miners and employers to reach an agreement in reference to the use of explosives in the coal-mines, a strike of 35,000 coal-miners in the Pittsburg, Pa., coal-mining district is threatened.

— An earthquake shock of considerable force was experienced in the city of Rome, Italy, early on the morning of August 31. The shock occasioned much excitement and fear among the people, but no serious damage is reported, and no lives were lost.

— All southeastern Mexico has been suffering during the week from heavy storms and floods. The town of Tula is reported as being half engulfed. Hundreds of houses have been swept away and many lives lost. These floods were accompanied by the worst tropical storms ever known in that section.

— A terrible flood visited the city of Monterey, Mexico, and near-by villages on August 28, and continued its devastating work for several days. The number of lives lost is now placed at between 1,400 and 2,000, and the property loss is estimated at $30,000,000. Contributions have been taken up in both Mexico and the United States for the relief of the suffering. The conditions reported in the press are distressing in the extreme.

— A case of deliberate train-wrecking is reported from New Castle, Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The wreck occurred on September 4 at a siding known as Chewton, and three persons were killed and seventeen seriously injured. The spikes were drawn from a sixty-foot rail, and one end of the rail was so placed as to make a safe passage over it impossible. A reward of $25,000 has been offered for the arrest of the wreckers, and a large number of men with bloodhounds are searching the vicinity.

— The Pure Food Convention, in session at Denver, Colo., has decided to indorse the decisions of the Remsen Referee Board that the use of benzoate of soda as a food preservative is harmless to the human system. A strong fight was made against the indorsement of the board’s decision, and the opponents of that decision declared that food unfit for the human stomach could be made to appear wholesome by the use of that preparation. One physician of prominence declared that “the recommendation to the government that benzoate of soda might properly be used, puts the government in the position of licensing medicated stuff fit only for the sewer.”

— Congress, at its last session, appropriated $4,000,000 for the use of the various militia companies of the United States. This amount is now being appropriated to the several States in proportion to the number of men enlisted.

— On August 31, a train on the Pennsylvania line, at Lewiston Narrows, Pa., was held up by a lone robber, and the express car was robbed. Fortunately the robber mistook a bag of new pennies for a bag of gold coin, and thousands of dollars in gold and currency were left behind.

— Dissatisfied with the stand its government has taken in reference to the Cretan question, the garrison at Athens has mutinied, and has made imperative demands upon the king. It is reported that the soldiers have threatened to seize the public buildings and the city if their demands are not granted. It is also stated that the garrisons in the provinces are in sympathy with the mutinous garrison at Athens. Quiet reigns in Athens and in the provinces, although the garrison is still encamped on the outskirts of Athens.

— The speed race with flying-machines at Reims, France, last week was won by an American, Glenn H. Curtiss, who covered the distance, 12.42 miles, in 15 minutes, 50 3/5 seconds. M. Louis Bleriot, the aviator who flew across the English Channel, was a very close second, requiring only 4 3/5 seconds more than did Curtiss, to cover the same distance. Because the speed contest was won by an American, the next international race of air-ships will be held in this country. The successful American aviator now goes to Brescia, Italy, where another international aeronaut race is being held. The greatest distance ever covered by a heavier-than-air flying-machine thus far is 118 miles. This feat was accomplished at Reims on August 27 by M. Farman, the time being 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 26 seconds. Before the contest at Reims was over, one of the aviators had received orders for 52 machines.

— On September 1, the observatory at Brussels, Belgium, received the following telegram, dated Lerwick, Shetland Islands: “Reached north pole April 21, 1908. Discovered land far north. Return to Copenhagen by steamer ‘Hans Egede.’ Frederick A. Cook.” Dr. Cook sailed from Gloucester, Mass., on July 3, 1907, in company with Mr. J. R. Bradley, in a vessel owned by the latter. On August 27 the party landed at Annatok, Greenland, and Mr. Bradley returned. The reports state that, having found conditions favorable for a dash to the pole, the doctor determined to make the attempt. Considerable time was spent in preparations, and the final dash of 460 miles was made by the doctor with only two Eskimo companions and twenty-six dogs. The success of Dr. Cook is now quite generally conceded, though it will be several days before further communications will be received from him. Dr. Cook’s accomplishment is looked upon as one of the greatest feats of the century. No less than 750 lives have been lost in the effort to accomplish what this American explorer claims to have done. Since the year 1553 the search for the north pole has been engrossing the attention of men. In that year Sir William Frobisher made the first attempt to reach that destination.

A Matter of Conscience

By Editor

A few days ago a thoroughly orthodox Christian in one of the Southern States found five members of the Adventist faith working in the field a Sunday. Deeply imbued with the gloomy faith of a John Balfour of Burley, this excellent and exemplary man, just from the sanctuary, where he worshiped in the name of Him who sat at meat with publicans and sinners and plucked green corn a Sunday—this child of orthodoxy and cruelty swore out a warrant, and had the five arrested for breaking the Sabbath.

The jury was composed of enlightened men, and the accused were acquitted on the plea that they kept one day of the week holy, a Saturday. And such is the orthodoxy, that argues by the stake, the fagot, and the torch. This paper is not a sectarian, though it is a Christian, and as an observer of men, things, and events, it is ready to say that as few criminals, male and female, are recruited from the Adventists as from any other sect, numbers computed.

They work Sundays, but they keep Saturdays, and that fulfils the law of God, as it should of man. These folk are earnest, sincere Christian men, women, and children. They may be wrong in faith, desperately wrong. That is a matter of conscience; but their consciences are about as likely to be right as yours or ours.

“Leave thought unfettered every creed to scan,” and take care of your own conscience. That will keep you busy without meddling with the consciences of other people.—Editorial in the Washington Post of Aug. 19, 1909.

Religious Liberty Notes

Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts on the part of the friends of Sunday enforcement, Atlantic City still remains “wide open” on Sunday, the much-sought-for “lid” still remaining undiscovered, the governor not having “called out the troops” to enforce the law, as previously pledged, if necessary.

The Chillicothe, Mo., Constitution, of August 12, publishes a favorable notice of the work done in that city by Elder and Mrs. Wightman, during the progress of the late camp-meeting there. It also speaks of the work of Mrs. Wightman in other parts of the State. The Tribune, another of Chillicothe’s dailies, also refers to their work.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1909

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern New England, Bridgeport, Conn. ........ Sept. 2-12

New York, Fonda ........ Sept. 2-12

Western New York, Buffalo, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec, South Stukely ........ Sept. 2-12

Maritime, Hopewell Cape ........ Sept. 9-19

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Nebraska, Hastings ........ Sept. 2-12

West. Colorado, Grand Junction .... Sept. 16-26

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Indiana, Linton ........ Sept. 9-19

Wisconsin, Milwaukee..... Sept. 23 to Oct. 4

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Florida, Orlando ........ Oct. 21-31

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Little Rock (local) .... Sept. 2-12

Arkansas, Little Rock (colored) .. Sept. 2-12

An Appeal to Every Seventh-day Adventist

By C. H. Jones

How would you like to have all your friends and neighbors attend a course of lectures this winter, given by some of the leading ministers in our denomination, where all the points of present truth would be taken up and presented in a systematic, logical way, just as they are in a series of tent-meetings in new places?

Well, arrangements are being made so that you and your friends can enjoy just such a course as this.

Beginning October 6, and continuing six months, a series of twenty-five special numbers of the Signs of the Times is to be published, in which the truth will be taken up in the same general way as is followed by our ministers in a series of tent-meetings. The subjects will be well illustrated, and supplemented by Bible readings, and presented in such a thorough, systematic, progressive way that they can not fail to interest and convince the honest in heart, and bring them to a saving knowledge of the truth. The series will be called—

Home Bible Studies

Our people everywhere, every one of them, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, are being asked to subscribe for two, five, ten, twenty-five, fifty, or one hundred copies of this series; and in a systematic way sell, give away, mail, or loan these papers to their friends and neighbors. Thus it is hoped that a movement will be introduced which will mean the placing of at least fifty thousand copies of the Signs of the Times weekly in the homes of the people. The methods by which this work may be carried on are so varied that every one, from the oldest to the youngest, can have an opportunity to work.

We offer the following suggestions as to how the papers can be used to advantage:—

By taking the responsibility of putting this series in all the homes in a certain town or district, and thus give a complete line of sermons on the third angel's message in many families.
By devoting one or two evenings each week to the selling, loaning, or giving away of these papers.
By subscribing for five, ten, or twenty copies or more, and mailing them to lists of names that you may select, or that will be furnished you by the secretary of the tract society.
By having the papers mailed direct from the Signs office to friends and relatives. This arrangement can be made with the publishers, and in fact is one of the most convenient and satisfactory methods of getting the truth before those in whom we are particularly interested. By following up the work with tactful Christian correspondence we may be the means, under the hand of God, of saving many souls.

One of our missionary secretaries reports that she used one hundred copies of the Signs each week, sending them to persons who she believed were interested in the truth, accompanying the first paper with a letter. She then kept the papers going regularly for a series of weeks. The result was that the least number of persons brought into the truth in one year of the five during which she carried on this work was seven; and one year there were sixteen.

We all recognize the fact that one of the most effectual and most inexpensive ways of reaching the masses with this message, is with our publications. Our canvassers are doing a splendid work, and are meeting with marked success with our subscription books; but our periodicals also have their places and are doing their part. You will remember the Testimony which came to us a few years ago, saying: “It is a fact that the circulation of our papers is doing even a greater work than the living preacher can do.” Letters are constantly coming to the publishers from persons who have embraced the truth, or have become interested in it, through reading the Signs.

The Lord has placed upon Seventh-day Adventists the responsibility of giving this last warning message to the world, and the work in the home field must now be done largely by the laity. What a blessed thing it is that we have such a wealth of literature with which to prosecute the work. Everybody will want a part in this great missionary campaign. If you can not do great things, do a little.

Subscription Price of Home Bible Study Series

Beginning Oct. 6, 1909

The series of 25 numbers to one name and address ........................................ $.75 5 or more copies of this series of 25 numbers, mailed direct from the office of publication, to names and addresses furnished, each ........................................ .60 5 or more copies of the series of 25 numbers to one name and address, each ........................................ .50 All orders not sent through the tract society must be accompanied by cash.

The regular departments of the Signs will be kept up during this period the same as usual. On the whole, this series will be one of the best, the strongest, and most interesting ever published.

The times are certainly ripe for a movement of this kind. The terrible calamities that are coming upon the earth, the corruption in our large cities among men in high places, the struggle between capital and labor,—all go to show that the coming of the Lord is near at hand. This is our opportunity to let the people know what these things mean. This special series of the Signs gives us just the material with which to do it.

Send subscriptions at once in order that you may not miss any of these special numbers.

Address your tract society or Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.

C. H. JONES.

Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute

By P. T. Magan

The annual meeting of the constituency of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute will be held Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1909, at 10 A. M., in the chapel of the Gotzain Hall building, near Nashville, Tenn.

The annual meeting of the trustees, as required by law, will be held in the same place at 3 P. M., on the same day and date.

P. T. MAGAN, Secretary.

Southern Training School Opening

By M. B. Van Kirk

THE fall term of the Southern Training School opens Sept. 29, 1909. The courses have been arranged with the idea of giving to the young people of this territory the training they will need to do efficient work in the giving of the message.

An examination of the catalogue will show that the several lines of the work have been carefully studied, and the subjects offered cover an excellent course.

The school is raising money now to further equip the building and laboratories so that the work may be made more efficient.

It is hoped that all young people, as far as possible, who expect to attend this school the coming year will plan to be on hand at the opening. The enrolment will begin on the morning of September 29, and the organization of the school be effected so that class work will commence Friday, October 1.

The catalogues are now ready, and will be sent upon request to any address. Correspondence solicited. M. B. VAN KIRK, Principal.

Publications Wanted

The following-named persons desire for missionary use late, clean copies of our denominational papers. These should be neatly and carefully wrapped, and sent post-paid:—

Mrs. R. Mark, Philomath, Ore., Signs, Instructor, Life and Health and Little Friend. Send as soon as possible.

Business Notices

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper. 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. 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 advertising, and cash must accompany each order. A charge of one dollar 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 three cents. No discount for several insertions.

WANTED.—A strong, able-bodied man, with family of wife and three children, desires employment by the year with an Adventist, with a live Christian experience. Please state wages given. Address E. M. Johnston, R. F. D. 2, Danison, Mich.

FOR SALE.—Farm of 40 acres, 1¾ miles from Emmanuel Missionary College; 2 miles from Berrien Springs, Mich. Ten-room house; cellar; furnace; well; wind-mill; barn; vineyard; orchard; 4 acres timber; rest in cultivation. Address James Butka, Keene, Tex.

CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUITS.—Shipped direct from ranch in Napa Valley to families, schools, restaurants, and sanitariums. Larger variety, better facilities, prompt shipment. Write for circular “R” giving full information. Address St. Helena Home Fruit Co., Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.

FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10c a pound; 100 pounds, freight paid, $12; Peanut Oil, used same as Olive Oil, $2 a gallon; 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7; 57 pounds Vegetable Cooking Oil, in 6 cans, $6; freight paid, $6.50. Cash with order. Vegetarian Meat Co., Washington, D. C.

HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—Used by our institutions, government inspected. Fully guaranteed. Send stamp for circulars. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.

WANTED.—Agents to sell our ten-cent magazines: Liberty, Life and Health, and Protestant Magazine. Many are earning a livelihood doing this, and at the same time are doing much good in the circulation of religious literature. Order a few copies, and see how easily our journals sell. Address your tract society, or Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

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