The Haskell Home Training School for Missionary Mothers.
The donation recently made by our churches and Sabbath-schools for the Haskell Home has again brought that institution before the people, and doubtless, with the majority of those who have given, the children at the home have been the one, and perhaps the only, feature of the work that has impressed them. Closely connected with the care of the children, which is indeed the object for which the home exists, is another less widely known and understood. While applications by the scores and hundreds come for places in our missionary nurses' training-schools, showing the deservedly wide reputation these schools have, we are sure that the missionary training-school at the Haskell Home is comparatively little known.
Why not tell the world about it? we are asked; and in response to this suggestion we will speak of the features of this somewhat unique training-school.
Every intelligent mother knows that when a child is clothed and fed, her care for her child is only just begun, and she sets herself to the study of the best methods of educating and training for her little ones, that the characters they are forming may be pure and strong, that their education may be such as to make them useful in constantly widening channels with their advancing years. It costs her hours of prayerful study to know how to overcome the undesirable tendencies in her children, to develop desirable ones, and to guide the development of each child along the lines of its own individuality.
Almost the first need felt in the Haskell Home after its doors were opened to the homeless children was that of trained mothers. The feeding and clothing of the family was a comparatively easy task, though even these, with so much variation in the individual physical conditions of the children, demanded much more than haphazard effort, and we found it very difficult to find mothers who could work intelligently and successfully with the children, coming as they did from so many different sources in so many different stages of physical, mental, and moral development. So a course of training was at once organized. This has been added to till at present we have a course covering nearly six hundred hours of class work during the year, with a faculty of instructors well equipped in their lines, instructors of long experience in successful work. It is as easy to instruct a class of moderate size as to teach a small class, once we have the equipment, and it has often been a matter of regret with us that more students were not availing themselves of the excellent course provided. The course contains much that is useful to any intending to engage in missionary work, either in the foreign field or in our large cities; and inasmuch as women, especially those who work as missionaries, usually come more closely in contact with mothers and children than any other class, the training given is an especially valuable preparation for such work.
The plan of the instruction is to cover the physical, mental, and moral or spiritual development of the child. Accordingly lessons in physiology and hygiene, practical nursing, practical hydrotherapy, children's diseases, care and feeding of infants, etc., are given, the instructors being members of the faculty of the Nurses' Training-School. Lessons in domestic science and lessons in sewing, both graded, the former including not only general housekeeping, but hygienic cookery, food elements and combinations, and the latter covering a carefully graded course from the first stitches of the little unaccustomed fingers up to the making of simple under-garments and dresses; and lessons in sloyd, paper folding and cutting, basket weaving, and wood sloyd, are given by instructors who have worked with children for years, and who give not simply the hand training, but the ethical lessons which, interwoven with the practical training of children, go far toward building character.
Studies in child nature, in the training and moral development of children, character building, and the true purpose and nature of discipline, Bible studies, and the principles of kindergarten training are also given. For those who wish to gain knowledge and experience in church-school work, the home school, conducted by teachers who are in close touch with the most advanced ideas in education among us, affords an excellent opportunity. The kindergarten work, while it includes much of that which is most approved in the methods in the modern kindergarten system, is based on the Bible, thus teaching the children from the very outset the fundamental truths of Christianity, and making them familiar with the Scriptures.
Lessons on mission work, home and foreign, as well as on other topics, are also given a place in the course as opportunity offers, the different courses extending from a few weeks to the whole year.
Opportunity is afforded at the home to gain a practical experience in the different lines of study under the direction of the instructors and the home workers, and a wider field of usefulness, or even a field of greater need, can scarcely be found while in training. It has been our privilege to have with us, for a longer or shorter time, several who are now doing excellent work in home or foreign fields, and who refer to the help received at the home in terms of warmest appreciation.
The children at the home are bright and interesting, and eager for the right associations and instruction; and those who engage in this work are a thousandfold repaid as they see their efforts rewarded by development and progress and a coming closer to the Christ-life of those under their care. Those who feel that they can give a year to the work of the home, will be engaging in God's most noble work, and by the training which they thus receive will be fitted for work in our schools and other institutions.
Those best adapted to the work are women from twenty-five to forty years of age, who wish to give themselves to missionary work, who not merely love children as pets, but who have the true motherly spirit, and are free to give themselves to the work.
Widowed mothers with one or two young children are sometimes accepted if they are especially adapted to the work, and suitable arrangements can be made for the children; but we often receive applications from mothers whose main purpose is to secure work, and remain here with their children; and although we would gladly make room for all such, we are compelled to limit our class to those who give promise of usefulness, either in the work at the home or elsewhere, as active missionaries.
The year's course begins in November, and it is better to begin then, although we may enter at any time. There is still room for several students. If possible, come at once, to be ready for a full year's training.
For further information, address the Haskell Home, Battle Creek, Mich.
Music Department of Emmanuel Missionary College.
The music department of Emmanuel Missionary College offers exceptional opportunities to all who desire to prepare themselves as musical missionaries. The sacred music and the music teachers’ courses are especially strong. Special attention is given ministers and teachers. An entirely new plan of work has been formulated, which will be of great advantage to students, and which also reduces the expense. We invite correspondence. A pamphlet of information will be sent upon request. Address Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich.
For Individual Missionary Work.
By Editor
WE understand that a recent ruling of the Post Office Department prevents our churches from mailing papers to their readers, at pound rates. If there were no other plan which could be adopted to remove this difficulty, it would be a serious obstacle to missionary effort in the remailing of the Sentinel—the work which so many of our people have been doing for years. This good work certainly must be done, and in order that it may, we suggest the following plan:—
Where a club of five or more Sentinels is taken, we will mail each of these magazines to addresses which the church (or individual) may furnish us, at the rate of twenty cents for three months, and the addresses may be changed every three months if desired. So for twenty dollars a quarter, a church may have one hundred copies of the Sentinel sent three months to one hundred different addresses, and we will do all the work of mailing. Then the next quarter the one hundred copies may be sent to one hundred new addresses. On the same basis, if a person or a church takes only five copies, we will mail them to the addresses they may furnish, three months for one dollar.
It is, of course, expected that the correspondence with these individuals will be carried on by the members of the churches, just the same as if they were mailing the papers each month.
What a field there is for this kind of work! Who can use one hundred copies or less? Will not one hundred churches send us lists of one hundred names to whom the Sentinel may be sent for the next three months? How many names will you furnish, and pay for the papers to be sent them?
Address your tract society, or the Sentinel of Christian Liberty, 11 W. Twentieth St., New York City.
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This arrangement places a record of the same day in every month throughout the five years on each page of the diary, thereby focusing on one page five daily records for as many years.
Busy people do not wish to make extended records. Only important facts in a concise form are desired. This diary has ample space for such a record, and yet is only 3¾ x 5⅝ x ½ inches in size. Just the right size to carry in the pocket. Substantially bound in fine Russia, gilt edges.
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Christ promiseth JOHN, XV. the Holy Spirit.
My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
CHAPTER XV.
The union between Christ and his church, under the parable of a vine. 26 The office of the Holy Ghost, etc.
1 I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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To Our Churches Everywhere.
By A. J. B.
ARE there some in your church who are actually too poor to pay the three cents a week necessary to secure our church paper? If so, please read and act upon the following suggestions made to our people in 1881, when the price of the paper was two dollars a year, or fifty cents more than the present rate:—
“The REVIEW AND HERALD and Signs of the Times are cheap papers at the full price. The REVIEW is a valuable paper; it contains matters of great interest to the Church, and should be placed in every family of believers. If any are too poor to take it, THE CHURCH should, by subscription, raise the amount of the full price of the paper, and supply the destitute families. How much better would this plan be than throwing the poor upon the mercies of the publishing house or the tract and missionary society.”—“Testimonies for the Church, Vol. IV, page 598.”
Write out a list of the worthy poor in YOUR CHURCH, and to-day start that subscription paper around among the church-members, in order that the poor in YOUR midst may have the REVIEW regularly. A. J. B.
Sabbath Reading and Afternoon Meetings Report
The reading for Sabbath, December 28, prepared by Elder A. T. Jones, was presented by Elder J. A. Brunson. While the reading entered well into the spirit of the occasion, it was presented in a manner to bring out that spirit in its fullness. It was given with great earnestness, and was altogether a feast of good things. The house was well crowded; and when the collection was made, envelopes with contributions fell from the hands of almost every one.
The afternoon was filled up with four meetings — one for adults, one for the children, one for the youth, and one in the Office chapel. From all these we hear excellent reports, and the prospect is that this season of prayer will tell powerfully for good to the cause at the present time.
1902: A Momentous Year for the Advent Message
By Editor
1902.
A MOMENTOUS year is before us,—one in which, more than ever before, it will be essential that we improve every means of grace to keep pace with the forward march of God’s last message to the world, of which it is now said that “there shall be delay no longer.”
What will this year be to you? What will it be to you if you lose sight of the pillar of cloud by which God is leading His people? What will it be to you if your interest in this message and this work so far fails that you try to go without that paper which is the exponent of this solemn world-wide movement? Who can afford now to trifle with his destiny?
The forward movement which has come to this work will be faithfully reflected week by week in our church organ, the REVIEW AND HERALD.
You want the REVIEW because it is the paper which tells you of this work, of what is being done at home and abroad; which keeps you informed of, and in touch with, all the leading interests and features of this message. You want it because it is the organ through which, more than any other, God instructs and admonishes His people.
We might speak of the separate departments of the paper, and of the writers who will furnish matter for its columns the coming year. A very attractive picture might be drawn in this way. But it will be sufficient to say that the REVIEW will be the medium through which we shall hear week by week from our foremost laborers in the cause,—men who will bear to us in their utterances a message from God. What Seventh-day Adventists want, and especially want now, is to hear from those whose words are in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
We could speak at indefinite length upon this topic of the importance of our church paper to every Seventh-day Adventist; but we will not take space to say more. But from a conservative estimate, there must be ten thousand Seventh-day Adventists who do not see the REVIEW unless, perchance, it is handed or sent to them occasionally by some neighbor or friend. Ten thousand—think of it! Who will help us in the great and important missionary task of getting our church paper into the homes of these ten thousand who are living, as it were, on the outer borders of the camp?
Danielss and Palmer Depart Battle Creek; Relief Fund Donors
By Editor
BRETHREN A. G. DANIELLS and E. R. Palmer left Battle Creek, Sunday morning, the 29th inst., for
Again we are obliged to omit this week for lack of space, our list of donors for the Relief of the Schools fund. This work goes on steadily, and we hope to be able to print the lists of names regularly hereafter.
Mrs. E. G. White and Elder W. C. White Arrive in Nashville
Mrs. E. G. White, and Elder W. C. White, her son, reached Nashville, Tenn., the 13th inst., and will participate in the sessions of the Southern Union Conference to be held in that place, Jan. 3-12, 1902.
Hope of the Promise in the Missionary Magazine
By Editor
THE article, “Hope of the Promise,” in the January number of the Missionary Magazine, should be read by every Seventh-day Adventist. This is one of a series in “The Studies in the Gospel Message,” and cannot fail to inspire every one who reads it with the thought that this hope is soon to be realized,—that there shall be delay no longer.
All subscriptions to the Missionary Magazine sent in within the next few weeks may begin with the January number. Price, 50 cents a year.
Free Methodist Hopes for Federal Sabbath Enforcement
THE Free Methodist of December 17 remarks, with reference to the President’s message, that “of course the message was silent on the great need of general reform, and particularly of government reform in respect to the observance of the Sabbath. . . . We did not look for it to deal with these questions; but we will hail the day, if permitted to see it, when they will receive the recognition their importance demands from the federal administration.”
Sabbath observance by the government means Sabbath enforcement by the government. This is what the Free Methodist hopes to see; and verily it is coming, rapidly enough.
January, 1902?
By Editor
WHAT does the yellow address label on your paper indicate? If it shows that your subscription expires in January, 1902, then the “Subscription Order” blank inclosed in last week’s paper should be filled out by you now, and mailed to us at once.
REVIEW AND HERALD.
Requests for Prayer.
By B.
Those desiring the prayers of God’s people for any of their unconverted friends or relatives may send their requests to the editors. As we have discontinued the Woman’s Gospel Work department for the present, these requests will appear in our Home and Health department. Please be careful to make your requests short and pointed. B.
Something Good Coming.
By Editor
AMONG the many good articles which will appear in this paper, beginning with the next issue, are the following, just received from Elder A. T. Robinson, of New Zealand: “The Rich Man and Lazarus,” and six articles upon the general subject of “God’s Kingdom in This World,” the titles of which are “From Adam to the Call of Abraham,” “From the Call of Abraham to the Rejection of Samuel,” “From the Rejection of Samuel to the End of the Babylonian Captivity,” “The Gathering of Israel to Their Own Land,” “The Re-establishment of David’s Throne and Kingdom,” and “The Kingdom of Grace.” The subject of “God’s Kingdom in This World” is of special interest just now, when there is so much being said about the return of the Jews to Palestine. Remember that if you desire to have some of your acquaintances read these articles, fifty cents will take the paper to any one of them for four months.
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Nebraska Court Rules Clairvoyance Licensing Violates Religious Freedom
The question whether the practice of “clairvoyance” can properly be regulated by State law, like the practice of medicine, was passed upon recently in a Nebraska court, and the court decided that the State could not require a license from clairvoyant “physicians.” The court’s position is that clairvoyance is embraced in Spiritualism, which is a religion; and that “because Spiritualism was professed by so few and derided by so many, did not divest it of its religious character, and that any attempt at regulation was interference with the rights of conscience and religious freedom.” The case was backed by the State Spiritualist Association, and attracted an unusual degree of attention.
“Detecting Counterfeit Money.”
IN the REVIEW of the 17th inst. there appeared an article in the Bureau of Information upon the above subject. We supposed that the Mail and Express report was correct. However, we are informed by those who have examined bill after bill, that paragraph six of that article should be worded as follows:—
“The explanation is simple,” said he. “If you take the last four figures of the number on any bill, no matter what its denomination, and divide them by four, you will have a remainder of naught, one, two, or three. If the remainder is one, the letter on the bill will be A; if it is 2, the letter will be B; if it is 3, the letter will be C; and if it is 0, the letter will be D.”
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