p. 566 | Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 35. (8/27/1901)

Earlier text: Emmanuel Missionary College

Missionaries Sail for Argentina and Chile

The following brethren sail from New York, on the “Teutonic,” Wednesday, the 28th: Elder J. W. Westphal, on his way to Argentina; A. R. Ogden and H. F. Ketring, bound for Valparaiso, Chile. The REVIEW wishes them a prosperous journey, and much success in their labors in these distant fields.

Unexpected Promotion.

As our readers understand, the school at Berrien Springs has leased the courthouse for its work till the buildings for the school shall be made ready. These rooms retain, by the signs upon the doors, the evidence of their former occupancy. One of the lady workers holding a prominent place in the school, occupies a room the door of which bears the significant sign, “Probate Judge.” She thus finds herself suddenly and unexpectedly promoted; that is, if the position of probate judge is to be considered any higher position than the one she now occupies.

Missionary Review of the World: August Number Overview

THOSE who wish a broad and intelligent view of the work of the kingdom of God at home and abroad cannot fail to find great satisfaction in reading the August number of the Missionary Review of the World. It opens with a masterful article on “Problems of Missions,” by the editor-in-chief, Dr. Pierson, who discusses some of the difficult questions which face the missionary to foreign fields of labor. Dr. Griffith John, the veteran missionary of Hankow, tells the wonderful story of “The Chang-Sha Deed,” and the entrance of the gospel into Hunan, China.

The progress and conflict of “Romanism and Protestantism in France” are interestingly described by Rev. Ruben Saillens, of Paris; “Missions and Protestantism in Germany,” by Prof. George F. Schodde, and “The Anti-Clerical Movement in Spain,” by a French pastor.

The work in home fields is set forth in articles on “The Doukhobors of Canada,” by Miss Nellie Baker, and on “Rescue Mission Work,” by Margaret Blake Robinson, of New York. Other articles of interest deal with the Philippines, Lifu Islands, the International Missionary Union, and Jewish missions.

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J. O. CORLISS

By J. O. Corliss

I AM greatly delighted with the book, “The Great Empires of Prophecy,” by A. T. Jones. To my mind it is a work which has been long needed by our people, because it sets forth in the clearest way those parts of secular history which run parallel with the prophetic empires of Daniel’s visions, and so connects one with the other as to make the subject plain to the humblest mind. What a person would ordinarily have to search a score of ancient histories for is here set in its proper place, and made to add its testimony to the truth of God’s word in prophecy. No minister should be without the book, and no family of Seventh-day Adventists can afford to lose the instruction it contains, if they would stand firmly in the truth through the crisis which is just before all.

J. O. CORLISS

Militarism Spreads to the Western World

THE militarism of Europe is getting a hold upon the Western world. The Independent mentions that “General Körner, a German officer, has for a number of years been at the head of the military system of Chile, and his influence has at last prevailed to have a law enacted requiring every citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-eight to render military service for at least one year. The natural result is that Chile’s rival, Argentina, with whom she divided Patagonia a few years ago, is arming fast and trying to introduce obligatory military service, while Peru is making popular subscriptions for war-ships, and Bolivia has applied to Germany for military instructors.”

Once introduced in this hemisphere, militarism will naturally spread like the plague; for when one nation adopts it, all its neighbors feel bound to do so for self-preservation. And it is a plague no way has been devised of stamping out.

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