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Canvassers' Summary for October, 1911

	AGTS.	HRS.	ORDERS	VALUE 1911	VALUE 1910	VALUE 1909
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine					$39.25	$94.20
Northern New England	5	433	103	$368.00	281.05	158.25
Massachusetts	7	87	3	62.25	208.53	525.35
Southern New England	3	179	36	167.25	330.70	183.05
New York	14	377	87	273.95	282.75	485.90
Western New York	8	413	59	212.40	202.00	35.85
Greater New York	12	724	170	370.30	427.85	56.50
Totals	49	2213	458	1454.15	1772.13	1539.10
Columbia Union Conference
Ohio	6	598	279	665.65	983.05	1691.75
West Virginia	7	207	50	232.60	778.55	310.85
Virginia	7	481	338	580.25	357.00	120.70
Chesapeake	4	374	111	487.00	686.75	539.30
Eastern Pennsylvania	3	181	49	150.25	146.85	184.00
West Pennsylvania	4	303	....	324.80	575.05	764.60
New Jersey	8	247	75	223.70	....	186.75
District of Columbia	....	....	....	....	106.75	....
Totals	39	2391	902	2664.25	3634.00	3797.95
Lake Union Conference
East Michigan	10	700	208	668.60	100.35	357.50
West Michigan	10	690	189	374.00	....	....
North Michigan	3	109	21	38.95	122.55	123.95
Wisconsin	4	351	106	389.15	360.50	193.00
Northern Illinois	7	671	232	622.85	911.15	601.75
Southern Illinois	11	1093	281	975.10	773.20	596.25
Indiana	4	363	82	320.45	377.50	57.35
Totals	49	3977	1119	3389.10	2645.25	1968.05
Canadian Union Conference
Ontario	....	....	....	....	....	100.35
Quebec	2	88	62	83.00	....	100.00
Maritime	1	3	3	10.00	....	40.00
Newfoundland	....	....	....	....	....	....
Totals	3	91	65	93.00	....	240.35
Southern Union Conference
Louisiana	10	857	384	691.00	727.70	876.45
Alabama	21	2326	482	863.00	556.25	833.65
Kentucky	7	726	298	407.85	200.00	982.85
Mississippi	22	2037	501	853.45	808.25	343.16
Tennessee River	14	1125	339	563.50	928.80	619.20
Totals	74	7071	2004	3378.80	3221.00	3655.31
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland	13	701	334	932.17	1011.15	180.94
Georgia	17	889	371	598.20	383.80	1470.23
North Carolina	12	1362	610	1232.50	920.75	405.80
South Carolina	16	1070	352	649.95	306.15	532.00
Florida	9	229	214	410.40	713.75	155.54
Totals	67	4251	1881	3823.22	3335.60	2744.51
Southwestern Union Conference
Arkansas	14	1009	143	439.45	351.35	583.75
Oklahoma	39	3713	119	658.90	505.35	532.50
West Texas	13	244	....	299.00	188.35	4.10
South Texas	14	1217	145	724.10	294.75	....
North Texas	41	3968	162	568.20	365.25	996.50
New Mexico	6	338	290	543.10	54.50	59.90
Totals	127	10489	859	3232.75	1759.55	2176.75
Central Union Conference
North Missouri	4	314	130	258.00	667.65	272.25
South Missouri	7	928	673	2312.10	331.65	860.80
East Colorado	6	520	185	533.25	418.85	479.90
West Colorado	....	....	....	....	27.95	396.75
Nebraska	6	563	158	528.65	2121.15	587.00
Wyoming	....	....	....	....	....	250.35
East Kansas	3	82	26	119.50	....	1506.50
West Kansas	5	461	87	368.50	438.45	1506.50
St. Louis Mission	....	....	....	20.50	....	....
Totals	31	2868	1259	4140.50	4005.75	4352.65

	AGTS.	HRS.	ORDERS	VALUE 1911	VALUE 1910	VALUE 1909
Northern Union Conference
Iowa	12	1304	302	1097.15	426.00	485.15
Minnesota	....	....	....	....	102.50	180.05
North Dakota	....	....	....	....	85.70	....
South Dakota	....	....	....	....	110.00	339.95
Totals	12	1304	302	1097.15	724.20	1005.15
Pacific Union Conference
N. Cal.-Nevada	4	473	274	1016.35	1064.40	572.45
Arizona	2	113	62	284.70	112.25	214.80
Southern California	6	1041	435	1598.75	492.55	986.50
Utah	3	131	....	370.84	168.35	....
Central California	3	482	254	692.65	....	....
California Coast	7	930	453	1686.80	....	....
Totals	25	3170	1478	5650.09	1837.55	1773.75
North Pacific Union Conference
Western Washington	8	251	110	495.75	558.30	756.15
Upper Columbia	4	295	80	353.50	308.35	500.35
Western Oregon	5	245	98	359.40	788.00	783.55
Southern Idaho	1	....	....	230.00	173.50	....
Montana	....	....	....	34.00	200.00	159.90
Southern Oregon	6	323	111	602.30	231.90	....
Alaska	....	....	....	....	....	....
Totals	24	1114	399	2074.95	2260.05	2199.95
Western Canadian Union Conference
Alberta	3	260	102	338.50	....	140.00
Manitoba	3	244	123	398.35	....	....
British Columbia	....	....	....	....	....	....
Saskatchewan	1	40	25	101.10	....	42.65
Totals	7	544	250	837.95	....	182.65
Foreign Union Conferences and Missions
British	64	5335	2000	5166.36	6223.77	4615.23
Australasian	63	4706	2049	9200.28	9017.71	5363.20
South African	11	1302	442	2048.94	1658.51	98.83
Indian Union Mission	3	365	257	248.54	230.36	....
Scandinavian	90	14813	8363	7058.40	8967.85	8174.42
West German (2 mos.)	184	32600	....	8910.00	2974.52	6331.21
East German (2 mos.)	171	27647	....	6240.00	2212.77	....
Russian	25	583	....	1530.37	499.21	....
Siberian	3	....	....	84.17	....	....
Latin	15	1967	3350	716.60	610.15	249.55
Levant Union	10	809	....	82.09	....	....
South America (2 mos.)	14	1664	736	3187.93	272.74	1714.69
Mexican Mission	12	896	183	1031.37	1033.95	486.63
West Indian	14	469	630	1529.25	2024.03	....
Philippines (2 mos.)	1	190	142	259.75	345.50	....
China	....	....	....	237.93	....	....
Korean Mission	....	....	....	....	8.92	....
Brazil	....	....	....	....	1186.06	....
Totals, North American union conferences....				$31,835.91	$25,195.08	$25,636.17
Totals, Foreign union conf. and mis. flds....				49,531.98	37,266.05	27,033.76
Grand totals				$81,367.89	$62,461.13	$52,669.93

Summary of Magazine Sales for October, 1911

	TOTALS 1910	TOTALS 1911	VALUE 1911
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine	1285	985	$98.50
Massachusetts	3301	1680	168.00
N. New England	435	460	46.00
S. New England	722	1027	102.70
Gr. New York	2448	3570	357.00
New York	655	2321	232.10
W. New York	1091	1150	115.00
Totals	9937	11193	1119.30
Canadian Union Conference
Maritime	....	100	10.00
Ontario	1895	1666	166.60
Quebec	....	....	....
Newfoundland	30	....	....
Totals	1925	1766	176.60
Western Canadian Union Conference
Alberta	310	245	24.50
British Columbia	578	1160	116.00
Manitoba	120	800	80.00
Saskatchewan	180	270	27.00
Totals	1088	2475	247.50
Central Union Conference
Colorado	595	680	68.00
W. Colorado	113	170	17.00
East Kansas	990	1017	101.70
West Kansas	1009	410	41.00
North Missouri	1117	561	56.10
South Missouri	480	69	6.90
St. Louis Mission	420	....	....
Nebraska	448	2614	261.40
Wyoming	60	55	5.50
Totals	5232	5576	557.60
Columbia Union Conference
Chesapeake	2277	765	76.50
District of Col.	822	420	42.00
New Jersey	1783	1242	124.20
E. Pennsylvania	525	1656	165.60
W. Pennsylvania	1320	905	90.50
Ohio	1922	1502	150.20
Virginia	1141	1300	130.00
West Virginia	70	300	30.00
Totals	9860	8090	809.00
Lake Union Conference
Indiana	1291	1405	140.50
East Michigan	2210	3595	359.50
West Michigan	622	1275	127.50
North Michigan	330	15	1.50
N. Illinois	6574	4357	435.70
S. Illinois	550	2207	220.70
Wisconsin	2253	3470	347.00
Totals	13830	17059	1705.90
Northern Union Conference
Iowa	3963	3805	380.50
Minnesota	2700	2666	266.60
North Dakota	2160	1245	124.50
South Dakota	498	1150	115.00
Totals	9321	8866	886.60
North Pacific Union Conference
Montana	345	250	25.00
Southern Idaho	106	409	40.90
Upper Columbia	955	955	95.50
East Oregon Mis.	758	....	....
Southern Oregon	281	190	19.00
Western Oregon	1750	1135	113.50
W. Washington	1237	895	89.50
Totals	4477	3834	383.40

	TOTALS 1910	TOTALS 1911	VALUE 1911
Pacific Union Conference
Arizona	144	135	13.50
California	6191	6191	619.10
Central Cal.	3744	190	19.00
N. Cal.-Nev.	410	410	41.00
S. California	3567	1675	167.50
Utah	305	300	30.00
Totals	7760	8901	890.10
Southern Union Conference
Alabama	....	1229	122.90
Kentucky	25	4082	408.20
Louisiana	....	410	41.00
Mississippi	....	965	96.50
Tennessee River	....	1115	111.50
Totals	25	7801	780.10
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland	245	350	35.00
Florida	329	717	71.70
Georgia	2535	590	59.00
North Carolina	2553	400	40.00
South Carolina	959	1760	176.00
Totals	6621	3817	381.70
Southwestern Union Conference
Arkansas	267	610	61.00
New Mexico	1504	650	65.00
Oklahoma	1590	1245	124.50
Texas	2019	2500	250.00
South Texas	70	285	28.50
West Texas	122	220	22.00
Totals	5572	5510	551.00
Foreign & Misc.	8122	19187	1918.70
Mailing lists	28095	61197	6119.70
Grand totals	116157	164537	$16453.70

Comparative Summary

	TOTALS 1909	TOTALS 1910	TOTALS 1911
January	71094	89462	122202
February	91912	116198	99234
March	134206	132165	244003
April	120582	183981	192757
May	115145	174886	141204
June	163545	193727	145025
July	168689	222146	197582
August	174136	152520	215773
September	102033	120020	135179
October	108571	116157	164537
November	106860	102795	....
December	90737	99130	....
Total	1447510	1703187	1657496

Comparative Summary

	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Jan.	$21,000.00	$26,325.50	$25,929.06	$40,677.06	$42,532.23	$44,495.65
Feb.	15,000.00	26,369.61	30,466.40	48,748.21	50,990.34	53,923.57
March	18,000.00	36,253.65	35,757.15	52,703.85	55,711.55	73,015.56
April	24,000.00	35,276.76	43,858.29	55,109.54	64,042.39	73,548.31
May	37,000.00	51,097.51	67,455.44	82,971.94	86,333.58	81,923.78
June	46,000.00	65,317.23	82,878.67	124,412.34	112,606.05	135,888.76
July	52,218.04	75,691.57	120,973.89	95,445.21	103,919.12	127,256.86
Aug.	36,555.39	46,590.68	66,946.38	71,652.97	91,145.11	91,810.46
Sept.	22,038.63	32,503.48	51,148.56	55,625.41	66,523.65	86,001.72
Oct.	26,382.61	40,646.45	62,719.91	52,669.93	62,461.13	81,367.89
Nov.	43,733.16	30,016.77	53,787.31	49,964.99	58,211.68	....
Dec.	29,756.47	25,361.54	39,873.18	45,759.73	54,663.93	....
Totals,	$371,684.30	$491,450.75	$681,794.24	$775,741.18	$849,140.76	$849,232.56

Commerce and Labor Publications

THE varied activities of the Department of Commerce and Labor are reflected in the number and diversity of publications the department issues annually. These reach, through the mails and the freight trains, practically every class of people in the country, from the immigrant just landed to the captains of industry. In this respect the department occupies among the executive departments of the government a conspicuous position as a publisher of periodicals. According to a report for the fiscal year 1911, submitted to Secretary Nagel by George C. Havenner, chief of the division of publications, of the $375,000 available for printing and binding, $370,030 was expended. There was a total of 796 publications, of which 27 were printed in two or more editions, while a still larger number were reprints of issues of earlier years. These publications contained a total of 47,883 printed pages, and there were 5,242,762 copies distributed, as against 3,363,323 in the preceding fiscal year. There are thirteen publications issued at stated periods by the department, by which it keeps the commercial, financial, maritime, and labor worlds fully informed of national and international facts and figures in which they are vitally interested.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Cornell University, of New York, is spending more than $1,000,000 in the construction of new buildings.

— Sweden's match industry has grown until that country makes 3,000,000 matches a day, exporting about 2,000,000,000 boxes a year.

— The movement to secure the release of Abe Ruef from San Quentin prison, where he is serving a fourteen-year term for participation in graft in San Francisco, has gained such proportions that it seems likely he may go free.

— A mile-a-minute gale that prevailed November 19, 20, along the Rhode Island coast, caused the loss of two barges of the Scully Transportation Company, of New York, and it is feared, carried to watery graves from six to eight persons.

— New York City surface car lines still carry more passengers than either the subways or the elevated roads. For the year ending June 30 the figures are for Manhattan: Surface roads, 386,952,020; elevated roads, 301,449,292; subways, 276,704,796.

— On November 18, General Bernardo Reyes, a prominent Mexican, was arrested at his home in San Antonio, Tex. He is charged by the federal grand jury with making preparations “for a military expedition to be carried on from the United States against the republic of Mexico,” thus violating the neutrality laws.

— To the professional air-man and the general staffs of the European armies, the war in Tripoli has probably come as a welcome opportunity for trying out the military usefulness of the aeroplane. The two aeroplanes employed for scouting forces in Tripoli are said to have given such satisfaction that a larger number of machines is to be despatched to the front.

— Reports of the colporteurs of the Société Biblique de la France show that there is a very general demand for the Scriptures among the French people, both on the part of the working classes and the business men. Since the overthrow of the Roman Catholic Church in France, thousands have drifted into atheism. This does not satisfy them, and they are eagerly searching for the true faith.

— Dr. Frederick A. Cook emerged from his oblivion, in a lecture tour which he made recently through some of the principal cities of Europe. The first lecture was given in Copenhagen, where, when he first claimed the discovery of the north pole, he had been crowned with vines and blossoms as the chief explorer of the world. Most of the audience hissed and mocked him as he proceeded with his lecture and stereopticon views, and when he threw on the canvas a picture of the north pole, the crowd rushed on him, and he left the hall abruptly by a back door, and was escorted to his hotel under a guard of policemen, who were not able to protect him from a shower of stale eggs.

— The year 1911 has been remarkable in that no less than seven comets were discovered in the nine months before the end of September. Three are now simultaneously visible.

— The operators and strikers of the Canadian coal mines are now arranging the final details of settlement. The seven months' strike has cost the men and companies $10,000,000.

— Recent legislation for the protection of game-birds and birds of passage is having its effect, according to all reports. The white egrets of Florida are once more multiplying with rapidity, and are seen by the dozen around the little lakes.

— Walter Wyman, surgeon-general of the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, died November 21, at the age of sixty-three years, in the Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C., where for four weeks he had been under treatment for a carbuncle. He was one of the leading medical men of the country.

— Paris, according to a correspondent of the London Lancet, is uneasy over the diminution of its milk supply. The drought of last summer and disease among cattle have combined to cause an unusual shortage. The population is to be put on a short milk ration; families with young children will have the preference in the order of serving.

— Eighteen men were killed in an explosion which occurred, November 18, in the Bottom Creek mine of the Bottom Creek Coal and Coke Company, at Vivian, W. Va. Over 150 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion, but all escaped excepting 18 of the 22 who were in the explosion zone. Four of these were rescued alive.

— A recent court decision upholds a corporation's right to the exclusive use of a family name which has become associated with an article of manufacture, even when the members of the family have withdrawn from the corporation. Mr. Jones, for instance, can not sell out his interests in the famous “Jones Piano,” and then form another company to manufacture “Jones Pianos.” He can, says the decision, still make pianos, but he must call them by some other name than his own.

— According to the returns of the thirteenth census, the population of continental United States (that is, excluding Alaska, Porto Rico, and other outlying possessions), which was 91,972,266 in 1910, is subdivided as to color as follows: White, 81,732,687, or 88.9 per cent; Negro, 9,828,294, or 10.7 per cent; all other persons (Indians, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), 411,285, or .4 per cent. Since 1900 there has been an increase in white population of 14,023,921, or 22.3 per cent, as compared with an increase in Negro population of 994,300, or 11.3 per cent. The director of the census also shows by figures that the Negro population of the South is diminishing, while that of the North is increasing. There are two reasons for this last fact: First, there has been considerable movement of colored population toward the North; second, the unsanitary conditions of the densely settled Negro sections of the South prevent any rapid increase in population, because of the high death-rate.

— Russia is again in the throes of famine. Many of the peasants have gone to the cities in search of work, leaving their children with no means of support. It is estimated that about nineteen million persons are in need of immediate help. Various epidemics have already broken out among the starving people.

— The wheat acreage in the United States for the harvest of 1911 was 52,125,000 acres, producing a crop of 656,762,400 bushels. The acreage harvested in 1910 was only 49,205,000 acres, but the yield was 695,443,000 bushels. The largest wheat crop the world ever harvested was that of 1909, amounting to 3,624,000,000 bushels, gathered from 235,000,000 acres of land.

— The prop of legality has been knocked from beneath 5,000 marriages in Illinois, through a decision of the appellate court of southern Illinois. The remarriage of divorced persons within a year, even though the ceremony is performed in another State, is declared illegal. The principals in such marriages are declared liable to criminal prosecution should they return to Illinois to live following their second venture in matrimony.

— A granite temple enshrining the rude log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born one hundred two years ago, was dedicated at the Lincoln farm, near Hodgenville, Ky., on November 9. The ceremony marked the consummation of a nation-wide movement to convert the Lincoln birthplace into a national park, and to erect therein a suitable monument to the great war President. On the hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, Theodore Roosevelt, then President, laid the corner-stone of the memorial. Throngs from all parts of the United States witnessed the acceptance of the memorial and farm for the nation by President Taft. The cost of the completed monument is $112,000, with a surplus fund of $50,000 which has been invested in safe securities, and presented to the commonwealth of Kentucky to provide the necessary maintenance.

— The total cost of fires to the people of the United States, excluding forest fires and marine losses, amounts to almost $500,000,000. The actual fire loss per capita for the United States, due to destruction of buildings and their contents, in 1907, was $2.51. The per capita losses in the cities of the six leading European countries in the same year amounted to but thirty-three cents. In addition, 1,500 persons annually lose their lives and nearly six thousand are injured in fires in this country. Last year seventy-six men employed by the national government lost their lives in fighting forest fires, and nearly five million acres of forest lands were burned over, causing a loss of more than $26,000,000. For the first five months of this year our fire waste exceeds that of 1910, which was the high-water mark, by $30,000,000. The city of Buffalo last year had a greater fire waste than London, the largest city in the world, and the city of Chicago had a fire waste nine times that of Paris. Last year Berlin, which is about equal in size to Chicago, had a fire waste of less than $200,000; while Chicago burned more than $6,000,000 worth of property. The difference is due to the regulations designed to protect life and property from fire.

— The California board of pharmacy is reported to be alarmed over the spread of the use of the loco-weed as a narcotic. This weed, known botanically as Astragalus Hornii, is a native of Mexico, and is said to be even worse than morphin in its effects as a drug. Horses and cattle that eat the leaves get locoed, or crazy; and on human beings the effects are similar to those of the East Indian hashish.

Notices and Appointments

Morning Watch Calendar

The Morning Watch Calendar for 1912 is now ready. Those who will memorize the texts of Scripture as outlined for each day will receive a knowledge of many of the fundamental truths of this message which will enable them by the close of the year to “give a reason” for their hope. Price, 5 cents. Order now from your tract society.

Medical Evangelist

By Editor

You should be a reader of the Medical Evangelist for these reasons:—

1. It is the only periodical among us devoted to medical evangelistic work,—the work that has been urged upon us so repeatedly by the spirit of prophecy of late.

2. It will keep you informed of the progress and work of our only medical school.

3. We are endeavoring to work out, and to keep in touch with those who are working out, the problem of securing entrance to our large cities in the best way. The Medical Evangelist will keep you informed regarding progress in this line.

4. The Medical Evangelist will contain reports of our missionaries in foreign lands, thus acting as a medium of exchange between our missionaries.

5. Last, but not least, you can thus help the medical evangelistic movement.

Sectarian Medicine, or Present-Day Pathies, will be the subject to which the next number of the Evangelist will give attention. This will include papers presented at the council held at Loma Linda recently, and other matter relative to ordinary schools of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, Christian Science, and other pathies.

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For Sale.—Five-acre fruit farm near Hygiene, in Boulder County, Colorado. A desirable home adjacent to church-school. Good water, six-room house, thirty-five miles from Denver. Write for particulars if interested. Address Geo. J. Lowe, Broomfield, Colo.

Liberal Offer.—Best Cottonseed-Oil for all cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutritious, fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guaranteed free from animal fats and all impurities: 5 gallons, $3.25; 10 gallons, $6.25; ½ barrel, $17.60. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

For Sale.—Forty acres, fine farming land, near Covert. Church and church-school privileges. Twenty acres seeded, rest in cultivation. Apple- and pear-trees and strawberries. Barn, well, house newly papered. Soft water in house. Only $1,800 if sold soon. Address Mrs. Mark Wilbur, R. F. D. 5, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

For Sale.—Fifty-acre school farm of the Eufola Agricultural and Mechanical Academy. The school building will be donated and deeded to the conference. An opportunity to take up self-supporting school work, as the founder feels called to take up work in another field. Address Eufola Academy, Eufola, N. C.

Delicious Peanut-Oil Butter, 10 and 25 lbs., 11 cents lb.; 50 lbs., 10 cents lb. Pure Olive-Oil, $2.70 gal.; $2.50 gal. ordered with Peanut Butter. Peanut Oil, 55 cents qt.; $2.00 gal. Pure Vegetable Cooking Oil, $1.10 gal. White House Cereal Coffee, 10 cents lb.; 25 lbs., $2.25. B. Coleman, South Capitol and N Sts., Washington, D. C.

The Emmanuel Children’s Home, of Mountain Grove, Mo., has added a self-supporting department, and will send a beautiful catalogue and colored circulars, showing and describing over one hundred eighty Scriptural Text Wall Cards and Mottoes, retailing at from 5 cents to 25 cents each. Be sure to send your address at once before Christmas.

Wanted.—A competent person, man or woman, to manage a steam-laundry, doing commercial work. An exceptionally good opportunity for some one who has children going to church-school or college. Apply to Clinton German Seminary, Clinton, Mo.

Southeastern Union Conference

By Chas. Thompson; W. H. Williams

NOTICE is hereby given that the second biennial session of the Southeastern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, Graysville, Tenn., Jan. 8-18, 1912. Each local conference is entitled to one delegate, and one additional delegate for every fifty members. All delegates are requested to be present on the first day of the meeting.

CHAS. THOMPSON, President; W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

Southeastern Union Conference Association

By Chas. Thompson; W. H. Williams

THE Southeastern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its meetings in connection with the Southeastern Union Conference (unincorporated) at Graysville, Tenn., Jan. 8-18, 1912, to elect officers, and transact such other business as may legally come before the association. The first meeting will be held January 11, at 3 p. m.

CHAS. THOMPSON, President; W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

British Columbia Association

By J. G. Walker; Andrew Raebel

A SPECIAL session of the British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Vancouver, Dec. 29, 1911, at 2 P. M., to consider the advisability of selling the school farm at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia. According to the by-laws of the association, the delegates who attended the last session compose the constituency till their successors are duly elected for the next annual session. If any vacancies have occurred, the churches should see that appointments are made, so that a full delegation can be sent. The ratio of representation is one delegate for the church, and one additional delegate for every ten members.

J. G. WALKER, President; ANDREW RAEBEL, Secretary.

Elder C. D. AcMoody

By E. E. Andross

Obituaries

Elder C. D. AcMoody

CLAUDE DANIEL ACMOODY was born Feb. 27, 1882, in Moscow, Hillsdale Co., Mich., and died at Long Beach, Cal., July 23, 1911, aged 29 years, 4 months, and 26 days. At the age of twelve years he was baptized, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

At an early period in life he felt called to the gospel ministry, and when sixteen years of age entered Battle Creek College, where he remained four years to fit himself for this sacred work. His parents having moved to Wisconsin, he joined them there, where he entered the ministry, continuing his labors in that conference till called by the General Conference, in 1906, to the Turkish Mission field, sailing October 8 of that year.

July 20, 1904, he was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta Parfitt, at New London, Wis. His wife was taken from him by death, Sept. 24, 1905. An infant child survived the mother but a few weeks.

Soon after arriving in Turkey, Brother AcMoody contracted pulmonary tuberculosis; but he was determined to remain at his post of duty as long as possible. However, after about two and one-half years, he was compelled, by the steady encroachment of the disease, to return home; hence he attended the General Conference of 1909 as a delegate from the Turkish Mission field. He then hoped, after a brief sojourn in his native land, sufficiently to recover his health to resume his missionary labors in his chosen field; but in this he was disappointed. The disease made steady progress till the end came at Long Beach. He quietly and peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, with the assurance that his work was finished and that he would share with the “remnant” the “never-ending blessing pronounced on those who had honored God in keeping his Sabbath holy.” “He sleeps, but not forever.” His parents and two brothers, besides a large circle of friends, are left to mourn their loss, but they mourn not as those who have no hope.

The funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by Elders J. W. Adams and M. H. St. John. E. E. ANDROSS.

Reports from China and South Africa

The thoughts and prayers of our people, we know, are much with the workers in China during these days of turmoil. By a recent note from Shanghai, we learn that at the time of writing, October 24, no very serious inconvenience to our missionaries had been felt. However, it had become expedient for Dr. A. G. Larson and his wife and Mrs. Esta Miller to come to Shanghai from Hankow. The most serious interruption had been in the work of the colporteurs. We pray that quietness and peace may come soon to China, and that the work of sounding this message among the millions may go forward more strongly than ever. The whole world is astir, however, and events speak loudly to us to speed our work, for the day of the Lord hastens on, and the time in which to work is short.

Word from South Africa brings good reports concerning spiritual interests in the union conference training-school. Nine young persons recently united with the Claremont church, mostly students of the college.

Progress in North Carolina and the Philippines

Elder George M. Brown, president of the North Carolina Conference, mentions a cheering item of news in a recent letter. Fifty-six persons have accepted the message and been baptized in that conference during the last two months. Others who have recently decided to obey the truth, will soon go forward in baptism. The work is onward throughout the Southern field.

At last help is on the way to the Philippines. Elder Elbridge M. Adams and his wife and Brother Floyd Ashbaugh, all of the Southern California Conference, sailed from San Francisco, November 22, for Manila. Our brethren in the Philippines will thank God as they see this help coming to their relief. Brother Ashbaugh goes to engage in the circulation of literature, and it is hoped that by the additional help this work may be opened in a new island field.

A Worthy Example

By William T. Knox

IN the mail coming to the General Conference treasury recently was one very inspiring letter from an aged brother in the State of Washington. The letter was in part as follows:—

“I have just learned that our Sabbath offering is increased to fifteen cents a week. I am old, and for the last few years have made a practice of paying in advance, should I not live another year. I will send you as my Sabbath offering for 1912, $7.70; for the schools for the colored, $3.65; total, $11.35. I want a part in this closing work. . . . Since I wrote my letter I received some money, which is $3.76; all told, the amount will be $15.11.”

This brother fearing his life might not be spared to complete the year 1912, has at this early date made payment in advance of the full amount of fifteen cents per week for the year, afterward adding thereto almost sufficient to make his offering equal thirty cents per week:

Surely the Lord is pleased with such service and devotion. This example followed by all would speedily provide an abundance for every necessity of the cause. W. T. KNOX.

The Shan States Are Calling

FROM the Shan States, of Upper Burma, where Dr. Tornblaad is doing mission work, she writes:—

“My message is: The Shan States of Burma are calling for this last message that has been delivered to us; and how shall we be able to meet the Lord in peace if we do not do for these people what we would wish done for us, had the Lord entrusted the message to them to give to us? The harvest truly is great, and the laborers are few. No one realizes this more than do the workers who have not the privilege of seeing a fellow worker once in six months. But we have the promise, ‘Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.’ Pray for the work in the Shan States.”

The Monterey Vision

By Editor

THE article by Elder A. O. Tait, one of the editors of the Signs of the Times, entitled “The Monterey Vision,” will be read with interest. We hope that especially those to whom the Lord has committed an abundance of this world's goods will consider their responsibility in view of the demands now being made for funds to carry forward the third angel's message.

Ministerial Institute in Britain

The British Union Conference has arranged to hold a ministerial institute for the workers in that field during December. Elders A. G. Daniells and G. B. Thompson left New York this week to join Elder L. R. Conradi and the British brethren in the work of this institute. We trust that the blessing of the Lord may rest upon our brethren in Great Britain during this time, and that a new impetus may be given to the work as the laborers turn aside to seek God, and to study how more effectively to press the message onward in that populous field.

Walla Walla College Foreign Mission Band

THE North Pacific Union Gleaner for November 9 is a special foreign mission band number, made up of reports from members of the foreign mission band of Walla Walla College. Of the missionary interest in this school the Gleaner says: “The band has steadily increased in number from twenty-four to its present enrolment of one hundred twenty-three members, eleven of whom are now laboring in foreign fields. Two of these, Brethren Frank Oster and Henry Dierksen, are in Persia; Brother George Harlow and his wife are in China; Brother Harold Oberg, in Korea; Brother and Sister S. H. Carnahan, in Cuba; Brother and Sister C. E. Weaks, in India, and Elder E. C. Widgery, in South America.”

Over 500,000 Harvest Ingathering Papers Mailed

A TELEGRAM received last week from the Pacific Press stated that in filling orders for the Harvest Ingathering Signs, over 500,000 papers had been mailed out. And still the orders for more papers were being sent in by the conferences. This is very encouraging, with a good prospect for a large harvest for missions.

Conference Presidency Appointments

Elder B. F. Kneeland, formerly of New Jersey, passed through Washington last week on his way to Pittsburg, to take up his work as president of the West Pennsylvania Conference. Elder A. R. Sandborn, formerly of East Michigan, takes the presidency of the New Jersey Conference.

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