OUR time was limited, as Pastor W. H. Anderson wished me to go on north of the Kafue; so he sent word to the teacher of the next out-station we were to visit, who met us at the camp the next morning, and gave us the information we desired about his school work, thus saving us from going farther. The teacher reported thirty-eight students in his school at present, ten having been drawn away by a labor agent to work in the mines. This is one contingency with which the missions often meet. We have two hundred acres of land at this out-school, and the work is self-supporting, although the drought has made the funds short this year.
This school is located in the heart of the lion district; herds of reedbuck, hartbeest, buffalo, hundreds of wildebeest, leche, zebra, eland, and small game may be seen within two hours' ride of the school. The roar of the lions after having devoured their prey is of almost nightly occurrence in this place. The teacher of this school recently found himself surrounded by five leopards one day while crossing the veld. By shouting lustily and clashing his assagais together, he frightened them away, and passed on. It was here that Brother J. R. Campbell met two lions in his path, but they turned and walked away and left him unharmed. God's care for his workers is continually manifested. It was here also that Brother E. C. Silsbee trekked with sixteen oxen nearly all night, in order to reach the out-school before camping, as he was stalked by lions and did not consider it safe to camp.
We returned to the mission on Friday. The students, who had been away on vacation, had all returned, and were ready to enter upon their school work for the next term. In the Friday evening social service they were each ready to testify of God's love and goodness. There was the same promptness in the service I had seen at Solusi. Several were on their feet waiting to speak during the whole service.
On Sabbath the house was filled with Christian students who but a few years ago knew not God nor the saving power of the gospel. It was inspiring to see with what eagerness they listened to every word spoken.
At the close of the Sabbath we in-spanned and trekked to Monza, where, about two o'clock the next morning, we took the train for Lusakas, north of the Kafue River. The Kafue is fully as large as the Zambesi at their point of intersection. The Kafue Valley is a very fertile section, and is being settled by English colonists.
Reaching Lusakas about 10 A. M., Monday, Elder Anderson and I traveled on foot seven miles into the country to look at a farm, thinking it might be a suitable place for our headquarters for this section. Lusakas is about seventy-five miles from the main station. After looking it over, we decided that the land was not so good as the water, and we therefore decided to leave the question of the location of our headquarters for this section to a later time, giving the mission superintendent time to secure a more suitable farm.
Before leaving, we learned that our native teacher in our out-school four miles from Lusakas had just lost two head of cattle by lions. Major Gordon, operating a ranch a few miles farther out, had attempted to put up a hundred miles of fence to enclose his farm; but before he had completed ten miles of it, herds of game, pursued by lions and leopards, had stampeded, and carried off large sections of the fence on their heads. He concluded to surrender his cherished plan until there were fewer lions and less game. He is reported to have killed ten lions during the last few months. The day before our arrival, a lion was seen coming out of the bush after the cattle within a half-mile of the Lusakas station.
We were weary after our fifteen-mile tramp in the heat of the day, and greatly appreciated the hospitality of a shopkeeper, who entertained us for the night in a mud hut.
The next morning Elder Anderson took the train for the mission, having sold enough produce from the farm on this trip to insure the self-support of the Barotseland Mission for 1912. I took the same train for the Somabula Mission at Gwelo, by way of Bulawayo, where Brother and Sister W. C. Walston met us, and we spent the forenoon very pleasantly while waiting for the train to Gwelo. Here we were joined by Brother and Sister J. N. de Beer, who were returning from the Cape, where they had spent several weeks recovering from a serious attack of fever.
Church Additions and Baptisms
Two new members have been added to the church at Guinea Mills, Va.
Six new members have been added to the church at Memphis, Tenn., during the last few weeks.
As the result of a series of meetings conducted in Cement, Okla., six persons have been added to the church there.
On Sabbath, June 29, six persons were baptized at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and ten new Sabbath-keepers were recently added to the church at Mt. Etna.
ELDER G. P. RODGERS reports of the work among the colored people in Baltimore, Md.: "As the result of our earnest prayers and labors nine persons have united with the church, four having followed their Master in baptism Sunday, June 30."
ELDER D. T. SHIREMAN reports from Hickory, N. C.: "Sabbath, July 6, was a blessed day for the Baker Mountain church. Truly the Lord came very near. After the service I had the pleasure of baptizing nine persons. Nearly all of these were young people."
The Gospel to All the World
“This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations.”
Godliness Eternal Gain
By N. W. Vincent
A TRILLION years of mirth and pleasure
Tell neither worth nor cost,
Though added to all earth's rich treasure,
Of only one soul — lost!
Of self — forever lost!
But if we had in our probation
A trillion years of pain,
Then joy in ceaseless, glad duration
With Christ to live and reign,
It would be endless gain.
But easy is Christ's yoke, his burden
Light, with will to bear.
Past knowledge the increasing guerdon,
Rest, peace, Christ's home to share,
Joint heirs, bright crowns to wear.
Let's choose to-day the loving Saviour;
To him our life we owe.
Soon, soon, if true, by his dear favor,
Forever free from woe,
God's love and joy we'll know.
Caney, Kans.
Its Fundamentals
By J. O. Corliss
Home Life — No. 1
Its Fundamentals
To many, home is but a convenient place for eating and sleeping. But the word should mean much more to every person. No other place on earth should have so much to do in forming character and directing life's aims as home influences. The dwelling of father, mother, and children under a single roof does not necessarily constitute that spot a home in the real sense. True, it is the place where one is born, and whence he goes out into the world's activities; but during childhood and youth were the association and influence of that domicile such as to fit its members best to meet the duties of maturer life?
A true, pure, godly home is not a natural product — an uncultivated, self-grown accomplishment. Such a place must be a work of time, in which constant care and master skill are exercised from its very inception. It can not be otherwise since the prominent factors in its building start as inexperienced performers. More than this, their habits and customs of earlier life are totally unlike, causing them to look upon the serious side of human affairs from entirely different standpoints.
This inauspicious beginning comes about quite naturally, though sometimes really unaccountably. For instance, a young man has been attracted toward a young woman whose home life and education have been along lines not conformable to his own. He has met her only under the most favorable circumstances, and neither is acquainted with the other's peculiarities, which are seen at their worst only in domestic life. But being convinced that they are well mated, they take the step that binds them to each other's interests.
The real work of becoming acquainted with each other has now just begun. What the result will be, depends on how each treats the other's infirmities, hitherto hidden. Separate wills, purposes, hopes, and actions, hitherto unrestrained, are now expected to blend and harmonize into the most satisfying unity. But does the fact of a marriage ceremony performed give security to this end? — Not always. The woven threads of former years in social and educational ways, are sure to present a barrier to immediate perfect blending. Taken unawares, the newly wedded couple just here enter the deep shades of married experience, where danger of alienation lurks in every day's experience.
Well would it be if in this initiation no third person is permitted to interject advice. This may be prevented when both are agreed to make a confidant of no one relative to domestic affairs. Let the process of forming affinity acquaintance go forward uninterruptedly within the home circle itself. The process may be prolonged and trying, because of former adverse training, but it can be successfully done, if each properly considers the situation, and the need of mutual accommodation and respect. In fact, the first necessary item in making a home is that of becoming acquainted.
By this is not meant a critical acquaintance, one that will embitter the life entered upon; but a loving, tender, yielding acquaintance, one that will regard the peculiarities of another as simply the likeness of one's own, and therefore to be borne as one would have his own overlooked. To do otherwise is to fail in home-making. Compromise must be the order of every day and hour, without which no harmony of action can obtain. Therefore life must be an accommodation of forces, that no single element shall have unlimited sway.
It needs no argument to convince the thoughtful mind that when one force alone insists on having supremacy, trouble quickly follows, carrying disintegration and revolt. For this reason true home life must be filled with mutual concessions and acts of compromise. For either side of the house to act otherwise is to become imperious and grossly offensive. Many a prospective home has been wrecked by the despotic will of a master or the selfish freak of a mistress. The husband who insists that his wife shall yield on every point, and the wife who will not assent though she clearly sees an inevitable resulting breach, are not only sowing seeds of discord for their own reaping, but are preparing an after-harvest for their children well calculated to blight their happiness in this world, and obscure their path to the eternal home above.
Who of us in older years does not recall some weary, sad-faced wife, the patient bearer of a husband's tyrannical ways; or a man of moral excellence who was constantly goaded by obstinate exactions of a fretful wife? The following from Mr. J. F. W. Ware is so much to the point on this particular issue that we give the reader its benefit:—
"Have you not known weary and heavy-laden fathers, stooping, wrinkled, gray, and mothers with faces so mutely eloquent of the heart's troubles, going prematurely down the vale of years, unsupported and unblessed, because of one who would not yield his habit, his wilfulness, his vice, but persisted in making it the center and law of the home? Had these learned the compromises of love, remembered and respected the rights, the position, the comfort, the happiness of others, studied to deny self, to avoid clashing, to clip away the rough edges of temper and preference, which make too great friction and jar, and endanger safety; the selfsame persons might have made a home angels would have looked upon with joy, and blessed as a success."
Let it be understood, then, that compromise in home life is necessary in everything but principle. By this is not meant mere opinion, which so often is made to pose as principle, but religious duty, enjoined by the plain statements of God's Word. In fact, no two persons of positive character, but holding different religious faiths, should risk the binding requirements of marriage ties; for the home is no sooner established than children are likely to become a part of the family group. When these are old enough to receive simple instruction in religious lines, the problem becomes a grave one. Shall the mother teach her children the faith to which she holds, and then hear this contradicted by the father? Surely this is bad for each in the family, for it brings sadness to the mother, ill temper to the father, and begets unbelief in the children.
This is an important problem which should be solved before the rearing of children begins; for it touches and controls the home life in all its relations. Differences of religious opinion between parents carry a vitiating and blighting influence in the home, which no other element can entirely eliminate. It is therefore an important matter to settle before entering married life, since the marriage relation is not for the purpose of satisfying inordinate passion, but for the continuance of happiness here and hereafter, for both parents and children.13
Home life therefore is to be just what the interested parties make it. As has been truly said: "God will not make it the one, nor prevent its being the other. He ordained it; but he gave it to us to shape. That shaping is our life-work." Well will it be if our home life in every instance is laid in the broad lines of Christian culture and nobility.
Mountain View, Cal.
The Need of Capable Cooks
By P. S. Bourdeau-Sisco, M. D.
P. S. BOURDEAU-SISCO, M. D.
It would almost seem needless to speak or write upon this important subject, were it not for the fact that so many entrust this very essential and thoroughly scientific work to ignorant, illiterate persons who have no knowledge of the first elements of the subject. Their effort is so to arrange the food that it will cater to perverted appetites. They take no thought of securing pure unadulterated foods, and have no knowledge of the different food values and best food combinations.
Because of this prevailing custom, many young women feel that a work that is so often done by uneducated persons, is a work that is not to be performed by one who has spent years in high school and college. This certainly is a mistaken idea. Cooking is not only a science, but an art. It requires a good education to be able to understand the chemistry of the different foods. And art must be exercised in the preparation of these foods so that they will appeal to the smell, the sight, and the taste. The most wonderfully constructed machine in the world is the human body; and practise, skill, and the best judgment are required to give it just the nourishment that is suited to its needs, and necessary to keep it in good working order.
It is said that "as a man eateth, so is he." We are made up of the food we eat. How important, then, that this food be the purest, most free from disease, rightly balanced in food elements, and that it be prepared in such a manner that the digestive juices will be able properly to do their work upon it, without the so-often-seen results of fermentation, acidity, constipation, etc. A good cook must understand anatomy and physiology to be able to adapt the foods to the laws that govern the body. Is it any wonder that so many persons are sick, considering the food they have to eat?
One young woman, a high-school teacher, recently said, "Why, Doctor, I had to be under the physician's care all last year because of the stuff I had to eat at my boarding-house. There was so much fried food, grease in everything, and the food was so rich and highly seasoned." Now a cook should know why fried, greasy foods are not wholesome; why condiments hurt the digestive organs. If we do not know why these combinations work injury, we can not hope to remedy their ill results.
Many of our patients who are professional men and women, having to depend on others for their food, are perplexed to know what they will do to obtain proper food when they leave the sanitarium life. A few days ago I met a young woman who is a college graduate and a teacher in a young women's school. Every one who attends this school pays at least one thousand dollars tuition each year. The teacher told me that all these young women take a course in practical cooking, and learn how to manage a home.
Such a course is what every young woman should take before she ever considers herself capable of helping to make a home for herself. We know of one young woman who married without having received this training, and the next morning after her marriage, she sat down and wept, because she knew it was her place to get breakfast, and she did not know how.
Whatever may be our profession, we should feel it our duty to understand how to cook. The time we spend in learning this important science will be most profitable to us and to all who will partake of food prepared by our hands.
Cooks are in great demand. Every home needs one. Our schools need them. Restaurants can not be carried on without them. And our sanitariums need educated cooks who have had a wide practical experience. Such a cook in a sanitarium holds a position hardly second to any one in the institution. Let us, then, consider this question in the light of its importance, and see if more persons do not wish to fit themselves for the many important places that are opening to such qualified persons.
Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium.
Getting a New Office Boy
"About once in so often," said a business man, according to the Sun, "we need a new office boy, and then we advertise.
"Our advertisement calls for a boy who can fill certain requirements and conditions; he must of course be honest and intelligent and of a specific age, and he must live with his parents, and so on. We want a good, capable boy, and we state our requirements explicitly.
"We don't ask the boys to come here, but to answer by mail; and we may get a hundred answers. From these we reject at once those to which there is some obvious objection. We reject letters that are addressed with the envelope upside down, those with the stamp on the wrong end, and we may throw out those with a stamp put on carelessly at the right end. We don't want a careless boy.
"We throw out also letters addressed with a lead-pencil. As to the handwriting, it is not perhaps so essential as it once was that it should be excellent, this due to the very general use nowadays of the typewriter, but the writing must be clear and legible and the spelling correct.
"When we open the letters, we reject all that do not take notice of all the advertisement's conditions. We require, for instance, that the boys answering shall send also a letter from one or both of their parents, preferably from both. Usually, as a matter of fact, we get with the boy's letter one from the mother only. All lead-pencil letters we throw out, and also all letters written on the letter-heads of concerns with which the writers may now be employed. The boys may not know or they may not realize that they have no right to use the firm's letter-paper for their personal uses, but they ought to know it.
"We now eliminate the boys who live at too great a distance. They might get here all right, but they would want to get away on the minute to have time to get home; or, to put it in another way, we might not want to keep them late. The boy ought to be not only willing to devote himself to his work, but he ought to be so situated as to be able to do this comfortably. It is important that a boy should live within convenient distance of his work.
"Then we drop out the letters that are long and flowery. It is unfortunate that some boys think that such a letter should be of elaborate phraseology. What is really required is a simple, straightforward, direct letter that shows care by giving attention to every requirement and condition.
"Now we have, maybe, forty per cent of those letters left, and out of them we pick the most promising dozen, and to the writers of these we write making appointments inside two days, with an odd time appointment for each, not at, say 10 or 11 A. M., but at 10:20 or at 11:25 A. M., and here we strike, if the boys only knew it, a critical stage in the selection. If a boy is due at 10:20 and comes at 10:35, we mark him off without question. If a boy when he is looking for a job doesn't keep his first appointment to the dot, we don't want him.
"So in one way and another we reduce the number of considered candidates to a half-dozen, and from this number finally we select a boy and set him at work.
"And after all this labor do we finally get just the boy we want? Well, when we first began on this system, after we had at last selected our boy, we regarded it as settled, and threw away all the remaining applications; but now we keep that last half-dozen letters, because the boy we have chosen may not stay more than three days, and then the half-dozen remaining chosen applications are handy from which to make another selection.
"I wish there was some way of getting boys in general to understand that there never was a time in the world when there were such chances as there are right now for honest, intelligent boys ready to get in and work and keep working faithfully."
Making the Bible Current Practice
The value of the Bible to you is only as you make its precepts current practise. The soul-sense of the text depends on you as context.
Welcome Faces
By Nixon Waterman
Own, if you can, one of those welcome faces
That bring the sunshine to life's shadowed places.
—Nixon Waterman.
Prayer and Praise
By F. Frederick Bliss
A Short Lyric for the Camp-Meeting Season
F. FREDERICK BLISS
COME, tented hosts, and bow the knee
To Him who merits all thy praise;
To him whose mercy gives thee life,
Whose loving-kindness fills thy days.
Glad lift thy voice in songs of joy,
Which willing winds may waft afar
To weary pilgrims on life's way,
Who faithless, hopeless, homeless are.
From humble souls let prayers ascend
That reach our God's attentive ear;
That bring the showers refreshing down,
And move all hearts to loving fear.
O pray, and praise, and pray again
Till heaven and tented grove are one,—
Till glory wealth above the stars
Has fixed itself beneath the sun.
Pray on till all thy heart is love,
And angels people all thy world;
Till from thy heart throne thou dost know
That Satan is forever hurled.
The Word, the Word, its pages seek,
Thy soul attent, by day, by night,
Till Spirit-solved its mysteries are,
And life's dark gloaming gleams with light.
Then homeward go thy gladsome way,
And bear a life quite strength-renewed,
And prove to all how good it is
To have the soul fields heaven-bed-dewed.
Springfield, Mo.
Saskatchewan Camp-Meeting
By Chas. Thompson
THIS meeting was held, according to appointment, in the village of Bulyea, July 11-21. There were about thirty-six family tents pitched, which were occupied by 225 campers, representing ten different nationalities. This was by far the largest number ever in attendance at a camp-meeting in this province.
Two large pavilions were pitched, in which meetings were held daily in the different languages. Saskatchewan province is a fast-developing country, and is very cosmopolitan so far as languages are concerned.
In addition to the regular laborers of the mission field, there were in attendance Elder H. S. Shaw, president of the Western Canadian Union Conference; Brother W. L. Manful, union missionary agent; Brother A. H. Brigham, secretary and treasurer of the union; Elder G. F. Haffner; and the writer.
Two preaching services were held in each pavilion daily, one meeting in the interest of the colporteur work, one for the young people, and a strong spiritual meeting at the early morning hour, making five in all. All in attendance were much helped and strengthened as a result of the presence of the Holy Spirit throughout the meeting.
Since Jan. 1, 1907, the Saskatchewan province has been a mission field of the Western Canadian Union Conference. The work has been one of growth and development. The number of Sabbath-keepers at the beginning of 1907 was less than 100. To-day there are seven organized churches, with a membership of 131, and 116 isolated Sabbath-keepers, making a total of 247 Sabbath-keepers. There are ten Sabbath-schools, with a membership of 189; and their contributions last year amounted to $739.63, or eight cents a week per capita, all of which went for missionary work outside of the home field.
The book work has grown from $3,236 in sales for 1907 to $10,344 for 1911, and the tithe from $2,997 in 1907 to $6,777 in 1911, making a per capita of thirty-two dollars. The last two years this mission field has received no appropriations, and during that time it has given about $5,000 to missions. Since the organization of the mission field, it has received appropriations to the amount of only $4,270, and during this time has contributed to the work outside its field about $9,000.
Previous to the convening of the camp-meeting, the local and union conference officials thought the time had come to organize the mission field into a conference, so the churches were instructed to send delegates to this meeting at the rate of one for every five members. There were present thirty-five duly elected delegates, and Elder Shaw, president of the union, proceeded to organize the mission field into a conference. A constitution and by-laws were adopted. Elder A. C. Gilbert, who had faithfully served as superintendent of the mission field, was unanimously elected president of the conference, and enters upon his duties with the unanimous support and full confidence of the constituency. Brother J. M. Rowse was chosen secretary and treasurer, and secretary of the tract society; Brother R. P. Mooney, field agent; and Mrs. Bertha Rowse, Sabbath-school secretary.
Elder Shaw was much blessed as he led out in the work of the organization. Plenty of time was taken to explain fully all the details of the organization, so the conference would be fully in line with the general organization. The business meetings were all harmonious, and as spiritual as any held during the day.
The obligation to support the work at home and abroad resting upon each local conference in joining the family of conferences, was presented to the delegates and members assembled. Without any urging, the brethren and sisters gave an offering amounting to $3,500 in cash and pledges, also some gold watches, rings, and other jewelry.
The evening meetings in the English pavilion were well attended by the citizens of Bulyea. The distinctive points of our faith were the themes dwelt upon by the speakers, and I am sure as a result there will be some representatives for the third angel's message left in this place.
Another item worthy of mention was the missionary spirit manifested. The responsibility of doing home missionary work was presented at one meeting, and every book, tract, and pamphlet in the book-stand was taken by the people to circulate among their neighbors when they returned home. Even the little children caught the spirit of the occasion. Sisters Gilbert and Sulzle conducted meetings for them, and on one occasion placed before them the need of a tent of their own, and they gave thirty dollars in cash, and pledged the remainder necessary to purchase one for use at their next camp-meeting.
Personally, I enjoyed my visit to this field, and the opportunity it afforded of becoming acquainted with the believers and catching the inspiration of the meeting. I am sure, with the spirit of consecration manifested and the rich blessing of God that is certain to follow, that the Saskatchewan Conference, the youngest in the family, will grow and develop until it will be a strong factor in the giving of the closing message to the millions that know not God.
CHAS. THOMPSON.
A Fragrant Memory
By George I. Butler
IN THE REVIEW of July 11, is an announcement of the death of Elder R. M. Kilgore. As we both entered the public work of this denomination at the same time, at a very early period in the history of the Iowa Conference, in the day of "small things" so far as the cause there was concerned, it seemed to the writer that a few words of reminiscence concerning our brother's labors in this cause might be worthy of publication.15Robert, as he was familiarly called, was just out of the army at the close of the war. My first recollections of him are at the camp-meeting at Pilot Grove, when Elder and Mrs. James White and Elder J. N. Loughborough were present. He was then a young man, clothed with his captain's uniform, with the well-earned reputation of a gallant soldier. He had very recently embraced this message, although his father's family had become believers years before. The conference elected new officers, and, much to my surprise and I may say regret, I was called to the presidency of the conference, Elders James White, J. N. Loughborough, and Henry Nicola being the nominating committee. It looked like folly to me. It was two years before I was called to public labor. Ministers from abroad came to labor in this field. Elder Loughborough, with his large experience, visited the churches. Elders A. C. and D. T. Bourdeau, from Vermont, were sent to labor with us. The former did not remain long, but the latter remained for several years. Two years later I was licensed by the conference, and commenced public labor with Elder D. T. Bourdeau, Brother Kilgore being our tent master. During four tent seasons we were thus associated, and it was here that our intimate acquaintance began. The following season
Elder M. E. Cornell took the place of Elder Bourdeau, serving for one year. Brother Kilgore made an ideal tent master. In these courses of lectures we had excellent success, and rarely failed to leave a church at the close of our lecture course.
The writer will never forget the time when Brother Kilgore wished to lay his desires before us for counsel and advice. In his great love for the cause he wished to become a partner in its ministry, and very modestly presented his desires and feelings, asking my advice. I advised him to take his Bible, find some favorable opportunity, and, like one desiring to learn to swim, enter the waters, and give the Lord an opportunity to work for him. He soon did this, with the result that a few persons accepted the message.
His full entrance into the ministry was rapid. He was a dear brother, generous, noble-hearted, and loved by all his acquaintances. He soon became prominent in the conference, and had excellent success. He manifested a willingness to sacrifice for the cause. In my early labors, when the railroads were few in the State, I found it difficult to go from one appointment to another. Brother Kilgore, on his little farm, had a lively pair of mules, and in answer to my call, was only too ready to make a round trip of one hundred fifty miles. He was unwilling to take any remuneration for such trips, although they interfered with his work; for with him the cause stood first of all, and I have every reason to believe it continued so till the day his life closed.
His work in the Iowa Conference was always highly prized. His name stood on the conference committee for many years. After I was called, very unwillingly on my part, into the General Conference work as president, and had general supervision of the great field, there came a time when a few believers were found in Texas. That great State had as yet hardly been entered. The few believers made a strong plea to the General Conference for help. In looking over the field carefully for a good man to send, Elder R. M. Kilgore was selected. He moved his family there, and with his accustomed energy, went to work with all his heart. Correspondence continually passed between us. God greatly blessed his labors there, and church after church was raised up, the work growing very rapidly.
His going to Texas and the success he had there gave forcible evidence that he could be especially useful in establishing the work on a firmer foundation, in the whole Southern field. His arduous labors were esteemed valuable, and he held important positions in various fields in the General Conference. He was, in short, a General Conference man when he was entrusted with special responsibilities in the Southern Union Conference. He located in Graysville, Tenn., a small village some twenty or thirty miles north of Chattanooga. The locality is healthful and pleasant, so he settled there, and his last home was in that place.
Seeing the need of a general school for the Southern field, he worked earnestly for it; and after various changes, much to his joy, it was permanently located in Graysville. In its early days he was truly a father to that school. Every effort in his power was put forth to the best of his judgment to make it a success. It has been and still continues to be a success. Many hundreds have received its benefits. Through its establishment many families of Sabbath-keepers were drawn thither, until a large church exists there. These facts had much to do with the establishment of a prominent sanitarium there, the oldest one in the Southern field. So this little village has become a leading center of the work in the old conference of nine Southern States. But that conference is now divided into two union conferences, the Southeastern and Southern. However, the one leading school, at Graysville, still accommodates both. The settlement of Elder Kilgore there, with his intense interest in the work, was one leading factor in the establishment of that small village as our important center in the Southern cause.
The last five years of his personal labors were spent in the Southern Union Conference, though his home was still in Graysville. The cause of his death, according to our able physician, was paralysis of the brain. His son Charles took him to his own home in South Lancaster. The weary brain is now at rest.
"He sleeps in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep."
Perhaps no person outside of his own family circle knew him better than the writer. There has been between us a very close intimacy through all these forty years, or ever since the beginning of the four tent seasons when we slept together in the preaching tent. Not one single break or alienation can the writer recall in all those forty years of constant acquaintance. Not one single doubt have I ever heard him express in all that time of the truthfulness of, or his full faith in, this message or its final triumph. Not one unworthy blight have I ever known upon his moral character. The tears flow as I pen these words of witness of our love and affection, but they do not arise from the slightest doubt concerning his acceptance with God. They flow from love, and highest respect for his integrity and faithfulness to God and the right, and in deepest sympathy for those who are called to mourn.
GEORGE I. BUTLER.
California
By John Norton Loughborough
I SEE, by reference to my diary, that my last report to the Review was written Oct. 4, 1911. I am now about six months past the fourscore years allotted to man's life. Ps. 90:10. The continued time must be the Lord's time. I daily thank him that he still gives strength to relate to those younger in the faith some of the experiences of the past, the evident tokens of the Lord's special leadings in the rise and progress of the great second advent movement.
Of my movements since my last report: November 6-12 I attended the annual conference of Arizona, in the city of Phoenix. Then for three weeks I gave talks to the students above the eighth grade of Lodi Normal Institute. After this, for five weeks my time was divided with the classes at Glendale Sanitarium, Fernando Academy, and Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists. Directly following this I attended the excellent workers' institute and the union conference in Los Angeles. Then, for three weeks, I gave talks to fifty students of the eighth grade in Lodi Normal Institute. This was followed by ten days at the Pacific Union College, St. Helena, and ten days with the classes at St. Helena Sanitarium.
Still later I attended the annual conferences and camp-meetings of the Northern California-Nevada Conference at Sacramento, and the California Conference at Santa Rosa. This city was first entered with the tent by Elder D. T. Bourdeau and myself in April, 1869. Here still stands the first Seventh-day Adventist meeting-house ever erected west of the Rocky Mountains. Though now used as a carriage shop, it still retains its original form. During the last year our people have erected another church building in a more residential part of the city.
In the time covered by my report as above stated, I gave one hundred seven discourses. Some of the time intervening has been devoted to physical labor in garden and vineyard, for the keeping up of the healthful circulation of the blood. I have received much of the Lord's blessing and grace, which have sustained me in the work. Some say to me, "I think it is about time for you to stop and take a rest." I tell them that to one who embraced the message when there were only about two hundred Seventh-day Adventists in the world, it is wonderfully restful to watch the message go forward by leaps and bounds, and to still associate with the workers, and, if no more, say to them, Courage in the Lord, brethren! we are almost through, and in the strength of the Lord we are able to go up and take the goodly land.