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The Oakwood School

By G. H. Baber

SINCE my last report in the REVIEW, three more of our students have given themselves to God, and sealed the gift by baptism. This leaves but three of our number who do not profess faith in Christ as the Saviour. There is a good spirit prevailing in the school. For this we are very grateful to him who alone can give peace.

Our work on the farm, in the garden, and in the orchard has been delayed by the very unusually severe drought this spring. This leaves our ground unworkable, because of its hardness. If the drought continues much longer our water-supply must necessarily fail us, as it did two years ago, when it became necessary to drive the stock several miles to water them.

We have hoped that we might receive sufficient help from our kind friends of the North, East, and West, who have aided us in the past, to secure an adequate supply of water by sinking a better well, and in a more hygienic place than the one from which all our drinking and stock water comes. For yet another very important reason we need a better supply of water. In harmony with many resolutions of our board of trustees, and

in harmony with instructions from the spirit of prophecy, and in harmony with the absolute requirements of the institution, we have gone forward, and are now putting in bath-rooms in the basement of the boys' dormitory. The drainage has been put in, the floor cemented, and is now ready to put in the bathing equipment. But there is nothing here with which to bathe, but dust. We have bathed in that too long already. Now, brethren, this is not our institution, if it were, we would not ask you to aid in its requirements. It is your institution, given to the colored work by the General Conference more than ten years ago, and it has gone all this time without a place for baths. Shall it continue so, and too, after having gone to no small expense in getting ready for the water? It is the intention to have treatment rooms in this basement, thus relieving us of the expense of building a sanitarium at present. We believe there are friends to this institution that will come to its relief just now, that we may have water and keep clean. W. H. Williams (Box 414, Huntsville, Ala.) is our treasurer.

G. H. BABER, Principal.

Maplewood Academy

By O. O. Bernstein

THE Maplewood Academy has now closed its second year's history. The school was in progress about thirty-five weeks, and during this time one hundred and two were enrolled. Among these the following nationalities were represented: English, thirty-three; German, nineteen; Swede, seventeen; Norwegian, twelve; Danish, five; Irish, four; Bohemian, three; Dutch, two; French, one; Polish, one; Scotch, one; Mexican, one; Swiss, one; and African, one.

The enrolment exceeded that of the first year by forty, and the outlook for our future is very encouraging. But unless our quarters are enlarged it will be utterly impossible to provide for the growth which we may consistently expect. We may be obliged to limit our attendance this coming year.

About ten of our students will be connected directly with some line of gospel work this summer. It has taken two of our students only one month in the canvassing field to earn their scholarship for this next year. Each of these boys have since taken as high as seventy-five dollar's worth of book orders in a single week.

It seems to me that from all of our intermediate schools, as well as from our colleges, we ought to find recruits for the canvassing field. Surely our boys have demonstrated that “the canvassing work is to be revived.”

We have all felt that God has greatly blessed our work as an academy, and this second year's history can honestly be written in the one word, “Success.” Those desiring our catalogue should address Maplewood Academy, Maple Plain, Minn. O. O. BERNSTEIN.

The Convention

By F. G.

ARRANGEMENTS have been made with Union College, at College View, Neb., where the educational convention is to be held June 29 to July 10, by which those attending the convention can secure board and room for the time of the entire convention for two dollars, or twenty cents a day; single meal, ten cents. We wish to express our appreciation of the kindness of the managers of the college in thus making the rates for board and room so reasonable. Surely this item of expense will keep no one from attending the convention. It will be necessary for those coming to provide themselves with sheets, pillow-cases, and towels, as the college is not supplied with a sufficient quantity to meet the demand of the convention. It will be remembered that these articles are always furnished by the students, and that the college home never has a supply on hand.

We wish again to call attention to the importance of our educators and general workers being in attendance at this convention. The Chesapeake and Eastern Pennsylvania Conferences have each at their conference sessions voted to send some person connected with their educational work to the convention. These are both small conferences, and what they have done is a good example to all our conferences. There are no conferences in the United States where the expense of sending delegates to the convention is much if any greater than from these. But the members of these conferences feel that there is no greater question before us than the proper education and training of our children and youth for the work of the third angel's message, and they recognize that it is necessary to put forth an effort and be to some expense in order to do this work in the most effective manner. We do not believe, however, that these conferences appreciate more highly the importance of saving our children and youth to the cause of present truth than do our other conferences, and accordingly we hope for a delegation from every conference in the United States to the convention.

There are many perplexing problems for which the convention will seek a solution. We have an earnest desire that its deliberations may result in great benefit to all phases of our cause, for the educational work certainly directly affects all other features of our denominational work. To the end that these problems may be solved, and that we may all understand the better what Christian education really is in its practical application, we urge all our brethren and sisters all over the world to unite in earnest prayer for the richest blessing of the Lord to rest upon all the work of the convention. F. G.

Christian Education

By Frederick Griggs; C. C. Lewis

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.

FREDERICK GRIGGS, Chairman, C. C. LEWIS, Secretary.

The Highest Work of Education

“It is not the highest work of education to communicate knowledge merely, but to impart that vitalizing energy which is received from the contact of mind with mind, of soul with soul.”

The Northwestern Training-School

By O. A. Hall

THE second term of our school closed April 17, having continued six months. So far we have been able to continue school work only during the winter months. Most of our students are from the farm, and are needed at home about the first or middle of April, when there is an abundance of work getting in crops for the season. Because of this the school farm gets but little benefit from student help, except from those employed during the summer. We feel that this is a drawback to the school work, and trust that the farm work can soon be done more by the students.

We believe we express the sentiments of nearly all when we say that this year's work has been pleasant and profitable. A consecrated class of students gave a decided spiritual mold to the school. All took an active part in the religious and missionary exercises. Each Wednesday, the time for general school exercises, was set apart for wrapping and sending out tracts and papers. About ten thousand tracts, averaging about eight pages, were mailed to names handed in by canvassers and others. Sabbath afternoons missionary programs were carried out. Instructive readings, essays, and papers were given. Mission fields, showing the progress of present truth, were quite thoroughly presented. We are sure these programs have been a means of cultivating the missionary spirit. Some entered the work at the close of school, and others are waiting until further preparation will enable them to go.

During the year two conventions were held — Sabbath-school and religious liberty. Brethren and sisters from the churches in reach attended, and joined us in the program. The principles of these two important branches of the third angel's message, as they were brought out in the papers and discussions, with plans and recommendations for future work, made these conventions instructive and encouraging.

A promising class of German young people has been instructed by Elder C. J. Kunkle. One of this class is now engaged in the work, and others promise to become useful laborers among their own people.

The last two weeks of school, some of the canvassers from the field came in to join those who had been attending, and others who were planning to take up this line of work, in a canvassers' institute, which was conducted by Brother Potter.

Now, We are of good courage in this branch of the work. As the Lord has placed the sacred work of dealing with youthful minds in the hands of human agents, we are led to feel the need of being guided by his unerring counsel, that the work may be carried forward to his glory and the advancement of his cause.

O. A. HALL.

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Spirit of Service Increasing

By J. E. FROOM

Our colleges are not filled with students that are lured there by mercenary ambition. On every hand commercial schools are vaunting what they can do to help our youth to become “money-makers.” Our schools proclaim their purpose to fit the youth for missionary service. Our schools are, as a rule, enjoying a most cheering attendance, both as to number and character of students. These youth do not refuse to attend our schools unless they are provided with all the facilities of commercial schools.

While visiting one of our southern training-schools recently, I found over thirty bright and capable white students earning their way in a self-supporting industrial school with less facilities than we have provided for the Huntsville Industrial School for colored students, yet they were intelligently happy in their rigorous experience which is to fit them for self-supporting work in difficult fields.

Another most cheering index to the spirit of our schools was impressed upon me recently when at the Walla Walla College. A short course of instruction by a canvassing agent had enlisted so many of the students in that work, and they were so happy and successful in it, that the business manager of the school told me that the students were so eager to put in all their spare time in visiting the homes of the people with our literature that it was difficult to get enough help to continue the industrial departments of the farm and school. That this interest resulted from a love of missionary activity and not from a dislike for farm work was very evident, for while I was there the students’ annual picnic was celebrated by the faculty and students, and the young men who had been out canvassing seriously proposed to devote the forenoon of the picnic day to missionary work and only the afternoon to the holiday. Such sentiments prevailing among our youth will cause salvation to go forth as a lamp that burneth, and “the gentiles shall see thy righteousness. . . . Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken. . . . For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee.” Isaiah 62.

J. E. FROOM, M. D.

Education and Vocation

It is by education that a person discovers what capabilities have been given him by his Creator, and what work he is best qualified to perform.

Current Mention

— A Christian Science church building costing $2,000,000 was dedicated in Boston, June 10. Members of that denomination to the number of 40,000 had come to Boston from all parts of the country to be present on the occasion.

— The beef packers have won a victory in Congress by defeating that clause of the meat-inspection bill which provided that the cost of inspection should be paid by the packers. The bill now provides that the government shall pay the cost, which it is estimated will be about $2,000,000 annually.

— According to press statements, positive steps have been taken by the Interstate Commerce Commission preliminary to extending the scope of the coal and oil investigation, being made by order of Congress, to include every railroad in the United States. To this end circular letters calling for important information and requiring that this shall be furnished by July 15 were sent to the 848 railroad companies which operate the 213,940 miles of line comprised in the railroad system of the country.

— Recent political demonstrations in the West in favor of W. J. Bryan are considered by some persons in close touch with political matters to be part of a plan by certain political leaders to prevent the nomination of W. R. Hearst for the presidency in 1908. The latter’s demonstration of political strength in New York has made him feared by representatives of opposing interests. Mr. Hearst is especially strong with the labor party, and it is believed this party, if it goes into politics as President Gompers has threatened, will control 2,000,000 votes at the next election.

— Four large meat-packing companies of Kansas City, Mo., Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Cudahy & Co., and the Nelson Morris Packing Company, were found guilty in the United States District Court at Kansas City, June 12, of accepting concessions from the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad on export shipments on packing-house products. Under the law the companies can be fined from $1,000 to $20,000 each. The law provides no jail sentence. Sentence was deferred by the presiding judge to the coming week. The trial of the C. B. & Q. railway company was begun the same day.

— Tuberculosis has made its debut into politics. A plank of the recently adopted State platform of the Pennsylvania Republicans states: “Modern science has demonstrated that consumption is a curable disease, and that this great scourge of the human race, at once so communicable and so deadly, may, by resort to proper treatment and by education in the laws of health, be almost wiped out as the terror of mankind. It is the duty of the State to do its part toward this beneficent end, and we hereby commit the Republican party to the establishment and support of dispensaries, hospitals, and sanitariums for the treatment of the consumptive poor.” Possibly this may be intended to catch the consumptive vote.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1906

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western Pennsylvania, Dubois.....June 14-24 Virginia, Petersburg........July 26 to Aug. 5 New Jersey..................Aug. 2-12 West Virginia...............Aug. 16-26 New York, Tunesassa........June 21 to July 1 Vermont....................Aug. 23 to Sept. 3 Southern New England, Middletown,     Conn.........................June 14-24 Central New England........Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 Greater New York...........Sept. 23—

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Ontario....................Aug. 23 to Sept. 2 Quebec.....................Sept. 6-16

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana..................Aug. 2-12 Georgia....................Aug. 2-12 South Carolina.............Aug. 9-19 Alabama....................Aug. 16-26 Tennessee River, Nashville, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2 Cumberland.................Sept. 6-16 North Carolina, High Point.....Sept. 7-16 Florida....................Nov. 1-11

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Northern Illinois, Chicago, June 21 to July 1 North Michigan, Iron Mountain........     ........................June 25 to July 2 Indiana, South Bend.......July 25 to Aug. 2 Indiana, Seymour..........Aug. 8-16 Southern Illinois..........Aug. 2-12 West Michigan, Hastings...Aug. 9-19 Ohio......................Aug. 16-25 Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Scandinavian)..     ........................June 27 to July 2 Wisconsin, Stevens Point..Aug. 22 to Sept. 3 East Michigan, Holly......Sept. 27 to Oct. 8 Northern Michigan, East Jordan......     ........................Aug. 30 to Sept. 10 Northern Illinois..........Sept. 5-15

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

North Dakota, Rock Lake (English)....     ........................June 15-25 North Dakota, Bowden (German), June 19-25 North Dakota, Stanley (English)......     ........................June 26 to July 2 Alberta, Red Deer.........July 10-17

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Wyoming Mission Field, Edgemont, S. D.     ........................June 21 to July 1 Nebraska, Aurora..........July 19-29 Nebraska, Fremont.........Aug. 3-12 Nebraska, Beatrice........Aug. 17-26 Nebraska, Lexington.......Aug. 30 to Sept. 9 Colorado, Boulder.........Aug. 23 to Sept. 3 Missouri, Versailles......Aug. 2-12 Kansas....................Aug. 9-19

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas, Alvarado..........Aug. 2-12 Texas, Buffalo Gap........Aug. 23 to Sept. 3 Arkansas, Winslow.........Aug. 16-26 Oklahoma, Kingfisher......Aug. 23 to Sept. 2

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

California, Eureka........Aug. 16-26 California, Oakland.......July 19-29 Southern California, Santa Ana....Aug. 16-26

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Montana, Basin............June 21 to July 1

AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Union Conference session, Cooranbong,     N. S. W......................Sept. 13-23

EUROPEAN MEETINGS

German-Swiss, Lake Zurich........July 5-9 Roman-Swiss and Latin Union, Gland,     Switzerland...................July 10-15 German Union, Friedensau, Germany..     ........................July 19-29 British Union, near Birmingham....Aug. 3-12 Holland.........................Aug. 16-19 France..........................Aug. 21-26

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any additional information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made, of either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.

Publications Wanted

[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and we urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—Ed.]

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—

J. H. Robinson, Braid[e]ntown, Fla., periodicals.

W. A. Tucker, Lawton, O. T., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman.

Eva D. Reynolds, Madera, Madera Co., Cal., Signs, Instructor, Little Friend.

Mrs. M. L. Thompson, 1002 Beauregard St., Marshall, Tex., periodicals and tracts.

Mrs. Mary E. Boaz, R. F. D. 1, Sulphur Springs, Ark., Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Little Friend, Liberty, tracts.

Mrs. D. A. Briggs, Madera, Cal., Instructor, Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Little Friend.

C. B. Bassett, Cape May Court House, N. J., desires large quantities of our publications in both English and foreign languages.

Miss Birdie Cruzan, 1213 West Ninth St., Joplin, Mo., Signs, REVIEW, Watchman, and tracts.

E. E. Willson, Edith, N. C., periodicals and tracts, also health and temperance literature. Can use a large supply.

Milo D. Warfle, General Delivery, Albuquerque, N. M., Watchman, Signs, Liberty, Life and Health, and tracts suitable for tent effort.

Esther Levy, Cornwall Landing, N. Y., has sufficient literature for the present.

Utah, Notice !

By Alfred Whitehead

THE regular annual meeting of the Utah Conference will be held at the camp-meeting, Salt Lake City, August 16-25. Come, brethren and sisters, one and all, let us gather together to seek the Lord for his blessing.

ALFRED WHITEHEAD, Conf. President.

Union College Calendar

THE Union College Calendar for 1906-07 is ready. Many will be interested in the announcement of an affiliation with the Nebraska Sanitarium and the Medical Department of the Nebraska University, whereby the first two years of the University's six-year combined college and medical course may be taken at Union College. Copies of the calendar may be obtained free by addressing the president of Union College, College View, Neb.

Reduced Rates to the Alberta Camp-Meeting

By J. W. Boynton

THE Canadian Pacific Railroad has offered to grant us reduced rates on the following plan: If our people purchase twenty-five or more first-class tickets, paying full fare for the same, taking agents' certificates (standard form), and presenting the same to Sister Lowry on the camp-grounds for signature, they will be returned home for one-third fare. Those coming over more than one railroad and buying more than one ticket, must be sure to take the standard form of certificate each time. Tickets can be bought three days before or at any time during the meeting, and return tickets must be bought within three days after the close of the meeting.

With this favorable opportunity to secure a reduced rate, we trust that our people everywhere will make one grand effort to be present at the camp-meeting. Brethren, you need the special blessing to be obtained there, while we need your help and co-operation in forming the plans and policy of our new conference which we hope to organize at that time. So let every one make an earnest effort to be present. Bring plenty of bedding and a tent if possible. Remember the time and place — Red Deer, July 10-17.

J. W. BOYNTON, Superintendent.

The Alabama Conference

By A. J. Haysmer

THE next annual session of the Alabama Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, Aug. 16-26, 1906. At this early date, we earnestly desire to set before our brethren and sisters of the Alabama Conference the importance of attending this meeting. Everything around us indicates that the end of all things is at hand, that the great famine spoken of in Rev. 10:7 and Amos 8:11, 12, is soon to come upon the world, and what we do for ourselves, our families, and our neighbors must be done soon. It is now high time that we consecrate ourselves and all we have to God, place all upon the altar, and lay broad and definite plans to finish the work God has given this people to do.

We desire that this meeting shall be a great spiritual feast to our people, and that nothing shall be left undone to educate all who attend in the various kinds of work that the Lord expects us to do. We are now having interesting programs prepared, for instruction in the canvassing, Sabbath-school, religious liberty, health and temperance, and young people's work. We expect excellent help from outside the State. The exact location of the meeting has not been fully decided, but it will be in a central location for the middle and northern part of the State. Definite information will be given later. Let all our people begin now to lay plans to attend this meeting from the beginning till its close.

We are now raising a fund to secure more tents, so all can be provided for. Do not let the enemy rob you of the blessings of this annual gathering. A. J. HAYSMER.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted.

All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column.

In the case of poor persons who wish employment, the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement.

WANTED AT ONCE.—A consecrated, graduate lady nurse. One who will teach nurses' classes, a good place for the right person. Address F. A. Stahl, Prospect Sanitarium, 1161 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio.

WANTED.—A housekeeper. Adventist preferred. Must be good cook. Small house, and family consisting of man and wife. Good wages to the right person. Address Mrs. E. J. Calkins, Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Cal.

FOR SALE.—9-room, 2-story, frame, plastered house, inside city limits; southwest corner; 150 feet front. Artesian water, shade trees, outbuildings, and chicken yard. Price, $2,500. Address Miss L. M. Ward, 713 South Washington Ave., Roswell, N. M.

FOR SALE.—A 160-acre farm, 10 miles from Kenmare, N. D., at $3,600. Good house, barn, granary, and wells. Nice grove, 100 acres in field, 42 acres pasture, rest in meadow; 9 miles to coal-mine, ½ mile to school and church. Address A. W. Olson, R. F. D. 3, Kenmare, N. D.

FOR SALE.—House and three lots in Cedar Lake, Mich.; 10-room house finished throughout, good lawn, fronted with fine large maples; five minutes' walk from Cedar Lake Industrial School, which furnishes best of educational privileges. Address A. D. Jobes, Cedar Lake, Mich.

FOR SALE.—Hygienic cooking oil, cocoanut-oil; whole-wheat, gluten, and graham flour; olive-oil and ripe olives; peanut butter, barley crystals, gluten grits. Write for prices, circulars, and information concerning many foods. Address The Blue Ribbon Pure Food Co., Flint, Mich.

Obituaries

Trask.— Died April 24, 1906, from hemorrhages, Mrs. Bertha Trask. Sister Trask was born Dec. 6, 1871. She was converted in 1897, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Bay City. The funeral was held in the Methodist church at Au Sable, Mich. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, assisted by the Methodist minister. Theo. G. Lewis.

Williams.— Died at his home in East Port, Mich., May 6, 1906, of cancer of the stomach, John R. Williams. He was born Sept. 22, 1862. He leaves a wife and children to mourn their loss, but they are comforted with the hope of seeing him soon in the first resurrection. The funeral was held in the Adventist church at that place. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. Theo. G. Lewis.

Carr.— Died, in Tuxpan, V. C. Mexico, May 7, 1906, after an illness of two days, of cerebral congestion, our dear Bernice, daughter of May McCulloch Carr, aged 8 years. Bernice never missed an opportunity to tell the Mexicans around us of the love of Jesus and of his soon coming. Grandparents, mother, brother, and sister, with many friends, are longing for the day when Jesus shall come and we shall meet our loved ones again. May L. Carr.

Suelflow.— Died at her home in Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 3, 1905, after an illness of but a few weeks, Mrs. Wilhelmina Suelflow, aged 63 years. The immediate cause of her death was dropsy. Sister Suelflow was an esteemed member of the Milwaukee Seventh-day Adventist church, having accepted the truth ten years ago. She was loved by all who knew her, and is greatly missed by the members of the church. Funeral service was conducted by Rev. J. Bading and Rev. H. Sieck (Lutheran). R. T. Dowsett.

Hawes.— Fell asleep in Jesus, in Battle Creek, Mich., May 21, 1906, Sister Charlotte C. Hawes, aged 85 years lacking nine days. Death was caused by gastritis. Sister Hawes was born at Huntsburg, Geauga Co., Ohio, and embraced the truth, to which she was faithful to the last, in Wisconsin through reading the Bible and Seventh-day Adventist literature. She was a widow, and is survived by four sisters, one of whom was with her during her dying her last illness. Sister Hawes was the mother of four children, all deceased. The funeral services were conducted in Battle Creek by Elder G. B. Thompson. The interment took place at Stockton Junction, Daviess Co., Ill. G. W. Amadon.

Peavey.— Died in Dayton, Ore., Brother Chancy N. Peavey, aged 45 years, 1 month, and 4 days. He was rolling some logs, with other brethren, into the Willamette River, when a knot caught his clothing, and whirled him over the bank twenty feet below, crushing him into the soft sand. He lived but a short time. He had fully accepted the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists about two years ago, and was soon going to camp-meeting, where he intended to be baptized. He was a man of genial disposition, and was loved and respected by all. He leaves a wife and one daughter. Words of comfort from Rev. 21:1-5, were spoken by the writer. R. D. Benham.

Kelsey.— The few short words of this sketch are altogether too brief and insufficient to properly delineate the experiences and noble character of her long and useful life. Her maiden name was Eunice Rebecca Bushnell. She was born in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., Conn., March 24, 1820. She died in Boulder, Colo., May 1, 1906, at the venerable age of 86 years, 1 month, and 5 days. Her early life was spent at Saybrook. Filled with an ambition to fit herself for a life of usefulness, she threw herself earnestly into school work, fitting herself for a public-school teacher, and in this profession she engaged for several years. At the age of eighteen, July 4, 1838, she was married to Mr. Asa Kelsey. Together with her husband she left her native State and went to what was termed the Great West—the State of Michigan. The span of her life may be better appreciated when it is understood that she made a portion of this journey by ox team (there being no railroads at that time), penetrating and settling in a new and wild country, locating near Battle Creek, Mich. They were among the charter members of the first Seventh-day Adventist church organized in that State. It was from Brother Kelsey's sawmill that lumber was secured for the erection of the first church building among the Seventh-day Adventists. Five children, three boys and two girls, were born to Brother and Sister Kelsey. In 1857 Brother Kelsey died, and Sister Kelsey was left alone to battle with the world. Sister Kelsey's religious experience dates from the year 1836, at which time she became a member of the Congregational Church. Sixteen years later, or in the winter of 1852, she and her husband embraced the views held by the Seventh-day Adventists. This was fifty-four years ago; so, for more than half a century she has walked as a consistent and faithful member of this church. She was thirteen years old at the time of the great meteoric shower in 1833, and was an eye-witness of this historic event. Sister Kelsey belonged to the old New England stock, and the old Puritan integrity and regard for principle marked her life throughout. To know the right was to do the right. Conviction of duty was the embodiment of action. She lived what she believed. Perhaps her great strength of character was shown in her espousal of an unpopular cause—in her throwing in her lot with a poor and despised people who were yet unorganized and without church buildings. She did this for the love of the truth, and because she felt that not doing so would be displeasing to her Master. We can truly feel that a great and noble woman has passed to her rest. With her no praise is fulsome. She left an example worthy of emulation. And in saying this we do not idolize humanity nor deify the dead. Her life was worthy of emulation only as Christ made it worthy. She manifested graces only as he dwelt within. Two sons and one daughter remain of the immediate family circle. With the exception of five years, the daughter, Mrs. Jones, has spent her entire life with her mother. Others, more remotely related (grandchildren of Sister Kelsey), and who in her affections came as near to her as her own children, mourn also the loss. We laid her away with the firm belief that if we are true to the principles which she lived, we shall meet her again in the never-ending, never-parting eternity. She expressed herself as ready to die, and, like the tired warrior after the hard-fought battle and well-earned victory, at the close of the day entered her peaceful slumber to await the morning call and resume the activities of blissful eternal life. F. M. Wilcox.

Wakeham.— Died on board the Steamship “Bremen,” on the Atlantic Ocean, May 13, my dear wife, Emma L. Rea Wakeham, in her forty-sixth year. She fell at her post, out on the fighting line. She sleeps in Jesus, and eternity alone will reveal the result of her work. My wife was born in western Iowa in the pioneer days of that State, and was early inured to a life of toil and privation. She was one of a family of twelve children, all of whom survive to mourn her loss. Early in life she gave her heart to God and united with the Baptist Church, of which her father was pastor. About the age of nineteen she became acquainted with the truths of the third angel's message, which she gladly embraced, and has never since doubted the glorious triumph of the remnant church. In the fall of 1883 she was united in marriage with the writer. She has always been a loving wife, a devoted mother, an unselfish and untiring worker for suffering humanity. Four children, two boys and two girls, feel keenly this great loss. But thanks be to God and a Christian mother's influence, all have found the true source of comfort in time of trial. My younger son expresses the feelings of us all when, writing from Hamburg, he says: “Whenever I think of mama now, it brings before my mind all of those precious promises that are scattered all through the Bible, of the new earth, and of the bliss and happiness we are to enjoy through the years of eternity. It fills me with new ambitions to be there, and with new love for the One who, in his great love, has prepared such a home for those who love him.” The death of my wife was due to a severe attack of nervous prostration which developed into melancholia, and a rapid breaking down of all the vital powers. Acting upon medical advice, as soon as possible I embarked for England, hoping that a few months at the Caterham Sanitarium would be the means of her recovery. But it pleased God to call her to her rest before we reached land. On Sunday, while yet three days out from port, she quietly fell asleep. With hearts sad and sore, yet buoyed up by the blessed hope, we committed her body to old ocean's arms, confident that, though no monument marks her resting-place, she will not be overlooked when the Life-giver calls the sleeping saints. Her life is hid with Christ in God. A short service was conducted by the Rev. Alexander Milne Dalrymple (Presbyterian), of New Zealand, who was on his way to England. We do not know the meaning of this bereavement. Our loss! Egypt's loss! But we trust God to make it plain. Our Heavenly Father has given us special grace for this trial. But we do pray that God will raise up consecrated, competent workers for the great Oriental Mission field. W. H. Wakeham.

Addresses

THE address of C. H. Castle, is College Place, Wash.

The address of Elder J. S. Washburn is 610 Meridian St., Nashville, Tenn.

Address Wanted

THE Seventh-day Adventist Church No. 2 of Jersey City, N. J., desires the address of Sister Anna Way Armstrong, formerly of New Haven, Conn., as her name still remains on the church record, while all trace of her has been lost. Address the clerk, Minnie C. Hansen, 88 Beacon Ave., Jersey City, N. J.

An Admission Concerning Sabbath Observance

The Rochester (N. Y.) Herald of May 20, contains a report of a sermon delivered by Rev. Mcylian Hamilton Lichliter at Olean, N. Y., on “Sabbath Observance,” in which he made the following frank admission concerning the Sabbath question:—

This matter of Sabbath observance is a practical question, and must be treated in a practical manner. Our ministers have been basing their arguments for the Sunday observance upon the fourth commandment. What's the use? What good does it do to base our arguments upon a thing which technically is not binding, which the Jewish rabbis and socialist organizations know is not, and laugh to scorn our arguments upon that ground. We must base our arguments upon something besides the fourth commandment, for they know that that is Jewish in spirit and temper, and laugh us to scorn for quoting a commandment which we do not obey and will not.

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