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Another Sunday Bill for the District of Columbia

By W. A. C.

The following, from the Washington (D. C.) Herald of April 7, shows that the friends of Congressional Sunday legislation for the District of Columbia are intent on securing some legislation of this kind, if possible, and that they do not intend to be discouraged nor defeated by any opposition, argument, or delays:—

“District Assessor Richards is preparing a bill which he will submit to the Commissioners for the purpose of requiring moving-picture theaters to close on Sunday. The proposed legislation is the outcome of numerous complaints received from churches and citizens, claiming the moving-picture show on Sunday is a nuisance.”

Besides two measures proposing a religious amendment to the Constitution, four Sunday bills have already been introduced into the present Congress. This, if introduced, will make five, and all for the District of Columbia.

W. A. C.

Christian Liberty

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL — Secretary

W. A. COLLORD — Corresponding Secretary

Some Important Recommendations

By A. J. S. B.

THE delegates in attendance at the Central Union, Pacific Union, North Pacific Union, and Western Canadian Union conferences gave their unanimous approval to the twelve resolutions bearing upon the home missionary work which follow (with slight variations to meet the needs of the various fields), at their recent sessions:—

“Whereas, The General Conference Committee at its last session recommended that each local conference appoint an active field missionary secretary, systematize, and develop all lines of home missionary work; and,—

“Whereas, Our publishing houses have agreed to assist in the support of such organization by allowing to fully equipped tract societies a commission of ten per cent on all periodical business (in addition to discount on other home missionary literature); therefore,—

“1. We recommend, That the conferences composing the — union conference proceed immediately to complete the equipment of their tract and missionary organizations by the appointment of field missionary secretaries, these officers to maintain the same relation to tract society secretaries as our missionary field agents, their special efforts being devoted to the circulation and sale of all publications outside of regular subscription books.

“Whereas, The increased sale of our subscription books has demonstrated the need and value of union conference field agents; and,—

“Whereas, The sale of our home tract and missionary literature, amounting to fully fifty per cent of our literature sales, is without systematic and effective organization; therefore,—

“2. We recommend, That the incoming executive committee appoint a union conference field missionary secretary, whose business it shall be to organize, systematize, and develop all branches of home tract and missionary work in this union conference.

“3. Resolved, That in carrying on our home missionary and publishing work we recognize a progressive system of education and practical training, beginning with mailing papers, loaning tracts and books, and selling the ten-cent magazines and forty-per-cent books in the vicinity of the church, and advancing step by step to the systematic sale of our magazines in the great cities and to the sale of regular subscription books; and that all these have as their object the training of workers for all departments of Christian service in the world-wide field.

“Whereas, Home tract and missionary work lies at the foundation of all other missionary endeavors; and,—

“Whereas, There is an urgent need of continued study of and service in this important department of our work by all our members; therefore,—

“4. We recommend, That all our churches be advised to set apart the regular fourth Sabbath meeting as a monthly home missionary service, using, in the absence of a more suitable one, the program outlined in the Missionary and Publishing department of the REVIEW; and,—

“5. We further recommend, That the fourth Sabbath collection in each church be turned over to the church missionary secretary (librarian) to be used exclusively in the work of the church missionary society.

“6. Resolved, That as conference workers we pledge ourselves to take an active part in searching out and encouraging suitable candidates for the book and periodical work, and forward the names of the same, with helpful information, to the missionary secretary of our local conference.

“7. Resolved, That our churches resume the holding of weekly missionary meetings, preferably mid-week, preceding the weekly prayer-meeting.

“8. Resolved, That our church-members be encouraged to make out a faithful report each week of missionary work done, handing the same to the church missionary secretary (librarian) each Sabbath, or at the weekly missionary meeting.

“Whereas, The sale of our ten-cent magazines alone amounts to forty-one per cent of our total literature sales on this continent; and,—

“Whereas, Thousands of our people now without a regular occupation could profitably engage in the sale of these magazines,—

“9. Resolved, That we continue to present this profitable branch of missionary work to Seventh-day Adventists, the young, the middle-aged, and the old, as a means of spreading a knowledge of the third angel’s message, and also of earning a competent livelihood.

“Whereas, The denomination is now publishing five new ten-cent magazines in the German, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, and Chinese languages, similar in make-up and attractiveness, to our English magazines,—

“10. Resolved, That we encourage our regular magazine agents working where there are foreign settlements to carry a supply of these magazines, and also our church-members to endeavor to sell and otherwise distribute these valuable and interesting publications to their neighbors and friends speaking these foreign languages.

“Whereas, Missionary correspondence has proved to be one of the most effective means of leading people to a saving knowledge of present truth; and,—

“Whereas, Such activity will enable our members to follow up the faithful efforts of our canvassers in placing our truth-laden literature in the homes of those not of our faith,—

“11. Resolved, That we endeavor to renew the zeal of our members to carry on this work, urging them to write short, yet effective, missionary letters in connection with the sending of tracts, missionary periodicals, or other denominational literature; and,—

“12. Be it further resolved, That we encourage our people to continue their correspondence with the individuals in question until some definite results are obtained.”

In substance, these resolutions cover quite fully all phases of our missionary and publishing work. If faithfully carried out by conference officials and lay members, great success will surely attend this important branch of missionary work.

A. J. S. B.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature.

Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference.


E. R. PALMER	—	—	—	Secretary
N. J. TOWN	—	—	—	Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU	—	—	—	Missionary Secretary

Current Mention

— A statue to the American Indian is to be erected on government land in New York harbor.

— Ten persons were killed, and seven injured in a train wreck west of Spokane, Wash., on April 14.

— By a premature explosion in a stone-quarry near Nazareth, Pa., on April 13, eleven men were instantly killed.

— Amid scenes of almost unparalleled excitement the British House of Commons, on April 14, by a majority of 103, approved of Premier Asquith’s resolutions relative to curbing the power of the House of Lords. It is the purpose of the present government to enact into law this curb on the upper house.

— There have been serious rice riots at Chang-sha, Hunan, China, in which the buildings of the Methodist China Inland Mission and the Norwegian missions have been burned. The provincial governor is besieged, and the British are sending four gunboats to protect life and property, and if possible quell the riots.

— On the eve of the agreement between the United States and Canada over tariff rates comes the announcement that the province of Quebec will prevent the exportation of pulp wood (used in making paper) cut on crown lands. This reopens the question of retaliatory duties on the part of the United States.

— All business is suspended throughout a large portion of Costa Rica, Central America, because of a rapid succession of severe earthquake shocks, which have done a large amount of damage throughout the little republic. So far there has been no report of loss of life, although the damage is estimated at more than $1,000,000. Many dwellings have been destroyed, and the panic-stricken inhabitants are camping in the open.

— The strike of Philadelphia street-car men came to an end on April 14, through an agreement between the company and representatives of the employees. On the last day of the strike, the day on which the agreement was reached, a considerable amount of property was destroyed by the strikers. On the preceding day a car on the tracks was blown up with dynamite by the strikers. In the explosion, the conductor had both legs broken and received internal injuries.

— Col. Duncan B. Cooper, who, with his son, had been convicted of the killing of Senator Carmack, of Nashville, Tenn., some months ago, and whose sentence had just been confirmed by the State supreme court, was pardoned by Governor Patterson on April 13, and the amount of his son’s bail was reduced from $25,000 to $10,000. The feeling which was stirred up throughout the State of Tennessee over the killing of Senator Carmack, who was a leader of the prohibition forces, will be revived by the governor’s pardon. The language of this pardon is a distinct reflection upon both the lower court and the supreme court of his State.

— Thirty-five thousand seamen, painters, and machinists are on a strike in Chicago, demanding an increase in wages.

— Another insurrection has broken out in Spanish Honduras. Former President Bonilla is at the head of the revolutionists.

— At the municipal election in Milwaukee, Wis., on April 5, Emil Seidel, a Socialist Democrat, was elected mayor by 8,000 plurality.

— The Russian government is planning to expend the vast sum of $675,000,000 for a general reorganization of the national defenses.

— On April 4 more than 300 saloons were voted out of business in the State of Michigan. Nineteen counties voted “dry,” and sixteen voted “wet.”

— The railroads of the eastern portion of the United States are planning to increase both passenger and freight rates in order to make up for the recent increase in the wages of the employees.

— Officials of Costa Rica and Panama are to argue the boundary dispute of the two countries before Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, who is to act as arbiter in this case.

— The American Sugar Refining Company, generally known as the sugar trust, is to be again the object of attack by the United States government. The operations of the company at New Orleans are to be the subject of the government’s investigations at this time.

— On the night of March 27 safe blowers entered the general post-office at Richmond, Va., and robbed the office of $85,000 worth of stamps and about $3,000 in cash. Two days later two of the robbers were captured in New York City, and most of the stamps have been recovered.

— Dr. John J. Hurley, of Boston, Mass., announces the discovery of a new method of producing anesthesia, both bloodless and painless, in human beings. He states that he is able by the use of this method to perform the most delicate operations on any portion of the human body without any discomfort to the patient and without inducing unconsciousness.

— At the meeting of the American society for the study of alcohol and other drug narcotics, held at Philadelphia, on April 6, Dr. T. A. McNicholl made the statement that the number of school-children in New York City who appeared under the influence of beer and wine was startling, and that almost every school in the city furnished examples of children suffering from the effects of alcohol.

— What is considered as the climax in the Pittsburg, Pa., graft exposures was reached on April 6, when the president of the Pressed Steel Car Company was indicted for bribing Pittsburg councilmen. The amount of money paid is placed at $52,000. At the same time the president of the Workingman’s Savings and Trust Company admitted that he had no defense to offer against the charge of bribery preferred against him, in which he was accused of having paid $20,000 as bribe money to be used in influencing votes of councilmen.

— The village of Mount Hope, W. Va., was practically wiped out on March 24 by a conflagration. Two thousand of its inhabitants are rendered homeless. On the same day a million-dollar fire occurred at Hambleton, W. Va.

Nebraska’s Missionary Institutes

By A. J. S. B.

Speaking of four home missionary institutes recently held in the Nebraska Conference, Brother M. E. Ellis, the missionary secretary, writes:—

“We had some excellent meetings, which abundantly demonstrated the practicability of this line of work. Our churches all over the conference are waking up to the possibilities before them, and I think we shall see some excellent missionary work done this summer.”

The writer quotes the following from a letter just received from an officer in one of the four churches:—

“At our prayer-meeting Wednesday evening we raised enough money to place a complete set of the Testimonies in the church library; ordered a club of thirty of the weekly Signs, five of the Signs Monthly, and five copies of Liberty. We expect to put other plans into operation soon.”

“This,” says Brother Ellis, “is a little church of thirty-five members, composed almost entirely of sisters. I could quote you a score of letters of similar import received last week, but this will be an index of the entire number.

“We are hoping to circulate a large number of the Temperance Instructor, and are sending out a special letter concerning it to the church officers and isolated Sabbath-keepers.

“We consider this campaign of missionary institutes as only our first step in aggressive work this summer. During the four institutes we sold about seven hundred fifty dollars’ worth of forty-per-cent books and other literature, distributing about two thousand copies of our ten-cent magazines. We had four very successful field days.”

This is truly a very encouraging report. Will not all of our conference missionary secretaries plan to hold home missionary institutes in the churches during the coming summer?

A. J. S. B.

Improve the Present Without Fear

LOOK not mournfully into the past,— it comes not back again; wisely improve the present—it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear and with a manly heart.— Longfellow.

Missionary Notes of Travel

By A. J. S. B.

LEAVING Washington January 2, the writer spent twelve weeks in the field in behalf of our missionary and publishing work. The general meetings attended were as follows, in the order named:—

Book Men's Convention, College View, Neb., January 3-10.

Missionary Convention, College View, Neb., January 8-12.

Central Union Conference, St. Joseph, Mo., January 13-23.

Pacific Union Conference, Mountain View, Cal., January 24-30.

California Conference, Lodi, Cal., February 1-7.

Missionary Convention, Portland, Ore., February 21-24.

Book Men's Convention, Portland, Ore., February 25 to March 2.

The Western Canadian Union Conference and Publishing Convention, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, March 14 to 16.

In addition to regular institute work we gave stereopticon lectures and general instruction in connection with these general meetings. The writer also delivered lectures at St. Helena, Cal., February 2; at the new Pacific Union College, February 3; the Loma Linda College of Evangelists, February 8; Fernando Academy, February 9; and at Walla Walla College, March 1 and 2.

We are happy to report that in all of these fields the officers of the union and local conferences, as well as the lay members, are determined to prosecute with earnest zeal the work in all departments of home missionary endeavor.

The delegates at each of the four union conferences mentioned, recommended unanimously the appointment of missionary secretaries for the union as well as the local conferences. These secretaries will have oversight of the circulation and sale of our tracts, trade books, forty-per-cent books, periodicals, and magazines. In short, they will promote the distribution of all of our literature, excepting the regular subscription books.

In our stereopticon lectures we traced the growth of the gospel publishing and colporteur work from the time of the faithful Waldenses (A. D. 1100) down to our own time, calling special attention, also, to the publishing work carried on by Wyclif and his faithful canvassers in England, and by Martin Luther and his hundreds of canvassers and tract societies in Germany and other parts of Europe. It is very interesting to trace the similarity between the publishing efforts of the great Reformers of the sixteenth century and those put forth by Seventh-day Adventists in this generation.

We shall publish from week to week other items of progress connected with the holding of these institutes. See also the twelve recommendations published elsewhere in this department.

We have nothing but good to report of these excellent conventions. Many of the lay members attended the meetings regularly, and expressed themselves as more than grateful for the benefits they derived therefrom. It is high time that all phases of the home tract and missionary work be given a more careful study by our people, inasmuch as such work lies at the foundation of all missionary endeavor. A. J. S. B.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Halley’s Comet

WILL its appearance be cause for alarm? Is there danger of its colliding with the earth? Will its deadly cyanogen gas exterminate all life and kill vegetation? Whence does it come, and where will it go? These questions and many others are interestingly and intelligently answered in a six-page article in the Signs Monthly for May. This celestial wanderer calls but once in seventy-five years. Little wonder then that everybody is thinking and talking about it, and speculating as to its possible effect on our earth.

People will buy this magazine for this article alone. Let us sell it in liberal quantities, and thereby get before them well-selected matter bearing on different points of truth. Here are a few of the other articles: “Christ and the Sabbath,” “The Morning Star of the Reformation,” “Historical Sketch of the Evolution Doctrine,” “The Greed of Modern Commercialism.” Besides these there are three articles written especially for the working man. They are “The Laboring Man,” “The Blessedness of Work,” and “Christ the Laboring Man.” Then, too, Current Topics appear as usual—those that are pulsating with life and are fraught with significance.

Remember the prices—5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more, 4 cents each. You sell them for 10 cents each. Helps are furnished free. Orders should come to us through your tract society. Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.

Southern Idaho Conference Association

By J. M. Willoughby; A. C. Bird

THE annual session of the Southern Idaho Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting at Fayette, Idaho.

The first meeting will be called May 20, 1910, at 10:30 A. M., for the election of officers and the transaction of such business as may pertain to the association.

J. M. WILLOUGHBY, President, A. C. BIRD, Secretary.

Notice!

THE Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute offers ten young men and ten young women an opportunity to receive a training for missionary work, by allowing them the privilege to earn most of their regular school expenses. Any who desire a training for self-supporting missionary work should apply at once, because this offer will soon be withdrawn. Address E. A. Sutherland, Madison, Tenn.

Poem Wanted

Miss Daisy Harding, Loma Linda, Cal., wishes to secure a poem entitled “The Teacher’s Dream,” which appeared in the Review sometime last year. If any of our readers are able to supply this call, it would be greatly appreciated.

Florida Sanitarium Nurses’ Training School

A new class in nursing will be opened April 25, 1910, in the Florida Sanitarium Nurses’ Training School, Orlando, Fla. There is room for a few additional consecrated young men and women with opportunity to pay at least all the tuition, board, and room expenses by work. Thorough course. Curriculum uniform with that of all our denominational institutions. Those interested will please address the Florida Sanitarium, Drawer 28, Orlando, Fla.

Addresses Wanted

Any one knowing the whereabouts of Frank Camp and Clara Camp, will confer a favor by communicating the same to Mrs. C. C. Johnson, R. F. D. 8, Mankato, Minn.

The West Virginia Tract Society, 914 Seventh St., Parkersburg, W. Va., is very desirous of securing the present address of J. W. Lecklider, formerly of Fairmont, W. Va. Any one knowing his address will confer a great favor by notifying the society.

Any one knowing the whereabouts of Brother Swartz, who was formerly cook at Rose Sanitarium, of Indianapolis, Ind., and who spent some time at Battle Creek, years ago, will confer a favor upon the Wabash Valley Sanitarium by informing H. E. Sanders, Wabash Valley Sanitarium, La Fayette, Ind.

Any one knowing the whereabouts of J. L. Waggoner, Mrs. Alice Anderson, Mrs. Mina Fox, Miss Wilson, Carrie Johnson, John Brown, Jennie Hammond, Helen Mulligan, Anna Artibee, and Pauline Brown, will confer a favor by sending such information to Miss Lillie M. Holaday, church clerk, Lincoln, Neb.

Publications Wanted

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

Mrs. Katy Taylor, 6503 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, desires any of our denominational papers for depot racks.

Mrs. S. A. Williams, 15912 Park Ave., Harvey, Ill., requests that the supply of papers going to her address be discontinued until further notice.

Mrs. Jane E. Harris, 521 Senate St., Columbia, S. C., desires copies of the Signs, REVIEW, and Life and Health for missionary work.

Mrs. H. M. Shoals, Plainview, S. D., desires copies of the Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Little Friend, Liberty, Life and Health, Protestant Magazine, Gospel Sentinel, and tracts for use in reading-rack.

J. Gregory, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal., desires a continuous supply of the REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Instructor, and any of our other papers for free distribution.

S. B. Taft, Box 674, Kiowa Agency, Anadarko, Okla., desires copies of Signs, REVIEW, Life and Health, Watchman, Protestant Magazine, Liberty, and Instructor for missionary work among several tribes of intelligent Indians. Also old or new tracts, pamphlets, etc.; only English literature can be used.

Obituaries

SCHWARTZ.—Mrs. M. M. Schwartz, aged 58 years, 1 month, and 26 days, died in Coalinga, Cal., March 14, of apoplexy. She leaves two sons and three daughters to mourn their loss. She was a kind and devoted mother, and her poor health served only to develop Christian graces. We laid her to rest in the Armona Cemetery. Consoling texts were read at the grave by Elder B. L. Howe. MRS. L. J. DUXBURY.

LUNDQUIST.—Mrs. Carrie M. Lundquist was born in Fernandina, Fla., and died at Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 23, 1910. About 1881 she married Peter Lundquist, who died seven years ago. Four children were born to them, all of whom are living. She accepted the third angel’s message over four years ago, and remained a faithful and devoted member in the Jacksonville church until her death. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Job 7:21, to a large congregation of sympathizing friends. WM. K. ACHENBACH.

BOYDON.—William Boydon was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, and died at his home in Kingston, March 23, 1910, of old age, being eighty-three years old. Brother Boydon was among the first to accept the third angel’s message in Jamaica, and remained loyal to the end. The writer had the privilege of baptizing him fifteen years ago. As we have now had the privilege of assisting to lay him to rest to await the call of the Life-giver, we hope also to have the happiness of meeting him in the morning of the first resurrection, and to sing that glad song of triumph over death and all that pertains to it. Remarks from Ps. 8:4. F. I. RICHARDSON.

FLECK.—Mrs. Maud Fleck fell asleep at her home near Reedville, Ore., April 1, 1910, being twenty-five years of age. Sister Fleck was surrounded by Christian influence from childhood, and united with the Beverton (Ore.) Seventh-day Adventist church, at the age of fifteen. She was born at Ellsworth, Wis., and came to Oregon a number of years ago with her parents, Brother and Sister J. H. Morton. She leaves her husband, three small children, father, mother, three brothers, and four sisters to mourn their loss. A large circle of friends gathered in the church on the hill, which was inadequate to accommodate them all. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. I. G. KNIGHT.

REES.—Mrs. Melvina Rees, wife of the late Elder J. M. Rees, died at her home in Parkersburg, W. Va., Nov. 5, 1909, in the sixty-sixth year of her age. Sister Rees has been an invalid for the past nine years. Last spring, when her condition became alarming, her husband took her to Washington, D. C., where, on the day after their arrival, he met his tragic death. Early in June, she was taken back to her home in Parkersburg, where, through intense suffering, she gradually sank till death released her. When a girl of fourteen years, she embraced the Sabbath truth, and for nearly fifty-two years had been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. June 28, 1866, she united in marriage to Joseph M. Rees, to whom she taught the truth of the third angel’s message. To this union four children were born, three of whom are living,—Mrs. A. W. Smith, Reno, Nev.; Prof. D. D. Rees, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; and Miss Pearl L. Rees, South Lancaster, Mass. Sister Rees rests from her labors and her sufferings, but the sweet influence of her pure, unselfish life will never die. During her sickness and extreme suffering, never a complaint or murmur escaped her lips. She could smile through it all and say, as she did to her son a few weeks before her death, “I shall fall asleep in Jesus.” She was taken to Kokomo, Ind., by her son and daughter, and laid beside her husband, to rest until the soon coming of the Life-giver. Funeral services were conducted in Parkersburg, by Elder W. D. MacLay. W. D. MacLay. *

HARTHY.—Died at his home in Pine Grove Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, of heart failure, Benjamin Harthy, aged 75 years, 10 months, and 12 days. The deceased was born in the village of Masin, Holland, May 20, 1834. In 1848 he came to America, and in 1888 he embraced the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists, and united with the Otsego (Mich.) church, where he remained a faithful member until his death. He was married Oct. 19, 1868, to Esther Tassell, of Kalamazoo, Mich., and to this union five children were born. He is also survived by ten grandchildren. A large number of sympathizing friends and neighbors attended the funeral, and words of comfort were spoken by the writer, based upon John 14:1-3. Dr. A. A. John, a returned missionary from Mexico, assisted. M. S. BURNHAM.

SWEET.—Edna M. Sweet was born at Willis, Mich., Feb. 24, 1881. Her death took place at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Eva Barrowcliff, of Ypsilanti, Mich., April 7, 1910, having reached the age of 29 years, 1 month, and 11 days. The most of Edna’s life had been spent at her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Sweet, of Willis. Early in life she enjoyed a very bright Christian experience, and became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Willis, of which she remained a devoted and faithful member until her death. The most of her short life was devoted to an unselfish endeavor to bring happiness and comfort to others. She especially took a deep interest in Christian education, and devoted several years to successful work as a Christian teacher. Many friends and loved ones are thrown into deep sadness by the untimely termination of a young and promising life. E. K. SLADE.

WILSON.—Died on March 26, 1910, of pneumonia, within one hour and ten minutes of each other, Thomas and Clara Wilson, at their home in Fairplains, Mich., the former being 77 years, 10 months, and 9 days, and the latter 69 years, 10 months, and 27 days old, and were buried in one grave in the Fairplains Cemetery on Tuesday, March 29, 1910. Although advanced in years, Brother and Sister Wilson had been able to look after the work on the farm up to a short time before their demise, but when the disease fastened itself upon them, it soon became apparent that they did not have sufficient vitality to resist it, and the end soon followed. Brother and Sister Wilson were among the pioneers of the message in Michigan, he having accepted present truth in 1861, and she a short time before. Thomas Wilson was born in Auburn, N. Y., May 17, 1832, and came to Michigan with his parents in 1836, settling first at Sturgis, afterward moving to Marshall, and in 1846 to Fairplains, Montcalm Co., where he resided the rest of his life with the exception of a brief residence in 1880 at Red Cloud, Neb. He was married in 1855 to Miss Mary A. Shepard, with whom he lived for twenty-five years, or until her death in 1880. Six children were the result of this union, three of whom survive. In 1881 Brother Wilson was married to Sister Clara J. Berch, with whom he lived until the hand of death removed both. One son by the second marriage is left, with the two brothers and one sister of the first marriage, to mourn. Clara J. Berch was born at Marshall, Mich., May 29, 1840. One child, Jesse E., mourns the loss of a loving and faithful mother. In the death of this couple, the children lose faithful and loving parents, the church life-long members, and the community kind and social neighbors. Just before the procession started from the house, an only brother, the only survivor of the family,—William J. Wilson,—arrived from Omaja, Cuba, not knowing anything of the sickness of his brother, Thomas. He was impelled by an irresistible influence to come to Michigan. Upon reaching Battle Creek he soon learned of his brother’s death, and by careful planning and good connections with trains, reached his brother’s home in time to attend the service in the Methodist church, which was attended by a large congregation of neighbors and friends. Discourse by the writer, from 2 Tim. 4:7, 8. S. D. HARTWELL.

Business Notices

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No advertisements of “agents wanted,” and no “promotion” or “colonization” enterprises will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.

No discount for several insertions.

Woman Wanted for General Housework

WANTED.—Woman for general housework in a small family. Address Dr. Elsie B. Merritt, Princeville, Ill.

Bible Mottoes

BIBLE MOTTOES.— Size 12 x 16. 1,000,000 Beauties. Special offer: 100, $5; 200, $9. (Father and Mother, 200, $11. These are world winners.) Send stamp to Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.

Farm Worker Wanted

WANTED.—Immediately, a man or boy to work on farm; must understand farm work and milking. Wages from twenty to thirty dollars a month, according to ability. Address A. H. Stiles, Dousman, Wis.

Sanitarium Cooking Oil for Sale

For SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.75; 10-gal. can, $7.30; ½ bbl. (30 gal.), 69 cents a gal.; 1 bbl. (50 gal.), 68 cents a gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

Strawberry Plants

STRAWBERRY PLANTS.—Senator Dunlap, 40c per 100, $3 per 1,000; Parson's Beauty, 50c per 100, $3.75 per 1,000; Glen Mary, 50c per 100, $4 per 1,000; 50 at 100 rate, 500 at 1,000 rate. Postage, 25c per 100. Rush your orders. Catalogue free. Lake View Nursery, Box 10, Poy Sippi, Wis.

Treatment Rooms for Sale in Detroit

FOR SALE.—Treatment-Rooms in Detroit. Established eleven years; good patronage. Modernly equipped with electric light, Russian and electric baths. Splendid opening for a physician, or man and wife (nurses). Will sacrifice for quick sale. Battle Creek Treatment-Rooms, Detroit, Mich.

Agency for Sanitas Cooking Oil

WISHING to be a more efficient worker, I entered the medical school here, and to help defray expenses have agency for Sanitas Cooking Oil. Thankful for all orders. 5 gals., $3.80; 10 gals., $7.25; ½ bbl. (30 gals.), 60c a gal. Address J. M. Irving, 227 E. Madison St., Louisville, Ky.

Six and a Half Acres for Sale

FOR SALE.—6½ acres in Cass County, Michigan. Seven-room frame house, barn, etc. Good well. All kinds fruits. Near Seventh-day Adventist church and school. Price, $1,200. Terms, cash; or half cash, balance yearly. Address C. F. McCoy, 519 Eleventh St., Three Rivers, Mich.

Physician and Nurses Wanted

PHYSICIAN AND NURSES WANTED.—Two good lady and one gentleman graduate nurses; physician must be well up in all modern laboratory methods, good address, pleasant to meet, and who will keep up with the times in his work. To such an one we have an excellent opening. All must be Seventh-day Adventists in good standing. Completing large new building; want them at dedication. Garden City Sanitarium, San Jose, Cal.

Farm for Sale

For Sale.—70-acre farm. New 7-room house, bath, hot and cold water, furnace, new barn, 2,300 six-year-old peach trees, prospects for a big crop; 100 apple, 50 pear, 7 years old; 15 acres timber, 20 acres grass for hay and pasture; spring water, strong soil; one-half mile Southern Training School, sanitarium, depot, post-office. Would exchange for suitable property in Western States; balance cash. Price, $4,000. J. W. Franklin, Graysville, Tenn.

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