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More About "Seven Chinese Girls"

By T. E. Bowen

[In the Harvest Ingathering Signs, on page 446, appeared a picture of seven Chinese young ladies, with simply this word underneath, “Daughters of the new China who have memorized the whole New Testament.” Thinking the readers of the REVIEW might be interested in a brief sketch of these girls, the following is taken from the Bible Society Record of January, published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.—T. E. BOWEN.]

MANY of our readers will be sure to remember an interesting picture which was produced in our pages in 1907 and reproduced in February, 1912, of seven young Chinese girls, each of whom had committed to memory the whole New Testament. The picture has been reproduced in many journals and magazines, and excited no small wonderment and probably some incredulity.

A recent letter from Miss Harriet N. Noyes, who has for many years labored in the True Light Seminary for girls at Canton, China, under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, assures us that the facts are as stated, and even more striking. Another student in less than four years committed to memory the New Testament and half, or more than half, of the Old Testament also. She adds, “Some of our students were quite independent of a concordance, and were able to give at once the book, chapter, and verse of almost any text in the Bible.”

Such astounding feats of memory are not uncommon in the East. It is often said that the other faculties of the mind are weakened rather than strengthened by such excessive development of the memory. This does not appear to be so, however, in this case, as will appear in the following extracts from Miss Noyes’s letter, which gives some interesting particulars about several of the girls and women:—

“You will, I think, be interested to know something more of the seven girls in the photograph already referred to. The first one at the head of the line is the first Christian in China of the fifth generation of Christians—her great-great-grandmother was one of the very first Bible women in China. Her mother is the Chinese principal of the True Light Seminary; she studied for many years in the True Light, and afterward for a time in the Christian College in Canton. At that time there were eighty-five

young men in the college, and she received the highest grade that was given. When B. F. Meyer visited Canton, he told me that he counted the pleasure of meeting her more than anything else that he enjoyed in Canton. For the past two years she has taught the normal class in the seminary, and is now, I suppose, on the way to America, and is planning to take the college course at Wellesley. She is a very earnest, consecrated Christian, as well as a fine student, and we hope will be very useful.

“The second in the line is a practising physician, and the third, who is her cousin, has also recently been graduated from the Women’s Medical College. The father of the former is a physician, a graduate of Dr. Kerr’s medical class, and he has borne the expense of the whole education of both his daughter and niece.

“The fourth is the daughter of the Rev. Kwan Loi, who was for many years the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Canton. She is also a physician, and has a position in the Canton Hospital. The medical profession is very attractive to the young students, or to their friends, as they receive so much larger salaries than the teachers, sometimes in a single month more than our very best teachers in a year.

“The fifth in the line has been practising medicine for several years, and very successfully. For a time she was at the head of a large hospital opened and supported by the Chinese.

“The sixth is a teacher, a very successful one. She taught for some time in the seminary, and then went to her home in one of the large interior cities, and opened at her own expense a school for girls, which has been very prosperous for several years.

“The next and last one commenced the study of medicine, but left the college before her course was completed, was married and went to Shanghai, and I have heard nothing of her for some time. These young women are all, we feel, doing good work for the ‘new China.’”

Meiktila, Burma

By R. B. THURBER

R. B. THURBER

We moved into our new house Sept. 1, 1912, and herewith present a picture of it as it looked a month later. A little painting needed to be done to finish it. It stands a bit to one side of the front of the school campus, and presents a good appearance. It has a cement floor below and a tile roof. First-class wood and bricks have been put into the walls, in a method of construction called brick nogging. We had to put in good materials especially, to insure against attacks of white ants. These pests are here in great numbers, and even bore up through the cement floor. Circumstances worked against our getting up this building as cheaply in proportion as we did our school building. Materials cost more, and our foreman was found working against us in various ways; so in the middle of the work we had to change to another man. The total cost is about $1,550. But it is a substantial building, and men who know have estimated its value much higher. With verandas it measures thirty-two by thirty-two feet. One room on the ground floor is used as an office for the school.

We describe it thus fully because it is your house, readers of the REVIEW, and you are interested. You built it with the money you gave to the $300,000 Fund. We moved to it from a house that stands in stagnant water, where we had to wade out or make bridges. We appreciate more than we can express the sacrifice the loving ones in the home land have made for us, and we send a thousand thanks. I verily believe my efficiency in the work is added to one half by having such a place in which to live. We thank God and take courage.

NEW MISSION HOME AT MEIKTILA, BURMA — PROVIDED BY THE $300,000 FUND

The attendance at the school has gone far beyond our capacity and expectations this year. We hoped for seventy-five, but this writing sees our enrolment at one hundred two. It may seem paradoxical to say that the attendance has gone beyond the capacity. But the limit of capacity was set for comfort, and as it is we, are decidedly uncomfortable. Boys are being turned away now; however, it hurts us to do it.

The trades—leather, cane, and wood working—are in a fairly prosperous condition; at least we have all the orders we can fill. We sorely need more building room and a good mechanic to take oversight of the trades.

The Common Sense Diet

By A. B. Olsen

A. B. OLSEN, M. D., D. P. H.

The modern man uniformly abuses his stomach. He eats and drinks as appetite dictates, paying little or no attention to the laws of nutrition or the requirements of the living machine which he controls. It is true, as Walker tells us, that “anybody can dine, but few know how to dine so as to insure the greatest quantity of health and enjoyment.”

The Orthodox Diet

The diet that prevails almost universally in our country, as well as in some other civilized lands, includes both animal flesh and plant foods, and is usually spoken of as a mixed diet. Animal foods, whether flesh, fowl, or fish, are usually taken once, twice, or even three times a day. There is no doubt that people readily become fond of the savory flavors of flesh foods in much the same way that they become addicted to such habit-drugs as coffee or tea, and greatly miss the beefsteak, mutton chop, or bacon when it has been dispensed with. Owing to the constant presence of various poisonous waste matters, the flesh of animals when eaten, however tasty and appetizing it may be to the perverted appetite, produces a distinct stimulating and narcotizing effect, which is anything but wholesome and beneficial. There is a great deal of ignorance with regard to the supposed preeminent value of animal foods, and, as a consequence, many think it quite impossible to get a square meal without including one or more varieties of flesh. But why eat the flesh of dead animals?

The Scientific Ideal (I)

It is usually claimed for flesh foods that they are more readily utilized by the body than similar elements obtained from the vegetable kingdom. Some recent experiments upon dogs would seem to confirm this belief. Dogs were fed upon various diets, and it was found that those animals had developed and thriven best which were fed not on a diet of beef or mutton, but on the flesh of other dogs. It appears that dog flesh is more readily digested and assimilated by dogs than other flesh-meats, because its physical structure and chemical composition are identical with those of the animal consuming it. From this fact of similarity of composition and from the results of the above experiment, they conclude that the diet of dead dog flesh is more easily and speedily changed into living dog flesh. If this contention is true, then the ideal diet for man is healthy human flesh, and the savage cannibal of Africa or the farmyard hog that eats her young, are the best dietitians.

Semicannibal Diet

Of course these scientists do not advocate man-eating, but they do claim that animal flesh furnishes a better supply of tissue food, that is, protein, than can be obtained from the vegetable kingdom. They reason that animal flesh is more readily and also more perfectly and more completely digested, assimilated, and converted into human tissue than is the flesh of plants. Many scientists and doctors go so far as to contend that although a few, a small minority, might be able for a time to subsist reasonably well on a non-flesh diet, the vast majority, indeed the great bulk of our population, require a mixed diet.

While from the scientific standpoint there is a modicum of truth in this contention about the advantage of animal flesh, we contend that the associated disadvantages of the flesh diet, with which we shall deal in our next article, more than neutralize this small apparent advantage;

and we also contend that the eating of dead animals is but one small step removed from out-and-out cannibalism. A flesh eater is in reality a semicannibal; for the structure and chemical composition of the flesh of a sheep, for example, is almost identical with that of human flesh; and when placed under the microscope, it would be difficult and oftentimes impossible to differentiate the one from the other.

The Source of Our Food

All men recognize that the vegetable kingdom is the final and ultimate source of the food of all animals, including man. It is in the plants and their fruit that we find food material in its cleanest and purest state. And there is no doubt that plant foods contain all the elements, including sugar, starch, oil, and proteins, and all the various salts, required for the building and nourishment of the human body. There can be no question with regard to carbonaceous foods, such as sugar, starch, and oils; so the crux of the problem rests with the nitrogenous element, that is, the protein or albumen, which is the chief and by far the most important ingredient of animal flesh; but we have already shown by various tables that this important food element is found equally abundant, and in some cases more abundant, in nuts and pulses, and it is never entirely absent from any plant foods.

The Fruitarian Diet

The strict fruitarian diet would naturally consist of fruits and nuts only, which many might regard as a limited diet, and more or less difficult to obtain, as well as expensive. There seems to be no reason why a person in average health ought not to be able to obtain the necessary nutrition, and also maintain sound health, strength, and vitality on a diet of nuts and fruits, for they contain all the elements required for the sustenance of the human body. There seems good reason to believe that such was the original diet of man, and it is certainly quite in harmony with his physical development and anatomical structure. There are those who follow the strict fruitarian diet very closely, and with most excellent results.

When we add to the fruits and nuts the numerous cereals, pulses, vegetables, and greens of almost endless description, we have a much larger variety to select from. Although pleasant and wholesome salads can be prepared from a number of greens and vegetables, still, most of these additional foods require cooking in order to make them wholly digestible. By careful selection and combination, on such a diet it is possible to obtain wholesome and palatable, as well as nutritious, food for the small cost of eight to ten cents a day, and there are those who have been able to maintain both health and strength perfectly on a slightly less expensive diet. We are therefore entitled to claim that the liberal fruitarian diet, including grains and vegetables, is the most economical diet obtainable.

The Milk-Vegetarian Diet

What is sometimes called the milk- or lac-vegetarian diet is one that includes all the dairy products, such as milk, cream, butter, cheese, and eggs. Milk and eggs are both animal products, and in many ways partake of the character of animal flesh itself. When they are obtained pure and clean from healthy animals, it is only fair to say that they do not possess all the disadvantages of flesh, fowl, and fish; and most people who adopt food reform find it an advantage to use these animal products moderately. That they are essential to the maintenance of the health of the average man and woman is very doubtful, but that they add both nutrition and pleasing flavors to the diet must be granted. Eggs are generally rightly regarded as ‘bilious’ foods, and many can take them only very sparingly. Pure milk from a healthy animal is preferable to eggs, although it is prone to undergo fermentation and produce acidity and flatulence.

Table Worries

After adopting the natural diet of pure, wholesome, and nourishing food, after making the food digestible by proper cooking, and after giving the food thorough mastication, the next step is to forget all about the meal. Many food reformers are liable to make the fatal mistake of analyzing the food they eat, and worrying about nearly every mouthful they swallow. Will this suit? Will that cause trouble? Is this the right combination? Am I eating enough? These, and a thousand and one other questions are rapidly passing through their minds, and it is small wonder that they are conscious of a stomach, and perhaps also of a liver, most of their waking hours. In most cases it would be both safer and better to eat an ordinary diet, chewing the food well, and then think no more of it, than to set up a state of worry about each meal, and anticipate what effect it is going to have upon the digestive organs. The counsel of the apostle to ‘let your moderation be known unto all men,’ applies most emphatically to our daily food. It is a safe rule in most cases to arise from the table with an appetite, for there is little doubt that the majority of persons are more inclined to eat too much than too little.

Soon the Dawn

By WALTER J. PAULSON

WALTER J. PAULSON

ART thou troubled, brother, wearied? Art thou harassed by a dread Of the future? Art thou grieving, Grieving for a loved one dead? Doth thy burdens press thee downward, Doth afflictions crowd thee sore, And the storm seem unabating As it rages round thy door? Has the sun, which e'er seemed smiling In thy youth, its brightness shorn? Is the noonday's shining dimmer Than the radiance of thy morn? Doth the foe with stealthy footsteps Crowd thee near, and fain would keep Thee from action and from striving, Lull thee into blissful sleep?

Plant thy feet! Gird well thy armor! Grasp thy shield with sturdy hand! Bare thy sword! Behold, thy Captain Urges thee to nobly stand. If he finds that foes assail thee, Bear thee down beyond thy might, He has promised to deliver, Grant thee succor in the fight.

Striving now shall soon be ended, Soon the clouds of sable hue Will not hide the sun's fair shining, And obscure the sky of blue; Yet a little while. Then stand.

Strain thy ears to hear the bugle Sounding forth its last command. Hark! the clarion's note is ringing: “Forward, Christian, to the fray!” “On, my gallants!” says our Captain, “One more effort, and the day Shall be ours; and then comes resting, Resting when the battle's o'er.”

South Bend, Ind.

China Adopts a New Alphabet

THE new leaders in China have determined to abolish the old system of writing, which required the students to memorize eight thousand ideograms as a preliminary to the pursuit of written learning. Steps were taken some time ago to construct an alphabet and substitute it for the previous mode of writing. The alphabet adopted consists of forty-two characters, of which twenty-three are vowels and nineteen are consonants. Of the vowels four are taken from Greek, four from Russian, five from Latin, and one from Chinese. Of the nine remaining vowels, two are modified or elongated signs, and seven are reversed ideograms. Of the consonants, fourteen are taken from Latin, three from Russian, and two from Greek. With these it is possible to write all the words used in the vulgar tongue in any part of China.

The Noon-Hour Prayer

“Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.”

The following comforting words may bring assurance and renewed trust to some weary heart:—

“What can it mean? Is it aught to Him That the nights are long and the days are dim? Can he be touched with the griefs I bear, Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair? Around his throne are eternal calms, And strung, glad music of happy psalms, And bliss, unruffled by any strife: How can he care for my little life?”

“O, wonderful story of deathless love, Each child is dear to the heart above! He fights for me when I can not fight, He comforts me in the gloom of night; He lifts the burden, for he is strong, He stills the sigh and awakes the song; The sorrow that bowed me down he bears, And loves and pardons, because he cares!”

“Let all who are sad take heart again, We are not alone in our hour of pain; Our Father stoops from the throne above To soothe and quiet us with his love. He leaves us not when the storm is high, And we have safety, for he is nigh. Can it be trouble, which he doth share? O, rest in peace, for the Lord does care!”

Requests for Prayer

112. An isolated sister in Missouri, who accepted the truth through reading and has never heard a Seventh-day Adventist minister nor had the privilege of receiving baptism, desires that prayer be offered for the conversion of her husband and parents; also for herself that she may be faithful in heeding the light which has come to her.

113. A sister in the same State (Missouri) asks prayer for the restoration of her sight; the healing of a sister who has lost her reason; and the conversion of three sisters, one niece, and four nephews.

114. An anxious mother, writing from Colorado, requests prayer that her two daughters and their husbands may be converted.

115. From North Dakota a sister writes making request for prayer in behalf of her brother, who is now in an insane asylum. She desires that he may be healed if God wills. Let us also pray for the conversion of her aged parents, sister, and brothers.

116. The following note comes from an Iowa friend: “I ask that prayer be offered for the healing of my daughter and myself; also for the conversion of my daughter and her husband and their seven children.”

117. The united prayers of the noon-hour prayer band are desired by a Washington sister for the conversion of her husband, father, five brothers, and a brother-in-law. She also wishes us to pray that the members of her family who have accepted this truth may not fail to do the will of God in all things.

118. A brother writing from Washington says: “My wife is suffering from heart trouble and desires to be remembered at the noon-hour prayer service.” Let us pray for her healing.

119. A South Dakota sister asks: “Will you please pray for my husband and two brothers, who are not in the truth; also that the Lord may guide my husband in a perplexing business transaction?”

120. An anxious wife and mother in Texas desires us to pray for her husband. He is a moderate drinker, and gives liquor to their little three-year-old son. She is anxious that God will take away his desire for strong drink and tobacco, and lead him to know and love his Redeemer.

This sister also requests prayer that her daughter, who desires to keep the Sabbath, may obtain work where it will be possible for her to do this.

121. Another Texas friend asks us to pray that if it is God’s will her husband may be led to enter the ministry again, or engage actively in some part of this closing work; for the conversion of her eldest son and the healing of her sister.

122. Writing from Nebraska, an afflicted sister begs that we pray for her healing, and the conversion of her three children and only sister.

123. An anxious mother in Oregon requests that this people pray for the conversion of her children and sister.

124. “I earnestly ask you to pray that my daughter and her husband may be brought back into the fold before it is too late,” is the plea that comes from a Michigan sister.

125. From Illinois we have an earnest request from a mother who desires prayer that her daughter may be healed from tuberculosis.

126. “Please remember me at the noon-hour prayer service, asking God, if it is his will, to heal me of nervous trouble,” writes an afflicted sister.

127. A California friend requests our prayers for the conversion of her daughter, who has never had a bright Christian experience; for the conversion and healing of a sister, and that she herself may be healed of an infirmity which stands in the way of her Christian advancement.

128. A brother writes from California asking prayer for the conversion and healing of his wife. She is suffering from injuries received in an accident.

129. From the same State (California) an isolated sister makes request that we pray for the conversion of her husband and four children; and for herself that she may be strong physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Medical Work in Ecuador

By John Osborne; Mrs. John Osborne

These doctors are highly in favor of our treatments, especially massage, and they have been a great help in introducing our work. Success has attended our efforts, so that both of us have been quite busy giving treatments and nursing. The medical work is doing a great deal toward making friends to our cause, in that it helps to open doors to us that apparently we could not enter otherwise.

The general medical practise of Ecuador is the allopathic, and until about two years ago the medicine given consisted of the most powerful drugs. A number of young men have received their medical education in Europe and in the United States at the expense of this government, and they have come back with good, practical ideas about the treatment of the sick. These doctors are highly in favor of our treatments, especially massage, and they have been a great help in introducing our work. Success has attended our efforts, so that both of us have been quite busy giving treatments and nursing. The medical work is doing a great deal toward making friends to our cause, in that it helps to open doors to us that apparently we could not enter otherwise.

The political conditions seem to be settled now. We hope for greater success in our work in the future. We ask an interest in your prayers.

MR. AND MRS. JOHN OSBORNE.

Illinois

By K. C. Russell

CHICAGO.—Sunday, January 5, we began a series of evangelistic meetings in a large Baptist church, Ashland Boulevard and Monroe Street, Chicago, Ill. We are, therefore, located only a short distance from the center of this great metropolis of the West, the second largest city of the United States.

We did not undertake this nightly series of meetings without first seriously considering what was involved in assuming such an undertaking in the midst of a Western winter, with all sorts of weather to cope with, besides the many attractions which are to be found in this, one of the most wicked cities of modern times.

Notwithstanding all of the hindrances which have arisen, we are glad to report that we have been able to secure a fairly good attendance of a substantial class of people at every service. Among those who have attended are a number of professional men and women and other influential people. One of the most encouraging features of the meetings thus far is that, to a considerable extent, the same ones are in attendance at nearly every service. Some of those attending the meetings have already signified very great interest and their intention to obey the truth, although we have not yet reached the Sabbath question in our series of lectures.

An interesting feature of this series of meetings is the combining of the medical work with the evangelical. Dr. D. H. Kress is conducting three public services each week, at which he delivers health talks. Some persons in the vicinity are manifesting a lively interest in these lectures.

On account of the high rent of the church and the expense it requires to heat and light so large a building, we entertained some fears as to the financial outcome of the proposition. We are glad to say, however, that our offerings have been in excess of the expense involved in meeting the rent and heat of the plant.

The idea has been proposed that the company who embraced the truth in Austin last summer as a result of our tent effort and those who may accept the truth from this series of meetings shall be consolidated with two small churches in this vicinity. Thus there would be a strong church in the very center of this great metropolis. It is also proposed that the church be named the Central Chicago Church of Seventh-day Adventists.

We expect that another instalment of the members of the Austin company, consisting of seven or more, will go forward in the ordinance of baptism before this report appears in print.

Sunday evening, February 2, we began a series of sermons on the Sabbath question. This series will be followed by a number of lectures on religious liberty, which will be continued during the month of February.

It has been decided to hold a religious liberty convention in connection with our meetings, February 14-17. A most interesting program has been prepared. The first meeting of the convention will be held Friday evening, February 14, consisting of a symposium by Elders Allen Moon, G. E. Langdon, S. B. Horton, and the writer, on the subject “Why the Necessity of a Religious Liberty Convention?” The theme will be divided under the following topics: (1)

Because the enemies who seek to invade the rights of conscience are increasing; (2) because the people are asleep to the dangers that threaten our liberty; (3) because our time to sound the warning is limited; (4) because a woe is pronounced upon those who know the danger and do not give the trumpet a certain sound.

Sabbath, February 15, at 11 A. M., Elder S. B. Horton will deliver a sermon on the subject “Mordecai in the Gate;” at 3 P. M. the writer will speak on “Soul Liberty;” at 7:45 Elder G. E. Langdon will present a paper on “A True and False Theocracy;” and at 8 Elder Allen Moon will read a paper on the interesting topic “Forces in Training for the Final Conflict.”

Sunday, February 16, at 10:30 A. M. Elder C. T. Everson will give an address on “Clasping Hands With Rome, or the Healing of the Deadly Wound;” at 3 P. M. Elder S. B. Horton will present a paper entitled “What Means Should Be Employed to Most Effectually Warn the People of the Dangers That Threaten Their Civil and Religious Liberties?” at 7:45 the writer will conclude the convention with a lecture on the subject “Will Church and State Ever Be United in This Country? or, Shall Congress Prescribe Your Religion?”

Every day at 1 P. M. we hold a meeting with our workers, and each evening preceding the public service we have special prayer in the interest of the meeting that is to follow.

We most earnestly urge that those who read this will hasten to write their relatives and friends who may reside in the city of Chicago, requesting them to attend these meetings during the month of February, while we are discussing the Sabbath question and the subject of religious liberty. Do not delay this matter, but write at once.

K. C. RUSSELL.

Brass Founders’ Ague

FROM generation to generation the skilled workmen in the brass industry have kept, almost secretly among them, the knowledge that a peculiar disease, consequent upon the inhalation of metallic fumes, attends the making, molding, or founding of brass. This disease is called “brass founders’ ague,” and the average physician is not aware of its existence. It does not kill, it does not even require the physician’s attendance, but it paves the way for chronic diseases which later prove fatal. Therefore the present rate of mortality of the brass-foundry man is two and one-half times that of the farmer. The brass fumes so limit the age of foundry men that an extensive inquiry found only one seventh of the workers over the age of forty. There is no cure for brass chills, but they can be prevented by protecting the workmen from breathing brass fumes and foundry smoke. These chills practically never occur in large foundries with good ventilation. For so important an industry to perpetuate this disease when it can be prevented is as bad as the toleration of smallpox in a modern community.—Selected.

GUSTAVUS P. RODGERS

By Gustavus P. Rodgers

Maryland

BALTIMORE.— It has been three months since we have reported our work in this large city. The Lord is with us, helping us to get the victory over the enemy. The spiritual condition of the Baltimore Church No. 3 is good. Although Satan has tried us very much, the arm of the Lord is a strong support. Our Sabbath services are well attended, so much so that our little hall is too small to accommodate our attendance. We are still trying to secure the larger one, in which we have been holding our Sunday night services with such good results. At present we have only about one hundred dollars toward the purchasing price. We have three canvassers in the field from our little company, and they are having rich experiences, and good success. Good talent has been added to the church in the thirteen new members, and a family of three will soon take their stand on the Lord's side, who also give good promise of being a help to the cause. We have a live, soul-refreshing mid-week prayer service, which is well attended; a Thursday night Bible class for members in the extreme eastern part of the city; and a Friday night study for new and old members. This leaves only three nights to visit other interested homes, and sometimes we hold studies on Saturday night also.

The work grows daily, and we desire the readers of the REVIEW to pray for workers and means to reach the entire ninety thousand colored persons in this city.

During the year 1912, six hundred sixty dollars from all sources was received by the church treasurer, our little company doing very well on the Fifteen-cent-a-week Fund. Our aims for 1913 are still higher. We have a most interesting Young People's Volunteer Missionary Society, whose Sabbath afternoon program grows more instructive each week. Pray for the work here.

GUSTAVUS P. RODGERS

Urges Us to Use Newspapers

By Walter L. Burgan

In a recent letter to the Southern Publishing Association, which has been forwarded to the Press Bureau of the General Conference, a woman in Wisconsin makes a strong appeal for our ministers to spread the precious truths our denomination teaches, through the secular newspapers. The writer of the letter, who resides in the city of Superior, says:—

“I am becoming interested in the subject of the true Christian Sabbath day. I have a tract before me called ‘The Image of the Beast and Its Works.’ Now, if you know you are right, why don’t you put articles in the newspapers to enlighten the world and prove to all Christianity that you are right?”

“I am positive there isn’t one keeping Sunday but thinks he is right, and is sincere in his belief. Now, if such is wrong, it is your duty to write articles and inform him that he is wrong. The Bible says to shout the truth from the housetops, and I think as little is said about the Adventist as any religion there is. In all my life I have never seen printed a sermon by an Adventist minister. Why don’t you do this?”

“It looks as if you want to keep the truth to yourselves. O, please write articles, and insert them in all the public papers! Get the message before the public, so they will know about it. I want to do all I can, for I know hardly any one knows it.”

This good sister has struck the right note when she urges us to put articles in the newspapers to enlighten the world. Brethren and sisters in various places throughout the United States and Canada have met with excellent success in their efforts to bring the progress of our denomination and the doctrines we hold before the world through their home newspapers, but quite a number are still letting opportunities to use this powerful medium slip by them.

The views of editors in different cities toward the great fundamental principles we hold are varied, as shown in letters that have come from brethren, in which they describe their experiences with these men of authority in newspaper offices.

In a letter from a brother in Oregon, in which he enclosed a clipping of a report dealing with Seventh-day Adventists, he writes: “When I handed the editor this report, he said: ‘I shall be only too glad to give space to anything you may wish to have published in this line. Come again.’” The report dealt with the remonstrance the brethren of that church passed against the Johnston Sunday Bill, now before the United States Congress.

Similar reports have been published in twenty-nine States, according to clippings that have been sent to the Press Bureau.

The report in a paper in Claremont, N. H., began in this way: “Comparatively few are aware that a new church organization has been formed in Claremont recently. Growing out of the tent-meetings held last summer, a new local church has sprung up, of the Seventh-day Adventist faith, and meetings are now being held every Saturday afternoon in Hunton Block.”

The report told the number of charter members in the church; the manner in which our evangelists arouse interest in a community and then leave the organization in charge of local elders was explained; and there was an interesting account of the church’s action in passing resolutions remonstrating against proposed Sunday legislation in Congress. The report concluded with some pointed statements on how our denomination stands regarding the observance of Sunday. This report was nearly a column long, and was the leading article in the paper, thus showing that the editor felt that this was the most important piece of news in his paper. It also indicates that editors do attach importance to reports coming from our ranks, and will open their columns to us, if we but furnish the news.

Our brethren should ever remember that the newspaper is the only thing that can carry the truth with it that goes into every home. Newspapers can be used as a powerful agency in breaking down prejudice, for untold numbers will read our views in print, when they would not attend services to hear the word spoken.

WALTER L. BURGAN.

The Work in Cuba

By Chas. Franz.

LAS MINAS.—We are glad to report continued progress at this place. Since our last report Elders U. Bender and G. M. Brown have spent some time with us. Elder Brown baptized four candidates, and organized a church of eighteen members, fourteen of whom are Cubans. Since this, two others have signified their desire to be baptized.

It is an encouragement to the workers here to see the missionary spirit manifested by those new in the faith. This is not only shown in the tithes and offerings that are being faithfully paid, but also in the work being done for those in the vicinity who have not heard the message. We now have the use of a neat little chapel in which to worship, but are very much in need of an organ. Will any of our people in the Eastern States who has a good second-hand organ which he would be willing to donate to this church, and to pay the freight on to Cuba, or at least to New York, please correspond with the writer?

In the school which is being started here there is an opening for several young persons or married couples who wish to work part or all of their way while learning the language preparatory to work in this or other Spanish-speaking fields.

We do not know how long we shall be able to work under such favorable circumstances and without hindrance; therefore should we not press the work while it is day, for the “night cometh, when no man can work”? CHAS. FRANZ.

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