p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 56. (11/9/1916)

Earlier text: Prayer and the Gospel Colporteur in Japan

Signs of the Times Leaflets

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The First Day of the Bible.
Who Changed the Sabbath?
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Life and Immortality.
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The Home of the Saved.

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Harvest Ingathering and War in Roumania

By Editor

From every quarter good reports come of the progress of the Harvest Ingathering campaign. We are glad that this is a campaign in which young and old may engage. A young sister in Iowa writes that she worked only two days, and gathered more than fifteen dollars. Doubtless many others could bear similar testimony as to the good results of their visits to friends and neighbors. We earnestly hope that every member of the church will have a part in the Harvest Ingathering work, both for the personal benefit which would be received and for the help it would give others. The blessing of God acts and reacts upon the one who seeks to give, as well as upon the subject of labor.

By the entry of Roumania into the war, and the extension of the zone of conflict into the Transylvanian border, new regions have been involved, where probably fifteen hundred of our Sabbath-keeping brethren and sisters reside. Thus yet other churches and families will know the distresses and hardships of war time. We are sure these believers will be remembered in the prayers of those who live afar from the lands torn with strife.

Offering for the Negro Work

By G. B. Thompson

The annual collection for the work among the Negro people has been appointed for Sabbath, November 18. At no time since the work was started among this people has the need for a good offering been greater than at the present.

Labor put forth to extend the message among the Negro people is attended with excellent results, not only in the Southern States, but in some of the large centers of population in the North, and a splendid class of people are accepting the truth. Some strong churches are being developed. In proportion to their means, these are as faithful in paying their tithes, and as liberal in their offerings, as are our churches in any part of the field. I attended a colored Sabbath school recently in one of our city churches where forty dollars was given at the thirteenth-Sabbath collection.

Here is a people among us, numbering about ten million, who speak, write, and understand the English language. We are to carry the message of the coming Saviour to them.

A good beginning has been made, and hundreds are already obedient to the truth. But it is only a beginning. We must plan for a greater work than in the past. Through lack of means we have been unable to do many things that should have been done, and as a result the progress of the work has been retarded. We must plan for a stronger educational work, and to strengthen our evangelical efforts.

The Huntsville school is doing a good work in training workers, and all the properly trained and consecrated pupils from this school should be set at work to carry the message to their own people. But to strengthen the work and to build up those phases of it which we have been compelled for lack of means to postpone. will require a more liberal offering than in the past.

There is need at this time of a large offering. Plans are being perfected to strengthen our work in some of the large cities containing a large Negro population.

It would greatly help in forwarding the message among the colored people if a liberal offering is given at this time. All can give something, and thus enable those wrestling with the problem of this work to make advance moves. Church officers in every church and workers throughout the field should bring this subject before the churches and scattered believers, and urge a liberal offering.

G. B. THOMPSON.

Mission Work in Wartime East Africa

We learn that the difficulties of mission work in war time in East Africa have left but one worker in the Abyssinian Mission. Sister H. Steiner, wife of the superintendent, is alone at the Asmara station.

Brother Chang to Labor in Hawaii

This week Brother Leo K. Chang is sailing from San Francisco, to engage in the work in the Hawaiian Islands. Brother Chang was graduated from Union College a year ago, with the highest esteem of teachers and associates. Of Korean birth, he will labor especially among the thousands of Koreans in the Hawaiian group.

Pacific Press Branch in the West Indies

The recent General Conference Committee Council invited the Pacific Press to establish a branch at some point in the West Indies, to serve the publishing needs in Central America, the northern part of South America, and the islands. Brother H. H. Hall, of the Pacific Press, is planning to attend the meeting of the West Indian Union Committee in Trinidad.

Asiatic Division Meetings

We note that in the round of Asiatic Division meetings Elder R. C. Porter, president of the Division, attends the meetings in India, Burma, Malaysia, and south China; while Elder J. E. Fulton, secretary of the Division, takes the northern round of meetings, beginning with the Philippines, and continuing through Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and north China.

Battleford Academy Opens

By Editor

OUR youngest school to date is the Battleford Academy, located at Battleford, Saskatchewan. The neat announcement which has come to hand states that the school will open November 1. It is in charge of Prof. C. B. Hughes as principal, with Mrs. C. B. Hughes, Claude Degering, and H. W. Clark as additional teachers. We hope that this institution may prove a source of real strength to the cause in the Northwest, and that many young men and women will go out from its doors as faithful workers in connection with this movement.

Death of Mrs. R. B. Thurber

We must report the sad news of the death of Mrs. R. B. Thurber, wife of Elder R. B. Thurber, of Burma. On account of his wife's illness, Elder Thurber was compelled to bring his family to America early this year. Sister Thurber received every care, but, unable to rally, fell asleep on the eve of the Sabbath, October 27, at Takoma Park. Only a few days before her death she spoke of her work in Burma, saying: “I love the people in Burma, and should like to go back there and work for them again.” Our sympathy is with Elder Thurber, the four children, and other sorrowing relatives. Sister Thurber was a faithful missionary, and her grave, though in Michigan, will stand as a memorial to her love for souls in Burma. Elder Thurber is a member of the faculty of Emmanuel Missionary College, at Berrien Springs, and will continue his work there.

The Week of Prayer

By T. E. Bowen

The week of prayer comes a little earlier this year than usual, December 9-16. Last week's REVIEW contained the readings, and copies of it were mailed by the Mission Board, regardless of the regular subscription list, to isolated Sabbath keepers, church elders and leaders, schools, publishing houses, sanitariums, physicians, nurses, and conference workers; also a few extra copies were sent to each conference office. An edition was printed earlier to supply South Africa, India, and the British Union Conference. From those printed first, a supply was sent to mission stations, so that all workers in foreign lands might receive copies.

We suggest that care be taken in preserving last week's REVIEW, that when the week of prayer comes, you will have the readings. T. E. BOWEN.

Harvest Ingathering Campaign

By F. W. Paap

WE are in the midst of our Harvest Ingathering campaign for missions, and from every section of the field interesting, profitable, and blessed experiences are being reported. It is very evident that larger sums are being collected than ever before. The general public are manifesting a liberal spirit. If every believer in this great world-wide movement possessed the courage, force, energy, and perseverance that the present situation demands; if all revealed those positive traits of character that give power to do something,—the spirit and energy that kindle enthusiasm,—we should demonstrate the limitless possibilities of this simple yet effective plan.

In a letter from Elder G. H. Skinner, he says: “There is an experience gained in this work that cannot be obtained in any other way, and those who fail to get this experience are missing much.”

This is in harmony with a statement found in “Ministry of Healing,” page 500: “Many become inefficient by evading responsibilities for fear of failure. Thus they fail of gaining that education which results from experience, and which reading and study and all the advantages otherwise gained, cannot give them.”

Already 886,672 copies of the Harvest Ingathering Signs have been sent to the field, not including over 30,000 in the foreign tongues. The publishers expect to have to print more than 1,000,000, and are making preparation to do this.

If we could only know how these papers will be read and appreciated by thousands of people in the different sections of the field, it would stimulate us to greater activity.

In this ministry we find that the connecting link which binds us to God and to our fellow men is the law of service. F. W. PAAP.