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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 17.

A Morning Resolve
Earlier text: A Visit to Springfield, Ill

Canvassers’ Summary for March, 1910

AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine .... .... .... .... $45.15 $25.15
Northern New England 4 258 53 $164.90 91.95 130.00
Central New England 5 314 39 499.35 1200.50 1048.20
Southern New England 1 42 13 49.00 104.45 23.00
New York 4 119 41 93.00 1035.75 327.55
Western New York 9 437 189 390.80 206.75 624.25
Greater New York 1 .... .... 16.50 675.35 759.75
Totals 24 1170 335 1213.55 3359.90 2937.90
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Canadian Union Conference
Ontario 3 399 217 443.30 361.15 ....
Quebec 1 59 18 42.25 36.20 ....
Maritime .... .... .... .... .... ....
Newfoundland .... .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 4 458 235 485.55 397.35 166.75
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Columbia Union Conference
Ohio 15 1561 554 1409.35 1083.65 797.40
New Jersey 4 430 187 451.55 1107.40 80.10
Eastern Pennsylvania 6 449 203 361.90 785.05 336.65
West Pennsylvania 11 1024 326 700.00 119.20 139.90
Chesapeake 4 409 199 503.30 1763.35 447.10
Virginia 5 461 134 344.85 269.40 260.65
West Virginia 5 134 176 278.90 355.15 502.35
District of Columbia .... .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 50 4468 1779 4049.85 5483.20 2564.15
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Lake Union Conference
East Michigan 10 492 201 323.85 178.10 ....
Wisconsin 6 319 116 207.50 201.50 110.70
Southern Illinois 11 667 301 871.95 499.45 59.55
Northern Illinois 3 315 107 253.05 1203.95 181.50
North Michigan 4 185 37 132.70 392.95 441.70
Indiana (two weeks) 2 72 13 45.50 33.60 243.15
West Michigan .... .... .... .... .... 2.50
Totals 36 2050 775 1834.55 2509.35 1039.10
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Southern Union Conference
Louisiana 6 654 322 624.80 786.00 489.25
Alabama 11 1205 562 953.60 756.10 106.50
Kentucky 8 992 388 596.35 474.50 29.75
Mississippi 8 1176 489 1213.06 757.10 151.00
Tennessee River 8 861 445 592.10 700.00 789.75
Totals 41 4888 2206 3979.91 3473.70 1566.25
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland 10 565 171 316.00 525.85 240.50
Georgia 14 1117 457 1218.40 1032.00 1017.25
North Carolina 7 771 403 790.10 324.35 338.20
South Carolina 8 706 316 540.75 354.35 736.60
Florida 18 1108 770 1551.80 157.80 54.15
Totals 57 4267 2117 4417.05 2394.35 2386.70
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Southwestern Union Conference
Texas 14 1441 832 2833.80 4407.40 859.80
Oklahoma 13 1328 379 1357.00 1930.60 374.40
Arkansas 10 569 236 488.00 654.00 37.00
West Texas 2 136 43 151.45 361.75 ....
New Mexico 3 124 15 79.90 9.00 ....
South Texas Mission Field 5 645 343 1150.40 .... ....
Totals 47 4243 1848 6060.55 7362.75 1271.20
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Central Union Conference
North Missouri .... .... .... .... 528.50 ....
Southern Missouri 8 270 145 239.25 476.30 ....
Kansas 12 514 179 649.95 348.40 1002.00
Eastern Colorado 5 301 124 443.65 .... ....
Western Colorado .... .... .... .... 201.25 310.70
Nebraska 7 122 56 221.50 422.65 428.35
Wyoming 1 21 14 45.00 .... 73.75
Totals 33 1228 518 1599.35 1977.10 1814.80
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Northern Union Conference
Iowa .... .... .... .... 335.00 310.75
Minnesota .... .... .... .... 75.50 ....
South Dakota .... .... .... .... .... ....
North Dakota .... .... .... .... .... ....
Totals .... .... .... .... 418.50 310.75
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Pacific Union Conference
Arizona 8 210 132 $510.45 $108.60 ....
California-Nevada .... .... .... .... 500.00 $996.05
Southern California .... .... .... .... 622.15 99.90
Utah .... .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 8 210 132 510.45 1230.75 1095.95
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
North Pacific Union Conference
Western Washington 31 321 104 749.25 797.95 260.30
Western Oregon 4 88 47 164.00 398.00 241.95
Upper Columbia 4 63 22 155.00 115.55 296.00
Montana 3 163 45 169.75 105.20 213.85
Southern Idaho .... .... .... .... 22.85 529.95
Totals 42 635 218 1238.00 1439.55 1542.05
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Western Canadian Union Conference
Alberta .... .... .... .... .... ....
Manitoba .... .... .... .... .... ....
British Columbia 1 132 45 146.50 .... ....
Saskatchewan .... .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 1 132 45 146.50 .... ....
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909 VALUE 1908
Foreign Union Conferences and Missions
British 59 4471 2031 4767.73 4943.19 2583.00
Scandinavian 72 8243 6727 5479.23 3788.09 4133.74
East German 101 .... .... 2215.34 6675.39 7494.56
West German 88 .... .... 2282.40 .... ....
Russian .... .... .... .... 970.21 ....
Latin 13 2492 5641 656.30 188.90 ....
South African 17 1460 721 5052.86 515.60 ....
Australasian 86 5304 1645 6139.30 4031.74 4634.25
Mexican Mission 8 777 1053 1787.09 380.54 216.00
West Indian 15 300 214 1367.63 .... ....
South American 9 272 .... 219.52 1163.69 ....
Korean 2 .... 25 1.68 .... ....
Philippine Islands 1 88 91 140.00 .... ....
Turkish Mission 5 .... .... 67.16 .... ....
Total, North American union conferences $25535.31 $30046.50 $16695.60
Total, Foreign union conferences and mission fields 30176.24 22657.35 19061.55
Grand totals $55711.55 $52703.85 $35757.15

Comparative Summary

1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
Jan. $14,000.00 $21,000.00 $26,325.50 $25,929.06 $40,677.06 $42,532.23
Feb. 10,000.00 15,000.00 26,369.61 30,466.40 48,748.21 50,990.34
March 12,000.00 18,000.00 36,253.65 35,757.15 52,703.85 55,711.55
April 16,000.00 24,000.00 35,276.76 43,858.29 55,109.54 ....
May 24,000.00 37,000.00 51,097.51 67,455.44 82,971.94 ....
June 31,000.00 46,000.00 65,317.23 82,878.67 124,412.34 ....
July 35,000.00 52,218.04 75,691.57 120,973.89 95,445.21 ....
August 24,000.00 36,555.39 46,590.68 66,946.38 71,652.97 ....
Sept. 15,000.00 22,038.63 32,503.48 51,148.56 55,625.41 ....
Oct. 18,000.00 26,382.61 40,646.45 62,719.91 52,670.03 ....
Nov. 21,000.00 43,733.16 30,016.77 53,787.31 49,964.99 ....
Dec. 17,000.00 29,756.47 25,361.54 39,873.18 45,759.73 ....
Totals $237,000.00 $371,684.30 $491,450.75 $681,794.24 $775,741.28 ....

Literature Sales for 1909

By E. R. P.

THE summary of our publishing work for 1909 is now practically complete, and shows a grand total of $1,420,000 sales during the year, a gain of $130,000 over the preceding year.
With this announcement of the past year's work, it may be interesting to our readers to take another glance at the summary of our publishing work from its beginning, which we give below in decades:—
1845-1854 ····················· $ 2,500 1855-1864 ····················· 17,500 1865-1874 ····················· 73,000 1875-1884 ····················· 371,000 1885-1894 ····················· 3,969,000 1895-1904 ····················· 3,144,000 Total for sixty years ····· 7,577,000 1905 ························· 548,000 1906 ························· 824,000 1907 ························· 1,035,000 1908 ························· 1,290,000 1909 ························· 1,420,000 Total for five years ····· 5,117,000 Total for sixty years ····· 7,577,000 Total for five years ····· 5,117,000
Grand total ··················· $12,694,000
With such evidence before us of the progress of the third angel's message, let us thank God, and take courage.
E. R. P.

The Summary

By E. R. P.

WE publish the accompanying summary with mingled feelings of satisfaction and regret. The larger number of foreign union conferences and mission fields represented, and the increased sales abroad, are cause for joy and gratitude. The substantial gain in Scandinavia, the Latin Union Conference, South Africa, Australia, Mexico, and the West Indies is especially encouraging.
On the other hand, we deeply regret that this summary shows a decrease compared with the corresponding month of 1909 in three fourths of the union conferences of the United States and Canada. A portion of this decrease may be accounted for by the substantial contributions made from the unions in the United States to the work abroad.
But notwithstanding this bad showing for the month of March, we have reason to believe that the decline is only temporary. During the past few months there have been many changes and adjustments, and these have been accompanied by some struggles, difficulties, and depressions.
But now that the adjustments have been made, we rejoice in the fact that for the first time in our history every union conference — twelve in all — in the United States and Canada has a general agent. Now we are ready for stronger, better work than ever before. let us unite in consecrating our service more fully to God, and work with an earnestness which will save us from defeat.
The summary as a whole is encouraging, as it shows a gain in the grand total of over three thousand dollars over the preceding year, and of twenty thousand dollars over 1908. E. R. P.

Planning for the Future, Living in the Present

“A MAN should plan for the future, but he should live in the present.”

Current Mention

— Despatches from Central America state that another revolution has broken out in Guatemala.
— Despatches from South America indicate that there is still great danger of war between Peru and Ecuador.
— Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) died at his home at Redding, Conn., on April 21, at the age of seventy-five years.
— A locomotive belonging to the National Railways of Mexico, exploded at Monterey, on April 16, killing eleven men.
— A landslide occurred at Kakoucache, Quebec, on April 18, which resulted in the death of twenty-five men employed on a ballast train.
— The present Italian cabinet, formed by Signor Luzzatti, with the support of the Radical party, is expected to initiate at once an anticlerical policy.
— A strike occurred at Schoenville, near Pittsburg, Pa., on April 18, at the factory of the Pressed Steel Car Company. The strikers number 1,000 men.
— An agreement has been reached between the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad and its employees which averts the threatened strike on that road.
— The average amount spent in Germany for liquors during the last five years reaches nearly $750,000,000 according to authoritative figures recently compiled, which is said to be more than twice the combined cost of the army and navy.
— A hurricane swept over portions of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama, on April 16, doing much damage to property, and resulting in the loss of twenty lives.
— An explosion, which occurred at the Mulga Mines in Alabama on April 21, has resulted in the death of forty-five of the miners who were in the workings at the time of the explosion.
— Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture is planning so to alter the regulations regarding the taking up of homesteads on government land, as to make it much easier for Americans to find homesteads without crossing the Canadian border.
— It is reported that the plan of Secretary Knox for the establishment of an international court of arbitration is meeting with general favor among the nations. Mr. Knox, the report states, believes that such a court would be constituted at The Hague in the near future.
— Secretary Greene of the Iowa State Horticultural Department estimates that the loss to Iowa’s fruit and vegetable crop from the recent freezing weather will be between five and ten million dollars. Other States of the middle West have also suffered heavily through the same storm and fall in temperature.
— The Atlantic Transport Line Steamer, “Minnehaha,” went ashore at Scilly, near Bishop’s Rock, England, on April 18. The passengers were safely landed. A great quantity of her valuable cargo has already been thrown overboard, and the vessel is expected to be a complete loss.
— Statistical inquiries made in 125 of the larger German towns on the feeding of schoolchildren, showed that last summer 36,000, and last winter 22,000, children came to school without having partaken of breakfast. In winter 180,000 German schoolchildren, and in summer 113,000 schoolchildren, came to school without a warm meal.
— The entire board of physicians of the Blockley (Philadelphia) Hospital has resigned, because the 160 children, many of whom are orphans, who were inmates of that hospital, and of St. Vincent’s Home for Orphans, were being used for medical experimentation by physicians of the William-Pepper Clinical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania.
— Mr. William J. Bryan, who recently returned from a trip to South America, announces that he will enter the contest for State-wide prohibition of the liquor traffic in the State of Missouri. This question is to be voted on next November. Mr. Bryan stated that he would not deserve the confidence reposed in him if he kept silent “in the presence of so gigantic a conspiracy against the home, society, and the state.”
— A despatch from Peking, China, dated April 21, states that the lawlessness and rioting which was reported last week at Chang-sha, the capital of Hunan province, is spreading. Riots have occurred at Ningshiang, where a Protestant mission is located, and a mission school at Yiyang has been burned. Chinese marines from a Chinese cruiser have arrived at Chang-sha, and are guarding the foreign settlement.
— During the year ended March 1, 95,270 persons left the United States for western Canada to take up government homesteads.
— During a conflagration at New Haven, Conn., on April 13, six firemen were caught in a trap by the flames and burned to death.
— The corporation known as the steel trust announces increases in wages to its 225,000 employees, which will amount to about $9,000,000 annually.
— On April 11 the city of Lincoln, Neb., decided by a one-thousand majority vote to continue the prohibition of the liquor traffic in that city.
— The wage dispute between trainmen of the New York Central and officials of the company was settled on April 12 by both parties agreeing to submit their differences to a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission as arbitrator.
— Through the investigations of special detectives, it has just come to light that the Central Illinois Railroad has been systematically robbed for some time. The amount thus taken from that road is now placed at $5,000,000.
— At a convention of woman suffragists held in Washington, D. C., on April 14, at which President Taft was invited to speak, the delegates strongly hissed the President’s remarks that were not in harmony with the ideas of the delegates.

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. Hansen

Recent Action of General Conference Committee

At the General Conference Committee Council just held at Takoma Park, D. C., the following recommendations were passed:—
“Resolved, That we urge upon our local conferences all possible promptness in advancing the sanitarium relief campaign, and recommend to them the following plan:—
“(a) That where it is practicable, institutes be held at an early date, for the instruction of workers, who shall, in turn, visit the various churches to instruct the members concerning the campaign and how to engage in it.”
“(b) That time be given at the coming camp-meetings for proper consideration of the campaign and its purposes.”
“(c) That conference presidents place before their constituency, through conference papers, by correspondence and otherwise, the campaign work, and that they urge its advancement.”
“(d) That union and local conference field agents be asked to consider the campaign work as a part of their responsibility, and do what they can for its furtherance.”
“(e) That local church elders be asked to keep the work of the campaign before their churches until all have done their part.”
“(f) That each conference provide a way whereby the books and journals can be secured by those who are unable to pay cash for them.”

Foreign Edition

Provision was also made for supplying the book “Ministry of Healing” in the German, Danish, and Swedish languages. This will meet a much felt need of a large number of our brethren and sisters who desire to engage in the work of this campaign. The books are printed in Europe, and it will be a little while before they will be available for use here. Due notice will be given as to when and where they may be obtained.

Vote of Thanks

The following action of appreciation was adopted:—
“Voted, That we express to our brethren and sisters of the Northern and Southwestern union conferences our thankful appreciation of the great assistance they have rendered in helping to meet the needs of one of our institutions in the East, by dedicating a definite portion of the proceeds of their sanitarium relief campaign to the General Conference for the Philadelphia Sanitarium.”
Thus is this campaign becoming a matter of earnest consideration with our leading brethren, and is calling for the sincere co-operation of all.

Magnitude

While the part of the individual in this campaign work may not seem large, the aggregate results of the campaign mount up to proportions the largest of any one financial proposition we have ever had before us. It is a very good illustration of what may be done by the combined efforts of all, even in a little thing.
The sale of two copies of “Ministry of Healing” and five copies of Life and Health by each member for each of the next three years means an income to our sanitariums of nearly half a million dollars.
This large amount of money may be had without ourselves being any the poorer. A vote in favor of this proposition does not mean hands down,—into our pockets. The provisions of the campaign permit us to secure this money elsewhere.
Figures can not express the results that will be gained aside from the financial returns. With the placing of three hundred sixty thousand copies of that beautiful book, “Ministry of Healing,” in the homes of the people, will come blessings beyond measure. And who can tell the material benefit and help that will result from the sale of three hundred thousand copies of the timely and excellent journal Life and Health?
The increased interest in our health work that will come from this general effort, and the patronage brought to our sanitariums by our people’s visiting friends and neighbors and presenting the advantages and facilities of the institutions, may result in more material gain than even the direct financial returns of the sale of the publications. This will be a most effective manner of bringing relief to our sanitariums.
Last, but not least, there will be the rich blessing that will come to those engaged in the work. As calls are made, and the way is opened to present selections from the book or journal, or to do personal work that may give just the needed help to suffering ones, there will be a return of blessing that will be beyond measure. Eternity may be required to show the full results of such work.
L. A. HANSEN.

Business Notices

This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
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—

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.
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.
For Sale.—Pure, extracted mountain honey, 6½c to 7½c in 60-lb. cans. Olive and cooking oils. Ripe olives, only 55c size left. Very good quality, but smaller variety. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.
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.
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.
Wanted.—At once. First-class man for fruit ranch. Must understand fruit and vegetables; also be able to milk. Seventh-day Adventist only. Must be well recommended. Address H. R. Kitto, Kokanee, via Nelson, British Columbia.
For Sale.—15 S. C. White Leghorn eggs from our fancy exhibition pens, $2; 100 from laying flocks, $4; 100 day-old chicks, $10. Safe delivery guaranteed. Large Pekin duck’s eggs, $1 for 11; $3 for 40. R. O. Dickson, La Harpe, Ill.
For Sale.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.90; 10-gal. can, $7.70; ½ bbl. (30 gal.), 69 cents a gal.; 1 bbl. (50 gal.), 68 cents a gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
For Sale.—11 acres, with good, new house, 34 x 26 feet. Adventist neighborhood. Near Royal Intermediate School. About 700 strawberry plants set, 12 young fruit trees. Wood enough, when cut, to pay for the place. S. E. Twing, Cottage Grove, Ore.
For Sale.—40-acre farm in southern Alabama. 20 acres cleared and partly planted with fruit trees; 20 in woods. Several buildings on the place, also a good well. Will sell cheap. For further information, write Henry J. C. Sprehn, 243 S. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga.
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 per gal. Address J. M. Irving, 227 E. Madison St., Louisville, Ky.
I Make a High Pressure Steam Canner for home and market canning. Cans everything so it keeps without preservatives. Surpasses every canner on market. Supplies long-looked-for article. Every family should have one. Price within reach of all. Send for circular. Jethro Kloss, St. Peter, Minn.
Wanted at Once.—Hustling, handy man about sanitarium, willing to do anything. Must be thorough Christian missionary. State previous experience and wages expected. Sanitarium 2½ miles from station. Elevation, 2,500 feet. Climate ideal. Real mountain life. Address Mount Pocono San., Mount Pocono, Pa.
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, one who will keep up with the times in his work. For such a 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.
For Sale.—Choice California dried fruit in 50-lb. boxes, f. o. b. Pomona, Cal. Fancy peaches, 7c; choice peaches, 6½c; standard apricots, 9½c; prunes, 50/60 size, 5½c; prunes, 60/70 size, 5c; prunes, 70/80 size, 4½c; 25-lb. boxes, ¼c higher. In bags, ¼c less. $2.33 per 100 freight to Missouri River and all terminal points eastward. Prompt attention given all orders accompanied with cash, and fruit guaranteed according to grade. G. S. Howell, Pomona, Cal.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

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

Southern Idaho Conference Association
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 Payette, 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.

Publications Wanted

The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
L. Trowbridge, Lock Drawer 1147, San Antonio, Tex., desires copies of the REVIEW for missionary work.
Sidney King, Box 47, San Antonio, Tex., desires, post-paid, clean copies of our denominational papers for use in reading-racks.
Mrs. L. Campa, Corpus Christi, Tex., desires copies of Signs, Review, and any of our other denominational literature, for missionary work.
John Schick, Barberton, Ohio, desires to thank those who have sent papers to his address in the past, and wishes a continuous supply of all our publications in both English and foreign languages.
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.
The Young People’s Society of Takoma Park requests periodicals for use in hospital work in the city of Washington. Our different monthly magazines, the weekly Signs of the Times, and the Youth’s Instructor will be acceptable. Address them to Harold Fisher, Montgomery St., Takoma Park Station, D. C.

Another Laborer Fallen

Obituaries

BALLINGER.—Henry Franklin Ballinger was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 16, 1849, and died at his home in Lyons, Colo., April 4, 1910, at the age of sixty years. He leaves a wife and a daughter. He was a faithful and consistent member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for thirty years. He rests till Jesus comes. We will not complain, but do our best to make our lives as finished as was his. Mrs. MAMIE ANDRUS.
GRACE.—Miss Elizabeth Grace was born in Medina, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1853, and died March 31, 1910, at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. A. Fretter, of Medina. In 1880 she embraced the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventists, and remained faithful until her death. She leaves four sisters to mourn their loss. Funeral services were held from the Church of Christ, Medina, Ohio, on Sabbath, April 2, Elder C. C. Maple officiating. J. A. FRETTER.
ADAMS.—Carrie H. Adams died at New Haven, Conn., April 12, 1910, aged forty-nine years. For some years she had been gradually failing in health. Two months before her death she completely broke down and was taken to the New Haven Hospital. Sister Adams accepted present truth nine years ago in Jersey City under the writer's labors. She has faithfully kept the truth, and we laid her to rest, believing fully that she sleeps in Jesus. Words of comfort and admonition were spoken by the writer, from Ps. 90:12. J. C. STEVENS.
LOOP.—Miss Estella Navini Loop was born in Ferry Township, Oceana County, Michigan, June 17, 1890, and died at the home of Sister Unice Sours, Benona Township, of pleurisy and other troubles, April 9, 1910, aged 19 years, 9 months, and 22 days. She was a loving and dutiful daughter in caring for her mother for nearly nine years. She was an earnest Christian and missionary worker. She leaves a mother, one sister, and brother-in-law, two nieces, and two nephews, and a large circle of friends to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 2 Tim. 4:6-8. W. C. HEBNER.

Another Laborer Fallen

ELDER C. H. CHAFFEE, for forty years a minister in this denomination, was born in the State of Ohio, Sept. 22, 1838. He died at his home in Goldsberry, Mo., April 4, 1910. Brother Chaffee moved with his parents from Ohio to Indiana when quite young. In early manhood he moved from Indiana to western Kansas, where he was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Conklin over fifty years ago. To the union were born eight children,—six boys and two girls,—of whom four sons and the two daughters survive the father. These, with the companion, are left to suffer the loss of a father and husband. They mourn not as those who have no hope, for they have every reason to know that Father Chaffee lived not for self, but to bless and help the world. About forty years of his life was spent in publicly advocating the message of present truth, a message which he dearly loved. Because of an accident in falling from a wagon a few years ago, by which he suffered an injury of the head, he has not been able to go out as a regular worker in preaching the message, yet it was ever dear to him, and he enjoyed hearing it given. Until within a short time of his death, Elder Chaffee was around doing the usual chores. In the afternoon he prepared the kindling for the morning fire, and went into the house, complaining of a pain in the head. Treatments were given, and a doctor summoned, but he quietly fell asleep in Jesus within an hour. He was present at a canvassers' institute held in the Goldsberry church the latter part of March, and on Sabbath morning opened service with the usual fervency in prayer. Elder Chaffee was a man of strong vitality, and whatever he did he did with his might. The many friends, and especially those to whom he first brought the light of present truth, will learn of Elder Chaffee's death with the deepest sorrow. He was especially strong in pioneer work in new fields. He has raised up some strong companies, and brought many people into the truth. His labors were mostly in Missouri and Kansas, but he worked a short time in West Virginia. Brother Chaffee was a man that was particular about the little things in life, and attended strictly to his business,—the giving of the message. Truly it can be said of him that his “works follow him.” The funeral sermon was based on the appropriate text, Rev. 14:13. The service was conducted by the writer, from the Goldsberry Seventh-day Adventist church, and burial was in the churchyard cemetery. A. R. OGDEN.
CARR.—George B. Carr was born in 1837, and died March 14, 1910, at the age of seventy-three years. He leaves a wife and three sons to mourn their loss. Three years of the life of the deceased was passed in the Civil War, 1862-65. Shortly after, he came to Bradford, Pa., where he has resided since. At one time he was interested in the Free Methodist faith, but shortly before he died, confessed the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists, and died in the hope of a soon-coming Saviour. Words of comfort were spoken from Rev. 1:18 by the writer. I. G. BIGELOW.
THOMPSON.—Frank Thompson fell asleep at Burt, N. Y., April 5, 1910, aged forty-one years. Brother Thompson had never made a profession of Christianity until about three weeks previous to his death. But during a series of meetings the Lord touched his heart, and he seemed to enjoy a good experience. He had for a long while respected the Sabbath day, and it was a great encouragement to his family to see him take a decided stand for the truth of God. The writer spoke to a large crowd of sorrowing friends and neighbors, from Rev. 3:2, 3. Brother Thompson leaves a wife, two sons, and many other relatives to mourn, but they are looking with glad anticipation to the time when Jesus, the Life-giver, shall open the graves of his people. J. F. PIPER.
LE GACY.—Benjamin R. Le Gacy died of tuberculosis at San Pedro, Cal., March 29, 1910, at the age of 37 years, 8 months, and 6 days. He was born in Princeton, Maine, where he spent twenty years of his early life. From there he went to Brooklyn, Mass., and after ten years he came to California, where he spent the remainder of his days. For at least twelve months he has been unable to work. He was of an optimistic disposition, and made many friends. He will be missed by all who knew him, especially by his faithful mother, with whom he lived. He leaves to mourn his untimely death, his mother and two brothers. Words of comfort were spoken to a goodly number of friends by the writer, and we laid him to rest in the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles, Cal. E. H. ADAMS.
HIGHSMITH.—Mrs. Lizzie Highsmith was born April 22, 1874, and died March 5, 1910, at the age of 35 years, 11 months, and 17 days. Sister Highsmith leaves her husband and three children, besides father, mother, brothers, and sisters, to sorrow. She was converted to the present truth a number of years ago, and was a devoted Christian, ever laboring for the salvation of her family and friends. After her death a note was found, addressed to her husband, stating that she had prayed earnestly for certain ones, that they might meet her in the new earth. We baptized one of these just a month after her death. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother Lewis. She was laid to rest in the Dixie (Ga.) Cemetery to await the soon coming of the Life-giver. “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Matt. 5:4. C. B. STEPHENSON.
GREER.—Reuben Hugh Greer, the oldest of the fourteen children of Thomas and Minerva Greer, was born Feb. 15, 1848, and died of rheumatism of the heart, April 3, 1910, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Travillis, near Prentice, Wis. Almost all of his life was spent near Aledo, Ill., where his parents settled in an early day on a large tract of land, and where most of his surviving brothers and sisters still live. He was married July 4, 1871, to Miss Sarah H. Dungan, and in the fall of the same year they both were baptized by Elder R. F. Andrews, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Aledo, of which church he remained a faithful member until his death. To them were born four children, two of whom are living. The writer conducted the funeral service April 8, in the Methodist church at Aledo, the pastor of the church, Rev. Pittenger, assisting. A wife, two children, and a large circle of relatives and friends are left to mourn, but not without a bright prospect. He was buried by the side of his two little boys, who died in childhood, and were placed in one grave. F. J. HARRIS.

Double Last Year's Circulation

By Editor

THE Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor for 1909 reached a circulation of one hundred twenty-five thousand which was most gratifying to the publishers. We are pleased to state, however, that the edition for 1910 has reached a sale of one hundred thousand copies, and the campaign has but recently begun. Throughout the country everywhere it is meeting with a warm reception, and that, too, from all classes of people. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, gives these words of appreciation:—
Permit me to congratulate you upon the excellent work you are doing through the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. Among all the social problems of the day, there is none so important as the extirpation of the open saloon.
Miss Lucy Gaston, superintendent and founder of the Anti-Cigarette League of the United States and Canada, expresses her warm appreciation of this number of the Instructor:—
You have surely given to the world a most valuable contribution to the available temperance and anti-cigarette literature in your Temperance Instructor, some extra copies of which I am in receipt, and which I shall try to place where they will do the most good. I have gone through it carefully again with an appreciative friend and its value grows upon me. I am glad to know of its large circulation, and shall be glad to recommend it to workers.
These are but examples of the many good words being received from the friends of the publication from every quarter. We hope that our own people will as fully appreciate this valuable number, and will do everything in their power to give it a wide circulation — double that of last year — among their friends and neighbors. This its merit warrants.

Rioting in China

The center of the rioting in China seems to be Chang-sha, Hunan, where we have a station, under Brother T. J. Laird and wife. The despatches seem assuring that the Europeans in Chang-sha have found refuge in foreign consulates and on shipping, several small gunboats of foreign powers having run up the river to Chang-sha. We pray that our workers and all the missionary army may be protected, and that quickly this antiforeign rising may subside. These things are signs to us to hasten on with the work in the far East. The work not done in times of peace, will have to be done in times of unrest and tumult. The world is straining every nerve for the coming Armageddon; it is for us to devote every resource to the work of God.

New York Bible Workers’ Training School

For the education of workers to take part in the campaign which is now going forward in New York City, a Bible workers' training-school will be held in New York beginning May 4. This is conducted by the Greater New York Conference, assisted by the General Conference. Elder E. A. Merrell and wife, who have had long experience in city mission work, are in charge of the school. This affords a splendid opportunity for young men and women who wish to obtain a fitting for Bible work. For full information address Elder E. A. Merrell, 2342 Crotona Ave., near 187th Street and Southern Boulevard, New York City, N. Y.
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