Earlier text: Music"A Sunday Law in 1914"
By C. E. Holmes
UNDER the above title, the Weekly Rest Day League of the Pacific Coast issues an appeal to the various denominations for help in securing a "Sabbath law" for California. The Lord's Day Alliance, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and other organizations seeking Sunday legislation have, for the present, apparently shifted their center of activity from the East to the West, and are cooperating with the league. The chief reason for this movement, as stated by the Rest Day League, is:— "A Sabbath law is needed to protect our American institutions on this coast before the European immigrants begin to pour through the Panama Canal, lest we have the Continental sabbath established here. Then we should be able to display the American sabbath to our visitors from the ends of the earth at the Panama Exposition."—United Presbyterian, Jan. 29, 1914. There is already on the statute books of California a law providing for a one day's rest in seven for all laborers. From a civil viewpoint, this is all that can rightfully be expected or desired. But this law does not satisfy the so-called reformers. They want protection for Sunday only. They wish it set apart as a religious institution. Mr. G. L. Tufts, former superintendent of the Pacific branch of the International Reform Bureau, has been appointed field agent for the Weekly Rest Day League. In an article in the same paper mentioned above, he says:— "More than forty of the business and labor crafts indorsed the Sabbath bill that the Weekly Rest Day League introduced in the last legislature. They want a Sabbath law, and not simply a one-day-in-seven measure. They are appealing to the churches to join them in their efforts for a Sabbath rest day as far as practicable." This statement proves what Seventh-day Adventists for years have contended, — that religious, and not merely civil, rest day legislation is sought, and this is what will be secured eventually. A17 most striking admission of the weakness of the churches to sustain their Sunday observance is made by Mr. Tufts:— “California repealed her Sabbath law thirty years ago, and today she has more criminals per capita than any other State of the Union except Nevada, and no other State has as many women criminals as the Golden State. In many towns and localities the church is practically dead.” This condition, Mr. Tufts would have us believe, is due to the lack of a Sunday law. But if criminals are increasing in spite of civil laws, how can he expect to stay the tide by making the religious Sunday a civil institution! This is surely a serious case. Religious conditions are certainly precarious when churches wither and die because there is no civil law to uphold them. Such an indictment could not be brought against the early Christian church in the days of its greatest peril from paganism. There will be a strong effort now to storm the legislative halls of California. Our people will again be obliged to take up the fight against religious intolerance. “A Sunday law in 1914” is “the war cry of the Weekly Rest Day League.” The prediction is made that “if all will respond to the war cry of the Weekly Rest Day League, and rally to its standard, a splendid Sabbath rest law can be enacted within the next ten months. But it will require a united effort under one leadership. The league has been indorsed by the various church bodies, and should have the hearty support of all the friends of a Sabbath law.” Will they succeed in their undertaking? Time will tell. The battle against the foes of religious liberty is becoming stronger every day. The intolerant spirit behind the great movement for Sunday legislation is becoming more and more pronounced. Shall we need to say more to stir all to renewed activity in the great work still before us? CORSICANA.—During the past year the Lord has wonderfully blessed his work among the colored people in this place. Besides aiding us in the building of a neat church home, which represents our message, we have seen his hand at work in increasing our membership. Our building, with its furnishings and the lot on which it stands, cost about twelve hundred dollars. The church can comfortably accommodate ninety persons. During the recent week of prayer our people received much strength. As the timely articles were read, many hearts were touched. Another season of refreshing came to us during the quarterly meeting. A young man who had turned from his life of sin and given his heart to the Lord, enjoyed the privilege of taking part in the ordinances. He united with the church during the week of prayer, and is rejoicing in the Lord. Using the Temperance
By W. Leininger
About two years ago an election was held in California, in the district where I live, to decide whether or not the liquor traffic should continue to be licensed. The result of the election showed that the voters were about equally divided, the temperance forces winning by only eight or ten votes. As soon as they could legally do so, the liquor men petitioned the board of supervisors for another election. They were led by the editor of the local paper, who circulated the petition and used his paper to boom the liquor cause. At one time it looked discouraging for the no-license forces, as the people seemed cowed by the attitude of this editor. It seemed that the only thing we could do was to circulate some of our good temperance literature. We distributed one hundred and fifty Temperance Instructors, and also held Sunday evening temperance meetings in a schoolhouse. We had lively services, and I gave brief Bible studies on different phases of the temperance question. The Lord gave us the victory by more than two hundred votes in the new election. It pays to circulate temperance literature. Experiences of a West Virginia Canvasser
By Waldo H. Wilcox
Reading the interesting reports of other canvassers in the REVIEW, makes me believe a few of my recent experiences may interest some others. Because of the work of the Millennial Dawn, or the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, followers, I had much trouble in one town. Their work was carried on under four different names. The people were very much afraid of me. At first I did not know that the “Dawnists” had gone before me, but as I called on one old gentleman, he asked me if I had sold many books in town. I told him I had found it hard on account of the “Russellism” there. He liked my book very much, however, and gave me an order. Another old gentleman asked me to come over to the Methodist Episcopal church that afternoon at half past two, as they were holding revival meetings twice a day. I prayed over the matter, that I might know what would be right. I went on taking orders, knowing the Lord would help me. At meeting time I thought it would do no harm to go in, and thus let people know I believed in church work. As I was a stranger there, they came to me and said, “You are engaged in religious work; will you not give us a little talk?” I scarcely knew what to say, as I did not wish to talk books there. So I took the text the minister had used, Gal. 6:7. I tried to impress their minds with the thought that we should be always on our guard not to sow seed that would lead others in the wrong way. One woman, on whom I had called, did not like my teaching that there is no second probation. Later I learned she was a Catholic. She talked very roughly to me, and said that the Catholics teach the doctrine of a second chance, and that they are right. I visited the —— minister. He liked the book very much and gave me an order, and told me to see the —— minister. This I did, and he also liked the book, and said he would speak to his people about it. The second afternoon they had an old-time revival service. And to my surprise, before the last song was sung, I heard these words: “There is a book agent here selling Bibles and books, and all who have not a good Bible had better get one now. The book he has is a good one. I have looked the prospectus through, and it is one that you all ought to have. It will do you good to read it, and it is no ‘Russellism,’ so don’t be afraid of it, but all get it if you can.” Then he turned and signed his name in my prospectus. I secured the names of the three ministers of the place and of the chief of police. In three days I took forty dollars’ worth of orders, and I feel sure they are all good. The Catholic woman was at the meeting the day the minister spoke of my book, and to my surprise she came to me after the meeting, with hand extended, saying: “I am sorry for the way I treated you yesterday. I am not angry now, so please forgive me.” I then gave her a tract on the “False Hope of a Second Probation.” She said she would read it with interest. It makes me feel that I have had but little faith, and that I need the Lord more and more in my work, that I may show forth the grace he has given us. The Lord surely opens the way for his message to go, and it stands us in hand to work with our might, lest the Lord find others to fill our places in the work. So let us do what our hands find to do, and not forget that our success is in answer to prayer. Using Newspapers in the Northern Union Conference
By W. L. Burgan
Many encouraging reports of the progress that has been made toward advancing the truth through the newspapers were brought to the biennial meeting of the Northern Union Conference held in Minneapolis, January 27 to February 8, by various workers in this territory. Several persons have been won to the truth who first heard of our movement either through articles in the news columns or through advertisements in the secular press. Workers in this union were quite enthusiastic over the possibilities in using this medium, and declared that they intend to continue to consider the newspaper an important feature in connection with their tent and hall efforts. Through the publication of several advertisements in one of the Minneapolis newspapers last summer, announcing the tent meetings being held in that city, three good, substantial persons accepted the truth, and are today stanch believers. One of these three, a man, lived on the north side of Minneapolis, while the tent meetings were held in the southern section of the city, his home and the tent being about five miles apart. He knew nothing of the meetings that were being held until he read one of the advertisements. He visited the tent, and became more interested in each succeeding meeting until he finally joined the ranks of the Lord’s people. Two persons in Iowa rejoice in the truth as the result of a controversy that was carried on in the newspapers between a minister of another denomination and one of our workers. When the attack was made on our cause, the only one to defend it was our foreign worker in that place. Though he had difficulty in preparing his answer in the English language, the Lord blessed his efforts. His answer was published in full, and a physician and his wife who read both sides of the controversy, took their stand for the truth and are stanch believers. One worker in Iowa stated that he had forty sermons published in connection with one tent effort. Through the papers these sermons were carried twenty-five miles into the country, as well as being circulated through the city where the papers were printed. Another brother in Iowa, who labored last season in a city where there are three daily newspapers, said he was a stanch advocate of using the press. He told of the success he had in getting extracts of sermons published, and said that though his audiences were not unusually large, yet the thousands of persons in that city and the surrounding country got the sermons through the reports in the papers. He said he knew that many not attending the services read the articles, and that considerable interest was manifested in the reports. He is planning to give some attention to the newspaper part of his tent effort during the coming season. An encouraging bit of information concerning the Northern Union Conference came to Minneapolis in the shape of a clipping. This clipping was taken from the Star published in Baltimore, Md., and gave a very interesting announcement about the meeting. The remarkable part about it was that the press association thought so well of the importance of this meeting that it sent out an announcement over the wires to various parts of the country. The announcement in Baltimore was published at least 1,200 miles from where the meeting was held, and a non-Adventist, in looking through her paper, saw the announcement, and sent a clipping to one of her relatives attending the meeting in Minneapolis. Who can tell how many persons read of this meeting, and how far it was advertised? There is power in the press to attract people to hear the truth. An important part of the newspaper work is that of bringing to the attention of the people, who would not otherwise learn about it, the fact that this glorious gospel is being preached in their city or town or neighborhood. As this agency is used more and more, it will take a prominent part in searching out the honest in heart, and also in warning others regarding the things which are coming on the world. Ministerial Reading Course
Advice to Young Preachers
IN "The Minister as Prophet," Mr. Jefferson in speaking to young preachers uses the two following apt illustrations defining a sermon:— "Go to the bee, young preacher; consider her ways, and be wise. Where does the bee get her honey? You say, Out of the flowers. You are mistaken. There is no honey in the flowers. You cannot get an ounce of honey out of a hundred fields of flowers. Open a flower and there is no honey in it, only a little sweetened water. But the bee takes the sweetened water, squeezes into it a drop of its own secretion, makes to it a personal contribution, and lo! the sweetened water becomes honey. The bee did it by personal work. And so must you. All the flowers of speech and the illustrations and the anecdotes and the stories are so many posies containing nothing but a little sweetened water. You cannot feed an audience of adults on water, even though it is sweetened. You can feed men only on thought, and you must do19 the thinking. To whatever you find you must make your own individual and personal contribution. It is only as you put your own heart and brain into your sermons that they become sweet as honey and the honeycomb." "Go to the spider, young preacher, and get from it a lesson in preaching. The spider does not weave its web out of material which is gathered from the field or the house, but the web is spun out of the substance of the spider itself. That delicate and artistic creation, the spider's web, is too fine to be made of the rough stuff of the streets. Those gossamer threads are woven out of the stuff of which the spider is made, and its miracle becomes possible only by the forthgiving of the spider's own life. If you would catch and hold the hearts of men, you must weave your sermons out of the very substance of your soul. It is not the material which other men have gathered and organized, but the stuff of your own spiritual self which is demanded by the people who think. Your personal contribution is everything. You must pour into your sermon your own heart's blood. Let me give you a new definition of sermons: they are drops of blood shed by the servants of the Lord for the redemption of the world." Speaking further, the same author cautions against depending on other men's thoughts:— "Preaching is the unfolding of truth; it is the evolution of an idea. One idea is sufficient to make a powerful sermon. A man who can take a great idea and by sheer force of brain unfold it until it glows and hangs glorious before the eyes of men, and so burns that hard hearts melt and consciences awake and begin to tremble, is a preacher indeed, and actually performs the work of the Lord. But the little dabbler in other men's thoughts, who fills up his time with secondhand anecdotes and stale stories, and tales intended to make people cry, never gets down to the place where the soul lives, and does not know either the preacher's agony or his reward. A congregation knows when it is in the hands of a man who is a thinker; and it also knows when it is listening to a man who is a retailer of other men's ideas." In the preparation of sermons there is much said by the spirit of prophecy on the importance of Bible study. From "Gospel Workers," page 122, we quote:— "Those who engage in the business of school-teaching prepare for the work. They qualify themselves by attending school, and interesting their minds in study. They are not allowed to teach children and youth in the sciences unless they are capable of instructing them. Upon applying for a situation as teacher, they have to pass an examination before competent persons. It is an important work to deal with young minds, and instruct them correctly in the sciences. But of how much greater importance is the work of the ministry! Yet many engage in the important business of interesting men and women to enter the school of Christ, where they are to learn how they may form characters for heaven, who need to become students themselves. Some who enter the ministry do not feel the burden of the work upon them. They have received incorrect ideas of the qualifications of a minister. They have thought that it required but little close study in the sciences or in the Word of God to make a minister. Some who are teaching present truth are not acquainted with their Bibles. They are so deficient in Bible knowledge that it is difficult for them to quote a text of Scripture correctly from memory. By blundering along in the awkward manner they do, they sin against God. They mangle the Scripture, and make the Bible say things that are not written therein." Dr. Broadus, in the "Preparation and Delivery of Sermons," under the heading "Accumulation of Materials" says:— "The chief materials of a sermon are in the great mass of cases not really invented at the time of preparation; they are the results of previous acquisition and reflection. This is true even of much that seems to the preacher himself to have then for the first time a place in his mind; it is, in fact, the revival of something forgotten, or the development of something already known. In this respect inexperienced and comparatively uncultivated young preachers are often greatly deceived. Their early sermons are made with ease. Ardent, zealous, excited, they find that thought springs spontaneous in the mind, and feeling flows like a torrent. They imagine that it will always be easy to find something to say which will interest themselves and their hearers. But they are like men who have inherited a fortune in cash, and who spend their principal as if it were but income. Rejoicing in his facility of speech, the young preacher is not aware that he is drawing upon all that he has thought, felt, and seen, all that he has read and heard, since his childhood. And not a few go on for some months or years, consuming all their store, and evoking all that their minds are so constituted as readily to produce, and presently begin to wonder and lament that they find it so much harder than formerly to make a sermon. In like manner, preachers who are growing old sometimes complain that people will not listen to them as in other days, when the difficulty is that they have ceased to maintain activity of mind and good store of fresh thought; and unable to interest themselves, they of course cannot interest others. These somewhat frequent and very painful experiences only illustrate the proposition, we draw our sermons mainly from what we have wrought out or learned beforehand. And when the preacher speaks from great fullness of thought, then what he says borrows power from what is in reserve, as the head of water gives force to that which strikes upon the wheel. It follows that, next to the cultivation of personal piety, there is nothing for which the preacher should so earnestly labor, from his first call to the close of his life, as the acquisition of abundant general material for preaching. "These materials will of course be drawn from every source. No kind of knowledge can be utterly useless to a preacher, and reflection, upon whatever subjects, will always leave him something which may hereafter be turned to account. But it may be well to remark upon the principal sources from which materials for preaching are derived. "The Scriptures themselves should at every period of his life be a preacher's chief study. When we meet a young brother who has just become convinced that it is his duty to preach, and who is inquiring about preparation for the work, our first word ought to be, the Bible,—not so much, at the outset, the profound study of doctrinal epistles or prophetic books as the familiar and accurate knowledge of historical facts, the analysis of Biblical characters, the memorizing of devotional passages and of precepts, the acquisition of a general familiarity with the contents of particular books and of the entire sacred collection." Plans for Camp Meeting
By Mrs. G. F. Watson
As camp meeting time approaches, we who are Missionary Volunteer secretaries should send up most earnest pleas that the great God who hears and answers the petition that comes from the heart will give us a special preparation, a putting away of everything that will prevent us from being used of him in winning the dear young people to loving service for him. In every conference may be found consecrated young people, who, if invited to do so, will gladly join in petitioning for a great measure of God's converting power to be present at the meeting. A plan to be recommended is that of writing to the parents about a month or six weeks before the date of meeting, seeking to impress upon them the need of bringing their young people with them; and a few days later writing to the young people themselves is often a stimulus to greater efforts to attend the meeting. We should be early on the ground, ready with a welcome as they come. Perhaps you can interest them in preparing the Missionary Volunteer meeting tent, which should be made to look as neat and pretty as possible. The Missionary Volunteer aim and motto should be found here, also an organ and a blackboard. Nature's decorations are always beautiful and restful. Early in the meeting arrange into prayer bands those who wish to join them. The Volunteer secretary should meet with a different band at each session. Impress the need of not omitting the meeting for a single day, and pray for the unconverted or discouraged ones whose names may be mentioned by those present. I like to spend a little time every morning with the Morning Watch text for the day, and have a season of prayer for the special object designated by the calendar. I know of one secretary who canvasses the entire camp for the Morning Watch Calendar, thus getting it into the hands of many who otherwise might never have it. Revival services should begin with the first of the meeting. Camp meeting is surely the time to bring before the young people the plans so carefully and prayerfully laid by the General Department. Standard of Attainment should be discussed, and the leaflet put into the hands of every young person. A stock of the Reading Course books should be on the ground, and one way in which to interest the young people in the books is to read selections from them at different times during the meeting. The honor roll for all those who finish before camp meeting is a stimulus to complete the course. A tent for the young ladies and one for the young men should be located in a quiet part of the camp, furnished with tables and chairs. Reading Course and Standard of Attainment certificates, the list of gift books, honor roll, files of the Instructor, and writing material. These tents should be in charge of "fishers of men." The young people should be invited to come to these tents to read and study and write. Many an hour will thus be profitably used which otherwise might be spent in idle strolling or foolish conversation. There is a diversity of opinion as to the number of workers who should have charge of the services of the young people's meetings; but whether there are two or more, they should be those who know the importance of instructing the youth in the great need of prayer, and in different ways of studying the Bible. They should be able to teach these young persons how to become soul winners. No matter how large a number are converted and baptized, unless they have learned something of the value and need of these things, they will return to their homes to do much as they did before they came. Preaching is not so much needed as instruction. A report read from each society at a meeting appointed for that purpose, telling of the work done during the year, of the offerings made, and of special efforts in temperance work and work in other lines, might bring about a healthy discussion and an interchange of plans and ideas. There is one phase of this work which should not be overlooked, and that is parents' meetings. Most earnest instruction should be given the fathers and mothers regarding the spiritual atmosphere of the home, the need of observing the Sabbath according to the instruction given us by the Lord, of family worship, of paying tithe and of teaching their children to pay tithe, of a daily study of the Sabbath school lesson, etc. But when all has been done that can be done, and the last meeting been held, and we have gone to our different homes, let us remember to pray for and write to the dear young people, especially those who have been converted at the meeting, and in this way begin at once to get ready for the next camp meeting. Suggestions for the Training of Leaders
By E. M. Graham
The training of leaders is one of the most difficult problems we have in the Missionary Volunteer work. Usually a society is organized in a church in which there are no members who have had any experience in this line of work. In such a case the leaders who are selected are untrained, at least in the Missionary Volunteer work, though they may have had experience in other lines of work. What can be done to train them into effective Missionary Volunteer leaders? It would seem that the chief burden of this training must rest on the State Missionary Volunteer secretary. Whenever possible, he should be present at the organization of each new society, and should personally instruct the leader, as well as the other officers, in his duties, should see that the leader is supplied with blanks, record books, and other requisites; and should stay long enough to give the new society a good start along right lines. Then the training should be continued by correspondence. When it is not possible for the State Missionary Volunteer secretary to be present, he might be able to commission some experienced conference worker to act in his behalf in instructing the leader in his duties. If this also cannot be done, the training must be carried on by correspondence. The training thus begun individually may be profitably continued by annual conventions and institutes to be held in groups of churches where possible, and in single churches where grouping is not feasible. These institutes should have the best conference help available, the State Missionary Volunteer secretary being present whenever at all possible, and taking a leading part in giving instruction. When possible to secure also the help of the union conference Missionary Volunteer secretary, this should be done. These conventions and institutes are valuable in the training of leaders, and even if no conference help can be given, they should be held, suitable papers on important subjects and other helpful matter being sent to the local officers to assist them in conducting a helpful meeting. Our training schools should also have a share in the training of leaders for Missionary Volunteer Societies. Each school should have a society, conducted on the same general plan as church societies, the officers to be drawn from the students, but to have the help and guidance of the teachers, that they may learn the best methods of conducting this work. Frequently helpful articles on the work of Missionary Volunteer leaders appear in the Youth's Instructor and the REVIEW. The State secretary should take note of these, and when writing to the leaders, call attention to them. It would seem that outside of the training that may be given in our schools, the burden of training leaders must rest chiefly on the union and State Missionary Volunteer secretaries. While it is a difficult work, it is a very important one, and lies at the foundation of a successful Missionary Volunteer department in any State. E. M. GRAHAM. Washington Missionary College
By W. E. H.
Our readers are already familiar with the report of the autumn council on the adjustment of colleges, published in the Review some time ago. One feature of that report was a recommendation that Washington Foreign Mission Seminary resume its work as a college. Territory was assigned as follows: for college students, Atlantic Union, Columbia Union, Southeastern Union, Southern Union, East Canadian Union (except Ontario); for academic students, District of Columbia, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Chesapeake Conferences. The membership of the board was to include four union presidents, the five local presidents, the treasurer of the General Conference, the president of the college, and four other men,—a total of fifteen. The name Washington Missionary College was fixed upon. At a constituency meeting called in December the members of this board were duly elected, with seven of their number designated as an executive committee to transact current business. Since that time the committee has been at work on the selection of a faculty and on other important matters. On February 3 the board was called together and elected the following members of the faculty: President, J. L. Shaw; department of Bible, C. Sorenson; department of history, C. L. Benson; department of English, M. E. Olsen; department of languages, L. L. Caviness; department of science, Otto John; department of mathematics, G. R. Lehman; department of the foreign mission seminary, J. N. Anderson; department of music, Clemen Hamer; public speaking and Hebrew, C. C. Lewis; assistant in the seminary department, Dr. H. W. Miller; academic grades, Mrs. Angelia Weber; architecture and carpentry, Elihu Wood; printing, F. E. Hull; sewing, dressmaking, and millinery, Rubie M. Owen. In resuming its status as a college, ample provision has been made that the school do not lose, but rather gain, in strength for the training of appointees to the foreign mission fields. President Shaw brings to the college a mature20 experience in both school and field work. He has taught in our colleges eight years, being president of Union College, South Africa, four years of this time. For twelve years he has served as superintendent of the India Mission field. He is therefore able to judge well the essential qualifications of the foreign missionary, and to direct in such preliminary training of appointees as can be given to advantage in this country. As capable assistants in this work, he has Professor Anderson, who spent seven years as superintendent of the China Mission, and Dr. H. W. Miller, who spent eight years in China. As the name Foreign Mission Seminary has become familiar to our people, and as it is also a convenient term for the General Conference brethren to use in assigning their appointees, it has been decided to call this feature of the college work the Foreign Mission Seminary department, to be known briefly, perhaps, as the Seminary department. It may thus be said of those who come for this special training before going abroad, that they have been appointed to the Seminary, as heretofore. The others on the faculty are well known and scarcely need any introduction further than to mention their term of service: Professor Sorenson, seven years in the ministry, seven years as teacher of Bible and history in Keene Academy (three years of this time as principal also), and three years as head of the Bible department of the Foreign Mission Seminary; Professor Benson, five years as head of the history department in Union College; Professor Olsen, eight years as editor of our English health magazine, and five years as head of the English department of the Foreign Mission Seminary; Professor Caviness, seven years as head of the department of languages in Union College; Professor John, four years as head of the department of science in Mount Vernon College; Professor Hamer, ten years as teacher of piano, organ, voice, and chorus in England and America; Professor Lehman, two years as head of the mathematical department of the Foreign Mission Seminary; Mrs. Weber, over twenty years as a teacher with unusual success. Besides the special work of the Seminary, it is the plan of this institution to do full college work along regular lines, drawing from its own territory the same as our other schools. It is offering a general college course, with a liberal proportion of elective studies, and a college course for ministers, both leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, this being the same degree as is given by our other colleges. Besides the growing library of the school itself, students will have access to the Library of Congress, Carnegie Library, and other special libraries of value in the national capital. The academic work will cover grades nine to twelve. In both college and academic work, the school will keep close to the course of study adopted by the departments of education in general convention. It will affiliate closely with Mount Vernon, South Lancaster, and Graysville academies, and endeavor to protect and build up their interests as well as its own. Educative industrial work will not be neglected. The printing plant is well established, and successfully conducted under the efficient management of Brother F. E. Hull, who has had ten years of all-round experience in denominational publishing work, and who is deeply interested in training printers for the mission field. In the dressmaking and millinery work, Miss Rubie M. Owen has had nine years' experience in connection with Walla Walla and Union Colleges and the Foreign Mission Seminary, and is enthusiastic and progressive in her work. Definite arrangements have been made to put in twelve sets of carpenter's tools, with benches, to begin with. Brother Elihu Wood, who has been employed to take charge of this work, is an expert carpenter and cabinetmaker, and is a practical architect, plumber, painter, and builder, having been responsibly connected with our building work at Berrien Springs, Washington, and elsewhere for over twelve years, and having spent five years as a missionary in Jamaica. The College is planning definitely for gardening, dairying, and poultry raising as fast as these can be developed. The environment of the College is specially favorable for practical missionary work by way of pastoral training, cottage meetings, and the selling of literature. The school will endeavor to maintain a high standard of thoroughness in all kinds of study, and to make the spiritual tone of primary importance in every feature of its work.