p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 10. (3/11/1909)

Earlier text: A Proposed Religious Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

The Advent Messenger

By Editor

ANOTHER periodical has been established as a herald of the advent message. The purpose of this new paper, issued at St. John's, Newfoundland, and edited by Elder C. H. Keslake, is clearly stated in its name, The Advent Messenger. The first edition consists of five thousand copies. We hope it will be an efficient agency in spreading the truth in its field.

Encouraging Increase in Mission Offerings

The Mission Board reports a very encouraging increase in mission offerings in some of the States in the home land. One large conference not only reached the mark of ten cents a week for each member during 1908, but after adding over two hundred Sabbath-keepers, new members, an average of thirteen cents per capita was donated to missions. Another small conference in the South writes that more offerings to missions were received during January and February of this present year than during the whole of 1907. This is a most encouraging showing.

The Temperance Number of the Youth's Instructor

AN earnest advocate of temperance, and a compendium of most useful information upon the temperance question, is the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. This number is illustrated from a practical and educative, as well as from a decorative, standpoint. It deals with intemperance, and its results along the three recognized lines of treatment—liquor drinking, tobacco using, and intemperate diet. The reader will find on every page important matter, either of a live statistical nature or a strong setting forth of the evils of the liquor traffic in its effect upon the lives of its immediate victims and upon those who suffer indirectly through the ruin of those upon whom they depend. No one can read this number of the Instructor and not be a stronger advocate of temperance, and better equipped to work for others who have suffered or may suffer through the curse of liquor. It is an excellent number to use in missionary work, and hundreds of thousands ought to be sold. The price of this number is ten cents where only single copies are ordered; 5 copies, at 5 cents each; 25 copies, at 4 cents each; 100 copies, at 3¾ cents each; 500 copies, at 3½ cents each; and 1,000 copies, at 3 cents each. Address The Youth's Instructor, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

A Sick Man’s Vote Defeats Gamblers

THAT the effort of a sick man, in casting his legislative vote, killed the hopes of the race-track gamblers of New York State last June, was flashed by telegraph throughout the country the day the victory was won. Whether his effort would cost him his life was not known at the time. He recovered; but he has never before told his own story of that day, and of the stirring events that led up to it. The story is now published, for the first time, exclusively in The Sunday School Times of February 20, for which journal the heroic legislator, the Hon. Otto G. Foelker, has written it.

Morris Lukens Takes Up New Duties

In harmony with the arrangements already announced, Elder Morris Lukens has finished his work in the Review and Herald Office, and is now attending one of two canvassers' institutes in the field on his way to his work as president of the Indiana Conference. He is now at Clearfield, Pa., and will probably attend a portion of the institute at Mount Vernon, Ohio. After reaching Indiana, Brother Lukens will doubtless join the workers for a few days in the institute at Berrien Springs, Mich. We hope Brother Lukens will enjoy a large measure of blessing in taking up his new duties in the Indiana Conference.

I. H. Evans Returns from the Far East

AFTER being absent from Washington something over six months, during which time he has visited our mission work in Japan, Korea, and China, Elder I. H. Evans returned to his duties in the General Conference Office last week. He brings a very interesting report of his experiences during this extended trip, and his report abundantly justifies the wisdom of the action taken inviting him to spend this time in the far East. Last Sabbath morning, Brother Evans spoke to the Takoma Park church, giving such an account as the time would permit of his experiences in Japan, the present development of, and the outlook for, the work in that field.

Teachers Needed for Guatemala School

THERE has been a very urgent call for competent teachers to take charge of the English school recently opened in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and to meet this demand the Mission Board invited Brother W. E. Hancock and wife to go to Guatemala at once. Brother Hancock has been in attendance at the Foreign Mission Seminary for the past two years, while Sister Hancock has been associated in the work of the Sabbath-school Department. These workers left Washington last week to take up their new duties at once. This experience illustrates again the value of the Foreign Mission Seminary as a recruiting station from which workers can be selected to fill important positions.