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A Practical Missionary Movement

By L. A. Hansen

(Second Reading)

The sanitarium relief campaign has now been before us long enough, and has made sufficient progress, to demonstrate that it is a practical missionary movement. Originating with the dedication of the book “Ministry of Healing,” a movement was begun by which considerable financial assistance would come to our sanitarium work. Conditions of financial need in a number of our sanitariums led to an organized effort for the sale of this book in the United States. The author, the publishers, tract societies, and all our conferences have joined in the effort; and now our people everywhere are uniting to make it a success.

The campaign provides for the sale of Life and Health, in connection with “Ministry of Healing.” Three years were allotted for fulfilling the requirements of the campaign; namely, that each member sell at least two copies of the book and five copies of the journal each year. The time is ample, and the terms are simple enough to permit almost any one under almost any conditions to perform his part. Of course it is permissible and even desirable to complete the work in less time, as some propose to do, and also to do more than the specified amount. Some have already sold more than their individual share of books and journals, and are still at work.

The reports coming in are verifying the predictions that have been made as to the results of this movement. Its primary object begins to be realized in actual cash income to some of our sanitariums. The monthly statement of one sanitarium shows the receipt of $712.50 from the campaign in its conference. Another reports that money is coming in to make it possible to pay interest-bearing debts. Others report material help being received, and thus courage comes to those who are bearing burdens of financial pressure. The full cash returns of this campaign should amount to nearly half a million dollars. To secure this much-needed money in the manner provided by this campaign, is certainly a practical matter. We are told that by the sale of our relief books, much money may be raised for the work of our institutions, leaving our people more free to give of their means for the opening of the work in new missionary fields. See “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. IX, page 80.

The statement that by the sale of “Ministry of Healing” many persons will be brought to our sanitariums, is also being verified in fact. In presenting the book to people, opportunity is given to direct those who are sick to our health institutions; and as people read it, they become interested in this part of our work. This means a further help to these enterprises by developing for them a constant patronage, which is essential to their financial success. Thus may we render effectual help to an important missionary branch of our cause by a little effort on our part. This is practical, and this feature alone is reason enough for us to engage in this campaign.

The financial returns, however, are not all that we may expect from this effort, nor are they even first in importance. Many persons will find healing for physical infirmities by being brought to our health centers. Much suffering will be relieved or avoided by the good and plain instruction received from the health publications sold. The sale of about four hundred thousand copies of “Ministry of Healing” and nine hundred thousand copies of Life and Health will surely do much toward making natural law plain, and encouraging obedience thereto, thereby reducing the sum of human suffering and woe.

Of still greater importance is the precious privilege afforded of bringing spiritual blessing to many souls. There are sin-sick ones who find the way to the Great Healer by means of their physical restoration. Many experiences that are being reported indicate clearly that the good thus accomplished is beyond measure. Our good missionary book is leading many into a fuller study and knowledge of Bible truth. Interest is aroused, and inquiries are made as to other phases of our work and belief. Other books are requested and are read. In various ways people are being led to an acceptance of the truth and into a fuller Christian experience. The final harvest alone will tell the results of this movement, in souls saved.

This service is a blessed one, and many are bearing witness thereto. Space will not permit relating even a small part of the grand experiences enjoyed by those engaging in this work. It does not take much to prove the precious promises that have been made concerning it, and those who try to do something find full reward for their efforts. Even those who enter upon the work with hesitancy and with a feeling of inability, are surprised at the results. A new experience in effectual missionary work and in the joy that attends it, is realized. As in our former relief campaign there were many who developed working ability, so now there are those who are learning how to do practical missionary work. How shall we estimate the sum total of benefit to our own people in this movement of missionary co-operation?

There is nothing difficult or intricate about this work. One does not need to be an experienced canvasser or “know how to sell books” in order to do his

part. People will buy good books when given an opportunity to know what they are. “Ministry of Healing” appeals to all classes. Its contents and general make-up make it a ready seller. Many of our people say it is the easiest selling book they have canvassed for. A number of books have been sold by merely leaving a copy with a friend or neighbor. Ministers are found who are glad to secure it and to recommend it. Temperance workers gladly receive and indorse it, and in some instances aid in its sale. It may be sold outright, or a copy may be used to take orders with. The best preparation for selling it is a personal knowledge of its contents.

A good field for its sale is offered among business men. To call their attention to the book and the plan of relief upon which it is sold, will in most cases result in a sale. Some even buy several copies for friends or employees. One brother in a town where we are well known took orders for ninety copies in two days in the business houses. One bank took eleven books. Others bought a number to use as presents. We need not hesitate to offer this precious volume to any one.

Many favorable things, likewise, may be said regarding our excellent health journal. Life and Health is meeting with a popular reception; its sale and circulation are making remarkable progress. No one need fear to undertake its sale, and all may feel a satisfaction in having placed in some one's hands that which may result in much good. In ordering and remitting, state that you are working for the sanitarium relief campaign fund. Our foreign ten-cent magazines may be substituted where desirable.

Let those who have not yet done anything, now make a beginning. Churches that have not yet entered upon the work should make up an order from their members of from two to six books each. Send to the State tract society or other source of supply. If cash can be sent, this should be done, but arrangements are generally made for securing time in which to sell the books and pay for them. Transportation charges are paid from the office. Printed canvasses and instructions may be had. Books may be had in German, Danish-Norwegian, and Swedish, all at the same price.

More than one year is already gone. We should make an earnest effort to get our share of this work done within the allotted time. But to finish a task, it is necessary that it should have a beginning. Do not delay to make it. Much is lost by delaying; but a great deal is gained by working.

L. A. HANSEN.

A Vermont Memorial Against Sunday Laws

The following memorial was communicated to the Twenty-first Congress by the citizens of Windham County, Vermont:—

“To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:

“The memorial of the undersigned, in behalf of the citizens of the county of Windham and State of Vermont, respectfully represents:—

“That your memorialists have observed with unfeigned concern the efforts which have been made, and, as they believe, are still being made, to procure the passage of a law of Congress, prohibiting the transportation of the mail on the first day of the week; and although your memorialists repose entire confidence in the wisdom of the national councils, yet are they impelled, by a sincere conviction of the pernicious tendency of the proposed law, to approach your honorable bodies, and respectfully submit their views to your consideration.

“Your memorialists would not have deemed it their duty to come before the national legislature at this time with any expression of their sentiments, if the petitioners against Sunday mails had founded their request in motives of state expediency or public convenience; but they have remarked, with anxiety and alarm, that the proposed law is solicited on the assumed ground that the first day of the week is set apart by God for rest and religious worship. This request is a source of anxiety to your memorialists, because it presents to your honorable bodies a question of a purely religious nature; and of alarm, because the decision of that question necessarily involves a principle dangerous, as they believe, to the rights and liberties of the citizen. . . .

“Your memorialists also believe that the proposed measure is obnoxious to an insurmountable objection, derived from that clause of the Constitution which prohibits Congress from passing any law respecting an establishment of religion. The cautious phraseology in which this prohibition is expressed is worthy of notice, as evincing an extreme jealousy of all governmental interference in matters of religion. . . .

“Your memorialists can not discover any real force in the arguments by which the petitioners against Sunday mails have endeavored to fortify their request. The petitioners object that the present law compels the citizen to violate the sabbath. If, by this objection, they mean to affirm that there is any legal compulsion in the case, the position is evidently false, inasmuch as all contracts with the Post-office Department are purely voluntary; but if they intend a moral compulsion arising from pecuniary inducements, then, indeed, it has been well answered that their affected piety becomes the mere pretext of a mercenary speculation. . . .

“Against the union of church and state all history raises its warning voice. Religion becomes corrupted and debased by the alliance, and sinks into an intolerant superstition; and civil liberty never yet found a deadlier foe than bigotry armed with the sword of temporal power. . . .

“The true religion of the mild and merciful Jesus, like her Author, is meek and humble: she never aspired to earthly dominion nor sought aid from the arm of civil power; the scepter and the diadem of temporal sovereignty are as a brittle reed in her hands and a crown of thorns on her head. Relying on her own excellencies, she defies all human opposition, and spurns away the support of all human legislation, as a species of defense suited only to a false and bloody superstition.”

Among the resolutions adopted by this convention were the following:—

“Resolved, That all legislative enactments intended to prohibit the transportation and opening of the mail on the first day of the week are opposed to the spirit and letter of that Constitution which forbids a preference of one religious sect over another, and guarantees equal rights and privileges to all.”

“Resolved, That Col. R. M. Johnson is entitled to the applause and gratitude of his countrymen for his bold and manly efforts in resisting the repeated attempts of the Christian party in politics in obtaining the passage of a law prohibiting the opening and transportation of the mail on the first day of the week, and for his able and talented reports against the prayer of the various petitions for the same.”

The above excerpts are taken from “American State Papers,” pages 303–311, dealing with the Post-office Department; and while reminiscent, they are presented to illustrate the views of our early congresses on the subject of Sunday laws. Perhaps the best epitome of these views is to be found in the report of Col. R. M. Johnson, in the Sunday Mail Report of 1830, in which it was stated, among other things: “It is perhaps fortunate for our country that the proposition [demand for Sunday law] should have been made at this early period, while the spirit of the Revolution yet exists in full vigor.”

Personal Missionary Work

AGAIN the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.

One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.—John 1:35-46.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; S. B. Horton

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL - - - - Secretary

S. B. HORTON - - - - Assistant Secretary

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent post-paid:—

Dr. E. O. Dickerson, Clarksville, Tenn.

James Harvey, 1373 Grove St., Oakland, Cal., paper and tracts.

Mrs. Esther Newman, Ong, N. D., Jewish, Finnish, and Russian literature.

Mrs. E. L. Marley, 1507 Seventeenth Ave., Meridian, Miss., papers and tracts. REVIEW not desired.

E. W. Wolfe, Box 177, Provo, Utah, large supply of the Signs of the Times and other papers, also tracts.

Sara Cornforth, Rodeo, N. M., Signs of the Times, Youth's Instructor, Little Friend, Gospel Sentinel, tracts.

Mrs. Lizzie Symons, Route 1, Sterling, Mich., monthly and weekly Signs of the Times, Life and Health, Youth's Instructor, Life Boat. REVIEW not desired.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1911

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern New England .......... June 1-10 New York ....................... June 8-18 Massachusetts .................. June 15-25 Maine .......................... June 22 to July 2 Western New York ............... June 22 to July 2 Northern New England ........... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

North Michigan, Gladstone ...... June 19-25 North Michigan, Traverse City ... Aug. 24 to Sept. 23

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

South Dakota, Redfield ......... May 30 to June 6 Minnesota, Hutchinson ........... June 8-18 North Dakota, Harvey ............ June 20-27 Iowa ............................ Aug. —

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern Oregon, Roseburg ...... May 11-21 Southern Idaho, Ontario, Ore. ... May 18-28 Upper Columbia, Walla Walla, Wash. ... May 25 to June 4 Western Washington, Seattle ..... June 1-11 Western Oregon, Forest Grove .... June 8-18 Montana ........................ June 15-25

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Central California, Tulare ...... May 18-28

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana, Baton Rouge ......... July 27 to Aug. 6 Alabama ........................ Aug. 3-13 Kentucky ....................... Aug. 17-27 Mississippi ..................... Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 Tennessee River ................. Sept. 7-17

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas .......................... Aug. 3-13 West Texas ...................... Aug. 10-20 New Mexico ...................... Aug. 17-27 Oklahoma ........................ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Arkansas ........................ Sept. 7-17 South Texas ..................... Nov. 2-12

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

South Carolina .................. July 20-30 North Carolina .................. Aug. 3-13 Georgia ........................ Aug. 10-20 Cumberland ...................... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Florida ........................ Sept. 21 to Oct. 2

European Division

SCANDINAVIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Norway, Bergen .................. May 17-21 Sweden, Stockholm ............... May 24-28 Finland, Helsingfors ............ May 31 to June 4 Denmark, Aarhus ................. June 7-11

WEST GERMAN UNION CONFERENCE

German-Swiss .................... June 21-25 Belgium ........................ July 19-23

GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE BIENNIAL COUNCIL

Friedensau, Germany ............. July 4-16

EAST GERMAN UNION MEETINGS

Friedensau, Germany ............. July 6-16, afternoons

LATIN UNION CONFERENCE

Roman-Swiss and Latin Union .... July 18-23 France and Holland .............. July 26-30 Barcelona ....................... Aug. 1-5

BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE

North England ................... Aug. 3-8 Scotland ........................ Aug. 10-13 Ireland ......................... Aug. 17-29 Wales ........................... Aug. 24-27 South England .................... Aug. 31 to Sept. 5

Bound Volumes of the “Protestant Magazine”

ALL numbers of Volumes I and II of the Protestant Magazine are bound in one neat cloth binding, making a large book of 450 pages, containing information of the greatest importance to our ministers, workers, and people at large; providing them with reliable, assembled, up-to-date data in convenient form, which will be very helpful and effective in their work.

Partial Contents

Note some of the subjects treated in this volume: The Roman Catholic Program (for America); The Same Papacy; The Meaning of Antichrist; The Papacy in Prophecy (four articles); The Readjustment of History (two articles discrediting Protestantism); The Papacy in Politics (three articles); The Rediscovery of a Vital Doctrine (Justification by Faith, the Mainspring of the Reformation); Romanizing the United States; Errors of Modern Theology; Babel and Babylon (world-power in religion); Origin of the Papacy.

Destroying the Foundations (the character of the teaching in some leading American colleges and universities); Evolution—Its Relation to Sin and Salvation; A False Master; The Daniel Foreview of Romanism; The Church of Rome and the Religious World-Empire.

The True and Counterfeit Gospel; The Headship of the Church; The Spiritual Decline of the Churches; The Attempted Healing of Babylon; The Higher Criticism Untenable,—Whence It Proceeds and Whither It Leads; A Roman Catholic Warns Protestants; Rome’s Substitute for Christ; The Doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church (containing the eleven articles following the Nicene creed); The Master Stroke of Rome’s Policy.

Casting the Papal Net for Government Officials; Protestant Principles Repudiated; The Dictates of Hildebrand (containing arrogant claims of the Papacy to unlimited power over church and state, translated from the Latin); A Higher Critic Under Fire; The Churches of the Reformation Versus the Church of Rome; Roman Catholic Justification; Episcopal Oath of Allegiance to the Pope; Tradition Supplanting Scripture in the Roman Catholic Church.

The Consistent Intolerance of the Roman Catholic Church (The “Fairbanks-Roosevelt-Vatican affair); The “Unanimous Consent” Principle Applied to a Famous Text (an important comment on Matt. 16: 18); The King’s Oath; Molding Public Sentiment (in favor of Rome); On the Prophecies Respecting the Church of Rome (two articles with important historical data); Protestantism Versus Catholicism; A Physician’s View of Christ’s Miracles.

Surrendering to the Papacy; Spain and the Vatican; The Change in the King’s Oath (Roman Catholic interpretation of this action); True and Counterfeit Christianity; Pope Pius X and the Reformation; Mary, the Hope of Sinners; The Pope’s Encyclical in Protestant Germany; The Deity of Christ; The Primitive Church and Primacy of Rome (two articles); Some Principles Established by the Vatican Council.

The Old Paths; The Predicted Catholic Revival; A Basic Difference Between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; The Conversion of America to the True Faith (The Catholic Mission Movement in America); A Roman Catholic Prison (the case of Mabel Wellington, who was confined in a Catholic institution for a period of years, and who was awarded $4,000 damages by the civil courts of Michigan); Fallacies of the Higher Criticism; Did Christ Found the Papacy? The Canon Law (the pontifical power in civil and spiritual jurisdiction, the original Latin, with the translation).

Many other subjects besides these cited are treated in this volume. There is also much strong editorial comment, and twenty-five or more pages of news notes, extracts, etc., giving significant paragraphs relating to Romanism and decadent Protestantism.

This volume also contains thirteen full-page illustrations, finely printed, which are of real historical value. The book is sewed with thread (not stapled with wire), and can be furnished in manila paper cover for $1, and in full cloth for $1.50.

Address the Protestant Magazine, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

N. B.—The Protestant Magazine is published quarterly at 25 cents a year. Single copy, 10 cents. The last issue is worth many times its price, because of the important matter it contains.

Brief Mention

By S. B. H.

THE churches of the District of Columbia Conference have passed resolutions protesting against the passage of the Johnston District Sunday bill (S. 237), and have sent them to the Senate.

A SERIES of interesting incidents is to be found in the following circumstances and personages connected with Sunday legislation: Senator Johnston, of Alabama, is the father of the proposed Sunday law for the District of Columbia now pending in the Senate; Congressman Ben Johnson, of Kentucky, is the chairman of the House Committee on the District of Columbia; Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, was a member of both Senate and House, and fathered the famous Sunday Mail Reports, which advised against the enactment of Sunday laws by Congress; the biographer of Alexander Campbell (Christian denomination) claims that he rendered valuable assistance to Colonel Johnson in the preparation of the Sunday Mail Reports (“Memoirs of A. Campbell,” by R. Richardson, Vol. I, pages 536, 537). S. B. H.

Southern Idaho Camp-Meeting

By J. M. Willoughby

THE annual camp-meeting of the Southern Idaho Conference will be held at Ontario, Ore., May 18-28, 1911. A workers' meeting, beginning May 11, will precede the camp-meeting. Bible studies will be conducted. We cordially invite our brethren and sisters to attend the workers' meeting. We are promised good help from the General and union conferences. We expect the largest and best meeting in the history of this conference.

Those who camp on the ground will be furnished family tents free of charge; if the tents are floored, the lumber will be charged. A dining-tent will be operated, where wholesome meals will be served at reasonable prices. Cooked foods will be on sale at the kitchen tent.

We expect to secure the usual reduced rates on the railroads. To obtain the benefits of these, those who come by rail must secure from railroad agents receipts for all tickets purchased, stating the purpose of the trip. Bring these receipts to the camp-ground, where they will be signed by the secretary of the conference.

We earnestly urge all our brethren and sisters throughout this conference to come and bring their children with them, praying that the Lord will abundantly bless the services.

J. M. WILLOUGHBY.

Special Summer Course of the Wabash Valley Sanitarium Medical Missionary Nurses' Training School

RECOGNIZING the great need of medical missionary work, and the importance of carrying forward every branch of this great message, and that all can not spend several years in gaining a complete medical missionary nurse's training, this institution has provided a special four months' summer course, lasting from May 15 to September 1, in which students may gain a practical knowledge of simple treatments in hydro- and electro-therapeutics, practical points in nursing, accidents and emergencies, physical culture, domestic economy, etc. Classes will also be held in the Bible and the Testimonies.

Due recognition and credit from this school will be given to all who successfully pass these branches. All those taking this summer course, and passing satisfactorily, will be given full credit therefor in the regular course, should they arrange to remain now or return later.

Opportunity will be given for graduates of other schools, and members of alumni in various localities, who wish to study preparatory to taking the State board examination, to come during this period and attend regular classes. A copy of our training-school catalogue will be furnished upon request, giving all the details relative to the summer course as well as the regular. Address Faculty, Wabash Valley Sanitarium, La Fayette, Ind.

North Dakota Conference

OUR annual camp-meeting and conference will be held in Harvey, N. D., June 20-27. We have the promise of the brethren at Washington that good outside help will be present. Now is the time to arrange to come—and be sure to plan to bring the children.

The first meeting of the conference will be held Tuesday, June 20, 1911, at 9 A. M. The churches should select their delegates at once, and send their names to the undersigned, that credentials may be forwarded to them. All should be present at the opening meeting.

J. J. REISWIG, Secretary.

Upper Columbia Conference and Camp-Meeting

By G. E. Langdon; T. G. Johnson

THE thirty-first annual session of the Upper Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Walla Walla, Wash., May 25 to June 4, 1911, for the election of officers for the ensuing year and the transaction of such other business as may come before the conference. Rates have secured over the railways on the certificate plan—one full fare going and one third returning. Tickets can be purchased May 24-29 only.

The Upper Columbia Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, also the Upper Columbia Mission Society, will elect their officers at this session. The first business meeting will be held Friday, May 26, at 9 A. M.

G. E. LANGDON, President; T. G. JOHNSON, Secretary.

A Truly Great Paper

By Editor

The Tercentenary Special of the “Signs of the Times Weekly”

THE leading articles of this great Bible number of the Signs of the Times weekly are as follows:—

“The Annals of the English Bible,” by M. E. Olsen, tells how men of God labored, and even died, to give the people of England the Bible in their own language, from early ages till their efforts were crowned by the King James Version of 1611. It reads like a romance.

“Later Revisions and Versions,” by the editor. A brief sketch of later revisions, and the real need which brought out the Revised Versions, the best translations in the world.

“Influence of the Bible on the English Language,” by L. A. Reed. A telling review of the effect of the Bible on the English language, moral as well as literary. We are drifting from it now.

“The One Living, Ever Present-Day Book,” by George W. Rine. The Bible is not out of date; it is not an ancient classic; it meets the needs of to-day, full of the sympathy and life of God.

“The Power of the Word to Save,” by C. L. Taylor, brings before us concretely the fact that, as of old, so now, the Bible has power to save from sin and its consequences. It is a living Word.

“Blessings of Bible Study,” by Mrs. E. G. White. One of the best from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, presenting before us the Bible, and the Bible alone, and all human authority or opinions subject to that.

“The Bible and Religious Liberty,” by W. A. Colcord, clearly sets forth that the religious liberty manifested in its full flower in America as nowhere else in the world, was born of the principles declared in the Bible, and taught by Jesus, the Saviour of men.

“Important Dates Regarding the Bible,” by the editor, gives in chronological order all the dates of the important versions and translations of the Scriptures, from B. C. to the present generation.

Extracts From Great Men on the Bible

WE know of no magazine, no journal, no periodical publication whatsoever, not even the great Bible Society publications, that gives in any one number or any five numbers, the information which this issue of the Signs of the Times of May 9 contains. Every one at all interested in the Bible—Christian or infidel—would pay five cents for it if the opportunity were offered him. And there is soul-saving in it also.

Prices

This important special number of our pioneer missionary paper will be furnished to those interested in its circulation at a very reasonable price. Every reader should see that his friends have the privilege of reading its pages. Do not permit this opportunity to pass without using some copies of this splendid number. It will be sent out at the following rates: 10 copies, 25 cents; 20 copies, 50 cents; 40 copies, $1.

Order through your tract society.

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“Signs” Magazine for June

THE June number of the Signs of the Times magazine appears with a beautiful and appropriate cover, illustrating the prophecy of Dan. 12:4. It contains a number of leading articles. One of the special articles, by the editor, is entitled “Many Shall Run To and Fro.” In it is shown the providence of God in the great inventions of the past hundred years or more, the extent and results of those to-day, and how all these are for a purpose,—the giving of the gospel in this generation.

Western Oregon Conference

By P. A. Hanson; C. F. Folkenberg

THE ninth annual session of the Western Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Forest Grove, Ore., June 8-18, 1911, for the election of officers for the ensuing year and the transaction of such other business as may come before the conference at that time. The first business meeting of the session will be held at 9 A. M., June 9. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the church, without regard to membership, and one additional delegate for every fifteen members.

P. A. HANSON, President; C. F. FOLKENBERG, Secretary.

Glendale Sanitarium Training School for Missionary Nurses

We desire at least twenty-five young people for our nurses' class to begin June 1, 1911. Applicants will be admitted to the class any time during May and June, but it is well to enter as early as possible.

We are now able to offer a strong course, in which an exceptionally large amount of valuable practical experience may be obtained. Our proximity to Los Angeles enables us to give our nurses a thorough training, each nurse spending some time in visiting nurse's work in this city. We desire to put at least twelve nurses into Los Angeles during the next few months to help do the work there that we are being called to do in all our large cities. We can do this and more if our young people will respond to this call. The training that we can offer is one which many of our young people, if not all, should have in order to prepare them for active missionary service as nurses, canvassers, and Bible workers.

We are preparing to open up a surgical ward in our sanitarium, and this will greatly increase our surgical and obstetrical work.

Those desiring to enter should apply as early as possible to Belle Wood-Comstock, M. D., Glendale, Cal.

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