Items of General Interest

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Sep 14, 1916

Items of General Interest

ELDER W. A. SPICER reached Washington last week, returning from his visit to Great Britain.

A LETTER from Dr. W. A. Ruble tells of the excellent success which is attending the work of the New England Sanitarium, at Melrose, Mass. The institution is having an excellent patronage, and the Lord is blessing the work in many ways.

A POEM was published some time ago in the REVIEW, “If I Should Die Tonight,” which was credited to Henry Ward Beecher. We learn that this is a mistake, and that credit should have been given to Miss Arabella Eugenia Smith, who died at Santa Barbara, Cal., July 25, aged seventy-one years.

BROTHER F. F. OSTER, who is still laboring in Persia, writes that he has been holding some meetings in Tabriz, where an interest was developed from the labors of Sister Staubert. He presented the Eastern Question to a large audience in the Armenian Club House. We are glad to hear that these workers are well and able to continue their work.

ON Sabbath, October 14, there will be given in our churches readings relating to our medical work in Loma Linda. An interesting program has been prepared. At this time a collection will be taken for the benefit of The Ellen G. White Memorial Hospital to be erected at Los Angeles as an adjunct of the work at Loma Linda. We hope that every reader of the REVIEW will definitely plan to have a part in the offering which will be made on that occasion.

IN a letter recently received by the Mission Board from Sister J. V. Willson, of South Africa, she states that Sister W. H. Anderson and herself plan to leave together for the States as soon as business affairs and sailing arrangements permit. While sorrowing, Sister Willson’s courage is good, and she desires to find some place where she can help in the finishing of the work. Her husband sleeps near Kimberley, where they have so long labored. Her only daughter lies buried on this side the ocean. To such the morning of the resurrection is bright with future promise.

A LETTER from Elder Joseph Steed, of Apia, Samoa, in which he inclosed an article for the REVIEW, tells how the work is going forward in that island. Brother Steed says: “Our work is progressing. We have just completed a good mission home, the first we have had in this part of the field, making two mission homes that we now have in Samoa. This, with the needed church, will help to give our work a standing that it has not had for many years. We rejoice when we see the progress of the message in other lands, and long for the time to come when as workers we shall rejoice together in the final harvest.”

A LETTER from Mrs. M. C. McReynolds informs us that in the list of graduates from the Loma Linda Medical School, published in the REVIEW, one name was omitted, that of Dr. Addella M. Black, who was graduated from the medical school in 1915. She is now taking a needed rest at her home in Indiana, but will shortly connect with one of our institutions.

IN the July number of Eastern Tidings, the official organ of the India Union Mission, Brother C. Stafford, who has been selling publications in that field, tells how he was summoned before the district superintendent of police to answer for his faith. He had been reported as circulating Christian Science literature and working for Christian Science hospitals. The inspector soon learned that our brother is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which he had never heard. Brother Stafford, in writing of his interview with this official, says:— “On the day in question, I duly appeared. I was more severely cross-questioned than I had ever been before. It was evident that the inspector had never heard of Seventh-day Adventists; and while he questioned me, he wrote the answers very fully. Altogether, through his questioning, I was able to place clearly before him many points of our faith, the number of sanitariums we have throughout the world, our schools, etc. ‘Why,’ he said, ‘I don’t understand what sanitariums have to do with a religious body. Can you tell me that?’ I told him, referring to the great work Christ did along this line. Then he said, ‘Well, what is this seventh-day business? I do not understand.’ Thank the Lord, I was able to give him an answer to this also. All the while he was taking notes, and by the time we had finished, he had a sheet of foolscap written closely on both sides. He finished by taking a copy of my birth certificate, and thanking me for the trouble.”