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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 24.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A CAMP-MEETING is to be held at Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, July 10–17.
THE North Michigan Conference announces a camp-meeting at Iron Mountain, June 25 to July 2.
THE West Michigan Herald notes the addition of eight members to the church at Horr, April 29, all by baptism.
THE Lake Union Conference has added a Religious Liberty Department to the general work, and Prof. J. G. Lamson has been chosen secretary.
A CAMP-MEETING is to be held at Chicago, Ill., June 21 to July 1. The meeting is to be held on the North Side, in the vicinity of Fullerton and Lincoln Avenues.
A CHURCH of twelve members is now witnessing for the truth in Mc Lean, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was organized in April, by Brother F. H. Conway.
THE summer term of Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Mich., will begin June 19. In addition to the regular summer work, there will be given a special course for those desiring a short preparation for work in the field.
THE Review announces the death, May 13, of Sister Wakeham, wife of Brother W. H. Wakeham, our missionary in Egypt. She died on board the steamer Bremen, off the coast of Spain, en route to England, and was buried at sea.
IN the Workers’ Bulletin, Brother E. W. Wolfe notes the addition of ten members to the church at Lorimer, Iowa, May 19; Brother E. G. Olsen reports four baptized on the same date at Olin, and Brother J. T. Spriggs reports the addition of three to the church at Oakland, in the same state.
AT the recent session of Lake Union Conference, the following officers were elected: President, Allen Moon; vice-president, Wm. Covert; secretary, treasurer, and auditor, W. H. Edwards; educational superintendent, W. D. Curtis; religious liberty secretary, J. G. Lamson; canvassing agent, J. B. Blosser; medical superintendent, Dr. S. P. S. Edwards.
IN the Northern Union Reaper, Brother R. E. Harter reports a meeting at Artesian, S. D., at which eight candidates were baptized. The same paper states that a church was organized at Artesian May 12, and a neat house of worship dedicated on the 13th. Brother E. G. Hayes conducted the organization exercises. This good fruit is largely the result of labor by Brother C. M. Clark.
TO the Wisconsin Reporter, Brother J. Kloss writes from Crandon: “We have organized a Sabbath-school of twenty-eight members. We expect to have a church school as soon as we can secure a place in which to hold it. The brethren here talk of building a church, and making arrangements for a school-room,” and all this prospect while as yet there is no organized church. Such is the influence of the Spirit of truth.
THE real missionary spirit was manifested by the West Michigan Conference at its recent session. The Herald says the services of Brethren F. B. Howard and Myron Butterfield were tendered to Southern Illinois Conference, the former for one year and the latter for the summer, with wages paid. Also the sum of $500 dollars was appropriated to the work in Chicago, and the services of Brother and Sister J. C. Brower were offered to the Porto Rico Mission.
THE Southern Missionary Society (address, North Station, Nashville, Tenn.) is desirous of erecting a missionary school building at Greenville, Miss. A nucleus of the work has been furnished in donation of $170 by a brother in Healdsburg, Cal. For missionary work among the colored people of the South, there is nothing of a material nature so necessary as schoolhouses. The opportunity to do good by donating for such work is always open, and practically without limit.
WE are glad to learn that the Review and Herald Publishing Association is now in full occupation of its new building at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. We are also glad to know that the balance sheet of the past year’s operations shows a gain both at the main office and at the Battle Creek branch. The circulation of the various periodicals issued by the association are said to be on the increase, and we hope this will continue to be the case, in an ever-increasing ratio.
A GENERAL offering for missions will be taken in all our churches Sabbath, June 30. As the end approaches, and greater diligence than ever before is demanded, this mid-summer offering should be an unusually liberal one. Our motto, “The Gospel to the world in this generation,” demands not merely convenient giving, but sacrifice. The only safe investment to-day is in the cause of salvation—the greatest enterprise in the world. Such investment made in faith is absolutely proof against fire, or earthquake, or rust, or robber.
THE April number of Fuh in Hsuen Pao (The Gospel Herald), published monthly at Shang Tsai Hsien, Honan, China, is before us, and this moves us to again urge that many copies of this journal be circulated among the Chinese of America and other countries foreign to China. The fact that it is printed in the home land will attract the attention of these people everywhere. There is no way in which Chinese missionary work can be done more economically than by circulating literature among them in their own language. The price is only 25 cents a year, postage paid, or two copies for 40 cents. Address Dr. H. W. Miller, as above.
THE Hanford, Cal., Journal of May 11 gives over a column to a report of the closing exercises of the “Seventh-day Adventist Industrial Grammar School,” conducted by Sister Mina Mann. The program consisted of thirty-seven numbers—Recitations, essays, dialogues, songs, etc. The report says, “A noticeable feature was that the recitations and songs were principally of an edifying nature.” Of the twenty-eight scholars, it is said, “They were all so happy that they resembled one another, and the general look was an agreeable one.” There was a large and appreciative audience present. The county superintendent of schools, Mrs. N. E. Davidson, presented the diplomas. The class motto of the graduates had been, “I Can and I Will.” “And they did,” seems to have been the verdict of the audience.
CONCERNING the work in the great Northwest, Brother W. M. Adams writes to the Workers’ Bulletin: “We are planning on putting three or four tents in the field, and as our summers are very short, we need to put in all the time in order to accomplish anything. Some one has said that ‘we have only two seasons here, winter and late fall.’ Our conference includes the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which in territory are nearly three times as large as Iowa, altho having only about one-seventh the membership. There is a very large immigration to this country. During the last three years three hundred thousand, which is not quite one-third of the entire immigration, have come from the United States. Nearly all nationalities are represented. There is every prospect of a good crop this year, and the country is on a boom.”
IN the Northern Union Reaper, Brother W. M. Adams reports some interesting experience at Gladstone, Manitoba. In course of his meetings, after twelve persons had accepted the faith, two clergymen essayed to preach against the message he was giving. But they made certain admissions that confounded their own positions. The Presbyterian minister said: “The Sabbatarians claim that Jesus Christ kept the seventh-day Sabbath, and that He never gave commandment to change it. They are right in both points.” The Methodist minister said: “There is no command in the Bible for the change of the Sabbath, and we don’t need any.” These acknowledgements in contrast with their claims for Sunday sacredness had the effect of confirming believers in the faith. It is a common thing for opposers of the truth to overreach themselves.
THE recent great earthquake is not nearly so important as a striking phenomenon in nature, as it is as a reminder of the frailty of man and his works, and the uncertainty of investment in earthly possessions. Perhaps its greatest importance is as a sign of the approaching end of all things now common in the life of human beings. It is in fulfilment of prophecy, and those who are giving the Gospel message to the world will lose much of their opportunity if they give the mere phenomenal sensation precedence over its spiritual lesson. In our literature pertaining to the earthquake and the fire, we have given the vivid illustrations in order to impress the lessons of truth that accompany them. The artistic presentation in picture is not designed, nor should it be allowed, to overshadow, but rather to emphasize, the great Gospel of the soon-coming kingdom. “This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”