Recent Publications and Avondale Health Retreat
The Signs of the Times has received a pamphlet of thirty-two pages entitled “Letter from Grateful ‘India to Her American Benefactors.” It is sent out by the Americo-India Famine Relief committee in India, of which Hon. William T. Fee, U. S. consul, is chairman, and Rev. R. A. Hume, D.D., American Marathi Mission, Executive Secretary. The other members of the committee are prominent gentlemen in India. The funds received have been used to furnish food to the starving, seed to the farmers for sowing their fields, construction of wells, clothing, kitchens for providing cooked food, purchase of cattle, support of famine children, industrial education of famine children. The letter contains many expressions of gratitude from the viceroy of India, governors of provinces, missionaries, and others. “Science and Faith” is the name of a little journal published by Dr. L. A. Reed, Jacksonville, Ill. Its aim is to show that true science is not inimical to faith in God and His Word, but is an aid to it. The number before us discusses “The Transfer of Energy,” “The Composition of Matter,” “The Power of Little Things,” and other subjects of interest. Price, 75 cents a year; single copy, 10 cents. A neat little souvenir comes to us of the “Avondale Health Retreat,” established near Cooranbong, New South Wales, seventy-five miles from Sydney. The illustrations of the buildings and surroundings show the institution to be pleasantly located. With Mr. and Mrs. Doctors Kress as the medical heads to the institution, assisted by a good corps of workers, we are sure that this institution will indeed prove to many a health retreat, a place where health may be recovered and benefited by those who have lost this desirable thing. “Helping Hand Series,” Vol. 3, No. 3, published at 40 King Street, Worcester, Mass., is on the subject of orphanage work among the Armenians. It contains illustrations of children, with much interesting matter showing the work done.