The Upper Columbia Conference is making vigorous efforts to pay the debts on the Walla Walla College. From no field come any reports more encouraging than from the far Northwest. Elder G. W. Reaser, president of the Upper Columbia Conference, is personally taking charge of the enterprise of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and is pushing it heart and soul.
The following is a circular letter which Elder Reaser is sending all over his field:—
College Place, Wash., Nov. 7, 1900.
Dear Fellow Worker: I send you herewith a copy of the Reaper, which explains the plans that have been adopted for the relief of our college from the heavy burden of debt, which has unfortunately rested upon it since its erection,—now nearly eight years,—and which, during this period, with the large amount of interest that has been paid annually, has, like a great vampire, been sapping its vitality. At times it has seemed almost impossible for the management to keep it running, and meet the demands that have been made upon it while groaning under this almost unbearable debt.
I trust, dear friend, that you will take the inclosed appeal directly home to your own heart, and that we can count on your co-operation in selling this book, and thereby “rolling back the reproach” that rests upon Walla Walla College.
Please pray over this matter, and ask the Lord to give you ability and wisdom that you may come up to the help of the Lord, and bear your part in this great work.
Any questions that you may desire to ask will be gladly answered.
We do not desire spasmodic, haphazard work, but wish a united, well-organized, intelligent effort, so that all territory may be intelligently covered, and the greatest possible number of books sold.
Please write to Upper Columbia Tract Society at once, remitting $1.25 each, for as many books as you desire, with which to begin the work, and may the Lord bless you richly as you engage in this heaven-born plan for rescuing our college from debt.
Sincerely your brother in Christ,
[Signed] G. W. Reaser.
P. S.—At a council meeting held at Spokane on the 5th inst., to consider the division of territory for a systematic and thorough canvass for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” the following distribution of workers and fields of operation was made: It was recommended that Elder Young visit Hazard, Valley, Colville, Myers Falls, Kettle Falls, and Fruitland, for the purpose of organizing our people and securing their co-operation in the work, before returning to British Columbia, after which he and Elder Stewart will devote their labors to an organized effort for the sale of the book in British Columbia; that Elder J. G. Smith be assigned to Spokane and suburbs; that Elder A. G. Christianson visit Harrison, Rockford, Lockwood, Cœur d’Alene, Post Falls, and Rathdrum; that Elder C. E. Ford go to Milan, Chewelah, Farmington, Moscow, Troy, Lewiston, and Pullman; that Elder C. E. Ford devote his attention to Medical Lake, Cheney, Davenport, and Wilbur; that Elder A. Schlotzhauer visit Edwall, Lind, Farmington, Endicott, and Westlake among our German brethren; and that Brother M. F. Hill organize our people for work at Toppenish, North Yakima, Ellensburg, and Swank Prairie. The writer will visit the churches and workers in the12southern part of our Conference for the purpose of perfecting organization for this work, while Prof. E. L. Stewart and his associate workers will have charge at Walla Walla, College Place, and Milton. Do not forget to take the Outlook Number of the Signs with you as you go out with the book.
G. W. R.
We have received two good letters from E. L. Stewart, president of Walla Walla College. It is encouraging to know that those in the college are working vigorously. This will give courage to the brethren in the field. I earnestly pray that the good work will go on, and that God will greatly bless those in the Upper Columbia Conference who are working hard to carry forward this precious cause in the earth.
College Place, Wash.
Prof. P. T. Magan, Battle Creek, Mich.
Dear Brother: I received your letter last evening. I wrote you a few days ago, but I will write you again.
I feel, with you, that now is the opportunity. We must pay the lion’s share of our college debt, the very first move we make; that will mean the summoning of every energy and every available turn. We are laying plans to do that, especially in the Upper Columbia Conference and in Walla Walla and the surrounding country. We expect to dismiss school for a day or two, thus giving the students an opportunity to engage, with the teachers and with our brethren in the village, in canvassing every man and woman within reach of the college. We are also laying plans to do a similar work in every part of the Conference; and I do not think that this district of the Conference will be behind in its work. If you think best, I will write a letter to the presidents of the different Conferences, although I had not thought of doing this, as the matter was so thoroughly discussed at the council recently held.
For my part here, I wish to be up with the rest, and not only up with them, but right where the Lord would have me be, with my shoulder to the wheel, and to leave nothing undone toward the selling of a book to every family in the country. So any suggestions that you may make will be thankfully received.
I will say that Elder Reaser himself has been put in charge of this work by request of the Conference Committee and the faculty. In this Conference every minister, Bible worker, canvasser, brother, and sister is expected to go into the work. We hope to have a ten-days’ or two-weeks’ study of the book first, and a thorough drill on the manner of presenting it, and then we are going to work with all our might. We expect to have those little introductory cards, so that the person holding them will not be working wholly as a canvasser, but will appear simply as a worker in the interests of education, stating also that the proceeds of the book, except where a regular canvasser is selling for commission, go for the interests of the college entirely. This is an excellent point. I am glad this came up this way; it gives our brethren a heart to push the work.
Please be free to make any suggestions at any time.
Your brother in Christ,
[Signed] E. L. Stewart.
College Place, Wash.
Prof. P. T. Magan, Battle Creek, Mich.
Dear Brother: Your letters just received on last mail, and I hasten to reply. I wish to say in regard to this book business that we expect to be with you in every move that is made. We do not propose to be behind in this business a hair’s breadth. We shall be glad to examine those little circulars you mentioned, and probably shall order about ten thousand. Elder Reaser thinks perhaps we can use ten thousand in this Conference alone. They will be just the thing either to send out a few days ahead of the canvasser or for him to carry with him. But they can not possibly take the place of this little introductory card, which we have printed. These cards are small, the main point being to introduce the canvasser not as an agent, but merely as a missionary, giving his time free. I will give you what is on the card, and if you have any suggestions to make in regard to the matter that should go on this card, be free to make them. We can change it any time: “This will introduce to you Mr. —, who is working free of charge for the education of worthy young people. Any courtesy shown will be appreciated by the managers of Walla Walla College.” This will gain an entrance for the canvasser when nothing else can. We shall wait to see the samples of these circulars you are getting out before deciding as to either what we wish to put on them or how many we shall take.
Your brother in Christ,
[Signed] E. L. Stewart.
Archbishop Ireland's Cuba Commission and Papal Influence
By Editor
*Last week we printed the word of the Independent** that “Archbishop Ireland is going to Cuba, commissioned by the President, to inquire concerning the allotment of Church property and other matters of interest to the Catholic Church.” About a year ago an Italian was taken from the Catholic University and appointed bishop of Havana, because his “especial knowledge of the United States Constitution” would be of value in matters of Church property there; and now the President commissions Archbishop Ireland to Cuba concerning Church property and “other matters of interest to the Catholic Church.” It should also be borne in mind, with these items, that Archbishop Chapelle is appointed by the pope apostolic delegate to Cuba*, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. With Archbishop and Apostolic Delegate Chapelle, the President’s adviser concerning matters of interest to the Catholic Church in the Philippines, and with Archbishop Ireland, the President’s commissioner concerning matters of interest to the Catholic Church in Cuba, if now the President would take up some other archbishop, cardinal, or apostolic delegate as his adviser concerning matters of interest to the Catholic Church in the United States, he would occupy a position relative to the Catholic Church, second only to that of the pope. And at the rate of procedure of the last two years, how long will it be before that point shall be reached? By the instrumentality of the United States these are great days for the papacy.
News and Notes
— Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, inventor of the camera film, died in Newark, N. J., December 31.
— It is said that “the Boers celebrated Christmas day by attacking the British at several points.”
— In France hailstorms are often averted from vineyards by the discharge of a cannon into the hail-cloud.
— By the recent burning of the Fox Pressed Steel Car Works at Joliet, Ill., 2,200 men are thrown out of employment.
— Nurses of Bellevue Hospital, New York City, are held in $5,000 bail “for maltreatment of patients in that hospital.”
— Dreyfus has appealed to the French government for a new trial. He intends to keep his case alive until he obtains justice.
— Many of the British soldiers captured recently by the Boers have been released, as the latter have no means of caring for them.
— Much of the Italian macaroni is now made by machinery, 70,000 cases being annually shipped to England, and 500,000 cases to the United States.
— Lord Armstrong, inventor of the Armstrong gun, and writer upon electrical and scientific topics, died at his home near London, England, December 29.
— Jacob Blackman, of Holyoke, Mass., was recently awarded $1,000 damages “against a Polish preacher who, in a sermon, reflected upon his meat business.”
— Owing to a range feud, 3,000 sheep were driven over a precipice by masked men, near Miles City, Mont., January 1. The sheep belonged to R. R. Selway, the largest owner in eastern Montana.
— It is now definitely known that “the American and Danish governments are engaged in direct negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indies,” and that before long “a proposition will be submitted to the United States Senate.”
— According to statistics “there were 32,559,407 more pennies coined in the year ending June 30, 1900, than in the preceding year; 19,210,260 more nickels; 3,730,735 more dimes; 3,634,860 more quarters; and 4,256,408 more half-dollars.”
— It was arranged to hold a thanksgiving service on January 3, in the St. Paul Cathedral, London, in connection with Lord Roberts’s return from South Africa. The British government, however, “suddenly announced that the services had been abandoned for the reason that it was considered desirable to defer a general thanksgiving until the close of the operations in South Africa.”13
— The Russian Diet will meet to-day, January 8.
— The Ashantee rebellion has ended, all the rebel chiefs having surrendered.
— During a severe storm in the English Channel last week, 49 lives were lost, 11 vessels wrecked, and 57 driven ashore.
— G. W. Gibson has succeeded W. D. Coleman as president of Liberia. Mr. Coleman resigned because of disapproval of his interior policy by the legislature.
— In New York, Chicago, and other large cities, efforts of the spasmodic kind are being made, just at present, to suppress vice; committees are in charge of the effort.
— News from England says that “Queen Victoria’s sight has failed to such an extent that she no longer is allowed to read. A regular reader is employed to read to her an hour a day.”
— Herr Krupp, the German manufacturer of cannons, and other business men of that country, have petitioned for the free admission into Germany of mineral oil for motor consumption, in order to economize the coal deposits of the country.
— German reports show that “in the last decade the United States produced more than half of the world’s output of copper, as against one third of the entire output in the preceding decade, and only one sixth in the decade 1871–1880.”
— The Railroad Gazette reports that 4,804 miles of new railroad were constructed in 1900, in this country, against 4,570 in the year 1899. Texas leads, with 313 miles; Iowa follows, with 279; and Minnesota comes third, with 255. The following are the railroad companies leading in construction: Burlington and Quincy, 213 miles; St. Paul, 173; Rock Island, 169; Northern Pacific, 151.
— Since the early part of 1899 there has appeared, in Paris and in Munich, “a noteworthy journal with the double title, Revue franco-allemande [French-German Review], Deutsch-französische Rundschau [German-French Review], edited by M. Henry, of Paris, the purpose of which is to bring about a better understanding between the Germans and the French.”
— Of the 1,217 locomotives built in 1900 by one American locomotive manufacturing company, 363 were for export trade. In 1899 the same company built 901, of which 338 were exported. Again, there were built in the United States last year, “outside of the railroad company’s shops,” 3,153 locomotives, or 27½ per cent more than in 1899; and 505 of these were for export.
— Dispatches from China state that “a question of precedence between Field Marshal Count von Waldersee and Dr. Mumm von Schwarzenstein, the German minister, is creating a considerable stir. The question has been an open one ever since the arrival of the Germans in Peking. Because of its existence, the minister has never invited Count von Waldersee to the public dinners at the German legations, and neither of them has attended the dinners given at the homes of the other ministers.”
— The American Sunday School Union, of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, offers the sum of $1,000, in two prizes, “for the best books on the subject ‘How is man to be saved? or, God’s Way of Salvation.’” Six hundred dollars will be given for the best book, and $400 for the next best. The society does not desire any technical theological treatise, but rather something of a practical and popular character. Although the authors are given the utmost freedom in the form and style of treatment, it is suggested that each work should contain from 40,000 to 70,000 words. Manuscript should be typewritten, and must reach the committee of publication on or before Nov. 1, 1901.”
— An exchange states that “strenuous efforts are reported as being made by certain interested parties to prevent an exposure of one tremendous item of extravagance which has accumulated from year to year in the work of fortifying the coasts of the United States. There are now in position, or under construction, 372 mortars, and the total number contemplated, under the general coast-defense scheme, is no less than 560. These mortars cost an average of about $12,000 each, so that the cost of the mortars themselves will aggregate fully $6,000,000. To place these guns in position, providing them with the necessary carriages and the usual heavy emplacements, costs more than as much again. It is estimated that the total expenditure on account of twelve-inch mortars, when the present coast-defense scheme is completed, will be not far from $15,000,000. Distinguished ordnance officers admit that there is not a mortar in existence which can be depended upon to drop its shell anywhere within a radius of about ten times the length of any ordinary war-ship.”
— The gross earnings of the Southern Pacific Railway for 1900 were $64,400,725.
— Delegates to the Cuban convention favor “an offensive and defensive treaty with the United States.”
— Upon his return to England, Lord Roberts received the title of Earl, and was also made a Knight of the Garter.
— J. Pierpont Morgan and E. H. Harriman, backed by a syndicate with millions, are reported to be “sure to control the principal railroads of the country in the new century.”
— There are no fewer than 30,000 lepers in the Philippine Archipelago, most of them being in the Vizcayas. Leprosy was introduced in 1633, when the emperor of Japan sent to the Philippines a ship with 150 lepers on board as a present to be cared for by the Catholic priests. No method has been adopted to prevent the disease from spreading. A commission is now engaged in the work of selecting a suitable island, or islands, for the purpose of isolating all the lepers in the archipelago.
— The persons who kidnapped young Cudahy, of Omaha, Neb., have not yet been discovered.
— Several Finland newspapers have been suppressed or suspended for so-called criticism of the Russian government.
— The principal articles of export from Servia are cattle, cereals, and plums. Her chief markets are in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russian Poland.
— When Germany saw that the United States was likely to secure the indemnity money from Turkey, through contract on a battle-ship, she also put in a claim for damages. In order to meet this demand the Turk has contracted “for the reconstruction of an Ottoman battle-ship” at Kiel, Germany.
— The United States minister, Mr. Swenson, it is reported from Copenhagen, has informed the Danish government that the United States will offer 12,000,000 kroner (about $3,240,000) for the Danish West Indies, and no more. It now remains to be seen whether or not Germany will make a higher bid for the islands.
A LETTER FROM ELDER A. F. BALLENGER
By A. F. Ballenger
ANNAPOLIS, MD., Nov. 25, 1900.
Dear Brother Magan: Judging from the REVIEW, you have been moving all the while. May the Lord continue to bless you mightily in the great work to which you have been called. I see in it the hand of Providence, and will co-operate with the movement to roll away the devil-devised, death-dealing debts of the denomination. As a church we can never receive the latter rain in its fullness until we clear the King’s highway by rolling away the débris of debt, which, in our unbelief, we have heaped on the royal road. Just as the Lord pictured the promised land to His people in Egypt, and thereby persuaded them to start for the land, and then pointed out the things that must be put away before they could possess the promised blessing, so He has now headed us toward the reception of the Holy Ghost, and is testing our earnestness in seeking the promised blessing, by pointing out the things that must be put away before we can realize the fullness of the blessing.
My wife and I expect to canvass this city for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and expect the blessing of the Lord in so doing. I believe that a universal effort will save us from the reproach now resting upon us, and that NOW is the time to make the effort.
My work in the tent last summer was very enjoyable, and the results were most encouraging. There are twenty persons keeping the Sabbath, all but two of them adults, and some of them are able to help the cause financially, not so much by the property they have accumulated as through the positions they hold.
The brethren have sent my wife and me to this place, which, before our coming, contained no Sabbath-keepers, with the hope that some might be led to accept the message.
May the blessing of the Lord be yours in the important work of rescuing our institutions from threatened bankruptcy. Your appeals through the REVIEW are blessed of God. Continue to consecrate your life, and to cry aloud for co-operation. It will come. It takes a long time to get all our people headed in one direction, but when once on the march with God, they are invincible.
Your brother in Christ,
[Signed] A. F. Ballenger.
IOWA
By F. L. Moody
GRAVITY, IOWA, Dec. 17, 1900.
Elder P. T. Magan,Battle Creek, Mich.
DEAR BROTHER: Your kind and interesting letter came to hand. In reply, would say that I am glad to help in any way in the Lord’s work. I visited the church at Afton, and found only about TEN members who could be relied upon to do much canvassing for the book. But as the Testimony of the Lord was read, it stirred all mightily, and young and old said they would do all they could. They took THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT BOOKS. I was at one church where Satan had been at work to separate the brethren, so they would not attend the Sabbath meetings. But we called them together, and as we talked of the work of the Lord, they were deeply moved. After the meeting, those whom Satan had alienated went out alone and confessed their faults one to another, and then all took hold of the book work.
The last few days I have been canvassing my own town, taking orders for the book, and have not heard one word of opposition. I have not been able to take as many orders as I had hoped, but have averaged four daily, and think I can do better. I will spend some time at this. One sister of our company in Gravity took ten orders in half a day. I have already received some contributions to the material fund, and sent them to Sister Jessie V. Bosworth. I shall not be among the churches very much, but will do what I can for this fund.
I feel sure that every soul that takes hold of this will be blessed. I inclose a small pledge.
Your brother in hope,
[Signed] F. L. MOODY.
AFRICA
By W. S. Hyatt
It has been a year since the English and Boer war began in this country, and still drags on; and the prospects are that it will be many months before the close. This has made the work go slow and hard. In fact, it has been almost impossible to reach the people. But we have tried to do what we could in the coast towns, and are thankful to see some fruit of our labor. Our tract society has placed many thousands of our papers in the hands of both soldiers and sailors, and our hearts have been made glad by receiving a few good letters in return. The brethren in Australia sent us a large number of the Bible Echo, which we have been able to use to good advantage. We were thankful for their thoughtfulness and kindness in sending them.
There are encouraging omens in all branches of the work. Elder J. M. Freeman writes from Basutoland that the Spirit of the Lord is at work upon the hearts of the poor heathen there, and at one Sabbath meeting twenty expressed a desire to become Christians. He is bestowing special labor upon these, that they may become fully converted and established. Meetings are held in other villages; and these poor people, who have learned some of Zion’s songs, go with the missionaries and do the singing. They are catching the spirit of working for others.
Brother F. C. Ernst, our German laborer, reports that a general interest is being awakened, and some have begun to obey. This has stirred the ire of the dragon. The tent has been stoned and egged. Elders Hankins and Edmed are finding a few honest souls. They have labored long and faithfully in Uitenhage, and now are seeing the fruit of their labor. The canvassing work goes hard, but we find that “Coming King” has a good influence wherever introduced.
It has been my privilege to spend two months in Natal. I was much pleased with the prospects, and found that the Lord was at work in this long-neglected field. Most of the time was spent at Pietermaritzburg, as there are fourteen Sabbath-keepers in that place. Brother Schmidt, a canvasser, has been there for a year, selling books and doing Bible work. His labor has been blessed, and has accomplished much good.
I found the people friendly and desirous to learn. Cottage meetings or Bible readings were held nearly every evening. The people are becoming awakened to the importance of health reform. I never before saw so great an interest anywhere. I was invited to speak on the subject in Durban, and the following evening at Maritzburg. There is a demand for health foods, which I hope we shall soon be able to supply.
I met a minister in Pietermaritzburg who has preached for many years in Natal. At his request, I preached for him seven times during my visit. He offers us the free use of his church house any time we desire it. He believes in the Sabbath, coming of Christ, nature of man, baptism, etc., and said that he had long hoped the time would come when a Sabbath-keeping church would be raised up. It has been my privilege to labor in many different places, but I regard this one of the best openings for city labor I have ever seen. The Lord has gone out before us, and prepared the way for work, but I have had to leave without a minister in the colony. May the Lord hasten the day when laborers may be sent into this English-speaking field. During my visit one person accepted the truth, and seven were baptized. Others are interested, and Brother Schmidt will continue to hold Bible readings with them.
Last Sabbath was a good day at Claremont. Through the faithful labors of our teachers, seven of the young people have yielded to the Lord, and it was my privilege to baptize them. The same day six more were buried with their Lord at Uitenhage. I believe there are better days before South Africa, and the “gospel of the kingdom” will go with irresistible power among both black and white, and Dutch and English.
W. S. HYATT.
New England Conference Proceedings
By H. W. Cottrell; H. B. Tucker
The thirtieth annual session of the New England Conference was held at South Lancaster, Mass., Nov. 20–26, 1900. Nine meetings in all were held. Nineteen churches were represented by sixty-nine delegates. The church at West Newton, Mass., was received into the Conference.
The following committees were appointed:— On nominations: W. A. Wilcox, J. B. Mason, D. M. Hull, C. W. Thayer, and Mrs. E. T. Palmer. On Resolutions: S. A. Farnsworth, C. C. Nicola, F. Griggs, E. E. Miles, and W. R. Andrews. On Credentials and Licenses: M. D. Mattson, W. L. Payne, H. B. Tucker, James Lays, and T. B. Stewart. Auditing: Conference Committee, E. E. Miles, James Lays, W. L. Payne, W. A. Wilcox, J. B. Mason, and H. B. Tucker.
Resolutions were adopted during the session: (1) Amending the constitution with respect to the formation of the Auditing Committee; (2) recommending that the New England Conference pay to the South Lancaster Academy a sum equal to the salary of one of its teachers; (3) to maintain an endowed bed at the South Lancaster Sanitarium; (4) recommending the membership to pay a sum equal to ten cents a week for each of its members; (5) urging all to take the Missionary Magazine; (6) that all efforts to agitate religious legislation, or to enforce Sunday laws, be carefully noted, and reported to the Sentinel; (7) to circulate religious liberty literature in every way possible; (8) to give our sanitarium our constant moral support, and to encourage in every way possible the circulation of Good Health; (9) to circulate the special numbers of the Signs and the Sentinel; (10) to put forth immediate, diligent, and effective efforts to revive the canvassing work in the Conference; (11) recognizing the uniting of the14New Bedford and Dartmouth churches, and that the church be known as the New Bedford and Dartmouth church; (12) to call the special attention of all our members and workers to the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” to meet the indebtedness on our school; (13) that church schools be established throughout the Conference wherever advisable; (14) urging upon all the importance of systematically studying the readings of the Berean Library; (15) that the next session of the Conference be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting; (16) and that as Elder Cottrell has carried the work of this Conference, as well as that of the General Conference District, during the year, making the matter of time somewhat difficult to adjust, this Conference audit his time in full, and award the same rate as is paid by the General Conference to their other men.
The following officers were elected: President, S. A. Farnsworth; Vice-President, M. D. Mattson; Secretary and Treasurer, H. B. Tucker; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. H. W. Cottrell; Conference Canvassing Agent, E. E. Miles; Auditor, D. B. Parmelee. Executive Committee: S. A. Farnsworth, M. D. Mattson, D. B. Parmelee, W. L. Payne, D. M. Hull.
Credentials were given to the following-named persons: S. A. Farnsworth, M. D. Mattson, G. B. Wheeler, F. C. Gilbert, K. C. Russell, J. M. Eriksson, E. E. Miles, A. H. Clark, C. H. Edwards, F. W. Mace, and G. E. Fifield.
Licenses were given to D. B. Parmelee, Frederick Griggs, H. N. Sisco, W. R. Andrews; and Missionary Licenses to C. E. Palmer, Mrs. M. A. Scribner, Jennie R. Bates, Mrs. E. M. Wilber.
Financial Statement of New England Conference, Nov. 1, 1900
Tithe Department
To Balance, July 1, 1899, $3,319.94
To Receipts in Tithes, $17,164.78
To Rec’pts in Contributions, 716.54
To Rec’pts, loan returned, 423.28
Total Receipts, 18,304.60
21,624.54
Total Disbursements, 16,625.19
Balance in Tithe Fund, $4,999.35
Moved, That $2,000 be given to the foreign mission work. Carried.
Moved, That the next session of the Conference be held in the month of June, 1901. Carried.
On motion the Conference adjourned.
H. W. COTTRELL, Pres.
H. B. TUCKER, Sec.
THE SHIP MISSION, SAN FRANCISCO
By C. Castberg
The last warning message for the world is represented by a mighty angel coming down from heaven, and setting “his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth.” Rev. 10:1, 2. We understand this to be a literal prophecy, and that not only those that live on the land, but that also “every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea” (Rev. 18:17), shall hear the gospel of the kingdom for a witness before the end shall come.
In accordance with this, ship missions have been established in nearly all the principal ports of the world, where reading-matter presenting every phase of present truth, is distributed among the seafaring men of many nationalities. “Cast thy bread upon the waters,” says the Lord; “for thou shalt find it after many days.” Eccl. 11:1. And “blessed are ye that sow beside all waters.” Isa. 32:20. But only eternity will reveal the fruit that this blessed seed-sowing will produce. There will surely be rejoicing when the sheaves are brought home from this part of the Master’s great harvest field.
The Lord is blessing the work done in this port. Having found that our literature placed in racks on a few of the regular liners showed evidence of being read, we thought it would be a good plan to extend this way of reaching the people to every steamer carrying passengers from and to this port. The Lord has gone before us; and permission being obtained, we have now placed racks on a number of bay and ocean steamers, and we intend to continue this work until all are supplied.
Applying to the quartermaster’s department for permission to visit the transports, the colonel in charge courteously furnished us with a pass, which gives us access to this line of steamers; but we are sadly in need of reading-matter, and we use this opportunity to urge our brethren and sisters to send us, postpaid, all the Signs, health journals, Youth’s Instructors, Sentinels, tracts, and foreign papers they can spare.
Besides this, reading-matter is placed on as many sailing vessels as we are able to supply.
It is not all smooth sailing; sometimes we run against a snag, or a rock, or get into a collision; but so far, we have managed to keep afloat, and feel encouraged to push ahead. To the Lord be all the praise. C. CASTBERG.
19 Tehama St., San Francisco.
GOOD FOR EVERYBODY
By Editor
The publishers of the Medical Missionary and Gospel of Health make the following special offer: To each one who will send us his name and address and two yearly subscriptions to the Medical Missionary and Gospel of Health, fifty cents each, we will send, free, a box of health foods worth one dollar at the retail price. The box will contain 1 tin of protose, 1 tin of nuttolene, 1 large package of granose biscuits, 1 full package of granola, 1 full package of caramel-cereal, 1 small package of bromose, 1 copy of the Midwinter Number of Good Health.
The total value of the articles mentioned above, at regular retail price, is $1.02. This box will be sent absolutely free for two paid subscriptions to the Medical Missionary and Gospel of Health—one dollar. If you are already a subscriber to the journal, send in one new subscription with your renewal for the year 1901—one dollar.
This is the most liberal proposition we have ever made; it is only made possible by the generous contribution of these foods for this purpose by the Battle Creek Health Food Company and the Sanitas Nut Food Company.
Beginning with the January number, the Medical Missionary and Gospel of Health will be enlarged and greatly improved. A new department will be added,—The Mothers’ Council,—which will be under the supervision of the Visiting Committee of the Haskell Home, and will contain practical articles for the home on all subjects relating to the making of a healthy Christian home. Practical lessons in cookery, dressmaking, simple methods of treating the sick, the care of infants, child culture and physical development, are a few of the subjects that will be discussed by able writers, among whom will be numbered Mrs. J. H. Kellogg, for many years National Superintendent of Mothers’ Work for the W.C.T.U., Mrs. E. H. Whitney, Mrs. S. M. Baker, Dr. A. M. Winegar, and Dr. Kate Lindsay.
The next volume will be rich with thrilling reports of actual experiences of medical missionaries in home and foreign fields.
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