First, let God be the ruler in your own life. Show your household that in everything you hold yourself accountable to a higher authority, and they will take your commands when they see that you are held under law, as well as they.
Second, children love order; they like strict discipline if applied with loving firmness. It is the wishy-washy ways they detest. See, then, that you have order in all things; it is heaven’s first law. What is right for heaven is right for the earth home.
Third, it should be understood that all may do as they please so long as they please to do right.
Fourth, there is a way to do all the little duties about the home,—a way that instructs for beauty, facility, and ability to perform. See that you have table manners, a way to wash dishes, and an orderly arrangement for doing everything about the home.
Call your children to your knee, and have them transcribe to paper as you dictate, with tender voice (this will fix it in their memory), the way these little duties must be done. Then see that you and the children do according to the method arranged. They will delight to do this way if you are enthusiastic about it.
Some mother will say that this is a prosy way of doing; that she hasn’t time to be so “fussy;” that it would take too long to do things that way. But such is not the case; for when once these ways are learned, they make for cleverness and facility, and the mother will be saved the care and worry caused by not knowing how things are coming out. Here is a case when the old adage, “A stitch in time saves nine,” comes true. It may be slow and hard for a little time, but in the end it makes for ease.
Talk Happiness
“Talk happiness every chance
You get—and
Talk it good and strong!
Look for it in
The byways as you grimly
Pass along;
Perhaps it is a stranger now
Whose visit never
Comes;
But talk it! Soon you'll find
That you and happiness
Are chums.”
R. A. BECKNER
By R. A. Beckner
Burma
R. A. BECKNER
“Bo gyee lah pyee.” These were the words I heard the other day as I came to Mg. Chit Yun’s house for my Burmese lesson. They came from a bright-eyed little Karen boy of about five years, sitting on the steps. Not knowing what all the words meant, I asked what it was that Ko Ko Gyee (older brother), for such was his name, was calling me, and I found that he was informing them that “the big Englishman has come.”
I thought Hebrew and Greek were hard; but they did bear some resemblance to English, while Burmese is about as much like it as Chinese. Yet the Lord is blessing the efforts put forth, and after only ten weeks of study, the sounds are beginning to separate themselves from the general mass, and to convey a meaning.
I am glad that even while putting our best time to the learning of a language, we still have a chance to give the message. My teacher has heard more or less of the truth before, but now is taking a new interest, and has asked for something to read on some of the points of our faith. He is a descendant of Judson’s first convert, and a cousin of one of our Burmese workers.
This is the hottest time of the year, the break of the monsoon; but our health is good, and our courage is high.
Rangoon.
Ninth Session of the German Union Conference
By Guy Dail
GUY DAIL
WE have just closed the largest and most important meeting ever held here in Friedensau. It has been in session since July 22. Fourteen hundred of our brethren have been in attendance, one hundred six of whom were delegates. This is the last session the German Union Conference in its present form will have. The large concourse of people who have been here, but who are now leaving this pleasant city of tents, pronounce this the best of the assemblies that have been convened at Friedensau. Indeed, it might properly be called a continuation of the General Conference in its missionary spirit and in the unanimity that characterized its business transactions. Revival services of much earnestness were conducted on both Sabbaths. The entire congregation repeatedly showed their desire to reconsecrate themselves more fully to God. The Lord blessed especially during the ordination of Brother E. Kotz and J. Seefried in the afternoon of the second Sabbath. Forty-three were baptized, a large proportion of whom made their final decision to follow Christ during their stay on these grounds.
COSTUME OF WELL-TO-DO BURMANS
Self-sacrifice and liberality to the work of God were evident every time the people were invited to give. Elders O. A. Olsen, L. R. Conradi, and J. C. Raft rendered much practical help in the proceedings of the committees, in the business of the open conference, and in the revival effort. The first Sunday was an ideal camp-meeting day, and about a thousand strangers visited the grounds.
The presence of Brother Kotz, who has been in faithful service among the heathen of the Dark Continent, encouraged the young people, and refreshed the hearts of those who had given so nobly toward establishing and supporting our German East African missions. Fifty-eight young men and women volunteered for service in “the regions beyond,”—offering themselves for the German possessions in Africa and in the Far East, for the Dutch East Indies, for the foreign-speaking people of the United States, for Brazil and other parts of South America, for the Levant, for Russia, and for the various mission fields of the German Union Conference.
The meetings for the youth were in charge of Elder O. Luepke, and they formed a new feature in the annual assemblies of the German field. They were successful. It has been decided to take advance steps and organize, wherever it is advisable, societies for the young where they may be further trained as missionaries in our various churches.
Practical attention was given the medical missionary work. Our laborers received instruction in the giving of simple treatments and in regard to the course to be pursued in emergency cases. The lectures on health reform were timely. The resolutions passed concerning this work ask for a reform in living up to the light we have on health principles, and yet urging that there be no impoverishment of the diet, and that all extremes be avoided which would in any way bring discredit upon the work. We were glad to know that thirty-two can trace their conversion to the message direct to the Friedensau Sanitarium, while the large number of nurses we have in the field are doing what they can to uphold our principles everywhere.
Elder G. A. Wantzlick, of the East Indies; Dr. F. W. Vasenius, en route to Abyssinia; Brother F. Oster, under appointment to Persia; also those selected at this meeting for work in other lands—Elder E. Frauchiger for the Turkish Mission; Brother Carl Voigt for the Hamburg House branch office that we hope to start in Constantinople; Brother F. Scior, to assist Elder R. S. Greaves in the Greek work at Smyrna; Brother Ernst Hartmann for Egypt; and Brother E. Dominick to re-enforce our laborers in German East Africa,—these all helped to give a strong missionary current to the proceedings of the conference. Sunday afternoons the weekly offerings were taken up after the rendering of a very acceptable missionary program by the little children, and thus seven hundred forty-nine marks were given to missions, while the Sabbath-school donations were fifteen hundred sixty-seven marks. A thanksgiving offering for the tent fund amounted to six hundred seventy-five marks. The new school building was dedicated on the second Friday afternoon of the conference. Eleven thousand six hundred eight marks in cash and pledges had been raised toward this enterprise the day before, during the consideration of a resolution to assist in the educational work.
A most evident sign of the progress of the cause in the German fields was the vote to divide the German Union Conference into two union conferences, beginning with Jan. 1, 1910. Not this alone, but the organization of the East German Union District, composed of Friedensau and Berlin and the intervening territory, and the recommendation that Bavaria (except the Palatinate) be cut off from southern Germany and formed into a conference, are omens of the advance the work is making.
The East German Union Conference will contain the following fields: The East German, the Saxon, the Middle German, the Silesian, the Prussian, and the Hungarian conferences, and the East German Union District, with the Galician, Adriatic, and the Balkan mission fields. Elder H. F. Schuberth was chosen president, and Elder J. F. Huenergardt vice-president of this union. The West German Union Conference13will consist of: The Rhenish, the North German, the West German, the German-Swiss, and the South German conferences, as well as the Union District of Hamburg-Altona, and the Holland-Flemish-Belgium and Austrian missions. Elder J. H. Schilling was elected to the presidency, and Elder J. G. Ohlander to the vice-presidency, of this union conference.
A large number of changes were made in the location of laborers. The committee on distribution made nearly forty recommendations. Among those that would be of most general interest we may mention: Elder Ohlander to take the presidency of the Rhenish Conference, made vacant by Elder Frauchiger’s appointment to the Turkish Mission; Elder O. E. Reinke to have oversight of the German-Swiss Conference; Elder H. F. Schuberth is to move his headquarters to Berlin; Elder L. Mathe was asked to take charge of the East German Conference; and Elder K. Sinz will take the presidency of the North German field in his stead, while Elder G. W. Schubert goes to act as president of the Saxon Conference in the place of Brother Sinz; Elder O. Schwenecke will act as superintendent of the Balkan Mission; and Elder D. P. Gaede, of West Russia, was invited to connect with the South German Conference.
Earnest consideration was given to the publishing work. We find that there has not been the growth in the sale of the larger books that we should see. This matter was very thoroughly dealt with, and several of our best canvassers have decided to try the plan we have been using in other parts of the field—to take just one book, and devote their whole energies to that—rather than to follow the plan we have been following in so many cases, and carry several books at the same time. Because of the increased activities of our tract and missionary societies, and the efforts of the canvassers to dispose of the smaller publications, there has been no falling off in the sales of the Hamburg House, as a whole, although the larger books are not being placed among the people as in former times. The very hard times in certain parts of the field may have had something to do with the falling off in the sale of the larger books, but we also believe that faith can conquer many a difficulty, and when we as children of God go out trusting absolutely in him, he will help. In addition to paying its tithe to the General Conference, the Hamburg House gave eight thousand marks toward the new school building in Friedensau.
During the first half of this year, there have been one thousand one hundred fourteen new members added by vote and baptism in the German Union Conference, making its membership now nine thousand one hundred eighty, so that we hope by the time of the division next January, there will be five thousand in each of the unions. The workers go out in courage and faith to carry the message to the waiting millions.
Friedensau.
C. E. KNIGHT
By C. E. Knight
Argentina
C. E. KNIGHT
WE have received the General Conference Bulletin, and very much enjoy reading the proceedings of the Conference. Of course we wait with interest the report of the committee on plans and recommendations for the mission fields, as we can not fail to note, even in the earliest record of meetings, that the center of interest in the Conference was the mission fields.
May 29 I had the privilege of baptizing three dear souls into the message. These new believers are chiefly the fruit of the labors of Elder Victor Thomann, who has been holding services three times a week in our meeting-room. Others are convinced, and after a time they will probably follow in baptism.
RAILROAD VIADUCT NEAR BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Miss Hansen is nursing the wife of a missionary from the United States, of the —— denomination. This couple are very friendly to us, and I am having some long talks with him about the truth. These do not cut off his friendship in the least, although he seems to be strongly entrenched in modern scientific (so-called) religion, which is really skepticism concerning the divine authority of much of the Bible. I hope that he can be reached, but I think it will require more than argument, and even more than a “Thus saith the Lord,” to turn him from his error. However, as long as he is friendly, and we continue to visit each other, there is hope. I had written only a part of the foregoing, when he called, and we have spent two hours discussing man's existence after death. He has been here three years, and has the language well learned. We have been acquainted about five months. Pray for him.
Miss Nelson is still at the school, but will probably come here soon to begin her work. Misses Kerr and Brockman left the school about two months ago, and have gone to Montevideo, where they have been working some since, and studying the language.
The weather is cold here now, and we feel it, on account of the dampness of the climate, and the lack of comfortable heating stoves, such as are used at home.
Buenos Aires.
How a Kafir Forgave
ONE day a settler in South Africa found a Kafir near his stable. He accused the man of trying to steal a horse. The Kafir declared that he was innocent, but in spite of all he could say, he was dragged to a tree, and there, with one blow of an ax, his right hand was severed from its wrist.
About three months after this event, the settler found himself benighted far from home. He came to a Kafir hut and asked for admission. He was invited to enter, and food was placed before him. Next morning, as he was leaving, his host stood before him, and, holding up his arm, asked the white man if he knew it. The settler turned pale. for he saw that the hand was gone. He knew that he had been at the mercy of the man he had treated so cruelly.
The Kafir went on: “You were in my power; I could have killed you. Revenge said, ‘Kill the man who has maimed you for life,’ but I replied, ‘No, I am a Christian, and I will forgive.’” — King’s Own.
March On Toward Heaven
“BEAR in mind that your happiness or your misery is very much of your own making. You can not create spiritual sunlight any more than you can create the morning star; but you can put your soul where Christ is shining. Keep a clear conscience. Keep a good stock of God's promises within reach. Keep a nightingale of hope in your soul that can sing away the dark hours when they do come. Keep a good robust faith that can draw honey out of rocks and oil out of the flinty rock. Never spend a day without trying to do somebody good; and then, keeping step with your Master, march on toward heaven, over any road, however rough, and against any head winds that blow. It will be all sunshine when we get up there.”
Indiana Camp-Meeting
By George B. Thompson
The annual camp-meeting of the Indiana Conference was held at Bluffton, August 5-15. The camp was well located, close to town, and many attended the evening services, and manifested much interest in the truths presented. A tent effort had preceded the camp-meeting, and a strong corps of workers will conduct another effort following the meeting. The prospect seemed good for a church at this place.
The meeting was well attended by our own people. About six hundred were fully camped on the ground and in rooms near by. A good spirit was present during the entire meeting. The spirit of supplication and prayer rested upon many, and the desire to find a greater nearness to God deepened as the meeting progressed. Many consecrated themselves to God anew. Excellent meetings were held for the youth, and a number were converted. The last Sabbath of the meeting nearly the entire camp was moved in a special way to seek for victory over besetting sins, and a greater fulness of the Holy Spirit. Twenty-five were baptized.
The growth of the message in “the regions beyond,” and the crying need of more laborers and more funds to extend the work, were presented by Elder A. G. Daniells, who was present during the first part of the meeting. These talks greatly cheered the hearts of all, and a deeper interest was awakened in this work, and the individual responsibility resting upon each member of the church was more keenly felt. This spirit, carried to the church, will result in reviving them, and greatly increasing the offerings to missions.
Elder A. J. Haysmer was present a short time, and laid before us the conditions and needs of the work among the colored people of the South. This was much appreciated. Upward of twenty-five hundred dollars was given in response to the various calls for foreign missions, work among the colored people, work for the blind, and the local conference work.
The matter of holding the business of the conference entirely separate from the annual camp-meeting is not altogether satisfactory, and a vote was taken requesting that the conference be held in connection with the camp-meeting next year.
Elders A. G. Daniells, A. J. Haysmer, E. K. Slade, Brother Miller, editor of the paper for the blind, and the writer, were present and joined with the laborers of the union and local conferences in the work of the meeting. Elder W. J. Stone was present a short time, and all were glad that his former health and strength is fully restored, so that he hopes to be able soon to engage again in active work. Elder Morris Lukens enjoys the confidence of all, and with his corps of faithful laborers is working hard to build up the work.
This meeting was a great blessing to all who were present. It is a source of regret that many allow the cares of life to deprive them of the blessings of these annual convocations. The brethren and sisters left for their homes with renewed determination to be faithful and share in the overcomer’s reward.
G. B. THOMPSON.
The Georgia Camp-Meeting
By C. B. STEPHENSON
THE above meeting was held in Central City Park, Macon, July 29 to August 8. Over thirty tents were in use. We were glad indeed to see so many of our brethren and sisters on the ground at the first service. The presence of the Master was felt in a marked manner from the first. Perfect harmony prevailed throughout the meeting.
Elders W. A. Westworth, R. T. Dowsett, K. C. Russell, J. W. Christian, and V. O. Cole, together with the home laborers, worked earnestly for the salvation of souls. The business was all cleared away early in the week, so that ample time was devoted to spiritual interests.
The spirit of consecration came in, and all seemed anxious for richer and fuller experiences in things divine. Victories were achieved, and many hearts were set free in Christ Jesus.
We were glad to have on the ground a sanitarium tent, and a trained nurse from the Atlanta Sanitarium. Dr. J. H. Neal rendered efficient help.
A good work was done for the young people. Special prayer-meetings were held for them and by them. A number accepted the Lord.
The last Sabbath was a day long to be remembered. There was deep heart searching by nearly every one present. Many came forward to confess sin and get right with God and man. The meeting continued for nearly three hours. At three o'clock in one of the city parks eighteen were buried with their Lord in baptism. It was a touching scene indeed, as the young and old, blind, halt, and maimed were together led down into the watery grave. Tears were seen flowing freely as the tender Spirit moved upon hearts. About four hundred dollars were given to the different calls.
It was decided to conduct three tent-meetings this summer. One in Atlanta for the colored believers, one at Savannah, and one at Tifton. We have begun meetings at Tifton with a good interest.
May the blessing of the Lord rest upon the laborers in this great State of nearly two and one-half million people with only five organized churches. By the help of the One who is able to accomplish his work, we will do all we can to promulgate present truth.
C. B. STEPHENSON.
Camp-Meeting in the Upper Columbia Conference
By George I. Butler
HAVING been invited by the General Conference Committee to attend the four conference camp-meetings in the North Pacific Union Conference, I left home August 1 to attend the Spokane meeting, August 5-15. Elder G. A. Irwin and quite a number of the ministers of the union conference were present at its commencement. I was two days late.
Spokane is a beautiful city of one hundred ten thousand inhabitants. We have a church there of about three hundred members. Our camp-ground was pleasantly situated. The meeting, being held when the farmers had to harvest their grain, was much smaller than usual. The attendance from those not of our faith was quite limited. The National Irrigation Congress met in this city at the time of our camp-meeting, and this, together with the land drawing of several reservations after the Indians had received their allotments of land, may have had an unfavorable effect on the attendance at our meeting.
Elder Irwin left for Tacoma, to attend the first of that meeting. Elder C. W. Flaiz, the president of the Northern Union Conference, was called East on important business, while the writer and others remained till the close of the meeting.
Elder Irwin gave a series of studies on the Testimonies, which were not only of special interest, but of great profit to those in attendance. Though the writer had often given discourses on that theme, yet he could learn more from these lessons, which were truly meat in due season. The congregation was greatly impressed by this instruction.
The meetings continued increasing in interest till the close. A self-sacrificing spirit was encouraged, and the duty of sustaining this blessed truth by our means and our prayers was strongly impressed upon all. The duty of living up to the light God is giving us for this time was especially emphasized. A spirit of seriousness rested on the believers, and many confessed that they had been in a backslidden condition.15Elder W. B. White spent one day with us, on his way to enter upon his work as president of the Atlantic Union Conference. On Sabbath afternoon he gave an excellent discourse, and called forward those who wished to give their hearts to God. A goodly number accepted the invitation. Some who had long hoped and prayed for the conversion of their children saw them come, with contrition and tears, to give their hearts to God. The hearts of those parents were filled with joy. Some twenty or more were baptized.
Many expressed great gratitude for the privileges of this meeting. They were determined to walk in the great light which had dawned on their hearts. We were privileged to meet many old friends of former years, who gave us a warm reception.
GEORGE I. BUTLER.
Louisiana Camp-Meeting
By C. F. McVAGH.
The Louisiana camp-meeting held at Pineville, July 16-26, was a grand success from every view-point. The attendance was about one hundred, being fully one half the total number of white Sabbath-keepers in the State. The citizens also seemed to enjoy the meetings, and a tent company remained after the camp-meeting, to follow up the interest. The business meetings were harmonious, and I never saw clearer evidences of courage and consecration. During the revival services nearly all sought and found a better experience in the Lord. Five were baptized.
Nearly one thousand dollars was donated in cash and pledges by the little company present. Two new churches were received into the conference by vote. One church building has been completed and paid for during the year, and all branches of the work have been prospered. There has been an increase in the tithe receipts, and the conference is faithfully keeping up the ten-cent-a-week donations to missions. There were no better meetings than those devoted to the canvassing work.
Elder E. L. Maxwell was re-elected president of the conference, and the people returned to their homes encouraged to press the work harder in the future than in the past.
C. F. McVAGH.
Alberta Camp-Meeting
By C. A. Burman
OUR annual camp-meeting and conference was held in the village of Olds, July 8-18. About two hundred twenty-five of our brethren were encamped upon the grounds. Elders G. A. Irwin, H. S. Shaw, and G. F. Haffner rendered valuable assistance in the various lines of work.
The reports given showed a conference membership of 268, and scattered believers to the number of 234. One new church of twenty-three members was admitted into the conference at this meeting. During the year the tithe received amounted to $4,405.33; offerings, $3,092.27; Sabbath-school donations, $662.81; book sales, $4,131.18; sales of periodicals, $307.59. All of the Sabbath-school donations went to foreign missions.
The academy enjoyed a prosperous year, with an enrolment of forty-seven. All expenses were met from the tuition, and a surplus of nearly one hundred dollars remains.
In planning for the future it was decided to establish a small sanitarium as soon as means can be secured, the cost not to exceed $10,000. There is already about $6,000 in land donated to this enterprise. The parents in this conference are awake to the need of their children’s receiving a Christian education, and it was voted to erect two school buildings: one for a ladies’ home with dining-room and kitchen below, and the other a boys’ home with chapel and class rooms, the former to be built this fall, and the latter as soon as possible thereafter. To assist in obtaining the funds for these enterprises it was voted to ask each member to sell three copies each of “Christ’s Object Lessons” and “Ministry of Healing.”
The following officers were elected: President, C. A. Burman; vice-president, Henry Block; secretary and treasurer, Stella B. Lowery; educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary, J. I. Beardsley; field secretary, C. L. Holdeman; Sabbath-school secretary, Mrs. Anna Aalborg.
During all the proceedings of the conference a good spirit was present, and the brethren entered heartily into the work of advancing the cause of God.
C. A. BURMAN.
Maryland
By Carlyle B. Haynes
BALTIMORE.—Meetings were started in the tent here on Sunday night, August 8, with an attendance of about four hundred fifty. Since then the attendance has been averaging about two hundred a night, except on Sunday, when our seating capacity has proved insufficient, and many have had to stand. We have now, however, secured two hundred more chairs. Last night (Sunday, August 22) the attendance was over five hundred, and all present seemed intensely interested. The collection amounted to $12.50. By the end of this week we shall be in the midst of the Sabbath question; we are praying that God will continue to bring the people out, and will increase their interest.
Carlyle B. Haynes.
The Trial at Greenville, S. C.
By T. H. Jeys
This trial was had according to arrangement, Thursday, August 3, at 9:30 A. M. The crime of which Sullivan Wareham, his wife, and son, and Sister Minnie Darnell and daughter, were accused, was picking strawberries on the sabbath [Sunday] May 2. It was plainly manifest at the trial that the man who had brought the action was more a subject for pity than any other sentiment. He and two other witnesses [his own sons] testified that they saw the work done at the time specified. The fact was developed that the defendants were good neighbors, peaceable, quiet, obliging, and never quarrelsome.
It was further shown that the plaintiff had threatened to “break up the Advent nest,” etc.
The magistrate was fair and impartial in his rulings, and evidently was not in sympathy with the narrow idea of intolerance toward those who might differ in religious belief and practise from the majority. His instruction to the jury was to the effect that they must find according to the law of South Carolina without any reference to the theological questions in dispute. Of course this was only to be expected, since it was a trial before a representative of the South Carolina law and not a representative of any ecclesiastical court. He only showed proper discrimination in recognizing that representatives of civil law may take cognizance of only the civil aspect.
Elder K. C. Russell and the writer were present, and together aided in the defense. Elder Russell was given opportunity to speak to the jury and assembled citizens on the limits of civil authority. With telling effect he pictured the disastrous effects of class legislation, which gives into the hands of any irresponsible bigot the opportunity to hale good, true, honest people before the courts and subject them to inconvenience, annoyance, and hardship. The jury, after about thirty minutes’ deliberation, brought in a verdict of not guilty.
We feel to praise God for this signal victory, and yet our rejoicing is tempered with some sober thinking. As we sat in the court room, the solemn thought forced itself into recognition: Are our dear brethren everywhere ready for this kind of thing? Are we with meekness and fear ready to give to every man an answer? Are we prepared equally well to receive an adverse decision? Is our faith equal to the great test that must eventually come? Will this great, surging human sea be warned? Who will be the Lord’s helpers in the warning? Are we doing what we can to educate and become educated on these lines?
The day was rainy, otherwise there would doubtless have been a very different attendance. As it was, there were probably two hundred persons present to hear the trial. Quiet and respectful16attention was given by all present. I feel that God’s work has been caused to triumph. These blessed principles of liberty were made known to some who perhaps never before had heard them.
It should be with much humility of heart and very earnest praying that we proceed on our way. No spirit of exulting over a defeated enemy should be indulged. The Lord has seen fit to cause his truth to triumph, but it is not by might nor power but by his Spirit. To properly follow up the victory gained, we must have great wisdom, tact, and humility.—T. H. Jeys, in Field Tidings.
Mississippi Camp-Meeting
By C. F. McVAGH
For the first time in its history, the conference business meetings in Mississippi were held in connection with the camp-meeting. The meeting was held in a beautiful grove in a suburb of Meridian, the largest city in the State. The attendance of our own people was very gratifying, and all were so well pleased that they will begin at once to plan to be present at the next one. All branches of the work have been blessed during the year, and the officers and people have a right to feel of good courage.
Two new churches were admitted to the conference by vote. One church building, valued at twelve hundred dollars, has been erected during the year. Sixteen were baptized at the meeting. Prof. P. T. Magan's lessons on the Eastern question were especially appreciated both by our own people and by the citizens. An impressive service was held the last Sabbath, at which time G. G. Lowery and M. C. Whitmarsh were set apart to the gospel ministry.
Elder Gentry Lowery has rendered good service in the Pine Grove school, and the prayers of the patrons of the school will follow him to his new field in India. Elder W. S. Lowery was re-elected president of the conference, and Elder F. R. Shaffer was elected secretary and treasurer. The people manifested their love for the cause and confidence in the organization, by liberal offerings and pledges of prayers and support. The work is onward in Mississippi.
C. F. McVAGH.
Michigan
By M. C. Guild
I REJOICE in having a part in this closing message, and can truly say that the way is growing brighter.
In Traverse City, where we now reside, our work is going along nicely, and we have been cheered in seeing a few precious souls accept the truth. We now have a good church-school in this city, and have erected an addition to the church, for church-school and Sabbath-school purposes.
This summer, in company with Brother L. G. Nyman and wife, we held a series of tent-meetings at Marion, a town of twelve hundred inhabitants, situated in the midst of a fine country.
The attendance throughout was good, and the Lord by his Spirit came in and richly blessed.
Twelve were baptized during the meetings, and these, with others who have begun the observance of the Sabbath, and the scattered Sabbath-keepers who live near there, make a company of about thirty.
The interest is still good, and we expect to continue the work there after camp-meeting; we hope to see a strong church established at Marion.
Wherever we go, we see evidences that God is mightily working on human hearts, and that the work will soon be done. M. C. GUILD.
