Brother W. R. Foggin reports the baptism of six at Culloden, W. Va.
Brother W. E. Bidwell reports the baptism of four persons at Laura, Ohio, who will join the church at that place.
The new school building of the Lornedale Academy, near Toronto, Ontario, is completed, and will be dedicated at the time of the camp-meeting next August.
Four recent converts have been added to the company at Charleston, W. Va., and several others, who have not yet joined the church there, have begun to keep the Sabbath.
At Axtell, Kan., thirteen persons were baptized recently by Elder Charles Thompson, and a church with a membership of eighteen was organized at that place on June 14.
Brethren E. J. Dryer and E. C. Townsend, who have been laboring in Buffalo, N. Y., report the baptism of seven in that place as the result of the labor which they have put forth there.
Reports from India state that the sanitarium at Mussoorie is prospering, and that arrangements have already been made for conducting a series of meetings in Mussoorie, that the message may be given to the people of that place.
A report from Elder J. S. Shrock at Pittsfield, Wis., states that five persons have been baptized there as a result of the labors of Brethren Beggs and Belden. With the Sabbath-keepers already in this place, these have been organized into a company. A tent effort is also being conducted at this place which bids fair to have good results.
A company of Sabbath-keepers has been raised up at Meiktila, British Burma. The raising up of this company has created quite a stir in that part of the country, as two of the members are lawyers, one being government prosecutor for that district. They have had it entered in the court records that they would not appear in court on the seventh day of the week.
Brother A. F. French, writing from Oxley, Mo., states that after six weeks' labor in that place, a Sabbath-school of twenty-four members has been organized. A commendable part of his work in that place has been to put into the home of each Sabbath-keeper there some one of our good publications. At this place, twelve adults have recently accepted the truth, and taken their stand with our people.
Sister Anna Knight, who for several years was one of our mission workers in India, has been conducting school work at Soso, Miss., during the past year, and also carrying on a Sunday-school and Young People's Society. As a result of this work, twelve persons have recently begun the observance of the Lord's Sabbath, of whom one is a Methodist minister. Four of these have been baptized, and now a Sabbath-school of twenty-six members has been organized at that place.
Religious Liberty Notes
WE are in receipt of a new tract entitled, “Sunday Laws. Whence Are They? What Their Aim?” which is being used by Elder C. H. Keslake in his campaign in St. John’s, Newfoundland, against Sunday legislation.
Representatives of the Lord’s Day Alliance at St. John’s, Newfoundland, are classing Seventh-day Adventists with saloon-keepers and gamblers. Such persons should be informed as to our true attitude on the question of the liquor traffic.
The Joplin (Mo.) News Herald of July 3, contained over a column report of addresses on religious liberty, which were delivered on the evening of July 2 in the court-house at that place. The lecturers, Brother and Sister John S. Wightman, were listened to by a large and intelligent audience. They are touring the State of Missouri, speaking on the subject of religious liberty.
The editor of the Des Moines (Iowa) Register wrote, among other things, concerning the deliberations of the recent National Republican Convention, the following: “It is interesting to know what men are saying. One person will assert that Taft is a Unitarian, and is on intimate and close terms with the powers of the Catholic Church; therefore the nominee for vice-president must be Hughes, a Baptist, or Dolliver, a Methodist. They assert that tickets must be balanced as to religion as well as politics.”
Christian Liberty
Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL, — — — — — Chairman
W. A. COLCORD, — — — — — Secretary
One Minister's Experience in Canvassing
By C. P. HASKELL
BUENA VISTA, VA., June 28, 1908.
DEAR BRETHREN: It has been some time since I have sent you any report, but as my name will, no doubt, appear among the canvassers, I thought a short letter of explanation might be of interest. It has been about four years since I have labored in active ministerial work. Three years I was with my son, Dr. P. F. Haskell, in the sanitarium at Keene, Tex. Upon my return to Ohio, the conference wrote me that they had all the laborers they could pay, and other conferences seemed to be overstocked with ministers.
I did not feel clear to engage in any business outside the cause, so I decided to canvass. My many friends know how I have always been handicapped in my work on account of my defective hearing, and I thought perhaps I could labor in this line with less embarrassment; the only way to find out was to try.
While spending a few weeks with my daughter, Mrs. Charles Hayton, at Takoma Park, I joined a canvassers' class organized by Brother I. D. Richardson.
After school closed, over twenty-five left for various States to spend the summer in canvassing, most of them to earn a scholarship. I started out with Brother Charles Stebbins. I left Washington Friday morning, June 5, and met Brother Zeidler, the State agent, at Lynchburg, Va., in the evening. Here we spent Sabbath and Sunday with the church, holding two services and visiting among the members. On Monday morning we came to this place, Buena Vista, where we found Brother Stebbins.
After arranging about our boarding place, we went out to survey our surroundings, and I must confess these hills looked very formidable to me, and I realize now how much a good State agent can do to get the work started.
Neither Brother Stebbins nor myself had ever canvassed before, and some of the different business enterprises were shut down and others were on half time, and no farming country was in sight. The outlook was anything but encouraging. But we were both willing to try, and to leave the results with Him, who said, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” The first week we took about sixty-five dollars' worth of orders. The next week we did a little better, our field being the city and surrounding country, which looked like nothing but mountains; but there are little valleys shooting off here and there.
One day I was in one of these valleys over the hills, and six miles away from our boarding place at six o'clock P. M. I had been so busy about my work I did not see the dark clouds over the tops of the mountains until I started for home. I was on a road I had never traveled, and there were only a few houses, and as I climbed the hills the lightning flashed among the trees. It got dark, and began to rain. I said, “Lord, it is all right,” and on I went as fast as I could walk, sometimes running, but humming to myself, “There is a blessed hope,” etc. The rain poured down. I saw a light ahead. It was the Friendly Inn. They took me in and fed me. I stayed all night, took their order for a book, and before I left I asked to have worship22with them. Then on I went for two miles, reaching home just as Brother Stebbins was through breakfast. I had walked sixteen miles and taken nine orders.
Last week we had our first experience in going by ourselves. We were in one of the “has-been” towns with plenty of empty buildings and others with discouraged people in them, fine churches but no pastors, and about three or four hundred people in the vicinity. We felt a little lonely, and when noon found us with only one order, we wondered if we had made a mistake; but the word “discouraged” is not in our dictionary, so we kept at it, and when we came to figure up, we found we had taken $27.50 worth of orders. The cloud that seemed to hang so heavily had a glorious lining. The week before, I was asked twice by people if I would pray with them.
It would make my letter too long to tell of each day's experience, so I will close by relating just one more. Last Wednesday we started up a little valley with a tributary. It was the warmest day of the year thus far. We had planned to take every other house, but we didn't know so much about the hills as we did at night. We were separated at once, but we would cross each other's track occasionally. About four o'clock I found Brother Stebbins was ahead of me and only two miles from the head of the valley. I knew he could finish it as the houses are often a half mile or more apart. I was informed that by crossing over a little range I would strike the tributary. For this I set out across the wheat and stubble and up the hills. The sun was very hot, and when I reached the summit, I did not know but I would have to stop. I lay down and rested a few minutes, and asked God for strength, and I received it. The first house was a little cabin, where a poor woman, with three dirty children, said they could not buy a book. I believed her, but I gave her the canvass. My way down was over a road in the bed of the little stream with an occasional foot-log. I felt so thankful for seeming renewed strength. I soon came to a house on a hill, and went to it and got an order. The clouds had gathered. I hurried to the next house. The lady declined, but the rain that came drove the man to the house, and I secured his order. Then in spite of their remonstrating about my continuing, I started, feeling assured I could reach the next house before much rain came. I got off my road and came to a house of children. I canvassed the oldest boy. He wished his father could see the book. I took his name, and started for my road (or rather path). It was nearly six o'clock and raining a little. I saw a vacant house, and a man sitting in the door as if waiting for me. I sat down beside him, and he gave me his order. He was the father of the boy mentioned above. Next I came to a colored man hoeing. The rain had stopped. I canvassed him, but he could not read.
Next was a cabin, and as I entered a pitiful sight met my eyes, the most abject poverty—a board table, a fireplace and kettle, a scanty bed and two broken chairs were all I saw. I learned that the woman was a widow with a crippled daughter to support. I knew I would not sell a book. The clouds were black, and although I was six miles from the station and it was six o'clock, yet I felt that I must not pass without leaving something. So I told them of my work, but said, “I see you can not buy a book, but you can have Jesus' arm to lean upon.” I told them of Christ's soon coming, and how if she was faithful she could exchange her poverty for a mansion above. I quoted a few promises, and through her tears she said she would like to have me pray for them, and in a short prayer I commended them to the care of Him who hears the ravens' cry.
I set out on a little run, met two men going home, took their orders and hurried on, although they asked me to return and stay all night. A little farther on I met another man and took his order; then down, down, and up. I hastened along till I came to the main valley and a house we passed on our way up. I took an order there.
It was now twenty minutes of seven, the sky was black and I was four miles from the station where we were to take the train for home. On I went, listening to the singing stream which had widened to about thirty feet or more. As I neared the station, I passed a house where the day before a woman and daughter wished a book, but the man was away. I saw he was there this time, so I stopped and secured his order. It was now 8:30 and our train was to pass at 9:05. I was disappointed not to meet Brother Stebbins, so I had to come on alone, arriving at our room at ten o'clock. Then I found I was tired, but my heart was full of praise for God's keeping power and sustaining grace. After a good night's rest, I was ready to repeat the work if necessary. I had traveled some eighteen miles and sold $16.50 worth of books. During the past week I have taken sixty-three dollars' worth of orders, Brother Stebbins has taken about the same, and we have put the truth into over two hundred homes. This, we feel, is very good for two inexperienced canvassers.
No one believes in prayer more than we do, but we also know it takes something besides prayer to sell books these hard times. It takes some good pushing, muscular Christianity, and a determination to win. While hoeing we have to pray between the rows. We were both afraid we would not be able to stand climbing these hills. Brother Stebbins is not strong, but three weeks of it makes us both better than when we started. During the past week we have averaged over eleven miles a day. We want to keep where we can recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit who is always near. Our greatest anxiety is about our food. Hot biscuit and grease are not the best diet for a man to sell books on, but we are letting the Lord take care of that. In all my twenty years as a minister I have had no pleasanter experiences than some of the past three weeks. We have taken during this time about three hundred dollars' worth of orders, and believe that He who helped us get them will also help us deliver them.
I always have felt I would rather do anything than canvass, but I am thankful I do not feel so now.
Praying for our fellow workers in the field, and asking an interest in their prayers, I am,
Yours in the work,
C. P. HASKELL.
Current Mention
— June 22, as a result of a race war between whites and negroes in Hemphill, Tex., nine of the latter were killed and three of the former.
— A tornado at Clinton, Minn., on June 27, destroyed twenty dwellings and two churches, killed six persons, and injured twenty-five.
— An effort is now being made to bring up the standing army of the United States to a peace footing of 250,000 men, to be divided into eight army corps.
— At the international congress of the Anglican Church, which closed at London on June 24, the bishops presented thank-offerings from their various dioceses amounting to $1,600,000.
— While Cardinal Richelmy was celebrating mass in the cathedral at Rome on June 24, a bomb was hurled at him, which exploded with deafening noise, but without injuring any one in the cathedral.
— As a result of the success of Count Zeppelin’s airship, a company is being formed in Berlin which proposes to establish a line of passenger airships between Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.
— Commander Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, started on his voyage for the North Pole on July 7. It is his plan not only to search for the North Pole, but to make researches along the northern coasts of Grantland and Greenland.
— An outbreak of cholera is reported among the American soldiers at Camp Gregg, on the Island of Luzon, P. I. At the time of the report ninety-three cases had been reported during the preceding twenty-four hours, sixty of which had proved fatal.
— In the early hours of Friday morning, July 10, the Democratic national convention in session at Denver, Colo., nominated William J. Bryan for the office of president of the United States. Mr. Bryan received 892½ votes, being much more than the number required for his nomination. In the afternoon of the same day John Worth Kern, of Indiana, was nominated for the office of vice-president.
— On the afternoon of July 7 the American battle-ship fleet, with the exception of one vessel, sailed for Honolulu, where it will remain for one week before continuing its cruise around the world. The battle-ship “Nebraska,” left behind on account of a case of scarlet fever, will rejoin the fleet at Honolulu. The fleet will visit the Philippines, Japan, China, and Australia, and return to Hampton Roads next February.
— On July 9 Venezuela’s representative at Washington received instructions from his government to return to Venezuela. As the American representative to Venezuela has already returned to the United States, diplomatic relations between the two countries are now entirely severed. Diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Holland are said to be at the breaking point, and a Dutch war-vessel is in readiness to take away the Dutch minister.
A Good Word From Manitoba
By Jas. T. Thompson.
We have just returned from our camp-meeting held at Carman, and had such a rousing good time in the interests of the canvassing work that I feel like passing it on. Our force is not very large, but what it lacks in quantity is made up in quality, so it is scarcely necessary to say that we have five of the best boys that ever carried a prospectus—all students from our school.
Our star salesman is a young Russian boy who came to this country two years ago unable to speak the English language; but he is a consecrated young man, and two years in school has fitted him for the work of a successful canvasser. Two of the other boys are German, and less than three years ago they could not speak the English language. Another one stated at the recent camp-meeting that five years ago he was unable to write his own name. The Lord has wonderfully blessed these young men, and for the months of May and June they took orders for more than seventeen hundred dollars' worth of books.
We had a canvassers' session at the camp-meeting one afternoon in which the brethren were given some history of the development of book sales in general, and also what work had been done in this conference this season. The boys were then given an opportunity to relate their experiences in the work, and I know of no meeting that touched the hearts of the brethren as this one did. There was scarcely a dry eye in the congregation.
I am herewith giving you the report of book sales for the first week in June. You will notice that we have a splendid average on hours, and also number of orders for the exhibitions given.
AGENTS
HOURS
EXHIBITIONS
ORDERS
VALUE
Sergius Burley
54
80
62
$128.00
Henry Giles
55
92
19
68.25
Frank Cramer
47
86
18
58.00
Robert Neumann
58
75
18
55.25
Lewis Liske
39
55
16
41.35
Total
253
388
133
$350.85
We feel to praise the Lord that throughout the great wide field his special blessing seems to be resting upon the consecrated canvasser.
Jas. T. Thompson.
The Publishing Work
Conducted under the auspices of the General Conference Publishing Department.
C. H. JONES - - - - Chairman
E. R. PALMER - - - - Secretary
H. H. HALL - - - Assistant Secretary
The West Michigan Camp-Meeting
By A. G. Haughey
The annual camp-meeting of the West Michigan Conference is to be held on the Sunday-school picnic grounds, near Reed’s Lake, in Grand Rapids, Aug. 13-23, 1908. No special rates will be granted, as the regular two-cent fare is charged on all roads throughout the conference.
A. G. Haughey, Pres.
Notice !
By CHAS. THOMPSON
THE annual meeting of the Kansas Seventh-day Adventist Conference Association will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Ottawa, Kan., appointed to convene Aug. 13-23, 1908. All legal business of the conference will be transacted at that time, and officers for the coming year will be elected. The first meeting will be called Monday, August 17, at 10 A. M.
CHAS. THOMPSON, President.
Camp-Meetings for 1908
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Maine, Brownville ..........Aug. 20-30
Vermont, Waterbury ........Aug. 20-31
Western New York, Buffalo ........Sept. 3-13
New York, Norwich ..........Sept. 10-20
New Jersey, Woodbury ........Aug. 20-30
Ohio, Mansfield .............Aug. 13-23
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Indiana (local), La Grange .....July 14-20
Southern Illinois, Vandalia ............
..............................July 30 to Aug. 9
Indiana (State), La Fayette ....Aug. 6-16
West Michigan, Grand Rapids ....Aug. 13-23
Northern Illinois ............Aug. 20-30
East Michigan, Lapeer .........Aug. 20-30
Indiana (local), North Vernon ...Aug. 25-31
North Michigan (conference), Petoskey
..............................Aug. 27 to Sept. 6
Wisconsin, Madison ...........Aug. 31 to Sept. 13
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Nevada .................Aug. 27 to Sept. 6
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Southern California, Los Angeles, Aug. 6-16
California (northern), Eureka ............
..............................July 23 to Aug. 2
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Louisiana, Lake Charles .......Aug. 6-16
Tennessee River, Memphis ............
Alabama, Cullman ..............Sept. 3-13
Alabama, near Mobile ..........Oct. 8-18
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
South Carolina, Greenville, July 24 to Aug. 3
Georgia, Atlanta ..............Aug. 6-16
North Carolina, Lexington ......Aug. 13-23
Cumberland, Cleveland, Tenn., Aug. 26
..............................to Sept. 6
Florida, Palatka ..............Oct. 1-12
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Oklahoma (local), Muskogee .....July 15-20
Arkansas (State), Fort Smith ...Sept. 3-13
Texas (State), Keene ...........July 30 to Aug. 9
Oklahoma (State), Enid .........Aug. 20-31
WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Alberta, Lacombe ...............July 9-19
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made in either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Obituaries
MORRISON.—Died at Beatrice, Neb., March 18, 1908, of consumption, Mrs. Rebecca Morrison, aged 23 years, 5 months, and 3 days. She was converted and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the age of thirteen, remaining faithful until death. She leaves to mourn their loss a husband and little boy, besides her parents and brothers and sisters. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, and was largely attended. We laid our sister to rest with the bright hope of seeing her again when the Life-giver comes.
E. A. CURTIS.
RICHARDSON.—Died at Parma, Idaho, June 12, 1908, of inflammation of stomach and bowels, Frances Helen, infant daughter of F. A. and Florence Richardson. Little Frances was sick but a few days. We laid her to rest in Roswell Cemetery, there to wait until Jesus comes to gather his jewels. Elder W. W. Steward of Boise, spoke words of comfort at the funeral service.
MARY KELSEY.
BRISBIN.—Died at Los Angeles, Cal., June 9, 1908, Sister Mary Irene Brisbin, aged 69 years, 4 months, and 23 days. Her suffering was intense for some time before her death, but through it all her faith was strong. She loved the truth, and her greatest burden was to give it to others. Grandma was converted at the age of twelve, and was a member of the Methodist Church until 1894, when, under the labors of Elder M. H. Gregory, she united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Topeka, Kan. Safe at last from the attacks of a cruel disease, she now sleeps until her Master's voice shall call her from the land of the enemy. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer.
C. E. FORD.
ROGERS.—Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. F. Ordway, near Polk, Mo., April 20, 1908, Mrs. Mary Rogers, aged 87 years, 3 months, and 11 days. Deceased was a native of England, coming to this country in 1849, since which time she has lived in Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas, and for the last seventeen years in Polk County, Mo. She was the mother of eight children, only one of whom was with her during her last illness. She became a Christian in early womanhood, and was a devoted member of the M. E. Church until 1895, when, hearing and accepting the Sabbath truth, she united with the Seventh-day Adventists, and remained steadfast in the faith unto the end. The funeral service was conducted by a Baptist minister at the church in Polk.
M. J. ORDWAY.
SAUNDERS.—Died in Roulette, Potter Co., Pa., April 15, 1908, Sister Alice Saunders, wife of Elder J. G. Saunders, in the fifty-first year of her age. For nearly eighteen years she had been afflicted with stomach trouble. She accepted the truths of the third angel's message under the preaching of Elders Wing and Hayward at Mill Village, Pa., in a tent effort there. She was married to Elder J. G. Saunders about nine years ago, and labored with him in Jefferson County and in Elk County, many times filling his appointments when he was called away. She loved the truth, and was glad to claim the blessing pronounced upon those who die in the Lord. The remains were taken to Mill Village, her old home, for interment. The funeral service was conducted by Elder I. N. Williams, who spoke words of comfort and hope on the resurrection.
SKIPTON.—Died in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, May 26, 1908, Mrs. Sarah Skipton, aged 83 years, 6 months, and 10 days. She was born in Lincolnshire, England, coming to this country with her parents in her eleventh year, the voyage requiring nine weeks. The family settled first in Pennsylvania, then in Ohio, and finally in Iowa, where she was married. Death claimed the husband over thirty years ago. Of the five children, one daughter and two sons survive her. She made her home with her youngest son. One brother and three sisters also remain. When about fourteen years of age, she joined the Methodist Church, remaining with them for thirty years, when she heard and became convinced of the truths taught by the Seventh-day Adventists. Since then her interests have been with them. She suffered much during her sickness, but trusted in the Lord's promises. Hers was a life filled with service for others.
MYRTLE C. BOSWORTH.
Business Notices
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—
Conditions
Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing and send it.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
My offer of good watches at right prices having met such favor, I have issued a neat little catalogue. Send for one; it is valuable to you, as it gives you the benefit of my years of experience. Address W. H. Merrill (Watchmaker), Washington, N. J.
For Sale.—Pleasant home at Fernando. New four-room cottage; corner consisting of 3 lots, 126½ x 50 ft., thirty-two olive-, seventeen lemon-, and ten orange-trees, full-bearing. Five minutes' walk from the academy. Price, for quick sale, $1,600. Address A. S. Booth, Fernando, Cal.
Wanted.—Good, strong Adventist nurse about forty years of age, one who has a thorough working knowledge of the water treatments. Write stating experience and wages expected. Good place for right one. Address Otter Lake (Mich.) Medical and Surgical Sanitarium.
For Sale.—On account of changing field of labor, modern seven-room home, 15 acres, orchard, garden, fine grove, chicken park, barn; three-fourths mile to academy and church; on road to city, four miles distant. Among best places around Keene. Price, $3,000. Address W. A. McCutchen, Keene, Tex.
Wanted.—An all-round handy man, who can do carpenter work and repair machinery. Must be steady, and come to stay with us. We also want five or six men to do common labor, wages $2 a day. None need apply except Seventh-day Adventists. Address Spencer Brick and Tile Works, Grove Street, Spencer, Iowa.
Wanted.—A lady nurse; one who is strong, capable, and reliable, a Christian Seventh-day Adventist, and suitable to work in hydrotherapy treatment rooms. Good salary. Address J. E. Cross, 652 Congress St., Portland, Maine.
For Sale.—For a short time only, Peanut Butter, 10 cents a pound; Olive-Oil, $2.50 a gallon; 50 pounds Cocoanut-Oil, $7. Cash with order. All guaranteed absolutely pure. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.
Wanted.—To correspond with good blacksmith, a Sabbath-keeper, understanding general blacksmithing, wagon and carriage repairing, horseshoeing, etc. Do not come, but write to W. H. Gilmore, care Sanitarium, Loma Linda, Cal., via Redlands, for particulars.
For Sale.—18 acres, all but one acre in full-bearing orchard, peaches, prunes, almonds, and English walnuts, on country road, and electric line, near St. Helena, in the beautiful Napa Valley. Price, $3,600. Address H. Hansen, R. F. D. 2, St. Helena, Cal.
Wanted.—Strong young or middle-aged man and woman, married or single, on farm in Tennessee. Steady work, good wages, but must be experienced farm hands. City people not wanted. Come at once, or can agree to commence October 15. Address A. M. Pollock, R. F. D. 2, Ashland City, Tenn.
For Sale.—160 acres; 2,000 young fruit-trees; best peaches, pears, and apples. One thousand of the peaches come into bearing next season, the balance follow. These trees have been well pruned and cared for, and are of best commercial varieties. Sixty acres cleared, balance timber; fair country home improvements, spring, and running water; 800 feet above Nashville, in an ideal fruit section, twelve and one-half miles from Nashville, the head of our work in the South, and a fine fruit market, where good prices are paid. Self-supporting Seventh-day Adventist industrial school being established on adjoining place. For sale only to Seventh-day Adventist. Price, $3,200, all cash, or one third cash and balance to suit. Reason for selling, other duties are demanding our attention. Address A. B. C., care of Carrier No. 26, Nashville, Tenn.
The Kansas Conference
By CHAS. THOMPSON
THE next annual session of the Kansas Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Ottawa, Kan., August 13-23. The regular business of the year will be transacted. Officers will be elected, reports submitted, and plans laid for future aggressive work. The first meeting of the conference will be held Friday, August 14, at 10 A. M. We trust all delegates will be present at this first meeting, so committees can be appointed, and the work of the conference arranged.
CHAS. THOMPSON, President.
The Louisiana Camp-Meeting
By E. L. MAXWELL
THE annual camp-meeting and conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Louisiana, will be held at Lake Charles, La., Aug. 6-16, 1908. The railroads have kindly granted a rate of a fare and one third for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale August 3, 5, 6, 13, good to return up to August 18. Because of the solemn warnings of Jesus' coming that have been given us this year in the storms and floods that have visited our State, we urge every Seventh-day Adventist in the conference to attend this meeting, that we may all be better qualified to give the last message to every soul within our borders. The usual accommodations will be provided for those who come.
E. L. MAXWELL, President.
Notice!
By O. L. Tillman
ALL members of the Elk City (Okla.) church who did not report during the past quarter are requested to report before August 10.
O. L. TILLMAN, Elder.
Addresses
THE present address of Elder F. D. Starr is Forest, Idaho.
I WOULD be glad to receive the present address of Brother C. E. Dettweiler, who was in 1895 with Brother H. Shulte, New Haven, also at Senate Grove, Mo. Address F. G. Thomas, Carroll P. O., Wyo.
ANY one desiring names for missionary purposes can get them by addressing the writer. Some of these are the names of people who have manifested some special interest in some phase of the truth. Address R. I. Keate, State Agent, Marlow, Ala.
Outline of Mission Fields
By Editor
“OUTLINE OF MISSION FIELDS” is now off the press and ready for circulation. This brings our mission story down to the close of 1907—all brought together by fields into one little booklet convenient for study. This is practically the same matter found in the original “Outline of Mission Fields,” and the “Supplement” recently prepared, adding the mission history of 1906-07, although slight variations were made, including some of the very latest developments, in this last issue. Those having the original and supplement will not need this, but the supply of the former having been exhausted a new edition was made necessary. All orders should be addressed to the Mission Board, and not to the Review and Herald Office.
If any of our able-bodied ministers are unable to secure employment by any conference committee, they may be interested to learn from Elder C. P. Haskell’s letter, printed on the twenty-first page, how he solved that problem, and of the success which has attended his efforts in his new line of work. There is an unlimited field for useful and profitable work in the sale of our books and periodicals.
A Collapsed Effort and New Missionaries
ANOTHER effort to discredit the doctrines and the administration of this advent movement has collapsed, and the too trusting printer is still waiting for his pay. We hope that the offer to accept tithes and offerings, and to see that they went “to the most needy field,” was not accepted by any of our people, as it seems wiser to use such funds in the mission fields than in paying for the printing of literature designed to awaken doubt and distrust concerning this message.
BROTHER GEORGE L. STERLING, of Michigan, who has been in attendance at Mt. Vernon (Ohio) College, and his wife (née Mabel H. Klopfenstein), left San Francisco, July 1, for the Society Islands, to which place they have been called to engage in school work.
Professor Walton John Reaches Buenos Aires
PROF. WALTON JOHN and family reached Buenos Aires, Argentina, safely on June 7. He says: “We are happy to be here, and hope that our work may be blessed of God.”
WE learn from the manager of our periodical department that the average number of our periodicals now sent out from this office is fifty thousand a week. This is almost exactly double the number issued when we moved to Washington, less than five years ago. We hope the next five years may bring another one hundred per cent increase.
Carnahans Sail for School Work in Cuba
BROTHER S. H. CARNAHAN and family, of Oregon, left New York last week on the “Monterey” for Cuba, where they expect to open school work. Sister Carnahan, formerly Mrs. Ida Fischer, labored in Porto Rico several years ago, and thus gained an experience in a Spanish-speaking field which will be of great advantage in entering Cuba.
Forty-Five Thousand Copies of Life and Health
ANOTHER edition of the July issue of Life and Health was printed last week, bringing the total of this number to forty-five thousand copies. A good number of workers are maintaining an average sale of nearly one hundred copies a day. There is still a large amount of unworked territory for those who desire to take up the sale of this magazine.
Elder Andross Returns to England
ELDER E. E. ANDROSS left New York last week Thursday on his return to England. Not expecting to remain here when he left that field to attend the spring council, some conference business, as well as personal matters, required his attention before taking final leave of the British field. He will return to his work here in the Columbia Union early in the fall.
The Canon of Ptolemy
By Editor
For some time we have been looking for a brief but clear statement concerning the Canon of Ptolemy, which plays so important a part in determining the prophetic dates. We are quite sure that all our readers, and especially those who teach the message, will find the article on this subject on the ninth page both interesting and helpful. We suggest that it should be permanently preserved.
New Monthly Format for Signs of the Times
BEGINNING with August, 1908, the Signs of the Times will issue once each month a magazine number. The magazine number will be the first issue in each month, and will consist of forty-eight pages with cover in colors. Each following week in the month the Signs will contain sixteen pages, magazine size, without cover, with a special design for the first page, giving it the appearance of a cover. The price of the paper for the year, including the magazine numbers, will be the same as heretofore, $1.50. Neither will the change in the form make any change in the club rates, unless the subscriber desires to take either the monthly numbers or the weekly numbers alone. Further particulars in reference to rates, etc., will be gladly furnished by the Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.
The Missionary Maps
By I. H. Evans
We are promised the delivery of our missionary maps by July 20. The low price of $2.25 has been placed on these maps, so that every church could secure one. The General Conference has ordered five hundred. The size is 50 x 87 inches. The map is in colors. Here the world is brought before the eye, affording great aid in the study of the mission fields. Send all orders through your society, or direct to the General Conference. All orders from individuals must be accompanied by cash, as we can not carry these small items on our books.
I. H. EVANS.
