p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 32. (8/11/1910)

Earlier text: Camp-Meetings for 1910

North Michigan Conference Association

By J. J. Irwin; J. H. Niehaus

NOTICE is hereby given that the annual session of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Traverse City, Mich., in connection with the annual camp-meeting, Aug. 25 to Sept. 4, 1910. The first meeting will be called August 26, at 10 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting any other business that may come before the association.

J. J. Irwin, President; J. H. Niehaus, Secretary.

Camp-Meeting (Colored) for Florida

By R. W. PARMELE.

THE camp-meeting for the colored people in Florida will be held this year at Sanford, October 28 to November 7. This meeting will be preceded by a tent-meeting. In addition to the regular Florida laborers, it is expected that Elder M. C. Strachan will be present to represent the Union Mission. Sanford is centrally located in the State, with exceptional railroad facilities, and is also reached from Jacksonville by boat. The steerage fare from Jacksonville to Sanford is only $1. Present indications are that we shall be unable to obtain any reduction of railroad fare this year. We trust there will be a large attendance at this meeting. R. W. PARMELE.

A Day of Fasting and Prayer

By Arthur G. Daniells

Our brethren who met together in the recent council in New York to study the problem of carrying forward our work in the cities on a larger scale and with greater efficiency, found themselves facing a great and difficult task. It is great because humanity, the world over, is massed together in cities. To give our message to the cities means practically to give it to the world. Therefore the city work is a world-wide undertaking.

This task is difficult because of the conditions in the cities. To a large extent, city life is opposed to religious life. City life is strenuous. The work to be done is under regulation, contract, time limit, supervision, etc. There can be little variation and delay. Women as well as men do the work, and all are kept under high pressure continually. Those who have time and strength for anything besides work are kept at fever heat by stimulating attractions of every description. Under these conditions the plain affairs of the gospel do not appeal very strongly to men and women.

Then there is the difficulty of getting into the homes of the people. They do not live in single, detached houses like those of the rural districts, but in blocks of solid buildings, and great apartment houses from five to fifteen stories high. Here they are guarded by locks, bolts, servants, elevator operators, and uniformed guards. These and many other conditions make the movement in behalf of the cities great and difficult. As we studied its various phases, we felt overwhelmed with its magnitude. We felt that we must have the special help of the Lord or we should surely fail. Our need of a large number of consecrated, efficient workers, of more means, of more wisdom, and especially of more power from God, has led to the appointment of a day of fasting and prayer. We felt, as we struggled with this stupendous undertaking, that if our brethren and sisters were made acquainted with the situation, they would gladly unite in earnest, importunate prayer for divine help. Additional information will be given in the REVIEW and in the union and local conference papers. Sabbath, September 17, is the day set apart for united prayer and fasting by our people throughout the United States and Canada.

A. G. DANIELLS.

City Mission Work in New York

AFTER spending several days in New York City in the interests of the city mission work, Elder A. G. Daniells has been at his office the past week looking after necessary questions pertaining to the general work.

Creation in Romanized Malay

IN Romanized Malay comes to the Mission Board a little tract of fourteen pages, with cover, printed at the new Java Mission, entitled “Creation.” Thus another little jet is lighted amid the darkness in the Straits Settlements of the East.

A Sacrifice for Book Work

WRITING from Johannesburg, Brother G. H. Clark, in charge of the book work in South Africa, tells of a brother who left a position with a salary of $150 a month to sell books. This seemed like quite a financial sacrifice, but not so very much after all when he afterward experienced the pleasure and satisfaction of securing $100 worth of orders for one of the large subscription books in two days.

Mission Work Among Children in Nyassaland

Six white laborers, two ‘brethren and their wives and two single lady helpers, are superintending a work in Nyassaland where more than a thousand of Africa's native children are brought into direct contact with the truths contained in the third angel's message. This is truly marvelous, and illustrates what the Lord is able to bring out of little beginnings. Let us remember the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

Robbers Attack Missionaries in Korea

BROTHER W. R. SMITH, who with his family recently moved to the eastern coast of Korea, writes: “A few nights ago we had our first experience with robbers, very numerous in this country. We had gone to bed with doors and windows unfastened as usual. Near morning Mrs. Smith noticed an object in the open window near the foot of the bed, but as carpenters had been at work, she thought it might be a board left leaning against it. She reached out with something to make sure what it was, when a man stepped aside, and fired with a revolver into the room. This awakened me, and I grabbed my wife, thinking she had hurt herself in some way. As I spoke to her, two more shots were fired into the room. I then saw what was up, and asked the man what he wanted. He said, ‘Money.’ I told him we had no money (there was not five dollars in the house at the time). He said, ‘Yes, you have.’ I told him to come in, and I would give him what we had. At that he sprang up as if to come through the window; but as he did so, my wife cried out, ‘O God! spare our lives!’ He instantly dropped back and disappeared. At the time I thought he had fired the shots to frighten us, but the bullet holes were too near our heads for us to retain that opinion longer than until morning. Later we learned that one of the Korean women belonging to our company here stood guard the entire night following to see that no harm came to us. We thank God for his mercy and protecting care.”

Spicer’s Expected Return from England

In a recent letter from W. A. Spicer, he states that he expects to leave England for home the first week in September.

Medical Course at Loma Linda

On page 17 Dr. W. A. Ruble, president of the Loma Linda medical school, outlines the work of the medical course in that institution.

Thompson Leaves for the Australasian Conference

LEAVING Washington last week Thursday for Australia, Elder G. B. Thompson goes to attend the Australasian Union Conference session. He expects to be away five or six months.

The Cooks Leave the Burma Mission

AFTER spending several years in India, laboring in Burma most of the time, Brother and Sister R. R. Cook, with their two little ones, have been sadly compelled to leave the work so dear to their hearts, and turn their faces homeward. As the result of work in the trying climate of Burma, Brother Cook contracted tubercular pleurisy, and a change of climate is imperative. Let us hold up in prayer these workers, as well as others who, through disability, have been obliged to turn aside to rest a while.