p. 118 | Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 5. (1/29/1914)

Earlier text: Secretaryship as a Life Work — No. 2

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

—For the first time in the history of the government of New York City, a woman is to be appointed to the mayor's cabinet. Dr. Katherine B. Davis is slated for the office of commissioner of corrections. This will virtually give her control of all reform work for boys and girls within her jurisdiction.

—The mammoth plants of the International Distilling Company and the United States Industrial Alcohol Company at New Orleans, La., were destroyed by fire recently, with a loss of $1,000,000. Firemen fighting the blaze faced an impossible task on account of the scores of explosions of alcohol tanks.

—A serious railway strike has been on in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, South Africa. Early in January every man in the Bloemfontein workshops laid down his tools and walked out. The railroad yards and stations were under a guard of armed police and contingents of the Citizen Defense Force. Martial law was proclaimed in several cities, and the government declared its intention to fight to the finish the Trades Federation, which ordered the strike. The strikers set off dynamite under three crowded passenger trains manned by nonunion men, but providentially no lives were lost.

—No one knows how many have lost their lives as a result of the terrible seismic disturbances in Japan. There has been great loss of life and enormous property damage. The city of Kagoshima is destroyed as a result of the eruption of Aukara-Jima, and the tidal wave which followed. This was a city of 70,000, a large portion of whom lost their lives. Mt. Kirishima Yama, thirty miles north of Kagoshima, is in a state of violent eruption. Mt. Asama, in central Japan, has begun to erupt. The state of the public mind cannot be described. Notwithstanding the fact that 10,000,000 Japanese in the northern islands are near starvation as a result of famine, this has been forgotten in the new calamity that has overwhelmed the kingdom. To add to the terror of the night, great forest fires are reported to have been set by the molten lava from the volcanoes, and it is thought that many of those who succeeded in getting away from actual harm from the flying rocks and lava, have been trapped by the blazing forests.

—Negotiations between the United States and Colombia for a settlement of the controversy growing out of the independence of Panama, and the loss of Colombian territory through what is claimed to have been the connivance of this country, have been brought to a conclusion satisfactory to both governments. The draft of a treaty has been concluded whereby the United States agrees as a matter of courtesy to pay to the Colombian government the sum of $25,000,000. During the Taft administration Secretary Knox negotiated a treaty in which the monetary consideration was fixed at $23,000,000, but the Colombian authorities

refused to accept it, and insisted that the whole subject be submitted to arbitration. This government declined absolutely to consider the question of arbitration at any stage of the proceedings.

Petition Work

By C. S. L.

It was very gratifying to hear thirteen petitions against Sunday legislation read to Congress on January 12, the day when Congress reconvened. Every day since, the Congressional Record has printed from six to a dozen petitions against the three Sunday bills now before Congress. One of the senators from Florida had the whole petition, protest, bill, and arguments printed in the Congressional Record. Some of the Washington newspapers have made favorable mention of the great opposition there is to these Sunday bills, and have alluded to the petitions of protest which are coming into Congress from all parts of the country.

Let us keep up the good work. Every day it opens its sessions Congress is having its attention called to a false sabbath, and to the dangers of religious legislation. Send these petitions to your own senators and representatives in Congress. Do not send them to us, as many are doing. It will have a much better effect if you send them direct to the men who represent your district in the Senate and House of Representatives than it will for you to send them to us and have us send them to these men.

Dr. Henry King Carroll, the religious statistician of the United States, has been appointed by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America as their representative in dealing with Congressmen, and has been urged to use his good office and all the influence back of it to secure a Sunday law for the District of Columbia. At their recent convention held in Baltimore, one of the leaders said, in substance:—

"The Sunday laws are the right arm of our movement. The capital of the nation has no Sunday law. As the capital goes, so will the nation go. If we fail in the District of Columbia, our efforts will be neutralized throughout the States. We must spare no efforts to get a Sunday rest bill through Congress for the District of Columbia, and then it will be easier work to get further legislation along these lines."

The eyes of these reformers are now turned on Washington and Congress; and if they can only get Congress to step over the line and open the door for religious legislation, then the future will be under their control, and the floodgates will be opened for more drastic religious legislation.

We are thankful for the cooperation of our people throughout the field, and for the earnest spirit with which they are taking hold of this petition work. The final day of judgment alone will reveal all the good that has been accomplished in this work. Let us not allow an opportunity to pass unimproved. We are in critical times, and we must be on our guard. C. S. L.

Obituaries

ROLLINS.—Pearl B. Simpson-Rollins was born in London, Ky., Nov. 14, 1892, and died at Houston, Tex., Jan. 4, 1914, aged 21 years, 1 month, and 20 days. Two small children, her parents, four brothers, and five sisters are left to mourn. Interment took place at Knoxville, Tenn. Funeral services were conducted in the Lonsdale Baptist church by the writer, assisted by Pastor J. E. Shipe.

C. R. MAGOON.

ZINN.—George William Zinn was born in Bates County, Missouri, Nov. 3, 1879, and died near Cedardale, Okla., Dec. 2, 1913, aged 34 years and 1 month. He accepted present truth in July, 1912, and was baptized the following year. An earnest Bible student, he fell asleep with the bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. He is survived by a father, mother, and three brothers. Words of consolation were spoken by the writer from Job 19:25, 26.

R. W. SUFFICOOL.

MOSSE.—Triphena Osborn was born in 1851, and died Jan. 9, 1914, aged 62 years. Some thirty-seven years ago she accepted the third angel's message through the labors of Elder O. F. Guilford. For forty-four years she faithfully did her part as the wife of John N. Mosse. The funeral services were held near Locust Point, Ohio. The deceased is mourned by many relatives, friends, and neighbors, and will be greatly missed by the little company of Sabbath keepers at Locust Point.

D. E. LINDSEY.

SNYDER.—Died near Coquille, Oregon, Dec. 16, 1913, A. H. Snyder, aged 83 years and 6 months. The deceased was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. At the age of forty-two years he came West, crossing the plains with his family by team, and settled at Myrtle Point, Oregon, in 1873, where he resided until his death. Brother Snyder loved the third angel's message, and fell asleep in the blessed hope. Funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by the pastor of the United Brethren Church.

T. G. BUNCH.

WALKER.—George P. Walker was born in Hutton Township, Illinois, Nov. 9, 1836, and died in Charleston, Ill., Dec. 10, 1913. He was the eldest of ten children, of whom five survive. When a young man Brother Walker became a Christian. He was married on Dec. 31, 1857, to Rhoda J. Cartwright. Five children were born to them, of whom four are left to mourn. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-Third Illinois Regiment, and for three years faithfully served his country. Some twenty years ago the deceased retired from active life. In 1894 the light of present truth came to him through his oldest son. He united with the Charleston church, and for many years served as deacon of the same.

JOHN E. HANSON.

HERSUM.—Mrs. Alice H. Hersum, wife of Elder S. J. Hersum, of Richmond, Maine, died Jan. 11, 1914, aged 77 years. and 14 days. Sister Hersum was born in Mercer, Maine, in 1835. She embraced the truth in 1865 under the labors of Elder M. E. Cornell, and married Elder Hersum in 1870. By her first husband, John D. Goodrich, she had one child, who was living with his mother when she died. Sister Hersum, in company with her husband, was a faithful laborer in the cause of present truth. About thirty years ago, they settled in Portland, Maine, and began house-to-house labor, Sister Hersum taking over one hundred subscriptions for the Signs of the Times. Quite a company at that time embraced the truth under their labors. Afterward they labored in Newfoundland, where they established a church and built a meetinghouse as the fruit of their labors. In 1898, while in Newfoundland, they were quarantined on account of smallpox, Sister Hersum, with others, being vaccinated, and from that time her health began to fail until she died at her home in Richmond, Maine. Her husband, son, and two sisters are left to mourn, but they mourn not without hope. She peacefully sleeps in the bright hope of the resurrection of the just at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Remarks were made by the writer at the funeral to a circle of friends and neighbors. She was beloved by all who knew her.

S. N. HASKELL.

PADEN.—Joseph C. Paden was born at Ickesburg, Pa., Feb. 6, 1870, and fell asleep in Jesus at Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 22, 1913. The deceased united with the Hagerstown Seventh-day Adventist Church about ten years ago, and remained a consistent, faithful member of the same until his death. He spent some time in the canvassing work, from which he reluctantly retired, a few months ago, because of falling health. His wife and one child, a mother, five brothers, and three sisters are left to mourn, but they sorrow in hope. The funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by Brother Hugh Peden.

S. T. SHADEL.

HENSLEY.—Hattie Hensley, wife of S. B. Hensley, was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 17, 1868, and died Dec. 7, 1913, aged 45 years, 2 months, and 20 days. Brother and Sister Hensley were united in marriage in 1896. The husband, an aged mother, one sister, and one brother survive. It can be said of the deceased that she was a devoted wife and an earnest Christian. She spent much of her time in canvassing for our literature and caring for the needy. Sister Hensley accepted the faith held by Seventh-day Adventists in early years, and was a faithful member of that church until the day of her death. She fell asleep in Jesus with the hope of soon living in that land where death and suffering will be no more.

N. T. SUTTON.

PLANT.—Tabitha Henry was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, May 7, 1824, and died near Berryton, Kans., Sept. 5, 1913, aged 89 years, 3 months, and 28 days. In 1843 she was married to Daniel A. Plant (deceased). Four children were given to them, of whom two are left to mourn. Sister Plant became a resident of Kansas in 1865, and the greater part of her life after that time was spent in the vicinity of Topeka. She embraced the third angel's message under the labors of Elder R. J. Lawrence in 1870, and became a charter member of the Big Springs Seventh-day Adventist Church, the first organization in that part of the conference. Her membership was later transferred to the Topeka Church. She was a faithful and consistent Christian.

W. H. CLARK.

North Pacific Union Conference Association

The biennial meeting of the North Pacific Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at College Place, Wash., March 2, at 11 A. M. This meeting is held for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it.

C. W. FLAIZ, President.

The District of Columbia Conference Association

THE sixth annual session of the District of Columbia Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in Memorial Church, corner Twelfth and M Streets, Washington, D. C., at 10 A. M., Monday, Feb. 16, 1914, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association.

R. E. HARTER, President;

A. J. BRISTOL, Secretary.

The District of Columbia Conference

THE sixth annual meeting of the District of Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held Feb. 15, 1914, at Memorial Church, corner of Twelfth and M Streets, Washington, D. C. The election of the conference officers and various other matters of interest to every loyal Seventh-day Adventist will come before the meeting. Each church is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and to one additional delegate for every ten members. The first session will be held February 15, at 9:30 A. M.

R. E. HARTER, President;

A. J. BRISTOL, Secretary.

Business Notice

For SALE.—Wishing to take up Southern work, will sell to good Seventh-day Adventist nurses (man and wife) or to physician good-paying small sanitarium and treatment rooms. Excellent chance for the right persons. References required. Might give part time if desired. First Street Sanitarium, Jackson, Mich.

Addresses Wanted

THE Boulder (Colo.) church is anxious to learn the whereabouts of Andrew Tietz, Veggo Toppenberg, and Mrs. Naomi Worth. This information should be sent to Mrs. F. W. Alcorn, 805 Maxwell Ave., Boulder, Colo.

Publications Wanted

The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for missionary purposes:—

L. A. Robinson, R. F. D. 1, Claremont, N. C.

Mrs. M. M. Clark, Box 421, Dallas, S. Dak.

James Harvey, 1729 Grove St., Oakland, Cal.

W. T. Sanborn, Tofield, Alberta, Canada. Continuous supply.

W. B. Jenkins, Box 65, Wildwood, Fla. Review, Signs, and Watchman.

E. F. Peterson, 705 Easterday Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Signs, Liberty, Watchman, Protestant Magazine, and tracts.

THE NEW BEREAN LIBRARY

By Editor

WE are glad to announce that a number of our books heretofore issued only in cloth bindings, and some of our new books just being brought out, will be issued in the Berean Library, with paper covers and printed on thin paper, at very greatly reduced prices. The first ten numbers of this series will be ready within a few days, and some of them are now ready for delivery.

STEPS TO CHRIST - - - - $ .25 | In quantities by freight $ .15
THOUGHTS ON DANIEL - - - - .25 | .15
THOUGHTS ON REVELATION - - - - .25 | .15
HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING - - - - .15 | .09
THE SABBATH IN THE SCRIPTURES - - - - .25 | .15
THE SABBATH IN HISTORY - - - - .50 | .30
CAPITAL AND LABOR - - - - .25 | .15
HERE AND HEREAFTER - - - - .25 | .15
BIBLE FOOTLIGHTS - - - - .35 | .21
OUR PARADISE HOME - - - - .15 | .09

Nos. 5 and 6 are taken from the revised edition of "History of the Sabbath."

At the beginning of the winter season, when the evenings are getting long, the time is very opportune for circulating these splendid new publications among your friends and neighbors. Notice the special price in quantities, shipped by freight. Our churches should order from their librarians, and thus get them at the cheapest price.

REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN., Washington, D. C. ORDER OF YOUR TRACT SOCIETY

TWO HOMES

The 1914 Temperance Instructor contrasts the temperance home, having prosperity, peace, and happiness, with the home wrecked by liquor. The facts are so convincing, the results so inevitable, and the picture so appalling, only the most depraved can fail to be impressed with their personal responsibility in suppressing the evil thing that robs a home of a loving father, and puts in his place a demon who shipwrecks the home and spoils the lives of those about him.

With the home number of the Temperance Instructor, our 100,000 message-filled people now have open doors to homes in all places. Who will enter?

Order Through Your Conference Tract Society

Same home after liquor gained an entrance.

Missionary News from Russia and Persia

In a letter from St. Petersburg, Russia, Elder O. E. Reinke, of the East Russian Union, reports that the Russian paper Blagaja West (Message of Grace) is doing a good work. Twenty thousand of a missionary special have been circulated. "In St. Petersburg," he says, "we have three churches, having a membership of 150. Before the month will have closed, there will be a fourth church organized, our first German church. The city is built on a group of islands, and we plan that each church on its separate island shall be a true lighthouse and watchtower."

God's special overruling providence was again recently manifested in the protection of his servants. Elder O. Staubert, wife, and child, also Brother and Sister Oster (Sister Oster is the daughter of Brother and Sister W. B. White, now in South Africa), had their arrangements all made to leave Hamburg, Germany, on a certain train, for their field of labor in Persia. The passport papers of one of the brethren being delayed, it was made necessary at the last minute for them to change their plans and take a later train. This first train was wrecked, forty-five persons being killed and many others injured. Truly it means something to be protected by the Lord. In these days of peril by land and sea, to him who trusts in God how comforting is the promise, "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust."

To Our Workers

By Editor

During this current year the REVIEW AND HERALD should be placed in the home of every member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Our brethren and sisters need the help which the REVIEW can give. Some of our ministers are determined that this shall be done, as far as their field of operation is concerned. Will you unite your efforts with theirs in extending the circulation of our church journal? Elder W. H. Thurston, president of the Wisconsin Conference, says:—

"I believe the REVIEW should be in every home. It should head the list of our periodicals. I am giving it attention wherever I go, and I am pleased to say that the paper is filled with interesting matter. Every week there is something that the churches ought to have. It seems to me that the REVIEW grows better as the years go by. I assure you of my interest in the good old REVIEW."

The Next Thirteenth Sabbath Offering

By Mrs. L. Flora Plummer

As an emergency fund, the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering has no equal. Every call made to the Sabbath school in behalf of these special enterprises has been nobly met.

The object to which we are called upon to give on March 28, the first thirteenth Sabbath of the year, is the Training School for Native Workers at Shanghai. That the message must be given in China largely by Chinese workers is conceded by all. We can never send enough missionaries into that field to carry the light to all China. The quickest way, in fact the only way, to do this work is to have a school where the Chinese may be trained by our missionaries so they can carry the truth to the uttermost part of that great empire. The training school will be one of the most essential factors in finishing the work in China. The call is for $15,000. We can raise it if each one does his best.

Pray for the work in China. Plan to give liberally in the Sabbath school on March 28.

MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER, Gen. Conf. S. S. Secretary.

Henry Tonjes Arrives in New York

By Editor

We learn of the arrival in New York of Brother Henry Tonjes, who has been engaged for some years in the book work in southern Brazil. He will engage in the work among foreign-speaking peoples in Greater New York.

Growth of Brazilian Publishing Work

In a recent letter Elder F. W. Spies, of Brazil, speaks as follows of the growth of the Brazilian publishing work: "In 1911 we sold about $7,000 worth of books, in 1912 over $10,000, and this year [1913] I expect our sales will reach $15,000." This is a good word from that Catholic country.

Permanent Work Opens in Luzon

L. V. FINSTER reports the opening of permanent work on the island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, made possible by new recruits, Brother Hay and family, locating there permanently, to study the language of the Ilocano people. He tells of baptizing ten believers at Binacayan early in December, fruitage of the labors of a native evangelist.

Casebeer Family Returns to South America

LAST week Elder Geo. W. Casebeer and family arrived in Washington from Idaho, on their return journey to South America. Their furlough has been spent in work and rest. After a little time at Takoma Park, they will proceed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Elder Casebeer having been assigned to the work in that great city.

The End of All Things

FROM Asmara, our mission on the border of Abyssinia, greetings come from Brother Steiner, sending at the same time a copy of a hand-written, then cyclostyled leaflet, entitled "The End of All Things." This tract will go into closed Abyssinia, and we feel sure will find its way to honest hearts waiting for the message of Christ's coming in that land of darkness and superstition.

El Campo Mexicano in Troublous Times

Notwithstanding the troublous times in Mexico, the little workers' organ for that field, El Campo Mexicano, continues to come to us regularly, filled with reports from evangelists and colporteurs in the field. It has been a busy time for the staff in the printing office and the Mexico City headquarters generally, and the workers will welcome the additional help already appointed, but still waiting at the Foreign Mission Seminary for more favorable conditions for entering Mexico.

A Patient Accepts the Truth

SPEAKING words of thankfulness for the new dispensary building at Soonan, Korea, Dr. Riley Russell adds: "A few weeks ago a patient, a nice, clean fellow, accepted the truth; and about a week ago a woman brought an all-but-dying man to the dispensary and said, 'I am not a believer; but this my son is dying, and I hoped that by bringing him here he might believe on Jesus and be saved.' He lived but two days, but in that time gave his heart to God and passed away in peace."

A Campaign for the Protestant Magazine

By Editor

THE Washington Herald and the Post for January 21 contain write-ups of the closing of the doors of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary the twentieth instant, that the students might engage in a day's canvass of the city of Washington for the February number of the Protestant Magazine. This issue contains two speeches by Rev. R. H. McKim, the chief speaker at the union Protestant service in the New National Theater, last month, entitled "Why We Are Protestants," and "America Chief Heir of the Reformation," both of which are national, and world-wide even, in their importance, covering in full, as they do, the great controversy now on between the principles of Bible Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. The District of Columbia Conference is planning to place from 5,000 to 10,000 copies of this number among the residents of Washington. Thus far the total sales have amounted to over two thousand copies, and the campaign is to continue until March 1. Look for a full report of this great campaign in next week's REVIEW. Unsolicited on our part, the editor of the Washington Times published on the church page of his issue for January 17 an article headed "Dr. McKim's Speech Attracts Attention," in which he urged all to buy the February number of the Protestant Magazine, mentioning the magazine by name twice. Will not our conference officers, schools, and church officers unite in inaugurating similar campaigns in their respective localities? Now is a most opportune time to circulate our truth-filled literature, and to draw to our standard the honest in heart everywhere who are beginning to see the dangers confronting our liberties from the aggressions of Romanism.