IQUIQUE.—The work is moving forward with a reasonable degree of success. We frequently meet persons who have recently become interested by means of our paper. Many are not only manifesting their interest by renewing their own subscriptions, but also by taking subscriptions from others. I have just received twenty subscriptions from one man who has become interested solely by reading the paper. This is only one of several who are showing their appreciation by working for the paper. When we see people sufficiently interested to work, as many of these who are not Seventh-day Adventists are doing, we look upon them as in a most favorable position to receive the truth.
As the work with the paper is now moving, its prosperity will be greater this year than it was last year. To the Lord we give the praise for success and blessing. I believe that one of the most sure ways of laying the foundation of our work is by the circulation of literature—and the books are an important part of it. Canvassers in the Catholic countries can do much more than the public speaker. One of our strongest companies here is the result of the labors of Brother T. H. Davis. While he was canvassing, he held Bible studies in the place, and thus raised up a company of eight or ten Sabbath-keepers.
Because of my interest in this work, I feel a deep interest in Brother Davis’s return to the field. He is a tried laborer, and knows the language, so there is no experiment in sending him, and he is ready for work the day he lands. I have just received a letter from him, saying that he is anxious to return; so I have decided to ask the Mission Board to advance him fifty dollars, and charge the same to my personal account. This is to be used toward paying his return passage to the field, so that he may come as soon as possible. I would be glad to pay the whole amount, but because of heavy expenses here, I can not do more than this at present.
Last Friday I was out canvassing for a short time, and found a family who seemed quite interested. They bought some of our small books, and ordered a copy of “Patriarchs and Prophets,” and renewed their subscription to the paper, Senales. In fact, it was because of the paper that they were found, and their interest was developed. I feel to praise the Lord every day for the printed page.
During the past few weeks I have sold for the time spent in canvassing. I have done well.
One day I sold books for cash to the amount of ninety-nine and one-half dollars Chilean currency, or thirty-three dollars in United States gold. Every day I did well, but not always so well as that.
I expect to go to Peru soon, and will take some books with me, and canvass during the day, holding services on Sabbath and in the evenings, as there are some who are calling for baptism.
A. R. OGDEN.
British Central Africa
By J. H. WATSON
A SCENE ON THE PLAINFIELD ESTATE
CHOLO.—The estate upon which our work has been started was formerly the property of Seventh-day Baptists, whose headquarters are, we believe, at Plainfield, N. J., hence the name Plainfield Mission, better known here as Plainfield estate. It is situated on the Cholo Hills, three thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is therefore more free from malaria than the lowlands along the Zambesi River, which serves as a highway for the travel and transportation of the country, as there are no railways or other facilities for traveling overland. A railway is now in course of construction, which we understand will run between the British boundary and Lake Nyassa. From the outside world the river is reached by East Coast steamers calling at Chinde, a port in Portuguese territory in which is a British concession. Several small steamers ply between Chinde and ports along the river. The landing place on the river which is nearest to our mission is Maguires (a native name, pronounced Maqueerays), about twelve miles distant; but this landing has been temporarily abandoned, as the water is so low on account of the shortage in the rainfall that steamers can not come up the river farther than a point about one hundred and fifty miles from the sea. At this point passengers and baggage are transferred to house-boats and barges, the former being simply a barge with improvised accommodation for from two to five passengers, and propelled by twenty natives with long poles.
After being two days on these house-boats, the writer and his family reached Chiromo, forty miles distant from the mission. We were fortunate in being fellow travelers from Durban with a party of missionaries of the Dutch Reformed Church, some of whom were returning to their Angoniland Mission after a furlough of a year, and others going for the first time; also a party of three Baptist missionaries returning to Blantyre, who disembarked at the same time and place that we did. These missionaries made many very timely suggestions, and freely gave us much valuable information which would have cost us much time and effort to procure from other sources.
We arrived at Chiromo at sunset, Sabbath, June 20. As our friends had their native carriers awaiting their arrival, they made preparations for starting on their journey the same evening, and at their invitation we decided to accompany them. But we soon found that it is not always possible to remain in the company of friends on such an expedition. Thirty-six native carriers with three machillas, one for each passenger, were furnished us by the transportation company. A machilla (pronounced maheela) may be described as a hammock suspended from a pole carried on the shoulders of two natives. As we were unable to converse with our men, none of whom could speak or understand English, it was impossible for us to hold them till our friends were ready; so just as daylight was disappearing, they started off at a very lively pace with much singing, yelling, and whooping. We have since learned that this is customary at the starting and finishing of a journey. Soon it was so dark that it was impossible for the occupant of a machilla to see the other members of the party. Even our little boy proceeded without knowing our whereabouts.
Our first “round-up” was when we reached a stream, which had to be forded in the darkness. There was a scene of much discussion and wrangling among the men, but they finally succeeded in getting us safely over. By watching the southern cross, we could see that we were traveling in a northwesterly direction.
Our next stop was at 11:30 P. M., when we suddenly came to a standstill at a sort of camp where several fires were burning. One end of the pole of our machilla was thrust against a tree, and the other end placed on the ground, and without further ado our natives proceeded to make camp-fires and roast their maize. After eating, they turned their feet to the fire, and went to sleep. We learned that a short time previously two natives, who, with others, had gone to sleep at this place and let their fires go out, were carried off by lions. As a precaution, as well as for comfort and pastime, we, too, made a fire, but not all of us went to sleep. Occasionally one of the men would get up, replenish his fire, and lie down again.
At five o’clock all our men aroused themselves, and we readily agreed to their proposition, indicated by gestures, to proceed, hoping that we might soon have daylight, which began to dawn about six o’clock. It will be remembered that this is winter here, and the days are the shortest of the year. At seven o’clock we reached the foot of Cholo Mountain. It took us two hours to climb this mountain. After reaching the top, no more stops were made till we reached the mission about one o’clock in the afternoon. The last four or five miles was over a narrow path with grass seven or eight feet high on both sides. Not knowing how far we had to travel, we began to feel that we21were getting pretty well into the heart of Africa, of which we had read and heard so much. We tried to interrogate our carriers as to whether they knew where they were going, but their answers did not enlighten us. It seems quite different to us now as we look back. Much of the narrow path is through the land of the mission estate, yet it is one of the leading roads, or trails, between Chiromo and Blantyre, the latter a town, or settlement, of some note, and the oldest center for missionary operations in this country.
It was several days after our arrival before we saw the face of a white man. The first one we saw was the postmaster, whose place is about seven miles from the mission.
We are glad that there are many among our people who are much interested in the work that should be done for the people of Africa. We hope to have the privilege of giving from time to time some items of information with reference to our mission work, and what we are trying to do. J. H. WATSON.
Sabbath-School Lesson Notes
By A. T. Robinson
Lesson IV—Israel's Mission as a Nation
God's one purpose in the existence of nations has always been that men might have an opportunity to seek the Lord. Whenever any nation has reached that point in its history in which it no longer afforded men the opportunity of seeking the Lord, then that nation, having outlived its mission, has passed off the stage of action. The fulfilling of that mission has been the predetermined time limit of every nation that has ever existed in this world. Acts 17:26, 27.
Not only the time limit, but also the boundary limit of every nation was predetermined before the existence of nations. Deut. 32:8, 9.
The mission of that nation which the Lord chose to represent his form of organized government in this world, was to become the light and salvation of all the world. Isa. 49:6.
In order for that nation to be the light of all other nations—the light of the world—it was necessary for it to occupy a position of world-wide influence. Its limit of territory was to have been the whole world. Rom. 4:13. Its time limit was to have been forever. Ps. 81:13-15. If that nation had been true to its mission, the time would have come in its history when it would have filled the whole world, with Jerusalem as the capital city. Jer. 17:24, 25.
If that chosen nation had been true to the principles of God's government in this world, those principles would have triumphed over every principle of darkness and evil. It was only on account of the disloyalty of the subjects of God's kingdom, that Satan gained the further right to bring this world to utter ruin. God's purpose will now be worked out in another way, by taking the saints to heaven for a thousand years, and allowing Satan's principles of government in this world to work out their logical results.
Lesson V—The Seventy Years' Captivity in Babylon
The Lord did all that could be done to inspire the Jewish nation to fulfill their high and holy calling. He "sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy." 2 Chron. 36:15, 16.
God had chosen that nation to make known the glory of his character to all other nations and peoples in the world. When they had fallen from their high and holy calling, so that they could not give the light to the world, when "there was no remedy,"—no other way that this mission could be accomplished,—the Lord sent them down to Babylon, and through some of his faithful children made known the light to a heathen king, whom God had chosen as his servant to do the work which Israel had failed to do. He placed that heathen king in a position of world-wide influence, and then moved upon him to proclaim the knowledge of the true God to all peoples, languages, and tongues. Dan. 3:26-29. The Lord is not straitened for means and agencies through which to accomplish his work; but in mercy he lingers that his people may not be cut off from the blessing of doing the work to which they have been called. While this is true, the Lord always fixes a limit of time beyond which there can be delay no longer. More than seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, God had purposed and foretold that there would be a shout of triumph at that glorious event. When the time came that God's people ought to have been shouting for joy that the world's Deliverer had come, they turned away from him in unbelief, but there came a time when delay must be no longer.
The Spirit of God moved upon the children to shout, and if the children had not shouted, God would have given a voice to inanimate nature, and the very stones would have shouted.
Nearly two thousand years ago God purposed and foretold that when the year A. D. 1844 was reached, there should be a mighty shout of triumph in the preaching of the third angel's message. For nearly sixty years the Lord has been waiting for his chosen people to arise to the glorious occasion offered them, but unbelief has kept back and turned away these things. Jer. 5:24, 25; 3:3. But there must be delay no longer. Micah 5:7. "Already many are receiving the Holy Spirit, and no longer will the way be blocked by listless indifference. What the Lord did for his people at that time [Pentecost] it is just as essential, and more so, that he do for his people to-day. All that the apostles did, every church member to-day is to do."—"Testimonies for the church," Vol. VII, page 33.
A. T. ROBINSON.
Current Mention
— Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of the famous evangelist, died October 10, at her home in East Northfield, Mass.
— Dr. Francis Landley Patton, formerly president of the university, was inaugurated president of Princeton Seminary, October 14.
— At a recent meeting in New York City Rev. A. B. Simpson, of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, collected $63,539.50 for foreign missions.
— It is reported that a Hamburg firm has received an order to equip the Chinese emperor’s palace at Peking with electricity. For this purpose a dynamo with four steam engines and sixteen transformers will be required.
— The board of directors of Princeton seminary has decided to establish a course in English Bible to meet a need that has been apparent for some time. The new chair in English Bible studies will be established next fall.
— On October 20, President Roosevelt issued a call for a special session of Congress to convene November 9. The particular business of the special session will be the ratification of the treaty of reciprocity with Cuba.
— The report that Mgr. Falconio, the papal delegate to the United States, is to be recalled is not credited in Washington. Few, if any, changes in the representatives of the pope abroad are expected by those who are in a position to know.
— L. D. Parr, of Chicago, announces that he has closed a deal for 32,000 acres of land in the southwestern part of North Dakota for the Dowieites of Chicago, who purpose colonizing the land and establishing a Zion in Bowman and Billings Counties.
— A three-days’ storm, said to be the most severe since official records have been kept, began raging along the Atlantic coast on Thursday, October 8. Heavy rainfall has done great damage by flooding the lower portions of many cities. Bridges were swept away, and business and travel greatly impeded. The rainfall in New York City was six inches during the first twenty-four hours. Millions of dollars of damage to property, thousands of families temporarily homeless, and not a few deaths, is the record of this raging of the elements.22
— The fall of the level of the water in Salt Lake, Utah, has exposed, where the water was shallow, numerous islands which prove to be asphalt of a splendid quality.
— A group of large spots, with a diameter apparently equal to one tenth of the sun’s, has been observed for ten days past. These are described as the most prominent that have been seen in years, and may be seen by the eye aided only by a piece of smoked or colored glass.
— The American Federation of Labor will endeavor during the next session of Congress to secure the passage of a bill making eight hours the legal limit of a day’s work in the United States, and also a bill prohibiting the Federal courts from issuing injunction in cases of disputes over labor matters.
— A concerted movement has been started to bring about a uniform wage scale for the 50,000 locomotive firemen employed in the United States. An increase in wages ranging from ten to twenty per cent will be demanded. The want of uniform conditions on the railways which employ the firemen seems to have no bearing on the question in their minds.
— John Alexander Dowie, who has within a few years attracted so much attention in religious circles because of his peculiar method of work and his arrogant claims to be the reincarnation of Elijah, has just entered upon a six weeks’ mission in New York City. With 3,000 followers from Chicago, as house-to-house workers, he will conduct three services each day in Madison Square Garden, which has the largest seating capacity in the city.
— Nearly 40,000 car-loads of freight destined for Eastern markets are lying along the lines of the Southern Pacific Company in California waiting to be moved. Unless some immediate method of relieving the congestion is found, the situation will become far more serious, and entail a heavy loss, as much of the freight is of a perishable kind. The blockade is attributed by the officials to unexpected business and a lack of sufficient power to move trains.
— Extensive reductions are being made in the track and shop forces of the principal railroads of the country, “partly for the reason that material decrease in business is anticipated. That is but natural when steel mills are closing down, from the present conditions of the building trades owing to strikes.” Some roads have stopped their improvements, in hope of being able to accomplish the same work more cheaply in the future.
— The virulent and fatal epidemic at Santiago has been diagnosed as pernicious malarial fever. The disease is spreading at Daiquiri among the natives and all classes of residents. Yellow fever is officially reported at Monterey and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and great precautions against the disease are being taken along the Texas border. Two deaths from Bubonic plague were recently reported from the Hawaiian Islands, and cholera, plague, and smallpox continue at Manila.
— At a demonstration of the American Federation of Labor in San Juan, Porto Rico, on the 11th, in which black flags and the American flag draped in black were carried, trouble was precipitated between the paraders and the police. Several were injured, and a riot was barely averted. Seven labor leaders were arrested. While the feeling of the labor party against the administration is bitter, the Americans and better class of Porto Ricans are indignant at the treatment accorded the flag.
— There are in Russia three revolutionary parties at the present time, known as the Russian Socialist Revolutionary party, the Russian Social Democratic party, and the Liberal Revolutionary party. These parties pursue different tactics, and aim at different ideals, but are united in seeking the overthrow of the existing Russian autocracy. They publish several papers, some of which have a large circulation. The government has imprisoned many members of these parties and suppressed their papers at various times, but is not able to stop their propaganda.
— One of the most sweeping injunctions ever issued by an Ohio court has been granted against the Hamilton Typographical Union, the Hamilton Co-operative Trades and Labor Council, and the Nonpareil Printing Company, publishers of the county trade organs. The defendants are enjoined from continuing a boycott on the Republican News, or firms which advertise in it, and ordered that interference of every sort with the company’s business must stop. The court said the Constitution gave any company the right to employ whomsoever it saw fit. The boycott was to force the plaintiff to unionize and abandon its “open shop” policy.
— The facts known in St. Petersburg in regard to the far Eastern situation, say The Times’s Russian correspondents, all point in the direction of warlike preparations and the prevalence of alarm and anxiety. One hundred thousand men are being dispatched to the far East from the districts beyond Moscow, Tambol, and Penza. About a week ago a special train of fourteen trucks full of surgical dressing materials and medicaments for the use of the troops started from St. Petersburg for the far East. The war ministry is said already to have demanded an extra credit for these preparations of 25,000,000 rubles ($12,500,000). M. Witte’s successor in the finance ministry is reported to be hardly able to cope with the difficulties of the situation. Russia is also hurrying to the far East as fast as the naval establishments can train the naval officers for service on the vessels of her mushroom growth Pacific squadron.
— A decision has been handed down by the (New York) court of appeals declaring dependence upon faith healing in case of sickness to be criminal negligence. Judge Haight, of the court of appeals, in reversing the decision of the lower court in the case of the People versus Pierson, says in part: “It would seem that the legislative intent is reasonably clear. The section of the code under which the indictment was found contemplates that there are persons upon whom the law casts the duty of caring for minors. We are aware that there are people who believe that divine power may be invoked to heal the sick, and that faith is all that is required. There are others who believe that the Creator has supplied the earth with everything that man may want, including means for restoring his health. There are still others who believe that Christianity and science go hand in hand; and that both science and divine power may be invoked together to restore diseased and suffering humanity. But sitting as a court of law for the purpose of construing and determining the meaning of statutes, we have nothing to do with variances in religious belief, and have no power to determine which is correct. We merely declare the law as given by the legislature.”
— In a speech on “Good Citizenship” at the annual banquet of the Commercial Club at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, October 14, ex-President Grover Cleveland vigorously arraigned certain tendencies of the time. He warned his hearers against being led by a confiding trust in the greatness of the American eagle to believe that that eagle can weather any storm. He declared that official corruption had grown from small beginnings until it had reached “frightful proportions of malevolence.” He reminded his hearers that in other republics the pretense that “national splendor built upon the showy ventures of speculative wealth” is a badge of success has preceded the doom of popular rule. He asserted that the masses had been invited “in the bare subsistence of their scanty homes,” to rejoice in the prosperity to which this dangerous meaning had been given. The result, he said, had been “a dissatisfied insistence upon a better distribution of our vaunted prosperity,” and it had found its worst manifestation in “the apparently incorrigible dislocation of the proper relations between labor and capital.” His remedy for these evils, which he declared to be “with steady, cankering growth, threatening our safety and national life,” was a reawakening of the old American spirit of simplicity, equality, and respect for law, and he urged his hearers to take an active and continuous part in public affairs, to become politicians, and to rescue that word from its “prostitution to a sinister use.”
Washington, D. C., Memorial Church
The debt of this church (October 14) now stands at nine hundred and fifty dollars. We had greatly hoped that this whole matter could be settled forever by Nov. 1, 1903, just one year from the date of purchase, but at the present rate of donations, the debt will not be paid until Jan. 1, 1904.
A brother over eighty-four years of age is anxious to be one of ninety-six men to give ten dollars each. He has sent in that amount with his offer. A good sister in New York sends fifty dollars to help close up the account.
Every step of this work of establishing this church and this whole move to Washington have been a work of faith, and we confidently believe, even in this closing hour, that our good brethren will rally as one man to finish this work in preparation for the greater work of establishing our institutions as the Lord has declared they should be established.
You are requested not to leave this for some friend. If you do this, our closing appeal is vain. May God, who has so wonderfully led his people in this move, reward every one who has given to this enterprise. Send all money either by post-office money order, express, bank draft, or telegraph to J. S. Washburn, 1728 Fourteenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Donations for the Washington (D. C.) Church
May 25 to Oct. 4, 1903
W. H. Edwards, Treas. ................ $ 5 00
Mrs. S. J. Merrill .................... 5 00
Bunkerhill (Mich.) church ............. 5 30
W. H. Edwards, Treas. ................ 53 94
A. C. Best and wife ................... 1 00
William Suwold ........................ 50
Mrs. Sue L. Stout ..................... 50
Mrs. Bet B. Flesher ................... 25
Mrs. Lou K. Curtis .................... 50
Cora Pratt ............................ 10
Lizzie Robbins ........................ 10
Mrs. Geo. Redding ..................... 30
Mrs. May Rathburn ..................... 2 00
Mrs. Carrie J. Mitchell ............... 35
S. I. Tegert .......................... 1 00
D. Ann Albin .......................... 2 00
W. H. Edwards, Treas. ................ 34 31
W. W. Pyle ............................ 25 00
Alice H. Robinson, Treas. ............. 9 40
Susie Twiggar ......................... 1 00
Mrs. H. Rathbun ....................... 2 00
Mrs. A. E. Gurney ..................... 50
J. L. Degraw .......................... 1 00
F. F. Champion and wife ............... 5 00
R. W. Suffcool ........................ 7 50
Mrs. Platt French ..................... 1 25
B. R. Nordyke, Treas. ................. 53 82
W. H. Frink ........................... 1 00
Mary Fry ............................... 2 00
Lewis N. Fitch ........................ 5 00
I. A. Ford, Treas. .................... 25
S. N. Haskell for Brother Vandusen .... 1 00
Mrs. Della Woodruff ................... 5 0023
Mrs. M. H. Chase ...................... 1 00
Mrs. C. W. Hair ....................... 50
Peter Jensen .......................... 100 00
L. Clark ............................... 1 00
E. A. Bristol, Treas. ................. 1 25
Mrs. D. A. Mair ....................... 50
J. M. Lewis ........................... 50
J. D. Hughes .......................... 50
D. A. Babcock ........................ 1 00
A friend .............................. 1 00
A friend .............................. 1 00
Jessie V. Bosworth .................... 4 50
Mrs. J. A. Stickler ................... 6 00
Edgar Carver ........................ 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hoover ............. 6 00
Mrs. M. A. Johnson .................... 25
R. Roberts ............................ 1 00
Lydia A. Bodey ........................ 1 00
A. E. Devereaux ....................... 5 00
Mrs. McMellen ......................... 2 00
John Mackin ........................... 25 00
Lydia Johnson ........................ 1 00
R. Jones .............................. 10 00
Mrs. Hadah Nugent ..................... 1 00
Mrs. B. Smith ........................ 50
Mrs. Agnes H. Duncan .................. 2 50
W. W. Swyte ........................... 2 50
Pricilla White ........................ 50
B. B. Noftsger ........................ 1 16
Alice Sutler .......................... 2 00
A. L. Dawson .......................... 25 00
Mrs. P. Nickerson ..................... 2 00
Mrs. J. A. Bordoin .................... 1 00
Emma Weatherly ........................ 1 00
Mrs. M. F. Diehl ...................... 1 20
John Bess ............................. 1 00
B. Hill ............................... 1 00
Eva C. Browne ........................ 1 00
F. H. Conway .......................... 2 00
D. T. and L. A. Fero .................. 5 00
A. Cooper ............................. 5 00
Chas. T. Myers ........................ 2 00
Iowa Tract Society .................... 105 67
Elder and Mrs. A. J. Osborne .......... 1 00
A friend .............................. 2 00
W. C. McCuaig, Treas. ................ 5 00
John McCabe ........................... 1 00
Mrs. Alice E. Zerbe ................... 1 00
P. J. Wolfsen ........................ 100 00
Obituaries
Davis.—Alice Bralliar Davis was born in Green Co., Mo., May 30, 1855, and died in Richland, Iowa, Aug. 20, 1903. She was baptized and united with the remnant church in 1871, and lived a consistent life. Many relatives and friends mourn her sudden death.
B. E. FULLMER.
Pritchard.—Died at Exeter, Neb., June 24, 1903, Mary Pritchard. Sister Pritchard was born in England, March 11, 1844, and came to America with her parents in 1854. She was the mother of eleven children. Her husband, Brother Thomas Pritchard, died Dec. 11, 1899. They both accepted present truth under the preaching of Elder G. I. Butler at Exeter, Neb., in 1876. She loved God, and was at peace with her neighbors. Nearly all her children were present at her funeral, which was held at Hartwell, Neb., the sermon being preached by the writer.
DANIEL NETTLETON.
Chadwick.—Louise, wife of Samuel W. Chadwick, fell asleep in Jesus at her home in Greenfield, Ind., from the effects of paralysis, Sept. 15, 1903, aged 28 years, 10 months, and 22 days. She accepted present truth last April. She passed away peacefully with a firm hope of coming forth when the Life-giver comes. A husband, five small children, father, mother, four brothers, three sisters, and other relatives and friends are left to mourn their loss. She was loved by all who knew her. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Heb. 9:27, 28.
J. E. DUNN.
Latshaw.—Died at her home in Victory, Wis., April 30, 1903, of pneumonia, Sister Mary Latshaw, aged 75 years and 8 months. Early in life she united with the Disciple Church, but afterward received light on the Sabbath and kindred truths, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Before her last sickness she consecrated herself anew to the Lord, and in her last hours when aroused to a state of consciousness, she would exclaim, “Jesus is soon coming.” She was the mother of eight children, five of whom are living. Remarks were made at the funeral by Elder Brown.
MRS. J. MESSERSMITH.
Miller.—Died in Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 8, 1903, Sister Elizabeth Miller, aged 78 years and 3 months. With her husband, Hickman Miller, she accepted this message in 1857, in the State of Ohio. In 1862 they removed to Burlington, Mich., and afterward to Battle Creek. They have been widely known, and universally loved and respected for their consistent Christian walk. Their three sons have engaged in the work of the Lord, one of them, Prof. E. B. Miller, having been laid to rest. Sister Miller’s faith in Christ as her Saviour sustained her through a long illness, and yielded her the sweetest comfort to the end. Funeral services were conducted in the Tabernacle by Father Prescott and the writer. Text, 2 Cor. 2:14.
G. C. TENNEY.
Haden.—Fell asleep in Jesus at her home in Otsego, Mich., Sept. 14, 1903, Sister Hattie M. Haden, aged 70 years, 9 months, and 11 days. Her last illness was brief. She was one of the charter members of the Otsego church, having accepted present truth under the labors of Elder M. E. Cornell. She leaves a kind husband, five children, three daughters, and two sons to mourn. The funeral service was conducted by the writer.
R. C. HORTON.
Carpenter.—Died at his home, near Ravenna, Neb., June 17, 1903, of pneumonia, Eleazer W. Carpenter, aged 76 years. He joined the Seventh-day Adventists in the early fifties, and at the time of his death was a firm believer in their faith. An aged and feeble wife is left to mourn, and three sons and four daughters are without a kind father’s counsel.
MIRANDA E. WHITAKER.
Irwin.—Mrs. Edna M. Irwin, wife of Elder J. J. Irwin, fell asleep in Jesus, Sept. 29, 1903, at their home in Mancelona, Mich. She was born in Hart, Mich., Jan. 16, 1876. At the age of sixteen she dedicated her life to the service of the Master, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She was true to her vow, remaining an earnest, consistent Christian until death. It was her delight to work for the Lord. Through her labor many were led to rejoice in the third angel’s message. The funeral service was conducted by the writer.
S. E. WIGHT.
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