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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 7.

The Indispensable Christ
Earlier text: Borabora Island

Another Religious Liberty Mass-Meeting in Washington

By W. A. Colcord

ANOTHER interesting and successful religious liberty mass-meeting was held in Washington, D. C., Sunday night, February 6. Although the weather was unfavorable for such a meeting, being extremely cold, and this accentuated by a high wind, there was a good attendance, the hall in which the meeting was held, having a seating capacity of over eight hundred, being quite well filled.
The meeting was held in the National Rifles’ Armory, the same place in which a similar mass-meeting was held nearly two years ago, March 11, 1908. This hall is located in the very heart of the business portion of the city, and is therefore easily accessible to citizens of the District.
Our own people in the District turned out well, considering the weather, and, as might be expected, composed a considerable proportion of the audience. We are thankful that the work has developed in the city of Washington so that we now have so good a representation and so considerable a constituency of our people here at the capital of the nation.
The meeting was well advertised on bulletin-boards, by quarter cards placed in shop windows, by several thousand hand cards distributed throughout the city, and by announcements in the daily papers. The cards distributed read as follows: “Mass-meeting. Sunday Laws Versus Civil and Religious Liberty. A Protest Against the Encroachments upon the Civil and Religious Rights of the People. Shall Congress Prescribe Your Religion? The Johnston Bill Discussed,” followed by the announcement of the place, date, and speakers.
All four of the Washington daily papers the following day gave reports of the meeting, the Washington Herald, a leading morning paper, devoting a column to it, and giving it first-column, first-page position. The various headings under which these reports were given were: “Protest En Masse to Sunday Bill;” “Sunday Bill Opposed;” “Denounce Sunday Bill;” and “Johnston Measure Meets Opposition.”
The speakers of the evening were Elders K. C. Russell, E. W. Farnsworth, W. W. Prescott, and the writer. We can here give but a brief outline of the addresses delivered:—

Introductory Address by K. C. Russell

Elder K. C. Russell, the chairman of the meeting, said:—
“We believe in the Christian religion, and therefore in the Christian Sabbath. We believe that those who voluntarily and truly observe the Sabbath receive a blessing. We believe that the state, or civil government, is ordained of God, and that it is the duty of every citizen to obey civil government in civil things, and for Christians to pray for those in authority.state can rightfully enforce upon any of its citizens the observance of any religious duty, such as the observance of the Sabbath. The state would have no more right to enforce Sabbath observance than it would baptism or the Lord’s supper. For any one to ask the state to enforce the observance of the Sabbath is to lower it to the level of worldly and common things.”
“We therefore protest against the passage of the Johnston Sunday bill or any like measure, not because of any opposition or hostility we have to religion, to the Sabbath, or to civil government, but because of our fidelity to these and our loyalty to the Constitution of the United States.”
“On this point the eminent Baptist clergyman, Charles H. Spurgeon, has said: ‘I am ashamed of some Christians because they have so much dependence on Parliament and the law of the land. Much good may Parliament ever do to true religion, except by mistake!’”
“In a tribute to Col. Richard M. Johnson, the author of the famous Congressional Sunday Mail Reports, of 1829 and 1830, who opposed the demand upon Congress to enact a Sunday law, his biographer says: ‘Charge him not with hostility to the principles of religion, because he opposed the wishes and thwarted the designs of the clergy; rather say that he has proved himself the friend of pure religion, by guarding it against a contaminating alliance with politics.’”

Address by E. W. Farnsworth

Elder E. W. Farnsworth spoke as follows:—
“We protest against the passage of the Johnston Sunday bill and all like legislation, not because Sunday is not the Sabbath, as most intelligent men know; and not because the seventh day, Saturday, is the Sabbath, as every one ought to know; but because the Sabbath is truly and only a religious institution, and Sabbath-keeping is a religious exercise. Therefore to enforce Sabbath-keeping by civil law is to enforce religion by civil law. The enforcement of religious enactments by civil law is a union of church and state, and against such an unholy alliance we make unqualified protest.”
“We affirm that members of Congress have no right to leave the civil realm to which they were elected, and step over into the religious realm to which they were not elected.”
“The constituencies that sent their representatives to Congress gave them full liberty in things civil. They expect these men will discuss and legislate on the tariff, the conservation of natural resources, trusts, and a thousand other civil things, and that they will enact such laws concerning these things as may to them seem best; but they would be shocked to learn that Congress had attempted to settle, by civil statute, whether men should be sprinkled, poured, or immersed, or whether they should be baptized at all. There would be voices of protest everywhere if Congress should attempt, by law, to force every one to partake of the Lord’s supper. Every one would say that such legislation was religious, and that with such things Congress has nothing whatever to do. The voters all over this fair land would say, ‘We sent you to Congress to represent us in civil things only, and we never gave you the right to legislate concerning our religious duties or convictions.’”
“Further than this, they would say to members of Congress: ‘It is none of your business how a man is baptized, or whether he is baptized at all. You have no right to inquire whether a man partakes of the Lord’s supper every three months, once a week, or not at all. It is not a part of your duty to know whether your constituents pray once or twice a day, or never.’”
“It is well to pray, to be baptized, to partake of the Lord’s supper, and to keep the Sabbath. The speaker believes in all these, and practises them all. He firmly believes the world would be immeasurably benefited if every individual would comply with the Bible requirements concerning these Christian duties; but they are one and all beyond the realm of human legislation. They all relate to a man’s personal relations with God, and over such duties Congress can, of right, have no jurisdiction.”
“That the Sabbath is religious is abundantly affirmed by its Author and Maker. ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy’—not civilly—is the command of God. ‘Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep. . . . Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you. . . . Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord’—not civilly to the state. ‘If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day.’ You will notice that the Sabbath is God’s ‘holy day.’ It is not a civil day, nor a holiday, nor is it something to be kept or observed for the state. It is God’s day, and ‘he that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.’ ‘I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day,’ not the day of the state or the nation.”
“The Sabbath was sanctified by God, hence it is his holy day. Having made the day holy, God commands men to keep it holy. As well might civil government attempt to enforce the Lord’s prayer, the Lord’s baptism, or the Lord’s supper, as to enforce the Lord’s day. If we concede the right of government to enforce one, we are bound, logically, to concede it has the right to enforce all.”

The Johnston Bill Discussed by W. W. Prescott

Elder W. W. Prescott then discussed the character of the proposed legislation as indicated by the discussion on the floor of the Senate. He thought that there were sufficient arguments produced in the discussion to condemn the bill, even in its amended form, and called attention to three features of the opposition, as follows:—
“1. A senator declared that those who were asking for this legislation probably would never have thought about the matter except as religionists, although they made their demand as citizens. The real purpose of this measure is thus clearly indicated, which is to secure preference by law for some religious tenet or institution. But it was not the intent of the founders of this government that the power of Congress should be invoked by any class of religionists, nor to give them a preference over their fellow religionists, or over unbelievers. Congress can not properly deal with men as religionists, but simply as citizens, and all on a common footing.”
“2. It was emphasized by the chairman man of the Committee on the District of Columbia that at present there is no Sunday rest law in the District of Columbia. It follows, therefore, that any such legislation would be a departure from a policy which has been followed for more than a century and a quarter, and yet in the face of this fact, a witness at a hearing before the House Committee on the District of Columbia, during the last session of Congress, admitted in reply to a question by a member of the committee, that he knew of no city in which Sunday was better observed than in Washington. It appears, then, that the Sunday laws in the various States have not contributed to a quieter Sunday than is found in the District of Columbia without such a law. Nearly a century ago Congress refused to recognize any distinction between the days of the week in favor of any class of citizens, and has constantly adhered to that policy until the present time. A departure from this policy would be a step backward.”
“3. The proposed legislation would be a first step in a part fraught with much danger. One senator declared: ‘I think in a republican form of government, one of the most dangerous programs that legislators can enter upon is anything looking toward the establishment of a religious test through a court of law.’ Another senator declared: ‘When we get reforms in the hands of reformers, they are generally emotional people with small development of the rational faculty, and prompted by their repeated successes, they go from one reform to another, and it is proposed that one shall attend church on Sunday; then a particular church; then a constable is permitted to invade one’s home if he does not attend church, to see whether or not he is sick; then one can not kiss his wife on Sunday. The beginnings of these things are very innocent.’”
“The history of religious legislation in the past justifies this view of the case. The only safe course for Congress is to avoid the first step.”

Address by W. A. Colcord

Before introducing the resolutions, the writer spoke briefly of the history of Sunday legislation in both Europe and America, and what this shows as to the character and object of such legislation. He said:—
“The Boston Post of April 14, 1907, spoke truly when, referring to the present Sunday laws of Massachusetts, it said, ‘These Sunday laws are a survival of the complete union of church and state which existed at the founding of the colony.’ And what is true of the Massachusetts Sunday laws is true of American Sunday laws in general. They are simply relics of a complete union of church and state.”
“The early Sunday laws of Massachusetts and Virginia required church attendance. The present movement for Sunday enforcement is for the same purpose. At the hearing on the Blair Sunday bill, Dec. 13, 1888, the first speaker, Dr. Crafts, urged the passage of the bill on the ground that work in post-offices on Sunday on the part of employees ‘would prevent them from going to church,’ and said, ‘A law forbidding the opening of the United States post-office during the usual hours of public worship would remedy this difficulty.’ ‘Give us good Sunday laws, well enforced by men in local authority,’ says another, ‘andour churches will be full of worshipers.’”
“In agitations of this kind there is heard the ever-recurring argument of majority rule. The House Sunday Mail Report, of 1830, well answered this when it said: ‘The principles of our government do not recognize in the majority any authority over the minority, except in matters which regard the conduct of man to his fellow man.’ ‘The Constitution regards the conscience of the Jew as sacred as that of the Christian, and gives no more authority to adopt a measure affecting the conscience of a solitary individual than that of a whole community.’”
“But conscience will be little respected if this Sunday-law movement succeeds. Says the Christian Advocate, of Dallas, Tex., ‘It will not be long, at the present rate of progress, until Sunday will be left to the conscience of the individual.’ What a calamity that would be, wouldn’t it?”
“No greater wrong can man do to man than to trample upon the rights of conscience. No greater calamity can come to the church or state than the evils resulting from a union of the two. So long as a church remains pure, it does not seek the power of the state for the furtherance of its ends. With the Word of God in its hand, it appeals only to the hearts and consciences of men. So long as it holds only to Bible truth, it asks for no laws enforcing its faith and practise. But when it departs from the faith, then it asks that the strong arm of the civil power shall come to its aid, and dissenters are made to feel the hands of oppression. This is what is wrapped up in this Sunday-law movement. This is what we shall see in this land if this movement succeeds.”

Resolutions Adopted

At the close of the addresses the following resolutions were adopted by a rising vote:—
“Whereas, There is a wide-spread and persistent effort being made, both in Washington and throughout the country, to secure national religious legislation, particularly in the matter of Sunday observance; and,—
“Whereas, All such legislation is subversive of human rights, contrary to the spirit and teachings of Christ and pure Christianity and to the letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States, inimical to the best interests of both the church and the state, and, in the end, can result only in a complete union of church and state, the great desolating scourge of all time; and,—
“Whereas, In order to conceal the real character of the movement, the measures sought are frequently styled ‘civil enactments,’ ‘police regulations,’ ‘temperance measures,’ and ‘laboring men’s laws;’ therefore,—
“Resolved, That we, citizens of Washington, in mass-meeting assembled, in the interests of peace, prosperity, pure religion, and good government, hereby respectfully but most earnestly protest against the passage by Congress of any law for the enforced observance of Sunday as a Sabbath, or day of rest; that we express our disapproval of any movement calling for such legislation, and also of the effort to conceal its religious character, and that we pledge ourselves to do all we can to perpetuate in this country the blessings of civil and religious liberty.”
Seconding the motion to adopt the resolution, Elder W. A. Hennig made a few brief, well-chosen remarks, illustrative of how great evils spring from very small beginnings.
Excellent music was rendered by the Takoma orchestra and male quartet. The singing of the religious liberty “Glory Song,” led by Miss Nellie Macmillan, with the audience joining in the chorus, was also much appreciated.
Two days later the Washington Chamber of Commerce, in a meeting attended by twenty-five leading business men of the city, unanimously adopted a report disapproving of the Johnston bill as “in bad form and inimical to the best interests of the majority of the residents of the District,” thus echoing our meeting, it would seem, both in sentiment and in expression.
The four dailies reporting the meeting reach practically the entire city. On the whole, therefore, we feel that the meeting was a grand success.
W. A. C.

Experiences in New Jersey

By B. H. Welch

It may be of interest to some to learn of the work here in Elizabeth, N. J. June 11, 1909, I began loaning tracts, using the “Fireside-Free Circulating Library Envelopes,” filling them according to a carefully arranged plan, having in view the thought of leading the readers along without unnecessary prejudice through some of the most important truths for this time.
I visited each family every week, giving out new envelopes and gathering up the old ones. In this way one soon gets acquainted with the people, and the way is opened for personal Bible study.
In filling the envelopes, I found that small tracts and those asking questions answered by a text of Scripture made the best impression. I try to keep before the reader’s mind the idea that we are trying to encourage the study of the Bible in the homes.
I am now holding Bible studies with about fifteen families, and eighty others have been reading regularly for six months. There are five persons keeping the Sabbath.
We have started a mission Sabbath-school, which has steadily increased in numbers to twenty-nine; also a children’s meeting every Thursday.
The children tell the lesson to the parents, and homes once closed to us by prejudice are open for Bible studies.
Sister Ira Bingham has rendered valuable help in the work with the children.
B. H. WELCH.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL — Secretary
W. A. COLCORD — Corresponding Secretary

The Church and the Missionary Volunteer Work

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

SABBATH, February 26, has been appointed by the General Conference Committee as “Missionary Volunteer day.” This appointment has been made in the interests of the young people of our denomination. We have a large number of children, youth, and young people in our ranks. They are steadily increasing in numbers and advancing in years. Their salvation is a matter of supreme interest to us. Their value to the cause of God may be very great if their hearts are converted and their activities rightly directed. And it is during their young days—the formative period of life—that they can most easily be led to the Saviour and trained for efficient service in his cause.
The Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference was created for the purpose of rendering helpful service in saving, educating, and training our young people for the Lord's work. But it should be very clearly understood that this department can not take the place of the home or the church along this line. A responsibility rests upon parents which can not be delegated to other persons or organizations. Their influence in the home at just the right time over the children is greater than can be exercised by any one else. Next to the home stands the local church in responsibility and influence. The elder can do much to lead the young people in his church to devote their lives to the Lord's work, and the brethren and sisters can teach them how to begin to work while they are young.
The Missionary Volunteer Department is a servant of the home, the church, and the young people. Its mission is to render help. It endeavors to awaken the conscience, to save from a life of sin, and to train for effective service. To accomplish this the department sends out helpful suggestions for the home and the church, prepares and issues literature adapted to the young, arranges reading courses, holds before our young people the importance of securing a Christian education, conducts institutes, plans for young people's services at camp-meetings, encourages the young to give their money to home and foreign missionary enterprises and finally to volunteer for service in either the home or the foreign field.
This, and much more, the Missionary Volunteer Department is doing in its efforts to help parents and churches to work effectively for our young people. This department has been organized only two and a half years. It could hardly be expected to do more than to get under good headway during the short time, but it has already done great things for our children and youth. A great awakening has taken place, a new era for our young people has begun, and great possibilities are in sight.
Now this Missionary Volunteer Department should have the most prompt and earnest support of those whom it lives to serve. The work to be done is so important and imperative that there should be no delay or failure to carry into effect every good suggestion and plan agreed upon. But here is where many fail. They do not take hold of the plans of work promptly and vigorously. In some cases the officers of the department are obliged to wait, and even to plead with those upon whom rests the responsibility of carrying out the plans of work in order to get the work done. It is to be hoped that the coming Missionary Volunteer day will arouse our people from ocean to ocean to a greater realization of the importance of this work, and to greater earnestness in carrying it forward.
A. G. DANIELLS.

W. A. SPICER

By William Ambrose Spicer

The young people's movement is the response of the youth of this denomination to the call of the hour. It is far more than a young people's society. It is a movement—a great crusade, definitely aiming at a definite work, the carrying of this message that we love to every creature, at home and abroad. As we drew near to the final crisis in this conflict of truth with error, the message came that the young people were to be organized for service.
The knowledge that they were needed, that the Heavenly Commander was calling for every youth to step into the line of action, thrilled the hearts of our youth. The first call from the great Leader, “Come into line,” awakened a response among the youth in every land where our work has a foothold. This young people's movement has centered the attention of the youth upon the work before us, and guided thousands of them into the way of preparation for service.
We thank God for what the movement is doing. There is not a mission field, at home or abroad, that has not felt already the stimulus of this organization of youthful energy and devotion; and the work of the Missionary Volunteer movement is but begun. In more than one field our youth have already been called upon to bear the brunt of witnessing for God and maintaining loyalty to him and his holy Sabbath, even amid bonds and imprisonments. And the grace of God makes the young strongto endure, even as it does the older believer.
Thank God, he has need for all in this finishing work. Let those who are older in the way cheer on the gathering thousands in the young people's movement by helping and encouraging each local society in its endeavors, and by laying the hand of sympathy and confidence upon each individual youth. All are needed. Within a few years we must storm every citadel of the enemy at home and abroad. This is our only hope. These young people are to be scattered everywhere up and down the earth as witnesses for God. No material for service is to be overlooked. The untried hands are to be helped to handle the weapons of our warfare. Here is a work to engage every affection of our hearts, and command every ambition of the life.
Just about ten years ago the real organization of the youth for service was begun. I believe these ten years have witnessed a tenfold increase in the power and efficiency of the youth in this closing message. Let us labor and pray to see this movement become an ever-stronger factor in winning souls and hastening the end.

W. A. SPICER

(For continuation of this department, see page 20)

Young People's Work

By M. E. Kern; Matilda Erickson

Conducted by the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference
M. E. KERN   -   -   -   -    Secretary
MATILDA ERICKSON   -    Corresponding Secretary

A Comparative Summary of Three Interesting Years

By E. R. P.

THE accompanying summary shows the value of orders taken for our subscription books in each conference and union conference during the years 1891, 1908, and 1909.
The year 1891 was by far the most successful year during “the good old times.” With much interest, as well as painstaking effort, we have collected all the items by conferences and unions from The Missionary, in which the general canvassing agent, Elder F. L. Mead, reported the work in full every month.
Since that time several conferences have been divided, or the conference territory has been adjusted, but we have so arranged the subdivisions that they come together in immediate connection with the figures showing the sales for that territory. For example, take the first item in the summary: the territory which was known as the Atlantic Conference is now the New Jersey and Chesapeake conferences; therefore, the orders taken in the Atlantic Conference during 1891 are reported from the New Jersey Conference, with the Chesapeake, immediately following, left blank. This plan has been followed throughout in giving the summary for 1891.
The totals in this summary do not correspond precisely with totals previously published in the REVIEW, as some adjustments and corrections have been made. It will, of course, be understood by our readers that these figures do not give the full sales of literature for the years mentioned. This is a summary showing the orders taken for subscription books only.
Our workers especially will study these comparative figures with interest, and will not overlook the following points which appear on the surface:—
1. The increased territory in which successful work is now being done as compared with nineteen years ago.
2. The even, steady growth in all parts of the field.
3. The success of the work in every field that is well organized.
4. The great work of nineteen years ago in fields where the work was pushed with a will under a strong system of education and organization.
5. When we see the grand work done so many years ago in some of the older conferences, when the constituency was not so great as it is now, we shall certainly feel humbled with the thought of the disintegrating policy which has brought such a reversal in those conferences.
6. The figures showing what a great work was done so long ago in a part of our territory, will give a glimpse of what may be done when we are organized and working throughout all the world, even as successfully as we worked in some portions of the field at that time.
7. This summary will certainly convince all that we are still struggling in the foot-hills, and that the great peaks of success are yet beyond and above us.
Dear fellow workers, let us keep on climbing, looking well to our footsteps, that we slip not by the way. Let us work shoulder to shoulder, and trust in God for help to enable us to attain all the blessed possibilities he has in store for us as a people. E. R. P.

Canvassers’ Annual Comparative Summaries for 1891, 1908, and 1909

Atlantic Union Conference

1891 1908 1909
Maine $2,209.30 $2,913.82 $3,316.95
Vermont 3,509.98 3,131.40 3,071.35
Central New England 31,454.97 9,780.34 10,364.10
Southern New England ..... 1,423.78 3,341.30
New York 20,430.41 7,350.77 5,586.15
Western New York ..... 7,030.72 6,698.60
Greater New York ..... 6,260.90 3,081.40
Totals 57,604.66 37,891.73 35,460.85

Columbia Union Conference

1891 1908 1909
New Jersey 25,058.21 10,618.96 7,774.80
Chesapeake ..... 10,468.45 10,040.95
Eastern Pennsylvania 26,187.66 7,934.15 8,066.41
West Pennsylvania ..... 4,340.07 9,178.14
Ohio 10,470.30 8,057.70 19,041.59
Virginia 4,256.93 6,099.69 2,523.03
West Virginia 4,407.24 4,172.44 5,459.60
Totals 70,380.34 51,691.46 62,084.52

Lake Union Conference

1891 1908 1909
West Michigan 17,265.41 1,337.45 1,347.40
East Michigan ..... 4,024.60 5,073.20
North Michigan ..... 2,505.90 5,706.25
Indiana 16,147.32 3,783.15 3,633.10
Northern Illinois 41,796.89 5,331.20 7,020.30
Southern Illinois ..... 5,097.80 7,698.10
Wisconsin 14,462.26 6,299.65 7,035.45
Totals 89,671.88 28,361.75 37,513.80

Canadian Union Conference

1891 1908 1909
Ontario 18,724.00 3,691.45 3,676.10
Quebec 2,918.10 752.50 1,230.20
Maritime 8,091.75 3,680.65 2,033.60
Newfoundland ..... ..... 295.50
Totals 29,733.85 8,124.60 7,235.40

Southern Union Conference

1891 1908 1909
Tennessee River 2,451.20 6,048.70 7,892.50
Kentucky ..... 4,875.55 7,663.85
Alabama 3,487.60 9,247.52 10,649.95
Mississippi 895.10 3,875.65 7,482.26
Louisiana 13,125.96 7,069.92 9,744.81
Totals 19,959.86 31,117.34 43,433.37
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1891 1908 1909
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland $350.35 $8,082.80 $7,370.37
North Carolina 5,250.15 4,936.80 8,617.15
South Carolina 216.15 9,998.98 6,131.95
Georgia 7,639.25 7,911.15 11,360.63
Florida 2,335.50 3,095.56 2,835.74
Totals 15,791.40 34,025.29 36,815.84
Southwestern Union Conference
Oklahoma 7,009.48 16,023.04 19,636.65
Arkansas 12,842.98 12,674.95 14,262.40
Texas 23,800.35 18,047.50 35,531.05
West Texas ..... 2,729.95 3,423.80
New Mexico ..... 1,482.00 2,520.70
Totals 43,652.81 50,957.44 75,374.60
Central Union Conference
Kansas 3,972.39 20,550.44 12,883.80
Nebraska 4,513.83 9,621.37 10,904.10
Wyoming ..... 4,533.25 4,598.30
North Missouri 15,065.48 10,008.75 5,291.00
Southern Missouri ..... ..... 10,780.41
Colorado 4,823.93 5,654.30 2,531.60
West Colorado ..... ..... 3,331.53
Totals 28,375.63 50,368.11 50,320.74
Northern Union Conference
Minnesota 22,525.40 9,410.78 6,748.75
Iowa 6,768.94 5,399.05 7,331.65
North Dakota 6,797.20 4,369.55 9,706.66
South Dakota ..... 9,133.54 9,303.20
Miscellaneous ..... 1,000.00 .....
Totals 36,091.54 29,312.92 33,090.26
Western Canadian Union Conference
Manitoba 3,655.75 4,780.85 4,811.05
Alberta ..... 3,355.00 4,320.55
Saskatchewan ..... 4,477.10 4,763.20
British Columbia ..... 3,606.90 704.05
Totals 3,655.75 16,219.85 14,598.85
Pacific Union Conference
California-Nevada 41,346.66 12,852.74 10,218.55
Southern California ..... 6,827.04 8,499.05
Arizona ..... 245.00 1,260.05
Utah ..... 693.00 .....
Totals 41,346.66 20,617.78 19,977.65
North Pacific Union Conference
Western Washington 2,318.25 10,507.65 10,618.25
Western Oregon ..... 10,841.00 6,086.05
Upper Columbia 1,823.60 6,420.50 10,615.49
Southern Idaho ..... 3,029.55 1,861.75
Montana 485.00 2,868.50 6,213.15
Alaska ..... ..... 427.90
Totals 4,626.85 33,667.20 35,822.59
Foreign Union Conferences and Missions
British 17,765.34 54,845.58 65,595.58
Scandinavian 9,624.69 50,703.46 69,679.09
Finland ..... ..... 719.31
German 4,061.67 88,333.68 85,484.79
Russian ..... ..... 6,962.81
Latin 2,303.88 10,967.04 2,442.00
South African 35,696.05 5,517.72 3,264.64
Australasian 53,570.36 62,794.44 69,491.85
Philippines ..... ..... 757.50
Brazil ..... 3,598.34 3,986.57
Argentina ..... ..... 873.00
Chile ..... ..... 624.91
Peru ..... ..... 1,837.76
Mexican Mission ..... 2,498.48 8,065.09
West Indian ..... 11,350.90 .....
China Mission ..... 891.00 .....
Japan ..... ..... 235.00
Porto Rico ..... ..... 409.85
Foreign totals 123,021.99 291,500.64 320,429.75
U. S. and Canada totals 440,891.23 392,355.47 451,728.47
Grand totals $563,913.22 $683,856.11 $772,158.22

Field Notes

EIGHT more members have been added to the church at Marlow, Ala., during the past year.
R. J. BELLOWS reports the baptism of three precious souls at Menominee, Mich., recently.
AT Osceola, Iowa, two persons have recently been baptized, and united with the church at that place.
A NUMBER of patients at the Loma Linda (Cal.) Sanitarium have recently begun to keep the Sabbath.
BAPTISMAL services were held at New Haven, Conn., on Sabbath, January 8, when four persons were buried with their Lord in baptism.
THREE persons have accepted the truth and united with the church at Jonesboro, Ind., as the result of Bible work done by Sister Mary Kent.
AT Kansas City, Kan., two persons recently took their stand for the truth as a result of some Bible readings which were held at that place.
ELDER M. STUCKRATH, our new German minister at Milwaukee, Wis., baptized two persons last week, and they were received into the church there.
A REPORT comes from Hutchinson, Kan., that three persons have recently accepted the truth there, and that several others have shown good interest in the gospel message.
THE church at Clay Center, Kan., reports two new converts, who have been added to its membership. Also eight have been taken into the church at Liberal, Kan., two by letter and five by profession of faith.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature.
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference.
E. R. PALMER       -      -      -      Secretary N. Z. TOWN          -      -      -      Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU   -      -      -      Missionary Secretary
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