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By F. G. Browning

I CAN not say Beneath the presence of life's cares to-day I joy in these; But I can say That I had rather walk this rugged way, If Him it please.

I can not feel That all is well when darkening clouds conceal The shining sun; But then I know God lives and loves, and say, since it is so, Thy will be done.

I can not speak In happy tone; the teardrops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek Until made glad.

I do not see Why God should e'en permit some things to be When He is love; But I can see, Tho often dimly, through the mystery, His hand above.

I do not know Where falls the seed that I have tried to sow With greatest care; But I shall know The meaning of each waiting hour below Sometime, somewhere.

I may not try To keep the hot tears back—but hush that sigh, 'It might have been;' And try to still Each rising murmur and to God's sweet will Respond, 'Amen.' —F. G. Browning.

SOUL-WINNING QUALIFICATIONS.

By Lilian McPherron

BY LILIAN MCPHERRON.

'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.' A failure to realize and apply the truth of this Scripture, and of that other forceful one from our Master's own lips, 'Severed from Me, ye can do nothing,' is the cause of the present wide-spread spiritual declension, and inactivity in the work of soul-saving.

Every one who would be a worker together with God in His work of winning souls for the great harvest day, must be yoked up with Him, thus having a living connection with the Fountain Head of wisdom, love, and saving grace. He must realize continually that his dependence is not upon his own feeble powers, but upon the Spirit of truth, who is mighty to save.

By this living connection is created such a holy atmosphere about the soul as shall gather with the Saviour of men; for it is by the atmosphere surrounding the soul that we either gather with Christ, or scatter abroad. 'Every soul is surrounded by an atmosphere of its own,—an atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with the fragrance of love; or it may be heavy and chill with the gloom of discontent and selfishness, or poisonous with the deadly taint of cherished sin. By the atmosphere surrounding us, every person with whom we come in contact is consciously or unconsciously affected. This is a responsibility from which we can not free ourselves. Our words, our acts, our dress, our deportment, even the expression of the countenance, has an influence.'

This being true, the most vital concern of each one professing the name of Christ, should be to have such close union with the Saviour that the golden oil of His Spirit may constantly flow through the heart. In this way alone can our every word and act, our dress and deportment, and the expression of our faces, be influential for the upbuilding of human lives.

The moulding and fashioning of souls for the eternal kingdom of our Father is the most important work in which we can engage. It should absorb our best energies. For the most perfect and lasting work, certain fundamentals, which have been called the indispensables of character, are needed: Power of attention; power of industry; promptitude in beginning work; method, accuracy, and despatch in doing work; perseverance, courage before difficulties; cheer under straining burdens; self-control, self-denial, and temperance. Each one striving to win souls needs these prime qualities of character in order to do effective work.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for His law. Isa. 42:4.

Do we lack these? 'My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.' These qualities can be gained by a constant looking to Him in childlike faith, and by a joyous acceptance of the toil and stress of daily life.

The thought has been expressed that the beautiful landscape is the result of ages of steady pressure and chiselings, of the scores of floods, the ages of glacier crush and grind, of centuries of storm and sun. Just so beauty of character, fineness of manhood and womanhood, is formed. Shall we not accept the daily pressure and chiselings joyously, that we may become fine-fibered and high-souled?

The higher the ideal, the greater the work, the more need of self-control, self-denial, accuracy, method and power of attention. The sum of these is concentration upon an aim.

'This one thing I do,' said Paul, 'forgetting those things which are behind, . . . I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.'

This prize is perfection through Christ for ourselves, and for those for whom we labor. To strive for it is as necessary to Christian development as is the backbone to the strength of the body. Said Michael Angelo, 'Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives for it, strives for something that is Godlike.' This aspiration to do perfectly is religion practicalized.

'It is through the exercise of faith, hope, and love that we come nearer and nearer to the standard of perfect holiness.'

Before we can feel the needed burden for the souls about us, for whom we have a large responsibility, we must realize the value of a soul, realize the inestimable price paid for it. That we may realize this, we must behold the Lamb of God, who beareth the sins of the world. We must behold Him on Calvary's cross, and let our hearts break before the magnitude of His sacrifice. Then will our hearts be filled with divine love, which will continually flow out in mighty streams to soften and tender hearts.

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THEIR GREATEST NEED.

THE condition of the girls in central Africa is touchingly described by Gertrude Ward, a missionary of the Universities’ Mission, as follows: “Shall we teach them reading?—They have not literature or books of any kind. Writing?—They have no occasion to use it. Arithmetic?—They have no accounts to keep, and are not as a rule required to

count higher than twenty. Sewing?—Their clothes are the loose draperies thrown gracefully around them, and they do not require a single stitch. Laundry work is unknown and unneeded, each person washing her own draperies in the river, and drying them in the sun; housework scarcely exists, the people’s houses being little mud huts to shelter them from wild beasts; they contain no furniture, and few utensils, and the people live almost entirely in the open air.”—Pentecost Herald.

Here is a condition of simplicity itself. No need of anything but the simple Gospel of salvation. Why spend time and means opening up before the heathen a long list of temporal wants that do not minister to actual needs? There is the one thing that all classes of human beings need, and that is salvation. They do not need to be taught to aspire after all the requirements of so-called civilization, much of which is a hindrance to the Christian life. Often the least they know of this world’s accomplishments and embellishments and “wisdom,” the more susceptible they are to a simple knowledge and practise of the truth. Life in the “open air,” with food and covering, is the ideal life, if there be with it the knowledge of Christ. “Having food and raiment [let them] be therewith content.” The simpler, the better, if the food be nourishing, and the raiment comfortable.

THE BIBLE IN INDIA.

By George H. Rouse, D. D.

INDIA—a "country" we call it, and think, perhaps, that it is simply a country like France or Germany, with one people and one language; but really it is as much a continent as Europe is, with many peoples and many languages. A card has been prepared which gives an outline of India on a map of Europe. In this card Kashmir is on the Arctic Circle; and Ceylon on Greece; Kurrachee is in Ireland, Calcutta near Moscow, and Rangoon near the Caspian Sea. An outline of India on the map of America would show Kashmir at Winnipeg, and Ceylon at Mexico; Kurrachee is in the west of Dakota, Calcutta at Washington, and the coast line of Burma running many hundreds of miles south of Nantucket. India is as large as all Europe outside of Russia; its population is somewhat about as dense, and it has as many languages as are spoken in Europe. If we include the languages of the various hill tribes in India, the number is far larger than those spoken in Europe. The population of India by the last census was about 300,000,000.

To give the Bible to India has meant for the last hundred years a large work of preparation; and the men to do it have been merely the ones and the twos who could with great difficulty be spared for the work out of the mere handful of missionaries on the field. Moreover, they have almost all been foreigners, who had to spend many years in the study of the language they work in before they could commence their labor; and that language is a heathen language, with no words to express the distinctions of Christian teaching, and sometimes without even a word for "God" which is at all suitable. Not only so, but all these languages are more or less in a state of flux, being year by year considerably modified by the influence of Western thought, and the increasing spread of the English language. In regard to the languages of the hill tribes, missionaries have found no grammar or dictionary existing for any of them, but have been forced to pick up the language as best they could, and then put it in shape themselves, before they could even begin the work of translating the Bible, or preparing a Christian literature.

According to the report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the whole Bible has been translated into nineteen Indian languages, the New Testament into nine other languages, and Scripture portions into eighteen more. One of the chief aims of the Serampore missionaries was to produce the Bible, or portions of it, in all languages of India, and it is astonishing how much they are able to accomplish in this line. But their versions were necessarily very imperfect, and so often they were altogether unaccompanied by the living voice. God's plan is that the two should go together; and for the most part Bible translation in India has proceeded on this principle. Translations have been made only in the languages of those among whom missionaries are at work.

The whole Bible has been translated into almost, if not quite, all the main languages of India, and revised in many of them. One of the hill languages, spoken by rather less than two hundred thousand persons, the Khassi, has its Bible, owing to the fact that the Welsh Presbyterians have a very successful mission among this people. Other hill languages have the New Testament or one or two gospels. Many different branches of the church of Christ have taken their part in this work of providing for the people of India the Bible which all sections of the church alike reverence.

In all parts of India, the distribution of the Bible is being carried on by agents of missionary societies, and by colporteurs. We may safely say that fully half a million copies of the Bible, or of Scripture portions, are being distributed every year in India. We have had many instances of these scattered portions of the Word of God leading men to believe in Christ.—George H. Rouse, D. D., Calcutta.

A UNITED WORK.

By William Clarence White

It has been proposed that in the erection of buildings, and the opening up of a sanitarium and school work at Takoma Park, near Washington, D. C., arrangements be made for the sanitarium to give a large amount of work to the school, and for the school to use its facilities as far as consistent for the forwarding of the interests of the sanitarium.

The first building to be erected on our forty-seven-acre tract will probably be a schoolhouse built to accommodate about thirty students. Then close by, a dining hall, to seat about one hundred persons. Over the dining-room, the space which later on will serve as workrooms for the lady students, can be used at the first as meeting hall for the church, and schoolroom for evening classes.

With these two buildings, the school can open up a boarding-house for workmen, and an evening school. Tents can be used during the summer by many workmen while the sanitarium buildings are being constructed.

In the erection of sanitarium buildings, we shall endeavor at first to put up a two-story building with basement and attic, which will accommodate a family of about twenty-five patients, but so planned that it can be enlarged to accommodate fifty or more patients, if enlargement becomes necessary. In this building must be our parlors, and in wings or annexes, the dining-rooms, bath rooms and offices.

By using the schoolhouse as a home for sanitarium helpers, it may be possible to open up our sanitarium work with accommodation for a goodly number of patients before the next winter.

It is our hope that the schoolhouse may be the home also of some of the workmen engaged in erecting the General Conference building, and the Review and Herald building. An earnest effort will be made to secure experienced and efficient teachers, and to conduct evening classes in such studies as will be most highly valued by the workmen on our various buildings. W. C. WHITE, Chairman of Sanitarium Board.

Languages and Creeds of India

By Chicago News

TWENTY-EIGHT languages are spoken in India, and none of these is spoken by fewer than 400,000 persons, while the most general is the mother tongue of 85,500,000. Besides these there are in the remotest parts of the country dialects spoken by no more than 500 persons, which none other than themselves can interpret. India has nine great creeds, numbering their followers from the 208,000,000 Hindus down to the 9,250,000 Animistics, and the innumerable sects included in the 43,000 “others.”—Chicago News.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A CAMP-MEETING is to be held at Canton, S. D., June 9-19.

BROTHER J. B. HAMPTON reports ten new Sabbath keepers at Allmon, O. T., and vicinity.

A SESSION of the Lake Union Conference will be held at Berrien Springs, Mich., May 17-27.

ON the 8th ult., thirteen candidates were baptized by Brother D. H. Oberholtzer, at Eureka, Kansas.

THE organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty-five members, at Rhinelander, Wis., is noted in the Reporter.

THE forty-third annual session of the Minnesota Conference will be held at Stillwater, May 27 to June 5.

THE recent labors of Brother V. B. Watts at Gentry, Ark., have resulted in nine adherents to the truth as presented.

FOUR weeks of labor at Texmo, O. T., by Brother J. R. Bagby, resulted in the addition of eight souls to the cause of truth.

A SUMMER normal school for church-school teachers will be held in Atchison, Kansas, beginning about the middle of June, and continuing eight weeks.

APRIL 16 four members were added to the church at Killbuck, Ohio, and Brother G. C. Quillin reports to the Visitor that several others were to be baptized at a later date.

A UNION young people’s convention is announced for May 31 to June 5, at College View, Neb. The announcement is made by the Central Union Conference Educational Committee.

AT the last quarterly meeting of the church in Little Rock, Ark., five members were added, making eight for the quarter. This was the result of quiet missionary work on the part of the church.

FOUR candidates were baptized and added to the church at Burlington, Iowa, on the 6th ult. The Baptist church was used for the occasion, the pastor assisting in the opening and closing exercises.

THE annual state camp-meeting and conference session of Northern California Conference will be held at Bushrod Park, Oakland, June 1-12. A workers’ meeting will be held during the preceding two weeks.

BROTHER E. W. FARNSWORTH and wife, who have held responsible positions in the Australian field for the past eight years, are now on the way to America. They will stop in the United States a while, but their ultimate destination is England.

THE New York Indicator notes that a Methodist lady and her daughter have commenced keeping the Sabbath, and have given up pork, tea, and coffee, from reading "Great Controversy." This work is a veritable power in the message now due to the world.

ONE of our lay sisters, who sold the Capital and Labor number, writes: "One lady, a teacher, told me the paper was just wonderful, and while she had made the Bible quite a study she had learned more Bible and historical facts from it than from anything she had ever read. Three different men told me that the paper was fine, it taught one so much." We have a few numbers left, and they are as good now as when sold.

UNDER the auspices of Central Union Conference, our work will be fairly represented at the St. Louis Exposition. Some very favorable concessions have been granted by the managers of the institution, and an able corps of workers will be on hand. There will be two exhibits, one of literature, and one of health foods. Besides this there is to be the privilege of selling or giving away goods, also certain privileges of the lecture hall, which are deemed quite liberal by the brethren who have the matter in hand.

WRITING to the Dakota Worker about his canvassing work in Ireland, Brother A. A. Carscallen says: "At first the customs of the peasantry here seemed very strange to me; but their simplicity and warm-heartedness soon won my admiration, and customs and ways were no longer thought of. God abundantly blessed my work among the country people, and opened their hearts to receive the truth given in the book ['Patriarchs and Prophets']. I worked the territory regularly and generally the people heard of me before I reached them. Sometimes, when riding out to my work in the morning, people would stop me on the road and ask if I was the young man that was selling books, and would want to know why I had not called at their place before. Many times when I called at a house and introduced myself as a Christian worker, I would receive the reply, 'O, we know who you are; you sold a book to Mr. —.'"

LESSON 8.—MAY 22.—JESUS TEACHES HUMILITY.

Lesson Scripture, Mark 10: 35-45, A. R. V.

(35) "AND there come near unto Him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying unto Him, Teacher, we would that Thou shouldst do for us whatsoever we shall ask of Thee. (36) And He said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? (37) And they said unto Him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on Thy right hand, and one on Thy left hand, in Thy glory. (38) But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink? or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? (39) And they said unto Him, We are able. And Jesus said unto them, The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: (40) but to sit on My right hand or on My left hand is not Mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared. (41) And when the ten heard it, they began to be moved with indignation concerning James and John. (42) And Jesus called them to Him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them. (43) But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister; (44) and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all. (45) For the Son of Man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many."

Golden Text.—"For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." Verse 45.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

(1) Which of the disciples came to Jesus with a special request? How did they introduce the subject? Verse 35. (2) How did Jesus encourage them to make known their request? Verse 36. Note 1. (3) What was their desire? Verse 37. Note 2. (4) What did Jesus say of this request? What other proposition did He set before them? Verse 38. Note 3. (5) What was their reply? Then what promise did Jesus make? Verse 39. Note 4. (6) What did He say of the places they desired to occupy? To whom would they be given? Verse 40. Note 5. (7) How were the other disciples affected by the course of James and John? Verse 41. Note 6. (8) To what did Jesus call their attention? Verse 42. (9) But how is the believer's conduct to differ from that of the world? Verse 43. (10) What must one do in order to be chief among the brethren? Verse 44. (11) What was Christ's own example in this respect? Verse 45. Note 7.

NOTES.

1. This question was not asked because Jesus did not know what was in their minds; for He knew what was in all men. John 2:25; Luke 9:47; Matt. 9:4; 12:25.

2. Ambition to be great was one of the worst hindrances to the disciples' understanding of the true character of the mission and kingdom of Christ. On another occasion they had been reproved for this trait of character, when they had disputed about which of them should be greatest. See Mark 9:33-38. But it seems that on the present occasion the two sons of Zebedee thought to take advantage of the others, and get a private promise when there was no one to protest. Matthew tells us that the mother of the two disciples accompanied them, and that it was she who really made the petition. However, notwithstanding the various lessons given by the Master on this subject, the spirit of ambition and jealousy permeated their hearts up to the time of the last supper (Luke 22:24), or even till their conversion after the Lord's resurrection. Political ambition, on the pretext of advancing the cause of God, is blinding many zealous "reformers" to-day concerning the principles and establishment of the Lord's kingdom in the earth.

3. "Ye know not what ye ask."—Many a man has experienced complete failure in life through seeking positions for which he was not qualified. It is well to know what is involved in a position, or the preparation for it, before assuming its responsibilities.

4. "We are able."—That they were not able of themselves to stand with Him in His sorest trial, was shown by their going to sleep when He needed their prayers and sympathy in the Garden of Gethsemane, and their deserting Him after His arrest. But it may be said that after their real conversion, they were always loyal, even in the face of bitter persecution. James was the first of the apostles to forfeit his life for the faith, and John was faithful throughout a long life of trial and persecution of various kinds. Thus was fulfilled the promise of the Lord. A further promise to all the twelve was that in His kingdom they should "sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Matt. 19:28. But there is no intimation that any of them, either in this world or the next, should hold rank above the others. The Lord's reply to the request of His disciples that they should hold exalted positions in His kingdom shows that it is more important to be overcomers of the trials, temptations, and persecutions to which we are subject in this life than to be seekers after exalted positions, either here or hereafter. There is a precious promise to the overcomer in Rev. 3:21.

5. The positions in the kingdom are not given to individuals arbitrarily, especially not because of any influence they can bring, other than a fitness developed by Christian experience. These positions are prepared for those who shall acquire the qualifications. They were, therefore, not Christ's to give in an arbitrary manner, having been already assigned to whoever should grow into them, regardless of former position or condition. Judas might have been a ruler of one of the twelve tribes in the kingdom (Matt. 19:28); but when he fell, another took his office (Acts 1:16, 17, 20).

6. The indignation of the ten was quite natural, both because of the attempt of James and John to forestall their fellow workers, and because the ten were all possessed of a like ambition to be greatest in the Messiah's kingdom.

7. This lesson to the disciples that accompanied Christ in His earthly ministry is also for us. The kingdom of God is not conducted on the same lines as are the kingdoms of this world; neither are the children of His kingdom to be actuated by the same ambitious spirit that influences the people of the world. The example of His own mission to this world is an apt illustration of how His followers are to act in this world. 1 John 4:17.

CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE AND CAMP-MEETING.

THE thirty-third annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Bushrod Park, Oakland, Cal., June 1 to 12, 1904. The first meeting of the conference will be called June 1, at 9 A.M. It is planned to devote the first three days of the meeting wholly to the conference business with the exception of the evening, at which time public services will be held. Delegates are requested to be present at the first meetings of the conference. Delegates' credentials will be sent to the churches.

Each church will be entitled to one delegate and an additional delegate to every twenty members. The matter of selecting delegates for the churches should be attended to as early as possible, and the credentials should be forwarded to the conference office.

Tents will be furnished at the following prices:— 12x17, $3.50 Carpet (burlap), $0.75 Fly, $0.75 10x12, 2.50 " " 50 " " 50

Special rates for transportation over the various railroad lines will probably be secured at the usual one and one-third fare. Particulars will be given in the next issue of this paper.

An old-time workers' meeting will precede the camp-meeting, dated May 17-31. Able-bodied men and women who can come to help fix up the grounds will please correspond early with the secretary. To all who can be utilized board and tent rent will be free. Daily Bible study will be a part of the program.

A. S. KELLOGG, Vice-president. J. D. RICE, Secretary.

LESSON VIII.—EVENTS UNDER THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH SEALS.

(Study for Sabbath, May 21.)

QUESTIONS.

1. WHAT great event follows the falling of the stars, as witnessed by the prophet under the sixth seal? Rev. 6:13, 14. Compare Matt. 24:29, last part.

2. How will that day come upon the unprepared? Verses 15-17.

3. In view of the stupendous issue before this generation, what message does God send? See Isa. 40:3, 10; Rev. 14:6, 7, 12.

4. What will be the condition among the nations while this message is being carried? Rev. 11:18; Joel 3:9, 11, 14.

5. How are the nations restrained from utterly destroying one another? Rev. 7:1. Note 1.

6. For what special purpose are the winds of strife restrained? Verses 2, 3.

7. What is the sign or seal of the living God? Eze. 20:20; Ex. 20:8-11. Note 2.

8. What follows the closing of the sealing message under the sixth seal? Rev. 8:1; Matt. 25:31. Note 3.

9. What scene of triumph did John then behold? Rev. 7:9, 10.

10. What question was raised and answered for the benefit of those who meet temptation and trial? Verses 13, 14.

11. What glorious picture is set before us who must serve a little longer here? Verses 15-17.

12. What special incentive to service have we in present-day conditions?—While gusty winds of strife blow here and there, still God in mercy restrains the coming universal strife in order that the sealing message of Sabbath and Advent reform may be carried by us to all the world. Work not done in times of peace must be done in times of war and hardship. Now, just now, is the time to work.

NOTES.

1. Winds are used as symbolic of war and strife. Dan. 7:2; Jer. 23:31-33.

2. Creative power is the distinguishing feature of the living God. Acts 14:15. See Rom. 4:11 for proof that sign and seal have the same meaning.

3. The silence in heaven at the opening of the seventh seal shows that this seal covers the actual appearing of Christ in the clouds of heaven as He comes with all the angels to gather His saints. Ministry in heaven ceases, and the scene of activity among the heavenly beings is transferred to the earth for a little time, until the hosts of angels and the redeemed, led by their Captain and Saviour, return to the city of God. Half an hour, prophetic time, would be about seven days. In a description of this scene in "Early Writings" we are told: "We all entered the cloud together, and were seven days ascending to the sea of glass."—P. 12.

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ANNUAL MEETINGS.

THE eighth annual session of the California Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will be held in conjunction with the regular meeting of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, beginning, at Bushrod Park, Oakland, Cal., at 9 A.M., June 1, 1904, for the purpose of electing a board of seven directors, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

C. H. JONES, President.

M. H. BROWN, Secretary.

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