p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 48. (12/2/1909)

Earlier text: Summary of Magazine Sales for October, 1909

A New German Youth's Paper

By Editor

At the recent General Conference Committee Council held at College View, Neb., it was voted to publish a monthly paper for the German-speaking youth. It has been decided to call this paper Der Jugendbote (Youth's Messenger), and its object will be to encourage a deeper missionary spirit in our German young men and women, and to acquaint them more fully with our educational institutions and the progress of gospel work throughout the earth.

The Sabbath-school lessons which have been published in the Arbeiter, will have a place in this paper. A reading course will be conducted, taking up first Elder J. N. Loughborough's book, “The Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists.” The paper will contain timely and appropriate articles for the improvement and unifying of our German youth, with a view to awakening an active missionary spirit among them, thus preparing them to efficiently fill places in the Lord's work. It will be an eight-page monthly, the first issue to be mailed about the middle of December, and the subscription price will be fifty cents a year.

To assist in entering this publication as second-class matter, we need a large number of subscribers before the first issue is mailed. Will not all join in helping us secure this needed list of subscriptions. Address International Publishing Association, College View, Neb., or your tract society.

A Chasu Grammar and Herald of Health

A BOOK of rare interest to us comes from the Oriental Seminary, of Berlin. It is printed by the bureau for the study of German colonial languages, under government direction. It is a “Grammatik des Chasu,” a grammar of the Chasu language, spoken in the Pare Mountain region of German East Africa. Its author is Ernst Kotz, “missionar,” our Brother Kotz, who is now in Europe to see through the press the four Gospels in the Chasu, translated by himself and Brother Enns. The grammar is a seventy-nine-page book, the first guide to that language ever prepared.

The India Mission announces a new health journal, the Herald of Health, to begin with the new year. Dr. H. C. Menkel, of the Mussoorie Sanitarium, is the editor.

Camp-Meeting in Johannesburg

In a letter just received, Elder R. C. Porter reports a most excellent camp-meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, blessings being showered upon the workers and believers.

Camarero Training College

FROM Argentina, South America, Prof. Walton C. John sends us a post-card picture of the new school building, “Colegio Camarero,” our Camarero training college. “One hundred nineteen is the roll of attendance now,” Professor John writes.

Elder Votaw’s Oklahoma Meetings

Since attending Western camp-meetings, Elder H. H. Votaw, of Burma, has been spending some weeks visiting relatives in Oklahoma, before returning to Rangoon. While in Oklahoma, he has been holding meetings, and a company have accepted the Sabbath.

Missionaries Depart for British East Africa

THE British Missionary Worker reports the departure from Southampton, in October, of H. H. Brooks and wife, to re-enforce the staff of missionaries in British East Africa.

Georgia Sanders Departs for Jamaica

WE have not before chronicled the departure, in September, of Miss Georgia Sanders, of Emmanuel Missionary College, to Jamaica, West Indies, to engage in church-school work.

Prisoners Give to Missions

ONE of our brethren reports a gift of $5.60 to missions which he received from two men in a penitentiary, whose hearts have turned to the Lord. “While we do not feel that we are members of your denomination,” they wrote, “nor worthy to become so, still we are in spirit, and purpose to contribute to your good work as the dear Lord prospers us. We are doing what we can to make a few dollars.”

Journals for Youth and Children

We have made frequent mention in these columns of our larger denominational journals, but have said but little of three smaller ones which are doing a noble work in a humble, quiet way to mold the characters and direct the energies of our youth and children. We refer to the Youth’s Instructor, Our Little Friend, and the Sabbath School Worker. Those parents are wise who place one or both of the two first-named papers in the hands of their children. The righteous principles they inculcate, the healthful enthusiasm they will arouse to work for God, will do much in implanting in the hearts of our boys and girls a love for truth and a desire for Christian service. Let all who need these helps in their homes be swift to secure their aid. The Worker has a broader field than to circulate alone among Sabbath-school workers. It will carry inspiration to all who read it. Parents may find in it many helpful suggestions to assist them in their work. As an aid to lesson study, it is invaluable. This little journal should have a wider and more general circulation.

In Far-Away Africa

A NOTE of interest to us appears in an article in the November Missionary Review of the World. An article on “Christian Unity in British East Africa” describes a missionary convention held at Nairobi in June. One paragraph is as follows:—

“Forty-five missionaries were present, representing eight different missionary societies: The Church Missionary Society, the Africa Inland Mission, the Mennonites, the Friends’ Industrial Mission, the American Friends’ Society, the Scotch Presbyterian Mission, the Seventh-day Adventists, and the Primitive Methodists. Such a variety might seem to preclude harmony of views, but the spirit of prayer that prevailed brought about a unity of spirit.”

The Ingathering for Missions

By A. J. S. B.

NINE members of the Scranton (Pa.) church distributed seventy-seven copies of the Missions REVIEW during the first campaign week, and received in return the sum of $63.25.

Up to Tuesday evening, November 23, the total demand for the Missions number of the REVIEW called for 704,680 copies. Numerous orders are still being received for this paper.

Sister Borchgrevink, one of our Scandinavian Bible workers in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, recently received during one week the sum of twenty-six dollars for foreign missions.

One of our Sabbath-school scholars in the North Philadelphia (Pa.) church recently sent a copy of the Missions REVIEW to an Episcopalian minister, accompanying the same with a short note of explanation. The minister replied with a donation of a one-dollar bill.

Elder W. H. Heckman, of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, informs us that one of our brethren, the engineer on the Lackawanna Railroad whose experience during the last year's campaign is referred to on page 4 of our little “Instruction Leaflet,” is busily engaged in the same work this year. He has received thus far in donations about fifty dollars, and is still at work.

A minister of Oklahoma, not of our faith, is a regular subscriber for the REVIEW. He was, therefore, one of the many who received the ten extra copies of the Missions number. We quote the following from an interesting letter just received from this brother: “I am not a member of your denomination, but I take the REVIEW and enjoy reading it. I am a minister, a union or undenominational worker. You sent me ten copies of the Missions REVIEW to sell in behalf of foreign missions. I send you herewith post-office money-order for $7.70 for your foreign missions.”

Dr. E. L. Paulding, of California, sends the following interesting item regarding his personal effort in the campaign work: “I went out with the REVIEW and did the best I could, but we are located in a rather poor ten-acre-ranch region, where crops have been light for the past two years. The first twenty copies of the REVIEW given out brought in four and one-half dollars. The next fifteen copies raised my donations to $10.15, so I am improving as I go. I hope that the California Conference will stand at the head of the list in its contributions.”

Elder D. U. Hale, president of the Southern Missouri Conference, writes an encouraging letter in regard to the progress of the Harvest Ingathering campaign in that district. Among other things, he says: “I know that we are better organized than we were last year, at which time many papers were not well used. In one of our churches some of the sisters who were unable to go out themselves arranged to take care of the children of another sister while she went. She was gone two days, and returned with donations amounting to over seven dollars. The entire church rejoiced with the one who went out. The Lord is surely coming very near to his people.” Perhaps other small companies composed largely of sisters could follow some such plan as this. A. J. S. B.