Received on the $150,000 Fund up to March 31, 1908
Atlantic Union Conference
Central New England .................. $ 2,772.18
Greater New York .................... 1,501.31
Maine ................................ 852.89
New York .......................... 2,326.50
Southern New England ............... 1,210.50
Vermont ............................ 1,344.74
Western New York ................... 2,071.09
Chesapeake .......................... 624.53
Eastern Pennsylvania .............. 2,548.91
New Jersey ......................... 1,202.45
Ohio ............................... 6,301.43
Virginia .......................... 1,034.77
West Pennsylvania .................. 1,969.46
West Virginia ...................... 558.86
Total ............................... 14,240.41
***District of Columbia***
Washington Churches ............... 1,384.54
Lake Union Conference
East Michigan ....................... 3,158.46
Indiana ............................ 5,246.02
North Michigan ....................... 1,705.22
Northern Illinois .................. 2,913.36
Southern Illinois .................... 1,425.71
West Michigan ...................... 8,733.70
Wisconsin ............................ 5,044.25
Total ............................... 28,226.72
North Pacific Union Conference
Montana ............................. 691.64
Upper Columbia ..................... 3,036.43
Western Washington .................. 3,308.13
Idaho ................................ 1,019.40
Western Oregon ....................... 2,955.15
Hawaii ............................... 21.05
Alaska ............................... 20.00
Total ............................... 11,051.80
Northern Union Conference
Iowa ................................. 7,444.63
Minnesota .......................... 5,728.28
South Dakota ........................ 2,664.47
North Dakota ....................... 2,134.03
Conference not specified ............. 73.82
Total ............................... 18,046.13
Pacific Union Conference
Southern California .................. 3,582.10
California-Nevada ................. 10,249.03
Utah ................................ 440.58
Total ............................... 14,738.50
***Southern Union Conference***
Conference not specified ............. 97.41
South Carolina ...................... 266.09
Alabama ............................... 613.14
Tennessee River ..................... 1,405.31
Florida ............................. 951.48
North Carolina ...................... 954.70
Cumberland .......................... 1,347.32
Louisiana ........................... 572.54
Mississippi ........................... 413.08
Georgia ............................. 457.97
Alberta ........................... 1,211.30
British Columbia ..................... 222.00
Manitoba ............................. 336.55
Saskatchewan Mission Field ........... 59.60
Total ............................... 1,829.45
Unknown
Unknown .............................. 161.70
Foreign
Algeria .......................... 13.33
Australia ............................ 178.71
Bermuda .............................. 36.00
China ................................ 165.60
South Africa ......................... 439.02
Jamaica .............................. 66.01
Yukon Territory ...................... 20.00
England .............................. 279.11
West Africa ........................ 50.00
Mexico ............................... 65.97
Costa Rica ........................... 6.25
India ................................. 190.25
South America ........................ 76.43
Switzerland ........................... 9.69
Panama ............................... 27.11
Nicaragua ............................ 9.00
Central American Mission ............. 26.00
Trinidad ............................. 28.69
Norway ............................... 25.00
Japan ................................ 12.50
Hayti ................................ 5.00
Egypt ............................... 51.55
Palestine ............................ 2.00
Tobago, W. I. ........................ 1.22
Cuba ................................ 8.00
Hungary .............................. 3.00
Tahiti ............................... 14.88
France ............................... 6.80
Philippine Islands ................... 1.00
Samoa ................................ 8.00
Barbados ............................. 5.00
Portugal ............................. 1.00
Straits Settlements .................. 10.08
Pitcairn Island ....................... 20.00
New Zealand .......................... 1.52
Fiji ................................ 4.87
St. Kitts ............................ 7.51
Ireland .............................. 1.21
Russia ............................... 5.00
Denmark .............................. 14.59
Santa Domingo ........................ 2.50
Total ............................... 1,899.40
Grand Total .......................... $136,194.93
I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.
The Missouri Canvassers’ Institute
By W. F. Surber
OUR canvassers’ institute closed March 23. Sixteen canvassers started for their fields of labor, all of good courage, and trusting in the Lord for success. May God’s blessing attend their efforts.
W. F. SURBER, Field Missionary.
Current Mention
— During maneuvers at Portsmouth, England, April 2, the British torpedo-boat destroyer “Tiger” was run into and sunk by the cruiser “Berwick.” Twenty-two of the destroyer’s crew were rescued, but thirty-six were drowned.
— Because the Finnish Diet adopted a social-democratic resolution expressing sympathy with the Russian terrorists, the czar has decided to dissolve the Diet. The new elections will take place July 1, and the new Diet will meet August 1.
— The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina on April 1 rendered a decision to the effect that the statute making it a misdemeanor for any one to carry into a prohibition county more than half a gallon of whisky or brandy, is unconstitutional. The chief justice filed a dissenting opinion, in which another justice concurred.
— There has been another abortive attempt at an uprising in Hayti, in which the chief of the cavalry and several other army officers are said to be implicated. This has given the government cause for searching all quarters of the city of Port au Prince; and it is reported that the French minister to Hayti is alarmed lest the government troops attack the consulate.
— The Pennsylvania Railroad has issued an order to discharge all foreigners employed on its system. The inference is that it proposes to make itself felt in the coming presidential election in the States where it operates. Similar action against foreigners has been taken by several other corporations in the State of Pennsylvania, and large numbers of men thus thrown out of employment are leaving for Europe.
— By an explosion of gas in a coal-mine at Hanna, Wyo., March 28, the workings were wrecked, and the twenty men who were working to extinguish a fire previously started, were killed. Some hours later while a party of fifty rescuers were at work, a second explosion occurred, which entombed these, and they all perished. In this same mine about five years ago 169 men lost their lives by a similar explosion.
— It is reported that 500,000 women will attempt to control the spring elections in the State of Illinois by exerting the influence of telepathy upon the voters. By this means they hope to route the saloons. They are attempting to use this force in the campaign. Whenever a speaker is advertised to speak in favor of licensing the saloons, the women go to the hall, and, by concentrating mental effort, endeavor to confuse him.
— Closely following the invention by Hiram Percy Maxim of a noiseless gun comes the announcement that another inventor, Oliver A. Smith, has perfected a device that produces the same result. It is simple in construction, can be carried in the vest pocket, and attached to the muzzle of the gun as desired. In this connection might also be mentioned a gun which, by the application of electricity, imparts an initial velocity of 30,000 feet a second to projectiles of all dimensions. It is the invention of W. S. Simpson, a Scotchman; and experts who have examined the model and its working express the belief that with these guns it will be possible to throw shells from London to Paris. Continually new engines of destruction are being perfected which render obsolete former means of defense.
— A resolution for home rule in Ireland, introduced by the nationalist leader, John E. Redmond, was adopted by the British House of Commons, March 30, by a vote of 313 to 157. This is the first time that a resolution for home rule has passed the House of Commons by a large majority. Gladstone’s bill of 1893 passed by a small majority, some amendments by a majority as small as five or six, and no provision by more than forty. The large majority seems all the more remarkable in view of the provisions of the resolution. It demands a parliament in Dublin and executive responsibility to that parliament.
— A funeral procession in Rome on April 2 was the pretext for a large assemblage which made an anti-clerical demonstration against the Austrian ambassador to the Vatican. Many anarchists later joined in the procession, and the police, in attempting to break up the crowd, killed three men and wounded fifteen others, some of them fatally. The mob returned the volley with bricks, wounding thirty-one of the police and soldiers. On the day following, the workmen inaugurated a general strike as a protest against the firing done by the police; and while the government took prompt measures to restore order, arresting seventy anarchists, yet the order of the mayor placing the flag over the Capitol tower at half mast would surely seem to indicate sympathy with the anti-clericals. No such action has ever before been taken under like circumstances.
— Some international interest is awakened over the attitude assumed by United States Consul Fisher at Harbin, China, toward the director of the Eastern Chinese Railway, who claims to have jurisdiction over the railway zone including Harbin. Acting under instructions from the State Department at Washington, Consul Fisher has refused to recognize or admit that he should have anything to do with the Russian administration of the territory, since he is the accredited representative to China alone. It is thought that this is one indication of the way in which the United States intends to maintain the “open door” in Manchuria. There have been many protests by China because of failure on the part of the railway management to live up to the terms of the contract made in 1896 between the Chinese government and the Russo-Chinese Bank, and at the close of the Russo-Japanese War both contending nations agreed in the Portsmouth treaty, completely and simultaneously to evacuate Manchuria, and to restore to China the exclusive administration of the province. When the American consul raised the flag over his consulate without in any way recognizing the authority of the Russians in this territory, Russia deemed it of sufficient importance to be taken up with the State Department at Washington. It is stated that the German consul at Harbin sided with the American, and the French consul with the Russian demands.
The Importance of Upholding Health Principles
By Daisy Ingle
THE young people of the St. Helena Sanitarium training-school are known as Seventh-day Adventist medical missionary nurses. As such they are to go out into the world, bearing the advent message. The light of this message is to go to all lands, and penetrate even the darkest parts of the earth. We each have a part assigned us in this work. It can never be done by committees on plans and resolutions. It means personal consecration, personal sacrifice, personal work. It means a mighty faith in this message as the truth which the world must have.
As a company of workers on the “hillside” we may not feel that the world is watching to see if we live up to the principles which we advocate. But when we go out among the people, our example will count for or against their souls’ salvation. The world is watching, ready to criticize with keenness and severity every one who acts a part in connection with God’s work. Impressions favorable or unfavorable to Bible religion, are constantly made on the minds of all with whom we come in contact.
The world watches to see what fruit is borne by professed Christians. It has a right to look for self-sacrifice from those who claim to believe advanced truth. As young people we ought to be earnest, consecrated Christians, living up to the light God has given us. We can not expect to be an aid in helping to proclaim the advent message, if by our own lives we do not live out its principles.
The Lord has given us a message in regard to health reform. We have grown up with this message as part of our education. The principles taught have become common to us, and we are largely indifferent to them. Can God be pleased when health reform workers by their practise teach principles that are entirely opposed to their profession? Guilt rests upon us who have had so much light upon health reform, because we have not appreciated or improved the light. The greatest objection to health reform is that those who advocate it do not live it out. We become stumbling-blocks to many who are earnest in their desires to know what is right. Our words, our actions, and our dress are daily, living preachers, gathering with Christ or scattering abroad.
As we enter the homes of the sick and the dying, they will look to us for help, and many times where our words would fall on prejudiced ears, our lives might forcibly send home the message we are so anxious to convey.
All who are truly engaged in the work of the Lord for these last days will have a decided message to bear. The world needs to see in Christians an evidence22of the power of Christianity. We are to be living teachers of the gospel. The same interest and tenderness that Christ manifested toward us we are to manifest toward others. We are to work with patience, with interest, with determination, believing that Jesus can do much through human ability consecrated to his service. The men and women who are most successful in winning souls for Christ are those who in humility open the Scriptures in households, and who talk familiarly with the members of the families, not about things of little importance, but of the great themes of redemption.
We must know the great truths of our day, and knowing them, we must live them out, and not rest until those with whom we come in daily contact have also heard and believed. We are not here simply to learn a trade, or to become professional men and women. We are learning how to carry the message of a soon-coming Saviour. The great possibility of this work is nothing less than the consummation of the hope of every true advent believer—the ushering in of that glad day when “the righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever,” where the inhabitant shall not say, “I am sick,” and “the voice of weeping shall no more be heard.”
DAISY INGLE.
Medical Missionary Department
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. GEORGE, M. D., - - - Chairman
W. A. RUBLE, M. D., - - - Secretary
Business Notices
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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
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No discount for several insertions.
WANTED.—To correspond with any one desiring a teacher in the home, and giving an opportunity for gardening. Address M. Jaffray, 634 Whitney St., Belvidere, Ill.
FOR SALE.—Cooking Oil, best grade. Freight prepaid between Colorado and Ohio. 2 gal., $4; 10 gal., $7.75; 15 gal., $11. Other States, please ask for prices. Address R. H. Brock, 404 North Second St., Arkansas City, Kan.
NOTICE!—Small company of Seventh-day Adventists going to New Mexico to engage in farming, can accommodate few more. $10 per acre—terms. Send for literature. Address W. A. Ross, 1537 Wrightwood Ave., Chicago, Ill.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—A first-class and good-paying sheet metal shop. An opportunity of a lifetime if taken soon. Large furnace trade, metal roofing, and tin work of all kinds. For particulars, address N. H. Pool, Coldwater, Mich.
FOR SALE.—4¼ acres 3 miles from Santa Cruz, Cal. New house, barn, chicken-coops and yard; ½ acre strawberries. Gasoline engine. Abundance of soft well water. Price, $3,000. Address F. C. Foland, R. F. D. 2, Box 611, Santa Cruz, Cal.
FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10 cents a pound; Olive-oil, $2.50 a gallon; 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7; Vegetable Cooking Oil, 10 pounds, $1.10; 60 pounds, $6. Cash with order. All absolutely pure. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.
THE Otter Lake (Mich.) Medical and Surgical Sanitarium makes a specialty of the care and treatment of insane and nervous cases, in addition to its general line of work. All insane cases treated during past two years have recovered. Chronic invalids cared for. Low rates.
ROYAL PEANUT BUTTER is all that we claim for it. Made only from No. 1 Spanish peanuts, carefully selected, and everything objectionable removed. Southern California Extracted Honey in convenient packages. Write for prices. Address Cleveland Health Food Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful Vegetable Oil for cooking and salads; no odor, keeps indefinitely: gal. can, $1; 5-gal. can, $4. Also pure virgin Olive-oil: gal. $2.75; half gal., $1.40; quart, 85 cents. Lunch Nutrene, a hygienic fat and blood producer: 1-lb. box, 35 cents; send for samples. Address E. W. Coates & Co., 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.23
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor; keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $7; crate of 8 one-gal. cans, 80 cents a gal.; 64 cents a gal. in ½ bbl. and bbl. lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. shipped direct from factory at Louisville, Ky. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Box 442, Louisville, Ky.
FOR SALE.—80 acres choice land, ½ mile from Bethel Academy, Wood Co., Wis. New 8-room house, besides pantry, closets; well, small orchard, barn, etc. 20 acres meadow and plow land, 15 acres to seed this spring. At least $2,000 worth of wood on timber land. 3½ miles from 3 railroads; cream route. Address E. Albee, Bethel, Wis.
Warning!
By Morris Lukens
WE would warn our people against a blind man representing himself to be an evangelist, and professing to be a Seventh-day Adventist. He obtained a large sum of money under false pretenses while in Baltimore, Md.—not from our people, however. He is about five feet ten inches tall, has dark hair, smooth face, and a very pronounced Irish brogue. Any information regarding him will be appreciated by the writer, whose address is Takoma Park, D. C.
MORRIS LUKENS.
For Home Missionaries
The Signs of the Times bearing date of April 15, the forty-third anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, presents some striking characteristics of that noble man, and some of the great principles of liberty for which he stood. In addition, it makes prominent the glorious theme of a far greater liberty than that for which men struggle, that liberty in Christ Jesus, to which he invites all who will accept of his plan of salvation, and live in his “law of liberty.”
Mrs. Emma H. Adams presents the deliverance of God’s people of old in a masterly word-picture entitled, “That Marvelous Transmigration.” Members of the Bible Band will find this excellent article especially helpful, and its inspiration will bring a new view of God’s workings in the earth, and a desire to read and study the wonderful story again and again. It will strengthen faith in the Word of God, and create a desire to know it better. The number deserves a wide circulation. All orders should be addressed to the Pacific Press Publishing Assn., Mountain View, Cal.
California Camp-Meetings
By H. SHULTZ
THERE will be three camp-meetings held in the California-Nevada Conference this year. The first one will be held in the San Joaquin Valley, at Lodi, beginning May 1, and closing May 10. As the time for this meeting is near at hand, it is hoped that our people in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and Nevada will make preparation to attend. Bring your children, and invite your neighbors to attend this annual feast with you. Come to receive a blessing, and to be a blessing. The camp-ground is situated at the southeastern part of the city, within the city limits, about half a mile from the depot. The street-cars pass the station and stop within one block of the camp-ground. Tents will be pitched to accommodate one hundred families. There will be hay or straw on the ground to fill bedticks.
We expect the Lord to meet with us here. Sister E. G. White is expected to attend this meeting if her health will permit. These blessed privileges of assembling where we can worship the Lord in peace, will soon be a thing of the past; therefore let us improve them while they last.
In behalf of the California-Nevada Conference Committee,
H. SHULTZ.
Glendale Sanitarium Training-School for Missionary Nurses
The next training-class begins June 1. There are vacancies for a limited number of applicants. This institution offers special facilities to persons of promise who are anxious to fit themselves as missionary nurses. Liberal monthly allowances are made for the first, second, and third years, to cover incidentals, so as to enable worthy individuals to get such training. Write for new calendar. Address Dr. Etta Gray, or Miss Nora Lacey, Head Nurse, Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, Cal.
Findings
DR. J. P. TETER has for some time been pursuing Bible studies at Fernando College, preparatory to engaging in medical missionary work wherever most needed.
Dr. Orville Rockwell has accepted the superintendency of the Nebraska Sanitarium at Lincoln, Neb., upon the departure of Dr. W. A. George from Lincoln.
Dr. Julia White writes from Loma Linda: “We have a goodly number of young people here who will be ready in a few more months to be sent to foreign fields. This is the success of our work, getting our workers right out into these places. We have perhaps two or three men and their wives who could go to almost any mission field, and also many others who will be ready a little later. Our school is prospering. The students are doing well. The medical students are progressing very well in their studies.”
A copy of “Proceedings of the Medical Missionary Convention,” held at Loma Linda, Oct. 28-31, 1907, is at hand. This is a booklet of one hundred twelve pages, and is full of valuable articles on the most important topics pertaining to medical missionary work. Every physician and nurse in our ranks should have one of these, and should study it; in fact, every Seventh-day Adventist should be thoroughly posted on the subjects treated therein. The price of the booklet is fifteen cents. Order of Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Mountain View, Cal., or send twenty-five cents for copy of these proceedings and copy of “Minutes of Medical Missionary Council,” held in Washington last June, to the secretary, W. A. Ruble, M. D., 1 and 2 Iowa Circle, Washington, D. C. Both booklets are valuable.
Obituaries
PAULEY.—Died at Vinton, Iowa, Feb. 27, 1908, of hemorrhage of the brain, James L. Pauley, aged 82 years, 6 months, and 4 days.
S. M. PAULEY.
BROWN.—Died at Minatare, Neb., Dec. 28, 1907, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Brown, aged 2 years, 5 months, and 18 days. Although so young, little Max gave evidence that the instruction of Deut. 6:5-7 had not been neglected. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Matt. 19:14, a verse which Max had often repeated and called his verse.
B. L. DIFFERNACHER.
INGALLS.—Died at his home in Trempelean, Wis., Feb. 1, 1908, Brother J. B. Ingalls. He was born June 13, 1824, and was converted in early life, and united with the Adventists. While in active life, he was earnest in advancing the cause he loved, both with his means and with his personal influence. He had taken the REVIEW for forty years. He leaves a wife, seven sons, and one daughter.
MRS. H. O. HILLMAN.
BLUMENSHEIN.—Died at her home in Brainerd, Minn., Feb. 21, 1908, of consumption, Sister Levina M. Blumenshein, aged 45 years, 1 month, and 28 days. She joined the Seventh-day Adventist church at Medford, Wis., seventeen years ago, and was a faithful follower of Jesus until her death. She leaves a husband and six children to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Rom. 5:12.
GEO. L. BUDD.
PYKE.—Died at her home, near Gaylord, Mich., Feb. 7, 1908, Mrs. Maria Pyke, aged 80 years. Mother united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Gaylord about twenty-four years ago. She was a faithful and devoted mother, and will be greatly missed by her children, four of whom survive her. Her hope was bright till the last. The funeral was held at her home, and was conducted by H. S. Bullock (Baptist).
MRS. SARAH MUSHULMAN.
ANDERSON.—Died at her home near Kersey, Colo., Dec. 16, 1907, of lockjaw, Ruth Anderson, only daughter of Brother and Sister A. Anderson, aged ten years. Sister Ruth injured her foot by running a nail into it. The injury was not considered serious for several days, when she was taken with lockjaw. Ruth was baptized about eighteen months ago, and was a consistent Christian. She bore her intense suffering with patience. Funeral service was conducted by the writer.
R. E. HAY.
BEGUELIN.—Died at Battle Creek, Mich., Feb. 5, 1908, of tuberculosis, Mrs Anna Beguelin, née Siess, aged 23 years, 7 months, and 20 days. She was born in Germany, was reared by Christian parents, and from her infancy loved the Lord, and kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. She was loved by all who knew her. During her sickness, which lasted a few months, she endured her sufferings with fortitude and Christian resignation, and gave full evidence of her acceptance with God. She leaves a husband, a daughter, a father, three brothers, three sisters, and many friends to mourn their loss. The funeral service was held in the Tabernacle, and was conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder G. W. Amadon.
A. C. BOURDEAU.
(French and German papers, Messager and Herold, please copy.)
MESSICK.—Died at Cambridge, Md., Sister Helen Tyler Messick, aged 61 years. About seven years ago she accepted present truth under the labors of Elder V. H. Lucas. The funeral service was conducted by the writer in the Cambridge Seventh-day Adventist church. She was laid to rest in the blessed hope of a glorious resurrection.
CARLYLE B. HAYNES.
MOORE.—Died at her home in Laurel, Miss., Feb. 25, 1908, of a complication of diseases, Mrs. Ethal Moore, aged 33 years and 16 days. Sister Moore was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Ellisville, Miss. She accepted present truth under the labors of Elder H. G. Thurston four years ago, and remained faithful unto the end. She leaves a husband, two children, a mother, and a brother to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13 and 1 Thess. 4:13-16.
T. C. CALTRIN.
POTTER.—Died at his home in Yola, Minn., Feb. 6, 1908, of pneumonia, C. H. Potter, aged 77 years, 9 months, and 19 days. He came into this truth under the labors of Geo. M. Dimmick in 1875, at Golden Gate, Minn. He had been a subscriber for the REVIEW for thirty-five years, and prized it next to his Bible. About a year before his death he began to lose the use of his limbs, and finally became quite helpless. He leaves a wife and three sons to mourn their loss. Funeral service was conducted by Elder Pierce.
MRS. C. H. POTTER.
BANTA.—Died at Calistoga, Cal., Jan. 19, 1908, Mrs. Mary Martin Banta, aged 80 years, 8 months, and 28 days. In childhood Sister Banta gave her heart to God, and in her many trials tested the value of his sustaining grace. Twice she was left a widow. She was the mother of seven children. Her death is mourned by her husband and surviving children—Elder Geo. Snyder and two daughters. She united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1883, and died in the blessed hope of Christ's soon coming. The funeral service was conducted by Elder W. T. Knox and the writer in the Adventist church at Calistoga.
W. M. HEALEY.
MOORE.—Died at Keene, Tex., Feb. 13, 1908, Nancy Elizabeth Moore, née Robinson. Sister Moore was born in 1834, and was one of the first in Texas to accept present truth, which she heard for the first time from the mouth of Elder R. M. Kilgore, in 1876. She united with the Cleburne church, and was a faithful Seventh-day Adventist until her death. The last fifteen years of her life were spent in the canvassing field as constantly as her strength would permit. I have never met one who was more hopeful and joyous in the truth than this aged sister. She leaves two sons and two daughters, who were all present at the funeral, which was conducted by Elder H. B. French and the writer.
CLARENCE SANTEE.
KISNER.—Died at his home in St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 24, 1908, Brother Kisner, aged 24 years. From earliest childhood he was an earnest Christian. His parents, Brother and Sister G. H. Kisner, have been for many years actively engaged in the work, and it was his ambition to become a worker for God. For about three years he was employed in the office of the Wisconsin Tract Society, but failing health made it necessary to give up the work he loved. With his young wife and parents he moved to Missouri, where, after a year of patient suffering, we laid him to rest. A noble and talented young man has laid down the armor, but the memory of his consistent life will be an inspiration to many.
MEADE MAC GUIRE.
Publications Wanted
[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—Ed.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
Florence Robbing, Laramie, Wyo., Watchman.
F. M. Gourley, Neoga, Ill., Signs and Watchman.
D. M. St. John, Box 56, Gardena, Cal., denominational literature.
Chas. Dunham, 97 Carson St., Pittsburg, Pa., Signs, Life and Health, and Liberty.
Mrs. Kate Taylor, 2175 East Sixty-fifth St., Cleveland, Ohio, periodicals for reading-rack.
Miss Grace Allen, 1212 Long St., Chattanooga, Tenn., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, and tracts.
E. W. Bretz, 2036 Washington Ave., Springfield, Mo., Seventh-day Adventist literature for reading-rack.
Will T. Dawson, 971 Joseph Place, Memphis, Tenn., REVIEW, Signs, and other English papers; also tracts.
Mrs. F. W. Halladay, Huntsville, Ala., appreciates the periodicals received, and desires a continuous supply for reading-racks in depot.
Amos Van Syoc, Room 15, Dewey Block, Pomona, Cal., REVIEW, and other publications for reading-rack, also Lesson Quarterlies of 1907.
C. E. Hubble, R. F. D. 1, Box 86, Santa Ana, Cal., Signs, Life and Health, Liberty, Bible Training School, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts.
Mrs. F. R. May, Box 189, Ochelata, Okla., Signs, Liberty, Life and Health, Watchman, Little Friend, Instructor, and tracts suitable for pioneer missionary work.
Mrs. D. A. Fitch, Glendale, Cal., Signs, Instructor, Watchman, and other publications suitable for general missionary work. A specialty is made of health publications.
Peter G. Argo, R. F. D. 1, Wheelock, N. D., Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health, and Instructor.
James Harvey, 1055 Brush St., Oakland, Cal., Signs, REVIEW, Life and Health, Liberty, Watchman, and Instructor for use in reading-racks in Oakland, Berkeley, and vicinity.
T. J. Chambers, Grant Ave., Takoma Park, D. C., a large and continuous supply of Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health, Instructor, etc. These are earnestly requested for use in a number of reading-racks in the city of Washington.
Address
BROTHER R. W. CLARKE'S address is changed from Palmetto, Fla., to St. Petersburg, Fla.
Books Wanted for a Mission School
THE following-named readers, new or second-hand, are needed for use in a mission school among colored children: “Gospel Primer;” “Bible Reader,” by Sutherland; True Education Series, Nos. 1, 2, and 3; “Practical Primer;” “Bible Nature Reader;” and “Best Stories.” Please send, prepaid, to Miss Pearl D. Bascom, Huntsville, Ala., Care of Oakwood School.
A Call for Missionary Funds
The Methodist General Committee and Board of Foreign Missions is sending out through all the ranks of that denomination an earnest appeal for a fund of $1,400,000 to be raised during the year for use in missionary work in the less enlightened countries of the world. That appeal contains the following statements, which will be read with interest by our people:—
All pagan and Mohammedan lands are now open to the heralds of the cross. There is a seething restlessness in all non-Christian nations. The people are reaching out for something, and they know not what. They have a soul-hunger and there is no bread. Now is the opportune time to give them the bread of life. In all lands there are points of light in the midst of surrounding darkness. These points of light must be multiplied and enlarged until the darkness is dissipated. Everywhere the fields are white unto the harvest, but, alas, the laborers are too few.
This sudden opening of the world's doors to the heralds of the gospel constitutes the most striking miracle of modern times, and presages the completion of the gospel work in the earth.
To Believe on Christ
THE Hamburg meeting of the General Conference Committee appointed Brother L. Krug, a German nurse, to Jerusalem, to take the place of Brother Gregorious, of the Jerusalem medical mission, as the latter is obliged to leave Palestine for a time on account of his wife's health.
The $150,000 fund report has been transferred to the Field Work Department, where it will appear from now until it is closed up.
Elder Thompson Attends East Michigan Conference
ELDER G. B. THOMPSON left Washington last week to attend the session of the East Michigan Conference to be held at Flint, Mich., beginning April 6.
Notice of Matter on Second Page
By Editor
We call special attention to the matter appearing on the second page of this issue.
