p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 15. (4/9/1908)

Committee Meeting in Shanghai

LETTERS from China report a most interesting and profitable committee meeting of representative workers, held in Shanghai, in February.

The Sentinel and the Temperance Issue

OUR South African paper, The Sentinel, appears in new form and dress with the February number, which is devoted especially to the temperance issue.

Progress in Siberia

WE are glad of news of progress in Siberia. At the Hamburg meeting of the General Conference Committee another laborer was appointed to that new mission field, Brother Karl Reifschneider, of Hungary, being recommended to locate in Omsk, Siberia.

The April Life and Health

THE April number of Life and Health is a valuable number, filled with excellent suggestions on a multitude of timely topics. The price is ten cents for a single number, but there are single articles in it that are worth much more than what is asked for the whole journal. There is no reason why many of our people should not be making a good living selling this journal. Some are doing so, and are doing good missionary work at the same time.

Workers Depart for Turkey

On a recent Thursday Elder Robert S. Greaves and wife sailed from New York on the steamship “Cedric,” bound for Smyrna, Turkey. Brother Greaves leaves the British Columbia Conference to join Elder Claude McMoody in the Levant Mission field in answer to a pressing call for help in Turkey. They sail direct to their field, stopping at Naples, Italy, en route. May these dear workers have the rich blessing of God and the prayers of his people as they go into this difficult country to labor.

W. Ising Sent to Beirut

At a meeting of the members of the General Conference Committee in Europe, held in Hamburg the first week in March, it was arranged that Brother W. Ising, the German Union secretary, be ordained, and sent to Beirut, Syria. Brother Ising and wife have had a good experience in the European work, and their knowledge of English, German, and French will be a great help in entering the polyglot Syrian field, where, however, the Turkish and Arabic must be gained in order to do successful work.

Evolution and the Sabbath

“EVOLUTION AND THE SABBATH” is the title of a new sixteen-page tract by Geo. McCready Price, which ought to be in the hands of every Seventh-day Adventist. It shows the inconsistency of the geological theory of life succession, and of the evolution theory based upon it, also the reason and purpose of the Creator in establishing the Sabbatic institution. The Sabbatic institution as a memorial of creation is shown to stand squarely across the path of the evolution teaching and the geological theories concerning the formation of the earth. So likewise the third angel’s message is set forth as “a protest against all false ideas of creation by evolution and redemption by development.” The tract will well repay a careful study. Published by the Pacific Press Publishing Assn., Mountain View, Cal.; price, one cent each.

Liberty

On account of the Sunday-law agitation in the West Indies, the brethren in charge of our work there have found it necessary to issue a publication dealing with the matter. This is a sixteen-page pamphlet bearing the title “Liberty,” and discussing forcefully and clearly the principles at stake in such legislation. From now to the end of time we may expect to have this question to meet in every quarter of the world. Countries that have long given little regard to the outward observance of Sunday are aroused by some agency to wonderful activity in behalf of that institution very soon after our work has been established there. It is all a part of the purpose of the enemy to mobilize his forces throughout the world into one compact body to resist and, if possible, to overwhelm the message and work of the third angel. It is one of the most striking signs of our times, a fulfilment of our expectations of many years, and should be a cause of encouragement to us, indicating the blessed consummation of our work.