GOVERNOR OSBORN, of Michigan, delivered some addresses on religious questions recently, on account of which, so the press reports tell us, he will lose influence among Catholic leaders. The governor stands for religious instruction in the public schools.
THE ninth annual convention of the Lord’s Day Alliance of Pennsylvania convened in Altoona, November 20, 21. The program of the convention contained the topics that are usually considered at such meetings, among which was the depreciation of the non-enforcement of Sunday laws.
THE State of Michigan seems to be quite stirred at the present time over Sunday observance, and religious instruction in the public schools of that State. A correspondent of the Evening Press of Grand Rapids, Mich., November 8, in his protest against religious teaching in the schools, makes this observation: “The writer is a firm believer in the Bible as the inspired word of God, and as the only sufficient rule of the Christian’s faith and practise. Our common schools have been established to give instruction in the principles of a practical education, to be supplemented, if desired, by a collegiate or a university course. But in no case can the cult of any religious sect or class be properly listed as an item in the curriculum of such schools. The citizenship of our free country is made up of the peoples of all nations and tongues, holding many widely dissimilar and unreconcilable views of religion.”
“You can not put religion into the public schools,” says W. P. Lovett, in the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Evening Press of November 11, “not as the churches teach religion. Since this nation was established, we have been the wonder of the world because we were able to keep all kinds of religious belief under one government, give every man perfect religious freedom, and yet keep religion and the government separate in so far as the organic church was concerned. . . . If our children are being neglected in their religious training in our homes and Sunday-schools, we can20not make up the loss by passing over our duty to the public schools. We can not build up religion by mechanical compulsion. What we ought to do is to wage a campaign for more Bible study in our own religious fields, put so much religion into our homes and churches that ‘Christian citizenship’ will be a practical thing without upsetting our present public-school system.”
ACCORDING to the Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram of November 12, the Sabbath League Committee of the Central Texas Methodist Conference adopted resolutions regarding Sunday-law enforcement. The closing words of these resolutions are quite striking: “In our centers of population, the anarchistic spirit is already showing itself in the open and perpetual violation of our Sunday laws, defying and despising the authority of our State. . . . The time for resolving only has passed, and the time for action has come. The responsibility to show forth the virtues and blessings of our holy sabbath, and to defend it from its enemies, rests upon the church, and chiefly upon her ministers. We must, we will, mobilize our forces, and with locked shields wage war against all forms of sabbath desecration until the sabbath sentiment of our land shall become so strong as to secure effectually by moral sentiment and civic enactment our Christian sabbath.”
ONE of the speakers of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) ministers’ conference on November 6, referring to Sunday desecration, deplored the fact that amusements are making great inroads upon the sacredness of the day. Among other things, he said: “Let us preach the fourth commandment fearlessly from our pulpits, even using the discipline of the church and withdrawing the sacraments from offenders. Our church-members must be converted first.” There is manifestly more logic in this thought than there is in the demand that the civil government shall assist the church in straightening out its members on the subject of Sunday observance.
THERE is an agitation in Baltimore in behalf of keeping the Catholic boys in the faith. Rev. Francis J. Sullivan, of New York, chaplain of the New York police department, made the following comments at a meeting of one of the Catholic societies in Baltimore: “Many Catholic boys attend the Protestant clubs, and it is to be deplored that there is not the spirit of old to oppose this tendency. There is the Y. M. C. A., which is doing good for the Protestants, but it is bad for the Catholics, weakening their faith and leading to mixed marriages, the curse of the church.”—Washington Post, for October 18. A vote was taken to organize the boys into societies, provided with attractions, similar to the Y. M. C. A., the Boys’ Brigade, the Boy Scouts, and other Protestant organizations.
S. B. H.
Estrada Palma School, in Cuba
By Mrs. Ida FISCHER-CARNAHAN
Our school, Estrada Palma, began its present term the first of September, with an enrolment of eighteen, about double the number with which we began last year. At the present time we have twenty-six. Every desk is taken, and should those come who are expected, I do not know where we shall seat them.
Our night school has also begun, with nine white men who are interested in the truth. These young men are attending all our meetings, and are expecting to unite with the church. They seem to be above the average in intelligence. We do not know what led them to come to us, unless it is the cottage meetings that have been held among the people who have children in the school.
Our new building is finished, and we are occupying it. We appreciate this appropriation of the General Conference, for we were crowded into small quarters, indeed. Our work is known all through this part of the island. Only the other day an American woman of another denomination, who has been carrying on orphanage work for the last thirteen years, but is now forced to abandon it, drove twenty-five miles to visit us, to see our school before recommending us to some of the patrons of her school who wish to place their children with us. She seemed well pleased with what she saw, and said she expected that there would be some students from her “home.” My daughter is now in Havana, arranging with an American family to bring back three of their boys.
Elder U. Bender, our union conference president, and Elder E. W. Snyder, the superintendent of this field, were with us at the dedication of the building. The building is paid for and the title has been secured. We do not wish to convey the idea that it is all smooth sailing here; for there are times when we do not know how we shall meet questions that arise. But in some way God helps us out; then we feel ashamed of our lack of faith. We have had but few facilities, and the people for whom we have been putting forth effort are the laboring class, who do not have much money to invest in education; so our tuition has been fixed to meet that class. The rich here do not wish to send their children to a boarding-school with the poor, and especially where work is a feature of their education. Even our youngest student has his task to perform. These children come to us knowing nothing of how to labor.
Some of our own people are poor, and we feel they ought to have the opportunity of attending our school. Not long ago we received a letter from an isolated brother whose wife died, telling us that he had three children he would like to put in the school, two of whom are attending the Spanish public school. But, like many of our people who are pioneers, he has not had the money to send them. We do not feel able to make any offer to help him, although we desire to. We have all we can do to meet present expenses. This brother is a Scandinavian. There are other persons that are worthy.
The advancement of the school in so short a time seems almost marvelous to us. About two and a half years ago we were holding our sessions in a palm-leaf shack; now we have this comfortable building. The porches are not yet put up, nor the structure painted, but these will be done soon. This building may seem modest to some; but to those of us who have struggled with poverty and the trials that we have had to face in building up the work, it seems grand, indeed, and we feel grateful to the Lord, who has placed it in the hearts of some of our friends to manifest an interest in us and to help us.
Our hearts were touched as we listened to Brother Bender’s words the Sabbath afternoon of the dedication. This was his second visit, and he knew something of the perplexities through which the school has passed. We still have difficulties to meet, and expect to have as long as we are in the service of Christ. But he who has stood by us and given success to the work, will care for it to the end.
We feel, as one of our Cuban patrons said, that our school is a light here in this part of the dark world. Pray for us that we may render good service.
Mrs. Ida FISCHER-CARNAHAN.
The Spirit of the Revolution Against Sunday Observance by Civil Law
By S. B. H.
That our forefathers clearly saw in Sunday laws an opposition to the spirit of the Revolution, is evident from the House report on Sunday Mails submitted March 4, 5, 1830, in which it is stated:—
“If the measure [Sunday Observance bill] recommended should be adopted, it would be difficult for human sagacity to foresee how rapid would be the succession, or how numerous the train of measures which follow, involving the dearest rights of all,—the rights of conscience. It is perhaps fortunate for our country that the proposition should have been made at this early period while the spirit of the Revolution yet existed in full vigor.”
And that our forefathers were following Christian principles when they refused to place the name of God in the Constitution is demonstrated in the House Judiciary Committee report of the Forty-third Congress, first session, in which it was stated:—
“That, upon examination even of the meager debates by the fathers of the republic in the convention which framed the Constitution, they find that the subject of this memorial was most fully and carefully considered, and then, in that convention, decided, after grave deliberation, to which the subject was entitled, that, as this country, the foundation of whose government they were then laying, was to be the home of the oppressed of all nations of the earth, whether Christian or pagan, and in full realization of the dangers which the union between church and state had imposed upon so many nations in the Old World, with great unanimity that it was inexpedient to put anything into the Constitution or frame of government which might be construed to be a reference to any religious creed or doctrine.
“And they further find that this decision was accepted by our Christian fathers with such great unanimity that in the amendments which were afterward proposed, in order to make the Constitution more acceptable to the nation, none has ever been proposed to the States by which this wise determination of the fathers has been attempted to be changed. Wherefore, your committee report that it is inexpedient to legislate upon the subject of the above memorial, and ask that they be discharged from the further consideration thereof, and that this report, together with the petition, be laid upon the table.”
S. B. H.
Christian Education
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
H. R. SALISBURY - - - Secretary
Christian Liberty
Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to the current history of the rights of conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL Secretary
S. B. HORTON Assistant Secretary
AN APPEAL FROM JAPAN.—
By F. H. DEVINNEY
Knowing not that “righteousness exalteth a nation,” and without knowledge of the “riches of his grace,” Japan seeks for the perishable treasures of earth, content to-day with a few baubles gained; but to-morrow, eager for more and greater, in feverish haste she passes, unseeing and unhearing, the eternal wealth of God’s truth. But a little band of workers among Japan’s sixty millions plead for men and means to help beat back the powers of evil, that the poor captives under chains of darkness may go free into the light and liberty of Christ. Who will come? Who will help us just now while the great opportunity to work for these poor souls, lingers? May God raise up stout hearts to come, and willing minds to give of their abundance, or by sacrifice, for Japan’s great need and for Christ’s sake.
F. H. DEVINNEY.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— The production of petroleum is said to be increasing in nearly all the great oil regions of the world.
— Jan. 12, 1912, has been fixed as the date of the new election for members of the German Imperial Reichstag.
— Ex-Sultan Abdul-Hamid’s jewels are to be sold this month in Paris. This is the first time, it is announced, that such a magnificent collection has ever come under the hammer.
— The Dutch Reformed Church of this country has a mission station at Bahrein in Arabia. Last year at this one point 1,100 Bibles were sold, nearly all of them in the Arabic language, and 93 per cent to Moslems.
— The Nicaraguan government has negotiated a temporary loan of $1,500,000 with a syndicate of American bankers, pending the final ratification of the Nicaraguan loan agreement convention, which is before the Senate.
— Hostile action against the present Turkish government is being contemplated by the military party in Turkey, who speak openly of violently expelling the men who exiled Abdul-Hamid and of trying to collect the real elements of the Ottoman empire instead of pleading for foreign intervention to prevent the empire from falling to pieces.
— A parade of the relatives and friends of the victims of the Triangle waist-factory fire disaster in New York City took place last week. It was intended as a protest against the conditions which made that tragedy possible, and which still exist in many places throughout the city.
— As an aftermath of the notorious Astor-Force marriage, the retirement from the ministry of the clergyman who performed the ceremony is announced. This action, which will have the emphatic indorsement of upholders of social purity, was the result of protests against the minister’s participation in the marriage, by his associates in the Congregational churches of Providence and by the public generally.
— About ten years ago the United States government sent back to China $13,000,000, money that had been set aside by the council of the nations as the amount of indemnity due this country on account of the “Boxer uprising.” The Chinese have put this fund to an extraordinary use. The income from it is to be devoted to the expense of educating young Chinese men in the universities of the United States. China is sending 100 students a year for five years, and thereafter for 29 years, 50 students. At the present time there are 800 Chinese students in this country.21
— On December 1, an international conference assembled at The Hague having for the purpose of securing international cooperation in the regulation and restriction of the opium traffic.
— Two hundred forty uncut diamonds are in the New York custom-house, and this week will be delivered to Thomas F. Ryan, the first and the least expected fruits of his loan of millions in money to King Leopold in 1906 for the Kongo Free State concession.
— The latest court decision regarding the practise of Christian Science, recently rendered by a New York magistrate, holds that a man has the right to believe that he can heal by the methods of that cult, but not the right to practise such methods for hire.
— The cholera has not been checked in Italy. The official report of the government for last week was 1,635 cases and 555 deaths; and, as is well known, this does not represent the seriousness of the situation. The worst reports come from Naples, Genoa, and Palermo.
— There was recently exhibited at the Olympia of London the greatest ship anchor that has ever been constructed. It was forged for the new giant steamer “Olympic” of the White Star line, and weighs fifteen tons. Twelve horses were required to draw it from the station to the exposition.
— A recent despatch from Rome states: “Shortly the Pope will publish an encyclical against the practises of spiritism. This important document, emphatically condemning dabbling in unknown forces, which is getting to be more and more common, is being suggested by the Congregation of the Secret Inquisition, which recently placed on the Index Expurgatorius numerous books dealing with spiritism.”
— A decided reaction from the recent favorable attitude of Japan toward Christianity is noted by observers in that country. The attempt of Japanese socialists to assassinate the emperor gave a great impetus to this reaction. We are told that the Japanese officials, hitherto tolerant of all religions, and not long ago contemplating the adoption of Christianity as the national religion, are to-day doing all in their power to discredit it.
— Professors Winkle, of Berlin, and Hogarth, of London, in their excavations at Boghaz-Keul, Syria, have just come upon thirteen clay slabs which indicate that a game somewhat like baseball was played 4,000 years ago. These slabs picture a game being played by a team of Hittites, the catchers wearing a perforated mask made of the dried shell of a gourd. The umpire was King Subbi-Luliman, who reigned in the eighteenth century B. C., and the amphitheater was full of men and women carrying fans. On some smaller tablets were found the rules of the game, and in a stone casket a sample ball and bat of the period. The center of the former was a whittled-out ball from the end of a sturgeon’s nose, which has all the resilience of rubber, and this wound around with a thread of native grass, and covered with camel’s hide; the bat was like the cricket-stick of our times, and made of gopherwood.
— Mixed juries of men and women having been tried with varying success in several of the woman-suffrage States, California, the newest recruit, has called the first juries made up entirely of women.
— Thomas A. Edison, the noted inventor, recently unfolded before President Taft a plan for campaigning that would enable him to be seen and heard by all the nation’s voters without absenting himself for a day from business at the White House. All that would be necessary, Mr. Edison explained to the President, would be for a man to go before an audience, make a speech on any subject which he chose, and the talking motion-picture machine would reproduce to audiences all over the country every gesture of the speaker, every word of his speech, and every shout of the crowd about him.
— That the Indian is favored more highly in the United States than the Negro, is the complaint made by President Thirkield, of Howard University, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. “While the appropriation for Indian schools last year, available, at most, for about one quarter of a million people, aggregated $1,430,000,” he says, “the total government appropriation looking to the training and equipment of a race of 10,000,000, on whom have been placed the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, was only about $100,000.” Dr. Thirkield asks for a congressional appropriation for an agricultural department of his institution, whose student enrolment last year represented 29 States and 11 foreign countries.
— The annual report of Royal E. Cabell, commissioner of internal revenue, just given out, makes several startling declarations. All records were broken in the past fiscal year in the production of alcoholic liquors. The smoking of opium is a wide-spread vice in this country, and opium “joints” exist in every city of considerable size. The double system of taxing oleomargarin is corrupting grocers, and gross frauds are being perpetrated on the butter-buying public. The internal revenue receipts last year were $322,526,299, the greatest in the history of the government. Corporations making returns under the new corporation tax law numbered 270,202, with an aggregate capital of $67,886,430,519. The aggregate net income to the stockholders was $3,360,250,642.
— The Italian government has denied a rumor that their fleet is about to blockade the Dardanelles, and as a consequence Italian newspapers are expressing discontent with a policy that limits the war to Tripolitania, and therefore can not injure Turkey in a vital part. The war is proving costly in both blood and money, and Italian enthusiasm is waning. A short time ago the Italian press was protesting vigorously against any form of interference from foreign powers, but its tone has changed. It is pointed out that Turkey is able to prolong the war only because Italy has confined hostilities to Africa, and the papers declare that Italy will be unable to maintain such an altruistic attitude indefinitely. Europe must intervene, they say, or Italy will be obliged to strike at more vital parts of the Turkish empire. It is to the interest of all the powers to avoid such a cataclysm as this action would precipitate in eastern Europe.
— District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, of New York, has begun a search for $42,000 hidden by the wrecker of the federal bank, in 1904. This sum was deposited under an assumed name in two safety-deposit vaults, where the money has remained since. The bank-wrecker went to prison, but kept his secret. He died in prison.
— Affairs in China are in great confusion. Neither the imperial authorities nor the rebels of various types are able to prevent acts of lawlessness, and cable despatches from Tientsin announce that Mr. Calhoun, the American Minister, has issued orders to all Americans in the interior to take up residence in the nearest treaty port. The nation seems to be breaking up into several factions, each of which wants to organize a republic of its own. The vast country south of the Yangtze River is irrevocably opposed to the Manchu rule, and yet there does not seem to be cohesion enough between the different sections for them to agree on any one thing. Several republics have already been proclaimed, but the people do not know how to proceed. One commentator says: “There is little hope of a general republic. The kingdom is too much like a building without good foundation. With poor means of defense, with no constitutional foundation and no political unity, it faces the dilemma of having either to try a general republic with poor material or to split into several antagonistic republics.” A strong, wise leader is the need just now; but with the present condition of panic and confusion, we know not what a day may bring forth.
Courage and the Conquest of Fear
By Henry van Dyke
I SUPPOSE a bird is the bravest creature that lives, in spite of its natural timidity. True courage is not incompatible with nervousness, and heroism does not mean the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.—Henry van Dyke.
Messages for the Week of Prayer
By F. B. ARMITAGE
From Zululand, South Africa, to our brethren assembled at the week of prayer meetings, greetings. Our courage is good, and we rejoice in the hope of seeing the work finished in this generation. Indians, as well as Zulus, in this field are pleading for help, but where are the helpers? Pray, brethren, and plead with the Lord to send us more laborers.
F. B. ARMITAGE.
FROM SIBERIA.— From Omsk, on the river Irtysh, the headquarters of the West Siberian Mission, Brother H. K. Loebsack sends a message for the week of prayer season, which has come to us in just fifteen days from the time of mailing:—
“The peace of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit to all the believers! We in West Siberia can thank God for many blessings daily bestowed. The work here seems to move slowly, and yet ever forward. I have now a number of letters in my possession, in which brethren and sisters plead that I, or some other worker, shall come to administer baptism, and to receive into the church precious souls who are waiting.
“A little group near the Chinese border have been praying unceasingly for a visit. Last summer I was at the meeting in Germany a portion of the time, and as our summers in Siberia are so short, I have not been able to make the trip, which requires a long journey by ship and then a thousand kilometers by wagon or sledge. In that region are two groups of our brethren, and next year I must visit them.
“There is also a church at Tobolsk calling for a visit, and another in the region of Turkestan; also in Tomsk and other little places to be reached by sledge journeys. From four places I have letters reporting people ready for baptism.
“I am planning soon, with the Lord’s help, to make one circuit that will require three months, and I desire mercies from our Heavenly Father for this journey. Our winters are very severe and long. We have but four workers in the great West Siberian field, and all of us have our hands full. From Siberia our brethren and sisters send their hearty greetings to the dear brethren in America at this annual prayer season.”
General Conference Council Action
By L. A. Hansen
THE report of the recent General Conference Council proceedings, as given in the REVIEW of November 16, regarding the “Ministry of Healing” campaign, showed the prevailing sentiment of the council toward that movement. The recommendations passed indicate the earnest consideration that was given that work, and are indicative of the urgency that should attend it, as expressed by a number of brethren present at the council.
Recognizing the fact that results have accompanied the efforts put forth, and that there is as great need as ever of the Sanitarium Relief campaign, the brethren discussed the question of what could and should be done to make the campaign more effective. All agreed that more vigorous effort and fuller co-operation were necessary. One after another said that if all would give this movement the same attention that is required to make other general plans successful, we should see it succeed also. Various officers and workers said they knew the work could be accomplished if determination was put into it. One brother of long experience said it would22take a “Heave, O heave!” on the part of all, and when this was given, the work would be speedily finished.
A committee was appointed to study plans for advancing the campaign more rapidly, and recommendations to this effect were presented and adopted. This action contemplates a union of effort such as we have not yet seen. The recommendations in themselves may not be more expressive than those we have had before. They certainly have no more power in themselves, as far as accomplishing their object is concerned, than any others. It remains for us, all of us, to carry them out. But this additional action of our brethren in council is witness of the urgent call that comes to all our people in this country to lend help in an important missionary relief movement.
L. A. HANSEN.
Medical Missionary Department
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
GEORGE THOMASON, M. D. — Secretary
L. A. HANSEN — Assistant Secretary
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Southeastern Union Conference
NOTICE is hereby given that the second biennial session of the Southeastern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, Graysville, Tenn., Jan. 8-18, 1912. Each local conference is entitled to one delegate, and one additional delegate for every fifty members. All delegates are requested to be present on the first day of the meeting.
CHAS. THOMPSON, President;
W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Southeastern Union Conference
Association
THE Southeastern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its meetings in connection with the Southeastern Union Conference (unincorporated) at Graysville, Tenn., Jan. 8-18, 1912, to elect officers, and transact such other business as may legally come before the association. The first meeting will be held January 11, at 3 P. M.
CHAS. THOMPSON, President;
W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Publications Wanted
THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent post-paid:—
Rudolph C. Panschow, Bay Minette, Ala., desires copies of the REVIEW AND HERALD, Signs of the Times, Watchman, Life and Health, and Liberty to use in missionary work.
Copies of our papers and magazines for general distribution are desired by D. W. Bennett, 1023 Rockton Ave., Rockford, Ill.
Mattie Hamilton Welch, of Stanle[y]ton, Va., desires clean copies, post-paid (either late or old numbers), of Life and Health, Youth's Instructor, and Our Little Friend to use in her mountain school work.
Clean copies of our papers, especially the REVIEW AND HERALD, Signs of the Times, Life Boat, Little Friend, Life and Health, Youth's Instructor, and Liberty, also tracts, will be appreciated by Charles Downey, Box 35, Rock Hall, Kent Co., Md.
A Department in Union College for the Blind
UNION COLLEGE is opening a department for the blind in connection with its regular work. This has been brought about through the fact that the General Conference work for the blind is located here, an excellent opportunity blind, the Christian Record, is published in this place. It is possible to educate blind students in connection with those who see, to good advantage. There will be special work offered to this class of students, and special classes formed, teaching them to read the print for the blind.
There are excellent schools for the blind scattered throughout the country, but the Bible and its truth for this time are not taught in them. Union College can teach no more, by way of learning the systems of reading and of work adapted to their condition, than can these State schools, but it can give them an education in the gospel work for this time; and inasmuch as our department for the blind is located here, an excellent opportunity is offered to our blind people to put themselves thoroughly in touch with this feature of our great work.
It is possible that some of our people may know of blind persons not of our faith whom they could induce to come here, or whom they could assist, and so lead such ones to a knowledge of the third angel's message. We shall be glad to correspond with any with reference to this work.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
British Columbia Association
A SPECIAL session of the British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Vancouver, Dec. 29, 1911, at 2 P. M., to consider the advisability of selling the school farm at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia. According to the by-laws of the association, the delegates who attended the last session compose the constituency till their successors are duly elected for the next annual session. If any vacancies have occurred, the churches should see that appointments are made, so that a full delegation can be sent. The ratio of representation is one delegate for the church, and one additional delegate for every ten members.
J. G. WALKER, President;
ANDREW RADDELL, Secretary.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Special Effort for Holiday Week
By L. A. Hansen
“We would recommend that the week following the week of prayer, December 18-25, be set apart by all our people for placing ‘Ministry of Healing’ before the people, and we would recommend that during this time other matters, as far as possible, be laid aside, and our efforts given to this work.”
This is one of the recommendations passed by the recent General Conference Council. It will be noted that the brethren recognized the special opportunity that is given just before Christmas for selling our excellent gift book. This book was given by its author for the relief of needy institutions, the spirit of giving enters into its publication and general distribution, time and labor are given to its introduction and sale by our people everywhere, and the book itself is a very appropriate gift volume. Being worth more than its price, it will appeal to many as a suitable present for some friend. The time will be an especially favorable one for the sale of the book, as people will have money to spend, and will be looking for something to buy.
It was also thought that this week, coming at the close of the week of prayer, would find our people in a good spirit for engaging in the excellent missionary work of selling “Ministry of Healing.” The Harvest Ingathering work will have given acquaintance with a number of persons to whom we can present this work, and who may be sufficiently interested to give ready hearing.
If we improve the opportunity thus offered us in this special effort, we ought to be able to dispose of many books, and thus help in making up the record of the year that is nearly gone. Not much is required of each individual, but an immense amount of good can be accomplished by the cooperation of all. Begin now to plan for that week’s effort.
L. A. HANSEN.
Christian Faithfulness in Every Calling
By Fletcher
ALL the faithful are not called to be ministers, and all ministers are not appointed, like Paul, to establish new churches; but it is maintained that all Christians, in their different states, are to be filled with the piety of that apostle. If the most inconsiderable trader among us is required to be as just in his shop as a judge on his tribunal; and if the lowest volunteer in an army is called to show as much valor in his humble post as a general in his more exalted station, the same kind of reasoning may be applied to the Christian church.—Fletcher.
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WANTED.—Gentleman nurse, capable of taking charge of bath-room and nursing. Address Attleboro Sanitarium, Attleboro, Mass.
SPECIAL until January first: 100 Bible Mottoes delivered, $3.65; 300, $10; 50 cards free with a $10 order. Highest Grade Cooking Oil (delivered): 5 gallons, $4; 30 gallons, $23. Address Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa.
COPYING WANTED.—I wish to do typewriting for our own people. Can furnish correct copies at such a low figure it will pay you to send your manuscripts to me. References from General Conference. Address Vida V. Young, Siloam Springs, Ark.
FOR SALE.—Forty acres, twenty-five in cultivation; four-room house; three miles from Mercedes, Tex. Canal through land. Land belongs to estate; very anxious to sell. Price of land, $125 an acre. Send stamp for answer. W. D. Dortch, Keene, Tex.
LIBERAL OFFER.—Best Cottonseed-Oil for all cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutritious, fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guaranteed free from animal fats and all impurities: 5 gallons, $3.25; 10 gallons, $6.25; ½ barrel, $17.60. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
SABBATH-KEEPING printer, familiar with make-up, can find steady employment with Westerly (R. I.) Sun. Daily newspaper and job printing-office, owned by Seventh-day Baptist, closed Sabbath and open Sunday. Apply promptly. Geo. H. Utter, Westerly, R. I.
FOR SALE.—Fifty-acre school farm of the Eufola Agricultural and Mechanical Academy. The school building will be donated and deeded to the conference. An opportunity to take up self-supporting school work, as the founder feels called to take up work in another field. Address Eufola Academy, Eufola, N. C.
