THE annual camp-meeting and conference for North Carolina will be held at Gastonia, instead of High Point, Aug. 15-25, 1912. This will accommodate our people in the western part of the State better than High Point. High Point was first chosen because no good location farther west had been found. Gastonia is in a new field, where many books have been sold, but no meetings held, by our people. It is a prosperous town, which, with its suburbs, contains 8,000 or 10,000 inhabitants, and is the metropolis of Gaston County.
A full committee, in counsel with the president and the field agent of the union conference, were unanimous in the final decision to have the meeting at Gastonia. It is located on the main line of the Southern Railway, twenty-two miles west of Charlotte, and on the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad, about forty miles south of Hickory. Thus it is convenient of access from nearly all parts of the State.22Those from Asheville and farther west should ticket to Gastonia via Spartanburg, S. C. Those who go from Watauga County by railroad should go via Hickory over the Carolina and Northwestern, also all who live in the vicinity of Hickory. All who live in the east should go via Charlotte. Those who go over the Southern will go through to Gastonia without change, while those who go over the Seaboard Air Line will have to change at Charlotte, taking either the Southern or the interurban electric to Gastonia. The latter runs hourly; fare, fifty-five cents, the same as on the Southern.
The camp-ground is well known as the soldiers' camp, and is less than half a mile from the union depot of the Southern, and the Carolina and Northwestern, and about the same distance from the interurban electric. Trains from the east and from the north arrive in Gastonia both forenoon and afternoon. The camp is nicely shaded, and very conveniently located for our own people and for the people of the city and its suburbs.
There will be a dining-tent on the ground, and good accommodation for teams. Those desiring rooms should let us know, and we shall endeavor to secure them. Tents should be ordered at once. Address the writer.
The first meeting of the conference will be held at 10 A. M., Friday, August 16. We urge all to be on time, and to remain till the close of the meeting.
M. H. BROWN.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By Editor
Camp-Meetings for 1912
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Northern New England. . . . Aug. 21 to Sept. 1
New York, Utica . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 23 to Sept. 1
Maine, Norridgewock. . . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 8
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Maritime, Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia. . Sept. 3-10
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
East Kansas, Emporia . . . . . . . . Aug. 8-18
Colorado, Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25
Nebraska, College View. . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
South Missouri, Clinton. . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 9
North Missouri, Hamilton, Aug. 28 to Sept. 8
West Kansas, Salina . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 5-15
West Colorado, Delta . . . . Sept. 26 to Oct. 6
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
Ohio, Springfield . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25
West Pennsylvania, Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
Virginia, Richmond . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Southern Illinois, Greenup, July 29 to Aug. 5
Indiana, Kokomo . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-11
East Michigan, Bay City . . . . . . Aug. 12-18
Northern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 19-25
North Michigan, Traverse City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 26 to Sept. 1
West Michigan, Kalamazoo . . . . Sept. 3-11
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Southern California . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-18
Arizona, Phoenix . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 17-27
SOUTHEASTERN UNION
Georgia, Barnesville . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4
South Carolina, Columbia . . . . . . Aug. 1-11
North Carolina, Gastonia . . . . . Aug. 15-25
Cumberland Conference, Sweetwater, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
Florida, Ocala . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 3-14
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Mississippi, Jackson . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4
Alabama, Fairhope . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11
Kentucky, Elizabethtown . . . . . . Aug. 8-18
Tennessee River, Camden. . . . . Aug. 15-25
Mississippi, Brookhaven (colored) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 30 to Sept. 8
Alabama (colored) . . . . . . Sept. 27 to Oct. 5
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
North Texas, Cleburne. . . . July 25 to Aug. 4
West Texas, Abilene . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11
New Mexico, Fort Sumner . . . . Aug. 15-25
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Northern New England Conference Association
By F. W. Stray, President; D. K. Royer, Secretary
THE next annual session of the Northern New England Conference Association will be held in Manchester, N. H., at the time of the regular conference session and camp-meeting, Aug. 21, 1912. The first meeting will be held at 9 A. M., Friday, Aug. 23, 1912. The purpose of this meeting is to elect a board of trustees, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association.
All accredited delegates to the regular session of the Northern New England Conference are entitled to vote on all questions coming before this association.
F. W. STRAY, President; D. K. ROYER, Secretary.
Nebraska Conference
The thirty-fifth annual session of the Nebraska Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at College View, Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of other conference business. The first meeting of the session will be held at 10:30 A. M., Friday, August 23. Each church is entitled to one delegate without regard to members, and to one additional delegate for each fifteen members. The churches should elect their delegates at once, and send the names to the secretary.
J. W. CHRISTIAN, President;
PEARL E. JONES, Secretary.
Nebraska Conference Association
The annual meeting of the Nebraska Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground at College View, Nebr., Monday, Aug. 26, 1912, at 9:30 A. M., for the purpose of electing its board of trustees and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
J. W. Christian, President;
Anna M. Peterson, Secretary.
Northern New England Conference
By F. W. Stray; D. K. Royer
The fiftieth annual session of what was originally the Vermont Conference, but which, since the addition of New Hampshire, is known as the Northern New England Conference, will be held at the time of our camp-meeting at Manchester, N. H., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to one additional delegate for every ten members. Let every church at once attend to the matter of electing its delegates to this conference session, sending the names to the conference secretary, Bellows Falls, Vt.
F. W. STRAY, President;
D. K. ROYER, Secretary.
West Kansas Conference
By N. T. Sutton, President; E. Harris, Secretary
The second annual session of the West Kansas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Salina, Kans., Sept. 5-15, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of business pertaining to the conference. The first business meeting will be held at 9 A. M., Friday, September 6. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate regardless of the number of members, and to one for every fifteen members or major part thereof. Let every church attend promptly to the election of its delegates, and request the delegates to be present at the first meeting.
N. T. SUTTON, President; E. HARRIS, Secretary.
West Kansas Conference Association
THE next annual meeting of the West Kansas Seventh-day Adventist Conference Association, a legal corporation of the State of Kansas, will be held at Salina, Kans., in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting, Sept. 5-15, 1912. The first meeting of the association will be held at 10 A. M., Monday, September 9, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such business as may properly belong to said association. The delegates of this association are the regularly accredited delegates to the West Kansas Conference.
N. T. SUTTON, President;
E. HARRIS, Secretary.
New York Conference
The seventh annual session of the New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Utica, N. Y., Aug. 23 to Sept. 1, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the conference at that time.
The first business meeting of the session will be held at 9 A. M., August 22. Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization, without regard to membership, and to one additional delegate for every ten members.
W. H. HOLDEN, President;
F. N. JOHNSON, Secretary.
New York Conference Association
The annual meeting of the constituents of the New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, will convene on the camp-ground at Utica, N. Y., at 9 A. M., Monday, Aug. 26, 1912, for the election of a board of trustees for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the session.
W. H. HOLDEN, President;
F. N. JOHNSON, Secretary.
South Missouri Camp-Meeting
By L. W. Terry
IN order to secure the help of the General German laborers at our camp-meeting, we have found it necessary to change the date from August 22 to September 1, to August 29 to September 9, just one week later.
Let all take notice of the change of the date, as it will give a little longer time to prepare to attend. Remember the date, August 29 to September 9.
L. W. TERRY.
Iowa Sanitarium and Benevolent Association
THE annual meeting of the Iowa Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will convene on the camp-ground at Boone, Iowa, at 10 A. M., Aug. 22, 1912, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before this association.
M. N. CAMPBELL, President;
C. W. HEALD, Secretary.
Iowa Conference
THE forty-ninth session of the Iowa Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground at Boone, Iowa, at 7:45 P. M., Aug. 21, 1912, and will continue with daily sessions until the business is completed. Officers are to be elected for the ensuing year, and plans adopted for the carrying forward of the Lord's work in this field. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate, and to an additional delegate for each fifteen of its membership. A general representation of our churches is greatly desired.
M. N. CAMPBELL, President;
FLORA V. DORCAS, Secretary.
North Missouri Conference Association
THE North Missouri Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a legal corporation of the State of Missouri, will hold its annual meeting in connection with the annual camp-meeting and conference at Hamilton, Mo., Aug. 28 to Sept. 8, 1912. The first meeting of the association is called for Monday, September 2, at 9 A. M. Association officers will be elected, and such other business attended to as may properly come before the association.
A. R. OGDEN, President;
JAS. COCHRAN, Secretary.
North Missouri Conference and Camp-Meeting
By A. R. Ogden
The fourth annual session of the North Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Hamilton, Mo., Aug. 28 to Sept. 8, 1912.
The first business meeting of the conference session will be held Friday morning, August 30, at nine o'clock.
Each church should be fully represented by its duly elected delegates.
Conference officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as should properly come before the conference.
The meeting will be held in the Hamilton City Park.
Free tent rent to all who attend the camp-meeting.
The park is only two blocks from depot.
Let every Sabbath-keeper in our conference territory plan to attend.
A. R. OGDEN, President.
The Seventh-Day Adventist Association of Colorado
The first meeting of the next session of the Seventh-day Adventist Association of Colorado will convene at Rocky Mountain Lake Park, Denver, Colo., Monday, Aug. 19, 1912, at 9 A. M. This meeting is called for the election of trustees, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the association.
C. R. KITE, President;
G. M. ALWAY, Secretary.
Cumberland Conference Association
By P. G. Stanley; R. L. Williams
The Cumberland Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (a corporation of Tennessee) will hold its annual meeting at Sweetwater, Tenn., in connection with the camp-meeting, Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, 1912. The first meeting will be held Tuesday, August 27. This meeting is for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
P. G. STANLEY, President;
R. L. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Business Notices
By Editor
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
No advertisements of "agents wanted," or "partners wanted," and no "promotion" nor "colonization" enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—
Conditions
Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him "known" to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.
We open no accounts for advertizing, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of two dollars will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost five cents.
No discount for several insertions.
Special Bible Mottoes, more new beauties just out: 50, $2.50; 100, $4.50; 300, $10. Post-Cards: 40, 20c. Also Vegetable Cooking Oil: 5 gal., $4.25; 10 gal., $8.15. Hampton Art Co., Nevada, Iowa.
For Sale.—40 acres of good land, ½ mile north and 1¾ miles east of Covert, Mich.; 7-room house; barn, chicken-coop. Land good for hay, grain, and small fruit. Price, $2,500. Church-school privileges. Address Ernest Struble, Covert, Mich.
Cooking Oil.—Best quality. Delicate flavor. Purely vegetable. Guaranteed. Extensively used by best cooks. Five gal., $4.15; 10 gal., $7.90; 8 1-gal. cans, $7.36; 6 5-gal. cans, $22.50; 30-gal. bbl., $21.90; 50-gal. bbl., $36. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
For Sale.—Ten-acre ranch; good house, barn, and small orchard. Half-mile from Loveland, the garden of Colorado. Good church and conference academy near. For any one desiring to locate in Colorado for health or school, this is a bargain. Address Meade MacGuire, Loveland, Colo.
For Sale.—Twenty-thousand-capacity saw and planing mill, in good condition; 4,000,000 feet of yellow fir timber; Tacoma logging engine, with 8,500 feet of new wire rope; 170 acres of land. Price, $8,000. Will sell all or part. Located near Royal Academy. Have also more land that we will sell in tracts to suit purchaser. Address Owens Lumber Company, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
North Michigan Conference Association
By J. J. IRWIN, President; S. E. KELLMAN
The tenth annual session of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Traverse City, Mich., in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting, Aug. 26 to Sept. 1, 1912. The first meeting will be called August 27, at 10 A. M., for the election of officers, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the association. All duly accredited delegates to the North Michigan Conference are delegates to this association.
J. J. IRWIN, President; S. E. KELLMAN, Secretary.
East Michigan Conference Association Meeting
THE annual meeting of the East Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the Bay County fairground at Bay City, Mich., in connection with the annual conference, Aug. 12-18, 1912. The purpose of this meeting is to elect a board of trustees, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association. The first meeting will be held Wednesday, August 14, at 10:30 A. M.
All regularly elected delegates to the East Michigan Conference (unincorporated) are members of the East Michigan Conference Association, and, as such, are entitled to vote on all questions coming before the association.
H. H. BURKHOLDER, President;
FRANK HINER, Secretary.
Indiana Conference
The thirty-ninth annual session of the Indiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting in Patterson's Grove, Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 5-11, 1912. The first meeting will be called at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 6. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to one additional delegate for each fifteen members. This meeting is for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. A full delegation is desired from all our churches.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
H. H. RANS, Secretary.
The Indiana Association of Seventh-day Adventists
By O. Montgomery; W. A. Young
THE first meeting of the regular annual session of the Indiana Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the campground at Kokomo, Ind., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1912, at 10:30 A. M., in connection with the Indiana camp-meeting. At this meeting members of the board of directors will be elected, and such other business transacted as may come before the association. The legal voters of this association are the regularly appointed delegates from the different churches to the Indiana Conference, the members of the executive committee, and such other persons as are employed by the Indiana Conference.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
W. A. YOUNG, Secretary.
The Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association
NOTICE is hereby given that the first meeting of the regular annual session of the Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will be called at 11 A. M., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1912, in connection with the camp-meeting in Patterson's Grove, Kokomo, Ind. At this meeting members of the board of directors will be elected to fill the places of those whose terms of office expire, and such other business will be transacted as may come before the association. The legal voters of this association are the regularly appointed delegates from the different churches to the Indiana Conference, the members of the executive committee, and such other persons as are employed by the Indiana Conference.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
F. A. LOOP, Secretary.
Oklahoma Conference Association
THE annual session of the Oklahoma Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) will be held in Oklahoma City, in connection with the camp-meeting and conference of the Oklahoma Conference, Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, 1912. The first meeting of the association will be held on Thursday, August 29, at 9 A. M., for the transaction of such business as should properly come before the association. Each delegate to the conference is a member of the association.
DAVID VOTH, President;
W. L. ADAMS, Secretary.
Ohio Conference Association
By E. K. Slade; J. J. Marietta
The Ohio Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a corporation of the State of Ohio, will hold its annual meeting in connection with the camp-meeting at Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 15-25, 1912. The first meeting will be held at 10:30 A. M., Friday, August 16. The purpose of this meeting is to elect a board of trustees, and to transact such other business as may come before the association at that time. All accredited delegates to the Ohio Conference are delegates to this association.
E. K. SLADE, President;
J. J. MARIETTA, Secretary.
To Visitors in Atlantic City and Its Vicinity
By George W. Spies
For the benefit of those who contemplate visiting our seashore resort, the writer would say that the church in Atlantic City meets in the G. A. R. Hall, on New York Avenue, between Atlantic and Pacific Avenues, holding its Sabbath-school and church service at 10 and 11 A. M., respectively.
The believers in Pleasantville, five miles distant from Atlantic City, convene for Sabbath-school and church service at 2:15 and 3:30 P. M., respectively, in Adams's Hall, Main Street and Woodlawn Avenue. All visitors are cordially invited to attend.
GEORGE W. SPIES, Pastor.
Pleasantville, N. J.
Nurses Wanted
The Paradise Valley Sanitarium Training-School for Missionary Nurses desires twenty consecrated young men and women who are willing to devote their lives to the Master's service.
This school affords a most thorough and up-to-date training in all departments. Its location is ideal. Its climate is the very best, warm and sunny in winter, and cool in summer. New commodious home for nurses just completed. Class begins Oct. 1, 1912. Write at once for illustrated booklet. Address Superintendent of Training-School, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal.
Obituaries
FORD.—William F. Ford died while in an automobile, alone on the public highway, June 21, 1912, aged 72 years. He was married to Martha Ammerman in 1863. Brother Ford accepted present truth in 1907, and held to this faith until his death. His wife and seven children survive, but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. A large concourse of neighbors and friends attended the funeral service, at which the writer presented some of the comforting promises of God's Word.
W. A. YOUNG.
BURDICK.—Herbert A. Burdick was born in Cortland County, New York, Feb. 18, 1855, and died in El Monte, Cal., June 5, 1912. He had been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for about twenty-five years, and for the last twenty-three years of his life held up the standard of truth faithfully in the community where he died. His wife, one son, and one daughter are left to mourn. The Methodist church, where the funeral service was held, was crowded with his friends and neighbors in testimony of their esteem.
B. E. FULLMER.
A Correction and Educational Report
By Editor
WE desire always to be absolutely fair in our representation of others, whether they are those in accord with our principles, or those who stand in opposition. The spirit of Christ and of truth is the spirit of honesty and fair dealing. We differ widely and radically with our brethren of the Catholic Church. Sometimes we have felt called upon to utter plain and pointed truths regarding their principles of belief. We would not, however, knowingly place them in a wrong light, nor credit them with uttering sentiments that they have not expressed. In our issue of July 18, page 9, under the heading "The Spirit of Rome," we copied from an exchange an extract purported to have been taken from the Catholic World of New York. We learned later, from what seems to be creditable sources, that this extract never appeared in the columns of the Catholic World, nor so far as we know in any Catholic journal. In justice to the World we are glad to make this correction. We might add, however, in all candor as well as charity, that statements voicing the sentiments of the extract in question are not strangers to the columns of Catholic literature.
PROF. H. R. SALISBURY, secretary of the General Conference Educational Department, writes of the excellent meetings that he is having on the Pacific Coast, particularly at Loma Linda, and at Portland with the teachers of the two Pacific unions. A report of the meeting of the members of the Educational Department at Loma Linda will appear next week.
The Noon-Hour Prayer
By Editor
It has been suggested at different times by some of our brethren and sisters that we publish in the REVIEW special requests for prayer, also that a particular time be set apart for remembering these requests at the throne of grace. We have decided to do this, and will publish in the future, as may seem to be advisable from time to time, special requests for prayer which may be made by our readers. This will include requests for prayer for the sick, for the unconverted, or for any who may be in special need or difficulty. No names or addresses will be published. The requests must be plainly and directly stated. Kindly do not write long letters. Make your requests short and simple.
We suggest that the noon hour be made the special time of prayer for presenting these petitions before the Lord. The psalmist says, "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." It was customary for the psalmist three times daily to kneel down before the Lord and present to him his requests. The noon hour was one of these stated periods. Daniel "kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God." Surely if these busy men of God could take time from their duties to engage in three stated periods of prayer, it is not too much for us. If they needed to seek God's help in that way, surely we need his help as greatly, and it is appropriate that we should take one of these hours—the midday hour—for presenting before God special requests in behalf of our friends.
It is written of the patriarch Job, "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends." In remembering others, enlargement of heart will come to us; and in seeking God's blessing for others, we ourselves shall be blessed in return. These requests for prayer will be published in connection with our Home department. Address requests to the Editor of the REVIEW AND HERALD.
A Present Need
By William Ambrose Spicer
THE mission fields call insistently for evangelists. Young men are wanted, who have had experience in the conferences in preaching and teaching the message that wins souls and builds up Sabbath-keeping companies. Youth is a qualification in these particular calls, because there are languages to be learned. The Mission Board must send out this autumn ten or fifteen such workers; and a much larger number ought to be under provisional appointment, securing a few months of special training in readiness to go a little later.
Will not conference presidents look over the lists and report a few more names? Again and again they have done it; and the conferences are true as steel in sacrificing for the mission fields. We ask the churches to pray that God may indicate workers who should respond now, and fill their places with recruits who will keep the home work growing.
More young men of good experience in the truth and work, who have finished their ordinary school life, ought to be in the Foreign Mission Seminary this year, studying the calls with the Mission Board to find just the right place, and seeking the definite preparation for it, or in the short medical evangelistic course which Loma Linda provides.
The Lord's providence is commandingly and entreatingly manifested to us in the mission fields. In the new China just now hundreds of souls beyond the reach of our present staff are pressing into the light, and calling in vain for teachers. The Mission Board desires to keep in touch with workers who are waiting only to know that God calls them to go.
W. A. SPICER,
Secretary.
Evangelistic Work in Chicago
By William T. Knox
The special attention of the denomination has of late years been directed to the evangelization of the heathen lands and to the large cities of the United States. In both of these great fields, encouraging success is attending the efforts put forth, but the opportunities are practically unlimited. So much so, and so urgent are they, that the workers are sometimes tempted to become discouraged with their limitations in contrast with their task. With the opening of the present season, the General Conference Committee has planned to assist the Northern Illinois Conference in an aggressive work in Chicago, by securing the services of Evangelist K. C. Russell, who has been joined by other evangelical workers. The General Conference will also furnish financial assistance to the extent of $3,500. It is expected that these provisions, with the blessing of the Lord, will result in greatly strengthening our work in this city. W. T. Knox.
Signs of the Times Circulation
By Editor
In a letter from Brother G. C. Hoskin, circulation manager of the monthly Signs of the Times, he says of their large July edition: "We reached the fifty-five-thousand mark, which is several thousand better than any previous record of the magazine, and we ran short five thousand copies on the Canadian edition. The August number is now selling rapidly, and we fear that we have not printed a sufficient number to meet the demands."
Brother DeVinney Sails for Japan
LAST week Brother Fred A. DeVinney, of South Lancaster Academy, sailed from San Francisco for Japan, to engage in work in the office of the Japan Mission.
Memorial Sketch of Elder R. M. Kilgore
By Editor
ALL will read with sorrow, but with interest, the sketch of the life and death of Elder R. M. Kilgore, from the pen of Elder S. N. Haskell. We have in hand also a testimonial of Brother Kilgore's life-work from the pen of Elder George I. Butler, who was intimately associated with our deceased brother. This will appear next week. While we do not ordinarily devote so much space in our overcrowded columns to sketches of this character, we feel justified in doing so in this instance. These are the testimonials of two aged and faithful pioneers to a devoted brother who was closely identified with the early beginnings and progress of this movement.
Thirty-Two Baptized in Honan
By Editor
WE must share at once an item of good news which comes from Elder F. A. Allum, who reports a general meeting in Honan, China. The report in full will appear later. At the close of the meeting, thirty-two persons were baptized. "Of these thirty-two," he says, "only seven had previously been members of other missions." The Lord is wonderfully pouring out the spirit of inquiry upon the heathen of China. Our brethren there call pitifully for more helpers to care for souls coming into the light. Pray for reapers.
