p. 20 | Review and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 46. (9/16/1915)

The Oklahoma Camp Meeting

By H. H. Hamilton

The Oklahoma camp meeting was held this year in Oklahoma City, on the same spot where the camp was pitched three years ago. There were approximately twelve hundred of our own people in attendance, and the average audience at the evening services numbered about fifteen or twenty hundred.

Our work in Oklahoma City is quite well known on account of the active work of our church there, and the further fact that our annual encampment has been held there several times.

We were especially pleased to meet so many excellent young people. At every service the young people’s tent was crowded to overflowing. At a consecration service conducted by Elder F. W. Paap in the large tent on the last Sabbath, when he asked how many of the young people would signify, by standing, their willingness to go anywhere the Lord would have them go, or do anything the Lord would have them do, nearly two hundred arose, and were asked to take their places on the platform and face the congregation. Elder Paap then addressed some very well-chosen remarks to them and to the parents, and pointed out their duty to take advantage of every opportunity to make themselves efficient workers in the cause of the Master. At the close of the meeting, about thirty-eight were baptized. Many of these young people will enroll as students in Keene Academy the coming year.

The labors of Dr. P. T. Magan, and Elders F. W. Paap, G. F. Watson, J. H. Schilling, G. P. Gaede, H. Shultz, and G. F. Haffner, were greatly appreciated. These brethren were ably assisted by the local and union conference laborers.

Four newspapers of the city carried advertisements of the services, and also contributed liberal space for synopses of the sermons.

The reports of the secretaries showed that the conference is in good financial and spiritual condition. About six thousand dollars was raised for the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. At the close of one of the meetings 1,700 copies of “The World’s Crisis,” 1,755 of “The Vatican and the War,” and $250 worth of tracts were sold.

Visitors from the city manifested great interest in the evening services, and our large pavilion was filled, and the space around it taken up by people in automobiles and carriages. Every one seemed desirous of hearing the opinions of Seventh-day Adventists concerning the European war in the light of prophecy. We hope for much good as a result of this great meeting.

H. H. HAMILTON.

Missouri Camp Meeting

By J. S. Rouse

THE Missouri Conference has just enjoyed the blessings of another camp meeting, for which we feel very grateful to the Lord.

For three years we had very dry weather in Missouri, with not enough rainfall to mature the crops, and the past year has been one of storm and flood; but through it all God has blessed his people. The first ten months of this year show $2,000 more tithe paid in than was paid during the twelve months of last year. We have had eight tent companies in the field, and 150 have been added to our membership. Our brethren are of good courage. They are putting their trust in God, and are looking for a still greater work to be done next year.

The Spirit of the Lord was present in a marked manner at the camp meeting. At the very beginning of the meeting, a spirit of confession showed itself, and almost all were led by the Spirit of God to reconsecrate themselves to the Lord and his service. The last Sabbath of the meeting ten were baptized. We ask an interest in the prayers of all God's people, that we may have wisdom to carry on his work in a way that he can approve and bless. J. S. Rouse.

Arkansas Camp Meeting

By F. W. Paap

ANOTHER annual feast of tabernacles for this interesting and fruitful field is in the past. The camp meeting and conference were held at Hot Springs this year. The location was good—quite central and of very easy access to the public. Everything was in readiness in good time, and the weather was excellent throughout.

The attendance of our people was small, but the blessings of the Lord were enjoyed to the full. From the very beginning there was manifest an earnest spirit on the part of all, and from day to day there was a continual drawing nearer to God. The response to the call for greater activity on the part of every member in soul-winning activities was very encouraging. For the size of the meeting the sales of literature were excellent.

We not only received instructions on practical home missionary work, but we had some actual field work. Careful plans were laid, and with invitations in one hand and tracts in the other, nearly every home was visited. This resulted in greatly increasing our congregations. The large tent was full to overflowing every night. Many of the residents of Hot Springs came forward at the close of the last service, and gave their names and addresses with the request for more of our literature. It was the plan of the conference to supply these with the weekly Signs.

The reports from the different departments showed growth. We believe that the coming year will see great things accomplished in Arkansas for God.

During the camp meeting the conference shortage on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund was made up by the offerings taken for foreign missions.

Elder W. E. Baxter was reelected president, and C. J. Dart was chosen conference home missionary secretary. The meeting closed with all of good courage, and with a determination to do more than ever before in the winning of precious souls.

F. W. PAAP.

Power of Newspapers Demonstrated

By W. L. Burgan

Several more interesting testimonials on the newspaper work have recently been received, indicating that our workers are seeing the benefits of using this agency for the heralding of the truth.

Elder A. S. Booth, who closed a long series of meetings in Ogden, Utah, the latter part of August, has had a remarkable experience in that city. In a letter sent August 26, he tells of his success, which is unusual when one considers the fact that the town is dominated by the Mormon Church. He says:—

“The two papers have printed for us during the time of the meetings 117 articles, averaging eleven and one-half inches each. The amount of free space has been 1,420 inches. The influence of the newspaper work has been more than we can know. The editor of the Standard told Mrs. Booth yesterday that the newspaper articles had done a wonderful amount of good. He also commended us for not attacking the people, but saying what we had to say in a positive way. Another editor of the same paper said that it was the first time in the history of the paper that they have given any evangelistic effort so much publicity.

“One of our sisters, who went to the office of the Examiner, told those in charge that she wished the paper because of the sermons from the tent that appeared in it. She was told that the paper would print the reports as long as we would send them. This paper, which is controlled by Mormons, was the one that I had a little difficulty with at first, but it has done the best by us, some of the articles running over a column in length.

“So far thirty-three have signed the covenant to keep the Sabbath. Some have been baptized, and added to the church. Others will follow later.”

A worker in Alabama has done well through his newspaper efforts, which he describes as follows:—

“It may interest you to know that I have just closed a very successful series of meetings in the city of Mobile, and the public press was of much help in securing the success.

“I had no trouble in getting the daily papers to publish synopses of my sermons and announcements of a general nature, the reading of which was one of the causes of such large crowds attending my meetings this summer.

“It has pleased the Lord to place the public press at our disposal. Let us use it in the proclamation of this great message.”

A worker in Colorado has recently run a three months’ series of articles through one of the papers in his city. Concerning the value of their publication he says: “From these we received many inquiries, and heard many favorable expressions on the war question and the coming of the Lord. Many persons who follow these articles admit that we have the truth. Eternity alone will reveal what the result of our efforts will be.”

An enthusiastic word has come from a worker in Florida, as follows: “I am having great success in my tent effort here, and attribute it to newspaper publicity. I do not sermonize in the newspaper columns, but give plain news. We have gathered out a nice band of believers, and are now negotiating for the purchase of a building.”

The two brethren who remained in Charlottesville, Va., to bind off the interest that developed during the camp meeting of the Virginia Conference, are meeting with success in proclaiming the message through the daily newspaper of that university town. During the camp meeting the editor gave a liberal amount of space for the reports, and in consequence scores of strangers attended the evening meetings. The interest was so pronounced that the two brethren who remained there planned to hold a series of meetings lasting several weeks. A letter from one of these workers says: “The paper prints all we take to it, and seems glad to get the reports. The interest is good and prospects bright. There are more in attendance Sunday nights than the tent will hold, and the other nights from one hundred to three hundred attend. Some of the best people in town are interested. We hold Sunday afternoon meetings with good interest. The preachers are doing their part against us. We feel something like Paul when he wrote 1 Cor. 16:9: ‘For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.’”

One of our ministers in Minnesota says: “Our Sunday night sermons are regularly reported, and we get very good treatment. When I held a few special services at Superior, Wis., I first saw the newspaper men, then put an ‘ad.’ in the paper, and got everything I wanted in the news line. When I spoke at Moose Lake and Cloquet, Minn., I received the same treatment, although I never advertised in their papers. I find there is a way to get results.

“Several of our new converts were first attracted to us through reading the daily reports. Other outside people who come in to special services, say, ‘Every word of that ought to be in the paper.’ Of course I do not make my reports too lengthy, for when they are ‘cut’ some of the pithy part is sometimes left out. So I just put in the gist. Since I have been advertising in the daily, the Catholic Church has recently used a two-column, five-inch display ‘ad.’ for noon lectures at Lyceum Theater. I never fail to report my sermons wherever I deliver an address. It certainly pays,

and I as an aggressive city evangelist have come to consider the reporting to the press in these days as a necessary part of my work.”

We hope that others who have been backward in using the newspapers will take courage, and help to spread the message through this agency.

W. L. BURGAN.

Medical Missionary Department

By L. A. H.

W. A. RUBLE, M. D. . . . General Secretary

L. A. HANSEN . . . Assistant Secretary

H. W. MILLER, M. D. . . . N. Am. Div. Secretary

Uniformity in Sanitarium Work

OUR Medical Department is now working out some plans for standardizing various phases of sanitarium work. The matter has been under consideration for some time by correspondence. It received attention at our last medical conventions in a way to give it definite recognition. Reference to its presentation at that time will serve to present the question and to indicate the reception it received from our workers in council.

Dr. H. W. Miller called attention to the five-and-ten-cent store syndicates and the Child’s restaurant system as examples in uniform methods of operating. He spoke of the cooperation in certain lines seen in our own educational and publishing work, and spoke for a closer affiliation of our sanitarium interests. Many

advantages were pointed out as possible through an organized system of sanitariums. Greater satisfaction to patients would result from having similar methods in service. Economy could be secured.

Some things pointed out as subject to uniform treatment were the reception of patients, rates, discounts, history taking, prescriptions, number of treatments given daily and their general nature, technique of treatments, dining room service, menus, uniforms for waiters, the keeping of records, training school regulations and requirements, and advertising.

Dr. Miller stated that our sanitariums have a distinctive field of work, and get their patronage because of this. He said we should so shape their work that as a system of health institutions their distinction will be all the more marked, and their work so carried on that patients going from one sanitarium to another would feel at home and know just what to expect.

The adoption of uniform methods would permit in a large measure of the use of similar stationery — menus, history blanks, labor reports, etc. These could be printed in quantities and furnished from a general source of supply, effecting a saving of time and money.

Dr. W. E. Bliss agreed with the suggestions, adding that it was essential to have systematic instruction in hydrotherapy and massage, so that patients would have the same kind of treatment given similarly by different nurses. The same kind of textbooks should be used.

Dr. F. A. Loop suggested that if one person owned all our sanitariums, they would be run alike. He favored uniformity, and believed that patients should expect the same plan in one institution as in another. He believed such a thing would be the best kind of advertising.

Dr. W. T. Lindsey was in harmony with the idea, and believed we should have uniform uniforms for all the different classes of workers in sanitariums, and uniform ways of wearing uniforms, nurse caps, etc.

Dr. F. J. Otis said this would put “class” in our work. He suggested that, like the Pullman Company, which has “Pullman” woven in its linen, we should have a name representing our system of sanitariums woven in tablecloths, napkins, towels, bedspreads, curtains, and other things as might be practicable.

L. A. Hansen stated that this brought up another matter that had been under consideration by the department for some time,—the establishment of a central purchasing bureau, for securing quotations on all such supplies as could be bought in quantities, and arranging for cooperative purchasing. This would enable our sanitariums to secure the best quality and uniformity in goods and quantity prices. By cooperation of all our buyers, information could be secured and exchanged regarding favorable sources of supply and prices. Strength would be given to all our purchasing, resulting in economy of time and money as well as insuring the best grade of supplies.

W. T. Knox felt that the plans for uniformity in methods and cooperation were of great interest. He believed that the cooperative buying should be taken hold of at once by such institutions as were ready to take it up, and that it should be carried into other lines of work where it could be effective. He thought that an insurance business for all our institutions might be carried in this way.

C. E. Rice was heartily in favor of the plan. He stated that already something in this direction was being done on the Coast,—on insurance, for example,—and spoke of savings that were already being effected. He believed our industrial schools could be helped by our using their products.

J. A. Burden believed the plan could be worked to advantage, and expressed himself as ready to cooperate.

G. B. Starr thought it a good idea to use a uniform monogram or stamp on all dining room dishes, and referred to such use already by one sanitarium.

E. G. Fulton was much interested in the suggestions, and believed that a great saving could be effected.

E. E. Andross was heartily in favor of the plan. He suggested that some of our institutions could do the printing for all the sanitariums, giving a further help to our own work.

E. A. Austin had found from long experience in buying that the best way of purchasing was direct from manufacturers, in large quantities, thus securing at times especially favorable quotations.

Many others spoke to the proposition, expressing hearty favor of it and offering various suggestions of advantage. The following recommendations were passed:—

“We recommend, That the term ‘Associated Seventh-day Adventist Sanitariums’ be used to designate our system of conference sanitariums.

“Resolved, That the Medical Department begin at once to bring about uniformity in the various lines of our work.

“Resolved, That we approve the general plan of a cooperative purchasing agency for sanitarium and school supplies, and that we pledge ourselves to cooperate just as far as possible in perfecting and carrying out this plan.”

The department is developing the plans here outlined. A beginning has been made in providing uniform stationery. Information is being secured on approximate needs in sanitarium supplies and sources of obtaining the same. Syndicate advertising ideas are also being developed.

L. A. H.

The “Signs” Does Bring People Into the Truth

By E. M. GRAHAM

“A BROTHER who was selling ‘Great Controversy’ stopped at my place last spring. As we are in poor circumstances, we did not feel that we could buy the book, but he ordered the Signs of the Times for us. Now, he did just what was necessary to put us on the way of truth. We found in the columns of the Signs that the seventh day is the only day sanctified and blessed and commanded to be kept.”

“A brother writes that one family to whom he has been sending the Signs has begun to keep the Sabbath. This is one of three missionary subscriptions he has been sending, and he feels much encouraged.”

“Last fall, at the close of a tent effort, I solicited subscriptions, and in a very short time took seventeen six months’ subscriptions at Holyoke, Colo., and have had the pleasure of hearing that some of the readers are now living the truth.”

“At the Weston (Oregon) camp meeting recently held, a minister arose in one of the meetings, and said that he had been called over to the coast to a small place to baptize some people, and when he got there he found that an old lady had been using five copies of the Signs and had won five souls to the truth. Then she kept on working with her Signs, and now she has five more ready.”

If every Seventh-day Adventist had used two Signs a week in missionary work, I wonder how many more souls might have been saved. The experiences given are only a very few of those that might be related. The Lord very evidently does use the Signs to bring people to a knowledge of the truth, but his power to do this depends upon the co-operation of his people in circulating the paper. He does his part, but he needs people to be laborers together with him to do the part he has given into the hands of human beings.

At the end of September many subscriptions for the Signs weekly will expire, so now is the time to renew them. Have your papers brought souls to the truth? Then I am sure you will want to continue your work to get other souls. Have you heard of no definite results from your past six months’ work with the Signs? Then I am sure you will want to go on for another six months and try again for definite results. The message is, “Hasten, hasten, hasten. Press the battle to the gates.” Therefore every effort that has been begun should be pressed forward until the work is done.

Not only should subscriptions be renewed, but thousands of new subscriptions should go in. Only a very few of the members in the North American Division are using this paper in soul-winning efforts. At the end of June, 1915, we had 75,436 church members, and they were taking 20,000 weekly Signs. As a number of people take several copies, it is evident that considerably less than one fourth of our members are laborers together with God in the circulation of this paper. Are there not many others who have not realized that their backwardness in distributing this paper is hampering the Lord in his efforts to reach souls, who will now send in their subscriptions for this soul-winning agency? It is a great privilege to labor with God for souls, and soon it will be too late to share in this blessed work.

E. M. GRAHAM.

Religious Liberty Department

By C. S. Longacre

C. S. LONGACRE N. Am. Div. Secretary

The Oklahoma Trial

DURING the first week in August four of our brethren in Hitchcock, Okla., were tried by the court at Watonga, Okla., on the charge that they had violated the Oklahoma Sunday laws. These brethren are engaged in mercantile business. The prosecuting attorney of the county indicted and prosecuted them. Although the State of Oklahoma grants an exemption to those who observe another day than Sunday, yet in the face of this exemption the court convicted our brethren even after it was demonstrated that they had conscientiously observed the seventh day as the Sabbath.

This clearly shows that our enemies do not intend to grant us any of the rights and immunities which are supposed to be guaranteed to us. They are determined to bring us under the control of their own religious prejudices when they get into office, no matter what rights and immunities the federal Constitution or State constitutions grant us.

It appears that the religious organizations which were assembled recently in Baltimore in national convention are determined to make good their threat concerning Seventh-day Adventists. The president of the Lord’s Day Alliance hammered the table with his fist and said, “The Seventh-day Adventists must be brought under subjection to the Sunday laws in this country.” A proposition was laid before the convention, and passed, that the exemption clauses for those who observed another day than Sunday should be stricken from the statute books. Over one hundred attempts have already been made in the various State legislatures this year to have this done, but the efforts in practically every case have ended in failure, the legislatures refusing to act favorably upon these bills. It now appears that they are going to have their own way in spite of this, and if they cannot get the legislatures to act, they will influence the officers of the law to violate the spirit of the law to secure conviction.

We have always held that our natural and God-given rights are not granted us by the government. The only office of the government is to protect us in the exercise of these rights. If it has the right to grant, it also has the right to withhold as it sees fit. But American principles of government recognize no such right. Yet plans have already been laid by powerful religious organizations which call themselves Protestant, not only to override our rights as citizens, but also to confiscate our property unless we submit to the requirements of the Sunday laws. The things that we used to preach and teach by faith as prophetic, are rapidly being written in history as fulfilled prophecies. Our enemies are working in disguise now, but soon we shall see them work openly, and the great conflict will be on. Then it will be too late to give to God and his work what may have been saved for the troublous times before us.

Let us not permit the enemy to deceive us on the point of covetousness and idolatry. God will have the first place in our hearts or none. Now is the time to put our trust in God and to place our means in his hands for use as he directs according to the needs of his cause. Whatever we possess when the time of trouble begins, will all fall into the hands of our enemies, and they will use it to aid their cause and secure weapons to be used against us. In that day your gold and silver “shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.”

The current issue of the Liberty Magazine, just off the press, contains an editorial article on the trial of our brethren in Oklahoma, and should be placed in the hands of every judge and lawyer and newspaper editor in every State in the Union. If our home missionary societies and Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Societies each would become responsible for a club of ten subscriptions, it would enable us to send Liberty to all these men for a whole year. The current issue also contains an invaluable article from the pen of Dr. P. T. Magan on the striking subject, “The Pope, the Powers, and Peace.” It will be a revelation to many Americans, and this issue will show in unmistakable terms the most striking fulfillment of God’s prophetic Word concerning the coming crisis and the impending conflict between truth and error, right and wrong, liberty and bondage, and Christ and Satan.

C. S. LONGACRE.

Missionary Volunteer Department

M. E. KERN General and N. Am. Div. Secretary C. L. BENSON Assistant Secretary MEADE MACGUIRE N. Am. Div. Field Secretary

For Ministers, Church Elders, and Workers

1. What special efforts should ministers and workers make at this time?

“The special efforts of ministers and of workers all through our ranks, for this time, should be to turn away the attention of the youth from all exciting stories to the sure word of prophecy.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. V, page 510.

2. What peril of the young calls for this special effort?

“The young are in great danger. Great evil results from their light reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep to finish some ridiculous love story. The world is flooded with novels of every description. Some are not of as dangerous a character as others. Some are immoral, low, and vulgar; others are clothed with more refinement; but all are pernicious in their influence.”—Id., Vol. II, page 236.

3. What classes of reading are recommended to the young?

“How precious are the days of youth as a preparation for the life work! Help them to see what treasures there are in the Word of God, in the book of nature, and in the records of noble lives.”—“Education,” page 248.

4. Aside from the Bible, science, and biography, what other line of reading is very important?

“It is acquaintance that awakens sympathy, and sympathy is the spring of effective ministry. To awaken in the children and youth sympathy and the spirit of sacrifice for the suffering millions in the ‘regions beyond,’ let them become acquainted with these lands and their peoples.”—Id., page 260.

5. On what question pertaining to our young people was the mind of Mrs. E. G. White exercised during her last illness?

“In the night season I was selecting and laying aside books that are of no advantage to the young. We should select for them books that will encourage them to sincerity of life, and lead them to the opening of the Word. This has been presented to me in the past, and I thought I would get it before you and make it secure. We cannot afford to give to young people valueless reading. Books that are a blessing to mind and soul are needed. These things are too lightly regarded; therefore our people should become acquainted with what I am saying.”—Mrs. E. G. White, in Review and Herald, April 15, 1915.

6. The preceding quotation indicates that we are to select books for the young. Is anything being done along this line?

Yes, the Missionary Volunteer Reading Courses have been in successful operation for eight years. The department endeavors to select the very best and most profitable books for our children and youth. Our Missionary Volunteer secretaries do what they can to get all our young people to take one of the courses. But we realize that, in harmony with the first quotation given, all our ministers and workers have a blessed part to act with us in this work.

7. What wrong habit of reading will this Reading Course help to correct?

“Those who have indulged the habit of racing through exciting stories are crippling their mental strength, and disqualifying themselves for vigorous thought and research.”—“Christian Education,” page 186.

“If you should read with the one object in view, to improve the mind, and should read only as much as the mind can comprehend and digest, and would patiently persevere in such a course of reading, good results would be accomplished.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. III, page 265.

8. What are the Reading Course books for 1915-16?

Senior Course No. 9: “Things as They Are,” by Amy Wilson Carmichael, a classic of missionary literature; “The Sabbath in History,” part 2 of the “History of the Sabbath,” by J. N. Andrews and L. R. Conradi, containing truths very essential for our young people to know in this testing time: “History of William

Miller,” the life of the pioneer of the advent people, with which our advent youth should be thoroughly familiar.

Junior Course No. 8: “Livingstone the Pathfinder,” by Basil Mathews, a book of throbbing interest on the life of that noble man of God who lived and died for Africa; “Friends and Foes in Field and Forest,” by Vesta J. Farnsworth, a book of nature which tells many strange stories about many common things; “Sketches of Bible Child Life,” by Mary Alicia Steward, a book of peculiar charm to boys and girls, dealing as it does with boys and girls of long ago.

9. What is the cost of these courses?

Every one ought to have the Youth’s Instructor, in which the assignments are made and questions are given to assist in the reading, beginning in the issue of September 28. It costs $1.25 a year, or less in clubs.

The special Reading Course prices on the books are as follows: Senior Course (in the order mentioned above), 75 cents, $1, $1, or the set for $2.35, postpaid; Junior Course, 60 cents, $1, 75 cents, or the set for $1.75, postpaid.

10. While we endeavor to, and do, select books that are especially interesting to the young, should this alone determine our choice, and why not?

“There are books that are of vital importance that are not looked at by our young people. They are neglected because they are not so interesting to them as some lighter reading. We should advise the young to take hold of such reading matter as recommends itself for the upbuilding of Christian character.”—Mrs. E. G. White, in the Review and Herald of April 15, 1915.

The Florida Conference

By W. H. HECKMAN; MRS. R. G. STRINGER

THE twenty-second annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, 1915, in connection with the camp meeting at St. Petersburg, Fla. The election of the conference officers, and various other matters of interest to every loyal Seventh-day Adventist, will come before the meeting. Each church is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and to one additional delegate for every ten members. The first session will be held at 11 A. M., October 1.

W. H. HECKMAN, President; MRS. R. G. STRINGER, Secretary.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Cigarette users as well as drinking men are to be barred from State employment in Kansas under the rules promulgated by the new State civil service commission.

— The United States submarine F-4, which sank outside the harbor of Honolulu, March 26, was refloated August 29. A thorough investigation will be made to determine the cause of the accident, which cost the lives of twenty-two seamen.

— Encouraged by “the definite assurance of a certain measure of increase in giving,” the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society has authorized the immediate return to the foreign field of fifty-two missionaries now at home on furlough, and has appointed three new missionary families.

— Great Britain has declared cotton an absolute contraband of war, which means that the Allies will take the same step. This action has been a prospective one for some months, owing to the relation of cotton to the manufacture of ammunition in Germany and Austria. The British and French governments, it is expected, will do everything possible to prevent undue depression in this country; nevertheless, the act must affect very seriously the Southern cotton growers.

— In the United States there is one ordained minister for every 600 persons. In the whole non-Christian world there is only one Protestant missionary for every 300,000 persons.

— The coronation of Emperor Yoshihito, of Japan, on Nov. 10, 1915, is to be a notable event. He is to be the first ruler of this empire, 2,500 years old, to be coronated in the presence of the representatives of his people.

— Korean Christians are not able to contribute large sums in money, but they gladly give largely of their time to carry the gospel of Christ into communities where he is not known. A recent report shows that these native Christians are now contributing more than 100,000 days yearly for systematic evangelization work in their own country.

— Present indications are that the crops of the United States this year will total $5,300,000,000. The value of the crop of corn is estimated at $1,750,000,000; of the crop of oats at $841,000,000; and the hay crop at $975,000,000; while it is estimated that the wheat harvest alone may be a billion bushels, valued at $1,135,100,000, of which the farmers will get $960,000,000.

— The United States coast guard cutter “Bear” has returned to Nome after carrying the mails to Point Barrow, the most northerly point of Alaska. The captain reports no word had been received at Point Barrow or elsewhere along the coast, of Stefansson, the explorer, who, accompanied by two aids, left Martin Point, west of the mouth of the Mackenzie River, on April 7, 1914, going north over the ice in expectation of reaching new land, or, should that quest fail, of turning east and reaching Banks Land.

The Florida Medical Missionary Benevolent Association

By W. H. HECKMAN; R. S. INGERSOLL

THE Florida Medical Missionary Benevolent Association will hold its regular meeting in connection with the conference at St. Petersburg, Fla., Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, 1915, to elect necessary members of the board of trustees, and to transact such other business as is deemed necessary. The first meeting will be held at 11 A. M., October 4. All accredited delegates to the conference are delegates to this association.

W. H. HECKMAN, President; R. S. INGERSOLL, Secretary.

The Florida Conference Association

By W. H. Heckman; Mrs. R. G. Stringer

THE ninth annual session of the Florida Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp ground at St. Petersburg, Fla., at 11 A. M., Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1915, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association.

W. H. HECKMAN, President; MRS. R. G. STRINGER, Secretary.

Western New York Conference

By H. C. HARTWELL; J. H. WEAKS

THE ninth annual session of the Western New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Rochester, N. Y., at the new Memorial Church, 60 Grand Avenue, October 5-10, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the delegates. Each organized church is entitled to one delegate for the organization and one additional delegate for each ten members. The first meeting of the session will be called promptly at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 5, 1915.

H. C. HARTWELL, President; J. H. WEAKS, Secretary.

Western New York Conference Association

By H. C. HARTWELL; F. H. HICKS

THE annual session of the Western New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the ninth annual session of the Western New York Conference at Rochester, N. Y., in the new Memorial Church, 60 Grand Avenue. The first legal meeting will be called at 5 P. M. Thursday, Oct. 7, 1915. All regularly accredited delegates to the conference compose the constituency of the association.

H. C. HARTWELL, President; F. H. HICKS, Clerk.

The Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Training School for Medical Missionary Nurses

Our next nurses’ class will begin Jan. 1, 1916, and young men and women who desire a thorough missionary training for nurses will find an excellent opportunity to receive such training here.

We desire to keep the educational standard as high as possible, and will not consider applicants who have not completed at least the ninth grade. Capable young men are especially needed.

Write for our new nurses’ calendar. Address Superintendent of Nurses’ Training School, Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Boulder, Colo.

Important!

We can accept a few more young people into the fall nurses’ class of the Glendale Sanitarium, which began Sept. 1, 1915.

We shall be glad to hear from earnest, consecrated young people who feel a call to service. Opportunities are offered for thorough theoretical and practical training.

Address, Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, Cal.

Addresses

THE post-office address of Elder and Mrs. Geo. B. Starr, also of Mrs. Maude S. Boyd, is Loma Linda, Cal., care of Sanitarium.

Camp Meetings

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

Virginia, Newport News (colored) Sept. 9-19

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Arizona ................................ Oct. 7-17

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Florida, St. Petersburg... Sept. 30 to Oct. 10

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

South Texas, Corpus Christi (local)...... ................ Sept. 16-26

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