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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 6.

The Assurance of Power
Earlier text: In Trying Places

Cuba

By Mrs. S. H. Carnahan

Our school opened September 12. The Lord is blessing our work, and I believe he will let us see fruit. One of our students, a young native girl, who is preparing to be a teacher, is deeply interested, and takes a great delight in her Bible studies. All the natives manifest a keen interest in the Bible. The other day, after telling them a Bible story, they said, “Teacher, is that a true story?” I answered, “It truly is, boys. It actually took place, and God told good men to write it, and it is here in his Holy Book.” Several then said, “I can hardly keep from crying.”
We now have nineteen students enrolled, five of them boarding students, and arrangements are being made to receive others. My husband and I have given up our room, and moved into the old woodshed. The house is 20 x 24 feet, with two stories. Two of the lower rooms are used for schoolrooms. In the three rooms above we now have ten persons crowded. In the boys’ room we have put folding beds to accommodate seven in all. The fame of the school, our kind treatment of the students, and their good health, are being proclaimed far and near. People of means and the best families wish to put their children with us.
Last Sunday evening I counted sixteen native men at the service in the boys’ schoolroom. Our native worker, Brother Manuel Avila, whom we are trying to support, was speaking on the law of God. He carries the burden of the evangelical work, and follows up the interest in the homes, also doing colporteur work in the near-by towns. He tells me that he must send for more Bibles, because those who are attending the meetings are calling for more of the books. There seems to be a good interest as a result of his work. One man has been keeping the Sabbath for some time, has given up coffee and tobacco, and desires to be baptized. We earnestly ask an interest in your prayers. MRS. S. H. CARNAHAN.

New Jersey

By Jacob Lengweiler

JERICHO.—This is a small village about half-way between Bridgeton and Salem. In each of these towns there is a Seventh-day Adventist church. During the last two or three years five Sabbath-keeping families have settled within a radius of two miles from here, and about a year ago a Sabbath-school was organized. The last quarter of 1910 the Sabbath-school started with seventeen members, and closed with a membership of twenty-seven. Last summer we bought the Jericho mission chapel, and since the beginning of last November, have held our services in it. Now we owe less than one hundred dollars on the building. Most of the money necessary for repairs was raised by selling Life and Health and the Signs of the Times Monthly. God has richly blessed us in this work. Our next aim is to start a church-school, as the nearest church-school is in Bridgeton, which is too far away for the little ones to attend. Wewould like to see a few more faithful, industrious families locate here, especially those who have children. This is a prosperous country, and as good a place as can be found for poor people to make a living.
JACOB LENGWEILER.

Colporteur Work in Chile

By T. H. Davis

Chile

Last week I came to Linares from Santiago to help one of our new colporteurs get started. Although the weather was bad, we started right in taking orders. The first name to head the list for “Coming King” was that of the leading physician of the place. In one day of six hours' work we took fifty-nine orders from one prospectus. To-day the colporteur worked alone, and he secured nine orders in a little more than two hours in the forenoon. We have on our list the names of the mayor of the town, several lawyers, and the directors of two schools. One stationer ordered a dozen to sell. Sometimes it seems to me that the people are just waiting to give their orders to us. One man said, “Don’t explain it any more; put my name down for one.”
We have a good field here, but lack workers who can endure hardness, and can stand it to eat a piece of native bread once in a while. During the union conference we asked for two canvassers from the States, and I suppose that by this time, arrangements are made to send them. May the Lord soon finish the work gloriously. T. H. DAVIS.

Recovery of Sight

By F. D. Starr

THINKING it might be of interest to my acquaintances to know something of my experience in the loss of my sight, I wish to say, to the glory of God, that I have been in a large measure relieved of that difficulty.
Five years ago last June I discovered that my left eye was affected with cataract. It was about a year becoming blind. The right eye continued to be good for about three years longer, when it also began to fail from the same cause. One year ago it began to be difficult for me to read, and last August I had become so nearly blind that I could not read at all, and could scarcely see to get around. In September I went to our sanitarium at College Place, and there had performed by a Walla Walla physician a surgical operation on the left eye, which had then been blind for four and one-half years. After a three weeks' stay at the sanitarium, I came away with sight restored in that eye, so that with the aid of proper glasses, I can now see to read the finest print, and travel about with little inconvenience. It requires much skill to perform such a delicate operation, but I do not attribute all the credit to man. I believe the words of the prophet apply here: “This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.” Isa. 28: 29. I feel under renewed obligation to render to him more fully my sight, which he has given me, and every other faculty of my being. To him be lasting praise for his benefits to the children of men. I am glad to say that, by his grace, I did not worry a particle about the outcome during this period of temporary and partial blindness,—the months and years during which my sight was leaving me. My right eye is now totally blind, but hardly ready for an operation.
F. D. STARR.

Chile

By F. H. Westphal

WE have enjoyed the good general meetings in Chile during the visit of Elder L. R. Conradi from Europe, who was accompanied by Elder J. W. Westphal, of our union conference. The messages delivered were timely and forceful, and stirred up a general interest among our people to be more faithful. Our work is making progress, and we hope soon to see many more souls in the truth.
We have been considering the matter of city work, and the committee has asked me to locate in Valparaiso, to aid in starting an effort there. I am glad to hear the call to blow the trumpet long and loud in the cities, to awaken the slumbering inhabitants in these wicked and populous centers. F. H. WESTPHAL.

To Every Man His Work

A Call to Definite Service

(First Reading)
You will find my text in a part of the thirty-fourth verse of the thirteenth chapter of Mark: “To every man his work.” The whole verse reads like this: “For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.”
Now, it doesn’t say, To every man he gave some work, or to every man a work, but to every man his work. It reads very much as if every man and woman in this world had a mission; as if every one of us had something to do. Some one has said that every man’s life is a plan of the Almighty God. Away back in the secret councils of eternity, God laid out a work for each one of us to do, and if we do not do that work, it will be left undone. This idea that some one else will do it if we don’t, is a false idea. The man doesn’t live that can do the work that God has given me to do, except me. The man doesn’t live that can do the work that God has given you to do, except you. God will call us all, by and by, to an account of our stewardship, to see if we have done what he has given us to do; and I do not believe there are any men or women, in the church or out of it, who are happy, unless they have found out what their mission in this world is, and what God has for them to do.

A False Idea

This idea that has got into the church, that one man must do all the work, because he has more talent, isn’t found anywhere in the Bible. Because Dr. W. and Dr. G. have ten talents, and I have but one, is no sign that I should put mine into a napkin, and bury it, and say, “Because these men have ten talents, I won’t use mine at all.” When I stand before God’s bar, I shall not have to render an account for their talents, but for the talents he has given to me. The man who made good use of his two talents, heard the same words as the man who made good use of five: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: . . . enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” And if the man who had one talent had made good use of it, he would have heard the same blessing as the man who had two. God will increase our talents just as fast as we make good use of them. I have yet to find the man who makes good use of the talents which God gives him, to whom God does not lend more. If a man makes good use of five talents, see how quickly he will have ten; and if he makes good use of the ten, it will not be long before God will increase those again. But if he misuses what God has given him, it will not be long before he will have them taken away.

Silent Partners in the Church

We have a great many men in the church who have an idea that the minister, and perhaps now and then the deacon, or even the [Sabbath-school] superintendent, must do all the praying, all the visiting of the sick, and all the work; but I firmly believe that this lost world will never be reached until this idea is dismissed from the church. A great many men go into partnership in business; but when you come to find out, they are only silent partners. Now, you may go into business as a silent partner, but you can not enter into the fellowship of God and be silent partners. He will not take you, and he doesn’t want you. You must be a working partner. You who think it is a hard thing to work for God, will be disappointed by and by. It is a sign that you have not been converted. The first impulse of the young convert is to work. If we have Christ formed in us, the hope of glory, we cannot help but work; we shall have a desire to use these talents that God has given us.

Christians as Lights

If you can not be a lighthouse, you can be a candle; you can certainly give as much light as rush-light. A man once said he hadn’t as much light as a rush-light. “Well,” said another, “I could set a whole city on fire with that.” Set your light out before men. We talk about pillars of the church. We have too many pillars; we want more lights. We want men who just let the light of God shine out of them. Think of the talents represented in this building. Suppose we reconsecrate ourselves to God now, and go out of this building, and say, each one of us, “By the grace of God we will do what we can to build up his kingdom, and use all the talents he has given us.” What a mighty reformation there would be in Boston inside of twenty-four hours!

Spiritual Stagnation

Why is the Dead Sea dead? — Because it is all the while receiving, and never giving out anything. Why are so many churches dead? — Because they are all the while receiving, and giving out nothing. The spirit of the gospel is to give and give; but if all the while we are receiving, like a sponge, and never giving out, of course we become dead and stagnant. If we have any good thing, let us give it out, and keep the coin of heaven in circulation. If it has been a blessing to our souls, let us tell it to some one else, and in that way we shall be a blessing to all we come in contact with.

Learning and Working

Some say that men must be educated before they can work. A man wrote the other day that the trouble was, the church was trying to mow with a dull scythe. “Well,” said I, “what would you say of a man who was all the time whetting his scythe?” He would wear it out. No; let us keep whetting and using; if it gets dull, whet it up again, and not be all the time getting ready. Many in the church are so afraid they will make some mistake in the Lord’s work that they do nothing at all. But it is a great deal better to make some mistakes than to fold your arms and go to sleep. It is a great deal better to launch out into the sea, and trust to God to give us fish, than it is to stop, shivering, on the shore, afraid to go out, afraid we will not fish right, or cast our net on the right side. There is nothing like experience; and if we are willing to do all we can, it will not be long before those who are now acting so awkwardly will be good workmen.

A Diversity of Gifts

Some say, “We can’t preach.” We don’t want all of us to be preachers. Suppose the city was full of preachers. It would be as strange as if it were full of carpenters or blacksmiths. Some can preach, some can teach, some can circulate tracts, some can find the children of the streets and bring them into the kingdom of God; some can go into the dark alleys, and talk to the people there about Christ, and pray with them; some can visit the prisons and hospitals; but all can not do the same thing. When I was in England, I was invited to go to the dog market on the Sabbath. It was down in the east end of London; and we got up there, and tried to preach to the people, but they didn’t seem to listen to us much. We hadn’t the talent for them. But there was a man there,—a man who couldn’t read nor write, nor even spell his own name,—and we got him, and put him up on a chair, and they gave him attention at once. Had he been Spurgeon, or Morley Punshon, or any other great English orator, even John Bright himself, they would not have listened to him. But when that man, who had been converted from among their own number, got up and told them what God had done for him (to be sure, he used poor language), they gathered around him, and the tears trickled down their cheeks, and a goodly number of them were brought under conviction. That man had a talent. There was a circle he could reach that nobody else could. Some of us can reach the rich; some of us can reach the poor. Why, William Dorset, the Yorkshire farmer, set all the farmers of England on fire. Thousands of them flocked to hear him. So to-day, if we could only get every man and woman to work, using every latent force they have, right among their own circle, it would not be long before we should hear the songs of new-born souls and a glad shout of joy going up to God.

The Great Little Things

A great many of us are willing to do great things for the Lord; but these little things, like talking to one soul, they are not ready to do. We must be willing to do some little thing. If God says, “Go speak to that young man,” go; and who knows but he may become a John Wesley, a George Whitefield, a John Bunyan, or a Martin Luther, who may reform some whole nation? A Reformation may be in that man. It is no small thing to run and speak to a man and win him for Christ. Don’t call that a little thing. The greatest sermons the Master preached were to one or two persons. He could sit down by the well of Samaria, and preach to one woman. He preached his sermon on the regeneration to one man in Jerusalem. Shall we call that a little work? Let us be willing to do some little thing; and if all are doing some little thing, don’t you see that among these thousands it will amount to a great thing? Many men think they can build a college and give it to the church, and the press will herald it forth that such a man gave fifty thousand dollars to this or that college or this or that church; but perhaps a man who hasn’t fifty thousand dollars to give will go and win a man for God, and that man will go and win thousands. That man has done more for the Lord than the other who gave fifty thousand dollars to a college or a church.

“You Have Been a Good While Coming”

Is it not time to go to men and women, and tell them that the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost? In one of the Southern cities, many years ago, when the yellow fever was raging, a father and mother, with their little boy, moved into one of the stricken districts. Soon after, the father was taken down and died; and his body was put into the dead-cart and taken away. Shortly after, the mother was taken down; and she knew that when she was gone, there would be no one to take care of her boy; for though she had neighbors, they were all afraid of going near them. She knew the disease was fatal, and when she was dying, she called her boy, and said, “I shall soon be dead; and when I am gone, Jesus will come and take care of you.” The little fellow was so young that he did not understand what it meant, but he remembered the words of his dying mother, and after the dead-cart came and took her away, and he had followed her to the grave, he returned home. The night came on, and it was dark and gloomy, and he was lonesome in that home. He staid as long as he dared, and then went out and sat down on the curbstone and wept. At last he went to the graveyard, and fell down on his mother’s grave, and went to sleep. The next morning a stranger passed there, found the little boy on the grave, and said, “What are you waiting for here?” The little fellow answered, “I am waiting for Jesus;” and the stranger said, “Waiting for whom?” “Waiting for Jesus.” “What do you mean, my boy?” Then the child told his sad story, and it touched the heart of the stranger, who said, “Jesus has sent me to take care of you.” The little fellow looked up through his tears, and said, “You have been a good while coming.” It is just so with this poor, sinful world. It should have been ready long since; and if we had used all the talents God has given us, it would have been ready. Shall we not from this day use all our talents? I want all to consecrate themselves to this work immediately.

Honolulu

By C. D. M. Williams

We had the pleasure of baptizing four more believers in December. In order to give an idea of the cosmopolitan population here, I will give the nationality of those baptized. One was a Chinese, one a Spanish Porto Rican, one a Portuguese, and one an American. A Filipino is among the candidates for future baptism. We praise the Lord that he is impressing his truth on all nationalities. In our prayer-meeting the other evening, one prayer was offered in Portuguese, one in Spanish, and one in Hawaiian. Had some others present joined in the prayer service, they would have prayed in Chinese. We beg an interest in the prayers of the brethren, that we may be used of God in bringing the light of truth to these different nationalities. C. D. M. Williams.

Field Notes

AT Hoxie, Kan., two have taken their stand to keep the Sabbath.
As the result of meetings at Sheffield, Ala., eight have signed the covenant.
ELDER J. W. NORWOOD reports that at Ava, Ark., nine were recently baptized.
THREE have taken a firm stand for the truth at Hereford, Ore., and two at Union.
FOUR persons recently united with the German church at Brooklyn, N. Y., by baptism.
AT Rayville, La., six persons have accepted the Sabbath; at Castor, one; and at Hope, three.
JANUARY 14, five persons were baptized by Elder E. W. Farnsworth at Battle Creek, Mich.
THERE are four new Sabbath-keepers at McKinney, Ky., and four more waiting for baptism.
SEVEN new members were received into the Sheridan (Wyo.) church on profession of faith recently.
EIGHT young people were baptized at the Western Normal Institute, Lodi, Cal., on Missionary Volunteer day.
A COMPANY of eleven believers was organized at Princeton, Ill., December 31, five of whom were recently baptized.
As a result of recent meetings with the Brayton church on Walden's Ridge, Tenn., eleven precious souls united with the church, subject to baptism.
ELDER A. R. BELL reports that at Carlisle, Pa., three were received into the church on profession of faith. At Reading, Sabbath, January 14, seven persons followed their Lord in baptism.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

By E. R. Palmer; N. Z. Town; A. J. S. Bourdeau

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER          Secretary N. Z. TOWN            Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU       Missionary Secretary

Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service

(To Be Held Feb. 25, 1911)
Opening Song: “The Call for Reapers.” “Christ in Song,” No. 547 (old edition, No. 397).
Responsive Reading: Matt. 25: 13-30.
Prayer.
Second Song: “Toiling On.” “Christ in Song,” No. 576 (old edition, No. 449).
Reading: “To Every Man His Work.”
Bible Study Symposium: “Bible Principles of Missionary Work.” Original work by leader and members. See outline in note 1. Begin preparations early.
Items of Interest: Two or three incidents drawn from personal experiences by the elder or leader and the librarian, or items they may have read in our papers or books or elsewhere. Follow these with a number of pointed, half-minute testimonies or experiences.
Symposium: “How They Became Seventh-day Adventists.” Let the young and the old join in reading these experiences. See note 2. Assign parts at an early date.
Monthly Report of Church Work: By missionary secretary (librarian). Follow by statement of finances of missionary society, etc.
Passing of Report Blanks: Read the opinion of one active conference worker. See note 3.
Fourth-Sabbath Collection for church missionary society. Report blanks may be dropped into the basket with the collection.
Prayer over collection and reports.
Plans for Work: “Organization of Missionary Bands.” See note 4. “Something for Each One to Do;” “What Progress Are We Making?” “A Package of Tracts in Every Home;” “A New List of Missionary Names and Addresses,” etc.
Closing Song: “Working, O Christ, With Thee.” “Christ in Song,” No. 477 (old edition, No. 381).
Benediction.

How They Became Seventh-day Adventists

By A. J. S. B.

A Demonstration of Missionary Methods That Have Proved to Be Successful

(Symposium)
It is always encouraging to hear converts tell how they were led to accept the third angel's message. Of special interest to the missionary worker, also, are the means and methods which have proved successful in leading those not of our faith to become Seventh-day Adventists. Some time ago the writer secured information from over one thousand of our church-members, located in forty-four different churches, telling how they were led to accept the truth.
Slips of paper were passed to the church-members, on which they were asked to write (1) name and address; (2) the name of the minister, Bible worker, book, paper, pamphlet, tract, or any other means which was chiefly instrumental in leading them to become Seventh-day Adventists; and (3) whether the reading of the Bible alone had been the means of changing their belief. Here, in brief, are the results, showing the chief means of leading these 1,080 persons to accept the truth:—
Our ministers, 353 persons, or about one third. Thirty-one of these were converted through camp-meetings.
Our publications (directly), 230 persons, or about one fourth. Our periodicals changed the belief of 80 persons; our books, of 77; our tracts, of 47; our miscellaneous publications, of 26.
Birth, home influences, relatives, 205 persons, or about one fifth.
Cottage Bible readings, house-to-house work, 162 persons, or about one sixth. Bible only, lay members, Sabbath-schools, our institutions, etc., 130 persons, or about one eighth. Through Bible only, 58 persons; lay members, 48; Sabbath-schools11; our institutions, 10; miscellaneous, 3. Total, 130.
Which periodicals, books, and tracts were read, and what each of these publications did in the way of changing the belief of these persons, appear in connection with the lists of these publications appearing in note 2.

The Printed Page

It will be noted that the foregoing statistics are confined to the means which were chiefly instrumental in leading people to become members of our denomination. If we take into consideration the fact that our literature also played an important part in the work done by the ministry, by Bible workers, and by lay members, it is safe to conclude that the printed page was the means, directly and indirectly, of leading into this blessed truth no fewer than two thirds of the 1,080 persons referred to in this report.
Our periodicals alone changed the belief of one out of every thirteen of the 1,080; our books, one out of every fourteen persons, and our tracts, one out of every twenty-three persons.

A Few Interesting Cases

From the large number of letters received, I have selected the following items—long stories condensed into one, two, or more sentences. Briefly expressed, the causes of conversion were:
CASE 1.—Reading the Signs of the Times at the bedside of his brother.
CASE 2.—The loaning to him of a copy of “Bible Readings for the Home Circle.”
CASE 3.—A tract sent from Colorado to Canada.
CASE 4.—Inviting a Seventh-day Adventist to ride with him in his wagon fifteen miles. The Adventist talked the Sabbath all the way. The man could not throw the subject off his mind. He became a Seventh-day Adventist soon after.
CASE 5.—He was invited to attend a Seventh-day Adventist tent-meeting by his own pastor—a Methodist. Result: he accepted the truth soon after.
CASE 6.—A sick lady was in a Catholic hospital. A nurse loaned her a copy of “Great Controversy.” Through its perusal she was converted, and accepted present truth, much to the chagrin of the nurse, who, when loaning her the book, was not aware of its contents.
CASE 7.—He started in to read the Bible with the firm determination to prove that Sunday, and not the Sabbath, is the Lord's rest day. Result: he accepted the truth.
CASE 8.—“A young man came to the door to sell us the Harvest number of the Signs of the Times. My wife refusing to buy, he offered to leave it for examination. Wife accepted it. When I came home, she showed it to me, and I said, ‘Wife, I believe this is just what we have been looking for.’ We at once subscribed for the Signs, and in a few months Elder — opened a series of tent-meetings. I attended, and, as a result, accepted the truth.” He is now a church elder.
CASE 9.—“A Catholic friend handed me a bundle of religious papers, in which were two copies of the REVIEW AND HERALD. The reading of these, together with two tracts on the Sabbath and immortality questions, did the work.” He is now a typesetter in one of our publishing-houses.
CASE 10.—For ten long years she had been living in the mountains, away from any church. Some one (she knows not who) sent her the Signs of the Times and other reading-matter occasionally. She finally took her stand.
CASE 11.—One daughter writes: “Mother bought ‘Great Controversy.’ It did the work.”
CASE 12.—A wife writes: “I accepted the truth through my husband and the Bible.”
CASE 13.—She saw a copy of the Bible Echo in a store window in Melbourne, Australia. She investigated, accepted our faith, and is now one of our best church librarians.
CASE 14.—He accepted the truth through Bible readings given to him by Brother — while they were picking grapes together at Lemoore, Cal.
CASE 15.—His seeing one of our brethren quit work early Friday evening led him to think and investigate. This occurred five years before he met our workers and accepted the truth.
CASE 16.—The entire Baptist church of — was advised by its pastor to study the Bible to see which day is the true Sabbath. One sister writes: “Six of the fifty members, of which I was one, began keeping the Sabbath.”
CASE 17.—He was an infidel. He was eating lunch with other workmen by a fence when a Seventh-day Adventist canvasser came along. Failing to sell any publications, the canvasser gave a copy of the Sentinel to the other workmen. Their liking the paper led this infidel to investigate the Sabbath and other doctrinal questions. Having no Bible in the house, he went to a neighbor and offered a load of wood for a New Testament. He secured the same, read it through, and accepted the truth. He is now the elder of one of our churches.

What Shall We Conclude?

Do not the foregoing statistics and incidents carry with them their own lesson to you, to me? What has been done through the circulation of our literature and other means in the past, will be done again, yes, is being done now. The only question is, What shall be our part in this work?
Every soul has at least one talent that he can use in spreading this message. If you begin to work for your neighbors and friends, you may discover that you have two, three, five, or even ten talents. Begin working in your neighborhood, with your neighbors and near-by friends. Then reach out to others who are farther away.
Pick out from the many methods used with such good success in the conversion of these 1,080 church-members, those which you think you could use to the best advantage. Study the kinds of work pointed out on the individual weekly report blank.
God knows which way is the best for you to reach that business man, that physician, that school-teacher, that father, that mother, that daughter, that son. Shall it be by means of a missionary visit, a leaflet, a tract, a paper, an act of kindness, a missionary letter, or the loan of a good book? Ask your Heavenly Father. He knows, and he will let you know.

To the Elder or Missionary Leader

(Not to be read publicly)

Note 1

“BIBLE PRINCIPLES OF MISSIONARY WORK.”—The leader should seek to draw out the individuality of the church-members in the preparation of various parts of this program. This topic has been arranged so that the members of a small or of a large church may have a part in it. Let the following subdivisions of the subject be assigned to nine, eighteen, or even thirty members. Turn the subdivisions, or subtopics, into questions, which may be answered by the members' reading the replies from the Scriptures. If necessary, several questions may be developed by the leader from each subtopic. The outline, as it appears in ‘Evangelization of the World,’ is as follows:—
  1. The Ground of Missionary Work. John 3:16; Luke 2:10; Mark 16:15.
  2. The Need of Missionary Work. Ps. 14:2, 3; Eph. 2:12; Rom. 10:13, 14, 15.
  3. The Purpose of Missionary Work. Luke 19:10; Acts 26:18.
  4. The Sin of Standing Aloof from Missionary Work. 2 Kings 7:9; Judges 5:23; Matt. 25:25, 26.
  5. The Motive of Missionary Work. Luke 16:5; 2 Cor. 5:14; 8:9; Ps. 96:12.
  6. Ways of Helping Missionary Work. Isa. 6:8; 2 Cor. 1:11; Matt. 9:38; 1 Cor. 16:2.
  7. The Spirit in Which Help Should Be Given to Missionary Work. Acts 9:6; Col. 3:23; 2 Cor. 9:7; 1 Chron. 29:9; Mark 14:8.
  8. The Reward of a Share in Missionary Work. Prov. 11:25; Job 29:13; Matt. 25:23.
  9. The End of Missionary Work. Matt. 24:14; Rev. 7:9, 10.

Note 2

“HOW THEY BECAME SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.”—The leader and members may read alternately the seventeen interesting cases reported under this topic, or the leader may read the first part, and call upon members to read the cases, according to previous assignment. Following are the lists of periodicals, books, and tracts mentioned in the “Symposium:”
1. Periodicals.—The Signs of the Times changed the belief of 54 of the 1,080 persons; the REVIEW AND HERALD, 7; the Bible Echo, 2; Good Health, 2; Danish-Norwegian paper, 2; the Sentinel, Our Little Friend, Health Reformer, German paper, Missionary Echo, 1 each; periodicals whose titles were not given, 8; etc. Total, 80 persons.
2. Our Books.—“The Great Controversy” led 1 person to see the truth; “Daniel and the Revelation,” 17; “Bible Readings,” 12; “History of the Sabbath,” 9; “Marvel of Nations,” 4; books (no titles given), 3; “Synopsis of Present Truth,” 2; “Early Writings,” 2; “His Glorious Appearing,” 2; “Steps to Christ,” “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Prophecies of Jesus,” “Our Banquet,” and “Helps to Bible Study,” 1 each. Total, 77 persons.
3. Our Tracts.—“Elihu on the Sabbath” convinced 6 persons; “Scripture References,” 2; “Which Day Do You Keep, and Why?” 2; tracts (no titles given), 22; “Heralds of His Coming,” “How the Sabbath Came to Me,” “Is Man Immortal?” “Sleep of the Dead,” “The Two Laws,” “Who Changed the Sabbath?” “Matthew Twenty-four,” “Christ's Second Coming,” “Coming of the Lord,” “Sunday Not the Sabbath,” “State of the Dead,” “The Sabbath,” “The Sabbath in Prophecy,” “Both Sides of the Sabbath Question” (Danish), and “Eleven Sermons on the Sabbath,” 1 each. Total, 47 persons.

Note 3

“Passing of Report Blanks.”—A missionary worker in the New Jersey Conference writes thus of the importance of reporting: “As these little blanks face us week by week, they are mute witnesses to our souls of what kind of servants we are in the Lord's vineyard. The one who never has anything to write down on them is failing in a wide rangeof missionary activity. We need to face those little appealing blanks once a week, and to remember that ‘we shall individually be held responsible for doing one jot less than we have ability to do. The Lord measures with exactness every possibility for service. . . . We shall be judged according to what we ought to have done.’—Christ's Object Lessons, page 363. Do we not need to think of this often, if we would hear the ‘Well done’ at last?”

Note 4

“Plans for Work.”—Concerning the organization of missionary bands, it has been found helpful, in churches of ten or more members, to organize a number of missionary bands of four or five members, each one to make a specialty of some one of the many lines of work indicated on the weekly report blank. One band may look after the Christian Help work, such as the care of the sick, chopping wood for needy families, visiting hospitals, etc. Another band may have charge of the mailing of the missionary club of periodicals, securing the names and addresses of persons likely to be interested in our literature. Still another would direct the distribution of our tracts in packages and from reading-racks. Our instruction from the spirit of prophecy on this question is as follows: ‘The formation of small companies as a basis for Christian effort has been presented to me by One who can not err.’—Testimonies for the Church, Vol. VII, page 21. Experience has proved that this is true. A. J. S. B.

Chinese Literature for Mission Work

By Editor

RECENTLY we published in our Field department an article by Brother B. A. Roberts, entitled, “Our Publishing Work in China,” pointing out how to reach the Chinese in America. Our Chinese monthly magazine, Shi Djao Yueh Bao (Signs of the Times), costs subscribers in America fifty cents a year; clubs of five to twenty-five copies, sent to one address, forty cents a year; clubs of twenty-five or more copies, thirty cents a year. Single copies may be obtained as follows: Five to twenty-five copies, four cents each; twenty-five or more copies, three cents each; single copies, five cents. The December issue announces the following new Chinese tracts: “A Treatise on the Sabbath” (one dollar a hundred); “God’s Love for Man” (fifty cents a hundred); Sabbath School Lesson Pamphlet for first quarter, 1911 (one dollar a hundred); the 1911 Sabbath Calendar, which sells readily (five dollars a thousand); “Know Thy Creator,” revised edition (seventy-five cents a hundred); this has had the largest sale of any of our Chinese tracts. Prices on tracts and calendars do not include postage or freight. This excellent literature should be ordered in quantities by our churches within reach of Chinese settlements, and by others for individual work. Address your tract society, the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, Cal., or the Seventh-day Adventist Mission Press, Box 523, U. S. P. A., Shanghai, China. Letters sent to the last address are subject to American rates of postage only.
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