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Signs of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 12.

THE LESSON OF EGYPT'S EXPERIENCE
Earlier text: WHERE EQUAL RIGHTS MAY BE EXPERIENCED

GOOD WORDS FOR THE SIGNS.

One sister writes from Kansas:—
“Only God knows how often the dear old SIGNS has been His messenger to bring me help and comfort when I fainted beneath the daily burden of pain and care, and I thank you for the kindness you have shown me—a greater kindness than you know. Last year what little we planted was destroyed by the hail, and we have had a pretty hard time through the winter, that now, thank God, is almost over.
“Once more I thank you for the kindness you have shown me. God bless the SIGNS and its editor.”
Another writes also from Kansas:—
“I want to tell you that I believe the SIGNS has done more for me than any one else, as it has helped me through a great trouble. I can not tell you what it was, but this I can tell you, it was through your paper I found the greatest help of my life. Here are the words: ‘Trials and sorrows are sometimes sent to us as blessings.’ You can never know how those words have helped me. I used to think it was only the wicked people who suffered, but your paper has shown me differently. Of course, I studied my Bible, and found how the good Christians suffered in olden times, but I thought those times were passed.
‘This is only one of hundreds of truths your good and noble paper has taught me.’

WHEN DOES DEATH COME?

WHERE is the exact boundary between life and death? Up to within a few years it was supposed that a human being was really dead a few moments after breathing ceased; but Dr. Laborde, director of physiological work to the faculty of medicine in Paris, has proved that life may linger in the body hours after all signs of respiration have ceased to be observable. In all cases of suffocation, asphyxiation, narcotic poisoning, drowning, and the like, Dr. Laborde moves the tongue of the patient back and forth in regular cadence, instead of employing the usual means of raising and lowering the arms. The doctor has made what he calls a lingual tractor, a machine which moves the tongue back and forth a fixed distance and with exact rhythm. By its use persons have been revived who had apparently been dead for three hours. The doctor calls attention to the fact that a majority of persons who meet death in the water are killed by heart disease, and not by suffocation, which accounts for many failures in attempted resuscitation. —Examiner.

THE MAN WHO IS NEVER OUT OF WORK.

By Orison Swift Marden

Can you do the thing that no one else can do, or can you do a thing in a way that no one else can do it? Are you ingenious, always on the lookout for new devices, improved methods, up-to-date ways of doing things; in short, are you a man of ideas? Do you think to some purpose, or do you merely dream? Are you alive to the tips of your fingers, or do you only exist?
It is the exceptional man that forges his way to the front. There is always a place for him. No matter how many are out of employment, he is always in demand. There is a standing advertisement for him all over this broad land.
A man who is original and progressive in his methods is a man who succeeds.—Orison Swift Marden, in February Success.
S. D. A. Church, Corner of Twelfth and Brush Streets Where the General Conference Will Be Held.
S. D. A. Church, Corner of Twelfth and Brush Streets Where the General Conference Will Be Held.

VERSATILE NEGRO.

“Moses Leonard Frazier, the only negro who was ever graduated from the school of political science in Columbia University, New York City,” says a daily paper, “is a shining light.” He has graduated from three colleges, conducts a real estate business and finds time to manage a barber shop. He is a master of philosophy, a bachelor of philosophy, a master of arts, and an inventor. Mr. Frazier was born in 1860, and he was thirty-five years old before he had earned sufficient money to enable him to enter college.

NOTICE TO GENERAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES AND VISITORS.

1. The next S. D. A. General Conference will be held in Oakland, Cal., March 27 to April 13, 1903.
2. The members of Oakland, San Francisco, Alameda, and Berkeley churches will put forth strenuous effort to entertain all the delegates, furnishing lodging and breakfast free, the delegates furnishing their own dinner, and supper if desired.
3. Rooms outside will be secured for visitors at from one to five dollars a week according to location, furnishings, etc.
4. A first-class, vegetarian restaurant will be opened for the accommodation of all, run on the European plan, where good meals may be obtained for from 15 to 25 cents.
5. In order to secure accommodations, it will be necessary for both delegates and visitors to send their names at once to the secretary of Committee on Arrangements, C. H. Jones, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. State just what accommodations are desired, single rooms, single beds or double, or beds in a large room with several others, on the dormitory plan. This latter will be cheaper.
6. It is suggested that all those who can—delegates and visitors—bring blankets.
7. Come clothed warmly, as there will be a chilliness experienced in the humid climate of the coast by those from the interior; and the nights are always cool.

Railway Rates and Directions.

1. Special colonist rate will be in effect from February 15 to April 15, namely $33.00 from Chicago to Oakland or San Francisco; $25.00 from Missouri River points. Tickets may be purchased over any line. Stop-over privileges good in California only. Tickets are good in tourist sleepers, chair-cars, and day coaches, but not in standard Pullman sleeper.
2. Double-berth in tourist sleeper costs from Chicago to Oakland $6.00; from Missouri points $5.00. Twenty or more coming together can secure control of a tourist car. There is no extra charge for seat in chair-car whenever run.
3. Regular clergy rate from Chicago to San Francisco is $36.25; Missouri River points $30.00. This is regular coming or going, and it is what all workers will have to pay returning by any route. Clergy tickets are good in either standard or tourist sleeper. Double-berth in standard sleeper Chicago to Oakland is $14.00.
4. Check baggage to and get off at Sixteenth Street Station, Oakland. Those coming over the Southern Pacific Coast Line, or the Santa Fé will land in San Francisco. Take the Broad Gauge Line ferry-boats to Oakland, taking the Berkeley local train on Oakland side of the Bay at the Mole, and get off at Sixteenth Street Station (about five minutes' ride).
5. Arriving at Sixteenth Street Station, either by this route or via Ogden and the S. P., take Twelfth Street electric car, get off at Twelfth and Brush streets right at church door.
6. Hold all baggage checks, and deliver them to the persons authorized to receive them at the church. When you are registered and located, baggage will be delivered at your room.
7. For information concerning making up of parties, address H. E. Osborne, Battle Creek, Mich. For further information concerning accommodations here, address C. H. Jones, Oakland, Cal.

ANNUAL MEETINGS.

By Alonzo T. Jones; C. H. Jones; M. H. Brown

The thirty-second annual meeting of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the seventh annual meeting of the California Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will convene at 2:30 P.M., April 13, 1903, at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, corner of 12th and Brush Sts., Oakland, Cal., for the purpose of electing the officers of the Conference, a board of seven directors of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the transacting of such business as may properly come before the meeting. Each organized church will be entitled to one delegate, and an additional delegate for every twenty members.
A. T. Jones, President Cal. Conf.
C. H. Jones, " " Assn.
M. H. Brown, Secretary.

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.

By W. T. Knox; L. M. Bowen

Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Rural Health Retreat Association will be held in the St. Helena Sanitarium Chapel at Crystal Springs, near St. Helena, Cal., on Thursday the thirtieth day of April, 1903, for the purpose of electing a Board of seven Directors, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
W. T. Knox, President. L. M. Bowen, Secretary.

ANNUAL MEETING.

By E. A. Chapman

THE regular annual meeting of the Society of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Oakland, Cal., will be held at the house of worship, corner Twelfth and Brush Sts., Wednesday evening, April 1st, 1903, at 7.30 o'clock. E. A. Chapman, Sec.

FROM SUFFERING BARBADOS.

By W. A. Sweany

Dear Brother Wilcox: As the result of your efforts in our behalf, we have received from the SIGNS Office, $263.06, besides the gift of a three months’ subscription for a club of twenty Little Friends, from the employees of the office. But this is not all, for we have received through the Mission Board $133.51, and a little more than $150 has come to us direct from more than a score of persons, scattered from New Brunswick to Honolulu. All but about $150 of this (together with about $225 of our own private means) has been used in meeting the needs created by the terrible smallpox scourge. By far the greater part of it has been doled out in very small sums—barely enough to rescue worthy persons from pinching want of food, clothing, etc. The homes of a number have been saved from being sold for land rent. Much of it has been used over and over again as our own people repay what is advanced to them, as soon as they are able, thus perpetuating the fund. We are continually obliged to manifest judicious firmness, in dealing with applicants for help; for there are not lacking those who are quick to practise deception. In spite of our best efforts to prevent it, some has been lost in this way. Much kind firmness is required in dealing with those who are really in need (and that includes almost every one), for we can’t fully supply the needs of all, or even any, but only help as many as our means will permit. Only the judgment can fully reveal the good this help has done among the needy ones here.
Tudor Street, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Tudor Street, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Cleaning Fish, Barbados.
Cleaning Fish, Barbados.
A Typical Marine View.
A Typical Marine View.
The willingness of our friends to respond to the needs of the Master’s cause, and their cheering letters (all of which were personally answered), have encouraged us more than anything else during this trial. The way they are responding to the growing needs and rapidly increasing calls from all over the world, betokens speedy victory for the message. This experience has emphasized another thing, and that is the worth and value to this cause of the SIGNS and Review, and the influence they wield in the great field. Whatever these faithful watchmen endorse will succeed. Brethren, tell the people all about your fields and they will respond to the needs.
The interest of our people in missions is exactly proportional to their knowledge of missions. As a result of our request in the SIGNS and Review, we have received scores of letters from persons who are willing to send their papers regularly to persons here, after they have read them. Thus we are enabled fairly to sow this island with the good seed, at very small expense—only the postage—and the papers might otherwise lie about until worn out or destroyed. Here, they will be used again and again, by being sold, loaned, or given away, thus sowing seed that will surely produce fruit.
There is no doubt in my mind that the increased interest and activity among our people in world-wide missions is due to the systematic study of missions, missionaries, and mission fields, that was begun a few years ago, and has been promoted by reports from our missionaries from all parts of the world. About five years ago Sister A. E. Ellis, of Dodge Center, Minn., for many years corresponding secretary of the Minnesota Tract Society, organized a little reading circle of about a score of members to promote knowledge of and interest in foreign missions. Various missionary books and periodicals were studied, and questions and suggestions sent out monthly. After running the gauntlet of indifference and opposition, the idea spread throughout the Conference, and brought Minnesota to the front in donations to foreign missions, as statistics for that time will show.
Then the plan spread throughout the field, and the Berean Reading Circle was organized, which had much to do with the revival of the missionary spirit in our ranks. It was that experience that filled us with the zeal that will never wane till the Gospel of the Kingdom has been preached in all the world. Sister Ellis is now, by long, tireless, ceaseless labor, disabled, but a large number of those whom she helped to inspire with the real spirit of the message, are now in the ranks and on the firing line of the campaign.
In regard to the present situation here, I am compelled to say that although the smallpox is waning, conditions,—industrial, financial, and commercial,—are worse than at any previous time. The rigors of the quarantine are being increased rather than diminished. The opposition of the anti-vaccinists to every effort of the government to stamp out the disease is engendering more and more bitterness. A public meeting was held a few days ago, to consider the situation, but it ended almost in a riot.
Yesterday after long delay and much bitter opposition, the House of Assembly passed a bill providing for compulsory isolation, fumigation, and vaccination in infected areas. It will surely pass the Legislative Council and receive the Governor’s approval, and then something can be done to put a stop to the shameful proceedings that have kept the scourge in our midst all these months. The anti-vaccinists are an insignificant minority, composed mostly of the ignorant class, influenced by their religious advisers, who tell them that vaccination is forbidden in the Bible—is the mark of the beast, etc.
A short time ago, when there had not been a case for two weeks, and only a dozen in the hospital, and we were almost ready to issue clean bills of health, a case broke out in an out parish. Seventy of the man’s fanatical neighbors went in to shake hands and say good-by, before he was taken to the pest house. And now they are rapidly coming down with it and scattering the disease.
Most of the small, non-conformist sects (whose name and number is legion) are anti-vaccinists and seemingly anti everything that is reasonable. We were being classed in with them, so I lectured twice on the subjects of “The Relation of Reason and Faith to Vaccination and Smallpox,” and “Rights, Freedom, and Liberty.” The leading daily published the lectures almost entire, and it has resulted in much good in many ways—by dispelling ignorance in many minds, and by bringing us prominently before the government and the reading, intelligent public in a favorable way.
At the beginning of this epidemic there was $135,000 in the public treasury. During its course, licenses, customs, duties, etc., have been increased twenty per cent, but a deficit of about $29,000 this quarter has compelled the Government to raise a loan of about $40,000. A leading citizen said yesterday in the foremost daily—
“It does seem that we are getting into very low water. The treasury at the end of the present quarter will be £6,000 to the bad. The grant to the Sanitary Board of £7,000 is exhausted. As the sanitation must be kept up; it will necessitate a further grant, rendering the outlook more gloomy. Very few, if any, of the mercantile body are paying their expenses. Taxation, as far as I know, has never been higher. Any addition at present will ‘break the camel’s back.’ I deprecate earnestly any undue excitement or friction. We are passing through a crisis which I fear has not been realized up to the present. All classes have borne the severe financial strain in a way that is highly creditable, and I can not speak too highly of the loyal way our peasantry have acted.”
He then commends the government and condemns the “anti” element. So poor little Barbados is, with the rest of the world, feeling the distress and perplexity foretold in the Bible. As I see the awful situation here, and then read of conditions in Russia, India, Sweden, and many other places, where millions are suffering, my heart cries out, “How long, O Lord, how long?” “Come, Lord Jesus, and come quickly.”
Brother Spicer is now in the West Indies holding council meetings, but of course we can’t attend, and he can’t come here, on account of the quarantine.
Brother and Sister Morrow, of Demerara, South America, passed here a fortnight ago, en route to Bermuda in search of rest and health, after eight years of hard labor in this enervating climate. Their ship lay here three days, but we could not go to them, nor could they come to us. However, we got near enough in a row boat to talk with them. It seemed good to see their faces again after so long isolation.
Well, thank God, quarantine can’t shut us away from God, nor Him from us. We are well and of good courage, and the work is prospering more and more.
W. A. SWEANY.
Bridgetown, Barbados, W. I.

A PRAYER.

By Ella Cornish

I BRING to Thee, O Lord, my utter nothingness, Take Thou my sins away and give me righteousness. Take Thou my sorrow, grief, and care, and give in place The peace and hope and joy of Thy sustaining grace. For unbelief give faith, for doubt confiding trust; Consider Thou my frame, remember it is dust And doomed to death; impart Thy life that I may live; Thy strength, O Lord, made perfect in my weakness, give. Defenseless, clothe me with the armor of Thy might, And blind, anoint my eyes that I receive my sight. O give me wisdom, courage, patience, all I need To gain the victory o’er sin,—for these I plead In merit of my Saviour’s all-atoning blood And plunge for cleansing in that precious, crimson flood.
Asylum, Neb. ELLA CORNISH.

AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE WASHINGTON, D. C., CHURCH.

By Ellen G. White

“Elmshaven,” Sanitarium, Cal., Feb. 22, 1903.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I have been pleased to learn, through reading the Review, and from letters from Elder J. S. Washburn, that a church building in Washington, D. C., formerly known as the Central Methodist Protestant Church, has been purchased by the Second Seventh-day Adventist Church of that city. A house of worship was greatly needed by our people in the section of the city where this property is situated. The purchase of this church will provide a suitable place in which witness can be borne to the truths we advocate. The building will stand as a memorial for God.
This property must now be paid for. Some payments have already been made, but a large sum must yet be raised to complete the payments. We therefore ask those who have means, to act as the Lord’s helping hand by doing something to help to free this church from debt. Every penny given will help. If all will give what they can, the indebtedness will soon be liquidated. We pray that those who can help in this enterprise may be constrained to do so by their love for Christ. We regard the purchase of this church property as a wise step, and your co-operation in assisting the brethren there to pay for it will bring you into harmony with the beneficent purposes of the Gospel. Let those who have means use it wisely. It is a talent lent them by the Lord to be used when called for to advance His cause. In the place of spending money for selfish pleasure, let every one deny self and lift the cross. God’s blessing will follow. Do not all of our people desire to share in the privilege of paying for the house of worship in Washington, D. C.? If every one of the believers in this country would give something, the necessary sum would be raised, and the amount given by each would scarcely be missed. Let us help our brethren in the national capital; for they are too poor and too few in number to bear the burden alone. Those who share in this missionary enterprise by making gifts large or small, according to their ability, will ever after feel a deeper interest in the progress of the Lord’s cause in Washington. Those who respond to this call, making gifts to the Lord for the purchase of this church property, will receive rich blessing for so doing.
(Signed) MRS. E. G. WHITE.
NOTE.—All gifts should be sent to Elder J. S. Washburn, 1728 Fourteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. MRS. E. G. W.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE study of the Bible has brought a request for baptism by about a dozen of the larger pupils of the church-school at Salamanca, N. Y.
THE work of publishing “Christ Our Saviour,” “Steps to Christ,” four chapters of “Patriarchs and Prophets,” and the last chapter of “Great Controversy” in the Samoan language is now progressing encouragingly. The first-named work is already printed.
SEVEN candidates baptized at Palmerston North, N. Z., and a live interest in selling papers on Saturday nights, form part of a report by Brother W. L. H. Baker in the Record. He also states that in New Zealand there is a growing demand for literature, and religious liberty and health literature is being circulated quite extensively.
THE little church-school at Adam’s Center, N. Y., is thus noted by Brother G. B. Thompson: “The school is doing nicely. It is held in Sister Kellogg’s parlor, and she said she never took so much pleasure in her parlor as now. No better use it would seem could be found for a parlor. Better to sacrifice the parlor than to lose the boys and girls. Are there not others who will turn their parlors into schoolrooms?”
THERE are many encouraging features connected with the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Brother Walter Harper writes from Oro Grande, Cal.: “I left Oakland January 28 to work on that grand book for a few weeks in Southern California. In one month the dear heavenly Father gave me over 160 orders. His is all the honor and praise. I have had some blessed experiences in this work. I see so many tokens of God’s love and care. May all do their part in this work soon, and close it up.” To this we add the following from the Montana Bivouac: “Sister C. F. Stewart, of Ovando, recently sold forty-three ‘Object Lessons’ in Granite, in about a day and a half. She is now in Townsend, where she reports fourteen orders almost immediately upon her arrival there. Sister Stewart has now sold over 100 copies, which is the greatest number sold by any one person in our conference.” One brother, in Seattle, Western Washington Conference, sold 100 copies.
BROTHER HUBERT FLETCHER reports to the Review that encouraging progress in the work is being made in Jamaica. January 17 two candidates were baptized. Since then a young minister, together with the leader and his wife, of a small Independent Baptist Church, and two other aged men had been added to the church at Swift River. A church of 17 active members has been organized. After this organization Brother Fletcher went to a place called John’s Hall, to assist in the work of building a church.
THE following interesting item regarding the work in Calcutta, India, is from a letter by Brother L. J. Burgess to the Minnesota Worker, dated January 28:—
The only organized church of the Seventh-day Adventists here in Calcutta was formed about a year ago. The membership is now about 50. Last Sabbath seven new members were received by baptism. We have made only a small beginning in the native work. We have six tracts printed in Bengali and one in Hindi. There are still about 198 other languages being spoken by 300,000,000 people, but we believe the time is near when these will all hear the message we have for them. There are good openings for ministers, Bible workers, nurses, and canvassers, but the great need of the native people, it seems to me, is for “Gospel farmers.” Here is an open door to a fruitful field. Land can be secured very cheaply in almost any climate desired, either in the hills or on the plain, where all manner of fruits and grains will grow in abundance with the blessing of the Lord, and at the same time the seed of the Gospel can be cultivated in the hearts of those who have never heard of the kingdom of heaven.
OF the branch Sabbath-school work Sister L. Flora Plummer, corresponding secretary of the International Sabbath-school Association, reports:—
In one place there are four branch schools held regularly on Sabbath afternoon, besides the regular Sabbath-school held Sabbath morning. One of our ministers, in writing of this place, says: “One great advantage of the branch work is the keeping of the young people busy in the Lord’s work on Sabbath. It also helps to develop in them a spirit of work. It also opens the way for other lines of work. When people know we are doing what we can to help their children, they become more friendly, and some are asking questions upon themes, which, if studied, will lead them into the truth.” Some of our workers in mission fields have found this plan a helpful one. Sister Minnie Hoffman, in Finland, writes of a branch school which she has been holding in Borga. In addition to the teaching of the Bible lesson to these children which she had gathered together, she told them of the people in other countries. These little Finnish children became so interested in the heathen in Africa that they obtained from their parents and friends a donation of $9.80 for our African Mission.

DONATIONS FOR BARBADOS.

Acknowledged to date $255.83 San Pasqual Church $5.00 M. M. Osborne $2.00 E. S. Foster $5.00 Total $267.83

GIVING AND RECEIVING.

By J. S. Washburn

THE inspired physician, Luke, tells us that the Lord Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The joy of heaven is the joy of giving; every good gift is poured out upon us that we may give it to others. He who does not give will soon cease to receive, will stagnate, die. See that slimy pool, dead itself, and breeding death and malaria. Why?—Because it has no outlet. So is he that lives only to himself, who will not give to others, fearing that he himself shall have nothing. But turn from this loathsome death-decay, to the gushing, singing, mountain stream, clear as a crystal. Why this marvelous difference? The mountain stream forever flows onward, outward. There is an inlet, because there is an outlet. There is an inflow, because there is an outflow. The stream flows in, only as it flows out. This is God’s philosophy of giving and receiving. It is blessed to receive, only as we give that which is received to others. The River of Life flows ever outward from God to all creation, animate and inanimate, and is, in all those who receive Him, a well of water springing up, flowing out to others.
He who gives will receive. He who fears to give, fearing that he will not have enough for himself, will soon cease to receive. He who would have heavenly riches, must sell and give. The Lord sent Elijah to a poor widow who had just enough food for one last meal for her son and herself. The prophet requested that she should make him a “little cake, first, and bring it out to me, and after make for thee and for thy son.” As long as she thus made the cause of God in the person of Elijah first, so long was there abundance to preserve her life and the life of her son, while all about her, those who lived for themselves were dying. Truly in this, the Elijah message for to-day, this miracle will be repeated for those who have the faith of Jesus. He who has freely received will freely give, and he will freely receive as he freely gives. He will receive all that God has for him when he gives all he is, and all he has for the cause of God. J. S. WASHBURN.

DONATIONS RECEIVED FOR WASHINGTON CHURCH.

Previously reported $56.43 J. McMillan $1.00
E. Menzel 5.00 J. W. Swenson 1.00
Mrs. L. Nelson 5.00 Mrs. A. E. Cary 2.00
J. E. Downs 1.00 Laura Shelton 1.00
Mrs. J. F. Chambers 1.00 Mrs. Mowey 1.00
N. P. Stetson 1.00 A friend 3.00
Mrs. M. Ostenhost 2.00 A friend .50
P. H. A. Hesselund .25
Mrs. L. Sprague 1.50 Total $82.68

AN HONORABLE ACQUITTAL.

By J. W. Boynton

Last November, J. L. Hamren, near Wetaskiwin, Alberta, was arrested for violation of the Lord’s Day ordinance. In the justice’s court he was fined $2.00 and costs, amounting to $3.45 in all. The justice advised him to appeal to the higher court. By advice from C. W. Flaiz, president of the Union Conference, who was present, the appeal was entered and counsel engaged. Court sat in February. During the interval I sent tracts and papers on religious liberty to the leading men on the territory, writing them personal letters calling attention to the literature and to the Hamren case. The case was tried February 19, before Hon. Judge Scott, of Edmonton. He sustained the appeal, and quashed the conviction of Brother Hamren. We feel grateful to God that He has wrought for us in this thing. While we know this will be only a temporary relief, yet it will give us a little more time to work for this people in peace. J. W. Boynton.

PUBLICATIONS WANTED.

CLEAN copies of the SIGNS, Review, Sentinel, Instructor, Health Journal, Little Friend, and Life Boat for hospital and Soldiers' Home work. Address, Mrs. R. M. Coon, Sawtelle, Los Angeles Co., Cal.
CLEAN, up-to-date copies of the SIGNS for missionary work. Address, post-paid, Edgar L. Belknap, Hood River, Oregon, Box 15.
LATE, clean copies of any of our publications, for reading-rack work. Address, post-paid, Mrs. Carrie Bukher, Red Oak, Ellis Co., Texas.
SIGNS, Instructor, Sentinel, and tracts. Address, post-paid, Mrs. E. T. Rowlen, Clark and West Third Streets, Penn, Ill.
ANY of our periodicals; can use back numbers. Address, post-paid, Mamie P. Yeaton, Apopka, Orange Co., Fla.

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The Winning of Margaret

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