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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 35.

But We See Jesus
Earlier text: Urumiah, Persia

Proposed Religious Legislation

By J. E. Jayne

THE Commission on Church and Social Service, representing the Federal Council of Churches, has announced that it will introduce into the legislatures of New York and New Jersey, bills making compulsory the granting to industrial workers of one day's rest in seven. The New York bill makes it very clear that it is not to be construed to authorize labor on Sunday that is now forbidden by law, and provides that—
"No person, partnership, firm, corporation, municipality, nor any of their agents, directors, or officers, may require or permit any employee to work on Sunday in his or its employ, except at farm labor or household service, unless within the next succeeding six days, during a period of twenty-four hours, he or it shall neither require nor permit such employee to work in his or its service."
The introduction of these bills into the legislatures of New York and New Jersey is to be followed by a general campaign in other States. Judged by the preparation being made, the advocates of religious legislation are preparing for very aggressive work during the approaching congressional year. The present is the proper time for our laborers and conferences, and all lovers of religious liberty, to make thorough preparation for active work in their own communities or States. Names and addresses of legislators and officials can be obtained upon proper application. Acquaintance can be formed and interest be created that may prove very valuable next winter. Watch the local press. Take advantage of local agitations to use literature when it will be carefully read.—J. E. Jayne, in the Atlantic Union Gleaner.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— A prosperous farmer of Marysville, Ohio, eighty-one years old, took his first ride on a railroad train several weeks ago.
— There is one public library in Peking. It is the library of the Kuo Tze Chien, or School for the Sons of the Empire, an ancient university that existed 1,000 years before the Christian era. This library is of stone. On 182 tablets of stone composing it are carved all the "Thirteen Classics," the summary and essence of all Chinese culture. This stone library itself is not of the age of the School of the Sons of the Empire, but probably dates from some time late in the Mongol or early in the Ming dynasty, about 500 years ago.
— Gaston Odin, a Paris physician, recently announced that he has discovered the microbe of cancer, and has succeeded in isolating and cultivating it. He also declared that he has found an anticancer serum which, whether or not it leads to a permanent prevention or a cure, will show with certainty if the cancer parasite is present in the blood.
— The voluntary abdication of Mulai Hafid, sultan of Morocco, was officially announced last week. The latest news from that country is disquieting, and indicates fear of a general rising in the south. The tribes in the Spanish zone refuse to recognize the new sultan, Mulai Youssef, and this action on the part of the Moors in that territory is also attributed to Spanish influence.
— The rack-railroad up Mt. Pilatus, one of the loftiest peaks of the Bernese Alps, in Switzerland, is said to have the steepest grade of any road in the world not operated by cables. Rising from the western shore of Lake Lucerne, the rails ascend the precipitous side of the mountain 6,998 feet to its summit. When the road was being constructed, it was necessary to fasten spikes into the rock, against which the construction gang could brace their feet while laying the road-bed.
— From London comes this report: The crowds of Americans who came abroad hoping to escape the heat, and leaving their overcoats behind, forgot that if it were not for the Gulf Stream, England would be an ice-bound, uninhabited arctic region. The present season is almost as bad as that, for, on account of so much ice in the middle Atlantic, according to scientists, the Gulf Stream is so chilled by the time it reaches these shores that it has caused a summer such as even the oldest inhabitant can not remember.
— General William Booth, commander-in-chief and founder of the Salvation Army, died in London on the evening of Aug. 20, 1912, at the age of eighty-three years. He had been in poor health since early spring, at which time he underwent an unsuccessful operation for the removal of a cataract from his left eye. General Booth, who founded what has been termed "the greatest organized movement since the beginning of Christianity for the saving of human souls," was born in Nottingham, England, April 10, 1829. At the age of thirty-two he entered the ministry, but was not formally ordained until six years later. In the meantime he was appointed to do circuit work, and while traveling through the country was greatly pained to see the wretched condition of the poor, especially in London's slums. He could not shake off the burden that it was his duty to do what he could to remedy these conditions, and to this end he organized what became known as the Salvation Army, July 5, 1865. From a humble beginning in London, this great organization, fighting against sin and extreme poverty, has grown until it has 8,972 corps, circles, and societies established in fifty-six countries and colonies, with about 21,203 officers and employees. A concrete example of the work of the Salvation Army is found in the fact that during one year 6,327,249 persons were supplied with beds, and 12,000,000 fed. Bramwell Booth now becomes head of the army.
— Former President Diaz, of Mexico, is reported as being anxious to return to his country. If he can not do that, he may take up his residence in New York City.
— Dr. Belisario Porras has been elected president of the Republic of Panama for the term running from 1912 to 1916. He had no opposition, General Diaz, the candidate of the administration, having withdrawn.
— The State Department of the United States government, answering inquiries, has announced that it will not recognize the new Chinese government until it has demonstrated its stability. While this position is taken as to recognition, the department nevertheless is dealing officially with the republic.
— The importation of absinthe into the United States, and its sale in interstate commerce, has been prohibited after October 1 next by a pure-food decision signed by Secretary Wilson. "It is generally recognized," says the decision, "that this beverage is dangerous to health."
— Dr. Griffith John, missionary of the London Missionary Society at Hankow, China, recently died in London. Altogether he had passed more than fifty-five years in China. He was the first Christian missionary to reach Central China, and also was the pioneer in a number of Chinese provinces.
— Maj.-Gen. Lum Hing Wei, of the Chinese army, who is expected in New York from Chicago this week, is here to study municipal affairs and the American army. General Lum commands a division of the Chinese army, and is one of the chief advisers to the president of the Chinese republic. General Lum will spend a week in Washington, and go to West Point. He wishes to study the governments of several of the larger cities, and to inspect American soldiers.
— Acting on complaints from prominent Mexican citizens in El Paso and San Antonio that American officials at those places are in league with agents of President Madero of Mexico to impress Mexican refugees into the Madero army, the executive committee of the revolutionary party of Mexico, through Senor Juan P. Diddap, their representative at Washington, issued on August 19 a statement to the American people to the effect that any intervention by the American government to restore order in Mexico will be treated by the revolutionary party as an open declaration of war against people who are fighting their own internal troubles.
— The Senate has yielded to the demands of the House for the abolition of the pension agencies throughout the United States, and passed the $150,000,000 pension appropriation bill, with a provision for the abolishment of the agencies Jan. 31, 1913. Under the present provision, the payment of all pensions will, after the date named, be made directly from the Pension Bureau at Washington. At present the bureau has nothing to do with the actual payment to veterans, the checks going out through the hands of the eighteen district pension agencies. The change will abolish eighteen $4,000 jobs. A saving of about $250,000 in administration of the pension laws will follow.
— The Danish citizens of the United States have presented to the government of Denmark a fine park in the Rebild Hills of Jutland. The first of this month the park was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, and is to be known as the Danish-American National Park. Several thousand Danish-American citizens were present to witness the ceremonies.
— President Taft, in a special message to Congress, recently urged the appropriation of $253,350 to strengthen the Indian medical corps, and stamp out tuberculosis, trachoma, and other contagious diseases. The death-rate in the Indian country is 35 per 1,000, and millions of white people, Mr. Taft declared, are endangered by disease among the nation's wards.
— The size of all United States currency and national bank-notes probably will be reduced by one third, and their designs revolutionized by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh for the sake of economics to the government, convenience to the public, and safety against counterfeiting. It is proposed to make the dimensions 6 x 2½ inches. The paper money now in circulation measures 7.28 x 3.04 inches.
— Facing a steadily rising market, the Chicago packers and the officials of the Live Stock Exchange have announced that something definite must be done officially to foster and protect the cattle-raising industry. Cattle have reached the highest prices in forty years, with no sign of reduction in sight. It is the opinion of these men that laws must be enacted by either Congress or the State legislatures to encourage the raising of cattle.
— The colored people of the country are watching most carefully the work of the last days of this session of Congress; for there is a bill now before the House calling for an appropriation of $250,000 for a national exposition, to be held next year, celebrating fifty years of Negro progress since the emancipation of the slaves by President Lincoln in 1863. The bill passed the Senate in April, and since that time has been in the hands of the House appropriations committee.
— Among its many peculiarities, South Africa includes the sneezewood tree, which takes its name from the fact that one can not cut it with a saw without sneezing, as the fine dust has exactly the effect of snuff. Even in planing the wood, it will sometimes cause sneezing. No insect, worm, nor barnacle will touch it. It is very bitter to the taste, and its specific gravity is heavier than water. The color is light brown, the grain very close and hard. It is nice-looking wood, and takes a good polish.
— Leading aural experts of the world, attendants at the closing session of the International Congress of Otologists recently held in Boston, Mass., listened to an address from the lips of Miss Helen Keller, the deaf and blind young woman who has learned to talk. Miss Keller spoke first in English, making a plea for the education of the deaf, and later gave toasts in French and German. As a further demonstration of her abilities, she sang, giving the specialists the benefits of some lessons in vocal culture which she has recently undertaken.

Labor Sunday Observance

The Federal Council Commission on the Church and Social Service reports that about 20,000 pastors have taken up the observance of Labor Sunday, September 1; or in some cases, a later Sunday, and that the subject of seven-day labor will be presented with an appeal for one day in seven for industrial workers.

Self-Supporting Missionary Training

By E. A. Sutherland

The ninth annual opening of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute will occur Oct. 16, 1912.
This school has been established for the purpose of training active missionaries, especially teachers and nurses. The capacity of the school is limited to about seventy. Last year a large per cent of the students practically earned their board and room while carrying school work. The institution is prepared to help worthy students this year. The school work is so arranged that the student has an opportunity to practise what he learns.
This institution was established primarily for the training of those who desire to enter the Lord's work as self-supporting missionaries. The Bible says that at the eleventh hour many will be standing idle in the marketplace because no man has hired them. TheLord of the vineyard has told these idle ones to go into the vineyard to work, and they will receive whatsoever is right. Many of these may be assisted in entering the vineyard by taking a short, practical training in the Madison school. Those who have been making excuses should make every effort now; for the great harvest movement will soon be upon us. It will be too late then to prepare. We should like to correspond with any who desire to enter the Lord's work on this basis. Address the writer at Madison, Tenn.
E. A. SUTHERLAND.

Florida Sanitarium and Benevolent Association

The fifth annual session of the Florida Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will convene on the Seventh-day Adventist campground at Ocala, Fla., on Monday, Oct. 7, 1912, at 10 A. M., to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association. The voters of this association are the regularly accredited delegates to the Florida conference.
R. W. PARMELE, President; W. L. BIRD, Secretary.

Florida Conference

By R. W. Parmele; Mrs. R. G. Stringer

The nineteenth annual session of the Florida Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Ocala, Fla., which begins Oct. 3, 1912. The first meeting of the conference will be held on Friday, October 4, at 9 A. M. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to one additional delegate for every ten members. Let there be a full representation at this meeting.
R. W. PARMELE, President; MRS. R. G. STRINGER, Secretary.

Florida Conference Association

THE sixth annual session of the Florida Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground at Ocala, Fla., at 10 A. M. Friday, Oct. 4, 1912, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association.
R. W. PARMELE, President; B. W. SPIRE, Secretary.

Maine Benevolent Association

By E. C. Taylor

The fourteenth annual meeting of the Benevolent Association of Seventh-day Adventists of Maine will be held at the Adventist church in Norridgewock, Aug. 27, 1912, at 5 P. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
E. C. TAYLOR, Clerk.

Maine Conference Association

The first meeting of the regular annual session of the Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp-ground in Norridgewock, Maine, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1912, at 10 A. M., in connection with the Maine camp-meeting of Seventh-day Adventists.
Members of the board of trustees will be elected to fill vacancies on the board, also such other business transacted as may properly come before the association. All the accredited delegates to the regular session of the Maine Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, unincorporated, are members of the corporation.
J. F. Piper, President; W. O. Howe, Clerk.

Publications Wanted

By Editor

The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent post-paid:—
Papers, magazines, and tracts for use in station reading-rack are requested by Mrs. Fred Hampe, Box 364, Salida, Colo.
Any of our periodicals will be appreciated by Mrs. Mollie Miller, 932 Union Street, Jackson, Miss., for use in a railroad station reading-rack.
A continuous supply of Youth's Instructor, Signs of the Times, Liberty, Protestant Magazine, and tracts on different points of our faith, both in English and in German, will be appreciated by Mrs. C. Fraser, Homewood, Ill. She wishes this literature to use in reading-racks at railroad stations particularly.

Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute

By P. T. Magan

THE annual meeting of the constituency of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute will be held in the chapel of Gotzian Hall, on the premises of the corporation, at 7 P. M., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1912. The purpose of the meeting is the election of trustees and officers, and such other business as may properly come before the members of the corporation.
The annual meeting of the trustees will be held at 6 P. M. the same evening in the same place.
The annual meeting of the patrons will be held at 7 P. M. the following evening in the same place. The purpose of the meeting will be to fill the vacancies occurring on account of the expiration of the terms of office of some of the managers, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the patrons. P. T. MAGAN, Secretary.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1912

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE Northern New England, Manchester, N. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 21 to Sept. 1 New York, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 23 to Sept. 1 Maine, Norridgewock. . . . . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 8
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE Maritime, Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia . . Sept. 3-10
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE Nebraska, College View . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 South Missouri, Clinton . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 9 North Missouri, Hamilton, Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 West Kansas, Salina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 5-15 East Kansas, Lawrence (colored) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 West Colorado, Delta . . . . Sept. 26 to Oct. 6
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE West Pennsylvania, Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 Virginia, Richmond . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE North Michigan, Traverse City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 West Michigan, Kalamazoo . . . . Sept. 3-11 Wisconsin, Baraboo . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 5-11
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE Iowa, Boone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE Utah, Salt Lake City . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 3-8 Arizona, Phoenix . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 17-27
SOUTHEASTERN UNION Cumberland Conference, Sweetwater, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 Florida, Ocala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct. 3-14
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE Mississippi, Brookhaven (colored) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 30 to Sept. 8 Alabama (colored) . . . . . . Sept. 27 to Oct. 5
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE Oklahoma, Oklahoma City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1
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Obituaries

DOCKHAM.—Charles Dockham died June 25, 1912, at Drywood, Minn., in his seventy-third year. He was born at Bradford, Vt., July 23, 1839. The deceased served in the civil war, enlisting from Wisconsin. He was married to Miss Harriet Tenney, a sister of Elder G. C. Tenney, in 1859. To this union were born three sons and two daughters, one of whom died a few years ago. He made his home in Wisconsin and Minnesota during the greater part of his life. For the last ten years he lived in Drywood, where for a time he served as elder of the Seventh-day Adventist church. He accepted this truth over thirty years ago, and was a faithful Christian. Words of comfort were spoken from Job 14:14. E. M. CHAPMAN.
CRANDALL.—William Eldridge Crandall died at his home north of Hetland, S. Dak., July 10, 1912. He was born in South Kingston, R. I., May 3, 1834, being one of a family of ten children. In 1870 he went to Wisconsin, where a year later he was married to Paulina Hoffman. They returned to Rhode Island, and lived on the old homestead for eleven years. In 1882 the family moved to South Dakota, settling near Hetland, where they have since resided. Brother Crandall united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1881. He was known as a kind neighbor, a loving husband and father, and a consistent Christian. His wife, three sons, and two daughters survive. The funeral services were held in the Congregational church at Hetland. P. E. BERTHELSEN.
SCHMIDT.—Jacob Hansen Schmidt was born of Danish parents at Schleswig, Germany, Feb. 9, 1869. He came to America when eighteen years of age, and accepted Christ seven years later. In 1902 he embraced the doctrines taught by Seventh-day Adventists, and having a desire to proclaim the same to his fellow men, immediately entered Union College, where he spent four years. Three years of his life were spent in active gospel service, after which, broken in health, he came to Alberta. He was married to Miss Milla Johnson in 1908. He leaves a wife, one child, a mother, and a sister to mourn their loss. He was ever a true follower of Christ, having as his one purpose the advancement of this message. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. C. A. BURMAN.
KYSOR.—Oliver Perry Kysor died at his home in Wayzata, Minn., where he had just recently settled, July 30, 1912, aged 82 years, 10 months, and 22 days. He was a believer in the third angel's message for over forty years, and fell asleep in the hope of soon meeting his Saviour. He was buried in the Maine Cemetery at Phelps, Minn., his old home. Four daughters and two sons are left to mourn. The funeral services were conducted by the writer. A. W. KUEHL.
CLARK.—Hiram Clark died in Richmond County, Quebec, Aug. 5, 1912, aged 90 years, 7 months, and 2 days. Having been identified with the Millerite movement in early life, and a Sabbath-keeper for over fifty years, he belonged to a generation which is now rapidly passing away. His three sons and their families are left to mourn, but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13. W. J. TANNER.
CHISHOLM.—James M. Chisholm was born June 10, 1834, at Marshall, Mich., and died July 27, 1912. He was a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Benton Harbor, Mich., at the time of his death holding the office of deacon. One son and two daughters, together with other relatives and friends, are left to mourn. The funeral services were conducted at his home in St. Joseph, Mich., by Elder A. H. Stoneman, pastor of the Congregational church of that place. WILMA L. EASTMAN.
HUFF.—Robert E. Huff died at Eureka, Kans., June 26, 1912. His wife, two sons, and two daughters are left to mourn. The deceased was born in Carey, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1840. For some years he made his home in Sparland, Ill., where he was married at the close of the civil war, in which he served three years. He was a faithful Seventh-day Adventist for a number of years. His patience during the years of suffering preceding his death, was a lesson to those about him. He will be greatly missed. MRS. M. E. HUFF.
MESSERSMITH.—Jane Messersmith, née Clark, was born in Vincennes, Ind., Dec. 27, 1830. In 1847 she moved with her parents to Vernon County, Wisconsin, where she spent the greater part of her life. Some years ago she came with her niece to Texas County, Missouri, where she died Sabbath, July 20, in her eighty-second year. She leaves a large circle of friends in different parts of the country, who will remember her as a faithful, untiring missionary worker, although in very feeble health. She had been a Sabbath-keeper for forty-eight years, and fell asleep in the hope of a part in the first resurrection. F. J. BROWN.
RAYMOND.—Emily T. Robinson was born in 1848. Her parents were among the early pioneers of the third angel's message in New York State. At an early age little Emily became interested in religion, was converted, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In 1868 she was married to A. C. Raymond, and together they faithfully served the Lord until his death last spring. After her husband died, she made her home with her youngest son, who lives near Springfield, Mass., and there she fell asleep in Jesus, June 23, 1912. The funeral services were conducted by Elder S. Walker. Three sons, a sister, and a brother are the nearest surviving relatives. H. E. ROBINSON.
STOCKDALE.—Nina Blanche Caldwell was born in Decatur City, Iowa, Aug. 23, 1874, and died at the home of her parents in Des Moines, Iowa, July 18, 1912, aged 37 years, 10 months, and 25 days. When she was ten years of age, her parents moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she resided until her marriage with Charles H. Stockdale, May 25, 1892. To them were born three children, who with their father are left to mourn. Sister Stockdale joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1901. She was a devoted Christian, an active worker in the church, and a loving, sympathetic wife and mother. We believe that she sleeps in Jesus. Besides her sorrowing husband and children, she leaves her parents, one sister, and many other relatives and friends. W. D. PARKHURST.
KENT.—Brother Hugh Kent was born in Fayette County, West Virginia, in 1842, and died Aug. 4, 1912, at Mason City. He leaves a wife, one son, three sisters, and many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. His life was spent in the State of his birth, except the few years when the family resided in Pomeroy, Ohio. He served in the civil war for four years. For the last fifteen years of his life Brother Kent was a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He loved the truth, and died in hope. F. E. GIBSON.
CLEMENS.—Cescil Clemens was born in Knoxville, Tenn., May 17, 1892, and died at her home in the same city July 29, 1912, aged 20 years, 2 months, and 12 days. Through the labors of Elder W. H. Maynor she received a knowledge of present truth about a year ago, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church of Knoxville, where she continued a faithful member until her death. Her parents and one sister survive, but they sorrow in the hope of a soon-coming Saviour, who will restore to them their loved one. H. LESLEY SHOUP.
BOND.—Harry Cecil Bond was born in California, March 17, 1891, and died at Healdsburg, Cal., Aug. 3, 1912, aged 21 years, 4 months, and 16 days. His parents, six brothers, and four sisters survive. Two of his brothers, Elders Walter and Frank Bond, have been laboring for several years in Spain. Harry was converted and baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the tender age of eight years. Since his sixteenth year he has been one of the most faithful and successful canvassers in the denomination, having spent more than a year in Cuba engaged in this work. Ill health necessitated his return to the States last October. To the very close of his life Harry was faithful in the Master's service. GEORGE W. RINE.
KINNAMAN.—Mary Ann Kinnaman was born in Indiana, Feb. 18, 1833, and died at her home in Eureka, Kans., March 28, 1912. In 1849 she was married to Charles Stapleford. To them were born seven children, three of whom survive. The family were pioneers in Kansas, having journeyed there by ox-team from Illinois in the late fifties. Mr. Stapleford died in the early eighties, and a few years later Mrs. Stapleford was married to Mr. Kinnaman. Sister Kinnaman accepted present truth late in the nineties. From that time until her death she cherished the hope of seeing her Saviour come in the clouds of heaven, but in the providence of an all-wise Father she sleeps in Jesus. CHARLES B. CRAIG.

Business Notices

SPECIAL BIBLE MOTTOES; more new beauties just out: 50, $2.50; 100, $4.50; 300, $10. Post-Cards: 40, 20c. Also Vegetable Cooking Oil: 5 gal., $4.25; 10 gal., $8.15. Hampton Art Co., Nevada, Iowa.
WANTED.— A position as stationary engineer. Competent to take charge of heating plant or manufacturing plant of any description, or as sawmill engineer, where the Sabbath may be kept. A place with a church and school preferred. M. L. Cutrell, Duquoin, Ill.
COOKING OIL.— Best quality. Delicate flavor. Purely vegetable. Guaranteed. Extensively used by best cooks. Five gal., $4.15; 10 gal., $7.90; 8 1-gal. cans, $7.36; 6 5-gal. cans, $22.50; 30-gal. bbl., $21.90; 50-gal. bbl., $36. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Students Returning to School

By Editor

At the close of the last school year scores of our young men and women entered the canvassing field to earn means to continue their school work. They have rendered excellent service. By far the large majority, and we hope all, have been successful in earning the necessary scholarships to enable them to continue their education. God has recognized their desire to fit themselves for lives of greater usefulness, and has given success to their labors. But over and above the earning of their scholarships, a great amount of good has been accomplished by the wide distribution of truth-filled books and magazines. These faithful ones can not appreciate the influence of their service. Only in the day
of final accounting will they see the fruitage that their efforts have brought forth. We hope that now as they return to their schools, God will bless them there even as he has blessed their labor in the field, and that they will realize that even while pursuing their studies they may continue to work for God. Among their fellow students they will find those who are depressed and discouraged; some who are careless and indifferent. To these they may speak kindly words of cheer and courage. They should seek to sustain by their influence the institution with which they are connected. They should labor to uphold the hands of their instructors. Sometimes in the grind and wear of school life, when one is shut up within four walls day after day with little change or recreation, there comes greater test of the heart's integrity than when out in active labor for souls. There are some who can sell books, who can even preach the word, but who fail in Christian living. The world has many fair-weather Christians. It needs those who will be strong in the darkness, who will be loyal to the right when things go slow and the load is hard to lift.

The Contagion of Sin

By Editor

THE article in this number from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White entitled "Dangerous Amusements for the Youth" is worthy of a careful reading. The danger existing in the easy-going, pleasure-loving social life of the world to-day, and in some of the world's popular sports, is not found in the mere act of batting a baseball or kicking a football or mingling with our friends at a social gathering. The danger is in imbibing the spirit that goes with such gatherings. That spirit is contagious. It fills the hearts and minds of the world around us. Men become frenzied over the outcome of some game. We can not mingle in this atmosphere without imbibing the spirit. One may pride himself, as does the moderate drinker, on self-control. He may believe that he will never exceed the bounds of what he considers reason and propriety; but unconsciously his ideals are lowered, the prescribed boundaries enlarged, and little by little he comes under the power of evil over which he considered himself the master; and other weaker brothers, with less power of resistance, take advantage of his example, giving wide license to the spirit of the age which enters into their hearts.
We can not afford to temporize with evil in any form. We can not afford for one moment to compromise the right; to let down our dignity as Christians; to go where we can not ask Christ to go with us; or to do that which would grieve the Holy Spirit. For such social gatherings amid the scenes of nature as Christ contemplated with his disciples when he said, "Come ye yourselves apart . . . and rest awhile," there can be no condemnation. It is right and proper that the children of God should come together to commune with their Creator, to mingle with the scenes of nature, and for prayer and singing and Bible study and other helpful exercises which will draw them to their Saviour; but even these need to be guarded that they do not degenerate to worldly standards, and that the dignity of Christian manhood and womanhood be ever maintained.
To know how to be kind and loving, pleasant and cheerful, glad and joyous, helpful and courageous, without descending to levity and foolishness; at the same time to be thoughtful and serious, earnest and faithful, devoted and conscientious, without being morose and critical and pessimistic,—to know all this, and to be what Christ was among men, manifesting in every place and on every occasion to which his Spirit shall lead us, his helpful ministry and loving fellowship, his purity and uprightness, giving to our fellows an example of sobriety free from cant, and a helpfulness apart from sentimentality,—this is Christianity, the ideal standard of holy living, the attainment of which should constitute the devoted purpose of every disciple of the Master.

East Kansas Colored Camp-Meeting

A note from Elder J. W. Allison announces a camp-meeting to be held in Lawrence, Kans., August 28 to September 8. This camp-meeting is for the special benefit of our colored brethren and sisters in the East Kansas Conference.

Mission Work in Burma

Mrs. A. Ruoff, of California, who spent some time in India as a missionary, writes that she has accepted an invitation from Dr. Ollie Tornblad, located in South Shan States, Burma, to connect with her in self-supporting mission work. She leaves for Calcutta, India, by way of Hongkong, China, on the steamship "Nile," September 7.

Missionaries in Persia

By Editor

It is a source of satisfaction to know that we have missionaries laboring in that ancient land of Persia, a country and nation which had much to do with the people of God in the past, and out of which we believe the Lord will bring a people for his name in the final gathering of Israel. Read of the visit of Elders L. R. Conradi, Guy Dail, and J. Sprohge, as reported in our World-Wide Field department.

Story of the Ages

ONE of the latest books presenting in a clear and logical manner the leading doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists is the "Story of the Ages," by J. E. Woodward. A unique feature is a diagram, or chart, 20 x 27 inches, which is folded in the back of the book. By means of grouping together on one chart the great historical outlines and symbols of the Bible, the author has endeavored to present at one view God's plan of the ages, and the entire history of the world. In this book there has been brought together a great fund of light and truth bearing upon the questions of the origin, history, and destiny of the world. It is worthy of a careful reading and a wide circulation. It can be obtained through the tract societies. Pages, 224; cloth, $2.

Review of History of the Sabbath

The Sabbath Recorder, the leading church paper of our Seventh-day Baptist brethren, which for more than seventy years has been a vigorous and consistent defender of the true Bible Sabbath, contains in its issue of August 19 a kind review of the revised edition of "History of the Sabbath," by J. N. Andrews and L. R. Conradi. Concluding his notice, the editor, Dr. Theo. L. Gardiner, says: "As a whole, the book is well arranged for convenience in studying the Sabbath question. All the available data are so systematized that one hard pressed for time can readily turn to any phase of the subject he may desire. This of itself is a strong point in favor of the book."

Harvest Ingathering Missions Number

By Editor

A COMPLETE copy of the Harvest Ingathering Missions number of the monthly Signs is being mailed to conference officers by the brethren at the Pacific Press. With this excellent issue to use, large orders should be sent in by all the churches to their various conference offices, preparatory to the time set for work among our neighbors and friends—September 30 to October 4. The journals will be ready in time to fill all orders. Local church officers should see that all the church-members are supplied with this denominational representative issue, telling of the progress out in the mission fields, that all may have part in this good work.

J. N. Anderson Articles Concluded

By Editor

The series of excellent articles from Elder J. N. Anderson is concluded in this number. We hope they have been read by all. If not, it will be well worth your while to read them from the beginning.

CONTENTS

GENERAL ARTICLES

Dangerous Amusements for the Young, Mrs. E. G. White . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Motes and Beams, J. A. L. Derby . . . . . 4
That Pedler Again, G. B. Thompson . . . . 5
Practical Lessons Drawn From Israel's Deliverance From Egypt, R. D. Quinn 5

EDITORIAL

The Chief Danger From Within — Two Great Evils — The Conflict in Our Day — Sharing Alike — The Hand of God in History, No. 20 — The Author of the First-Day Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
THE WORLD-WIDE FIELD . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13
HOME AND HEALTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 14
THE FIELD WORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-18
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
STATE AND CHURCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 21
NEWS AND MISCELLANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23

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Review and Herald · Aug 29, 1912