WHILE most schools are just getting nicely started, our little effort is on the sundown side of the session, and bids fair to be a success in more ways than one. If actions count for anything, our services have been well accepted by the patrons. Every possible inducement is being held out by them for a continued work during 1915. There is prospect of a prosperous new year.
Some interest has been aroused concerning the truth, and we feel assured that in due season we shall reap if we faint not. We believe that God is moving upon these people, although there are no very great outward manifestations. His blessings have not been slack in other respects.
The past summer has been the driest in the history of Honduras. Many rivers, hitherto living streams, have dried up. In many sections, corn, beans, and rice, the staple articles of this country, were a total failure. Many natives of this valley were forced to use their green plantains. Through all this trying time, the Lord cared for our garden in a very noticeable manner, and under earlier and better opportunities we should have harvested an abundance. Scarcely had the second crop attained a promising size when an army of locusts invaded some of the already poverty-stricken valleys. Their entrance was from the south, and their line of progress was directly toward Siguatepeque. The people here became almost frantic with fear. We told the Lord our troubles, and had the satisfaction of seeing this invading foe turn off at right angles when within about five miles of us.
Another army of locusts from about twenty-five miles to our southwest, invaded us without warning on October 10. All we could do was to call upon God, who has promised, "Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." Ps. 91:10. The damage done us was but small. Many of the natives beat old pans, rang bells, discharged firearms, and shouted in order to frighten away the locusts. But we are thankful that we do not have to approach our God in such a manner.
Siguatepeque, Honduras.
What to Do With Children at Camp Meeting
By Mrs. C. C. Lewis
THE time for our annual camp meeting season is drawing near. No doubt many earnest workers are already planning lessons and religious instruction for the children's meetings. For years special services have been held for the different grades, until this phase of caring for the younger members of the flock has reached a good degree of efficiency. Therefore it is not concerning the strictly spiritual side of this subject that I wish to speak.
Children have social natures, and in properly supplying those needs the spiritual side of their natures may not only be sustained, but greatly strengthened. What worker for children has not often, with a saddened heart, watched his little flock pass out of a deeply spiritual meeting, to be turned loose on the grounds and allowed to spend the time between services in a noisy, boisterous manner? One often wonders if the good is not largely neutralized by this laxity of association and discipline.
In a well-regulated public school the children are marched out in lines to the playground, and a teacher is with them until time to form in line again. We take our children to camp meeting, presumably to receive spiritual help, but between meetings they run around the grounds, associating promiscuously with other children, often with those who are boisterous and rude, and they probably go home with but little idea of the sacredness of the place or occasion.
How shall we avoid this situation? We cannot leave the children at home; they should be taken to the meetings for the benefit they may receive. Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, . . . for we must hold a feast unto the Lord."
Would it not be a good plan to have the Missionary Volunteer Department take up the matter. Two or three (more if the meeting is to be a large one) reliable Christian young men and women who are looking toward active service for the Master, could be selected as caretakers. The young men should care for the boys, the young women for the girls.
Sometimes it would be suitable to take a troop of boys and distribute handbills advertising the meeting, or lead them in cleaning up the camp, or help them to make themselves useful in other ways. Under the supervision of a caretaker the girls could take their younger brothers and sisters for an airing, thus giving tired mothers an opportunity to attend meeting in the big tent without having the care of their little ones.
These youth need to learn that it means more to be a Christian than simply to attend children's meeting and bear testimony. They must be taught the responsibility that comes with their attendance at camp meeting. The place is sacred, and all rude, boisterous conduct should be put aside. If they would really serve Christ, they must be constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to help others.
I hear some one say, "I think it is the duty of parents to care for their own children. The responsibility is theirs; let them bear it." Yes; but is it not true that at camp meeting many of the fathers are occupied every waking moment? Many are on committees; some have charge of furniture, hay, tents, etc. What can these men do for the boys and girls? There is the tired mother who sat up nights and worked hard to get the family ready for this occasion. She comes to the meeting much worn, but she cannot take time to rest, even here. She must prepare the meals, keep the children washed and properly dressed, and all these duties require more time than if she were at home. How much strength and time will she have to give that wide-awake boy of ten, or that restless girl of twelve, who has just returned from the children's meeting? To these tired mothers responsible young men and women could render real Christian help.
A Hint for Older Sisters
"Now Florry, be good, and sit perfectly quiet." Florry's sister Avery did not realize how difficult a thing she had asked of the small girl with the crown of soft yellow hair. Sitting still is possible, and so is being good, but the two in combination present almost insurmountable difficulties.13The older sister who calls on restless Bobby or Charlie to sit down in the corner and be a good little boy, betrays an ignorance of human nature which does her no credit. There never yet was an active, eager little lad capable of such
a feat. Bobby may be made to sit still if a policeman mounts guard over him; but if you want him to be good, give him something to do.
A tactful older sister solved the problem not long ago when her mother's sudden indisposition left her with the housework on her hands, and, in addition, the responsibility of a diminutive brother and sister. This girl did not ask them to sit down and be good. She was too sensible to demand impossibilities of four years and six. And yet it was important that the children should be good and quiet, leaving her free to do her work, and leaving the sick mother undisturbed. She brought down the button bag, and summoned to her side the restless pair.
"Now, I want these buttons picked over very carefully," she said. "I want all the buttons that are alike put together. When you are sure that you have all the buttons of any particular kind, you may string them together with linen thread, and tie the ends of the thread."
That occupation lasted till it was time for the naps. The flaxen head and the golden one were close together throughout the exciting process of matching the buttons. Little piles of buttons fringed the hearthrug. One or two odd specimens were the occasion of a great deal of anxious discussion. And the absorbed babies were both good and quiet, because the right sort of occupation had been found for them.
Even the small boys and girls who are dressed up for a visit, and who cannot be allowed to play for fear of marring their immaculate appearance, can be given something to occupy them. Sometimes they are wise enough to discover an occupation for themselves. "There are six hundred and thirty rosebuds on the wall paper in this room," announced a small boy who had been sitting with his hands on his knees, waiting for the hour when he should start. Knowing the dangers of idleness, he had occupied himself by counting the flowers on the rather elaborate pattern of wall paper. It is not often that the little folks are capable of such foresight and wisdom, but the older sister should be capable of both. If you want the younger children to be good, give them something to occupy their active fingers and their restless minds.—Selected.
Be Cheerful
"Be cheerful. The world already has more than its share of trouble and worry. Make things brighter by your words and your deeds, and in the end you will find that you have not gone unrewarded."
OUR HOMES
The Girl Who Is Selfish
By Prof. A. L. Larkin
THE selfishness of a girl has not the physical or brute force of that of a boy. It is more mental in its characteristics, and therefore extremely cruel in its tendencies; for it is my belief that the suffering caused by a blow in the face is nothing compared with that caused by a stab from a thoughtless or vicious tongue.
At one time during my pedagogical career I held a position of authority in connection with the late Dr. Harper, in which between thirty and forty girls daily came under my observation. Their ages ranged from fifteen to eighteen; they were of many different nationalities, and of varying social standing; but in the classroom they were supposed to meet on a common level.
My study of the natures of these young girls—these future teachers, or mothers, or whatever their ambitions might lead them to be—was made doubly interesting through the fact that I had entrance to the homes of a number of them. There I might silently observe the characteristics of my pupils, and observe how little conduct in the home varied from conduct in the school.
Through these observations and many others, I have arrived at the conclusion that two fundamental wrongs lie at the bottom of all manifested selfishness on the part of a girl.
Learning from elders to gossip, slander, and backbite; to have at the tongue's end trivial remarks; and to view life and human beings through a pinhole and not in the bright truthfulness of God's sun, is the first.
The belief that there is a special sex privilege; that the old hackneyed cry, "Because I am a woman," exempts the sex from a hundred and one obligations put upon a man; that woman was made to idle and be adored, not to act, to create, to carry out her purpose in life, and to do her sweet share in toil which aids another, is the second.
These, in my judgment, are the two basic reasons for cruel predominant selfishness in any girl's heart.
In one of the homes to which I have referred and where I was received more as a member of the family than a guest, I was much interested in observing how the mother educated her two daughters to keep little, petty things out of their minds and away from the ends of their tongues.
There was no neighborhood tittle-tattle there. If other people happened to be spoken of, it was impersonally or with praise. The atmosphere of that home breathed the spirit of endeavoring to see the good in all things and to ignore the evil.
As I have analyzed the characters of schoolgirls about me, given to peddling gossip, I have found them not only extremely selfish, but unmerciful. The companion of unselfishness is mercy. So it becomes an imperative duty of a parent in guiding the feminine mind under its control, to inspire bigness of thought.
Bigness of thought is seeing more than one side to any individual or subject. Bigness of thought realizes that there is more good in this world than evil, and therefore constantly seeks to increase the proportion of good. And bigness of thought is always merciful because it goes after the inwardness of things and cares little for outward trappings.
It is wholly possible for the home conversation and demeanor of the parent to impress upon the sensitive mind of the girl this viewpoint. I do not believe it sufficient to say to a girl that she must not gossip, and that passing slander between her and her playmates must cease. Nor is the world so small that a parent can prevent a daughter from meeting and knowing some objectionable characters.
A girl's notion that she has special privileges, due to sex, and is exempt from obligations, may be observed any time in watching a group of girls upon a walk, in a street car, or any other public place. I grant that there are exceptions, but the average girl in public is selfish in her conduct to the people surging about her.
That she should take the right of the walk; be careful in turning out for others; give up her seat to elderly or overburdened persons; that her voice should be modulated to well-bred softness; that family affairs and those of others should not be discussed; that doors should be closed after she enters any place; and that "Thank you" and "If you please," with a courteous bow, should always be at her command never apparently occur to her.
A very observing and gentle young man said to me not long ago: "I have reached the point where, if I can possibly help it, I will not show a girl or woman a courtesy in public. The effrontery with which most of them accept a courtesy without polite recognition, the utter disregard they manifest for the feelings or rights of others, has driven me into my shell.
"I know I ought to do these things simply because they are right, and without thought of the rudeness of another, but I confess I have grown weary of it. The humblest day laborer, begrimed with his toil, will show more courtesy to others in a public place than the average girl or woman. And the woman who won't be thoughtful when she is in public will not be so in her own home. She is the essence of selfishness."
Perhaps he spoke a trifle severely, but from my own experiences I am satisfied that much of the old-time gallantry displayed by men toward women is disappearing, owing to the selfish attitude with which women have received it.
If this attitude is to be taken out of a girl, one of the first things to teach her in the home is that she is not a "specially privileged" creature. She must understand that being a part of life's work is as much her allotment as it is that of her brother. She must be taught the full meaning of the words "industry" and "productiveness." The courtesies she exacts from boys and men she must be prepared to return to them and to others in full measure.
It is the soul of the daughter the mother needs to bring to the eye of the world about her—not her dress, not mincing manners, not position or wealth. But that soul cannot be brought out of its recesses where it may be starving to death, by permitting a girl to be indifferent to the rights of others or to feel for one moment that she is here for any other purpose than to work, to work hard, to share with boys and men their joys and sorrows, to prepare herself through graciousness and honestly for such reward as eternity holds for those who are faithful to each duty of the passing hour.—Prof. A. L. Larkin.
The Kentucky Conference
By B. W. Brown
OUR workers in this field are of good courage, and the hand of God is prospering our efforts. During the year 1914 our conference membership has been increased by one hundred and seventy-five; our tithes and offerings show a substantial gain, and the growth of the book work is very encouraging. The value of the books and periodicals sold last year surpassed the record of 1913 by more than $11,000, and a goodly number of persons have begun to keep the Sabbath as the result of the circulation of this literature. There is a great work to be done in connection with this closing message, by those who carry the printed page, as there are a number of counties in Kentucky which have never yet been entered by our workers.
During the past year we have dedicated two church buildings. One of these was for the colored people of Louisville. It is a neat brick structure with a seating capacity of three hundred, and is located in a district of wealthy colored people. In all, we have twelve church buildings in the conference. Nine of these have been bought or erected during the past four years, and we are indeed thankful for the blessing of the Lord in raising means for this branch of the work.
At the present time three series of meetings are in progress in this field, and reports tell of excellent interests. A church of fifteen members was recently organized in Covington, where Brother W. H. White has been laboring; and on Sabbath, February 13, a church of twenty colored believers was organized at Louisville, through the efforts of Elder J. H. Lawrence and Brother W. Winston. Elder R. S. Lindsay and Sister Anna Hornung have also been laboring in the city of Louisville. A number have accepted the truth, and twenty are now awaiting baptism. Brother O. A. Dow, who is working in the country forty miles from the railroad, reports eighteen new believers since the beginning of this year. We all rejoice to see souls being brought to Christ as the end of the world draws near, and are encouraged to work more earnestly than ever before. Will you not join us in prayer that God may gather many souls for his garner during 1915? B. W. BROWN.
Iowa
By A. R. Ogden
THE record of our work in Iowa for the year 1914 shows some evidences of advancement and development; but it is far short of our desires. I believe I can truly say that the spiritual atmosphere in our conference is excellent, as is evidenced by the response of the people in financial matters, as well as by the general missionary spirit prevalent throughout the State.
The size of the conference and the number of its churches make it impossible for me to keep in such close personal touch with the people as I should like. I have the cooperation of a band of loyal workers, and we believe that at least most of our people are of good courage, and have a determination to triumph with the work and message of God.
The receipts of the conference during the year 1914 in tithe and general mission funds were $80,058.23, with over $10,000 in donations to the conference association obligations, making the cash receipts through the conference treasury over $90,000. Our tithe was $48,095.82, which was an increase over last year of $4,000; and more than $1,000 was received in donations by the laborers in connection with their tent efforts. We were glad also to reach our goal on the Harvest Ingathering, and have our aim set to do the same for the year 1915. We expect to see a corresponding increase in tithe and general mission funds. We hope, by a careful use of the Ingathering REVIEWS on hand in the State, to secure upward of $1,000 for a beginning for the regular 1915 campaign.
Our churches are taking an especially active interest in the sale of magazines, and in the use of the Extras which are now being got out by our various publishing houses. Our tract society work is starting out much more encouragingly this year than ever before, though last year our periodical sales were over $10,000.
The reports in the REVIEW from Iowa's sons and daughters scattered in the regions beyond in this progressive advent movement are always read with interest, and in turn through the "good old REVIEW" we wish to pass on a word of good cheer from Iowa to our laborers in all lands. A. R. OGDEN.
Maryland
By Gustavus P. Rodgers
BALTIMORE.—The readers of the REVIEW no doubt remember that fifty-five members were added to our church as the result of the tent work last summer. These united with the church before the fall conference held in the city of Baltimore. Since that time forty-nine others have joined our ranks, and each Sabbath finds some ready to cast all upon the Lord and unite with our church. These members are loyal, faithful, determined soldiers of the cross, and are working earnestly to advance the cause of the third angel's message in this great city.
Steam heat has been installed in our baptistery, and several impressive services have been held since the baptism of the forty-two after the tent effort. Another baptism will be held April 4, and twelve candidates are looking forward to that time.
From a tithe of less than $200 a year, the amount being paid when I began work here, our tithe has increased to over $100 a month. The tithe in January was $120, and in February, $109. Our offerings to missions are also increasing. In 1911 the offerings were $28.40 for the whole year, while during the month of January, 1915, the offerings amounted to over $45. Our church is too small for the membership alone, and we are planning to put in a gallery that will seat at least one hundred persons.
We are also planning for another strong effort this summer, if the Lord wills, and ask the readers of this paper to pray for us that success may continue to attend our labors. We have our church divided into different organizations, every one is at work, and all enjoy doing something for the Master. Our goal for the year 1915 is two hundred souls. As for the finance we have no fears. If the spirituality of our church is kept at high-water mark, the faithfulness of the members will surely be seen in their liberality. The outside attendance is very good.
I receive invitations to preach in the largest churches in the city, and I believe that this is the Lord's doings. Many come to our church to hear the message. Our workers are very careful to take advantage of every opportunity to present the truth, for we realize that soon these golden opportunities will be over. We want more of God's Spirit, to be better able to help in finishing the work. We are hopeful, and willing to give our utmost strength for the Lord.
GUSTAVUS P. RODGERS.
Victory in Spite of Adversity
By W. H. Smith
It is a source of great encouragement to note in the reports that come to us from every part of the harvest field that the cause of God is going forward with leaps and bounds, regardless of the trying times through which the world is passing. Never had the cause of God taken such rapid strides in every line of work and in every part of the harvest field as it took during the year 1914. This should teach us all the lesson that the great Leader in this world-wide movement is not dependent upon circumstances.
The present European trouble, combined with the spirit of greed for gain, has been felt quite severely in the Southern States. Nearly all the business enterprises, especially in Florida, that furnished support for the laboring classes, have been shut down for several months, thus dealing a heavy blow to many of our dear brethren who are depending upon these various enterprises for their daily bread. Jacksonville is not an exception. Many of our brethren have been thrown out of employment, and instead of being able to help in supporting the work here, the church has been compelled to come to their assistance. Yet we were all made to thank God and to take renewed courage when we heard our secretary's report for the year 1914. Our tithe for the year was $2,350.65; harvest ingathering fund, $235.83; total to missions, including Harvest Ingathering fund, $1,811.82.
After the reading of this report, the entire hour was spent in praising God for the wonderful way that he had blessed the Jacksonville church, regardless of the financial crisis that is still on among us. We were reminded of the words of Hab. 3:17, 18: "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet15I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." When we were reminded that the Jacksonville church had more than doubled their twenty cents a week, we all felt like saying, Praise the Lord.
The Lord has also blessed our efforts in giving us souls for our hire, until our church building has become too small to accommodate our people. So we have decided that one of the steps toward an onward movement in Jacksonville, for the year 1915, will be a new church building. Our building committee has been appointed, plans are drawn, and steps are being taken for the raising of the necessary funds to this end.
The church members are all of good courage, and have set as their slogan for the year 1915, "Every man to his work, and every man to do his best." While the blessing of God has been richly bestowed upon us during the past year, for which we all are thankful, we are looking forward to greater blessings for the year 1915.
W. H. SMITH.
The French Work in North America
By G. G. Roth
THE French work has been progressing rather slowly during the past year. The inability of our conferences last fall to support additional workers obliged us to modify some of our plans; consequently we had to work at a disadvantage for lack of means and workers. However, our workers did their best under the circumstances, and the Lord blessed the efforts put forth.
In Canada, Elder J. Vuilleumier has had to face great difficulties. It is no small proposition to work in Catholic Montreal. A few members, coming out of Catholicism, have been added to the church. The work in Canada is assuming a new phase. Brother Vuilleumier has now a fine company of young canvassers who are selling our French magazine La Sentinelle. More than 10,000 copies of the War number were sold in Montreal and its vicinity during the last two months of 1914. Brother Taylor is also having good success in selling this magazine in the city of Quebec. We believe that a splendid work is being done in circulating the printed page, and we are confident that in God's own time the fruits will appear.
In New England, Elder E. P. Auger is at work in New Bedford, Mass. This city has about 30,000 French Canadians. Brother Auger was hindered in his work for the French last year by the fact that more than half his time was spent in the English work. But, thanks to a decision of the conference committee, he will now be able to devote all his time to the work among the French, and we expect to hear encouraging news from New Bedford this year, for it is a promising field. Nearly every house in that city was visited with our papers during the past year. Near New Bedford is the city of Fall River, where we have about 50,000 French Canadians; we are hoping that a French tent effort may be held there in the near future.
The Lord has given us some success in Worcester, Mass., where there are 30,000 Canadians, and we hope that he will so strengthen those who have accepted the truth and those who are in the valley of decision, that a French church will soon be organized in that place.
Brother Hannon is working among the French of Michigan and Wisconsin. Last summer we had a tent effort in Menominee, Mich. On account of lack of funds we were not able to secure the needed help, and our campaign was cut short because our tents were needed for the camp meeting. An interest was created, and Brother Hannon writes that the truth is making its way into many hearts. We hope that the way will open for a tent campaign in Wisconsin this coming summer.
We also received encouraging news from Brother E. A. Curdy, who has charge of the French work in Haiti during the absence of Brother Prieger. Our work there is somewhat hindered by the revolution, but Brother Curdy is sowing the seed, and his meetings are well attended.
For some time we have been planning to do something for the large French16population of New York City. We have been trying to secure the help of Elder Passebois for that place. This brother is of French nationality, but is at present working among the English-speaking people. The Lord has blessed his work, and we trust that the way will soon open so that he can work for those who speak his own tongue.
About four years ago a French department was established in South Lancaster Academy. The experiences we have gone through during these years show us that a change must take place; consequently it has been decided to move our department to Oshawa, Ontario. This will be a more central place for students desiring to attend from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Canada; our academy located at Oshawa offers us many advantages. Elder M. N. Campbell, president of the Eastern Canadian Union Conference, and his associates are giving us their hearty cooperation, and with the Lord's help we hope that a strong French department may be established in Buena Vista Academy. We have in prospect some promising young people, but the majority of them need to be helped through school. In educating French workers we are planning to give them a training that will enable them to give the message to those who speak the French, and, if the occasion presents itself, to those who speak the English. We are more and more convinced that our workers will be more efficient if they are not limited to the use of one language, for in many French settlements the parents speak the French and the children the English.
We thank our people who have responded to our request in sending us the addresses of interested French persons. Tracts and papers have been sent to these persons, and we shall continue the work. Again we repeat the request that all those who have French-speaking relatives or friends who are interested in the truth will send us the addresses of these persons. Let us also circulate the French magazine La Sentinelle. It is a quarterly, and its price for one year is 25 cents. We are also publishing a church paper, Le Visiteur, copies of which will be sent to all those who desire to receive it.
We trust that our brethren will remember to pray for our workers among the French. Few of us realize what it means to work among the Catholics. If ever God's messengers need a special supply of wisdom, and grace, and courage, it is certainly when at work for the poor souls kept in ignorance and slavery by Catholicism. One often has to sow a long, long time before any fruits can be seen; but when they appear, we believe that they are all the more precious in the eyes of our Heavenly Father.
G. G. ROTH.
Wyoming
By N. T. Sutton
THE work in the Wyoming Conference is onward, and the laborers, although few in number, are of good courage. During the last quarter of the year 1914, thirteen persons were buried with their Lord in baptism, and three others united with the church on confession of faith. Where I have gone I have found, with rare exceptions, that our brethren who comprise our church membership, and also our isolated brethren, have an earnest desire for a closer walk with Jesus, and to do faithful work in warning their neighbors and friends of the momentous times in which we are living.
The colporteur work has made a good showing, and we are hopeful that many will enter this work.
Our intermediate school at Hemingford, Nebr., is having a good attendance, and the interest manifested by the students is encouraging. Our church schools, also, are doing good work. They are six in number. Surely our faithful teachers have every reason to be of good courage in the work of training our children and youth in forming Christian character, which will make them strong factors in the finishing of the work of God in the earth.
We have increased our force of laborers, and have no doubt that a goodly number of souls will be gathered into the fold as a result of our spring and summer campaign. N. T. SUTTON.
New York Canvassers' Institute
By K. C. Russell
ONE of the best canvassers' institutes that has ever been held in the Eastern New York Conference was held at the Seventh-day Adventist church, in Syracuse, N. Y., February 26 to March 8. There were thirty colporteurs in attendance. Besides the regular studies and drills incident to canvassers' institutes, two spiritual services were held each day at 9 A. M. and 7:45 P. M.
The Bible instruction was of a very practical character, and the Holy Spirit often took control of the meeting. The result was that nearly every service was a real Pentecostal season. There seemed to be a unity in both faith and spirit on the part of all those in attendance. One could not but be impressed with the thought that we have certainly entered upon those seasons of refreshing which are to characterize the days that are to precede the second coming of Christ.
As we looked into the faces of the earnest men and women who were studiously preparing themselves to carry our literature to the people of this conference, we realized that we were witnessing a fulfillment of the text which says, "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power." Among those present were men who have left lucrative positions to obey the truth and enter the glorious work of carrying this closing message to those who have never heard its warning notes.
Free transportation and entertainment was furnished the agents on condition that they devote at least six months to the canvassing work.
The services of Dr. D. H. Kress and our union conference field secretary, Brother V. O. Cole, were appreciated; and we are sure that under the direction of the field secretary of this conference, Brother E. E. Covey, these consecrated workers will be successful in placing a large number of our truth-laden books in the homes of the people of this conference.
K. C. RUSSELL.
EASTERN NEW YORK CANVASSERS INSTITUTE AT SYRACUSE, N. Y.
British Columbia
By A. O. Burrill
VANCOUVER.—Today, February 13, there were fifty adults in attendance at our Sabbath meeting who had begun Sabbath observance during the last two years and a half. There are fully twenty or twenty-five others who were not present, many of whom have gone from the city. Many others are interested. Meetings are now held in three of our church buildings three times weekly. This is the result of the efforts of Elder Luther Warren and his assistants.
During this time about one hundred, including children, have moved out of this city. Much of the time Brother C. A. Cole has reported the meetings and the progress of the work in the different dailies. Our sisters have sold, during this time, more than $4,000 worth of our monthly magazines. Some months as many as 7,000 have been disposed of, most of which have been placed in the hands of the citizens of New Westminster and Vancouver.
The war is causing many to awaken to the fact that the nations are angry, and that the time of "thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy servants the prophets, . . . and them that fear thy name, small and great." It is a "time of trouble" to many thousands in this city.
