Earlier text: THE SOUTHMore French Tracts an Imperative Necessity.
By D. T. Bourdeau
During the past eight months I have, with the co-operation of a tract worker part of the time, distributed three hundred dollars’ worth of our French literature. Most of this reading-matter consisted of tracts. Some of it has been sent through the mail, but most of it has been handed out personally in the province of Quebec, especially in Montreal. By far the larger portion of this literature has gone to Catholics. We have not had sufficient tracts of any kind to cover one tenth of the city of Montreal. What about the nine tenths of the French inhabitants of this one city? What about the scores, the hundreds, of French cities and villages in the vast Dominion of Canada, in the United States, and in other portions of America, that have not been touched in the work of tract distribution? Shall all these be passed by unnoticed, and without having the light of present truth and the solemn warning for this time? To answer this question in the affirmative would be unreasonable, and would give the lie to our profession. This people in all these localities must therefore be enlightened by the truth for these times; they must have the warning that God has designed for all those that dwell on this earth. And it is small tracts that are to be first brought into requisition for the accomplishment of this great work on which depends the solution of many honest souls who are now groping their way in the dense darkness of error and superstition; and as a general thing, these must be distributed gratuitously among Catholics. We have as yet no French paper published in America, and a paper published in Europe cannot be expected to do the work that one published in America can. In this fast age, in which nations and peoples have their marked individualities, people wish to know not only those things that are of general interest, but also those which relate particularly to themselves and to their respective countries, those things that occur the nearest to them. Therefore it is easily seen that the French in America, like those of other nationalities in this part of the world, should have a paper published in America. But this is not the thing that we are now urging upon the attention of the readers of the REVIEW. We are out of tracts with which to do pioneer work, and to prepare the way for the disposal of our larger works. We also need a few pamphlets published in French. How shall this be brought about? Shall our central publishing house take upon itself alone the burden of getting out these works? Such a thought is repulsive to those who take broad views of things, and do not wish to see the parent of all our other publishing houses and institutions crippled so that it cannot go on in the accomplishment of the work for which it was created. Our central publishing house has done nobly in liberally contributing to the publishing of several of our French tracts; but we are decidedly opposed to establishing a precedent which, if followed, would make it impossible for this parent institution to deal liberally with the French and with others, as it has in the past. Is it not, therefore, to our French brethren and to our people generally that we are to look for the raising of a fund required just now to publish tracts that are greatly needed to do pioneer work among the French, especially among French Catholics? I refer to such works as, “Is the End Near?” revised and made more palatable for French Catholics, and fully up to recent striking signs and developments, etc. The French tract fund has long been exhausted. We need over a thousand dollars to publish the works referred to, without which we are greatly retarded and crippled in our work. Will our French brethren and our brethren and sisters generally come to our rescue? Should not our French brethren in America be left free to donate for this noble object, without neglecting home wants and other calls for help from other sources and for other objects? Some of the heaviest donations to the cause, whether for the prosecution of the work in America or in Europe, have come from the French brethren in America. These have done nobly in helping to meet home wants and to build up American institutions designed primarily for the furtherance of the cause among English-speaking people. Is it anything but fair and equitable for our brethren of the English tongue to help us now, and to keep our central publishing association where it can perform its normal, reasonable functions, in this our time of need? Would not such a course tend to unite more closely our French brethren to our English-speaking American brethren? Indeed, why should not our brethren and sisters of all nationalities unite to give a helping hand at this time, thus giving another tangible evidence that no wall of separation exists between us, that we have one common cause, and are all one in Christ Jesus? I would also earnestly request those who are studying the French language in our schools with a view of laboring for the French, to remember the French fields in America as well as those in other parts of the world. “Charity begins at home;” and in consideration of the fact that the French in America have, as a general thing, been brought more in contact with the light and influence of the gospel than have those in the mother land, to make special efforts for the French in America will contribute more to the furtherance of the cause among the French generally, including, of course, those in France, than to centralize our strength and efforts in any other country, France not excepted. All those who are accustomed to using an ax know very well that to succeed in splitting a knotty pine log, one must take it the easiest way and strike the knot in the direction of the grain. Let us strike for the French, directing our first efforts and strong measures and agencies where a wise Providence has already opened the way before us, without neglecting the country where are found the bulk of the French people. Success in the French cause in America will marvelously help advance the work among the French in France. And right here the following words from “Testimony for the Church,” No. 34, page 24, are to the point: “If His [God’s] people are watching the indications of His providence, and stand ready to co-operate with Him, they will see a great work accomplished. Their efforts, rightly directed, will produce a hundredfold greater results than can be accomplished with the same means and facilities in another channel where God is not so manifestly working.” The apostle Paul and his assistants followed this principle by making the pious Hebrews among the Gentiles the first objects of their attention and the nucleus of the churches they established among the heathen. I am now the only French laborer in Canada. In this country God has given me a new lease to life, by adding His special blessing to my exercise with the ax and in the hay field while doing missionary work. By this means a serious internal difficulty which had for years threatened my life, has been removed. But I am an old man, and though I am stronger to preach and to do other kinds of missionary work than I was when I, with Elder J. N. Loughborough, took part in opening up the work in California one third of a century ago, yet I do not expect that even the latter rain will revoke the laws of nature, and make the aged, in every respect, as good for pioneer work in any climate as the buoyant and valiant youth. The blood flowing through my veins has not the warmth that it had in my youthful days, and the cold winters of Canada are taxing on my vitality; and unless I am in warm quarters here during the winter season, I shall be in great danger of pneumonia. Therefore my alternative is to either do city work winters or to go to a warmer climate. A long experience has taught me that the former I cannot do to advantage without tracts with which to introduce myself in families, etc. Nor can I do this successfully in large cities without one or more young French laborers. May God put it into the hearts of strong and consecrated youth to come to our rescue, and stir up our people throughout America to furnish the needed means to publish French literature, for lack of which the French cause is languishing. D. T. BOURDEAU. Shorthand and Typewriting at Keene Academy.
By C. C. Lewis
We are glad to announce that Keene Academy has made arrangements whereby those who desire to give their time almost entirely to shorthand and typewriting can do so. The course embraces spelling, grammar, and letter-writing, in addition to the two foregoing studies. It is as good as is offered in the State. Our teacher has completed such a course in one of the best commercial colleges in the country. Such schools charge ten dollars per month tuition, including use of typewriter. We shall charge only five dollars per month for the studies mentioned and rent of typewriter. If students come to us with a good knowledge of grammar, composition, and spelling, we will undertake to make of them good, practical operators in shorthand and typewriting in one school year of seven months. Pupils can take other studies and go more slowly if they prefer. School opens November 6. Be on time. To Missionary Farmers!
By John Harvey Kellogg
The generous response on the part of our people everywhere to the efforts made by the General Conference for the raising of $100,000 with which to purchase the property of Battle Creek College for use as a medical missionary training school has been exceedingly encouraging to the Medical Missionary Board and to all interested in medical missionary work and in the education of medical missionaries. For several years the American Medical Missionary College, with one hundred and twenty students, and the Battle Creek Sanitarium Training School for Missionary Nurses, with from three to four hundred students, making a total of five or six hundred, has been carried on with no building especially devoted to the purpose, classes being held here and there, wherever place could be found for them, and students rooming all about the town, wherever a corner could be found to get them in. This year the medical college and the nurses’ training school have opened under circumstances most encouraging to both students and teachers. More than five hundred earnest, consecrated young men and women are on the ground, laboring earnestly to prepare themselves for the grand work which is opening up before them, and which is daily calling more loudly for workers. The new arrangements make it possible to receive a larger number. There is room for one hundred more young men and women to enter the missionary nurses’ training school. A few more could be received into the medical school. But there is special demand for consecrated young men and women to enter the nurses’ training school to prepare themselves for the different branches in this work, at home and abroad. The products of the missionary-farming effort are already coming in, and as fast as received are turned over to the Emmanuel Missionary College to be used in providing facilities for the training of missionaries in evangelical lines. Money raised in missionary farming does double duty. It provides a place for the International Medical Missionary Training School for Nurses by purchasing the college, and the purchase money is used for the building of a new school for the education of teachers, ministers, Bible workers, and other church work at Berrien Springs. Money is greatly needed, and it is hoped that those who are enlisted in this work will convert the products of their soil into cash as soon as can reasonably be done, and forward the same, to be applied in helping along the good work. In the recent organization of the International Medical Missionary Training School, Elder S. H. Lane, President of the General Conference Association, was elected treasurer, and all money should be sent to him, at Battle Creek, Mich. J. H. KELLOGG. Addresses of Workers and Missionaries Abroad
THE permanent address of B. G. Wilkinson is 48 Weiherweg, Basle, Switzerland. The present address of John Wm. Stein is 352 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek, Mich. The post-office address of Elder D. T. Bourdeau is 665 Huntly St., Boulevard, St. Denis, Montreal, Quebec. The address of Elder G. W. Reaser and family, and Miss M. A. Cornwell, is Beulah, Bulwer Road, Durban, Natal, South Africa. “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. “Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Ex. 20: 8-10. “From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.” Lev. 23: 32. | Su |
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WANTED.—A place to work this winter with a Seventh-day Adventist. Address James Soules, Portis, Kan. WANTED.—Position as housekeeper by woman aged 40, with excellent health; farm preferred where there are no children. Address R. V. Boyde, Oconee, Ill. FOR SALE.—Near Battle Creek, at great sacrifice, two acres of land, with nine-room house, good barn, hen-house and park, apple orchard and small fruit. For particulars address Mrs. Susie Conn, Battle Creek, Mich. WANTED.—A Seventh-day Adventist man (single) who understands gold-mining, to go to West Africa. A colored man, or one used to a hot climate preferred. For particulars address Alfred Mallet, 710 E. 171st St., New York City. FOR SALE.—Well-established ice business; good location; growing trade, no competition. Ice house, tools, list of customers, etc. Dwelling, barn, fruit, abundant water, three-fourths acre of land. Good church and schools, electric cars to city. For further information address C. E. Woodbury, College View, Neb. A BOOK of 384 pages, containing a very comprehensive history of the National Reform Association and a very interesting discussion of the Sabbath question in all its phases. The book is divided into two parts. Part One contains seven articles that were published in the National Reform official organ, The Christian Statesman; and Part Two the Reformer's replies to these articles, and the author's rejoinders. In these discussions are to be found the best arguments the leading minds among the National Reformers can produce in favor of the first-day Sabbath and its enforcement by law; and the Scriptural claims for the seventh-day Sabbath and the setting forth of the principles of civil and religious liberty by one of our strongest theologians. The book is nicely bound in cloth, and formerly sold for $1.00. The price is reduced to 30 cts., postpaid. SECURE THEM NOW.
By Editor
Special reduction is made for a short time on the publications quoted in the first two columns of this page. We have a limited supply of these books, pamphlets, and maps, and will close them out at the prices mentioned, regardless of cost. All these works are in good condition, and are splendid to use in the home and to circulate among our friends and neighbors. Now is the time to secure them. Read the list, select what is wanted, and order direct from the Review and Herald Pub. Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Travels of St. Paul. Size, 81 x 116 inches. Price reduced from $12.50 to $2.50. Travels of St. Paul. Size, 52 x 72 inches. Price reduced from $5.00 to $1.50. Lands of the Bible. Size, 52 x 72 inches. Reduced from $5.00 to $1.50. Peninsula of Mt. Sinai. Size, 52 x 72 inches. Price reduced from $5.00 to $1.50. These maps are in good condition, and we are offering them for less than one half of what they cost us; having a limited supply and desiring to close them out at this time, we have placed the price as above. This is the time to buy maps for the Sabbath-schools. MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN BOOKKEEPING.
A good book for every individual to study. All should understand the primary principles in book-keeping. This book teaches in a very brief and simple manner the rules for Opening an Account and a Set of Books; Debits and Credits; Closing any Account; Uses of the Cash Journal, etc., etc. The price has been reduced from $1.25 to 25 cts. in order to close out the stock on hand. This is an unusual offer, but the books will go at this price as long as they last. A COMPENDIUM of the Scriptures quoted in the various writings of Mrs. E. G. White. These scriptures are arranged and classified so that the comments which have been made on them by the Spirit of Prophecy can be easily referred to. The book is of great value in the study of the Bible and the Testimonies. The prices are reduced from, cloth, 60 cts. to 30 cts.; morocco, $1.00 to 50 cts., postpaid. SUPREMACY OF PETER, or Did Christ Establish a Primacy in the Church?
A BOOK especially good for Catholics, and of much interest to Protestants. It reveals the way the great authority of the bishop of Rome was developed, without the necessity of perusing a great mass of matter that tends to discourage the average reader in his search for information. The doctrine of “the supremacy of Peter” and other important Catholic doctrines are treated in a conclusive and impressive manner. This book ought to be circulated everywhere. It is very attractive, and contains 290 pages. Its former price was $1.00, which is reduced to 60 cts., postpaid. PROFESSOR DRUMMOND'S ADDRESSES.
THIS book contains 138 pages of the glorious principles of truth expressed in the simple yet forcible manner of this famous author. It contains: A Sketch of the Life of Professor Drummond; Love,—the Supreme Gift,—the Greatest Thing in the World; The Perfected Life,—the Greatest Need of the World; Dealing with Doubt; Preparation for Learning; The Study of the Bible; “First,” a Talk With Boys. This is a good book to loan to neighbors and friends, and a splendid one to sell before the holidays. Nicely bound in cloth. The price has been reduced from 75 cts. to 35 cts., postpaid. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY LIBRARY.
THREE nicely bound volumes of the “Religious Liberty Library” containing every issue of the library from number 1 to 26, inclusive. These volumes contain matter of great importance, and every family should have a set of them for reference. In time they will be very valuable. The three volumes for 90 cts., postpaid. A WONDERFUL book! A breviary of religion. Designed alone for the real enlightenment of its readers. Topics of Part One:— Why a Christian Should Do More Than Others. Because more is done for him than others. Because he is more nearly related to God than others. Because he professes more than others. Because he is inwardly conformed to the Redeemer more than others. Because he is looked upon more than others. Because, if he does no more than others, it will appear that he is no more than others. Because he is appointed to be a judge of others. Because he expects more than others. A splendid book to sell at this season of the year. Nicely bound in cloth; 367 pages. The price is reduced from $1.00 to 50 cts., postpaid. A PRACTICAL treatise on the bath, its history and uses, and a convenient manual of the various methods of applying water. It is a valuable book to have in every home, especially in those families who know but little of the application of water and the cure of ordinary diseases. Neatly bound in cloth; 154 pages. Reduced from 40 cts. to 30 cts., postpaid. An argument on the Sabbath, arranged in rhyme and meter, with the hope that it might attract the attention of some one who would otherwise give no attention to it. It has had a good circulation, and done a good work. Price, 30 cts. Makes a good holiday present for some friend. TEMPERANCE AND GOSPEL SONGS.
An excellent song book of one hundred pages, especially adapted for gospel and temperance meetings. The former price of this book was 30 cts., but it is now reduced to 12 cts., postpaid, in order to close out the edition as soon as possible. A GOOD song book for Sabbath-schools and the social circle. It would be good for use in the church schools, missionary Sunday-schools, and the tent meetings. The book contains one hundred and sixty pages of choice selections. The regular retail price is 35 cts. It is now reduced to 15 cts. per copy, postpaid. OUR FAITH AND HOPE.—NO. 1. BIBLE ADVENTISM; OR, SERMONS ON THE COMING AND KINGDOM OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. By Elder James White. This is a splendid pamphlet to place with those who want to know what our people believe. It contains most of the points of our faith. The price is reduced one half. 10 cts. AN EXAMINATION OF THE TITHING SYSTEM FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT. By Elder George I. Butler. One hundred and twelve pages; price, 5 cts.; former price, 10 cts. “Marvel of Nations” is now ready for delivery, and the publishers will be able to supply all demands promptly. This book, instead of being an exaltation of this country, is the plain and simple exposition of the Third Angel’s Message; and it is an entering wedge for other publications. It ever leaves the reader desiring further study of the prophecies. It creates a demand for “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.” While the historical past and present of this nation are of great interest to the American people, and easily attract their attention, the principal object of this book is to call their attention to the Scriptural future of this nation, and through it, to the final termination of all earthly governments, and the setting up of the kingdom of God. Every church should have at least one representative in the field canvassing for this important book. Now is the time of the year to solicit orders for our subscription books. The long evenings will soon be upon us, and people are selecting their reading-matter for the winter. The fact that this book is attractive in appearance, and contains matter of interest to the people, renders it very easy to sell. Persons who have never canvassed find little difficulty in selling this book. Many letters are received by the publishers, recording the success of inexperienced canvassers in placing this book in the homes of the people. We want a large number of agents to sell this book NOW. Let all who can engage in the circulation of this important work send to their State tract society for a prospectus, and begin to work without delay. Fifty per cent discount is allowed on this book. Bound in two styles of binding, with plain and gilt edges. Plain edges, $1.25; gilt edges, $1.50. “The Niagara Falls Route.” | EAST |
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Trains on Battle Creek Division depart at 7.45 a. m. and 4.00 p. m., and arrive at 12.40 p. m. and 6.30 p. m. daily except Sunday. O. W. RUGGLES, General Pass. & Ticket Agent, Chicago. R. N. R. WHEELER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek. GRAND TRUNK R'Y SYSTEM.
By W. C. Cunliffe
Taking Effect June 2, 1901. TRAINS LEAVE BATTLE CREEK. No. 9, Mail and Express, to Chicago 12.45 P. M.
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BATTLE CREEK. Nahum's Chariots and the Modern Automobile
“The chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of His preparation,” wrote the prophet Nahum. “The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.” Nahum 2: 3, 4. This prophecy has been spoken of as having its fulfillment in the modern fast railway trains, the latter being thus pointed to as one of the signs of the day of God’s preparation. Since this application of the prophecy was made, there has come upon the scene of action the automobile, which runs with the speed of a railway train, and literally occupies the “streets” and “broad ways.” The railway train did not seem to quite meet the specifications of the prophecy, but taken with the automobile, the fulfillment of the prophecy is more complete, and its application to this time as the day of God’s preparation more fully confirmed. Speed of the Age: Automobiles and Electric Railways
THIS is a fast age. This truth was remarked years ago, before the invention of the automobile, in which men now travel on good country roads at a speed of from fifty to eighty miles an hour. Last summer, in an automobile race from Paris to Berlin, eighty miles an hour was attained by some of the contestants where the roads were favorable. And even this is not enough, for now the Electrical World and Engineer comes forward with the statement that a speed of one hundred and twenty-five miles an hour will “no doubt” be attained over the electric railway about to be opened between Berlin and Zossen, in Prussia, “provided the track and roadbed will permit.” Truly, things are moving rapidly these days, and the rapidity shown in the physical world has its counterpart in the moral and spiritual world, though the speed with which things are moving may be more perceptible in the former than in the latter. But we ought to be awake to the spiritual signs of the times no less than to those of a physical nature. Dr. A. L. Gregory Sails to Brazil
Dr. A. L. GREGORY and wife, of California, now on the sea, go to Brazil at their own charges to spread the truth. Salisbury Couple Sail for England Training School
Prof. Homer R. Salisbury and wife, formerly with Battle Creek College, sail this month for England, where a training school for workers is at last to be established. Fall Council of the General Conference Committee Closes
The Fall Council of the Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference came to an end Sabbath night, the 2d inst. Many important issues were settled. A report of the proceedings will be furnished by Brother A. G. Daniells in the near future, and will appear in the REVIEW. Anarchist Gains in Italian Workingmen's Elections
CONCERNING the strength of anarchy in Italy the Union Signal publishes this note: “The annual election of officers in the most influential body of organized workingmen in Italy resulted in the elevation to office of three avowed anarchists. This is significant in view of the fact that it is less than two years since an international congress was held in Rome to devise measures for the suppression of anarchists, and just one year since the king was assassinated by one of their number.” In no other country but that which is the home of the papacy would this be possible. The Monroe Doctrine as Seen from Europe
The leading article in the November Atlantic Monthly, written by an English journalist, Mr. Sydney Brooks, considers the “Monroe doctrine” of the United States, and declares that “to Europe that edict is the most domineering mandate issued to the world since the days of imperial Rome.” Americans, he says, greatly underestimate the feeling in Continental Europe over this doctrine, and still more greatly underestimate the chances of actual conflict with Europe “when the Old World feels a definite necessity of finding an outlet in South America for her emigrants.” SABBATH, November 2, was Missionary Day in Battle Creek. A symposium on the subject of the true basis for missionary work, the motive which should impel us to it, and the most effective methods by which it can be accomplished, filled up the time at the Tabernacle, Sabbath forenoon from the close of the Sabbath-school, at 10:30 A. M. till 12:10. Elder A. G. Daniells led out in the presentation of the subject, pointing to many scriptures which state the true basis of all missionary work; but the scriptures referred to centered in this one declaration of Christ: “As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” John 20:21, last clause. The disciple is to feel that he is an ambassador for Christ, sent forth by Him, even as He had been sent forth by the Father, to pass the grace along and minister unto the hearers. “Even so minister the same one to another.” They who do this shall be accounted “good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” 1 Peter 4:10. But if one does not do this, then he must be counted an unfaithful steward. He was followed by E. R. Palmer, who illustrated his point by the use of a siphon, which of itself is an inert and lifeless thing; but filled with water or other fluid, when the opening of the short arm is immersed in the fountain, and obstruction removed from the opening of the long arm, the water will begin to flow; and every drop that falls out of this end creates a vacuum within, which calls for a supply from the living fountain, which is instantly forthcoming; and thus the siphon continues to flow, giving forth all that it receives. This is the philosophy and the principle of true missionary work. Elder J. M. Rees followed, stating the practical workings he had seen in his field of labor in the West. Though it was now five minutes of twelve, Elder S. H. Lane gave a fifteen minutes’ talk, using the Scripture illustration of bread cast upon the waters, to be found again after many days. This has often proved true in the experience of missionaries, and will more and more prove true as the work draws to its close. All the talks were pertinent, earnest, and timely; and a very full and attentive house listened to the instruction. The choir rendered some choice musical selections, and Elder W. T. Knox pronounced the benediction, repeating the Lord’s great commission, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Tammany Misuse of Sunday Laws in New York
In a scathing arraignment of the political organization that has long ruled New York City, Mr. Jacob A. Riis tells how this corrupt organization has used the Sunday law to promote its nefarious work. He gives the following illustration:— “A storekeeper, a Jew, on the East Side, was ordered to pay five dollars a week for the privilege of keeping open Sundays. He paid, and they asked ten. When he refused, he was told that it would be the worse for him. He closed up. The very next week he was sued for a hundred dollars by a man of whom he had never borrowed anything. He did not defend the suit, and it went against him. In three days the sheriff was in his store. He knew the hopelessness of it then, went out, and mortgaged his stock, and paid the bill. The next week another man sued him for a hundred dollars. He went and threw himself on his mercy, and the man let him off for the costs.” A bad statute is always a ready instrument of cruelty in the hands of unscrupulous men. Ecclesiastical Empire by Alonzo T. Jones
By Editor
“ECCLESIASTICAL EMPIRE,” by Alonzo T. Jones, the latest of this author’s productions, is a book that ought to be read and studied by Seventh-day Adventists, and by everybody, at this time. It gives the history of the papacy, and not the history merely, but an analysis of the character and spirit of the papacy, which all must understand to know what the papacy is, and the ends for which it is working, to-day. On another page we give an extract from this book. It is for sale at this Office. Has just been laid on our table, entitled “The Scriptural Foundation of Science,” by L. A. Reed. It is well printed, and fully illustrated by the author himself. The cover design, in four colors, is most pleasing to the eye. Size of book, 5 x 7 inches. Printed in clear type. Its 272 pages are filled with valuable matter, treating upon such interesting subjects as are indicated by the following chapter titles: “The Treasures of Wisdom,” “The Quality of Truth,” “The Bible and Science,” “Scientific Theories,” “The Air,” “Gravitation,” “The Transfer of Radiant Energy,” “The Conservation of Energy,” “The Center of the Universe,” “The Earth in Space,” “Spin Round with Joy,” “It Is Turned,” “Stars Innumerable,” “Celestial Magnitudes,” “The Infinitude of Space,” “The Gospel of Despair,” “Different in Glory,” “Fixed Stars,” and “The Reign of Law.” The price of this beautiful little volume is only 50 cents, postpaid. Address your tract society or the Review and Herald Publishing Company. More will be said about this book later. Claims to be the finest State map ever issued. Scale, twelve miles to one inch. Size, 35 x 40 in. On rollers. Cloth back, carefully printed in colors, showing many villages and post-offices not to be found on other maps. A Michigan Book, with 83 separate county maps, with 300 pages, 1,000 titles, accompanies the large map. Price of Book and Map, $1.00, postpaid. Address Silas Farmer and Co., 29 Monroe Ave., Cor. Farmer St., Detroit, Mich.