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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 18.

Bethel

Review and Herald

May 2, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1907

Bethel

By P. M. MacDonald

I went with all my thoughts on gain; How gather gold? how win applause? Nor any weight of work, nor strain, Could drive me to another cause.
But when, sore-sick, I laid me down, Like some lone wanderer in the dark, Whose pillow is without the town On hills where hungry night-wolves bark,
Kind Heaven had chance to speak to me Above the roaring of my veins, And angels came in ministry To help me bear my cruel pains.
O, then I found another cause, And learned to walk another way; My shining mark is heaven’s applause, And pain-filled nights have changed to day.
—P. M. MacDonald.

The Special Temperance Number of the Youth's Instructor

By Editor

May 14, 1907
The Youth's Instructor will issue a specially attractive temperance number, with appropriate cover, bearing date of May 14, 1907. Some conception of the nature of the contents of this special number may be obtained from the following partial outline of the topics to be treated:—
True Temperance; Why Condemn the Use of Alcoholic Drinks? A Scene that Appalled the Heathen; Crime and Liquor; Legalized Drunkard-making; Alcoholism and Degradation; Food or Poison—Which? Cause of Appetite for Alcohol; Our Reasons for Demanding the Close of the Saloons Every Day; Physiological Effects of Alcohol and Tobacco; Progress of Vegetarian Ideas; Dr. Wylie on a Vegetarian Diet; Tobacco and Liquor as Companions; Students and Tobacco Using; No Christian Should Use Tobacco; Boys and Tobacco Seen Through Other Eyes; License Laws; Appeal to Christians; Statistics; News Notes on the progress of the temperance work and general temperance information.
This special number of the Instructor will afford the children and the young people a chance to do some good remunerative missionary work along a line much needed in every community. The Instructor being itself an educator, the public mind can be reached and educated through it better than through many other publications. The youth of this age have an obligation resting upon them in connection with the temperance movement. This Special Temperance Number of the Instructor will place within their reach a means by which they may discharge this obligation.
“Intemperance lies at the foundation of the moral depravity of the world.” Both observation and statistics corroborate this statement, and it is the world's moral depravity that is fast hurrying it on to eternal destruction; it is depravity that blinds the eyes of the people to the life-saving truths of the Word of God in this time. Reasoning men everywhere acknowledge the fact that any evil is only successfully overcome by striking at the foundation or original cause of the evil; it follows, therefore, that in order to produce the world's needed reform, steady and effective blows must be struck at the liquor traffic.
“The honor of God, the stability of the nation, the well-being of the community, of the home, and of the individual, demand that every possible effort be made in arousing the people to the evils of intemperance. Soon we shall see the result of this terrible evil as we do not see it now. Who will put forth a determined effort to stay the work of destruction? There is no man whose interests the liquor traffic does not imperil; there is no man who, for his own safeguard, should not set himself to destroy it. We are all woven together in the web of humanity; the evil that befalls any part of the great human brotherhood brings peril to all. When a ship is wrecked in sight of the shore, people do not look idly on. They risk their lives in their efforts to rescue men and women from a watery grave. How much greater the demand to rescue them from the drunkard's fate!”—Mrs. E. G. White.
“There would soon be little necessity for temperance crusades if in the youth who form and fashion society, right principles in regard to temperance could be implanted.”—“Ministry of Healing.”
Our greatest hope lies in correctly educating the people on the principles of true temperance, and the Special Number of the Instructor is issued in the interest of this youth-education. But it must be carried to the people; thousands of carriers are wanted. If every reader of the Instructor should simply take an extra copy, costing 2½ cents, fifteen or twenty thousand persons could be supplied with this special number outside of those who receive it now. But there are none who would want to express their interest in this work by less than a five-cent offering. If every church and Young People's Society should send in an order amounting to not less than two copies for every person in attendance, a good beginning would be made. Some churches can and will do far more than this, but can not every one do at least this much?
This is the first time the Instructor has ever asked its friends for their co-operation in such a campaign, but we believe the plan will meet the approval of all, and enlist their support in making it a success. Many of the secretaries of the young people's work have pledged their heartiest co-operation. What are the young people themselves going to do?
The retail price of the Special Temperance Number of the Instructor will be 5 cents a copy; when 25 or more copies are ordered at one time to one address, the rate will be 2 cents a copy; when less than 25 copies are ordered at one time, the price will be 2½ cents a copy.
Send all orders for the Special Temperance Number through the regular channels, or to the—
Youth's Instructor                     Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Editorial Letter

By William W. Prescott

Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book

My first view of the coast of China was obtained from the deck of the “Sagami Maru” as we approached Chefoo on the morning of January 16. I was naturally stirred by the thought that I was so soon to set foot upon the soil of the Middle Kingdom, but otherwise the view was not especially attractive. The coast line is rugged and abrupt, and it being the winter season, the eye could not rest upon a single spot of green. As we drew near the harbor, our ship was besieged by Chinese boatmen in their sampans, each one anxious to convey passengers from the anchorage to the landing stage. It was interesting to see the skill displayed in getting on board the ship. Grasping a line hanging down the side of the ship, or reaching up a long bamboo pole with a hook on the end to catch on to some projection, the boatmen would scramble up to the deck like so many monkeys, and they exhibited a worthy persistence in seeking patronage.
Chefoo is the great summer resort for North China, and its attractions are felt even in Korea. Missionaries come to this place from many parts for rest and recuperation, and as there are good English schools here for the benefit of the children of missionaries, the parents often accompany their sons and daughters thither.
On the ship with me and my guide and interpreter from Ping-yang was Mr. Baird, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church, who was taking his boy to Chefoo to leave him in one of the schools. During the summer, war-ships of the different nations stationed in the Far East make Chefoo their rendezvous, and target practise is conducted off the coast. During the Russo-Japanese War Chefoo was one of the principal points from which news was transmitted to Europe and America, and so many mere rumors were telegraphed to make “copy,” that, “It is rumored at Chefoo,” became almost a proverb.
I spent a short time on shore in company with an American who was one of the war correspondents. There was little to see, as the town is almost deserted in the winter except by the Chinese coolies and those whose business actually detains them. As many steamers take coal at this place, a large quantity of this product of the mines is handled here. It is all carried to and from the ships in baskets on the backs of coolies in the employ of a contractor, who pays them a very small wage, and keeps the major part of the income for himself.
In the business part of the town, which was all that I had time to visit, the streets were rather narrow, and not especially attractive in appearance. The buildings were of stone, or of brick covered on the outside with plaster.
At Chefoo I had my first experience with the money of China, and it may be worth the while to say a few words about the coin of the realm. The distinctive Chinese money is “cash,” a copper coin about the size of an American silver quarter or an English shilling. In the center of this piece of money is a square hole for convenience in carrying, as about one thousand cash are usually strung on a string, and any certain amount is designated as so many strings of cash. When one has spent all his “cash,” he is literally “at the end of his string.” On the average, it takes about one thousand cash, or one string, to equal in value one dollar in gold. I say “on the average,” because there is absolutely no uniformity in money values in China. A string of cash may be one thousand in one place, nine hundred in another, and only eight hundred in a third, yet it is always “a string.” Furthermore, every string of cash will, on general principles, contain a few “small cash,” a few counterfeit cash, and will lack a few of being a full string. It will be readily seen that it would require a strong man to carry any considerable sum in the form of cash, and it is usually put into bags or boxes and transported as merchandise. If a man of moderate wealth should put his fortune into “cash,” it would need several donkey carts to transport it.
The money of the ports and the railways is the Mexican silver dollar and the subordinate Chinese silver coins, which take the place of “cents,” and to which this name is usually applied. The gold value of the Mexican dollar varies from day to day, and in different places. It averaged about fifty-five cents while I was in China. The subordinate coins of one province are not generally received in another province except at a liberal discount; and the paper notes, of which some are issued, circulate only locally, like the old State bank-notes in the States.
From these facts it may readily be inferred that it demands some skill as well as some forethought to travel in China, pay in current money, keep a true cash account, and make your report in United States values. I am not at all certain that I accomplished this.
We sailed from Chefoo about 2 P. M., and arrived at Chingwangtao, the winter port for Tientsin, early the next morning. We made good connection for the daily fast mail-train for Tientsin, and I was soon on the road. The ride was through a portion of the great plain of North China, with ranges of hills to the north of the line. Here I got a larger view of Chinese towns and the Chinese people. The plain was dotted with villages (a “village” may contain many thousand inhabitants), and along the highways were the donkey carts characteristic of North China. Not much work was being done in the fields, as the weather was too cold. The railway is operated by the Chinese. It was a new experience to me to be “a foreign devil” in China, with no knowledge of the language, and to have the Chinese in positions of authority. I will testify, however,to the credit of the Chinese, that under ordinary circumstances they treat the foreigner better than the Chinese are treated in America. Even the Chinese coolies are usually respectful to a foreigner who shows himself worthy of such consideration.
Our train arrived at Tientsin about the middle of the afternoon, and later I found Brother E. Pilquist, who, at the request of Elder J. N. Anderson, the superintendent of the China Mission field, had come from Honan to meet him and me, and to act as our interpreter. The next day Brother Anderson arrived from Canton, according to previous appointment, and we three brethren spent a quiet Sabbath together. It was necessary that we should have an interpreter, although Brother Anderson could talk Chinese as spoken in Canton, because Mandarin is the dialect of North China, and Cantonese is like a strange language. English is practically as good as Cantonese in North China.
Some further notes on our experiences in Tientsin and Peking will be reserved for the next letter. W. W. P.

Daily Decisions

By Editor

Editorial

Daily Decisions

EACH day the conflict between right and wrong is going on in our experience, and each day we are making decisions for or against Christ. Each decision which we make has its influence in shaping our characters and molding our destiny. Let decisions be made each day which shall bind us more closely to God.

Nearing Home

By C. M. S.

The long period of tribulation which Christ foretold is in the past, and Europe is dotted with the graves of the martyrs that it produced.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun was to be darkened and the moon turned to blood as a sign of the approaching end of this present world. That event is long in the past.
Then the stars were to fall from heaven, “even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.” That has been an accomplished fact for seventy-four years.
“And there shall be . . . upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows.” We are seeing this with our own eyes. A few years ago the whole country of India was in direst distress from the plague and lack of food. Thousands upon thousands died. Then it was Russia, where whole provinces were in the hunger zone. To-day it is Russia and China both at once, and though the whole world is stirred over it, it is impossible to prevent the actual starvation of thousands of the people. Russia and China are sorely perplexed to know how to save their starving millions.
But this does not complete the application of the text, “In perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows,” find their most direct fulfilment in the uprisings of the people against organized government; for, says the revelator, “The waters which thou sawest, . . . are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” Rev. 17:15. Never in the history of this world was there one single movement embracing the people of so many nations. Socialism, anarchism, and nihilism are leavening the lump of the whole world with the leaven of discontent and the determination to overturn “the powers that be.” Never was nation more sadly perplexed than Russia by the billows of her boisterous people. Socialism is growing to be a power in all the European States. In addition to that perplexity, they have the ever-present dread of the inevitable scramble for the territory of European Turkey.
In the United States there is rising the same ponderous wave of discontent and disloyalty to the existing government. Throughout the ranks of the capitalist and wealthy middle class there exists that same terror, as they contemplate the rising storm. Certainly this is the age of perplexity—it is fulfilling the prophecy.
Christ further says: “There shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences.” Look at Krakatoa, Vesuvius, Guatemala, St. Pierre, St. Vincent, California, Chile, Jamaica, and southern Mexico. Earthquakes in divers places there are indeed. The earthquakes we are experiencing to-day are verily earth-quakes, not merely the quaking of a locality, but the trembling and shaking of the world. Concerning the frequent disasters of this nature the Washington Times asks, “What’s the matter with Mother Earth?” and says, “The epidemic of disturbances this year puzzles the scientists.” It asks, “Is universal disaster imminent?” and assures us that one set of scientists believes it is. The New York Sun, of April 18, heads a long article with these words, “The Earth is All Aquake. Volcanoes and Shocks in Four Continents.” These last occurred exactly one year from the date of the great California disaster, and during that year the earthquakes of the world have cost the world $745,000,000.
A few years ago earthquakes were so infrequent that the people seldom gave them a thought. Now there is probably not a hamlet in the land that is not wondering when its turn will come to be shaken.
The famines and pestilences also are in evidence. There are millions of people to-day in the merciless grip of the hunger fever, while the whole civilized world is standing on guard against the bubonic plague and tuberculosis. Pneumonia is assuming the proportions of a plague, numbering its victims by the thousand, and la grippe is undermining the constitution of the race, and furnishing fertile soil for any other plague that may arise.
How faithfully the Saviour has delineated our generation! And the occurrences he outlined are pointed out by him as signs of the end of the world. We have seen these all fulfilled or fulfilling. We have also seen the fulfilment of that other sign which was to precede the shaking of “the powers of the heavens;” viz., “men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world.” “One set of scientists,” says the Washington Times, “believes a universal disaster is imminent.” While that universal physical disaster is nearing, the billows of an angry people are threatening an equally great economic disaster. “Then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.” Luke 21:27, 28. “These things” have more than begun to come to pass, and we have a right to “look up,” for the promised redemption is nigh at hand.
C. M. S.

A Special Message

By William Ambrose Spicer

WHAT a testimony to the special truths of the third angel’s message we have in the announcement of the twenty-six special numbers of the Signs of the Times.
And a glance at the topics to be considered in this series shows that each number will truly be a special, presenting truths in a setting that will be new to those who have not been Bible students from the point of view of this last message. It is a marvelous revelation of truth that the Lord has caused to shine forth from his Holy Word for the closing generation of men.
When did the call to spread this definite message ever come to us with so abundant a provision for material with which to work? No idlers can stand in the market-place of truth to-day, saying, as in the parable, “No man has hired us.” The commission and the implements of service are fairly thrust upon us, for it is the eleventh hour in the vineyard of the Lord.
With the events now taking place in the world, communities where before there was little interest are ready to hear such a message as our missionary periodicals bear. This word comes from many quarters. Over soil that may have seemed dry and barren in the past let the seeds of truth be sown; for the time of the latter rain for the ripening of the harvest has come.
With the twenty-six special Signs beginning May 1, the College View publishing house announcing the same series of doctrinal truths in the German, Danish, and Swedish papers, with the Watchman giving the trumpet a certain sound, and the Bible Training School filling in its part, the periodical work gives promise of special activity this season. W. A. S.

Important Interests Connected with the $150,000 Fund

By George I. Butler

It is a great satisfaction to know that nearly one third of the $150,000 fund has been raised. The assistance to the Southern work of the $50,000 which was apportioned to it, and most of which has been paid, is exceedingly gratifying. Our sanitariums have all now received their share of this fund, and they are rapidly being fitted up for the performance of their work. The sanitarium in Washington is also rapidly nearing completion. Other interests which are to receive benefit from this fund are the Review and Herald Publishing Association, which receives $10,000 to help it meet the expenses caused by moving, and the losses caused by fire. Then there is $20,000 which goes to the Pacific Press Publishing Association, $10,000 to the Edmonton School in England, $2,000 for the Williamsdale School, $2,000 for the publishing and school work on the west coast of South America, $2,000 for the Skodsborg Sanitarium, and $4,000 for the work in the West Indies. These institutions are all very much in need of the funds apportioned them.
No denomination has ever prospered that neglected its institutional work. We well remember when our work in denominational and educational lines began. There were some so narrow in their views that they really thought it was unnecessary; but facts have demonstrated that by means of our educational institutions, the great mass of our ministers have come into the work. Before we had these agencies, we were losing our young people at a terrible rate. The religious influences in connection with our schools have held a vast number of our very best young people, and they have become consecrated, useful workers. We pity the Seventh-day Adventist who fails to see the importance of the educational work. Multitudes of people have become acquainted with us and have become interested in our work, simply as the result of our sanitariums and the work of our schools. We have reached a class of people through these that we could not have reached in any other way. Many have come to our sanitariums, become interested in our principles, and through this means have received the truth. When they had received so much benefit in our sanitariums, it was pretty hard for other people to make them believe that these institutions were not worthy of confidence. A vast amount of unreasonable prejudice has been overcome by the work of these institutions, and no one can reasonably deny that they have accomplished good. The spirit of prophecy has spoken very plainly upon this matter.
The Pacific Press has passed through great calamities, by fire and by earthquake, and now it is sadly in need of the $20,000 which has been appropriated to it from this fund. The school at Edmonton, England, according to all reports is very much in need of the money appropriated to it from the fund. Our poor institution in Nova Scotia is in great need of assistance. A brother was sent all the way from there to plead with the brethren of the General Conference that some assistance be given them with reference to this matter. Our work on the west coast of South America is much in need of the facilities which will be provided by the $2,000 appropriated to the work there. Our brethren in the West Indies are in need of the money that will come to them, because of losses by the earthquake and fire. And the assistance that is to be given to the Skodsborg Sanitarium is greatly needed.
The reader will notice that here is a large range of most needy enterprises, all of which are struggling as it were for their very existence, and need the help that they will get from this fund. America must be the cherishing mother to help these various enterprises in different parts of the world. We wish to see them prosper. How can we use our money in a way that will bring truer satisfaction as we look back upon our lives, than to take hold of this important fund vigorously and do our part? It is not to establish some great enterprise, but it is to send forth streams of blessing from many different centers, and help to fit young people for the work.
The progress of this great cause, sending out rays of light and truth to different parts of the world, ought to be the dearest thing to all our hearts. This is something to live for that is worthy of our life's effort. May the Lord help our people to take hold of this work with new and increased energy and carry it on like people who are waiting for the coming of the Lord, and longing for his appearing. GEO. I. BUTLER.

Note and Comment

It is broadly rumored through the country that the recent depression in stocks which almost threatened a panic was deliberately brought about by the great corporate interests of the country because of the official investigation of corporations and the growing sentiment in favor of federal control of the railways. That the cause of the depression was an artificial one would seem to be indicated by the fact that in general crops have been good, and prices have been high. The railways have been burdened with traffic and travel; but it has been charged that many of their methods have been conceived and carried out in defiance of law. Suits have been entered against them, charging violation of the interstate commerce laws. President Roosevelt has been insisting upon supervision and investigation. Concerning this situation a contemporary says:—
Large corporations and combinations of capital have taken alarm, and given out warnings. Dire results are predicted if the anti-trust and related investigations continue. Assaults are made upon the policy of the President, and appeals are made to him to modify his course.
There is an evident unity of movement on the part of the great corporations—not all, but many—against the public sentiment which demands responsibility on the part of the holders of vast capital. All things taken together, there are indications of concerted action on the part of great capitalists to create public alarm and turn the general sentiment against the President and his policy, and against the whole movement for governmental supervision of railroads and other corporations. It is possible that this unity of action is the result of common influences, affecting all alike, but we can not help feeling that the action is concerted, that capital is combining against legislation and public sentiment. If this is correct, it is the most gigantic trust we have ever had. Such a movement is merciless in its spirit, it is selfish in its aim, and destructive in its results. It awakens antagonism, and tends to produce a spirit of hostility that may overleap all bounds of prudence and right, with most disastrous effect. The safety of capital is in the public confidence.
But the general public has lost confidence to a very large extent in the unselfishness of corporate combinations and activities, in the integrity of their professions, and the legality of their operations. A spirit of deep distrust is prevalent among the masses, and is growing. That spirit is helping to breed socialists, communists, and anarchists. It is helping to widen the gulf between the laborer and the capitalist, and is sharpening the already pointed arguments of such men as Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers, and John Mitchell, whose demands go far beyond any possible peaceable compliance. In the Appeal to Reason, of April 13, Mr. Debs intimated, as strongly as language could be made to intimate, that the time would come when we might expect the bullet to settle certain economic questions where the ballot failed. He also speaks of “the spirit of solidarity moving among all the toilers of all nations in the name of the Social Revolution, bidding them to rise from the dust and unite their unnumbered millions for the emancipation of the race.” These words and these facts have peculiar significance to those who are familiar with the teachings of the Bible concerning the conditions prevalent in the world just before the second coming of our Lord. “Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.”

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By S. J. Hersum; I. H. Evans

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Giving

Says Christ, “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” John 15:14. Giving is one of the many things which our Saviour has commanded. Luke 6:38. He says: “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” He tells us also what we are to receive—“good measure.” He does not stop by saying, “Good measure;” but, he continues, “pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom” (or possession). But we can not expect to receive more bountifully than we have given. This is clearly shown by the last part of this verse. Then, to be a friend of Christ, our giving must be bountiful, for he has commanded us to give, and that bountifully.
We often hear people speak of giving “the widow’s mite.” I think that poor widow has been shamefully misrepresented by many who have claimed to give the widow’s mite. Show me a person who has ever given all his living. I have no doubt that many Seventh-day Adventists have said that they have given the widow’s mite, when, perhaps, they have a bank account, or have a good farm well stocked, and have given ten or fifteen, or at most twenty-five cents. As our Saviour’s word is true, that the widow had given all her living, such a gift, as mentioned above, by such a person, is hardly worthy of mention.
Hundreds of years before our Saviour appeared among men, the Jewish people had adopted a system of bringing an offering every Sabbath to the house of God, and putting it into the treasury. The Saviour was watching those who were depositing their gifts when this poor widow threw in the two mites, and he commended her for her liberality.
The Lord has made precious promises to those who are free in giving. He says: “The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” Prov. 11:25. Again the Lord says: “But the liberal [those who are free to give] deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.” Isa. 38:8. Brethren and sisters, do we want to stay up the hands of our leading brethren and encourage their hearts in this work? What will encourage them more than to see all our people who have not done so already respond heartily to the call to raise the $150,000 fund? This is not a large sum when compared with some calls that have been made for donations to use in the work of God. Read and see what an amount of gold was used in building the tabernacle in the wilderness. It says: “All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels.” Ex. 38:24. That, according to the American standard, amounted to $768,514.80, or more than five times the amount asked for by our leading brethren. And this is besides the value of the silver used in connection with the tabernacle. That was about $165,000.81. Putting these two sums together, we have nearly a million dollars in gold and silver put into that tabernacle.
S. J. HERSUM.

Received on the $150,000 Fund up to April 23, 1907

It seems necessary to make a word of explanation in regard to the shortage on the $150,000 fund with the Lake Union Conference account in the Review of April 18. This is made necessary for this reason: Some time during the latter part of 1906, the Lake Union Conference sent to the Southern Union Conference moneys designed for the work in the South. As the Southern Union Conference treasurer at that time understood that all money for the work in the South should be applied on the $150,000 fund, it was so reported to us, and published in the Review. As soon as the Southern Union Conference treasurer learned that that was not the case, he made the correction on his books and reported to us. So it was necessary for us to deduct these items from our report with the Lake Union Conference in the Review and Herald.

Atlantic Union Conference

Central New England ........ $1,673.22 Chesapeake ................ 160.75 Eastern Pennsylvania ...... 904.25 Greater New York .......... 415.75 Maine ..................... 305.33 New Jersey ................ 343.42 New York .................. 1,018.17 Southern New England ...... 824.43 Vermont ................... 656.77 Virginia .................. 213.12 Western Pennsylvania ...... 699.83 West Virginia ............. 189.07 Western New York .......... 735.89 Total ..................... $8,140.00

Canadian Union Conference

Maritime .................. $281.43 Quebec .................... 10.00 Ontario ................... 129.41 Total ..................... $420.84

Central Union Conference

Colorado .................. $877.19 Iowa ...................... 1,732.96 Kansas .................... 1,065.27 Missouri .................. 463.80 Nebraska .................. 3,035.14 Wyoming ................... 362.87 Total ..................... $7,537.23

District of Columbia

Washington churches ...... $1,131.02

Lake Union Conference

East Michigan ............ $671.05 Indiana ................... 2,682.52 North Michigan ............ 61.23 Northern Illinois ......... 1,077.69 Ohio ...................... 2,558.61 Southern Illinois ......... 656.68 West Michigan ............. 2,493.53 Wisconsin ................. 1,451.37 Total ..................... $11,652.68

North Pacific Union Conference

Conference not specified . $315.30 British Columbia .......... 57.80 Montana ................... 152.70 Upper Columbia ............ 1,101.42 Western Washington ........ 877.79 Idaho ..................... 301.90 Western Oregon ............ 694.48 Total ..................... $3,501.39

Northern Union Conference

Alberta ................... $81.90 Manitoba .................. 238.70 Saskatchewan Mission Field 34.85 Minnesota ................. 2,984.40 South Dakota .............. 2,104.10 North Dakota .............. 1,527.62 Total ..................... $6,971.57

Pacific Union Conference

Arizona ................... $166.87 California-Nevada ......... 2,743.26 Southern California ....... 294.94 Utah ...................... 96.01 Total ..................... $3,301.08

Southern Union Conference

South Carolina ............ $58.99 Alabama ................... 141.71 Tennessee River ........... 367.03 Florida ................... 177.69 North Carolina ............ 133.97 Kentucky .................. 30.36 Cumberland ................ 190.93 Louisiana ................. 288.51 Mississippi ............... 118.65 Georgia ................... 146.55 Total ..................... $1,654.39

Southwestern Union Conference

Arkansas Tract Society .... $213.14 Oklahoma .................. 921.17 Texas ..................... 761.13 Indian Territory .......... 3.00 Total ..................... $1,898.44

Unknown

Unknown ................... $146.20

Foreign

Algeria ................... $13.33 Australia ................. 122.45 Bermuda ................... 25.00 China ..................... 3.00 South Africa .............. 128.16 Jamaica ................... 3.17 Yukon Territory ........... 10.00 England ................... 256.32 Gold Coast, West Africa ... 10.00 Mexico .................... 1.50 Costa Rica ................ 2.00 India ..................... 12.48 South America ............. 23.35 Switzerland ............... 5.81 Panama .................... 1.00 Nicaragua ................. 2.00 Trinidad .................. .34 Central American Mission .. 17.00 Norway .................... 25.00 Japan ..................... 12.50 Total ..................... $674.91 Grand Total ............... $47,029.75
I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.
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