THE Mission Board is unable to supply the urgent demands from mission fields for canvassers. A few have responded to the calls made for such workers; but more than a score of men could be immediately placed in different parts of the world in response to these pleas, if they were available.
Writing from Manila, Philippine Islands, Brother L. V. Finster says: “I hope they will hurry up those canvassers promised for this field. The southern islands, the largest of all the islands here, have never been touched as yet. Brother Caldwell has put about fifteen hundred copies of ‘Patriarchs and Prophets’ and one thousand of ‘Coming King’ in the island of Luzon, and has only worked a part of the island thus far. Sending out canvassers will not make a very heavy drain on the funds of the General Conference, and they are among our best pioneer workers. We have been encouraged to see a number of natives take their stand for the truth during the last few weeks.”
Here is Brother C. E. Weaks’s plea from India: “How soon can we have those two canvassers voted to this field by the General Conference? We need them, and need them badly. Will it be necessary to wait until another cold season, or can you send them off immediately?”
The following reaches us from Brother Shultz, of Bolivia, South America: “I would like to see more canvassers in Bolivia,—men who are firm, and who can stand like a Luther, those who only know to advance, but never retreat. The Lord has blessed me in my work. In eight weeks I have sold books to the value of about four hundred dollars. We are not disappointed nor discouraged. The Lord is with me, though often the spiritual darkness of the country seems to cover and depress me. My only wish is to have at least one (if not more) canvasser to accompany me in my travels over the mountains and hills,—one who can sleep on the ground or in mountain caves, when there is no other place, who will stick to it through rain and sunshine, and who will not be discouraged when driven out of town by the priests.”
Where are the strong men, such as Brother Shultz describes, who will respond to the urgent calls from these needy fields? The Publishing Department of the General Conference will be glad to correspond with any who are willing to offer themselves.
N. Z. T.
Christian Help Work
By Daniel H. Kress
How to Break Down Prejudice
(First Reading)
God’s blessing rests upon the church whose members are actively engaged in the work of blessing others. To the one called out of the world, and who was to form the nucleus of the church in the wilderness, and for all time, these words were addressed: “I will bless thee; . . . and thou shalt be a blessing. . . . And have in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
In the experience of Israel the time came when they still prayed and fasted, but the poor were neglected, the wounded on the wayside were passed by. God could not bless them, because they refused to impart his blessings.
To the inquiry, “Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?” the Lord said:—
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily. . . . And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” Isa. 58: 6-11.
“The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow;” and what he does, he desires all his representatives to do. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
To those only to whom Jesus can say, “I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me,” will he give the welcome, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you.”
Looking After the Unfortunate
Some years ago, the attention of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was called in a special manner to the need of looking after the unfortunate. Some of our churches were organized into bands of workers. Among the poor, the sick were sought out. Everything was done to make them as comfortable as possible. The conditions most conducive to health were supplied, as far as circumstances permitted. Helpful instruction was given. Mothers were assisted, and instructed in the care of their children, hygienic cookery, healthful dress, etc. The naked were clothed; the hungry were fed; the fatherless were provided for; Bible readings were held; to the poor the gospel was preached.
A Live Missionary Meeting
I recall a church I once visited in a large city. The weekly missionary meeting was one of intense interest. Reports were brought in of what had been done during the week; and needy cases were presented for counsel, advice, and prayer. A supply of clothing was always kept on hand for emergencies. This church was like a great beehive; all was activity and life. Some of the members testified that health had been restored to them by engaging in this work.
Helping the Crippled
While our medical students at — had to study hard, they still found time to devote to this work. Time will permit me to relate only a few21interesting experiences. One young man, completely crippled by rheumatism, and unable to help himself in any way, was found by one of the students. After this, regular visits were made; and his life was made as comfortable as possible. Through our efforts, a stove was contributed by a merchant in the city. Coal was also obtained, a new chair was provided, the Bible was read, etc. Later he began to read our books, and we had the satisfaction of seeing him brought to a love of the truth, and rejoicing in the good news of Christ’s soon return. He was very happy, and was never heard to complain. A year after we left —, Henry died; but I feel certain that every one of the students expects, if faithful, to meet him in the kingdom of God.
A Good Samaritan
One cold Sabbath day, one of our students, in her visits, found a woman who was not in a condition to work, washing at the tub. She rolled up her sleeves, and finished the washing. The next day she sent food to the woman, when it was found that during the night she had given birth to a child. There was no fire in the house, the temperature was ten below zero, and there was barely sufficient bedding to cover the mother and child. Both were in a critical condition. The report was brought to our medical students’ home. Three or four young men secured a horse and sleigh, took down the laundry stove, threw some wood on the sleigh, and a little later the house was warm and comfortable. While the young men were doing this, the women made garments for the babe. For several nights they took turns sitting up with the mother.
These may appear very small matters, and they are; yet it is to those who do just such work that the words are addressed, “Come, ye blessed of my Father,” “I was naked, and ye clothed me;” “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
Soul-Saving a Science Requiring Study
Wisdom must be exercised in laboring for souls. Too many have but one way of approaching men; while some are won, the majority are repelled, and perhaps lost, because of a lack of thought and skill. If our aim is to win, we may occasionally get an entirely new and original plan of gaining access into homes. I remember that while at —, one of our students had for some time been seeking an opening in a poor district. One day she came to our young men, asking for their jack-knives. She visited this district, and met with a few boys. A poor old woman was ill. She was well known to the boys, who had seen her daily gathering coal and chips. To each of the boys was given a knife, and they spent a happy hour whittling shavings, while the teacher related to them some interesting incidents. Afterward, they carried the shavings to the old woman, who was greatly pleased. Out of this little gathering, in the course of a few weeks, grew a school, with a membership of about seventy-five, which was taught by the students until they left —. Parents noticed the effect this school had upon their children, and remarked about it. This gave our workers a welcome in many homes.
Many well-to-do persons have clothing that they do not know what to do with. If we appeal to them in behalf of the needy, they are usually glad to assist. Later we may call upon them, and tell the joy their gifts have brought to the poor. Thus we may be a blessing to both the rich and the poor, and may have the satisfaction of repairing to some extent the breach between them, so that the bounties entrusted to the one may flow to the other. Better still, we may thus gain opportunities to bring spiritual help to both classes.
There are orphans and unfortunate infants who are in need of homes. Under proper training many of these may grow to be useful men and women. There are childless homes where these little ones would be welcomed, and to which they would become a great blessing. Although we may not all be able to adopt children, we may frequently experience the joy of helping to place the solitary in families.
We may be situated so that we can not do any of the things outlined in this reading; but no matter where we are, we can all be neighborly. We can manifest a spirit of helpfulness in associating with those about us, and this will be appreciated by them, and may later lead to a spirit of inquiry on their part. We shall then be able to give a reason for the hope that is within us, with meekness and fear. In this way, prejudice may be broken down, and many hearts opened to receive the truth in its fulness.
D. H. KRESS, M. D.
Who Will Help?
By Jessie S. Belknap
JESSIE S. BELKNAP
HARK! do you hear the calls for help
Coming from across the sea?
In the darkness souls are groping;
Who will lead them, Lord, to thee?
O that I could paint the picture
So you all could understand
How the missionaries labor
Far away in foreign land!
Hard they’re working, and they’re praying,
“Father, may the ones at home
Help us gather sheaves for heaven;
Leave, O, leave us not alone!”
Men and means are sadly needed
In our little mission band;
Lo, the harvest white is waiting —
Who will lend a helping hand?
Will you help while yet time lingers,
Help us while it yet is day?
Soon the summer will be ended,
And the sickles put away.
Work and pray, O brother, sister,
That the message loud may ring
Till the honest all are gathered
From this world of death and sin!
Then when our life’s work is over,
May we meet in that bright home
With the sheaves that we have garnered,—
Meet around the great white throne.
Camas, Wash.
Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service
Second Song: “Rescue the Perishing.” “Christ in Song,” No. 479 (old edition, No. 398).
First Reading: “Christian Help Work.”
Short Experience Meeting, based upon first reading.
Organization of a Dorcas Society for the care of the poor. Announcement of plans by church missionary committee. See Acts 9:36-41; also note 1.
Second Reading: “Silent Messengers.”
Spring Temperance Campaign: Organization and materials to be used. See note 2.
Monthly Report of Church Work.
Passing of Report Blanks.
Fourth Sabbath Collection. Report blanks may be dropped into basket with collection.
Prayer over collection and reports.
Plans for Work: See note 3.
Closing Song: “Let Us Work Too.” “Christ in Song,” No. 819 (old edition, No. 613).
The Missionary and Publishing Work
Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER . . . . . Secretary
N. Z. TOWN . . . . . Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU . . . . . Missionary Secretary
Silent Messengers
By A. J. S. B.
Some Uses of Tracts
(Second Reading)
IN THE REVIEW of December 8 and of January 12, we have learned some of the uses of tracts in Reformation and modern times, also simple plans for their systematic use in house-to-house work and in other ways. The Tract Pocket League is increasing in membership and effectiveness. However, we have made only a beginning in this great work, and appreciate only in part the possibilities that are wrapped up in this simple method of proclaiming the message.
“Some years ago a man stepped into a street-car in New York,” says a writer, “and before taking his seat, gave to each passenger a little card bearing the inscription, ‘Look to Jesus when tempted, when troubled, when dying.’ One of the passengers carefully read the card, and put it in his pocket. As he left the car, he said to the giver, ‘Sir, when you gave me this card, I was on my way to the ferry, intending to jump from the boat and drown myself. The death of my wife and son had robbed me of all desire to live; but this card has persuaded me to begin life anew. God bless you.’”
What Tracts Can Do
An experienced worker with tracts has thus epitomized the many uses to which they can be put:—
“Tracts can go everywhere, at home and abroad. Tracts know no fear. Tracts never lie. Tracts can be multiplied without end by the press. Tracts can travel at little expense. They run up and down like faithful messengers—blessing all, giving to all, and asking no gift in return. They can talk to one as well as to a multitude, and to a multitude as well as to one.
“Tracts speak in all languages. They carry the message of gospel truth to the home-born and to the foreigner. They require no public room to tell their story in. They can tell it in the banking house or the shop, the parlor or the kitchen, the railway train or the ocean steamer, the car or the omnibus, on the highway or in the footpath through the fields.
“Tracts take no note of jeers, and no one can betray them into hasty or random expressions. Though they will not always answer questions, they will tell their story over twice or thrice or four times, if you wish it; and they can be made to speak on every subject, and on every subject they may be made to speak wisely and well.
“Tracts can be made the vehicles of truth, the teachers of all classes, and the benefactors of all lands. Thousands upon thousands of people can rise up and testify that a tract was the means of their conversion. Countless others have been cheered, comforted, and stimulated by them.”
Removers of Prejudice
Those engaged in Christian Help work will find the following up-to-date health and temperance tracts to be entering wedges in beginning tract work in districts where prejudice exists against our theological views: “Food: Its Mental and Moral Value,” “Pure Air in the Home,” “Alcohol and Disease,” “Diet and Endurance,” “Dressing for Health,” “Simple Treatments for Common Ailments,” “Drunkenness and Crime,” “What Shall We Drink?” “Simple Treatments for a Cold,” “Liquor and Poverty,” “Is Alcohol a Food?” “The Cure for National Intemperance,” “Patent Medicines,” “A Chat With My Tobacco-Loving Brother,” “Some Effects of Tobacco Using,” “Autointoxication,” and a dozen others,—all listed in our catalogues of publications, and in the booklets, “Fireside Companions” and “Supplies for Home Workers,” which are supplied free of charge by your conference tract society. The worker following the envelope system of distribution (fully outlined in the REVIEW of December 8), may select from this list a sufficient number of tracts for use in the first few packages, following them up from week to week with others on the second coming of Christ, the Sabbath, and other theological questions.
Still Other Uses
“I can not speak in meeting,” said a church-member to his pastor, “but if you will supply me with choice reading-matter, I will pay for it, and enclose it in the packages which go out from my store.” In this way he supplied a great many fishing-vessels with Christian literature. A druggist, who did the same thing in another place, said of the tracts, “They are better than chromos.” Tracts may be handed to passengers of trains at railway stations; they may be distributed from reading-racks placed by permission in public buildings, railway stations, and at country cross-roads. They may be distributed to crowds at conventions, to theater-goers, and to those frequenting baseball games, to the sick in the hospitals, and to the prisoners in jails. In this work, however, as in all other missionary endeavor, we should remember the rights of others, and that our mission in this world is not to convert people, but to be witnesses for Christ.
A. J. S. B.
The Watchman
By Editor
The Present Truth Evangelizer
THE Watchman is a magazine for everybody.
To reach the people, the Watchman begins to evangelize with the cover page.
Matt. 24:32, 33 is the theme upon which our artist has based the design for the April Watchman cover, and it will be one which will please the reader.
This number will be of unusual excellence. Prominence will be given to the subject of the second advent. “Can We Know?” will be answered by the editor, in a strong article setting forth the signs and the prophecies by which we may know that “He is near, even at the doors.”
Elder S. N. Haskell contributes a stirring article on Christ’s Second Coming; Prof. B. G. Wilkinson writes on the subject of the Seven Seals; and Prof. P. T. Magan will take up the question of the renewal of the struggle for World Empire, which has been held in abeyance by the nations since the days of Napoleon.
FACSIMILE OF FIRST COVER PAGE
Other articles are—
Christ as God, Archangel, Man, by Clarence Santee.
A Bible reading on the subject of the Little Horn of Daniel 7, by A. L. Manous.
Panama and the Canal, by B. E. Connerly.
This number of the Watchman will also contain a number of other splendid articles, besides the usual Outlook, Mission Field, and Home and Health departments.
Order early through your tract society.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By F. M. Wilcox
Review and Herald Publishing Association
NOTICE is hereby given that the eighth annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, of Washington, D. C., will be held in connection with the ministerial institute for the Atlantic and Columbia union conferences, in the North Philadelphia church, 1942 N. Seventeenth St., Philadelphia, Pa., April 18, 1911, at 3 P. M., for the election of five trustees for the coming year, to take the places of those whose term of office expires at that time, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
The following persons are members of this corporation: Those composing the executive committees of the General Conference, the Atlantic Union Conference, the Canadian Union Conference, the Lake Union Conference, and the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; those who compose the executive committees of the several local conferences of the Seventh-day Adventists within the territory of the aforementioned union conferences; those who compose the board of trustees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association; and such persons as have received certificates of membership in said association.
By order of the trustees.
F. M. WILCOX, President.
Publications Wanted
THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent post-paid:—
M. S. Hubbell, Box 180, Route 1, Fort Smith, Ark., continuous supply of papers.
R. W. Clarke, 104 Warren Ave., Tampa, Fla., monthly publications, Life Boat, etc., also tracts.
Mrs. Dora Murner, R. F. D. 1, Gaylord, Mich., Signs, Watchman, Youth's Instructor, Life and Health.
Sara Cornforth, Rodeo, N. M., Box 24, Signs of the Times, Youth's Instructor, health and temperance tracts.
Lizzie Symons, R. F. D. 1, Sterling, Mich., Signs of the Times, REVIEW, Watchman, Youth's Instructor, tracts.
Mrs. John Hume, Route 3, Box 26, Girard, Crawford Co., Kan., Life Boat, Review, Life and Health, Signs of the Times, Youth's Instructor, tracts.
Mrs. A. G. Hammonds, Calhoun, La., Review, Youth's Instructor, Signs of the Times, weekly and monthly, Watchman, Life and Health, Protestant Magazine, Liberty, tracts.
Business Notices
By Editor
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following:—
Conditions
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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
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Wanted.—Situation in bath-rooms. Have had nearly two years’ experience in practical hydrotherapy. Can furnish best of references. O. E. Yingling, 1524 Friendsbury Place, Baltimore, Md.
Strawberry Plants.—St. Louis, Crawford, Black Beauty, Pride of Michigan, 75 cents a 100; Senator Dunlap, 45 cents; Warfield, 40 cents; Excelsior Glen-Mary, Parson’s Beauty, Greenville, 50 cents. Descriptive catalogue free. Lake View Nurseries, Box 10, Poysippi, Wis.
Beauties! Beauties! 12 x 16 Bible Mottoes. Beautiful flowers of all kinds pleasing to the eye. In order to reduce our stock of almost one-half million Mottoes, we are making a very low price: 200, $6; 350, $10. “Father” and “Mother” mottoes included in this offer. We have a fine line of mottoes, and make them ourselves. The more you buy, the less they cost. We also have a fine line of Post-Cards at 60 cents a hundred. Our Mottoes are varnished with the highest grade of varnish, and the work is done by one of the best lithographing houses in the United States. Order of the Hampton Art Company, Lock Box 257, Hampton, Iowa.
To the Elder or Missionary Leader
By A. J. S. B.
(Not to be read publicly)
Note 1
“ORGANIZATION OF A DORCAS SOCIETY.”—“When all has been done that can be done in helping the poor to help themselves, there still remain the widow and the fatherless, the aged, the helpless, and the sick, that claim sympathy and care. Never should these be neglected.”—Ministry of Healing, page 201. Read chapter on “The Helpless Poor.” Also instruction in “Testimonies for the Church.”
“Every church should have a Dorcas society, which will gather in worn garments from the wealthier classes, and repair and alter them for the needy ones. As a general rule, what the poor most need is work; and if we can, by any means, find remunerative employment for them, that is the best possible help to give. In some cases financial aid will be necessary. Such cases may be brought to the attention of the officers who dispense the poor fund.”—O. A. Olsen, in “Duties of Church Officers.”
Note 2
“SPRING TEMPERANCE CAMPAIGN.”—Organize bands and district your territory for work with our health and temperance tracts and the new Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. A small temperance tract may be used as a card to gain admittance to homes where the Temperance Instructor can be sold. Read special instruction found in the chapter in “Ministry of Healing” entitled “The Liquor Traffic and Prohibition,” especially the closing paragraphs on page 346. Then act.
Note 3
“PLANS FOR WORK.”—Plans for renewal of church clubs of such missionary periodicals as the Signs of the Times weekly and the Gospel Sentinel. Let the members pledge the number they will take during the next three or six months.
With the expiration of the Present Truth Series of the Signs, it will be necessary to provide new missionary names and addresses to which the new clubs may be mailed.
The organization of small missionary bands should be followed up, and they should be asked to report their work at the weekly missionary meetings and the next fourth Sabbath service.
A. J. S. B.
A Good Offer to the Right Men
The Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute offers ten men who are seeking a missionary training an opportunity to get a practical education while working to pay a large part of expenses. To be acceptable, a man should be desirous of working in the South; he should have at least a grammar school education; he should be able to do practical manual work on the farm, in a dairy, or with tools. The spring term opens March 13; the summer term, June 22, 1911. For literature and particulars address E. A. Sutherland, Madison, Tenn.
Obituaries
Palmer.—Died at his home in Tuscola, Mich., Feb. 14, 1911, James Monroe Palmer, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. Brother Palmer was born in the State of New York in 1832. He came to Michigan in 1852, and in 1866, with his wife (now deceased), accepted the truths of the third angel’s message, uniting with the Seventh-day Adventist church organized in Tuscola the following year. Four of their six children were present at the funeral. Col. 3:4 was the text chosen by Brother Palmer to be used at his funeral; and from these words the writer undertook to draw a profitable lesson for those present at the service. WM. OSTRANDER.
Hill.—P. M. Hill was born Nov. 4, 1816, in Tennessee, and died Dec. 8, 1910, aged 94 years, 1 month, and 4 days. When he was quite young, his parents moved to Missouri, where he grew to manhood, and married Levina Mears. To this union were born eleven children, five of whom are living. Brother Hill joined the Baptist Church at the age of sixteen, but in 1872 he heard Brother Lawrence preach, and accepted the Sabbath. In 1874 he became a charter member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Halfrock, Mo. He leaves two sons and three daughters, also many friends and other relatives, to mourn. He was a strong believer in the third angel’s message, and we hope to meet him when Jesus comes. GEORGE W. TURNER.
Sellers.—Died Feb. 8, 1911, at Battle Creek, Mich., Sister Ann Sellers, aged seventy-eight years. Her maiden name was Dougherty. Brother and Sister Sellers came to Convis, Mich., in 1844, where they lived till a few years ago, when they moved to Battle Creek. Sister Sellers was the mother of four children, three of whom are living. She accepted the truth in 1861, under the labors of Elders Loughborough and Frisbie, and has been a member of the church at Convis since that time. She loved God, his children, and his truth, and the sorrowing husband and children mourn not without hope. Of her it has been said, “She lived the best she knew,” and she was laid away to rest a little while, till called from her dusty bed to live forever. The funeral services were conducted at the old home by the writer. E. W. FARNSWORTH.
Hodge.—Myrtle Mary, infant daughter of George and Myrtle Hodge, died Feb. 16, 1911, aged 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day. Words of comfort and consolation were spoken by the writer, from Luke 18:16, to the bereaved relatives and friends. JOHN P. GAEDE.
McElhany.—Little Ruth, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Marcus A. McElhany, at the age of 8 years, 4 months, and 2 days, passed peacefully away at the home of her parents in San Fernando, Cal., Dec. 23, 1910. Ruth knew the Lord, having been baptized more than six months before her death, and united with the church in San Fernando. We fully believe she sleeps in Jesus. December 26 she was laid to rest in the cemetery at Glendale. E. J. HIBBARD.
Nilson.—Died at her home in Oakland, Cal., Feb. 10, 1911, Mrs. Hilda Nilson, aged 57 years, 6 months, and 10 days. She was a native of Sweden. In San Francisco, in 1875, she heard and accepted the truths of the advent message, and united with the San Francisco church. Since 1894 she was a member of the Oakland church. Her husband, one son, and one daughter survive her. The funeral services were held in the Oakland church, and she was laid to rest in the beautiful Mountain View cemetery, to await the call of Him who is the resurrection and the life. GEO. W. RINE.
Avery.—Died at her home near Bowling Green, Ohio, Feb. 10, 1911, Betsey H. Avery, aged 79 years, 9 months, and 25 days. In early childhood she removed with her parents from Butler County, Ohio, to this place. In 1849 she was married to Wm. R. H. Avery; their union was blessed with nine children, of whom two sons and a daughter survive, and, with their aged father, find comfort in the precious promises. In 1861, under the labors of Elder Holt, Brother and Sister Avery identified themselves with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and were among the charter members when the Bowling Green church was organized. Her death brought rest to one weary with a long period of suffering, through which she ever manifested Christian courage and resignation. A. C. SHANNON.
Tefft.—Died at the home of her daughter, in Kingston, R. I., Jan. 30, 1911, Sister Lucy Jane Tefft, in the eightieth year of her age. She was born in West Falmouth, Mass., in 1832, and was married to Robert K. Tefft in 1852. To this union eight children were born, six of whom survive her. Her parents were Friends, and the quiet, unassuming manner characteristic of this people was always manifest in her life. Forty-six years ago, when the third angel’s message was preached in Rocky Burk, R. I., by Elders M. E. Cornell and R. M. Kilgore, she, with her husband, accepted it, and remained faithful until death. Her husband died in 1872, leaving her with a large family to bring up; and, though the burden was heavy, she bore it with true Christian fortitude. Truly, a “mother in Israel” has fallen; but her works follow her, and many will rise up and call her blessed. W. R. ANDREWS.
McDonald.—Elizabeth J. Anglemyer was born in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1818; was married to Andrew McDonald in the summer of 1836; and died at the home of her daughter in South Milford, Ind., Dec. 23, 1910, aged 92 years, 9 months, and 10 days. When quite young, she came to Noble County, living for a time near Avilla; but her home has been at or near South Milford for nearly half a century. In her youth she united with the Presbyterian Church, but later she joined the Adventist Church, of which she remained a faithful member until her death. She was a devout Christian, and beloved by all who knew her. She was the mother of thirteen children, five of whom preceded her in death, also the mother of six stepchildren, of whom only one survives. In accordance with her request, the funeral service was held in the Baptist church at South Milford, and conducted by Rev. T. J. Mawhorter. A large audience was assembled. Interment was made in Wright’s Cemetery, near Union Chapel. MRS. R. ADAMS.
Siewers.—Joseph B. Siewers was born in Salem, N. C., Oct. 25, 1843, and died at Decatur, Ill., Jan. 31, 1911. He received his education at the place of his birth, and when nineteen, enlisted in the Union army, serving three years. After his discharge he moved with his parents to West Salem, Ill. He was married to Susan Rebecca Rothrock, Nov. 8, 1870. To this union three children were born. His wife, one son, and a daughter are left to mourn. Brother Siewers became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church thirty years ago, and was a firm believer in the message. The funeral service was conducted by the writer at Decatur, where the deceased had lived for the past twenty-five years. E. A. BRISTOL.
Lakin.—William Dwight Lakin was born Feb. 19, 1852, in Putnam, Mich., where he spent his childhood and early manhood. April 20, 1875, he was married to Lizzie A. Hitchcock. Later in life they removed to Portland, Mich., where he became engaged in a prosperous business. Brother Lakin accepted the truths of the third angel’s message in 1895, and was chosen local elder of the Portland church, which office he held at the time of his death. He was loved and respected by all who knew him, and his loss is keenly felt. He quietly fell asleep Feb. 13, 1911, lacking six days of being fifty-nine years old. Besides his wife, one son and two sisters are left to mourn. 2 Tim. 4:7, 8 was selected as an appropriate scripture upon which to base comforting remarks. In the beautiful Portland cemetery he sleeps to await the call of the soon-coming Life-giver. CLIFFORD A. RUSSELL.
Burleigh.—Died at the home of his daughter in New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 4, 1911, John Q. Burleigh, aged 80 years, 7 months, and 6 days. He was born at Phoenix, N. Y., in 1830, where he remained till he was twenty-one years of age. After this he spent some years as a salesman in different portions of the country. In 1862 he answered the call of his country, enlisting in the 119th Illinois Infantry. He spent three years in the service, and was discharged in 1865. At the close of the war, and after the surrender of General Robert Lee, but before the news had reached that portion of the South where he was stationed, he was wounded in an engagement near Mobile Bay in Alabama. The effects of this wound he carried through life. In 1865 Brother Burleigh married Miss Elvira Yacum, of Pennington Point, Ill., to which union six children were born, two boys and four girls; namely, Drs. G. W. and E. S. Burleigh, both deceased; Mrs. Mary R. Jayne, of Atlantic City, N. J.; Mrs. Eliza B. Bradford, of New Bedford, Mass.; Mrs. Lucila Thompson, of Bloomington, Neb.; and Mrs. Mabel Patterson, of Gibbon, Neb. In the spring of 1868, Brother Burleigh moved to eastern Nebraska, then a wild country, settling in Syracuse. Here he remained thirteen years. At this place, in a series of meetings held by Elders H. Shultz and A. J. Cudney, of the Nebraska Conference, he was convinced of the truths held by this people and gladly accepted them. Removing westward, he spent three years in Republican City, and later moved to Bloomington, Neb., where he resided twenty-eight years. In June, 1909, after a married life of forty-four years, his faithful wife was laid to rest, which left him quite alone. Later, in company with his daughter, he came East, and has since lived with the two children whose homes are in this section. Brother Burleigh was a man who loved God, and was honest and sincere in his convictions of duty and right. He was a man of prayer, and one could not be in his presence very long but some words of his indicated his faith in God and his Word. The blessed hope which sustained him in life supported him in his last hours, and he passed to his rest with full confidence in God, and of a part in the resurrection of the just. The funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Acushnet, Mass., Jan. 6, 1911, and were conducted by Elder H. C. Hartwell, Rev. Brown, a Methodist minister, and the writer. He was laid to rest in the cemetery near by to await the coming of the Life-giver. W. B. WHITE.
