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Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 30.

THE WORK
Earlier text: Stamp Collecting in Foreign Fields

Summary of Magazine Sales for June, 1909

Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Atlantic Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Maine 88 38 655 660 44 1186 2671 $ 267.10
Vermont .... 5 414 86 57 364 926 92.60
New Hampshire 152 .... 152 13 46 450 813 81.30
Massachusetts 1287 20 3274 1527 177 2625 8910 891.00
Rhode Island 14 .... 10 133 23 128 308 30.80
Connecticut 45 15 411 1546 25 284 2326 232.60
New York 394 184 3073 1534 1424 3175 9784 978.40
Totals 1980 262 7989 5499 1796 8212 25738 2573.80
Columbia Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Pennsylvania 120 150 3952 1412 608 3713 9955 995.50
New Jersey 1229 224 1548 789 417 2806 7013 701.30
Delaware .... 5 102 20 9 65 201 20.10
Maryland 78 13 2574 1397 180 379 4621 462.10
Virginia 208 25 883 232 41 582 1971 197.10
West Virginia 6 50 690 362 23 263 1394 139.40
Ohio 546 1563 1996 956 323 2492 7876 787.60
Totals 2187 2630 11745 5168 1601 10300 33031 3303.10
Lake Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Indiana 266 655 687 2168 312 4287 8375 837.50
Illinois 1777 1230 4345 564 411 3141 11468 1146.80
Michigan 1075 181 1952 789 774 8678 13449 1344.90
Wisconsin 745 74 1659 327 686 1698 5189 518.90
Totals 3863 2140 8643 3845 2183 17804 38481 3848.10
Canadian Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Totals 1463 .... 887 161 361 3555 6427 642.70
Southern Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Kentucky 141 35 1021 170 38 850 2255 225.50
Tennessee 21 1711 1855 305 101 2378 6371 637.10
Alabama 6 2455 92 568 63 115 3289 328.90
Mississippi 100 355 127 307 4 173 1066 106.60
Louisiana .... 355 515 192 27 659 1748 174.80
Totals 268 4901 3610 1542 233 4175 14729 1472.90
Southeastern Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
North Carolina 3 150 151 43 33 188 568 56.80
South Carolina .... 87 51 196 25 249 608 60.80
Georgia 158 235 2404 41 73 229 3140 314.00
Florida .... 516 61 89 42 304 1012 101.20
Totals 161 988 2667 369 173 970 5328 532.80
Southwestern Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Arkansas 8 .... 168 210 38 432 856 85.60
Oklahoma 369 606 737 813 153 2577 5255 525.50
Texas 206 3140 1619 1060 93 2076 8194 819.40
New Mexico 15 .... 143 55 44 182 439 43.90
Totals 598 3746 2667 2138 328 5267 14744 1474.40
Central Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Missouri 740 267 830 565 194 3112 5708 $ 570.80
Kansas 301 67 398 614 252 1849 3481 348.10
Colorado 402 200 938 536 477 6358 8911 891.10
Nebraska 744 63 3032 3275 255 4019 11388 1138.80
Wyoming 163 32 48 144 34 260 681 68.10
Totals 2350 629 5246 5134 1212 15598 30169 3016.90
Northern Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
North Dakota 19 55 392 123 89 365 1043 104.30
South Dakota 20 7 104 139 65 570 905 90.50
Minnesota 787 61 867 501 158 2359 4733 473.30
Iowa 1083 137 1702 685 369 4649 8625 862.50
Totals 1909 260 3065 1448 681 7943 15306 1530.60
North Pacific Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Oregon 2499 85 942 1731 206 5122 10585 1058.50
Washington 1426 332 2902 1499 432 8979 15570 1557.00
Idaho 72 .... 1371 376 63 1787 3669 366.90
Montana 61 .... 66 1058 61 1151 2397 239.70
Totals 4058 417 5281 4664 762 17039 32221 3222.10
Pacific Union Conference
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
California 7517 118 6136 5270 962 9675 29678 2967.80
Nevada 12 10 57 33 5 33 150 15.00
Utah 1229 .... 50 20 6 246 1551 155.10
Arizona 12 .... 142 61 5 233 453 45.30
Totals 8770 128 6385 5384 978 10187 31832 3183.20
Signs Watchman L. & H. Liberty Protestant Instructor Temp. No. Total No. Value
Grand totals 27607 15501 58185 35352 10308 101050 248006 $24800.60
NOTE: The report for the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor covers the time from March 1 to July 1, 1909, inclusive.

The Magazine Summary

By E. R. P.

THE publication of the accompanying summary of the sale of ten-cent magazines during the month of June marks a new era in the progress of our publishing work. For several years we have published summaries of our subscription-book work, which have enabled the readers of the REVIEW to keep in touch intelligently with the progress of that work throughout the world.
During the past two years the sale of ten-cent magazines has been rapidly coming to the front, until now, through the kind co-operation of the publishers, we are able to present quite a complete, comprehensive summary of the sale of ten-cent magazines in the United States and Canada. This summary may not be absolutely complete, but it is comparatively so. We trust that the publication of these figures from month to month will be a great encouragement and blessing to our people, and especially to the magazine agents, missionary secretaries, and publishers.
We invite all to give careful study to the arrangement of the figures and the information which they present. We will appreciate suggestions on the arrangement.
It will be noticed that the sale of each magazine in any State is placed after the name of that State, and under the name of the magazine given at the head of the column. The total number of magazines sold in each State, and the value of the same, are found in the last two columns opposite that State. The totals for each union conference show the total number of each magazine, the total number of all combined, and the value; and the grand totals of the summary show the sale of each magazine for the month in the entire territory, the total number of all magazines sold, and their value.
By preserving these summaries, publishers, missionary agents, and conference officers may have at hand definite information concerning the progress or decline of their work in this line, or may learn at a glance what papers are being neglected and should receive better attention.
It will, of course, be understood that this summary does not represent our periodical work as a whole; it includes only the ten-cent magazines. Much careful labor will be required to prepare this summary each month, but we confidently anticipate that the use that will be made of it will be of such value to this line of work as to repay many times over the cost and effort. God is doing great things for his people during these interesting closing days of time. We trust that this work with our magazines, just now developing so rapidly, may grow in strength until it shall become a mighty power in spreading the third angel’s message. E. R. P.

Spanish Literature

By H. H. HALL

BROTHER N. Z. TOWN, assistant secretary of the Publishing Department, has just sent us (at Mountain View, Cal.) manuscript for six tracts in Spanish, to be published for the exposition in Ecuador, South America. The Pacific Press is asked to publish six thousand each of these at cost of manufacture, to be distributed at the exposition.
The largest order we have ever received from South America has just come from Peru. It includes the following items: 500 “Coming King” (Spanish); 100 “Patriarchs and Prophets” (Spanish); 700 “New Testament Primer” (Spanish); 100 “Daniel and the Revelation” (English).
This is an indication of the way our truth-filled literature is being circulated in the Neglected Continent.
H. H. HALL.

The Publishing Work

By E. R. PALMER; N. Z. TOWN

Conducted under the auspices of the General Conference Publishing Department
E. R. PALMER   .   .   .   .   Secretary
N. Z. TOWN   .   .   .   .   Assistant Secretary

Publishing in Korea

By E. R. P.

THERE has recently come to our office a very interesting little parcel of tracts from Korea. They are well printed, and present a very creditable appearance. The titles are as follows: “Sabbath-School Lessons on the First Epistle of John,” “The Sinner’s Need of Christ,” “The New Testament Sabbath,” “Jesus Is Soon Coming,” and “The True God and His Sabbath.” The postmark informs us that they are “published by the Seventh-day Adventist Mission Press, Sunan, Korea.”
We rejoice to see the publishing work getting a foothold in that interesting mission field of the far East. May the Lord bless the hands that scatter it; and let us pray that there may be a great harvest ingathering of precious souls as the result of this seed sowing.
E. R. P.

Current Mention

— Russia has determined to reduce the number of her holidays from ninety-one to sixty-three, including Sundays.
— A small sailing vessel carrying twenty-two passengers capsized in New York harbor on July 18, and ten of the occupants were drowned.
— Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, died at Varese, in Lombardy, Italy, on July 18. His son, Don Jaime, will continue the policy of his father. He intends to make the Carlist movement more modern and more aggressive.
— On July 16 the shah of Persia, as a result of the continued successes of the Nationalists, sought safety in the Russian legation. This was regarded by the Persians as a voluntary abdication, and the shah’s son was chosen to take his place, with a regent in control of affairs until the boy shall reach his majority. The shah will go into exile in Russian territory. The new Persian government is already preparing to hold popular elections for the new assembly. Popular government now seems assured in the land of Cyrus and Xerxes.
— There is grave possibility of an outbreak of hostilities in South America over the boundary dispute between Peru and Bolivia. Some time ago the dispute between these two countries was submitted to arbitration, the president of Argentina acting as the arbiter. His decision, just made known, is very distasteful to the Bolivians, and they declare that they will not abide by it. War talk is rife, and it is considered by many that Argentina’s importation of $37,000,000 in gold is for the purpose of providing a “war chest” to finance military operations in case of hostilities.
— A number of woman-suffrage riots have occurred in London during the last few days. The members of the woman’s suffrage organization have made determined efforts to obtain access to the premier, but without success, and many of them have been arrested as a result of the riots incident to their efforts.
— The estimates for continuing work next year on the Panama Canal have been approved by the Secretary of War and transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. The amount required for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1910, will be $45,100,000. This is about $12,000,000 greater than the amount appropriated for the current year. The increase is regarded as necessary by the canal officials because of the fact that there will be much structural material needed in building the locks.
— German educators are pointing with satisfaction to the latest statistics on international education, which show that Germany is maintaining its position as the most highly educated nation in the world. The percentage of illiteracy in the German empire, these statistics show, is one twentieth of 1 per cent, as compared with .1 per cent in Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland; 1 per cent in Great Britain; 4 per cent in France; 10.2 per cent in Belgium; and so on until Rumania is reached at the bottom of the list, with a percentage of 75. The battle against illiteracy among the great nations shows the most positive results in France, where the percentage of illiteracy in the army has been reduced from 19.13 in 1872 to 4.83 in 1905. The highest percentage of gain in literacy is shown by Bulgaria, which has reduced the proportion of illiterate adults from 70 per cent in 1878, the year of its liberation from the Turkish yoke, to less than 40 per cent in 1905,—a result which places that country in the foremost rank among the Balkan nations.
— A hurricane which swept over the Gulf of Mexico on July 21, visited Galveston, Tex., and its vicinity, resulting in the loss of twenty-one lives, and the destruction of property to the value of $750,000. The new two-million-dollar sea wall, built after the great hurricane which wrecked the city a few years ago, saved the city from a repetition of that disaster.
— War is on in earnest in Morocco between the Spanish and the Moroccan tribesmen. Several battles have already occurred, with important losses on both sides. The Spanish commander at Melilla, Morocco, has asked for re-enforcements of 40,000 men, but the Spanish soldiers are manifesting great reluctance toward entering the campaign. Upon two different occasions detachments of troops designated for embarkation have mutinied.
— During a stormy session of the French Chamber of Deputies on July 20, the Clemenceau ministry, by a vote of lack of confidence, was forced to resign. A new ministry has been formed under the leadership of M. Briand, a Socialist. It will be remembered that M. Briand was one of the leaders in the attack upon the Catholic Church which resulted in the dissolution of the concordat between France and the papacy.
— The report of the court-martial at Adana, Turkey, which was appointed to inquire into the massacre of Christians by Turks during the recent uprising in Turkey, states that fifteen persons have already been hanged; that 800 deserve death; that 15,000 deserve hard labor for life; and that 80,000 deserve minor sentences. It is not at all likely that sentence will be executed upon so vast a number. The court itself recommends that in view of the general reconciliation between the opposing elements, general amnesty be proclaimed.
— It having been America’s policy for so long to keep out of all entanglements with the nations of the other hemisphere, the German press is now commenting freely upon what it calls “the new course of America’s foreign policy.” The American government’s persistence in participating in the Chinese railway loan on terms identical with those of France, Germany, and England is described as a momentous indication of America’s determination forthwith to play an active rôle in the economic and political affairs of the far East, and to employ to that end the same political ways and means which the other powers have used.
— There is a constant increase of activity along the line of aeronautics. The successes of the Wright brothers in America and France and of numerous French aeronauts with heavier-than-air machines, and of Count Zeppelin and others with dirigible balloons, are leading many others to give attention to the navigation of the air. The first attempt to cross the English Channel in a flying-machine was made on July 19, and six miles of the twenty-two had been covered when the engine ceased working, and the machine alighted in the sea. The machine and its operator were rescued by a torpedo-boat. On July 25 another aviator, M. Bleriot, in an aeroplane succeeded in flying across the Channel, and won a $25,000 prize offered by the London Times.

Mississippi and West Tennessee Camp-Meeting

By Thomas Murphy

To the colored Seventh-day Adventists of Mississippi and west Tennessee: The camp-meeting which was to be held at Meridian, Miss., in August, has been changed to Greenwood, Miss., August 20-29. This place is a more central point for all in Mississippi and west Tennessee than any other place in the State. Let all who can, come prepared to stay throughout the meeting, which will last only ten days. There will be plenty of sleeping tents upon the ground for all, at a cost of thirty-five cents for each person for the ten days. Board can be had for fifteen cents a meal or seven meals for one dollar. We wish to have a large attendance at this meeting.
Remember such meetings come only once a year. There will be some very important matters considered which have to do with our soul's salvation. We are now nearing the verge of eternity. Soon, very soon, we shall see Jesus face to face, and this life-work will be ended. No more sadness of heart, no more shedding of tears, no crying, but thank and praise the Lord, there will be all joy, peace, and happiness. Then let us be of good courage, and rally to the front with this work for the colored people, for the time is nearly expired. Jesus will soon stop pleading for this sinful world, and those who have not been faithful in discharging their duty in this work will be left out. Reader, will it be you? God forbid that any who read this notice will be left out.
Address me after the first of August at Greenwood, Miss. THOMAS MURPHY.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1909

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern New England, Bridgeport, Conn. ........ Sept. 2-12
Vermont, Richmond ........ Aug. 19-29
New York, Fonda, Mont. Co. ..... Sept. 2-10

COLUMBIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Ohio, Lima ................ Aug. 10-29
West Virginia, Parkersburg ..... Aug. 5-15

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Northern Missouri, Chillicothe .... Aug. 5-15
Southern Missouri, Springfield .... Aug. 12-22
Kansas, Council Grove ........ Aug. 19-29
Nebraska, Hastings ............ Sept. 2-12
West. Colorado, Grand Junction .. Sept. 16-26
East. Colorado, Boulder .... Aug. 26 to Sept. 5

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Northern Illinois, Elgin .... July 28 to Aug. 8
West Michigan, Three Rivers ........ July 22 to Aug. 2
Indiana, Bluffton ........ Aug. 5-15
Southern Illinois, Centralia ...... Aug. 12-22
East Michigan ............ Aug. 19-29
North Michigan, Petoskey, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Wisconsin ................ Sept. 2-12

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Iowa, Nevada ................. Aug. 19-29

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana, Alexandria .... July 22 to Aug. 1
Alabama, Birmingham ........ Aug. 5-15
Mississippi, Greenwood ........ Aug. 20-29
Tennessee River, Dickson .... Aug. 12-22
Kentucky .................. Aug. 19-29

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Georgia, Macon ......... July 29 to Aug. 8
South Carolina, Anderson ...... Aug. 5-15
North Carolina, Cleveland .... Aug. 12-22
Cumberland, Athens, Tenn., Aug. 24 to Sept. 5
Florida, Orlando ............. Oct. 21-31

WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia, near Vancouver ........ July 27 to Aug. 2

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Upper Columbia, Spokane or vicinity ........ Aug. 5-15
Western Washington, Tacoma ...... Aug. 12-22
Western Oregon, Portland ...... Aug. 19-29
Montana, Missoula ...... Aug. 26 to Sept. 5

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas, Alvarado ........ July 29 to Aug. 9
West Texas, Abilene ........ Aug. 12-22
New Mexico, Alamogordo ...... Aug. 19-29
Oklahoma, Enid ......... Aug. 26 to Sept. 6

Eastern Colorado Conference Association, Notice!

By J. W. LAIR

THE first meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Association of Colorado will convene on the Chautauqua grounds at Boulder, Colo., Monday, Aug. 30, 1909, at 9 A. M. This meeting is called for the election of officers, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the association.
J. W. LAIR, President.

Northern Illinois Camp-Meeting

By Wm. Covert

OUR Northern Illinois camp-meeting, from July 28 to August 8, will be held at Elgin. We have secured a very comfortable grove, with good shade, near an excellent spring of water, and accessible by street-car lines, located on St. Charles Street, at about No. 1000. Take the Grove Avenue car from Fountain Square, and get off at Boulevard Street, and walk two blocks south on St. Charles Street to the grounds. A general invitation is extended. Wm. COVERT.

Maritime Conference

By J. O. MILLER

THE annual conference and general meeting for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, will be held at Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, September 10-20.
This is a beautiful place on the Pedicodiac River, eighteen miles below Moncton. It is earnestly desired that all our brethren and sisters begin to prepare now to be in attendance. We can not afford to miss the blessings that come to us in attending these annual convocations. We have the promise of efficient help from the General Conference and the Canadian Union Conference.
J. O. MILLER, President.

East Michigan Camp-Meeting

By E. K. SLADE; E. I. BREER

THE annual camp-meeting of the East Michigan Conference is to be held in the city of Jackson, Aug. 19-29, 1909. Those desiring to secure tents for that meeting should write immediately to the undersigned. It is expected that this will be a meeting of great importance, and an effort is being made to have the best general help obtainable. The message was begun in Michigan sixty years ago the twenty-seventh of July, by Elder Joseph Bates holding a few meetings in Jackson. It is desired to make the Jackson camp-meeting an occasion for reviving the work in a special way that was begun sixty years ago.
E. K. SLADE, President, E. I. BREER, Secretary.

Camp-Meeting for the Colored People

By A. J. Haysmer

THERE will be a camp-meeting for our colored people at Greenwood, Miss., August 20-29. The time will soon be here, and we trust that all our colored people in Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee will begin now to get ready to attend this annual feast. We shall not be able this season to hold more than two or three meetings of this character in the Southern Union Conference; this one at Greenwood, Miss., and one about October 8-17, near Sylacauga, Ala. Now we are very anxious that all our colored people who can possibly do so attend one of these meetings. You can not afford to stay away. There will be tents at the usual price. There will also be a dining-tent where all who wish to do so can board at the rate of seven meals for one dollar. Bring your bedding. Straw can be secured to fill your bedticks. Write to Elder Thomas Murphy, Greenwood, Miss., for further information.
A. J. HAYSMER.

Shenandoah Valley Training Academy

This academy will open its second year Sept. 14, 1909. Our first year was most successful. A fine class of students was in attendance who made commendable progress in all their studies. We are planning for a better school this year. Our catalogues are now ready for distribution, and we invite all who are contemplating sending children to one of our schools to write for catalogues and particulars at once.
This school is located in the historic and beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, near the village of Newmarket, one hundred twenty-five miles from Washington, D. C. The valley lies between the Alleghany and Blue Ridge mountains, and with its genial climate, its fertile soil, its industrious people, its beautiful scenery and natural wonders, presents a most beautiful and ideal location for a school, where the student may not only study God through his revealed Word, but through his revelations in nature.
Our rates are so very reasonable that we believe that all will be deeply interested in getting particulars, for which we invite you to write at once. Address all communications to Shenandoah Valley Training Academy, Newmarket, Va.

North Carolina Conference

By G. W. WELLS

The annual session of the North Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has been appointed to convene at Cleveland, N. C., Aug. 12-22, 1909, in connection with the conference camp-meeting.
Matters of eternal interest are to be considered at this time; and in view of the rapid fulfilment of prophecy and the final consummation of this glorious message, no one can afford to remain away. Let nothing of minor importance about the home keep you from this place of refreshing.
We are expecting the best of help from the union conference, also from the General Conference.
Cleveland is located on the main line of the Southern Railway, between Asheville and Salisbury, fifteen miles west of Salisbury.
G. W. WELLS, President.

Addresses Wanted

ANY one knowing the whereabouts of J. D. Miller will confer a favor by notifying Mrs. M. V. Mayer, Placerville, Cal.
Any one knowing the address of Mrs. E. A. Ross will confer a favor by sending same to Miss Loulie Horn, Orlando, Fla., Clerk Orlando Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Addresses

The address of Elder J. W. Manns is Box 667, Bartow, Fla.
The present address of Pastor Geo. B. Starr and wife is 2537 Amsterdam Ave., Cor. 186 St., New York City.

Publications Wanted

THE following named persons desire for missionary use late, clean copies of our denominational papers. These should be neatly and carefully wrapped, and sent post-paid:—
A. C. Allen, Portage, Wis., denominational literature.
George Sands, Circleville, N. Y., Signs of the Times.
W. R. Lamb, Napa, Cal., denominational papers and tracts.
W. H. Cathey, Malvern, Ark., Signs, Watchman, and Liberty.
Sidney Scott, Sumter, S. C., Signs, Instructor, Watchman.
Mrs. A. L. Gallion, Arapaho, Okla., periodicals for reading-racks.
L. J. Caldwell, Fern Hill, Wash., denominational papers and magazines.
B. F. Harmon, Tuscumbia, Ala., Signs, Watchman, Liberty, and tracts.
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