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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 43.

Special Numbers of LIFE AND HEALTH

Review and Herald

Oct 27, 1904

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 27, 1904

Special Numbers of LIFE AND HEALTH

By Editor

For November and December

THE November and December issues of Life and Health will be special numbers, in bright, attractive covers, and with the following inducements to new subscribers and agents.

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The persons who subscribe for the year 1905, and who have not been on our lists in 1904, will be entitled to the November and December numbers of this year free, until the editions of these months are exhausted.

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Some of the Good Things

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LIFE AND HEALTH

For November

A Last-Generation Religious and Food Reform—By a pioneer in this reform message—the necessity and significance of such a reform.
Letters From a Physician to His Son. No. 1. “The Importance of Having a Right Ideal”—By one who has done excellent work as physician, educator, missionary, and father. These heart-to-heart talks, though primarily intended for young men, may be read with profit by young women as well, or by those who are no longer young.
The Bread of Life—The series of illustrated articles from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, which are selections from the opening chapters of her forthcoming book, “Ministry of Healing,” is resumed with this number. Every one who is acquainted with Mrs. White’s characteristic pictures of the Saviour’s life will be glad to know that the series is to be continued.
The Medical Missionary at Work has the usual feast of good things from those who are working “in the regions beyond”—East Africa, India, and Japan being represented this time.
The Healthful Cookery Department contains a number of practical recipes for the use of the olive, a food that deserves to be better known in the East than it now is. The effort will probably be made this winter to supply olives at different points in the East, at rates within the reach of moderate incomes.
News Notes—A brief account of what is being done by health boards, and in other ways, for the improvement of the public health.
Prevention of Tuberculosis—“More than one hundred thousand human lives are sacrificed every year to the ignorant, inexcusable, not to say criminal, indifference of the public.” This article gives some of the plans on foot to prevent its spread and to educate people on this subject.
Health by Hunger—An account of Dr. Dewey’s famous “Fasting Cure,” and his unselfish efforts in behalf of humanity.
The Home Practical—with helpful suggestions for “Home Dinners,” “Setting the Table,” etc.
Questions and Answers—Dr. Hare replies to questions about Pimples and Blackheads, Bad Teeth Cause of Bad Stomach, Dust and Consumption, and Red Nose.
What Shall I Eat?
Use and Abuse of Athletics.
Country Life Not Always Healthful.
Health Suggestions—a page of seasonable health notes.
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The Art of Massage

By John Harvey Kellogg

BY DR. J. H. KELLOGG
A PRACTICAL, new treatise on massage, especially adapted for students of the art, but helpful to all. A number of excellent treatises have appeared, some of which have been measurably complete, but none have been so comprehensive or systematic in their treatment of the subjects as might be desired. This work is eminently concise, condensed, practical, and covers the whole ground in a manner which the publishers believe will commend itself to all who are competent to judge of its merits.
Concise directions are given in more than forty manipulations; fifty pages are devoted to the several procedures of massage, which are considered under seven heads; namely, Touch, Stroking, Friction, Kneading, Vibration, Percussion, and Joint Manipulations. Under these several heads more than forty different forms of manipulations are described, care being taken to eliminate all procedures which are of no real practical value.
It is the only complete, practical, and fully illustrated treatise on the subject.
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The Secret of Strength

By Editor

Editorial

The Secret of Strength

HAVE you met with such defeats in the Christian warfare that you have become almost discouraged? Do not give up. Still there is hope. You must learn the secret of strength in the conflict with evil. We need often to be reminded of the words of Jesus, “Without me ye can do nothing,” and then to accept the strength offered to us in Christ, “I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” Although Jesus withdrew his bodily presence from the earth, yet his last promise was, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” We must realize the power of his presence with us. “This is certain, that Christ never intended by the translation of his body to heaven to deprive earth of any of his energy or power or virtue.” The gospel of Christ, “the power of God unto salvation,” is the good news that Christ is a present power in every one that believeth. “Christ, with all his infinite resources, with all his love, all his glory, is brought nigh to the individual believer, and made a part of his being by the gift of the indwelling Christ.” When this truth becomes experience, when we have learned how to avail ourselves of heaven’s provision for our weakness, then we have found the secret of strength.
“Not I, but Christ, my every need supplying, Not I, but Christ, my strength and health to be: Christ, only Christ, for body, soul, and spirit, Christ, only Christ, here and eternally.”

The Apostolic Succession

THE word “apostle” means one who is sent. So does the word “missionary.” An apostle is a missionary. The twelve apostles were twelve missionaries. “The real truth in regard to ‘apostolic succession,’ so belabored and beclouded in futile disputes, now comes out in clear and convincing light. If the New Testament is permitted to speak on this question with final authority, the genuine apostolic succession is a missionary succession. Of the first admission to it after Jesus’ time, we read that to supply the vacancy created by the apostasy of Judas, Matthias was chosen, ‘and he was numbered among the twelve apostles [missionaries].’ Many a humble missionary on whose head no bishop’s hands have ever been laid, is numbered in this succession. Outside of it have been many mitered and throned prelates, ‘princes of the church.’” This is a practical basis for the settlement of a vexed question. Those individuals who give themselves most devotedly to missionary work have the best right to be regarded as in the apostolic succession. That church which is primarily a missionary church has the best claim to the title of an apostolic church. Let every Seventh-day Adventist do his best to prove that we have the true apostolic succession by showing himself to be a genuine missionary.

Discharging an Obligation

By Editor

The apostle Paul felt himself to be “debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.” When it was the good pleasure of God to reveal his Son in the apostle to the Gentiles, he was thereby placed under obligation to all who had not heard the gospel, and he gave his whole life to the work of discharging this obligation.
The same principle holds good now. Those who have received the light of this closing message of the gospel have become indebted to the whole world, and the debt is the greatest to those who are in the deepest darkness. To discharge this obligation is their first duty. In doing this will also be found their truest happiness.
For these reasons we feel that we are pointing out the path both of duty and of happiness when we place before our people in a clear and emphatic manner the special needs which present themselves in this work, and urge them to accept cheerfully and thankfully the responsibility of proclaiming this third angel’s message to all peoples in all lands.
It becomes the duty of those who have been selected to exercise a watch-care over the development of this work to study the needs of the whole field, and to recommend such general plans as will enable all the people to act unitedly for the best interests of the work as a whole. In this way our efforts are not haphazard and fruitless, but well directed and much more satisfactory in their results. In this way there is also a more symmetrical development of the work in all its departments and in all fields.
In pursuance of this plan, the General Conference, or the General Conference Committee, makes recommendations to our people concerning the raising and disbursing of funds required for the extension of the work, and appoints general collections in the churches. We know that those who love this truth desire to aid in sending it to others. It is impossible for all to go in person to the different fields, but all can be represented in the various missionary enterprises by uniting in their support.
In the large council of representative brethren recently held at College View, Neb., it was unanimously recommended that on Sabbath, November 5, a general collection be taken in all the churches in this country, in order to provide funds for the more rapid extension of the work among the colored people of the South. The facts upon which this recommendation is based are briefly these: There are nearly nine million colored people in the Southern States; our work among the white people is not sufficiently developed to make the local conferences strong enough financially to assume, unaided, the burden of carrying the message to the colored people among them; the general trend of events in the South indicates plainly that it may be only a short time before it will be exceedingly difficult for white workers tolabor in behalf of the colored people, and this emphasizes the necessity of making the most of the present opportunities. Such are the facts. They are in themselves an earnest appeal for financial assistance.
The General Conference Committee has regarded the South as a mission field, and in its annual appropriations it has included an item of seven thousand five hundred dollars for the benefit of the work in the Southern Union Conference, and, in addition to this, the General Conference pays several workers in that field, but this is found inadequate to meet the pressing demands for building up the interests of this cause among both the white and the colored people. For this reason this special collection has been recommended.
We know that there are many calls for means, but we are glad of it. We hope that they will increase. It is a healthy sign. It shows that there are openings for the truth, and that something is being done. Instead of murmuring at the frequent calls for help, let us thank the Lord that this work is enlarging, and let us be glad that our Master has so ordered it that we can feel that we have a part in his work.
Having thus presented the situation plainly, we feel assured that our people will respond to the recommendation of the council, and that a substantial sum will be realized from the collection. If there is united action, none need be burdened in order to provide what may reasonably be expected.
Do you really feel that you are a debtor to the colored people of the South? Here is an opportunity to do something toward discharging this obligation. Another deposit can thus be made in the bank of heaven.

In the Strongholds of Romanism

By William A. Spicer

We may rejoice that at last we have a working foothold in all the Catholic countries of Europe. These lands that shut out the Reformation, choosing darkness rather than light, can no longer keep the light from streaming in. The final message of reformation is now sounding in every one of these historical strongholds of Rome.
True, we are as yet so small and feeble a folk in those lands that our presence within the inner lines of Catholicism may not be felt; but the standard of God’s mighty truth has been planted in Rome’s very strongholds, and we who know that truth and its work in the earth know that the standard, once planted, never comes down. This truth shall yet stir the hearts of men in those lands, and that, too, ere long.
It was no common thing that we saw at the Latin Union meeting last July, and on the shores of Lake Geneva. At the roll-call of delegates, representatives stepped forward from Belgium, and France, and Spain, and Italy, and from French Switzerland, the whole circuit of Catholic Europe, save Portugal and Austria. As for Austria, that was represented in our German Union meeting later, and now Portugal is entered, and will be represented at the next gathering of the Latin races.
The French-speaking part of Belgium was represented by J. Curdy, who, with another brother, a Bible worker, is toiling away in the most densely populated portion of Europe. Belgium has 579 people to the square mile. It is an unresponsive field, but we have now twenty-five believers there, nine of whom came into the truth last year.
France has a little band of workers, and a growing body of believers, who have resolutely set their faces toward the work for the forty millions of that land. Where years ago the way was blocked, now barriers are removed. As one worker said: “The doors are wide open in France. It really is saddening to see these beautiful fields wide open, and not enough workers to enter them.”
Spain was represented by Brother Robinson, formerly of Argentina, South America, where he received the truth, and latterly of Wales. Spain, the land of the Inquisition, is now open to the truth, and already a few souls have taken their stand for it.
Italy is entered in earnest. The truth is now preached “in Rome also,” under the shadow of the Vatican. Brother Everson reported some ready for baptism and the union council voted to employ two new Italian believers in the work.
The union conference was held in the territory of the French-Swiss Conference, which so far supplies the greater part of the Sabbath-keepers in the Latin Union. Brother Leon Tieche, who was trained as a nurse, but who was drawn by the pressure of the needs into the field evangelistic work, is president of this Swiss Conference.
Switzerland is a cosmopolitan country, and not likely to be mixed up in the political struggles of Europe. Hence it seems destined to be a sort of rocky fastness out of which workers may be sent forth into the surrounding fields, even in the troublesome times which soon must come in Europe.
There were present at our meeting young people who, ever since they were little children, had heard that some day the French field would have a school. They had grown to young manhood and womanhood since their parents embraced this truth, and yet no permanent training-school was open to them. But at last it has come to pass, and this union conference definitely laid plans for a Latin Union school, which is doubtless even now in operation. You should have seen the joy expressed in the faces of young and old as the details of the plan were worked out, and the final decision reached.
Here, in Switzerland, where most of our earliest work in Europe was done, you will find sturdy churches of seasoned and experienced believers, and they mean to faithfully push out from their home land into the unevangelized regions about them. Their young people are ready for service, and many are doing good work amid difficult conditions. This permanent school will be a strong factor in the Latin field. Just as the young Waldenses and the Vaudois youth pressed through these countries as missionaries in pre-Reformation days, so now we shall see a band of trained workers bearing this final message over the same countries.
These Latin Union believers are with us heart and soul in this work. You can see the love of this truth shining in their faces, and one’s heart can catch the true ring of the message in their councils even when the language is unknown to the ear.
For two years the expenses of the new fields in Latin Europe have been met by reserve funds released in the settling up of the affairs of the Basel property. Now, however, these funds are used up, except the school fund, which can not be touched for field work. It devolves upon the Mission Board again to make appropriations for Latin Europe, beginning with 1905. Here is an added incentive to giving for our mission funds. About $6,000 per year will be needed. Yet how small an amount to spread over the strongholds of Rome, where a hundred million people are to be warned. Keep this added need in mind as you give; and pray for the growing work in this waiting field, at last entered with the third angel’s message. W. A. S.

Good Plans for a Good Work

By Editor

Two years ago 'this coming winter a tract campaign was conducted. Four special tracts dealing with the living issues of the message were prepared, and although we were late in beginning, yet with the hearty co-operation of our brethren throughout the field, these tracts were circulated by the hundred thousand, and much good was accomplished.
In last winter's effort the attention of our people was focused largely upon the Capital and Labor Number of The Signs of the Times, and over six hundred thousand copies of this special issue were placed in the hands of the reading public. This was a good work, but limited in its scope.
This year careful study has been given to the preparation of a program of missionary work which will be comprehensive enough to include the circulation of a large variety of literature, and flexible enough to be adapted to the circumstances of our people in all parts of the field. It is hoped that we may thus be able to inaugurate a campaign which will continue until the earth is lighted with the glory of this message, and the way of the Lord is prepared.
There are at least sixty thousand Sabbath-keepers in this country. If this army of believers should pray and work unitedly with a determined purpose to make known this warning message, what far-reaching results could be seen under the blessing of God! There are whole States where every home could be visited by a messenger of this truth. With hearts filled with a sense of the solemnity of the time, and with an earnest longing to impart saving truth, men and women, old and young, could carry to these homes our periodicals, our tracts, and our books, and could shed rays of precious light upon the pathway of those who are now walking in darkness. Is not this a work worth undertaking?
The best incentive to this missionary campaign is a serious consideration of the real significance of the message itself. We have the testimony of the prophetic periods and the inspired predictions concerning the last days to show conclusively that we have come to the time when the mystery of God is to be finished. Sixty years of the judgment-hour period are now in the past. The message has already sounded forth that “there shall be delay no longer.” The great day of the Lord is just at hand. In most earnest messages of warning and entreaty the Lord has been urging his people to be his instruments with which he may do a quick work in the earth. We are thankful for what response has been made, and that some of our conferences have annexed the world to their home field, and are dividing their resources with their outside territory. These are significant steps. But our missionary work can not be done wholly in an organized capacity. Every individual is called into service for his own sake and for the truth's sake. O that each one may hear the call!
We must remember that we are not here merely to maintain a denominational work, and to hand it on to our successors of the next generation. There is no “next generation.” This is the last generation. In this generation this message is to be carried to the people of every nation, including our own. In this generation probation will close. In this generation the seven last plagues will fall upon those who have not taken refuge in Christ. In this generation a reeling world will face its coming King, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. In this generation time will merge into eternity, and “the redeemed shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads.” It is our duty and privilege in this generation to declare the counsel of the Lord and his great salvation, that every one may be without excuse if he refuses to be reconciled to God.
We urge our readers to give these things the serious attention which they deserve. “We have not followed cunningly devised fables.” This advent movement is of God, and he will bring it to a successful issue. “We are standing upon the threshold of great and solemn events. The whole earth is to be lightened with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the channels of the great deep. Prophecies are being fulfilled, and stormy times are before us. Old controversies which have apparently been hushed for a long time will be revived, and new controversies will spring up; new and old will commingle, and this will take place right early. The angels are holding the four winds, that they shall not blow until the specified work of warning is given to the world; but the storm is gathering, the clouds are loading, ready to burst upon the world, and to many it will be as a thief in the night.”
The work suggested in our missionary campaign for the coming winter is a good one, and the plans are good; but the work will not do itself, and the plans will not execute themselves. There must be personal effort. We call upon conference officers to sound a trumpet call to the Sabbath-keepers within their borders, and to organize them for this work. We call upon the officers of our churches to lead the members in this work. We call upon every believer in the third angel's message to do his part in this work. There is no time to lose. Let us make the missionary conventions next Sabbath really inspiring occasions, and then let us enter upon this “mighty missionary campaign” in earnest. May the Lord greatly bless his people in their efforts to give the gospel message.

A Call From the Universe to Seventh-day Adventists

By Arthur G. Daniells

SURELY every Seventh-day Adventist who reads the words that head this article will be deeply impressed with their significance. A call from the universe to Seventh-day Adventists. What does this mean? It is based on a remarkable statement made in an unpublished testimony, dated Jan. 10, 1904. That statement reads as follows:—“Everything in the universe calls upon those who know the truth, to consecrate themselves unreservedly to the proclamation of the truth as it has been made known to them in the third angel’s message.”
Seventh-day Adventists can well afford to turn aside for a time and study earnestly the meaning of this instruction. Mark the parts of this statement, and see how pointed, how specific, and yet how comprehensive the message is.
Everything in the universe calls upon those who know the truth. God, Christ, the angels, the redeemed in heaven, the loyal inhabitants of unfallen worlds, God’s people on the earth, perishing sinners, the whole suffering, groaning creation,—everything in the universe calls upon those who know the truth. Who are they who know the truth? The Lord says that his “law is the truth.” “All thy commandments are truth.” Ps. 119:142, 151. The apostle John said of those who have the third angel’s message, “Here are they that keep the commandments of God.” Rev. 14:12. Certainly those who keep the commandments will know the truth. And who are they but Seventh-day Adventists? Is it not to them that everything in the universe calls—
To consecrate themselves unreservedly to the proclamation of the Truth? To consecrate themselves; not their means nor their children only; not a few of their brethren chosen for the ministry; but to consecrate themselves unreservedly—soul, body, and spirit, sons and daughters, houses and lands, cattle and sheep, silver and gold, all without any reserve—to the proclamation of the truth. To proclaim is to announce, declare, promulgate, publish, spread, disseminate. It is this that everything in the universe calls upon those who know the truth to consecrate themselves unreservedly to do. And this truth is to be proclaimed—
As it has been made known to them in the third angel’s message. The truth that has come to us in the third angel’s message is the eternal truth of the living God. That truth arrested our attention, convicted us of sin, converted us to God, separated us from the world, and made us Seventh-day Adventists. There is to be no departure from it. No spurious metal, no alloy, is to dim the fine gold. Until the Lord comes, Seventh-day Adventists are to proclaim earnestly and unceasingly to the uttermost parts of the earth the truth as it has been made known to them in the third angel’s message.
This is but a dim, faint outline of the meaning of that thrilling call that comes from the universe to Seventh-day Adventists. The apostle Paul recorded in the Word of God a call that came to him from Macedonia, but to-day the servantof the Lord records in the inspired instruction now being given to the church, a call to his people from the universe. In character, the calls are alike. “Come over . . . and help us” was the call that came from Macedonia. And now, to-day, in the closing struggle of the great conflict, everything in the universe summons us who know the truth, to make it known to those who do not know it.
It is to answer this call that very definite, practical plans have been arranged for a general missionary campaign this winter. The ministers, Bible workers, and canvassers who are devoting all their time to this work can not do it quickly enough. God has promised that he will “finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness.” To do this he calls every one who knows the truth to active, practical service.
“It is an eternal law of Jehovah that he who accepts the truth that the world needs, is to make it his first work to proclaim this truth.” “The world is our field of missionary toil.” “The battle-cry is sounding along the line. Let every soldier of the cross push to the front.” —“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VII, pages 13, 12, 17.
The service thus rendered for God to our fellow men brings a blessing not only to them, but to those who render the service as well. “The transforming power of Christ’s grace molds the one who gives himself to God’s service.”
In view of this thrilling call to service and the blessings that are to attend a genuine response, this whole denomination should take hold of the work of God this winter with a zeal, a devotion, and an enthusiasm we have never manifested in our history. Who will make the unreserved consecration the universe calls for?
A. G. DANIELLS.

An Important Recommendation

By A. G. Daniells

As we are using the pages of the REVIEW to call the attention of our people to various important recommendations passed by the General Conference Committee at the College View Council, it would not be right to overlook the one recommendation that was passed in behalf of the REVIEW itself. It reads as follows:—
The readings and a suggestive program for these conventions, together with detailed plans for the campaign, are to be published in the REVIEW, and in order that this essential information and the valuable instruction and interesting reports from the world-wide field which this paper contains, may be studied by all our people,—
We recommend, That during the month of October, the librarians, church elders, and conference laborers seek to place it in the home of every Sabbath-keeper.
There are two features in this recommendation that ought not to be overlooked. One is the purpose, character, and value of the REVIEW AND HERALD, and the other is that it should be an honored, cherished, permanent member of every family of Sabbath-keepers.
The one great purpose of the REVIEW is to speak to Seventh-day Adventists. It is to gather interesting, instructive, cheering information from all parts of the great field in which the cause with which we are connected has been established, and convey the same to our people. The REVIEW has its eye on every nook and corner of the field. It knows every worker. It is a helpmeet to every missionary. It speaks for all to all connected with this great cause. This is its mission, and this it must do more perfectly until the work is done.
Viewed from this standpoint, the REVIEW is of inestimable value to Seventh-day Adventists. I do not see how it is possible for any one to keep pace with this onward movement without reading the REVIEW. No other paper that we publish attempts to glean from the uttermost parts of the earth the details of experiences and development, and convey them to our people. Therefore those who do not read the REVIEW do not get these details. And those who do not get these can not keep step with the onward progress of this message.
Furthermore, the REVIEW endeavors to instruct the people of God in all lines of gospel work. It must be plain to every believer in this message that service in all phases of true missionary effort is the supreme duty of this people. The angels that John saw in charge of this great threefold message were not sitting with folded wings, but were flying, and were proclaiming the message, as they sped on their journey, to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
Of those who die while the message is being given, it is written, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” The third angel’s message means service to every one who embraces it. And it is the mission of the REVIEW to encourage and instruct the denomination in the lines of work planned from time to time.
Much more might justly be said in behalf of this valuable and venerable servant of this denomination, but space will not permit. These considerations are weighty enough to justify the council in recommending that librarians, church elders, and conference laborers put forth earnest efforts to place this paper in the home of every Sabbath-keeper.
Brethren, we are entering upon very interesting times for this denomination. The REVIEW will keep us informed if we read it. Let there be no failure in this move to place this paper in the home of every believer in this message.
A. G. DANIELLS.

The Week of Prayer for 1904

By Arthur G. Daniells

At the General Conference Committee council recently held at College View, Neb., various questions relating to the week of prayer for 1904 received thoughtful consideration. This council was attended by a large number of union and local conference officers and ministers, all of whom were invited to join in the deliberations of the council. After free and thorough discussion, the following recommendations were passed, expressing the agreement arrived at:—
1. That the time for the week of prayer be set for December 10-17.
2. That the following be the program of readings:—
Sabbath: “What this Denomination Exists For,” by E. W. Farnsworth.
Sunday: Reading by Mrs. E. G. White.
Monday: “The Spirit and Power of the Message in the Early Days,” by S. N. Haskell.
Tuesday: “Our Message and Work To-day,” by W. W. Prescott.
Wednesday: “Incentives to Service in Current Signs of the Times,” by E. T. Russell.
Thursday: “Review of the Field,” by W. A. Spicer.
Friday: Reading from Mrs. E. G. White.
Sabbath: “The Mission Outlook,” by A. G. Daniells.
(The offering to be taken at this service.)
For Christmas or the Sabbath preceding (optional with each church), Missionary Program for Children, Estella Houser.
3. That in event of failure in any of these plans, the officers of the General Conference be empowered to arrange for the deficiency.
4. That W. A. Spicer, W. A. Colcord, and Estella Houser be an editorial committee on week-of-prayer readings.
5. That general officers and conference presidents be requested to write articles for the REVIEW, setting forth the aims and objects of the week-of-prayer season.
6. That conference laborers be recommended to use their conference papers for the same purpose.
Whereas, We have now opened missions in nearly every country in the world, thus permanently establishing our cause in all lands; and,—
Whereas, The steps we have already taken bring us most pressing calls for more laborers and means; therefore,—
We recommend, That a call be made for an annual offering of $80,000, and that we earnestly request the vigilant co-operation of all conference officers, ministers, church officers, and people everywhere in raising this amount during the next week of prayer.
There was a general and deep conviction expressed by all who took part in the discussion of this question, thatmost earnest efforts ought to be made throughout the world to make the coming week of prayer a great blessing to the cause of God. It was claimed that, in order to make this season set apart for Bible study, prayer, and service for God all that it should be, there must be united, earnest, prayerful co-operation on the part of the conference officers, ministers, and church officers throughout the denomination.
Brethren, it is none too soon to begin to give this matter earnest attention. We should study the needs of such an occasion, the blessings it will bring to the cause if observed as it should be, and the loss that will be sustained by failure on our part to do this. We should begin early to place these considerations before our people. Speak earnestly to them through the papers at your command, and from the pulpit. Talk of them in the families you visit.
If we do our part faithfully, we can consistently look for great blessings from God, and he will not disappoint us.
It will be seen that one of the recommendations provides that a call be made this year for an annual offering of eighty thousand dollars. Last year we called for fifty thousand dollars, and received over forty thousand dollars. This large contribution has been a great boon to our missions. But the great, destitute fields we have now entered are calling for more laborers, and this means larger gifts.
Larger giving on our part is possible because of the continued prosperity God is granting to us. He is bestowing his gifts most bountifully. Eighty thousand dollars can be given to missions by this denomination during the coming week of prayer. In behalf of our missionaries who are struggling along with meager facilities in difficult mission fields, and in behalf of the teeming millions who are perishing without hope, I appeal to all our people to begin early to plan for an annual offering of eighty thousand dollars. I believe the Lord calls for this. Shall we fail? We must not.
A. G. DANIELLS.
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