As one sits on the upper veranda of the teacher's home, or, better still, mounts the belfry tower of the academy building, the vista that meets the eye in every direction is something to thrill again and again the heart of the beholder. Sweeping away to the north, over pine and oaken hill and fertile vale, the rugged outlines of the old Blue Ridge range of mountains bound the horizon, save for a few craggy peaks that lift their heads still higher beyond the range, at a distance of a hundred miles or more.
To the south and west the lofty range fades mid tinted hues, while nearer lie the lower hills and mountain heights, which give the picture a variableness and grandeur scarcely to be excelled, save from the tops of those isolated mounts themselves. Mounts Piney and Baker are but a few miles from the school, and the view that greets the eye as one looks in every direction from their peaks is one never to be forgotten.
Truly, this Piedmont district of America, with its most wholesome climate, its ennobling scenery, its agricultural and educational possibilities, is a most providential center for a school work that is to be a beacon of hope for the millions of the Carolinas.
Such is the feeling of those upon whom rests the burden of placing this school where it may be the instrument for service in God's hand that he desires it to be. The following words from the Lord's servant and handmaid give hope and energy to their hearts: "From the light given me, I know that the work at Hildebran, if properly managed, will be a great blessing to the surrounding country. I have been instructed that we must establish schools in just such districts, away from the cities and their temptations."
Just seven years ago the Lord's servant, Elder D. T. Shireman, pitched a gospel tent on the side of the hill where the school now stands, and the people came for miles to hear the truths of the third angel's message. Believers were found, a church was organized, and very soon a small school was begun, to meet the need that was evident on every hand.
The seed grew. There was no village of Hildebran then; but now, on its principal thoroughfare, stands another chapel, neat in appearance, and larger than the first, while just above, on one hand, upon the crest of the hill, stand the school buildings, and just below, on the other hand, are the burned ruins of the Piedmont Sanitarium.
It took much labor then to go into the forest that occupied the school site, cut away the trees, erect buildings, and plant orchards, vines, and berries; but its early founders were tried pioneers of the North and West, who had before launched into the great unsettled districts of those sections, and, with hearts attuned to service for God and man, they entered upon a work that has already borne much fruit for God, and which still stands as a fortress of truth for many, many souls in this yet neglected and needy field. The first pupils had to climb over logs and through brush to reach the buildings just opened for them; and some ridiculed, as in the days of old, a work that to them gave no promise of ultimate success. But the faith and energy of those who have toiled these years have made it possible for this school to enter upon the era, that, through the special favor of God, is just before it.
The school buildings, humble yet commodious, comprise quite a complete outfit for primary and academic work. More than a hundred students can be accommodated in its rooms, while the students' and teachers' homes, within a few yards of the main building, afford sufficient accommodation at the present for non-resident students and teachers. A young orchard of several acres of choice fruit is just beginning to bear, and a fair setting of grapes, strawberries, raspberries, etc., are in producing condition. And in connection with the school is about seventy acres of choice, tillable land, which is this year bearing a good quality of crops. The farm lies well, being mostly bottom and valley land, adjoining the rear of the school plot. Altogether, one would search a long time to find a more delightfully situated and equipped outfit for the work designed for this school.
But no one of experience in the work of God will think for a moment that this work has all been accomplished without determined and constant opposition from the enemy of truth and of souls. Even after the buildings and farm were all put in their present condition of equipment, it seemed for a time, even for months, that all would be entirely lost. Gloom settled over the hearts of those whose hands had toiled so hard, early and late, to build up what, after all, seemed almost, if not quite, lost. But God's work as well as his Word ever has its champions and friends.
A faithful brother who had sold his Northern home and brought all his means to help in the needy Southern work, who had already invested heavily in establishing the work in Nashville, came to the rescue with his little remaining cash, and with the help of friends whom God most wondrously raised up, saved to the cause of truth that which was all but lost through the working of the adversary, who has no love for the progress of the message for which our schools pre-eminently stand.
The brother who now has the ownership and control of the school earnestly desires that its influence and field of usefulness be widened and strengthened. Since the school began its career, the primitive work in the Carolinas has grown into a small but well-organized conference, and now North Carolina has an organization by itself, while the old Columbia State is still under the direction of the Southern Union Conference, as a mission field. So it is desired that the school established here be taken under the direction of the conference, as a training-school of the intermediate grade, to prepare students for a humble place in the work in this field, or for the higher training-schools already established in the South, west of the mountain chain which forms no inconsiderable barrier between the central Southern field and the Atlantic Coast region occupied by the Carolinas and adjoining States.
Since early in the spring of this year this matter has been under advisement, and several months before the burning of our sanitarium, the Southern Educational Company, the legal body of the North Carolina Conference, made a small payment, and took a legal contract for the entire school property, on the following terms: By Jan. 1, 1905, the first payment of one thousand dollars should be made, when the ownership and control of the plant would be assumed by the conference, and its school board begin the direction. The remaining one thousand dollars should be paid in from three to five years.
Brother B. A. Rogers, who now holds the title of the school, is advanced in years, and feels that he can not now begin life anew without any means, and with a family to support, hence requires the payment of this small amount, but even then shares liberally in giving his portion of the purchase price.
Again: to those in this needy field the Lord has given the word that they should call to the East, the North, the West, and the South to help in placing the work here on vantage-ground. And shall we refrain from calling? To those upon whom it now rests to raise this means it seems that the set time has come for the work in Hildebran to take a most decided advance step. It seems to us that the entire work in this field demands it. We feel that to draw back now would be to jeopardize our souls. But one avenue has gleams of light for us, and that through the word advance.
But how shall we advance? With the loss of several thousand dollars, so recently sustained by the burning of our sanitarium, with laborers leading out in this work who have received no salary for months, with conference laborers receiving but a small portion of the amount their due, with a small conference constituency of about two hundred members, most of whom have but their little homes or meager salaries as a means of support,—with all this, what can we do but cry to God, and to his faithful children in other places, that we may receive the help that is so greatly needed in this crisis of our work?
We do not wish to detract in the least from any other work; but are there not some who have an extra mite to spare21us at this time, when it seems to us that we dare not wait any longer? May God give us friends who have means, and will spare them. May he move upon others who have means to move to this field, start new centers, take the lead of small companies that are in greatest need, and assist in establishing other schools, smaller than this one, yet just as necessary in the field they occupy.
O that God might give many a soul a vision of the actual need of the living witness for present truth in many localities of this beautiful but sin-laden State! Shall we not hear from many thus exercised by the Holy Spirit? Shall we not hear from you? ALBERT CAREY.
The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund
FURTHER partial list of the donations received on the Washington building fund at the General Conference office:—
Amount previously reported ............ $41,087 53
Hans. N. Hanson ....................... 100 00
D. B. Richards ......................... 100 00
Anna H. Stoiber ........................ 100 00
Mr. and Mrs. John Koenig .............. 100 00
J. W. Kirkpatrick ...................... 100 00
Mrs. Ethel Caro (New Zealand) ......... 74 02
South Dakota Conference ................ 71 23
Western Oregon Conference .............. 57 25
London (Ontario) church ................ 53 50
Brother and Sister C., Mrs. G. and
Elinor ................................ 50 25
A. Hawley ............................... 50 00
James H. Minisee ........................ 50 00
Captain G. Masters (New Zealand) ....... 48 70
A friend ................................. 41 36
J. L. Shaw (India) ...................... 32 00
A. G. Watson (India) .................... 32 00
D. Ella Coats (India) ................... 32 00
California Conference .................... 26 25
A friend ................................. 25 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. Kunze ................... 25 00
Elder and Mrs. R. A. Underwood .......... 25 00
L. and Bell Clark ........................ 25 00
P. A. Haskins ............................ 25 00
T. M. Steward ............................ 25 00
Mrs. J. L. Shaw (India) .................. 24 00
Anna Knight (India) ...................... 24 00
Southern California Conference ........... 23 50
Illinois Conference ....................... 20 46
O. A. Wilbur ............................. 20 00
Quincy Zimmerman .......................... 19 90
Mrs. S. E. Whiteis (India) ............... 19 20
Upper Columbia Conference ................ 17 25
Theckla Black (India) .................... 16 00
Miss L. M. Willard ........................ 15 00
Atlanta (Ga.) church ..................... 14 25
Northern Union Summer School ............. 12 50
A friend ................................. 11 00
A. E. Devereaux .......................... 10 00
Ruth C. Nichols ........................... 10 00
Charles Johnson .......................... 10 00
S. A. Conway ............................. 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Stevens .............. 10 00
Vancouver church .......................... 10 00
G. K. Owen ............................... 10 00
C. H. Day (India) ........................ 9 60
Mrs. D. Ella Smith (India) ............... 9 60
Montana Conference ......................... 9 50
Young People's Society .................... 8 56
Mary E. Learned (New Zealand) ............ 8 00
J. M. Brown ............................... 7 25
James Backer .............................. 7 00
J. A. Mackie (India) ...................... 6 40
E. Hayes .................................. 5 50
Mary Jones ................................. 5 15
Mrs. D. E. Walker ........................ 5 00
Elsie A. Brown ............................ 5 00
C. B. Rossier ............................. 5 00
M. L. Ring ................................ 5 00
Mrs. M. S. Foster ........................ 5 00
Flora F. Stowell .......................... 5 00
Mary A. Gatenby .......................... 5 00
Mary Moore ............................... 5 00
Mary Yarger .............................. 5 00
H. T. Doll and family .................... 5 00
E. J. Driver ............................. 5 00
M. J. Myers .............................. 5 00
E. J. C. .................................. 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chinnock ............. 5 00
Harry U. Jacobs .......................... 5 00
Mary Schmarz ............................. 5 00
Elizabeth Franks ........................ 5 00
J. Grundset .............................. 5 00
G. H. Gibson, M. D. (New Zealand) ....... 5 00
Mrs. G. H. Gibson (New Zealand) .......... 5 00
John Anderson ............................ 5 00
W. T. Ritchey and family ................ 5 00
Katie Bowermaster ........................ 5 00
Mrs. Lizzie Cruzen ....................... 5 00
Mrs. T. Hanson ........................... 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Atchison ............. 5 00
C. M. Powell ............................. 5 00
Loquel (Cal.) church ..................... 5 00
Mrs. B. F. Brown and daughter ........... 5 00
J. F. Dennis ............................. 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Lauder ............... 5 00
A friend ................................. 5 0022
A friend ................................. 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. B. Burglund ............... 5 00
T. W. Hodgins ........................... 5 00
C. S. and Jennie Smith .................. 5 00
Mrs. H. M. Gates ........................ 5 00
Josephine Jacobson ...................... 5 00
P. S. Phireatt .......................... 5 00
Ida S. Herr ............................. 5 00
Mrs. E. Watts ........................... 5 00
Harold Blumen (New Zealand) ............. 4 87
Frank Bond (Spain) ...................... 4 85
W. A. Barlow and family (India) ........ 4 80
Orwell S. D. A. church .................. 4 50
Garden City church ...................... 4 00
Jennie Metcalf .......................... 4 00
J. W. Cruzen ............................ 4 00
Mrs. C. C. Anderson ..................... 4 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Downs ............... 4 00
Columbia Sabbath-school ................ 3 80
M. Dettes ............................... 3 80
Mrs. J. P. Hall ........................ 3 60
Coldwater (Mich.) church ............... 3 36
W. V. G. Taylor (India) ................ 3 20
Mary Edminster .......................... 3 00
N. W. .................................... 3 00
Three friends ........................... 3 00
Mrs. S. F. Rowe ........................ 3 00
Mrs. T. J. Houde ........................ 3 00
Friends .................................. 2 80
J. I. Taylor ............................ 2 50
A. D. Tucker and family ................ 2 50
Dora Brown .............................. 2 50
Mrs. J. S. McCreary ..................... 2 50
Clark G. Hamp ........................... 2 50
Phoebe H. Hamp .......................... 2 50
Mrs. Clara McDonald ..................... 2 25
Marion Ellis ............................ 2 00
S. J. Wiles ............................. 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Snyder .............. 2 00
Woodland (Cal.) church .................. 2 00
Mrs. K. V. Temple ........................ 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Powell .............. 2 00
Mrs. Harrison Smith ..................... 2 00
Mrs. Allie Coe .......................... 2 00
J. Brothers ............................. 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cochran ............. 2 00
A friend ................................. 2 00
J. C. Moseley ........................... 2 00
Western Washington Conference ........... 2 00
J. J. Nabers ............................ 2 00
A friend ................................. 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Waller .............. 2 00
Haldane and Maud Carr ................... 2 00
H. S. Brown ............................. 2 00
George H. Moses and family .............. 2 00
R. Family ................................ 2 00
Stephen Houndsorf ........................ 2 00
Mary Ernst ............................... 2 00
J. H. King .............................. 2 00
Sister M. E. ............................ 2 00
Friends in Switzerland .................. 1 94
Friends .................................. 1 85
Minnie Houde ............................ 1 75
W. W. Smith and family .................. 1 60
Mrs. A. O'Connor (India) ................ 1 60
Manley Edminster ........................ 1 50
Leonora Edmister ........................ 1 50
G. A. Hopkins ........................... 1 50
Mrs. Z. A. Curtis ....................... 1 50
Mrs. M. A. Washburn ..................... 1 00
Mrs. M. C. Metcalf ........................ 1 00
Mrs. H. T. Moore ........................ 1 00
A friend ................................. 1 00
Lewis K. Dickson ........................ 1 00
Albert R. Dickson ........................ 1 00
Olive LeFave ............................. 1 00
S. J. Hibbard ........................... 1 00
E. P. Sprab .............................. 1 00
A. E. Stutzman .......................... 1 00
H. E. Townsend .......................... 1 00
Mrs. H. E. Townsend ..................... 1 00
Mrs. E. H. McCutchen .................... 1 00
F. H. Henderson .......................... 1 00
Charles Hottes .......................... 1 00
C. S. Zebold ............................ 1 00
Mary Powell ............................. 1 00
Mrs. Lillie Littlefield .................. 1 00
Leroy Littlefield ........................ 1 00
Mrs. Harriet E. Greer ................... 1 00
C. C. Christensen ........................ 1 00
A. Malison ............................... 1 00
A. Sehler ................................ 1 00
Mrs. F. M. Bowman ....................... 1 00
Mrs. L. G. Morgan ........................ 1 00
G. H. Nelson ............................. 1 00
R. G. Renken ............................. 1 00
Mrs. Jacob Lunger ........................ 1 00
Mrs. H. J. White ........................ 1 00
E. N. Hestand ........................... 1 00
J. D. Matthews .......................... 1 00
Elisha Taylor ........................... 1 00
R. J. Prater ............................ 1 00
W. T. Priest ............................ 1 00
Desire Wery ............................. 1 00
E. Ottosen .............................. 1 00
Mrs. M. A. Hollister .................... 1 00
R. W. Dutcher ........................... 1 00
Stony Lake Sabbath-school ............... 1 00
H. W. Herrell ........................... 1 00
Mrs. H. W. Herrell ........................ 1 00
Naomi M. Herrell ........................ 1 00
H. Willie Herrell ....................... 1 00
Paul H. Herrell ........................ 1 00
Anna G. Weishaar ........................ 1 00
M. D. Steele ............................. 1 00
R. J. Christiansen ........................ 1 00
J. E. Gibson ............................ 1 00
Mrs. Fleming (India) ..................... 96
Nellie Jenkins ........................... 90
Harold Jenkins ........................... 90
G. B. Jenkins ............................ 80
Mabel A. Jenkins ......................... 80
Bertha Jenkins ........................... 80
Philip Jenkins ........................... 80
Brother H. E. ........................... 75
M. V. Foote .............................. 75
Emma R. Hahn ............................ 50
Mrs. M. L. Dickson ....................... 50
Eva F. Dickson .......................... 50
A friend ................................. 50
L. S. Plymire ............................ 50
Mary E. Plymire .......................... 50
Mrs. T. M. Towns ........................ 50
A lover of the truth .................... 50
L. A. Chester ........................... 50
Mrs. L. A. Chester ........................ 50
Mattie Bartholmew ........................ 50
A friend ................................. 50
Sister Owens ............................. 50
A friend ................................. 50
John DeBries ............................. 50
E. A. Eisenschmidt ........................ 50
H. W. Wilhelms ........................... 50
G. N. Clark .............................. 50
Leidemann and Muller ..................... 50
E. D. Lacey .............................. 50
A. S. Williams ........................... 50
T. W. Cain ................................ 50
John Bird ................................. 50
Reinders and DeVries ..................... 50
Lubshohn Brothers ........................ 50
W. H. Owen ............................... 50
H. J. Murlien ............................ 50
J. J. Wyningar ........................... 50
J. D. Prater ............................. 50
Mary Ann Watson .......................... 50
Alice Stout .............................. 50
George E. Hollister ...................... 50
C. A. Collis ............................. 50
Mable Leyster ............................ 50
Albert Emerson ........................... 50
J. E. Pegg ................................ 50
Mrs. Hart (India) ........................ 32
Elmer Plymire ............................ 25
Vernon Plymire ........................... 25
Oae G. Plymire .......................... 25
Ross J. Plymire .......................... 25
Della Chester ............................ 25
Allie Chester ............................ 25
M. Even .................................. 25
Mrs. Deco ................................. 25
Ruth Emery ................................ 25
Edna Bowman .............................. 25
R. B. Kephart ............................ 25
W. A. Lawrence .......................... 25
Mrs. Sarah McGrew ........................ 25
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Carriker ........ 25
Vernon Brown ............................. 25
Pearl Houde .............................. 25
Crow Wing church ........................ 10
Richard Townsend ........................ 10
Estella Schalleck ........................ 10
M. A. Plank .............................. 10 00
Charles Grundy ........................... 5 00
James D. Kimble ........................ 10 00
G. Mathiesen ............................ 25 00
Mrs. M. S. Carle ........................ 50 00
Total ................................. $43,268 31
A further list will follow.
Field Notes
Six members were added to the church at Altoona, Pa., October 9.
Elder R. M. Kilgore reports twelve converts to the truth at Lawrenceville, Ga., as the fruit of tent-meetings which closed at that place, September 18.
Four members were recently added by baptism to the church at Clear Lake, O. T.
A Sabbath-school of twenty-one members was organized recently at Hepler, Kan.
The believers at and near Greenbrier, Miss., were organized into a church, September 18.
At Naruna, Va., where Elder C. B. Rule was recently visited by a mob who took down his tent and ordered him out of the place, fifteen persons have announced their acceptance of the Sabbath truth.
A report from Jennings Lake, Fla., where there is a newly organized church, says: “We conducted the first quarterly meeting Sabbath, September 10. Three united with the church and were baptized. Several more will soon join. The present membership is twenty-six.”
In a report of work at Martinsville, Ind., the Indiana Reporter of October 12 says: “The meetings at Martinsville still continue each night, and a few are deeply interested. Several have begun the observance of the Sabbath, and Bible readings are being held with a score or more who can not well attend the meetings regularly. We are still looking for a good company to be raised up at Martinsville.”
Elder C. McReynolds reports in the Kansas Worker of October 12: “Last Sabbath will never be forgotten by many who were at the Manhattan camp-meeting. The Spirit of God came in with power, and almost the entire congregation was made to especially seek God for deliverance from power of besetting sins. Nearly all who were unconverted gave their hearts to God, and discouraged souls were renewed. Yesterday nine were buried in baptism. Others return to their homes for baptism.”
The Southern Training School, located at Graysville, Tenn., opened for the coming school year September 21, with an attendance of about seventy students. The school work was inaugurated by appropriate chapel exercises, at which words of courage and good cheer were spoken by both teachers and students.
A marked spirit of earnestness was manifested on the part of all. The regular work of the term was taken up the following day.
Sabbath afternoon an excellent devotional meeting for the students and young people was held in the Home parlor, at which a large number were present, and in which all, with but few exceptions, participated.
A Normal department has been established in connection with the school, which gives students who are preparing for the work of teaching an opportunity for practical training. This department is in charge of Mrs. C. F. Dart.
The members of the Graysville church show a disposition to join heartily with the faculty in the work of uplifting the school in all its departments.
The Knowlton (Quebec) Sanitarium
By H. E. Rickard
We know well that many calls are being made, and pressing needs are being urged, from different parts of the great field; yet the imperative demand of the situation requires us to make an appeal for our sanitarium at Knowlton, Quebec. This institution is doing a good work not only for Quebec, but for the other provinces, and the adjoining States. Not only have patients been received and benefited by treatment here, but young people from the different places mentioned are being trained for a life of usefulness. But we are laboring under great difficulties. The building must be enlarged, and further equipment is also needed, in order to furnish sufficient room and facilities to do justice to the growing demands of the work. Part of this work must be done immediately in order to be prepared for the winter that is just before us.
Now Quebec is a very weak conference, both numerically and financially, and is not able to make these improvements alone without plunging deeply into debt, which is contrary to the Bible, the Testimonies, and sound business judgment. Therefore, we make this appeal for help in this our time of need, hoping that all will feel willing to help us as far as possible, that this important branch of the work may not be retarded in any way, but that it may go forward with its good work.
The needs of this institution were clearly seen by our leading brethren from the States during their much appreciated visit to our camp-meeting, and they kindly offered to co-operate with us in raising four thousand dollars to make the necessary improvements, with the understanding that if we would raise one thousand dollars in this field, the other three thousand dollars would be raised there. Already four hundred and fifty dollars has been raised here in cash and pledges, and we hope that the remainder will be raised soon. All should be anxious to help in this good cause, that this plan may be carried into effect as soon as possible. Please send your offerings for this department of the work to the business manager, Elder S. A. Farnsworth, Knowlton, Quebec.
H. E. RICKARD,
President of Quebec Conference.
The London Training-School
By William Ambrose Spicer
ONLY three years ago the London training-school was opened. Already it has brought new life and vigor into our British work, as young men and women have been sent out from it into the field. Years ago some of us, who worked in Britain, used to dream of a school for workers some day. Now it is a splendid reality. I thanked God for its strong, healthy influence as I saw its mark stamped upon the work during my recent visit to Europe. It has just opened its fourth year in new premises.
The school building is a rented double house, near the Holloway Road, in North London, where our printing-office is. By piercing the partition walls here and there, the building has been excellently adapted to school purposes. I was delighted with the genuinely academic appearance of the chapel and class rooms awaiting the fourth-year students who were beginning to arrive as I left the city. Two young men had just walked in from Wales, canvassing as they journeyed, a distance of ninety miles.
This is essentially a school at work; for nearly every student thus far has had to earn most of his way through school, many by canvassing. It is study and class work all the morning, and then off the students hasten by train, street-car, and omnibus, to their fields for the afternoon canvassing campaign. It is sober, serious business with them; for they must earn their daily bread and living expenses. Then back they come at night, to return to their books.
I do not know that the plan would be practicable as a continuous policy in any other city than mighty London, with its five or six million people within easy access of Holloway. But our friends are working out the problem in London, and the results are manifest. Professor Lacey, formerly of Australia and Healdsburg, has now joined the school staff, and the best and strongest year of the school has opened auspiciously. Professor Salisbury, the principal, writes:—
“We had expected a very good school, perhaps from fifty-five to sixty-five, but we were really surprised to find seventy-five students present themselves for entrance the first morning. Since then, others have come in, and we have applications from some for the last of the month. Our Home is now full, and we have requested many of the older students to get rooms near the school, and to care for themselves. Had we had eighty beds instead of forty, we could easily have filled them.
“We are having beautiful weather, for which I am very thankful, as it gives the canvassing students an opportunity to get acquainted with London before damp weather sets in.
“You will be interested in our plans for the young men who are working23toward the ministry. Those who finish this year and next—eleven in all—are given definite fields of labor. You will see from the inclosed map of London, on which I have marked their fields with red ink, that we are storming the fort from all sides. We are sending Brother Shafer down to Croyden to begin a new effort. Brother Carscallen will continue the work at East Dulwich, taking a hall for Sunday night. Brother Whiteside will assist at Croyden, and help in the Sabbath meetings at Balham. Brother Poley will also assist at Balham. Brother Nickels will begin Sunday night meetings at Forest Gate, and take the Sabbath meetings at Leytonstone. Brethren Brooks and Klough will continue the work at Edmonton, which has been carried on by students this summer, and Brethren A. E. Bates and Douglas Armstrong are to open up work at South Tottenham. Brother O'Donnell is to push the Sabbath-school work, first in the churches about London, and then throughout the South England Conference.”
These names of students and places will be known to few readers on this side, perhaps, but the extract shows vividly how the little school band are indeed surrounding London, north, east, south, and southwest. The work is moving on in all Britain as never before, and our brethren there recognize the training-school as one of the strongest arms of service in the field. We shall hear from this school out in the colonial and over-sea mission fields also; for some of these young people who are working hardest for an education have definitely consecrated their lives to service in the regions beyond when the call comes.
W. A. SPICER.
Donation Instructions
Send all donations to the General Conference Treasurer, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.
Christian Education
By L. A. Hoopes; Frederick Griggs
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPES, Chairman; FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.
Current Mention
— A Cunard steamship from Fiume, Hungary, with 2,200 emigrants on board, is reported to have been sunk in a fierce storm off the Spanish coast.
— Six persons lost their lives, and six more received serious injuries, in a tenement house fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., which is believed to have been incendiary in its origin.
— A sensation was created at the headquarters of the Republican political party by a statement by Thomas Lawson, the Boston millionaire who is writing of the Standard Oil monopoly in Everybody's Magazine, under the title “Frenzied Finance,” that the head of the Standard Oil system had declared that President Roosevelt must be defeated in the coming national election at any cost. The alleged plan of the Standard Oil magnates is to buy up the doubtful States during the last week of the campaign.
— A disquieting condition of affairs is reported from the Isthmus of Panama, due to the hostile attitude of a disaffected element in the new republic, and Secretary Taft is to visit the Isthmus, and endeavor to restore peace. A committee of Congress will also visit Panama, and report on the existing conditions there. The United States government has kept a battalion of marines on the Isthmus ever since the new republic was inaugurated, and this force will be maintained there for the present. It is claimed by Senator Morgan, of Alabama, that there is nothing in the treaty between Panama and the United States to prevent the former's entering into an alliance with any European power, and giving the latter a protectorate over the Isthmus.
— Reports from the seat of war in the far East indicate that a renewal of the battle between the opposing armies is at hand, from which decisive results are expected. The Russian general seems inclined to assume the offensive, probably in response to orders from St. Petersburg. It is estimated that the killed and wounded of both armies in the recent great fight total eighty thousand men. No great change is reported in the situation at Port Arthur, but it is believed the resisting powers of the garrison are nearly at an end.
Business Notices!
BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.
WANTED.— A young man who is a Sabbath-keeper desires a position. He has had three years' experience in general office work, and can both read and write German. References furnished. Address F. W. Wildenburg, Harvey, Ill.
WANTED.— Mrs. K. E. Rapp is very anxious to learn the address of her husband, William Rapp, who has been missing since August 4. Any information will be thankfully received. Address Mrs. K. E. Rapp, R. F. D. No. 4, Urbana, Ohio.
FOR SALE.— Due to failure of the Hammond Food Co., of Bay City, Mich., I am in a position to quote unsalted, pure peanut butter, made from No. 1 Spanish shelled peanuts, at 10 cts. per lb. in 50-pound lots or more. Cash with order. Address J. B. Schindler, Bay City, Mich.
FOR SALE.— 12 acres good farm land, 1 mile from Emmanuel Missionary College, and ¾ mile from church-school. Good 7-room house, fine cellar, well, barn, orchard, fences new. Price, $2,500. Six-year-old horse, farming implements, etc., included if sold this fall. Address W. M. Christiansen, R. F. D., No. 1, Berrien Springs, Mich.
Notice to Subscribers to the Union College Messenger
By Editor
We have received some complaints that the Union College Messenger is not received by those who have subscribed for it. All such should report at once, and we will adjust the matter. Always notify us of change of address. The subscription price, thirty-five cents, may be sent in stamps, if desired. Address Union College Messenger, College View, Neb.
Notice!
By A. D. GILBERT
The Central Union Conference Home for Mission Workers, which has been conducted at the corner of Blanche and Belleview Aves., Ellendale Station, St. Louis, will be closed after October 31, as the workers are being called to their home conferences. The Life Boat Mission, 2022 Chestnut St., in charge of Mrs. Holliday, may be able to accommodate those who wish to stop with Sabbath-keepers while in the city. A. D. GILBERT.
Publications Wanted
N. B.— Attention has been repeatedly called to the necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Cover papers well, so that they will be clean when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, while others have forwarded literature by express when it would have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four ounces for one cent.
[SPECIAL NOTE.— All who receive periodicals in answer to these calls are advised to examine them carefully before distributing them.— ED.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—
A. A. Johnson, Campobello, S. C., periodicals and tracts.
Jas. W. Miller, Bartlesville, I. T., periodicals and tracts.
Will J. Waxham, Middleburg, Fla., REVIEW, Training School, and tracts.
J. W. Buckland, Box 218, Great Bend, Kan., REVIEW, Signs, Southern Watchman, Instructor, Life Boat, Little Friend, and tracts.
Obituaries
BLAKE.— Died at his home near Stroud, O. T., Oct. 5, 1904, of paralysis, Bowers Blake, aged 70 years and 11 months. He was a constant subscriber to the REVIEW for thirty-seven years. He was converted and united with this people twenty-seven years ago, and remained a faithful believer in the soon-coming Saviour until his death. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 1 Thess. 4:18. A. E. FIELD.
PRYNE.— Died at the James White Memorial Home, Oct. 16, 1904, Aileen Pryne, aged 11 months and 10 days. Aileen was the grandchild of Mrs. E. A. B. Smith, matron of the Home, and was early put under her care. By a complication of diseases death has claimed its victim, yet we are comforted with the belief that she will, with us, “come again from the land of the enemy.” The funeral was held at the Home. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. I. D. VAN HORN.
CAMERON.— Died at Mendocino, Cal., Sept. 13, 1904, Mrs. Hannah H. Cameron, in her eighty-sixth year. In 1880 mother heard and accepted the precious message of present truth. In her younger days she was a member of the Baptist Church. She was a woman of undaunted courage and perseverance, and ever lived close to her Lord. At the time of her death, she was one of the oldest members of the San Francisco church. For the past few months she was subject to attacks of heart failure, and her death came suddenly. A. C. BAINBRIDGE.
KELLY.— Died at the James White Memorial Home in Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 6, 1904, Brother William Kelly, aged 82 years. His former home was in Baraboo, Wis. He had long been identified with present truth, and was quite generally known throughout the Wisconsin Conference. Brother Kelly always maintained an ardent love for the third angel’s message and for the principles of right living. He died in the fulness of the Christian’s hope. He came to the Home last spring in an injured condition from a fall on the ice. His death was rather unexpected, and was caused by an obstruction of the bowels. His son was with him, and gave to his aged father the most careful attention, and bore away his remains to Baraboo, where they will rest by the side of his faithful companion. G. C. TENNEY.
Workers Sail for Japan
Dr. Myrtle S. Lockwood, of our Japanese sanitarium, in Kobe, and Miss Maude Harvey, a nurse of the Portland Sanitarium, were to sail from San Francisco the twenty-fifth, and are doubtless now on the way to Japan. Dr. Lockwood had opportunity to return to this country for a short visit without expense to mission funds, and has used the occasion to gather help for Japan, and awaken new interest among many in the work in that country.