p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 21. (5/27/1909)

Earlier text: Annual Report for the Year Ending

Business Notices

This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.

We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.

No discount for several insertions.

WANTED.— A colored woman for cooking and general housework. A permanent home to the right one. Work light. References required. Address A. E. Holt, Caldwell, Idaho.

FOR SALE.— Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 62 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

FOR SALE.— Peanut Butter, 10c a pound. 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7. Olive Oil, $2.50 a gallon. 6 cans (57 pounds) Vegetable Cooking Oil, freight paid, $6.50. Cereal Coffee, Wheatee, and Whole Wheat Flour, cheap. Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.

FOR SALE.— 160 acres irrigated land. Fenced; small buildings; six miles from town; healthful climate; good water; under the famous Government Ditch in western Nebraska. $4,000 will buy it, or it may be rented satisfactorily. Address M. J. Fritz, Morden, Manitoba.

POSITION OFFERED.— On a California stock and fruit ranch. Steady employment by the year, and good wages, to right man. Separate house provided for married man and wife. Employee must like stock and be able to milk. Address Gray Gables, R. F. D. 1, Ceres, Cal.

HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.— Used by our institutions, government inspected and guaranteed. Send stamp for circulars. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gallon. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.

MIDGET MASSAGE VIBRATOR.— Patented; foreign patents pending. A hand-massage machine that is operated without electricity. Nickel plated, will last a lifetime. $3 to Adventists. We make all kinds of medical lamps. Send for folders. Radiodescent Lamp Co., 54 South, Kalamazoo, Mich.

FOR SALE.— Relinquishment 160-acre homestead. Smooth, level; Denver, 30 miles; railroad town, 6 miles; rural route, telephones, day-school, Sabbath-school. Fine climate; good markets. Will grow corn, beans, potatoes, etc.; 25 to 40 bushels wheat per acre. $4 an acre; adjoining land, $10. Address R. B. Barker, Lyons, Colo.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, for weight, beauty, size, and winter laying the best all-round breed of poultry in existence. My thoroughbred stock took four prizes at the Tri-state Fair open to Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Fishel strain: 15 eggs, $2; 50, $5.50; 100, $10. Address Forrest Washburn, 665 Decatur St., Memphis, Tenn.

FOR SALE.— One million Bible Mottoes. Our new Father and Mother Mottoes take the lead. First issue, of about 40,000, is almost sold. We have about 100 designs in stock. To any address, all assorted, 200, $11. We prepay all express. Bible Post-Cards, as well as Bible Cards, in stock. Don't write us unless you mean business. Address Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.

FOR SALE.— Sixty-acre farm, Baldwin Co., Ala. Fast filling up with progressive Northern settlers. Delightful climate. Mild winters. Cool Gulf breezes in summer. Purest water known. Plenty of wood and lumber. Ten acres in cultivation. House, barn, etc. Three-quarters mile from depot. Value, about $1,800. As I wish to take a course at one of our institutions, I will sacrifice for a quick sale at $1,000. Address P. W. Paulson, Silverhill, Ala.

Wisconsin, Notice!

By C. McREYNOLDS

THE date of the camp-meeting at Chippewa Falls is changed to June 15-22. This change is made in order to secure the help of some of our ministers who have come from the mission fields and will remain in this country a few weeks after the General Conference. We shall announce next week who will come.

C. McREYNOLDS, President.

The Manitoba Conference

By Wm. C. Young

THE annual meeting of the Manitoba Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held June 24 to July 4 at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, to elect officers for the coming year, and to attend to such other business as usually pertains to annual gatherings.

Tickets may be bought on the certificate plan, thus insuring a great reduction in cost of railroad fares on all lines running into Portage.

We are assured of good help for this meeting. Come expecting great things.

Wm. C. Young.

Legal Meeting of the British Columbia Association

By W. M. ADAMS

NOTICE is hereby given that the trustees of the British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists were not elected at the special meeting called April 13, 1909. The meeting adjourned to June 28, 1909, 11 A. M., in order to secure legal counsel with regard to the meaning of certain points in the articles of incorporation and the by-laws. Let all our churches elect delegates to send to this meeting, at the following ratio: One delegate for the church, and one additional delegate for every ten members. The trustees will be elected at the said coming meeting. Place — Port Hammond, British Columbia, at the office of said association.

W. M. ADAMS, President of Association.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

North American Foreign Department

Third Meeting, May 17, 8 A. M.

Elder Irwin in the chair.

Brother Adolph Boettcher, of the New York foreign book depository, presented maps and figures concerning the distribution of foreigners in the United States. It is computed that in 1905 there were from thirty-five million to forty million foreigners in this country. Half of our foreign population belongs to the German-Scandinavians, while the rest belong to the immigrants from other nationalities, who, unlike the Germans and Scandinavians, are scattered, and live in groups distinct from each other. It is a great problem to know how to reach these latter nationalities. During the last few years, immigrants have been coming in at the rate of over a million a year.

A good place to reach these is at Ellis Island; but while other denominations largely have access to this place, our church workers have thus far been debarred.

With respect to the progress of our work in this country among the foreigners, North Dakota has a splendid showing. In the ten to fifteen millions of foreigners outside the Germans and Scandinavians in this country, little has been done for the spread of the message. The most that has been done has been accomplished in the Greater New York Conference. That conference has five foreign laborers, two Italian churches, and one Bohemian-Slavonic church. In West Michigan Brother Hofstra has labored for the Hollanders. Michigan has about 45,000 Finns who have settled there and are very prosperous. Something ought to be done to reach them. The same is true in Massachusetts. One Russian brother has been working among the Russians in North Dakota. Beyond this we have done little for the great masses of foreigners in this country.

The remaining time of the department was taken up with a discourse from Sister White.

Departmental Meetings

(Continued from page seven)

Educational Department

Fourth Meeting, May 18, 5 P. M.

The time of this meeting was occupied in the consideration of resolutions presented by the committee on resolutions.

The subject of the extension of our church-school system, and the distribution of literature among our people to deepen the interests of the church-school work, brought out many valuable talks.

Much interest was shown in a uniform scholarship plan for those who sell our books and magazines; and a committee consisting of H. G. Lucas, O. J. Graf, and C. A. Hansen was appointed to confer with a like committee to be appointed by the Publishing Department, in the preparation of a uniform scholarship plan which can apply to all schools.

Another subject which called forth much discussion was “school gardens.” These are being successfully conducted in many places. In one school in California a profit of $110 was realized by the children from their school garden. Another garden gained $45. Through these gardens the school grounds are beautified, and the children are taught to love the cultivation of the soil.

_The Publishing Department_

_Fifth Meeting, May 19, 8 A. M._

Elder N. Z. Town, from South America, occupied the chair. The principal topic of discussion was based upon the following resolution:—

“Whereas, In the beginning of our subscription-book work, one of the principal factors in establishing it was the organization of the field under the leadership of general and local agents; and,—

“Whereas, That line of work suffered years of decline through disorganization, but is now being strongly revived wherever the field is properly manned; therefore,—

“Resolved, That we move forward with all possible haste in the work that has been begun of selecting and training general and field missionary agents, and of placing them where they are most needed, until all the great fields of the world are manned for thoroughly handling the circulation of literature.”

The missionary spirit, which is the key-note of this General Conference session, has a large place in the Publishing Department meetings. The general agents expressed their determination to co-operate with the foreign work by offering themselves or the best of their men for the needy fields that are yet unmanned.

Elder J. N. Anderson, from China, made a strong plea for three or four men to be appointed to the Chinese field at this time. Two or three years must be spent in learning the language, and studying the needs of the country, and it is high time that experienced leaders in the publishing work be preparing to handle the great question of scattering literature among the hundreds of millions in China.

Other speakers emphasized the need of leaders in Japan, India, Africa, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. The printed page is proving an effective means of reaching all nations with the gospel message.

General Conference Association

By A. G. DANIELLS

THE next annual meeting of the General Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation organized under, and existing by virtue of, the laws of the State of Michigan, will be held in connection with the present session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at Takoma Park, Md. The first meeting will convene at 12 M., Friday, May 28, 1909.

By order of the Executive Committee.

A. G. DANIELLS, President.

General Conference Corporation

By A. G. DANIELLS

THERE will be a meeting of the members of the General Conference Corporation, Friday, June 11, 1909, at 10:30 A. M., in Takoma Park, Md. The members of this corporation are the delegates to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

By order of the Trustees.

A. G. DANIELLS, President.

South Lancaster Academy Annual Announcement

By Editor

WE acknowledge receipt of the twenty-eighth annual announcement of the South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy. This institution affords excellent opportunities for those who desire to prepare for a part in this closing work.

General Conference Proceedings

THE proceedings of the General Conference, as well as of the departmental meetings, will be printed in the order of their date. Necessarily these reports have to be somewhat abbreviated, but they will be given as fully as our space will permit.

Keep a File of Liberty

It will be well to keep a file of Liberty magazine, for reference at home. In conversing with your friends on the subject of religious liberty you will find it a great help to be able to point them to the numerous authorities quoted in the magazine, in order to prove the correctness of your assertions.

Magazines in News Stands

“This week we placed two of your magazines, Life and Health and the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor, in two news stands, as an experiment,” write the Iowa Tract Society brethren. We trust that many of our brethren and sisters will try this plan of bringing our magazines to the attention of the reading public. Even if the sales do not amount to many copies a month, it is worth something to have our publications on the stands where they will be noticed by the many customers patronizing those places.

GIANT CREEPER IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS,
COLOMBO, CEYLON — GIANT CREEPER IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS, COLOMBO, CEYLON