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Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 21.

THE NEED OF A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Earlier text: An Awful Question

“THE YANKEE PERIL”

In the latest number of a New York paper, we are told that what is called “The Yankee Peril,” still continues to disturb Europe. And what is this “Yankee Peril”? The answer will be found in the following statement: “Almost the whole press of Europe from the Balkans to Sweden and Scotland, is printing articles betraying alarm over the industrial and financial menace of the United States.”
That is it. The United States with its active business methods, and the enterprise, vim, and push of its people, is making its impression upon the world; and the people of other lands are becoming alarmed. Alarmed at what?—Why, alarmed lest the people of this land, with their inventive genius, improved methods, and greater activity, should be able to supply the world’s markets cheaper than they can do it, and so supersede their business, and take away their trade, and leave them in an unfortunate plight indeed. So they regard the United States an industrial and financial menace to them, and their papers are full of notes of alarm. The first and most natural remedy for this state of things on their part, would be for them to rouse themselves to “keep up with the procession,” adopt the same methods by which this people seem to be threatening to surpass them, revive their own inventive genius, quicken their activity, and so be able to supply the world’s need as quickly and cheaply as it can be done from this side of the water. But this they seem disinclined to do, or incapable of doing. And what is the next remedy?—To boycott this nation, lay a tariff on our productions, and so cut off our trade. This, many statesmen and economic writers of Europe are now strenuously urging upon the people. This would mean more financial friction, and add to the distress of nations with perplexity characteristic of the last days. The figures that are given us tell their own story, and reveal the tremendous movements that are swinging over the earth with the resistlessness of the tides:—
“The exports from the United States continue to increase, and by the end of the fiscal year, promise to reach the unprecedented sum of one and one-half billion dollars in value. For the twelve months ending with February, the figures were $1,490,194,985. The excess of exports over imports shows an even greater increase, being $492,234,904 for the eight months ending with February, against $304,219,807 in the same months of the preceding year. It is estimated that the exports for eight months of 1901 will reach $1,015,185,374, against $522,960,380 for imports. In other words, the American people will sell to foreigners nearly thrice as much as they will buy. These huge figures on the credit side, more than anything else, have given us an influence in the affairs of the outside world, but we are in danger of having the whole world for our secret foe, a distinction that England has had for many years, and seemingly enjoyed.”
All this indicates that now is a most favorable time to engage more extensively in our book work, and in the promulgation of the gospel, which we are set to promote.

HOW NATURE BOOMS AMERICA

THE resources of the United States, as a nation, have been the gratification and the boast of Americans for years. They pride themselves on being a self-contained nation; that is, that there is no article necessary for life, for defense, or progress in everything that constitutes national greatness in the way of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” that is not produced abundantly in our own land and by our own labors. No other nation can therefore boycott or embarrass us. We can carry on our own affairs, in supreme independence, without being dependent upon any other people for supplies or resources. Our hills are stored with gold and silver and precious stones, with copper and lead, granite, marble, and iron. Subterranean lakes pour forth rivers of oil, which is fast becoming the fuel of the twentieth century for manufactory and transportation purposes. The art of the iron and steel manufacturing has so increased that we lead the world in these important branches of national defenses, prestige, and power. The easy and sweeping triumphs in the late Spanish war are attributed to the proficiency this nation has reached in the iron and steel industries, as exhibited in marvelous engines, invulnerable iron and steel-clad fighting machines, with guns unsurpassed in weight of metal and accuracy of aim. This places all opposing powers largely at our mercy.
It is easy to enumerate the kinds of resources upon which we may draw; but do we begin to realize the extent of the provision placed in our possession? New quantities are coming to light continually. A writer in the May Success speaks as follows of the inexhaustible quantities of oil which have just been discovered in California:—
“The discovery of oil in apparently inexhaustible quantities in California and Texas, within the last year, emphasizes America’s first place among the peoples of the earth in treasures. Oil is to be the fuel of the furnaces of the twentieth century, and, with oil to burn in our ships, we can steam the seas with light bunkers, and without having to stop every few days for fuel. A navy steaming on oil, with no coaling stations to protect, should be twice as effective as one guarding coaling stations. But not before have we had oil for such a purpose. Charles Sumner Young, writing to Success about the California oil fields, in the Kern River district, says the oil sands are four hundred feet deep throughout ten thousand acres; and from every acre there will come 200,000 barrels of oil, a gross output of 2,000,000,000 barrels of oil, which, at fifty cents a barrel, will be worth, crude, $1,000,000,000. This dwarfs in importance the yield of gold and silver of the Comstock Lode. Mr. Young does not hesitate to say that California oil is worth more than all the gold and silver she has produced or ever will mine. The oil discoveries in the Beaumont district of Texas do not promise so much, but a geyser spouting nineteen thousand barrels a day, was recently utilized. The district is an extensive one, and the oil sands are estimated to be from five to fifteen feet in depth. Oil in smaller quantities has been found elsewhere.”
What vast possibilities and probabilities does this open up in regard to the future progress and movements of this nation as it fills out the prophetic outline of its influence and career as the closing power of Rev. 13: 11-16.

How to Avoid Temptation

A man once asked an Eastern king if he could tell him how to avoid temptation. The king told the man to take a vessel brimful of oil, and to carry it through the streets of the city without spilling one drop. “If one drop is spilt,” said the king, “your head shall be cut off.” He then ordered two executioners with drawn swords to walk behind the man and to carry out his orders. There happened to be a fair going on in the town, and thestreets were crowded with people. However, the man was very careful, and he returned to the king without having spilled one drop of the oil. Then the king asked: “Did you see any one while you were walking through the streets?” “No,” said the man; “I was thinking only of the oil; I noticed nothing else.” “Then,” said the king, “you have learned how to avoid temptation. Fix your mind as firmly on God as you fixed it on the vessel of oil. You will not then be tempted to sin.”

FINISHED

“It is finished.” These words our Lord uttered with a loud voice, as He gave up His life on the cross, having finished the work which God had given Him to accomplish on the earth. That law which man, in his selfish depravity, had transgressed and clothed with dishonor, Christ had, according to the prophecy (Isa. 42:21), magnified and made honorable, and placed man in such relation to it that he might be prepared to stand before its claims in the great day, and be judged accordingly. James 2:12. These words are to be heard again. The Lord, when His intercessory work is done, will declare from the throne of His glory, “It is done.” The first was heard in the long ago, when He opened the path of life to the millions of our race, who were doomed to suffering and death. What grace has begun, glory will finish. The Lord will leave no incomplete work. The second cry, as a complement to the first, will be heard in due time, and His servants will enter into His glory.

WORKS WRONG!

REV. I. C. SMART, of the Congregational Church in Pittsfield, Mass., takes the Christian Endeavor Society to task as being despotic in its character and workings. He says that much is sometimes made of the interdenominational character of the society. Then he explains what that is: it is a few out of individual churches, who assume to govern the affairs of the whole denomination. He describes them as “little oligarchies, new papacies, all the more despotic, as they wave no scepters, make no laws, and disclaim all authority,” yet almost inevitably the managers of such a society exercise almost despotic authority. “Almost inevitably such an organization tends to self-consciousness, and self-consciousness in a religious body means a new sect.” Thus the whole trend of influence in the world and in the Church is toward centralization of authority—tyranny in the State, and ecclesiastical despotism in the Church. The fight on religious liberty is an ever-present issue. To treat it with indifference is to be overcome by it. Eternal vigilance is the price of all kinds of liberty. Without this, even in the best of denominations, ere they are aware the spirit and incipient practical workings of the papacy will be found creeping in.

A TROUBLESOME OUTLOOK

PRESIDENT HADLEY, of Yale, is said to be a practical, level-headed man of affairs. But he deplores the lack of public conscience in this country, and declares that this must be raised to a higher plane, or our present system of government cannot endure. The ominous words quoted from him call for a public conscience which will induce us to accept, in behalf of the community, restrictions independently of how we shall be personally affected thereby in our individual interests; that is, all must be willing to surrender some things for the general good. Unless we can have this, he says, “we shall have an emperor in Washington within twenty-five years.”
This would intimate momentous changes, which such a man as Professor Hadley would not forecast without most urgent and well-settled convictions. He reasons that “the great majority of the American people individually practice a high standard of honor and morality; but when it comes to politics and public business, they are notoriously dishonest, and are growing worse. Competition used to prevent a man from practicing extortion upon his neighbor, even if he wanted to; and in politics we once had at least a rough form of justice. But to-day, with our industries organized in trusts, and imperialistic fever in politics, the general development of the principle of trusts will become appalling unless we cultivate a higher standard of morality than ever before.”
But will this be done? Has it ever been done under similar circumstances? Friend optimist, put your finger on this as one of those signs which are giving rise to “distress of nations, with perplexity,” and causing men’s hearts to fail them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. The Lord is at hand. Luke 21: 25, 26.

WHAT THE LORD HAS WROUGHT

By Ole Andres Olsen

More than one year has passed since I placed before the readers of the REVIEW the difficulties and distresses that had come to the cause of God in Scandinavia by the financial crisis experienced at Christiania, Norway, which compelled our mission publishing house there to suspend payment. At the same time I also made mention of the manner in which our church there and all our people in that country had related themselves to the situation; namely, by humbling of soul, confession of sin, and a new consecration to the Lord and His work. In doing so we all experienced a great blessing, and received the assurance that the Lord would interpose in behalf of His own cause, and work a deliverance, so that God's precious cause and His holy name should not suffer the reproach and disgrace that the failure of a missionary institution would bring.
The portions of Scripture that offered us special encouragement and ground for faith were 2 Chron. 20: 12–15, 20–22; Jer. 7: 2, 3; 14: 7–9; 30: 10, 11; Eze. 20: 22; Ps. 66: 10–20; 85: 1–13. Acting on this instruction and claiming these promises brought light to our souls in the midst of darkness and perplexity, and we felt to praise God for the deliverance that we saw by faith.
But after this the outlook became less hopeful, and for a time matters took such a shape that the saving of the institution seemed an impossibility, and to all appearances the faith and hope for deliverance that had given us so much joy and comfort were to be frustrated. Those were trying days; for it seemed as if the very foundation of our faith and confidence in God and His word was to be taken from us.
But the Lord did not mean it so. It was only a trying of the faith; for in His own good time the Lord wrought most gloriously. Yes, just at the time when the general outlook seemed the darkest, and salvation the farthest off, it was nearest at hand. This had often been the experience of God's people in the past. The Spirit of God moved on the hearts of His people, and in a council of the leading brethren at Battle Creek it was decided to raise the funds necessary to meet the whole indebtedness, and to send the creditors a proposition to pay the same in six semiannual payments. When this good news came to us, we could not do otherwise than praise God with a loud voice; for it was the Lord's doings, and was wonderful in our eyes. When we brought the proposition to the attorney who had the matter in hand, his face lighted up with smiles, and he assured us that the creditors would gladly accept the proposition.
Looking back over the year's experience, the hand and care of the Lord are indeed manifest in every turn of events that has taken place. When we were harassed by tedious delays, which kept us in uncertain suspense,—even this was all of the Lord, His hand holding matters in abeyance till arrangements could be made for the saving of the name and cause of God from reproach. Had the creditors made their decisions as promptly as we naturally desired, the final result might have been very different from what it is. The mercy of God is also manifested in the remarkable kindness and leniency shown by the creditors. They have all manifested a most wonderful confidence in our integrity and sincerity, believing that we would do our utmost to save the denomination from disgrace and the creditors from loss. And when the proposition to pay the whole, as already mentioned, was made, one of the creditors was heard to say: “This is just what I expected. I knew they would do the right thing.”
Another interesting feature is that no mention whatever has been made in the public press of the failure of our publishing house. Other failures have been mentioned and freely written up, but not a word has appeared in reference to our difficulty.
I learn, too, that many have understood that our institution was closed, and our work stopped, but such is not the case. We have continued to occupy the premises, and have gone on with our work unmolested all this time; and the casual observer would see no difference from former days, only in the amount of work done. All this is but an evidence of the care and mercy of God over His own work. Would that all His people and all connected with any and all of our institutions could appreciate the sacredness of the place, and that every moment they are most closely watched by unseen intelligences. It would surely lead us to walk more softly and to be more careful of our words and our conduct in the presence of the Holy One.
The affairs of the publishing house are now so far adjusted that the propositions made to our creditors have been accepted, and the first installment has been paid. It now remains for us to meet these installments as they become due; and in doing this the honor of God's name is vindicated, and the cause saved from the reproach and disgrace that the enemy of truth and righteousness was desirous to bring upon it. For this deliverance we praise and magnify the name of the Lord.
With reference to the Skodsborg Sanitarium in Denmark, we are glad to say that the providences of God are just as manifest there, as they have been in connection with the Christiania publishing house. Beginning without sufficient capital, and without experience in managing such a work, at the same time desiring to place the institution and the work on a footing that could and would do the noble cause justice, required more funds than we commanded, and was a greater task than we were prepared to carry, and consequently we have been brought into straitened and trying circumstances. Many times we have been, as it were, on the verge of failure, but in every extremity the Lord has opened a way of escape, and His special blessing has been over the work in a marked manner. During the year 1900 the work of the institution has been blessed above our highest expectations. The house has been filled with a good class of guests, and the results of the work have been most satisfactory. The influence for good going forth from the institution can be fully revealed only in the day of the Lord. We have already seen much, but much more will yet appear, for which we feel thankful and give God the glory.
While the experience has been severely trying, especially to Dr. Ottosen, still the lessons learned and the experience gained will be of inestimable value to us all in further prosecution of the work. May the blessing of the Lord rest upon those who have come to our rescue in times of need. While we praise God for deliverance in the past, we are not as yet beyond the need of further assistance. The work being started without capital, it is absolutely necessary that the needed funds be raised, so that the work may continue to prosper.
I am much rejoiced over the utterances of faith and courage expressed by many of our people. Has not the time come for us to rise as one man, not only to meet and pay the obligations resting on the Christiania publishing house, establish the Skodsborg Sanitarium on a good basis, and raise the debts on our schools, but to lift the encumbrances from all our institutions, and thus roll away the reproach from God's precious cause, and raise the signal for deliverance all along the line? But can that be done, some one will ask? We answer, Yes, with all confidence. This is the time for a faith, courage, and spirit such as Caleb possessed when he said: “If the Lord delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.” Num. 14: 8, 9. Let us not tempt God by limiting His power to work in our behalf, nor by doubting His presence with us (see Ps. 78: 41, 42, 22), but with all our soul consecrate ourselves and all that we are and have to God and His service; for “there is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in His excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deut. 33: 26, 27. “Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.”
O. A. OLSEN.

SOUND ADVICE TO BOYS—AND TO ALL

IN New York City, May 9, Mr. Charles M. Schwab, a remarkably successful business man, spoke to the graduating class of a trade school. The chairman introduced him “as a man who had fought battles and won victories in the struggle of life, and therefore was well qualified to give boys advice founded on practical experience.” Then Mr. Schwab gave the following sound advice, which is good for all people:—
“I will speak to you just as if you had come to my office asking for advice. And the first thing I will say to you is, Come alone. Don’t come with somebody’s backing. Learn to rely upon yourself. That is the first lesson. If you come indorsed by somebody of influence, it always will leave room for others to say that whatever position you may get you got by influence, and not because of your individual merit. No true success is built on influence. You must win your positions for yourself.”
“Then here is another thing that is essential: you must do what you are employed to do a little better than anybody else does it. Everybody is expected to do his duty, but the boy who does his duty, and a little more than his duty, is the boy who is going to succeed in this world. You must take an interest in what you are doing, and it must be a genuine interest.”
Here Mr. Schwab told a story, which everybody understood referred to himself. Afterward he told another story, which it was equally well understood referred to H. C. Frick. The stories follow:—
“There were ten boys employed by a concern once, and one night the manager said to his subordinate: ‘Tell the boys they are to stay a little longer to-night—tell them that they are to stay until six o’clock. Don’t tell them why. Just tell them that and watch them.’ So this was done, and when six o’clock came, there was just one boy who was wholly interested in his work, and was not watching the clock to see what time it was. That boy was the one the manager wanted, and he was taken into the office, and as he continued to manifest the same interest in his work, he was promoted until at last he got quite a responsible place.”
“Then there was another boy. He began carrying water, and he did it so much better than any other boy, seeing to it always that the men had good water, cool water, and plenty of it, that he attracted attention to himself. He was taken into the office, where he became in time superintendent, and then general manager, and he is now the man that is at the head of the great Carnegie company, with thousands of men under him. As a boy he did more than the ordinary run of boys did, and so attracted attention, and that was the secret of his first step upward.”
“I was in a bank down-town the other day when a newsboy came in and sold the banker a paper. After he had gone out, the banker said to me: ‘For two years now that boy has been coming in here at the time I told him to come—two o’clock. He does not come before two nor after two; but at two precisely. He has sold me a paper every week day in that way when I have been here, withouta break. He sells it for just one cent—its price. He neither asks more nor seems to expect more. It is a cold commercial transaction. Now, a boy that will attend to business in that way has got business in him. He does not know it yet; but I am going to put him in my bank, and you will see that he will be heard from.’”
“Another thing, boys, and that is, Get an early start. The boy in business who starts with a manual school education at seventeen or eighteen will get a start that the boy who goes through college will never catch up with, other things being equal. That does not apply to the professions, of course; only to business. Out of forty men I know who are great leaders in the business world only two are college graduates.”

In the Question Chair

[Designed for the consideration of such questions as will be of interest and profit to the general reader. All correspondents should give their names and correct post-office address, that queries not replied to here may be answered by mail.]
(Continued from REVIEW of Nov. 2, 1897.)

799—THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM

Will you please explain the last two clauses of Matt. 11:11? Who is meant by the words “least in the kingdom of heaven”? The text reads as follows: “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” N. N. M., Felix, Ga.
Ans.— These are words of Christ concerning John the Baptist, and they follow words that set forth the exalted position of John, as quoted above. No one born of women before the days of John the Baptist, had arisen in the world greater than John the Baptist. In what respect was John great? It was not in wonder-working power; for the testimony concerning him is that “he did no miracle.” John 10:41. Jesus told the disciples of John, when they came to inquire of Him if He was the one that was to come, what wonderful things were then appearing in the world. He said: “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.” But these were wonderful works wrought through Christ, not by John the Baptist.
But there were points of greatness about John the Baptist that made it true of him that no one born of women had ever before risen who was greater than he. The first was his singleness of purpose in carrying out the work to which God had appointed him. No man had such a field for ambition open before him; the world was on tip-toe for some great event. Any man of piety and power might easily have gathered all the Jewish people about him, as their Messiah. Yet, amid all this, how blameless is the course of John; how simple-minded; how totally absent of self-regard and all visions of ambition, all pretensions to holiness or personal dignity. To testify of Christ was all his aim, and nothing could drive him from that.
Another point in his character was his boldness in rebuking vice. By the fearless testimony of Christian men almost all the improvements in society and opinions are accomplished.
Third: John is pointed out in prophecy as the messenger of the Lord, and is recognized by Him as such: “Behold I send my messenger before thy face.” In all these respects he was great. But how is it that he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist? Applying it to ordinary Christians, it would be hard to tell. But applying it in the Scripture, according to the subject evidently involved in the narrative, it seems to be plain. Here is a comparison between two personages: one is John the Baptist, and the other is Christ. A reference to the Greek shows that the word rendered “least” in the kingdom of heaven, is in the comparative degree, and should be rendered “less,” not “least.” This must refer to some definite individual and at some definite time. Who is it?—Our Lord himself. And what does He mean by “less in the kingdom of heaven” than John the Baptist? As the forerunner of Christ, John occupied a position of more prominence, for the time being, than our Lord himself. John was, for the time, the leading character in introducing the gospel among the people. But his own words in respect to Christ were: “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Christ was greater than John. John spoke of Him as one “mightier than I,” and one “whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.” Matt. 3:11.
After expatiating on the greatness of John the Baptist, Christ said: “Notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven,” referring to himself, who was, for the time being, less than John the Baptist, “is greater than he.”
With this view all statements are consistent with each other, and all naturally fall into their proper place; whereas, as applied to a comparison between ordinary Christians, it would hardly seem possible to bring the mind to consent to its truthfulness or its consistency, either here or hereafter. In a word, then, Christ referred to himself, who, though greater in reality than John the Baptist, was for the time being less than he in the kingdom of heaven as then manifested here on the earth.

THE JUBILEE CHORUS

By P. T. MAGAN

During the past few weeks the money has been rolling into the Relief of the Schools treasury at an unprecedented rate; sometimes at the close of a day's work we have found that we had received over two hundred letters, almost every one of which contained a small or a large gift. We will print some of the names this week, and more will follow from week to week. These names are printed with the prayer that others may be provoked to good works, and may become imbued with the gift of giving. P. T. MAGAN.
NAME AMOUNT NAME AMOUNT
Agnes Stewart... $ 5 00 Mrs. J. Husted... 5 00
Mrs. O. C. Jones... 1 00 Mrs. E. L. Holser 5 00
B. H. Bodwell... 5 00 George & Emily Leighton... 2 00
A friend ...... 20 00 Mr. and Mrs. L. Smith ........ 2 00
H. L. Hahn... 25 00 P. Cooper ....... 1 00
Julius Korgan ... 5 00 Lorenzo Squire .. 10 00
Henry Gibbon ... 10 00 F. W. Hyser.... 10 00
N. Carahoof and family ........ 4 50 Mrs. A. M. Pearce 1 00
Mary Craize... 50 L. F. Markham.. 5 00
Mrs. E. A. Rose (Scandinavian fund) ........ 5 00 H. J. Paul..... 2 00
G. H. Eymer.... 5 00 S. B. Steen..... 50
Wm. Marshall .... 50 00 Odessa Paul .... 10
Martha J. Moore.. 6 00 Mary & Allen Lornson ...... 3 00
Jno. Heald .... 1 00 R. L. Simpson... 100 00
A friend (R. W.) 1 00 L. C. Coddington & wife ...... 5 00
Brother Guerdan.. 20 00 E. M. Ball .... 5 00
Brother Griese... 2 00 Mrs. D. E. Young 1 00
S. Schwester .... 1 50 J. F. Carmon... 22 80
Mankato (Minn.) church ....... 4 16 W. H. Sander.... 25 00
North Branch (Minn.) church ....... 3 00 A. Marshall .... 5 00
Mt. Lake (Minn.) church ........ 6 00 M. A. Winchell... 5 00
J. J. Graf..... 5 00 M. A. Winchell (Scandinavian fund) ........ 2 00
Sister Leamon... 25 W. M. Nelson.... 3 00
Maud Thompson.. 10 C. D. Spencer... 10 00
G. Wagner.... 5 00 H. & L. A. Bramhall .......... 2 00
J. S. Wagner.... 2 00 C. J. Clarke (Scandinavian fund) ........ 1 93
Etta L. Baker... 1 00 T. Williams ..... 1 00
H. H. Stoly.... 50 00 Geo. H. & Ellen Burrie ...... 50
Joseph Irwin ... 20 00 Miss O. A. Twist... 1 00
Marie Barber ... 5 00 Mrs. L. A. Cox... 5 00
Mrs. A. E. Gurney 1 00
Mrs. J. E. Kieff... 1 00
Mary E. Foster... 1 00
A. R. Satterlee.. 1 00
NAME AMOUNT NAME AMOUNT
E. F. Cochrane.. 5 00 A. B. Coverstone 5 00
J. E. Pegg.... 1 00 H. F. Williamson 5 00
Matthew Baird .. 1 00 W. H. House.... 1 25
D. Knickerbocker. 1 00 Mr. & Mrs. John Leland ........ 1 00
D. Knickerbocker (Scandinavian fund) ........ 1 00 E. Lamphear .... 2 00
Mrs. J. L. Garrett 1 00 C. C. Geer .... 10 00
E. E. Nelson.... 10 00 E. Crawford .... 1 00
Mrs. Wm. Harrison ....... 1 00 Mrs. E. De Coster ........ 1 00
M. A. Neale..... 1 00 Mr. & Mrs. G. A. Samson (Scandinavian fund) 10 00
R. Wirt ....... 1 00 Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Samson .... 10 00
Mrs. J. M. Sampson ....... 2 50 John Woodburn... 1 00
Mrs. I. M. Sampson (Scandinavian fund) ..... 1 00 G. Steinhorn ... 2 00
Fred Shadel ..... 5 00 J. W. Rambo.... 1 00
Joseph & Jennie Fisher .... 15 00 A. E. Bamberger 1 00
Mrs. R. Marshall 1 00 Geo. W. Berry... 10 00
Oscar N. & Ollie M. Conklin .... 2 00 B. N. Berry... 10 00
Lester D. Gibbs.. 5 00 Mrs. F. D. Hare (Scandinavian fund) ........ 5 00
Mrs. L. D. Stone.. 1 00 Mrs. F. D. Hare 2 00
Mrs. E. Dwight.. 1 00 J. D. Bourdeau & wife ........ 5 00
Mrs. C. W. Cook 1 00 Mrs. E. M. Prescott .... 2 00
Lucy Buchanan .. 2 00 Mrs. J. Atwater... 1 00
T. D. Brockett... 25 00 J. B. Williams.. 1 00
Geo. Alcock ... 3 00 John Davis ...... 1 00
Geo. Alcock (Scandinavian fund) 2 00 H. E. Artress.... 1 00
Mrs. S. A. Wheeler ......... 1 00 W. Blackburn ... 1 00
C. E. Starr & wife 2 00 James Schee.... 100 00
Mrs. Stoiber .... 25 00 Mrs. E. Kimball.. 1 00
J. M. Colburn... 1 00 T. S. Thweatt... 1 00
Mrs. M. Stanley. 1 00 W. O. Thomas... 10 00
C. Streeter .... 10 00 Peter Jensen .... 5 00
Mrs. G. W. Taylor ......... 1 00 C. W. Lane.... 1 00
B. C. Chandler (Scandinavian fund) ........ 1 25 J. D. Yendon.... 2 00
B. C. Chandler.. 1 25 F. F. Hull.... 1 00
Francis Curtis .. 10 00 Nancy Utley .... 1 00
Mrs. H. Ferrie.. 5 00 Mrs. M. Bays.... 1 00
Mrs. M. A. Book 1 00 Walter McLeod... 1 00
Mrs. C. Lornson.. 5 00 L. S. Bristol.... 1 00
Mrs. M. Lornson. 5 00 Mrs. J. E. Jones 1 00
Mrs. A. Lornson.. 5 00 Sumner Leavitt... 3 00
Mrs. R. Fisher... 5 00 M. Dygert ..... 1 00
Jas. A. Watson... 1 00 R. J. Hall... 5 00
Mrs. H. Young... 1 00 Mrs. L. J. Van Doren (Scandinavian fund) ..... 3 00
S. Osborne ..... 1 00 J. V. Van Doren 1 00
Mrs. L. E. Fay.. 1 00 Mrs. L. Van Doren .......... 1 00
A. Barron ...... 1 00 Millie Guernsey... 50
T. A. & M. R. Owen ........ 4 00 O. J. Hinckley... 1 50
Wm. F. Near.... 5 00 Mrs. D. Cochran... 5 00
Mrs. A. Henrikson .......... 5 00 Mrs. N. Davis (Scandinavian fund) ........ 2 00
Mrs. E. Hammal. 5 00 E. Christiansen .. 5 00
N. H. Keizer.... 5 00 Mrs. J. H. Seager 10 00
S. H. Van Voorhis & wife.... 1 00 Adell Hurd .... 1 00
M. A. Robinson.. 1 00 Ed. Jones ...... 2 00
Mrs. R. Weatherby ........ 1 00 Chas. Ackley .... 2 00
J. G. Bain..... 2 00
Mrs. M. Moore... 5 00
D. V. Eastman... 1 00

The Work in North Carolina

Brother and Sister D. T. Shireman write from Hildebran, N. C.:— “THE school work seems to be our work at the present time. Our whole hearts are in it, and we are willing to do all we can to help the young among us. This brings heavy responsibilities upon us in the closing years of our life. We have spent more than forty-three years in doing what we could to help our fellow men near our home in the different places in which we have lived. We see so much to be done here, and have so little with which to do, that it makes us heartsick; but we do feel thankful to God, and to the kind friends who have given help in our time of need, and also to the General Conference, for their liberality to us. We believe the Lord will bless them for their thoughtful consideration. We need the prayers and counsel of all who are interested in our work here in North Carolina. We shall be glad to hear from our old friends at any time, and any favor sent us to help build up this work will be carefully used.”
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