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A “Memorial Church” in Nashville, Tennessee

By Geo. I. Butler.

Our brethren in Washington adopted a happy phrase when they designated the church they purchased by the help of our people as the Memorial church of Washington. Perhaps it would be hardly consistent for us here at the center of the Southern work in Nashville to appropriate their title.

Nashville has been set before our people as in many respects the most favorable for the center of our work of any city in the South. That is why our publishing house is established here.

The leading papers of some of the large cities of the South make fun of Nashville as being slow and very conservative, and not up with the times. Possibly there may be a modicum of truth in this. But the city has a steady, constant growth, and many important improvements are constantly in progress. Many of the old, most respectable families have lived here ever since the war. There seems to be less friction here than in most Southern cities, over questions growing out of the “color-line.”

The colored people have a bank of their own, whose officers are colored men. There are many wealthy colored people living here. One of the largest publishing houses of the city is the colored Baptist Publication Society. They employ a large force, all colored men and women. Indeed, the two races seem to get along very peaceably in this city. Nashville is a quiet, nice city to live in. The people are very friendly and kind.

After a residence here of about three years, the writer can heartily express the opinion that no mistake was made in heeding the Testimonies and locating the center of our work in Nashville. Its citizens have uniformly favored us, and have treated us kindly. We have sought to be peaceable, quiet, well-behaved citizens, careful to disturb nobody, treating everybody well, paying our debts, and being courteous to all.

We have greatly needed a church in the city, suitable for large meetings, where we could invite the citizens to come and hear our reasons for believing as we do. We have had no such place for the three or four years we have been here.

Our little chapel, on the second floor of our office building, opening out on a back street, and in the rear of our office building, is not at all suitable for such gatherings. It is absolutely essential that we have a good church in Nashville. It would be utterly wrong for us

to be without such a place, while carrying on our work so prominently as we are doing in this city. Some of us have felt very badly over this matter, and prayed much concerning it. We believe the Lord has heard our prayers.

Very recently our attention has been drawn to the fact that our Baptist friends were desirous of selling their comfortable church on Fatherland Street, having increased in numbers so much that they could not all meet in it. They want a larger building, and desire to build the present year. Their old church cost them, with all its appurtenances, nearly twenty thousand dollars. The auditorium will seat from three hundred and fifty to four hundred persons. *A vestry below, all seated, will accommodate two thirds as many. Sabbath-school, church-school, or weekly meetings can be convened there through a side entrance.

The building, though occupied for years, is in good preservation. The officer appointed as city inspector has examined it, and pronounced it perfectly safe. It needs papering and painting inside and out, and some minor repairs to put it in first-class condition.

It has a pipe-organ, built into a space back of the pulpit, costing two thousand dollars; which it would be quite difficult to remove. A five-hundred-dollar carpet was put in two years ago, which is in good condition. It has a baptistery also. The seats are nicely cushioned, and very comfortable. With proper repairs, it will make us a very suitable church for anniversary and other meetings.

They offer it to us for five thousand dollars, one thousand down, and the rest by the first of October. They will occupy it for Sunday meetings till the latter date, while we may hold our Sabbath meetings in it through the summer. Meantime they will be building their larger church, for occupancy in the late fall and winter.

The church is located on a corner lot, and has a nice little grassy plot around it. The street-cars run past the church. From every part of the city one fare of five cents will bring any one to the church.

Our congregation in Nashville is largely composed of sisters. Some have husbands not in the faith. Others work for weekly wages. We have no wealthy people in this city. Our church-membership is not large. It would be out of the question to secure this building without help from the other parts of the field.

Sister White, when made acquainted with this offer of the Baptist church, was deeply interested that it should be secured by the help of our brethren at once. We hope she will write something to encourage our brethren and sisters to give liberally for it.

Among the recommendations of the General Conference Committee for the Southern work since the close of the General Conference is the following:— “That we encourage the Nashville church to purchase the Baptist meeting-house, now offered for five thousand dollars, and that calls be issued in the REVIEW, Watchman, and Signs for gifts to assist in payment for the same.”

We feel very thankful to the committee for this recommendation. Knowing the liberality of our people so well, we believe they will generously respond.

The one thousand dollars loaned by the General Conference Committee with which to make the first payment is already here, and the deed is made out. It remains for our people to help raise the money to pay back this sum and the four thousand dollars to pay the remaining amount, and the church building will be ours. The offer of this nice church, considering its value, is the most advantageous we have ever known. Donations may be sent to the General Conference treasurer, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C., or to the Southern Publishing Association, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn.

GEO. I. BUTLER.

The Madison (Wis.) Sanitarium

By C. P. Farnsworth, M. D.

In June, 1881, a camp-meeting was held at Madison, Wis. To this meeting Brother and Sister James White came. After the camp-meeting they stayed a few days, enjoying the superb scenery which the poet Longfellow has described in a beautiful poem. They picked out this place as one well located for a sanitarium, and selected a site with the view to purchase. The negotiations were left to Dr. Stillman, of Madison, who had nearly finished the arrangements when the news came of Brother White's death. The purchase was consequently postponed indefinitely.

Ever since this time the brethren and sisters of Madison looked forward to a time when a sanitarium should be established. Finally, in the fall of 1899 there seemed to be an opening for graduate nurses to work in Madison. Sister Stillman wrote to Dr. Kellogg for two nurses to locate in Madison. In response to this call Miss Laura Neilsen and Miss Edith Miller, who lately married Dr. Law Keem and is now a missionary to China, were sent. These nurses did their work so well that a demand for treatment rooms grew among their many patients, and the doctors for whom they nursed. They did not feel equal to the task, and so Dr. Amelia Zipf, who was then in the employ of the Wisconsin Conference as their State physician, came to look over the field. She gave a favorable report, and the newspapers of Madison became interested and agitated the question. In response to a call for a gentleman nurse and more help, Brother J. H. Bramhall and his wife were sent to join the forces already on the ground. After looking over the situation the nurses decided to lease 118 Monona Avenue, an old club house, for their work. Through the aid of the Wisconsin Conference Committee fifteen hundred dollars was secured with which to equip the building. Before it was ready, a large number of patients were waiting for treatment. Among these were some of the most influential citizens of the place. In June it was open to the public, and soon a score of treatments were given daily, except Sabbath, and the demand for nurses became so great that there were thirteen employed at the treatment rooms and on private cases.

Health foods soon became popular in Madison as a consequence of the recommendations of those connected with the work, and hundreds of dollars' worth were sold.

In the fall, in answer to a request, Drs. C. P. and A. B. Farnsworth came to unite with the work. They found that there were already five patients being cared for in the nurses' quarters. Mr. Bramhall was chosen business manager, and the nurses came together often in counsel. It was decided to rent a dwelling for the use of patients who wished to come from a distance. Accordingly No. 113 West Doty Street was secured, and soon there were twelve patients there for treatment. The principles of health and the gospel were rigidly adhered to, and the Lord prospered the work. In a year's time the debt of fifteen hundred dollars was wiped out, and five hundred dollars was on hand, after paying the running expenses. A restaurant was secured at No. 426 State Street for the accommodation of the University students. Meantime Drs. C. P. and A. B. Farnsworth were called to Mexico to take charge of the Guadalajara Sanitarium. Dr. Harry B. Farnsworth, of College

View, Neb., was sent to fill the vacancy.

The demand for a sanitarium became more pronounced, and the Wisconsin Conference bought the present site of five acres on the south shore of Lake Monona, near the Chautauqua Assembly grounds, where our people have held camp-meetings. The kitchen of the little eight-room cottage was fitted up for a treatment room, and patients were received. July 3, Drs. C. P. and A. B. Farnsworth, having returned to the States, joined the work in Madison at the request of the Wisconsin Conference. At the next camp-meeting, held in Grand Rapids, 1902, the conference created the Medical Missionary Department of Wisconsin, under the incorporated name of the “Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association of Wisconsin,” which is organized to do all the business pertaining to the medical missionary work. Plans were submitted for a building, and were adopted. Thirty minutes was allowed for presentation of the plans and organization and the soliciting of funds. Eleven hundred dollars was pledged toward this work, half of which the workers of the sanitarium pledged. The first of September, ground was broken for the sanitarium. Not one dollar was in the treasury for the work. The little band of workers assembled and prayed earnestly to God for guidance. Brother Bramhall took charge of the building, and Dr. Farnsworth went out soliciting gifts and loans. The Lord moved the hearts of those who had money in the bank to give some and to loan more. As the work progressed, we hardly knew which way to turn. There was the material to be paid for, and the men to be paid; but God sent the necessary means. In the following spring the building was finished and equipped. The problems to solve were our own electric lighting, sewage, water-supply, elevator, and the thousand and one things that go to equip a sanitarium.

Finally, on June 7, 1903, the building was dedicated. Thirteen patients were there. Dr. J. H. Kellogg gave the dedicatory address, and spoke of the principles for which our sanitariums stand. Judge Arthur then said, “This is the first sanitarium with which I have not had something to do so far, and it is the pearl of them all.” There was a steady running behind of the current expenses the first four months. Then we made both ends meet, then the income was more than the expenses. The net gain the first year was nine thousand dollars, and we also did over six thousand dollars' worth of charity work. The total amount of business done came to over thirty-six thousand dollars. About four hundred patients were treated. During this time over twenty young men and women had been received in the nurses' classes and were being trained. The little eight-room cottage was too small to accommodate them, and so we had to rent rooms for them. It was proposed at the camp-meeting held at Oshkosh in 1904 that a dormitory be built for these faithful workers. The instruction given was that we would have to get some one to give the whole amount. We came home, and on our bended knees asked God to help us. We were moved to write to those of our brethren and sisters who we knew had means. One responded with the gift of six thousand dollars for a nurses' dormitory. This sacrifice was made by Brother M. E. Boutelle, who, with his brother Ernest, had succoured the General Conference with this amount in its hour of need. This home was built during the winter, and in the spring was finished, and the young women have moved in. In the year which has just closed, we have graduated a class of six nurses, and there has been received a large class of nurses who are in training. The standard of the training-school is that of the New York State requirements. Our class to be graduated this fall will consist of eleven members. During the past year Elder Scott, of Cheteck, Wis., has been added to our force as chaplain. We have received about six hundred patients. One hundred and thirty-three operations, many of them major, have been performed without a single fatality. Ten have accepted the truth, and prejudice has been broken down. The Lord's name has been magnified. When the doors were opened to the public, the institution was involved for about four thousand dollars of its cost. Now the assets are about $76,000, and the liabilities $45,000. The lame walk, the deaf are made to hear, the blind to see, and the gospel is preached to all. God has been with us, and we praise his name for it.

C. P. FARNSWORTH, M. D.

Religious Liberty Notes

By W. A. COLCORD

A CLERK of one of the courts of Washington paid for one thousand copies of our leaflet, “Religion in the Public Schools,” which was distributed quite extensively here during the recent agitation over this question.

Brother Tom C. Hege, of Winston, N. C., has again been arrested for keeping open his store on Sunday. The mayor, before whom he has previously been brought several times on like charges, says he dislikes to try him, as, upon inquiry, he has been unable to learn that Brother Hege has ever harmed any one.

Under date of June 3, the American Citizen, of Boston, published an address on “The School Fight in Washington,” delivered by Mrs. Stella Archer Maloney, one of our sisters, before the Berkeley Hall, Boston, Patriotic Lecture Course. The address occupied over seven columns in the paper, and was printed in response to a vote of the meeting that it should be published.

A note published not long ago in The Defender, the official organ of the New England Sabbath Protective League, said: “Special copies of this issue are sent to the Roman Catholic clergy of New England.” In this number was published an article on “The Sunday Question,” written by an “Italian preacher,” of Florence, Italy, in which occurred the following statements: “The Holy Bible tells us that God rested on the seventh day and sanctified it.” “Jesus, when he came into the world, confirmed the law, but he, by his church, transferred the day of rest from the last to the first day of the week. The first day of the week thus became the Lord’s day.” “Sunday belongs to God, and you must respect the property of the Almighty.” This is perfectly in accord with the Catholic view, and with the fact that “the church” changed the Sabbath; and its appearance in The Defender shows that in their defense of the Sunday Sabbath, Protestants are going over onto Catholic ground.

In a constitution which it is said the czar intends to grant Russia, the following provisions are of special interest: “Every subject is allowed to express his opinion without fear of punishment in the press or in speech, in all matters political or otherwise.” “Every citizen is free to choose his own religion; and all sects, Christian or others, are to have equal rights.” Had Russia recognized and granted to her citizens these unalienable rights, perhaps she would not have needed to be humbled as she has been lately.

The town council of Claremore, I. T., has just passed an ordinance penalizing one dollar “every person who shall on the Sabbath, or Sunday, be found laboring, or shall compel his apprentice or servant to labor or perform other services than the customary household duties, of daily necessity, comfort, or charity.” “Every person who shall on Sunday keep open any store or retail any goods, wares, or merchandise” is to be fined from ten to twenty dollars. And “any person who shall on the Christian sabbath, or Sunday, be engaged in any game” is subject to a fine of from ten to twenty-five dollars. We must be drifting back rapidly into slavery if men can now “compel” their apprentices and servants to labor on Sunday, or on any other day. W. A. COLCORD.

Field Notes

A CHURCH of eight members was recently organized at Spring City, Utah.

ELDER E. K. SLADE baptized fourteen persons at Prattville, Mich., June 11.

ELDER B. F. STUREMAN reports having baptized five persons at Hazleton, Mich., the first Sabbath in June.

NINE persons who recently received baptism have joined the Rapson, Mich., church, and one other has joined the Bay City church.

SIX persons were recently baptized at Alma, Mich., by Elder Wm. Ostrander. These are persons who accepted the truth during recent meetings held at Ithaca.

BROTHER C. A. PEDICORD reports an addition of ten members to the Cincinnati, Ohio, church since the beginning of May, all of whom with one exception are adults.

BROTHER T. J. HICKMAN reports that as a result of meetings begun near Colgate, I. T., March 20, by Brother Wm. Brady and himself, “eighteen precious souls (all adults) are walking in the light of present truth.”

BROTHER G. E. NORD reports from Kewanee, Ill.: “April 15 Brother Christian baptized five here who had taken their stand for the truth. Aside from these are eight or ten who are with us. Some of these have been baptized, others are waiting baptism. In our Sabbath services there are from fifteen

to twenty who come. We have a good Sabbath-school and quite a nice Sunday-school, with an attendance of twenty or more. Our interest is still good.”

BROTHER J. EMIL ANDERSON, who has been working among the Swedes at Farlington and Fort Scott, Kan., reports the baptism of eight Swedes at Farlington, June 1. A Sabbath-school of fifteen members has been organized.

ELDER R. C. PORTER states that it is the intention of the Missouri Conference to put a tent in each district of the conference, and one in St. Louis for the German work, this summer. This will necessitate the purchase of two new tents.

As reported in the Illinois Recorder, the following distribution of laborers for the summer has been made in the Northern Illinois Conference: “Brethren Curtis and Wood will go to Kewanee to continue the work that Brother Nord has so successfully begun. Brother Irwin will remain in Chicago to assist Brother Luther Warren in the series of meetings that will follow this camp-meeting. Brother Harris will return to his field of labor, near Stockton, to develop the interest there, after which, he and Brother Santee will pitch a tent near Aledo, and possibly close the season with a tent effort in Dixon. Brother Leessadder returns to Princeton to follow up an interest that he has awakened there. Brother Christian labors in the Danish work, and Brother Mortensen in the Swedish. Brother John M. Burdick, for two years preceptor of the Sheridan Intermediate School, will enter the ministry this summer. The conference has allowed him to choose his field of labor. Our Bible workers here in the city, Sisters Anna Hibben, Jean Phillips, Ella Hancock, and Ina Grundset, among the Scandinavians, are very busy.”

The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

ONE DOLLAR EACH

Mrs. Bruner, H. Martendale, C. E. Shafer, Blanche Shafer, Olive Shafer, Raymond Shafer, Walter Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Harris, Lee Moran, Mrs. H. B. Hardy, Mrs. F. J. Barker, Mrs. F. L. Chamberlain, Mrs. S. L. Irish, Mrs. A. M. Nagle, J. J. Clark, a friend, Mrs. J. W. Metcalf, Jessie and Mary Werfeld, Mary Zirkle, Charley Fairchild, H. G. Fairchild, Sarah J. Fairchild, Mrs. L. A. Borland, Louis Gobielle, J. D. Willard, G. S. Honeywell, Mrs. M. A. Honeywell, a friend, Mrs. Ellen Fortney, Sextonville (Wis.) church. Sarah Dudgeon, D. Dudgeon, F. G. Jackson, Mary Hamilton, H. D. Longway, Mrs. H. D. Longway, Mrs. Clara L. Allen, Hattie Pratt, J. M. Brigham, D. M. Brigham, David Soper, Esther E. Soper, George Soper, Fred J. Soper, Rolla L. Soper, A. Houghtaling, D. W. Ridgeway, L. F. Elliott, Mrs. L. F. Elliott, Dora Greenlee, Bertha Keesling, Mary J. Andre, M. C. Fatic, Walter Zirkle, W. A. Greenlee, John T. Luyster, M. J. C. Luyster, C. A. Collis, Otto Nelson, Mrs. G. Leslie, Mrs. V. Tasker, Mrs. Lillie Berry, Mrs. J. A. Rucker, Mrs. Phebe Sawvel, J. N. Fields, J. S. Fry, C. R. Weaver, I. N. Krawshaar, B. F. Boyd, Mattie Kimble, Mary Dolson, a friend, Mrs. J. E. Kipp, John Mogg, Mrs. Kate Brown, A. C. Tidwell, Woodruff, A. J. Cook, C. F. Hinton, D. Cunnington, Mrs. D. Cunnington, Mary McDonald, Sue Johnson, Sister Shafer, Walter Maloney, R. Taylor, Mrs. J. W. Hearn, Andrew J. Crow, R. Crawford, Mrs. Etta Blake, a friend, Desire Wery, Peter Wery, B. F. Anderson, Melissa Evered, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Wade, Sarah Charles, Mrs. S. C. Helwick, Mrs. J. D. Dennis, Ole Olsen, a friend, M. Burton, Carl L. Adelberg, Henry Satterlee, Oliver M. Ross, Tiffin (Ohio) Sabbath-school, Enos Levy, David Eisner, O. F. Folkenberg, L. Janet, S. R. Snider, Mr. Armstrong, Edythe Baldwin, E. Cipher, Mrs. Beatty, Nellie Barnes, Mrs. Neindorf, Flora Boyle, J. W. Davis, Amelia Richardson, Bertha Webster, John H. Tiney, Mrs. Lou McCarty, Mrs. H. P. Warner, Sister Ward, Priscilla White, Mrs. Dickson, Mayme Stitzel, Mrs. Mariah Lake, E. L. Sanford, Virginia Metzger, Mrs. M. E. Brown, Mrs. Niles Hatch, Edith Wright, S. May Baldwin, Bernice Brown, M. E. Dasher, G. G. Bostrom, Mrs. G. G. Bostrom, L. A. Robinson, Mrs. Naren Larsen, Peter M. Johnson, Mrs. Peter M. Johnson, Ephram Bartly, Mrs. R. R. King, Mary Saunders, Guy Heber, Lee Peebles, Abraham Yeager, Hattie Yeager, J. Davidson, Cathern Davidson, Wilber McKeen, Mrs. G. W. Young, Mrs. Annie Benstrom, C. E. Wood, Mrs. C. E. Wood, Romaine Wood, Mable Wood, Ruland Bowen, Nellie Benning, Mrs. M. E. Pieri, Fred H. Seeney, James H. Seeney, N. H. Keizer, Ella M. Keizer, Mrs. Runion, Yates Seaward, M. E. Seaward, H. A. Kinne, Mrs. Hattie E. Campbell, Riley Ralston, L. Johnson, Jennie Beaver, D. Gavin, Mrs. D. Gavin, Marion, Joseph, Gladys, and Esther Gavin, N. B. Cash, J. N. Humphrey, W. V. Davis, D. Walbert, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Blake, Mrs. Hannah Tough, N. W. Vincent, M. Wittum, Mrs. F. Hardesty, Ann E. Kain, Charles Weirt, Homer Le Fevre, Mrs. C. Whitlow, Emma Shafer, Mrs. Agnes Hauk. Phil. Bergett, Elma Fairchild, May Zirkle, Carl Zirkle, Anna Willham, W. A. Dinnick, Greg. Robinson, Mrs. J. C. Harris, D. D. Town, Betsey Augsbur[y], M. D. Pratt, Larinda Green, Lester Pratt, C. Meleen, Mrs. Johnson, Amelia L. Evans, W. C. Fattick, Elmina Babcock, Mrs. C. B. Unzicker, Mrs. Fannie Sealy, Sister Williams, C. F. Hinton, Frank Johnson, Mrs. Helen Randall, Mary Waugh, Alex Hender, N. L. McCormick, F. M. Oliver, S. J. Less, Frank Johnson, Sister Maloney, Mr. Wood, W. M. Veatch, John Charles, Jane Buck, Elisha S. Buck, Louis Folkenberg, W. B. Folkenberg, Herbert Becker, Gilbert C. Preston, F. May, A. Hale, Edward Zetter, Jr., Mrs. R. Leer, Nevada Neal, Mrs. Orin Galer, Mrs. Reed, V. E. Kinney, Sarah Bruner, Jessie Minere, Hanna Erickson, William M. Koenig, Hester Seeney, Laura Seeney, John D. Seeney, Joseph Seeney, W. R. Seeney, Mrs. E. Keizer, W. W. Crandall, Emma Atherton, Mary E. Dymond, Mrs. L. Seaward, W. J. Connick, Esther Bergquist, Sister B. Crey, M. B. King, C. B. Hawpe, A. A. Hawpe, Louisa Jones, T. J. Willows, Amy Kivett, Mrs. Delaney, Mrs. A. Kenney, Mary Stable, Mary Anderson, Alma G. Anderson, Mrs. Margaret Rutledge, Mrs. Mary Rutledge, Mrs. Cora Koontz, Mrs. Marie Inman, Hector (Minn.) Missionary Club, Sheldon (Wyo.) church, Charles E. Hufnagle, a sister in the truth, M. A. McClure, Mrs. A. J. McIntyre, Mrs. Ella J. Cole, L. E. Light, Rhoda Rowly, E. P. La Plant, Howard Curran, Mrs. Kate Snead, Vesta O. Powell, Mrs. C. L. Richards, Mrs. F. E. Phillips, Florence Holmes, Mrs. Stella Wise, Hezekiah Smith, Mrs. M. K. Richard, A. S. Stevenson, Cornelius Corless, B. H. Reed, C. A. Staples, F. W. Steeves, Bertha Hallock, James O. Tibbets, Alba Kiehnhoff, George W. Kiehnhoff, Fred Jones, T. F. Wright, Mrs. Rebecca Hackworth, C. V. Allmen, Leona Allmen, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hall, Walter Allen, Minnie Allen, Josie Pritchard, Albert Johnson, Carl Voss, H. H. Rogers, Sister Adams, Mary A. Fleak, R. H. Wiper, Mrs. R. H. Wiper, Mrs. M. A. Pegg, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Charles McKey, Minnie Brand, T. C. Knepshield, Sidney Feder, a friend, Emery Edgett, Peter Vanderhook, James McElmurray, Mrs. James McElmurray, Mrs. Addie Gyrer, Grace Rosenthal, Jenny Gibbs, J. T. R. Lyon, E. D. Clay, St. Clair and N. B. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. M. Burke, G. F. Ernst, Mary Ernst, Ann S. Lippincott, Lida Girtain, Nancy B. Johnson, I. D. Swingle, Mrs. Eva Anxier, James Kephart, Mrs. James Kephart, Mrs. G. Warden, John Warden, S. L. Kellogg, Sadie Kellogg, Mrs. Truckee Rose, Lucy F. Harrison, Mrs. Mead, Mrs. C. L. Davis, J. S. Leonard, Lida M. Leonard, Lois Camp, Martha H. Smith, Ora Tulk, R. J. Hyatt, D. D. Pettis, Mrs. D. D. Pettis, Herbert W. Colwell, Virginia Tate, Evan Roberts, Mrs. Lizzie Scales, Mrs. S. E. Collins.

James R. Smith, $.95; donations, $.87; Maria Gaffir, $.85; Mrs. Reed Henry, $.80; O. C. Lamb, $.60; a friend, $.60; Mrs. Sallie Hartwell, $.55; Cunington, $.38; Sister M. A. Morgan, $.30; Sister M. P. Sparks, $.30; Verna Schluster, $.07; Elizabeth Miller, $.06.

SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH

L. and S. Osborne, Arthur Covey, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Huntington, Mrs. Sarah Dumbauld.

FIFTY CENTS EACH

Lydia Pettis, L. Haak, L. M. Yeager, Cris Johnson, Mrs. Betsey Huber, Frieda Huber, Mrs. Mary Custer, E. R. Hunter, C. O. Wolcott, C. E. and L. A. Tegg, Mrs. Clara Kellogg, W. L. McDonald, S. C. McDonald, M. S. Johnson, H. L. Lincoln, Paul E. Hottel, Charles S. Hottel, Mary Fern Hottel, Guy L. Hottel, Mrs. L. L. Marshal, Miss James, Miss Logan, Miss Scroggings, Mrs. Sina Oberg, Mrs. R. Ingleton, Mrs. Anna Frasier, Mamie Pier, Mrs. E. B. Sakuth, Ella Knoker, Mrs. M. Sollars, Mrs. A. B. Fletcher, Miss M. E. Fletcher, Mrs. Fiona Freed, Eddy Sederlof, Mrs. Eva Nun, M. McFadden, E. Frazer, W. F. Carman, Sarah I. Bunch, N. J. Randall, Ida Barber, Eugenia Barber, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Polard, G. B. Collett, Phil. Bergett, Elma Fairchild, May Zirkle, Carl Zirkle, Anna Willham, W. A. Dinnick, Greg. Robinson, Mrs. J. C. Harris, D. D. Town, Betsey Augsbur[y], M. D. Pratt, Larinda Green, Lester Pratt, C. Meleen, Mrs. Johnson, Amelia L. Evans, W. C. Fattick, Elmina Babcock, Mrs. C. B. Unzicker, Mrs. Fannie Sealy, Sister Williams, C. F. Hinton, Frank Johnson, Mrs. Helen Randall, Mary Waugh, Alex Hender, N. L. McCormick, F. M. Oliver, S. J. Less, Frank Johnson, Sister Maloney, Mr. Wood, W. M. Veatch, John Charles, Jane Buck, Elisha S. Buck, Louis Folkenberg, W. B. Folkenberg, Herbert Becker, Gilbert C. Preston, F. May, A. Hale, Edward Zetter, Jr., Mrs. R. Leer, Nevada Neal, Mrs. Orin Galer, Mrs. Reed, V. E. Kinney, Sarah Bruner, Jessie Minere, Hanna Erickson, William M. Koenig, Hester Seeney, Laura Seeney, John D. Seeney, Joseph Seeney, W. R. Seeney, Mrs. E. Keizer, W. W. Crandall, Emma Atherton, Mary E. Dymond, Mrs. L. Seaward, W. J. Connick, Esther Bergquist, Sister B. Crey, M. B. King, C. B. Hawpe, A. A. Hawpe, Louisa Jones, T. J. Willows, Amy Kivett, Mrs. Delaney, Mrs. A. Kenney, Mary Stable, Mary Anderson, Alma G. Anderson, Mrs. Margaret Rutledge, Mrs. Mary Rutledge, Mrs. Cora Koontz, Mrs. Marie Inman, Hector (Minn.) Missionary Club, Sheldon (Wyo.) church, Charles E. Hufnagle, a sister in the truth, M. A. McClure, Mrs. A. J. McIntyre, Mrs. Ella J. Cole, L. E. Light, Rhoda Rowly, E. P. La Plant, Howard Curran, Mrs. Kate Snead, Vesta O. Powell, Mrs. C. L. Richards, Mrs. F. E. Phillips, Florence Holmes, Mrs. Stella Wise, Hezekiah Smith, Mrs. M. K. Richard, A. S. Stevenson, Cornelius Corless, B. H. Reed, C. A. Staples, F. W. Steeves, Bertha Hallock, James O. Tibbets, Alba Kiehnhoff, George W. Kiehnhoff, Fred Jones, T. F. Wright, Mrs. Rebecca Hackworth, C. V. Allmen, Leona Allmen, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hall, Walter Allen, Minnie Allen, Josie Pritchard, Albert Johnson, Carl Voss, H. H. Rogers, Sister Adams, Mary A. Fleak, R. H. Wiper, Mrs. R. H. Wiper, Mrs. M. A. Pegg, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Charles McKey, Minnie Brand, T. C. Knepshield, Sidney Feder, a friend, Emery Edgett, Peter Vanderhook, James McElmurray, Mrs. James McElmurray, Mrs. Addie Gyrer, Grace Rosenthal, Jenny Gibbs, J. T. R. Lyon, E. D. Clay, St. Clair and N. B. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. M. Burke, G. F. Ernst, Mary Ernst, Ann S. Lippincott, Lida Girtain, Nancy B. Johnson, I. D. Swingle, Mrs. Eva Anxier, James Kephart, Mrs. James Kephart, Mrs. G. Warden, John Warden, S. L. Kellogg, Sadie Kellogg, Mrs. Truckee Rose, Lucy F. Harrison, Mrs. Mead, Mrs. C. L. Davis, J. S. Leonard, Lida M. Leonard, Lois Camp, Martha H. Smith, Ora Tulk, R. J. Hyatt, D. D. Pettis, Mrs. D. D. Pettis, Herbert W. Colwell, Virginia Tate, Evan Roberts, Mrs. Lizzie Scales, Mrs. S. E. Collins.

[NOTE.—The donations have come in so rapidly that we have not been able to publish all the names of the donors to date, but we shall acknowledge all in due time. The amount of the list furnished to us is now $102,187.61.—ED.]

A further list will follow.

Send all donations to W. T. Bland, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By J. E. Proom

Nurses, Attention!

At the recent General Conference our medical council voted for the establishment of nurses’ agencies in the various union and local conferences. This will tend to unite more closely the interests of conferences, and the health workers in their territory.

Urgent calls for capable nurses are coming from localities that can not properly be asked to wait for the perfecting of the union conference directories. Dr. Hayward is the latest one to report a call for a male nurse and his wife for an enterprise recently opened auspiciously in the territory under the supervision of the department of which he is the medical chairman.

We have reason to believe that throughout our ranks there are many well-trained and experienced nurses whose services will yield a much more satisfactory total influence if connected with the organized work than if irregularly employed on their personal responsibility. A committee is now at work studying the conditions for perfecting this plan.

Meanwhile this office is asked to facilitate the work by bringing into touch available nurses and institutions in need of help. We therefore will gladly receive the addresses of all nurses desiring employment in medical missionary lines. Be sure to send statement (1) of experience and where it was obtained; (2) references as to character and ability; (3) sex, married or single; (4) family or not; (5) age; (6) health, and any special conditions necessary to consider in entering active medical missionary work. Address the writer at Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

J. E. PROOM, M. D., Sec. Gen. Conf. Med. Council.

Camp-Meetings for 1905

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Greater New York ........June 27 to July 4

Pennsylvania, Lancaster ..........June 15-25

Chesapeake, Rock Hall, Md. .....June 20-27

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

North Carolina, Newton...........July 7-17

Georgia, Marietta ..............Aug. 10-20

Tennessee River, probably Nashville ........................Aug. 17-27

Florida, Plant City.............Oct. 11-22

Cumberland, Richmond, Ky. ......July 20-30

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

North Michigan, Escanaba, Mich. ......................June 23 to July 3

Southern Illinois, Mattoon ........August

West Michigan, Allegan..........Aug. 17-28

Indiana, Connersville ..........Sept. 7-18

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Minnesota, Maple Plain..........June 16-25

North Dakota (German, local), Goodrich .......................June 26 to July 3

North Dakota (English and Scandinavian, local) Towner .......................July 11-17

Alberta, Canada, Wetaskiwin......July 4-10

Manitoba, Canada, (near) Winnipeg ........................July 20-25

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Missouri, Sedalia ...............Aug. 3-13

Nebraska, Omaha .................Aug. 10-20

Colorado, Denver ................Aug. 17-27

Kansas (conference), Hutchinson ......................Aug. 24 to Sept. 4

Kansas, Valley Falls ............July 20-26

Kansas, Broughton ........July 27 to Aug. 2

Kansas, Downs ...................Aug. 3-9

Wyoming, Chadron, Neb. ..........June 22-29

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas, Hillsboro ................Aug. 3-13

Arkansas, Bentonville ...........Aug. 17-27

Oklahoma ................Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

California, San Jose District ......................June 23 to July 3

California, Humboldt District ...Sept. 8-18

California, Hanford District ....Oct. 19-29

California, Santa Rosa District..Aug. 17-27

Southern California .............Aug. 3-13

Montana, northern ...............July 6-16

Upper Columbia ..................July 20-30

Utah, Ogden .....................Aug. 15-22

Western Washington, Seattle ......................Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

British Columbia .................Sept. 7-17

GENERAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE

Denmark, Copenhagen .............June 15-20

Sweden, Grytthed ................June 21-25

Norway (union conf.) Stavanger ......................June 27 to July 2

German-Swiss ....................July 4-9

Latin Union (union conf.) Gland, Switzerland ........................July 11-16

German Union (union conf.) Friedensau, Germany ......................July 20-30

British Union (joint meeting) ....Aug. 4-13

Scotland and Ireland .............Aug. 14-30

MISCELLANEOUS

East Caribbean Conference, Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana ........................July 19-28

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.

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