p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 26. (6/29/1905)

Earlier text: A “Memorial Church” in Nashville, Tennessee

Current Mention

— Inhabitants in the vicinity of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, have been warned to leave their homes on account of a sudden display of extraordinary activity by the volcano.

— An open switch caused the wreck of a fast passenger-train on the Lake Shore Railway at Mentor, Ohio, June 21. Twenty-one persons were killed. It is believed that the opened switch was the work of a criminal.

— A recent telegram from Rome says that “the frequent rumor that the pope is to break the tradition that he is a prisoner in the Vatican is apparently about to become a fact. His physicians have recommended that, owing to the condition of his health, he spend the summer at Castle Gandolfo.”

— The outlook for peace between Russia and Japan appears less bright than it was a few days ago, a break having come in the negotiations, and hopes of an armistice which would prevent another great battle in Manchuria have nearly vanished. It is stated that Japan has doubts of Russia’s sincerity, and wishes assurances on this point before entering upon definite negotiations.

— The closing up of the business of a prominent Philadelphia broker, following his decease a few weeks ago, revealed that he had by means of forged certificates of stock in “gilt edged” securities, obtained loans from banks and trust companies to the extent of from $750,000 to $1,000,000, nearly all of which will be a loss to the institutions defrauded. Such incidents are becoming quite characteristic of the times.

— According to dispatches from Tientsin, the movement of Chinese merchants to boycott goods manufactured in the United States continues to grow. It is stated that “two hundred members of the Commercial Guild, connected with seventeen provinces, have signed an agreement by which they enter into mutual bond providing that any member reported to have been a purchaser of American foods shall pay a fine of 50,000 taels ($35,000).” A telegram from Vancouver, British Columbia, states that Chinese in that country are joining in the movement. It says that “the Canadian Chinese Empire Reform Association, the British Columbia Chinese Merchants’ Guild, and the British Columbia Chinese board of trade met to-night and indorsed the propaganda of the Canton and Shanghai merchants proposing to boycott the United States for the Chinese immigration restriction. They also indorsed the plan outlined to start flour mills in British Columbia with Chinese capital and under Chinese control to supply the Chinese markets.”

— An important decision affecting the legal standing of non-union workmen has been rendered by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. A non-union workman in a Haverhill shoe factory was discharged at the instance of a leader in the Boot and Shoe Makers’ Union, and sued to recover damages. The union set up the charge of unfair competition in defense of its action, but the court held that this did not constitute a good defense, and awarded the plaintiff damages to the amount of $1,500. The court held that the attempt to force all laborers to combine in unions is against the policy of the law because it aims at a monopoly of the labor market, and said: “We have no desire to put obstacles in the way of employees who are seeking by combination to better conditions for themselves and their families. We only say that under correct rules of law and with a proper regard for the rights of individuals, labor unions can not be permitted to drive men out of employment because they choose to work independently.”

— Dispatches from Warsaw, Moscow, and Lodz, tell of great disorders and conflicts between the troops and mobs of revolutionists and striking workmen, in which hundreds have been killed and wounded. At Lodz the strikers erected strong barricades in the streets, and fired upon the troops as the latter attempted to remove them. From one hundred to two hundred persons were killed at Lodz. “The city resembles a shambles,” says a dispatch dated June 24, “and the terrible scenes of the last two days will never be wiped from the memory of the Polish people.” Rioting began in Warsaw June 24, with a general strike of workmen, ordered by the social revolutionary committee. All the street railways save on a few main thoroughfares were stopped, all shops were closed, and the newspapers suspended publication. The revolutionary movement appears to be becoming general throughout Poland.

Camp-Meeting in Northwestern Kansas

By A. R. Ogden

THERE will be a camp-meeting at Downs, Osborne Co., August 3-10. This meeting will come after the wheat harvest; in fact, at the time when there is most leisure for the farmers generally in this section, so we hope all will plan to come. If all the family can not leave home at one time, let part plan to come to this meeting, and the rest of the family to attend the one at Hutchinson. We expect to have as good a meeting as any in the State. We can come a little nearer together in a smaller meeting than in a large meeting, so let none think the meeting will

not be worth attending. Begin at once to plan to come. Bring your children and neighbors. We expect to present the message, so that those who do not understand the reasons of our faith will be given opportunity to learn.

A. R. OGDEN.

Obituaries

RAIMER.—Died in North Yakima, Wash., May 12, 1905, Minnie Henrietta Raimer, aged 40 years, 10 months, and 5 days. Sister Raimer was reared in the Lutheran faith. On learning the truths of the third angel's message, about eight years ago, she gladly accepted the light, and continued a patient, forbearing Christian, held in high esteem by all who knew her. The husband and five children sorrow deeply, yet not without hope. The funeral service was conducted by the writer in the Seventh-day Adventist church; text, Ps. 17:15. J. G. SMITH.

BAXTER.—Died at Long Reach, New Brunswick, April 2, 1905, Frederick B. Baxter, in the sixty-first year of his age. Brother Baxter accepted present truth under the labors of Elders Webber and Richardson, in St. John. He was resigned to the will of God. A devoted wife and one daughter survive him. As none of our ministers could be secured for the service, the Methodist minister of the neighborhood offered a prayer at the house, and the minister of the English church pronounced the burial service at the cemetery. S. D. HARWELL.

LIPPENCOTT.—Died at Boulder, Colo., April 28, 1905, Saloma Overholser Lippencott, aged 33 years, 6 months, and 10 days. Several years ago she and her husband accepted the truth for this time at Niwot, Colo. Her only desire to live was that she might care for the dear children God had given her, and be a more faithful follower of her Master. Her last days were days of seeking the Lord for forgiveness and a preparation for the great change. She leaves a husband, seven children, brothers and sisters, and many friends to mourn their loss, but we sorrow not as those that have no hope. The funeral service was conducted by the writer; text, John 11:25. C. F. WATSON.

McDERMOND.—Died in Chase, Mich., May 17, 1905, of inflammatory rheumatism, Frances McDermond, aged 71 years. When nineteen years old, she was converted, and joined the Baptist Church, of which she was a member for forty years. Twelve years ago she accepted present truth through the labors of Elder Haysmer. During these years she was an untiring student of the Word, and was always ready to give a reason for the hope that was within her. Some to-day rejoice in the truth through her efforts. A husband and two daughters, with other relatives and friends, trust in the promises of the Life-giver, that the dead will live again. Funeral service was conducted by the writer. MRS. W. H. SPEAR.

VOORHEES.—Peacefully fell asleep at Alfred, N. Y., March 29, 1905, our aged father, Robert P. Voorhees, in the ninety-first year of his age. About forty years ago, the message finding him keeping the Sabbath in communion with the Seventh-day Baptist Church, he transferred his membership to the Seventh-day Adventist church at Niles Hill, N. Y. He afterward made his home in Maryland, Virginia, and Kansas for a time, but subsequently returned to the home State. With firm, unwavering faith he held to the truth until creeping paralysis ended his days without a struggle. The funeral service was held at the home of his son, Chas. R. Voorhees. W. W. STEBBINS, M. E. VOORHEES STEBBINS.

COLLINS.—Died at his home in North Dartmouth, Mass., May 29, 1905, Gilbert N. Collins, one of the pioneers in the third angel's message. Brother Collins was born June 21, 1836, and at the age of eight years went out with his father and mother, Phillip and Nancy Collins, to meet the Lord in the '44 movement. He was one of the few who was able to vividly recall the experience of leaving home with the expectation of meeting the Lord, and the return later, suffering the disappointment, from which they rallied, and by more diligently searching the Scriptures, discovered their error, and remained steadfast to the truth till the last. From its organization until his death he was elder of the New Bedford church. During this time he was never too tired or busy to devote time to the needy and the interests of the church. He was known for his kindness and benevolence, and had the reputation of never being appealed to in vain. His entire life was one of peaceful, unselfish activity, and he was most loved by those who best knew him. For more than thirteen years Brother Collins had been a sufferer from bronchial and lung diseases, but through it all he never complained or became discouraged. He leaves no children, but a devoted wife, to whom in her loneliness her loss is a great affliction. To the writer, as to many another young person in this neighborhood, his life has been a constant incentive to activity in the Lord's work. J. P. BRADFORD, M. D.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted.

All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column.

In the case of poor persons who wish employment, the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement.

WANTED.—For Minnesota, a first-class watchmaker and engraver. Address Fritz Guy, St. Cloud, Minn.

ABSOLUTELY pure peanut butter, best quality, 10 cents a pound in bulk, or 12 cents in neat pound packages. Best maltose honey at same prices. Sample of either, 10 cents, post-paid. Send for list of other foods. Vegetarian Meat Co., Washington, D. C.

WANTED.—A middle-aged woman to have a home and help with the work in a small family. None but a strict Seventh-day Adventist need apply. Give reference, state wages wanted. Address 2815 Broadway, Menominee, Mich.

THE Iowa Sanitarium Bakery, Des Moines, Iowa, manufactures a choice line of healthful crackers, granola, cereal coffee, zwieback, and other health foods, also a number of new nut foods. Very liberal discounts are allowed. Write for new price-list and special discount sheet.

IOWA SANITARIUM BAKERY.

PEANUT BUTTER.—Absolutely pure unsalted steamed or roasted peanut butter at 12 cents a pound in 50-lb. lots or over, of 10, 25, or 50 lb. cans; less than 50 pounds, add 1 cent per pound; cash with order; freight prepaid on 100-lb. lots or over, east of the Rocky Mountains. Address St. Laurent Brothers, 1220-22 Saginaw St., Bay City, Mich.

FOR SALE.—My undivided interest in the Jesse Stith farm of 250 acres, lying in Mead County, Ky., at very reasonable figures, to any one desiring the same. I desire to turn all the money but $100 over to the work at Washington and the foreign mission work. Correspond with J. T. Stith, Bible Grove, Mo.

Notice!

BROTHER K. V. BJORK, Laurium, Mich., would like the names and post-office addresses of any Finns in this country who are observers of the seventh-day Sabbath. Elders of churches are requested to respond to this notice.

Kansas Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association

By T. F. Trubey

Notice is hereby given that this association will hold its annual session Thursday, Aug. 24, 1905, at 3 P. M. This meeting will be held at Hutchinson, Kan., in connection with the State camp-meeting, from August 24 to September 4.

T. F. Trubey, President.

Attention!

By I. H. EVANS

THOSE who are making contributions for the work in the South are requested to send with them a careful statement with regard to which branch of the work they desire their gifts to go.

There is the Southern Union Conference, which has charge of the work in the South, and which is our denominational representative in that field. They have specific charge of the work in all the Southern States belonging to their union conference, and foster and encourage every branch.

Then, there is the Southern Missionary Society, which is an organization for the building up of the work among the colored people. Its mission is to establish schools for the colored people, and to assist in the erection of churches, etc. All donations intended for the Southern Missionary Society should be specified.

All donations coming into our office marked “for the work in the South” will go to the Southern Union Conference, and it will distribute them throughout the field, as in its judgment seems wise, for supporting each and every branch of the work.

We wish our friends would be very careful when they make remittances to specify for which branch of the work they desire their gifts to go, and our office will endeavor to adhere strictly to the instructions. We trust that in the future there will be no misunderstandings with regard to contributions which are so kindly given for this work. The gifts that are raised through the self-denial boxes, should be designated “to the Southern Missionary Society.”

I. H. EVANS, General Conference Treasurer.

Publications Wanted

[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, post-paid:—

J. H. Robison, Brandontown, Fla., periodicals.

Mrs. Etta Burk, Brookport, Ill., periodicals and tracts.

Mrs. J. H. Buel, Evansville, Ark., Signs, Instructor, Life Boat.

Mrs. Birdie Watson Conway, McLean, Assa., Canada, REVIEW, Signs, Life and Health, and Life Boat.

A. B. Stauffer, Caixa do Correio 768, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, S. A., Signs, Life and Health, Life Boat. (Note foreign postage.)

Oscar Williams, 122 Linden St., Fort Collins, Colo., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, Life Boat, health magazines, tracts on the sanctuary, Sabbath, the second advent, etc.

Mrs. E. M. Peebles, Falls City, Neb., Signs, Life Boat, Life and Health, Bible Training School, Watchman, REVIEW (especially the numbers containing the reports of the General Conference).

Sabbath Message and Evangelistic Tent

In the May number of the Oriental Watchman, published in Calcutta, India, there appeared the “Appeal to Clergy” on the Sabbath question which was first published in the Washington Post last winter. Thus the message of the Sabbath truth is being heralded in every land, and the people are being invited to take away their feet from the Sabbath, from doing their pleasure on God’s holy day.

Another tent has just been pitched in this city, at the corner of Twelfth and B Streets, S. E., in which services will be conducted by Brethren J. S. Washburn, A. J. Bristol, and George A. Stevens. The subjects announced for the first ten days deal with Babylon, Persia, Grecia, Rome, Germany, England, France, the United States, and Russia in prophecy. We hope this effort to present the message will be fruitful in results.

An Interesting Letter

THE editor of the REVIEW has received the following letter from a gentleman to whom he forwarded papers and documents relating to the recent controversy over the proposed introduction of religious instruction into the public schools of the District of Columbia:—

“W. W. Prescott, Esq., Washington, D. C.”

“DEAR SIR: Pardon my negligence in acknowledging receipt of your kind letter and papers in connection with the school matter. I have carefully read your argument, and heartily congratulate you upon the stand you have taken. Your argument is incontrovertible, and should be read by every true American and lover of liberty. Your church, and particularly some of its able leaders, deserve the thanks of the American people for the great fight you are making for religious liberty in this country, and especially the fight you are making against the fanatical Sunday laws which disgrace the statute-books of nearly every State in the Union. In framing these infamous laws the legislators pretend that it is for the physical benefit of the individual. This claim they know to be a fraud and a sham, and that were the religious motive underlying them removed, we should have no Sunday laws. There seems to be a concerted movement all over the country to introduce religion into the public schools, which movement should be bitterly opposed if we are to preserve our institutions.”

“We are carrying our case in this city to the higher courts, and I feel confident that if the courts decide in accordance with the Constitution, and not in accordance with public opinion, we shall win.”

By request the editor of the REVIEW has also forwarded papers and documents, dealing with the same controversy, to a Jewish rabbi in the State of Ohio, where the same issue is now pending. Thus the benefits arising from work done in behalf of religious liberty principles in this city are being reaped in other places.

Midsummer Offering

REMEMBER the midsummer offering next Sabbath.

Seeking Ira S. Jones’s Address

We should be glad to learn the present address of Ira S. Jones, formerly of Lake Forest, Ill.

Information Requested for Obituary

If the writer of the obituary of Brother David Hall will send us his name, and state the date of death, we shall be able to publish the notice.

Cottrell Takes Needed Rest

ELDER H. W. COTTRELL, the president of the Atlantic Union Conference, is taking needed rest, and is engaging in outdoor work, with friends in Ohio and Indiana.

Dickerson Teaches at Summer School

MISS FANNIE M. DICKERSON, the associate editor of the Youth's Instructor, is now acting as one of the teachers at a first summer school now in progress at Lees Summit, Mo. She will be away from Washington four or five weeks.

Spicer Visits Pennsylvania Camp-Meeting

ELDER W. A. SPICER spent last Sabbath and Sunday at the camp-meeting at Lancaster, Pa., and is expecting to be at the Greater New York camp-meeting, held in New York City, over next Sabbath and Sunday.

His Glorious Appearing in Italian

By Editor

We have received from Rome a copy of “His Glorious Appearing” in the Italian language, “Il Ritorno Glorioso di Gesù.” It is a brightly printed pamphlet, and we rejoice to see the message of the Lord’s soon coming so attractively presented to the Italian reader.

New General Conference Buildings Planned

THE plans are practically completed for both the General Conference office building and the Review and Herald printing plant, and the work of constructing these buildings will be entered upon at once. It is the plan to occupy both buildings before cold weather sets in.

Knight Resigns Public Labor

WE regret to announce that Elder C. E. Knight, the president of the Arizona Conference, feels called upon to give up public labor for a time, that he may build up his physical strength, and has tendered his resignation to the executive committee of the union conference. This resignation has been accepted, and Elder F. I. Richardson, of southern California, has accepted the invitation to supply the vacancy caused thereby.—Pacific Union Recorder.

Campaign to Extend Review Circulation

By Editor

In the outline of the plan for the missionary campaign, which was adopted by the recent General Conference, the first paragraph reads as follows:—

(1) That the effort to place the REVIEW AND HERALD in every Sabbath-keeping house be continued, especially through the camp-meeting season and early fall.

We hope that those who have charge of our camp-meetings will not overlook this recommendation, and that a thorough canvass of each camp-ground will be made in the interest of the REVIEW. We are confident that the regular readers of this paper will feel free to recommend it to others, and to assist in extending its circulation. Some special features will be announced in the near future.

Continue the Good Work

By J. S. Washburn

We trust all have read the article by Elder Daniells in the REVIEW of June 9 setting forth the special need of the Review and Herald Publishing Association at this time, and the fact that at the General Conference it was voted “that the first fifteen thousand dollars received on the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund above the one hundred thousand dollars be turned over to the Review and Herald Publishing Association.” We know that every reader of the REVIEW has felt as much interest in the prosperity of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, and has been as anxious that it should be able to accomplish its work in its new location, as he has that the sanitarium, school, and General Conference offices should be built here in Washington, D. C. The Lord has given a glorious victory to his people in the matter of raising one hundred thousand dollars, but this amount, all will understand, does not go toward the building of the Review and Herald publishing house. The REVIEW is published in a rented office, where there is considerable expense that might be saved if we were in our own building. The land for this purpose was bought several months ago, and it is earnestly desired that the office building be erected immediately. I am sure our dear brethren and sisters are not weary in well-doing, but will rejoice to help forward this work. The Washington fund, according to our list, has reached the sum of $102,187.61, but, as stated in last week's REVIEW, there are further donations in the treasurer's hand not yet listed.

Note the following letter:—

“EDEN MILLS, VT. “DEAR BROTHER: We enclose a small donation, two dollars, duplicate of one we sent some months ago. Should all who have donated repeat their donations, you would have money enough and to spare. O that the liberality of this people might equal that of the Israelites when they brought their offerings to build the tabernacle, that the offerings might pour in till the people would have to be restrained!”

We hope many others will feel it a privilege to duplicate their donations that the further amount desired may be quickly supplied. J. S. WASHBURN.