Earlier text: Mission NotesThe Halsted Street (Chicago) Medical Mission
By J. E. Colloran
The Lord has been blessing us in our dispensary work this year. Our dispensary is located at 3558 South Halsted Street. It is in a district that in former years was known as Bridgeport, one of the rough neighborhoods of Chicago. The inhabitants are principally Irish, German, and Polish, with a few Lithuanians. Our family consists of two graduate physicians, two student physicians, and five nurses. Two of the nurses care for the sick who come to the house, and the other three visit in the homes. At the dispensary, we have a well-equipped bath room, with a shower bath, spray, and electric-light baths, besides the different forms of electricity. We have a surgical dressing room, where wounds are dressed, and a class room for the medical students. We also keep on hand a large amount of Pasteurized and modified milk for the sick children of the neighborhood, which we sell at a penny a bottle. We have another room filled with old clothes, which we distribute to the poor of this district. Our nurses have many interesting experiences. The writer was called a few weeks ago to see a lady who was in bed with her mouth wide open, and unable to close it. She had been in this condition for three days. We found that the woman had been in a spasm, and had dislocated her jaw. A physician had been called in; but because the family had no money, he refused to do anything. The woman's mouth and lips were all cracked, and she was in a frightful condition. After the jaw had been set, the woman put her hand up, and could hardly believe that her mouth was closed. Another case to which we were called one night at twelve o'clock, was that of a woman suffering from asthma; she could hardly breathe. We afterward learned that she and her husband were graduates of a European university. They came to this country with a large amount of money, and had squandered it in drink. He had left her, and she was then trying to support her children. After giving the necessary treatment, we placed a nurse in charge of the case, and she held Bible readings with the woman. The woman attended the mission meetings and accepted Christ, and the nurse is now making arrangements to have her go on the farm of one of our brethren. Another case was referred from the dispensary to the sanitarium for treatment. While there, this woman accepted the Sabbath and the whole truth for this time. Her trouble became worse, and when we found that she could not live, we told her. She was still happy, and said she was glad she had come in contact with us. This woman had been a French Roman Catholic. When she sent for her people, they refused to see her unless she would send for the priest. This she refused to do, saying she was willing to die in Christ, although this treatment by her people was hard to bear. Her husband is much interested in our work. She had been able to give him a great deal of the truth which was so precious to her. A few weeks ago, a State senator came in for treatment for a sore hand. He was so well pleased with his treatment that he gave us twice as much in payment as we charged. Another case is that of a young man who has been interested in our work for some time. Upon going to confession, he told the priest that he frequented our institution. The priest told him he should not do so, but when the young man told the priest that he had to choose between our place and the saloons, the priest told him that he would better go to our place than to the saloons. One of our visiting nurses reports the following interesting incident. She was called to the family of a Spiritualist trance medium to give treatment. The lady said, “The devil helps me to help others, but I have to send for you to get the Lord to help me.” This remark opened the way for a good talk on the truth, especially on the subject of the immortality of the soul. I am convinced that the successful medical missionary work is that in which the third angel's message is taught. The success that has attended our Halsted Street work has been due to the fact that we have tried to give the people all the gospel for this generation. We shall be glad to have our brethren and sisters in passing through Chicago make us a call. We are a little out of the ordinary run of travel, yet by taking the Halsted Street car, or any other cross town line, we may be easily reached. J. E. COLLORAN, M. D. What Our Literature Is Doing
By H. H. Hall
THE following letter has been received from a prominent advertising man in Chicago:— “Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal. “GENTLEMEN: A friend has sent me a copy of The Signs of the Times containing an article on labor and capital which has greatly interested me, and I desire that you send me all back numbers as well as future copies containing this series. “In order that they may be delivered to me personally, rather than find their way to checking table, I request that you place my residence on your mailing list, “You may also render a similar service to —, sending me bill for both.” And here is another from an attorney in Houston, Tex.:— “Pacific Press Publishing Co.,
H. H. Hall, Business Manager,
Oakland, Cal. “GENTLEMEN: Copy sent for received, for which I thank you. Enclosed I send you money order for forty cents, for which kindly send me The Signs of the Times for three months, at the end of which I hope to be able to remit for one year. Your periodical is the only one of the kind I have ever seen, and certainly deserves the support of every fair-minded, justice-loving person. Kindly mail to my address given below.” Dear reader, do not such reports as these encourage you to redouble your efforts to scatter the truth in its printed form.
H. H. HALL. Haste to the Rescue
By J. S. Washburn
AN alarm of fire! The furious, rapid ringing of fire-bells that thrill the heart, that quicken the pulse, that fill with thoughts of terror for the danger, and immediately with a wild joy and strange exhilaration at the thought of rescue! There is a sudden clearing of the crowded street, a quick arrest of the attention of every foot-passenger, a sudden rush to the windows and doors. What is the cause?—A cloud of dust and smoke and steam; the sharp thunder of heavy and rapid hoof-beats and the clatter and whirl of wheels,—a mad rush to the rescue. Three horses abreast, great, noble creatures, full speed, heads close to the ground, nostrils distended,—they need no urging, for they live for this moment,—for the wild gladness of freedom to exert every power! Behind them the heavy fire-engine seems to fly with feathery lightness, and clinging to it are strong, brave men with cool heads and steady nerves, eagerly rushing to save; for O! the danger to property, and to precious life, it may be, appeals to every noble instinct in man to hasten to help and deliver. For did He not send his Son to save, to pluck us as brands out of the burning? Who that has lived in the city has not been awakened, thrilled by the sight of a fire company hastening to a fire? Let us visit an engine-house. It is night. All is still. The lights are low, apparently men and horses are soundly sleeping. Suddenly a sharp ring; the lights blaze out. The great horses leap under the harness. Wide awake instantly, the firemen leap to the side of the horses and to their seats upon the engine. The great doors suddenly open, and before we have time to think a second thought, the horses are galloping to the fire. Haste! a moment may mean a life! Were you ever suddenly awakened from sound slumber by a suffocating, terrible odor of smoke; by the crackling and roaring of great, hungry flames? O! it is fearful! The fire is under, in the hall, the stairway! Blinded, dazed, and terrified, you waken the loved ones, and hasten them, drag them, carry them down the blazing, trembling stairway. In an anguish of fear, your clothing aflame, you burst the door, out into the cool air, and into safety. O! thank God,—all here? O! horror! one is missing, one is still in the burning house. Now through the window comes the piteous cry, “Save me!” You rush to the entrance; strong arms bar your way. You are forced back into safety. Quickly the ladder is drawn, placed, extended; at awful risk, a brave fireman climbs through smoke and flame, and reaches,—saves. Thank God for the brave, strong rescuer! Thank God that He who died to save has made men, even many who do not love God, willing to risk their own lives to save the life of another. There are among men true heroes yet. O that among God’s people, among God’s workers, for all his people are workers, there was the earnest, the intense zeal to hasten to save! A terrific danger, an eternal catastrophe, fire quenchless, remorseless, threatens our loved ones, yea, the millions whom God loves—and we are asleep! We claim21to know the message of warning, of salvation, to a perishing world—yet how dull, how stupid, how slow! O God, awaken us, stir our hearts with the tender love for sinners; the fierce, undying, infinite hate for sin; the zeal that consumed the very life of Jesus, that constrained, that urged Paul ever onward to seek and to save. When I see a fire company hastening to the rescue, I can but pray, O Lord, make me a thousand times more earnest, more zealous in thy blessed, thy terrible work. However small our talent, however ignorant and uncultivated we may be, yet if we are desperately in earnest, God will make us able through him to rescue and to save. I know that if you and I and all God’s workers were aroused, awake to the awful, the glorious realities of the present day and situation, in one day the world would be ablaze with the light of truth. How quickly would the work be finished and cut short in righteousness! The devil is fiercely, terribly in earnest. Men are rushing madly after mammon, after worldly, empty honor, after hollow, fleeting pleasure. They all win, draw, attract, because they are in earnest. But we who are God’s messengers, we who hold in our hands the key of this crisis of the ages, are not half awake. How long, O Lord, how long will it take to finish the work? God has wonderfully led his people during the last year. Shall there not be a new era? A new day must dawn. The world is filled with a false religion,—the religion of India, the worship of nature, the creature rather than the Creator. All the world needs to know just how and to what degree nature reveals its author. Christ in his parables drew wonderful lessons from nature. All Seventh-day Adventists ought to read again to-day that wonderful book on Christ’s parables, “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and then sell it far and near, to every one within reach. That book, with “Christian Education,” contains a message for these days. It was a gift from heaven to save and to bless our schools, to save and to bless those who sell it, and to save eternally those who read it. May the Lord revive the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons” in every conference. May he send us out quickly to seek and to save. And may the world be thrilled, electrified, quickened, as they see God’s people, now discouraged, rusting, dying of inaction, suddenly awaken to finish, to complete, and to perfect the solemn, glorious work he has given them to do. J. S. WASHBURN,
Secretary of Committee for Relief of the Schools. BROTHER C. C. WEBSTER reports three baptisms at Youngstown, Ohio, January 16. ELDER J. M. REES reports eight recent additions to the church at Du Quoin, Ill. The church school at that place now has a membership of thirty. A STEADY interest in the themes of present truth is reported at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. For some time an average of five services a week has been held there by Brother and Sister J. G. Hanna, and several persons have fully accepted the truths presented. THE new church building at Halifax, Nova Scotia, was dedicated January 10. THE church school at Boulder, Colo., now has an enrolment of about seventy pupils. BROTHER J. A. MORROW writes of a good interest among the Boers in Hamilton, Bermuda. They attend the meetings, and are giving the truth a careful study. IN a report of recent work among the Scandinavians in Chicago, Brother M. L. Anderson states that the churches on the West Side are growing in numbers and in spirituality. Three young persons were recently baptized, and others are ready to go forward in this ordinance. A school for missionary workers is conducted, which now has an attendance of twenty-four. IN a late letter Brother J. B. Beckner reports the conference recently held in Jamaica as one of the best he ever attended. Notwithstanding the storm and the poverty which followed, there has been an increase in every department of their work. During the year, one hundred and seventy-four persons had been baptized, and there had been an increase of three hundred and ninety-seven dollars in tithes and offerings. The brethren and sisters are of good courage to push the work with all their strength during 1904. BROTHER A. N. ALLEN has recently been called to leave his work in Spanish Honduras, to take up the school work in Utilla, Bay Islands. He left his field reluctantly, as the work was well started, and he was anxious to continue it. Writing of this, he says: “I believe God is answering our prayers in regard to Spanish Honduras. It is a large field, and a needy one, and indeed Spanish Honduras ‘is waiting.’ It is a hard field. Traveling is slow; the people are very timid in meeting strangers; and public services are impossible. When we return, I hope to let the people know that we have come to stay, so that there will be a place where they can always find us, or be brought in touch with us by correspondence.” Of the work in British Honduras, Brother Allen says: “The work in the English field is growing, and the calls are more than can be filled. But the English field is very small, compared with the Spanish field. Seed was sown in this field years ago, and fruit is still being reaped, and other seed is being sown. But very little has really been done for Central America. There are five republics. It will be some time before the field will be self-supporting. There is no better way to reach the homes of all classes than by our publications; and to enter in this way will not require a great outlay of means. We are in hopes of utilizing some native help here in the school at Utilla, so I shall be free to canvass. There is good territory on the coast. At one small town near by, one of our Belize brethren sold a number of Bibles a few weeks ago. He says there is an interest in the place to hear the truth. We have one brother there. We pray that the new year may be a banner year for missions.” The Object of an Education
By Milton E. Kern
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” 2 Tim. 2: 15. That which distinguishes man from the animal is that he is a spiritual being, and has an ideal. We are free moral agents, having the power of choice, and are capable of great development. Our success in life depends largely upon our ideals and our efficiency in attaining them. The purposes which we form and work toward shape the course of our lives. “One’s resolution is one’s prophecy.” The purpose and resolution that a young man or woman has in seeking an education determine largely the benefit obtained from it. A shallow purpose will result in a shallow success. Two young persons may enter school together, enjoy the same privileges and advantages, and one make a grand success, and the other a dismal failure. Opportunities that are seen and seized by the one are not observed at all by the other. The real difference between a great and a small mind is that one sees great things where the other sees small things, or perhaps nothing. Some one has aptly said, “Do not ask whether a young man has been through college, but whether the college has been through him.” “Study to show thyself approved unto God,” and not unto men. To study to please God is to sink our shaft deep into the mine of God’s eternal truth, and get what he wants us to get, and develop characters of which he can approve. Man’s ideals never change. To study to please men is to make a crooked path. To keep the eye fixed upon the Eternal, with the spirit in harmony with him, is to make a straight path for our feet to walk in. The success which you make in studying “to show thyself approved unto God” may not be regarded a success from the standpoint of the world, but “a man must have made very small progress in the true estimate of life if he has not learned that what most men regard as failure may be the most splendid success, and what they regard as enviable success may be the most abject of failures.” We should be willing to make a failure in the eyes of the world if we may but make a success in the eyes of God. Is not the life of Christ the eternal type of such failures? What, then, is the object of an education? Is your object measured in dollars and cents? Is it to obtain a “specific equipment for a limited sphere of action”? If so, your aim is too low. There are two grand objects that should enter into the purpose of every Seventh-day Adventist youth. “Study to show thyself approved unto God.” Study to obtain the harmonious development of all the faculties, seek a training of mind and heart, the development of a godlike character. “A great name among men is as letters traced in the sand; but a spotless character will endure through eternity.” Character-building, then, is22the greatest object before us, even the restoration of the image of God in the soul. That comes before the specific equipment for anything. “First of all,” said Garfield, “I must make myself a bath-man: if I do not succeed in that, I can succeed in nothing.” Character is above everything. I fear sometimes that we talk so much about getting a preparation for the work that we lose sight of this great object of an education. Young boys and girls are sometimes urged to make a hasty preparation for some specific work when they fall far short of having the qualities that would give strength and character to the work. Our youth must have breadth of mind, stability of purpose, and unswerving fidelity to God before they are prepared to take any position connected with the sacred work of God. It is sometimes thought, too, that because a student has pursued a specified course of study and passed creditable examinations, he is then surely qualified to do God’s work. But that is not necessarily true by any means. “Character before wealth” was the motto of a Boston merchant. And we might say, “Character before acquirement.” The medieval idea of education was learning. But we are coming to see, in these days, that education is training. We should not go to school to fill up with so many facts, and then go out to distribute them as we would some material thing. Our object in entering school should be for growth and development. Some men spend their lives in getting wealth, rather than growing into a noble life. It is possible for students to make the same mistake. They may spend their time in getting rather than in growing. The first grand purpose of an education, then, is the development of character. Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference. L. A. Hoops, Chairman;
Frederick Griggs, Secretary. — Wheat reached the dollar mark on the Chicago Board of Trade, February 3. — It is reported that fighting has occurred between Colombian and the San Blas Indians on Panama territory. — Forty persons were killed by the explosion of ten tons of powder in a fort in the Punjab, India, February 1. — Discoveries of rock and ore containing radium in comparatively large quantities are reported from Colorado and Utah. — The revolution in Uruguay seems to be gaining in strength, the revolutionists having advanced to a point where they now menace the capital. — The giant ocean liner “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse” came into New York harbor, February 4, two days behind her schedule time, after a voyage declared by the captain to be the roughest the boat had ever experienced. — A destructive tidal wave swept part of the coast of Brittany, France, February 2. One third of the Commune of Penmarch was inundated, many fishing boats were wrecked, and some of their occupants were drowned. An immense amount of damage was done. The people living near the shore were obliged to flee from their homes. — Mr. William C. Whitney, ex-secretary of the Navy and well-known figure in political and social circles in New York City, died at his home, February 2. — Diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia are broken off, the Japanese minister at St. Petersburg and the Russian minister at Tokyo are preparing to depart for their respective countries, and the clash of arms is the next thing expected. It is feared in London that an uprising will also occur in the Balkans, and that general war may be the result. — The possibility of a general strike in the bituminous coal fields is becoming apparent, due to the failure of a conference of miners and operators at Indianapolis, which ended February 3. Another conference may be held February 15. A prominent official of the miners’ union in Illinois is quoted as saying with reference to the possibilities involved, that “a suspension in the bituminous fields would be a national calamity, and if continued for any length of time, would in effect dwarf the anthracite strike into insignificance.” — The following interesting example of the claims put forth by “mental science healers” is reported from Jacksonville, Fla.: “In the trial of Mrs. Helen Wilman-Post, mental science healer, it was testified that the woman had represented herself as able, by her mental treatment, to do these things: get a man out of jail; make a new set of teeth grow; make a leg grow on a stump from which the lower limb had been amputated; make hair grow on bald heads; restore the affections of persons who had become estranged; transfer the affections of persons.” — The Moscow correspondent of the London Times reports that the state of affairs in the Caucasus shows no sign of improvement, and is little short of anarchy. Bandits make frequent raids on banks and railway stations, and usually succeed in carrying off plunder. The raids, instead of being made by night, as was formerly the case, are now made in broad daylight. The St. Petersburg authorities are considerably alarmed by anti-government demonstrations all over the empire made by the Russian “intelligents.” The cry “Down with the autocracy” is heard in assemblies of intelligent and educated men. — A “congress of religious education” is to be held in the city of Washington, D. C., March 1-3 next. It will be the tenth national congress of the kind held in this country. It is called by the regents of the American Society of Religious Education. It is announced that “the grand theme of the congress will be ‘The Bible and the Spiritual Life;’” also that “during the congress two commissions appointed by the regents will report. One of these, composed of prominent pastors in New York City, will present a plan by which it is hoped to unite the clergy of all Protestant churches in promoting spirituality,” also that “two features will attract much attention—an address on ‘Moral Degeneracy from the Standpoint of Medical Science,’ by Dr. Brush, a specialist in nervous diseases; and a discussion by Senators Depew and Morgan on ‘The Bible and Civil Government.’ President Roosevelt will receive the congress.” A Sabbath-School Normal Class of the Avondale School
By Hattie Andre
“It is also the Lord’s design that our schools shall give young people a training which will prepare them to teach in any department of the Sabbath-school, or to discharge the duties of any of its offices. We should see a different state of affairs, if a number of consecrated young people would devote themselves to the Sabbath-school work, taking pains to educate themselves, and then to instruct others as to the best methods to be employed in leading souls to Christ. This is a fine of work that brings returns.” Desirous of heeding this instruction from the Lord, twenty-three of the young men of the Avondale School were formed into a Sabbath-school normal class. On each Tuesday evening for half an hour before the weekly Sabbath-school teachers’ meeting, this class assembled in my recitation room in College Hall to receive instruction in methods of teaching, the art of questioning and receiving answers, class management, etc. An earnest prayer was always offered by one or more of the members for God’s special blessing upon the work. After this, the entire class went to the teachers’ meeting. Oftentimes one of the number took the Testimony study for the evening, and another the study of the lesson. Some of these students had regular Sabbath-school classes to teach. All of them were to be ready any Sabbath morning to teach any class in the senior division whose teacher was absent. The normal class being so large, it was divided into two classes in the Sabbath-school; these classes were taught by one of the members whom I appointed from week to week. On each Wednesday evening, all the teachers of the classes met in my room, where we decided upon the best method of presenting the lesson for the next Sabbath. On each Sabbath at the close of the church service, our class again met for a prayer season. These were precious meetings, and the Lord came very near to us. Besides seeking to become fitted for Sabbath-school teachers and workers, the missionary work was ever kept before us; and the members of the class engaged cheerfully and earnestly in all kinds of missionary work that could be carried on in connection with our school duties. Some of them held meetings and Sunday-schools at Awaba and Martinsville; others distributed papers; still others held home Sabbath-schools with those who could not attend the Sabbath-school at the church. They were usually the leaders in our weekly missionary meetings also. When the time came for school to close and the class to separate for the vacation, we felt that it would be profitable for us to keep in touch with one another. Some went to their homes to assist their parents, quite a number went to canvass, and some remained at the school. We decided to have those away from the school write to me at the close of each month, sending a report of the work accomplished and of their most interesting experiences. From these letters I was to cull such paragraphs as would be especially helpful to all the members of the class, forming from these a general letter which I was to send to each member. HATTIE ANDRE. BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references. FOR SALE.—Twenty-five acres, 40 rods from S. D. A. church. Six months church school now in progress. Address J. M. Weese, Fellsburg, Kan. WANTED.—An experienced tailor, first-class coatmaker, would like situation under a Seventh-day Adventist boss tailor, where he can keep the Sabbath. Address Oscar Hier, 96 Piedmont St., Worcester, Mass. WANTED.—A good linotype operator, who is a Sabbath-keeper, is needed in the Nashville printing office. Address, giving full particulars as to experience, etc., Southern Publishing Association, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—House and lot in Battle Creek, Mich., for property preferably in S. Michigan, Ind., or Ill.; 6-room house, with closets, good cellar, S. kitchen, weaving room, cistern, city water, gas. Address Mrs. L. W. Crandall, Farina, Ill. WANTED.—The undersigned each desire to employ a good, competent girl to do housework; Sabbath-keeper preferred. Steady employment and good wages. Address F. J. Coon, 612 W. Jefferson St., or A. S. Coon, 803 W. Jefferson St., Kirksville, Mo. WANTED.—S. D. A. sister past middle age wishes home in family of some ability, where she can do canvassing or colporteur work as strength permits. Can furnish room, and help about work. South preferred. Address Mrs. M. E. McKee, 33 French Broad, Asheville, N. C. WANTED.—Sabbath-keeper to work in nursery, by month or year. Married man with experience preferred. Fine house and good wages. Church and church school privileges. Address, with reference, giving age, weight, and experience, C. Pelmulder, Nurseryman, Grant City, Iowa. STOCK AND FRUIT FARM FOR SALE CHEAP.—I will sell 200 acres of my farm, with all improvements, including 1,500 best varieties of peach, apple, pear, and cherry trees. This is a part of the farm where C. G. Howell is establishing an industrial school. Located in Warren Co., Tenn.; healthful climate; good water; abundance of fuel. Price, $15 an acre. Improvements and timber are worth all I ask for the place. My object in selling is to help establish a school in Central America. Address B. Auten, Earleyville, Tenn. “SAVE THE BOYS.”—This is a twenty-four-page, anti-tobacco tract, envelope size, at $1 per 100, postpaid. Should be scattered everywhere. Will give 100 of these for 20 subscriptions to the journal Save the Boys; 50 for 10 subscriptions, 25 for 5. Sister Plummer said of this journal that it “should be circulated wherever there are boys,—and that is everywhere.” Only 20 cents a year. Address Save the Boys, 118 W. Minnehaha Boul., Minneapolis, Minn. “A TWOFOLD APOSTASY:” I have been told that this tract has never been half appreciated, but out of 50,000 only about 2,000 remain. Sent free, for 20 cts. per 100, for postage and wrapping. This is your opportunity. ELDER LEE S. WHEELER, chaplain of the New England Sanitarium, Melrose, Mass., who purchased over a year ago one of the large stereopticon outfits sold by the Southern Missionary Society, Nashville, Tenn., writes as follows: “Your stereopticon has proved a valuable help to me in presenting the great truths of prophecy. It gives satisfaction, and I expect to use it in illustrating the truth here in the sanitarium.” Elder W. C. White, who also is using one of these outfits in his work in California, writes: “I have used the large stereopticon which you sent me long enough to be able to report on its work. At first I was fearful that it would not work well for me, because I have little mechanical tact. But after two experimental efforts, I found that it was easily managed, and it does excellent work. I should have had an outfit long ago, if I had known they are so easily operated.” Price of complete outfit, $25. Slides, beautifully colored, $6 per dozen. There is at the present time a splendid opening for a young man who has good ability as a shorthand writer, to take a position where advancement will be rapid, and the position permanent. Must be a writer of the Graham system, an operator of the Remington, and have a desire to continue in that line of work indefinitely, with the idea of becoming a first-class reporter, and not merely of taking up shorthand for a time as a stepping-stone. Only the applications of young men who can give satisfactory evidence that they desire to engage permanently in shorthand work, and whose educational advantages give reasonable prospect of their becoming thoroughly competent as reporters, will be favorably considered. Accompanying the application should be a statement regarding the length of time the applicant has written shorthand. Address Elder A. G. Daniells, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C. The Southwestern Union Conference
By N. P. Nelson
THE first session of the Southwestern Union Conference since the reorganization at Topeka, Kan., will convene at Keene, Tex., February 24 to March 2, 1904. The brethren and sisters in Texas have not had the opportunity of attending one of our large meetings for years, and very much desired that the meetings be held as near them as possible. For this reason the meeting is to be held at Keene. All delegates will be entertained free of charge, and visitors at as low charges as possible. The railroad connections are fairly good. A branch road of the M. K. & T. runs between the main line at Egan and the Santa Fe at Cleburne. The importance of this meeting is emphasized by the fact that we have never had the opportunity of coming together and thoroughly organizing our work and outlining our policy. As many of the laborers in this union conference as can be present, should do so; for bringing the workers in various conferences together enables them to become acquainted, and to see eye to eye in all the important matters which will come up for consideration; and when they return to their respective fields of labor, they will put new life and impetus into the work. It will not only be a business meeting, but will also be a meeting of spiritual benefit to all who may attend. Elders A. G. Daniels and S. N. Haskell have already promised to be with us, and others are expected. It will be necessary for those who come to bring bedding, as the nights may be quite cold. Southern Kansas, Notice !
By C. McReynolds
ELDER G. I. BUTLER will hold general meetings in Kansas at the following places and dates: Oswego, February 12-16; Altoona, February 18-22; Moline, February 23-26; and Wellington, February 26-29. At the first place we hope to meet our people from Galena, Columbus, Pittsburg, Fort Scott, Mineral, Parsons, Cherryvale, and scattered ones in all that part of the State. At Altoona we expect to meet the churches of Iola, Humboldt, Chanute, Thayer, Buffalo, Independence, and all in reach of there. At Moline we will meet the churches of Eureka, Severy, Howard, Elk City, Lowe, Jonesburg, and Grand Summit. At Wellington we wish to meet our people from Winfield, Portland, Argonia, Danville, Wichita, Udall, and other points. Come, brethren, this is a rare opportunity to meet this aged pilgrim in the work. He was for years president of the General Conference, and though now far advanced in years, he has his former energy and zeal, and it will be a great blessing to all of you to come to these meetings. Elder R. W. Parmele will be with him in the first meetings, and I in some of the later ones. C. McREYNOLDS,
Conference President. Absent Members, Attention!
THE absent members of the Fremont, Neb., Seventh-day Adventist church are requested to report before the next quarterly meeting, at which time the names of those whose whereabouts are unknown will be dropped from the church records. Address A. R. Martin, Church Clerk, Fremont, Neb. Burdick.—Died in Emporia, Kan., Jan. 25, 1904, Sara Norine, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burdick. She had an attack of measles, followed by croup. Brother John Moore conducted funeral services, with many comforting words.
MRS. C. E. BURDICK. Bowes.—Died at her home, near Fulda, Minn., Jan. 27, 1904, of heart failure, Mrs. Augusta Bowes, wife of W. H. Bowes, aged 45 years, 8 months, and 26 days. She had loved and obeyed the message since 1889. She fell asleep in full hope of eternal life. A husband, six children, and other relatives are left lonely and yet hopeful. Comfort was ministered by the writer, from Ps. 30:5, last clause.
W. W. STEBBINS. Elliott.—Died at Mechanicsburg, Ind., Jan. 26, 1904, John R. Elliott, aged 60 years, 11 months, and 4 days. Brother Elliott accepted the truth in the early days of the third angel’s message in Indiana. Of the eight children born to him, two with their mother, yet survive. The esteem in which he was held in his neighborhood was manifested by the large number attending the funeral. Words of counsel were spoken by the writer.
W. A. YOUNG. Oakes.—Died in Spokane, Wash., Nov. 29, 1903, of heart trouble, Mrs. Olive B. Oakes. She was born Oct. 2, 1831, at Munson, Me. At an early age she was converted and united with the M. E. Church. Shortly after this she accepted present truth. With her family, she moved from Maine to California in 1870, and ten years later to northeastern Washington. She leaves, to mourn their loss, three sons and one daughter, fourteen grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Words of comfort were spoken from Ps. 116:15.
WILLARD H. SAXBY. Landis.—Died at the home of his parents in Alverton, Pa., Jan. 6, 1904, of tuberculosis, William F. Landis, in his twenty-ninth year. Brother Landis accepted the message of present truth about five years ago, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Pittsburg, Pa., of which he remained a faithful, consistent member until his death. His earnest love for the truth, and his desire to impart to others the same blessings he himself had received, led him to enter the field as a canvassing evangelist, in which he proved a valuable and efficient worker. He leaves a wife and two children, besides both his parents and several brothers, to mourn their loss. The funeral services were conducted by Elder C. S. Longacre, assisted by the local Methodist and Evangelical ministers, in the Methodist church at Alverton. Beside his sister, who died several months previously of the same disease, he was laid to rest until the resurrection morning.
F. E. PAINTER. Ministers Securing Review Subscriptions
By Editor
ONE of our busiest ministers, a president of one of the union conferences and officially connected with several of our institutions writes: “I took twelve subscriptions for the REVIEW AND HERALD a few days ago, which the church clerk will forward you very soon.” In this same letter he enclosed another yearly subscription. If all our ministers took the same interest in securing subscriptions for the REVIEW, as they visit from family to family and from church to church, the circulation would be increased by thousands of copies, and our people would be benefited accordingly. Are there not other ministers who will go and do likewise?