Earlier text: Some Facts About MeatYielding to God’s Providence
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention, that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice, to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us, to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.—Fenelon. Ontario
By Ellen I. Burrill
AFTER finishing the year’s school work in the academy at Stuart, Iowa, I returned for a short visit with my people in Ontario. Because of the interest manifested by the Indians in the meetings held by Elder Thurston and my father it was impossible for the latter to be at home. Accordingly mother, sister, and I spent nearly a week on the Iroquois Reservation near Hagersville, Ontario. About ten years ago a large number of Indians embraced the truth, and two churches were organized. Because of the apostasy of one of the elders they were in great need of help. So much interest is shown that Elder Thurston is still continuing the work. Several of those who have wandered away from God have returned to him. On Sunday seven youth were baptized. On our departure four Indian youth accompanied us to Lorne Park to attend the academy there. The summer school has just opened with a good attendance. The buildings are small and they are crowded, but the teachers are doing good work. They hope to put up more buildings soon. The spirit of spreading the message pervades the school. Two are earning their expenses by canvassing, and eleven others divide the day between work and study and thus pay their way. The farm is in good condition, and the prospects bright for the year. During our stay there a committee met to form a Dominion Religious Liberty Association. Mayor Fallinsbee of Strathroy was elected president. The Sunday bill is still in the hands of the House committee. Progress in West Australia
By O. A. OLSEN
The West Australian camp-meeting and conference was held at Woodbridge, about twelve miles by railway east of Perth. They had a very favorable location. It was a grassy paddock, although we did not see much grass for that time of the year. Things were rather dry. Brother Finster had done his best in working up an interest, and inviting attendance at the meeting, by visiting various places, and also sending out letters to the churches and companies and isolated Sabbath-keepers, making mention of the camp-meeting, and urging their attendance. The result was that we had the largest attendance, in proportion to the membership, that we had at any of the camp-meetings here this season. There were seventy tents pitched, and on Sabbath morning, in the Sabbath-school there were two hundred and seventy persons present, while more came in for the service. The whole membership is only a little over three hundred. The ground was convenient to the station, so it was very accessible both for our own people and the community about. The Guildford district, in which the meeting was held, is a nice community, and contains a good class of people. On both Sunday afternoon and evening our tent was comfortably filled, and others could not find seating accommodation, and the best of attention was given to the word spoken. The laborers attending this meeting, besides their own, were Brethren Hennig and Johanson, Sister Graham, and myself. The meeting passed off harmoniously, and it was felt to be a very profitable occasion. All the different lines of work received attention, and there was a very good and hearty response. The conference is coming up financially, also. The treasury has a fair surplus, and they are in a position to slightly increase the number of their laborers. The health work received considerable attention. Dr. Kress was invited to speak in one of the largest halls in the city, where he had a good, enthusiastic attendance; and the papers took up the matter, giving large portions of his address, with many comments favorable to us. There is an excellent opportunity to open a café in Perth, but the difficulty there, as in many other places, is the lack of efficient help to conduct it. At the close of the camp-meeting proper, in company with Brother Finster, I spent several days visiting other places, in order to become better acquainted with the country, the situation of our own people, and the nature and characteristics of the work in that field. We visited six other places outside of Perth. One interesting feature was finding so many of our brethren going to the country. A number of those who formerly lived in the city of Perth have moved out into the country, to a place called Osborn Park, where they have taken up several acres each, and where there is an excellent opportunity for gardening. I spent one night in this place, and had a very interesting meeting. The next day we took the train farther eastward, to Wooroloo. This is only a small country station. A brother met us, and took us about two or three miles into the country, where there are a few Sabbath-keepers, and others are interested. The prospect is that a nice little company of believers will soon be established there. These, also, are farmers and fruit growers. The next day we went on to Norwood. A tent-meeting was held here some time ago. We visited a few friends in the village, after which Brother Smith came in from the country, and took us to his place, seven miles out. His wife and daughter attended the camp-meeting, and were baptized, having recently accepted the truth. In the evening they invited in a number of their friends and neighbors, and we had a very pleasant meeting. On Sabbath morning this brother and his family took us fourteen miles by wagon to a place called Wongamine. Here we had a meeting in the farmhouse, at the home of John Smith, a brother to the one who took us there. More Sabbath-keepers live in this community. Here we had our Sabbath-school, and services forenoon and evening, also on Sunday forenoon and afternoon. It reminded me of the old times in Wisconsin, when we could get together in our large log cabins, for Sabbath services. All the time was occupied in meetings and study, except when the room and table were needed for serving the meals. I had considerable prejudice against West Australia, from the reports I had heard, as it had been presented as a sort of sandy waste; but my mind was considerably changed by what I saw and learned. I have not seen the farms looking so well anywhere, except in New Zealand. I found, too, that the government is very favorable to people's going on the land. Government land can be bought for ten shillings an acre; or by paying six pence an acre yearly, the land will belong to the individual in twenty years. This affords an excellent opportunity for people to go on the land. The government will also give any bona fide settler one hundred and sixty acres free, and after five years' residence and improvement, a freehold deed. These are better offers than any other Australian state is holding out at the present time. We also visited a place called Heidelberg, which is out in the hills about twenty-five miles from Perth. Here a number of brethren have located, and are developing beautiful farms. I saw among the brethren here some17of the best fruit I have ever seen anywhere in the world, and they have excellent opportunity for marketing. Here, too, they showed me a site for a church which they are preparing to build. At this place the price of land is a little higher, although the first ones to locate here got theirs for ten shillings an acre. We also had a good meeting here. Some people who had never attended before came in, and listened attentively. This little trip around in the country was a matter of great interest and pleasure to me, and gave me a much better idea of the general situation than I could have had by only remaining in the city. Our last meeting was at Freemantle, the night before we took the boat. Here our brethren are just finishing a neat little church. One of our sisters gave them a small lot upon which to build, and they have taken hold, and have put up a nice little stone and brick structure. The outlook for the work in West Australia is just as favorable as in any other part of the Australian Conference, and more favorable than in some parts. Blessings That Have Followed the Earthquake
By E. R. Palmer
WHILE nearly all papers and magazines are publishing details of the great catastrophe which has recently visited the Pacific Coast, it may be well for us to recount briefly a few of the very precious blessings which the good Lord has showered upon us just at this time when blessings were very much needed to quiet overwrought nerves and re-establish the good cheer and hope of those who have suffered. God’s dealing with his children is wonderfully planned and executed; and in such a time as this it is indeed comforting and reassuring to know that God so times the giving of his most precious blessings that they shall come immediately following the severest chastisements. Please note the following points and enter with us into the enjoyment of them:— 1. Although the walls of the Pacific Press building were thrown down, still the machines, with the exception of the linotypes, were uninjured, so that the office was running as usual in a few hours after the earthquake. 2. While there was a great loss in property by this destruction, the Lord moved upon the hearts of his people to give liberally for the relief of the Pacific Press. Thus the damage will be fully repaired, and both the Pacific Press and our people will be made better from the experience. In receiving the gifts, the Pacific Press will learn anew the strength and liberality of the supporters of this cause, and in giving, the hearts of the people will be enlarged and made stronger. 3. During the three weeks following the earthquake, the Signs of the Times has had a greater circulation than during six months under normal conditions. What a wonderful blessing this is to the world, to the workers, and to the Pacific Press. 4. Orders are coming in, yes, they are literally piling up, for the souvenir booklet which shows views of the earthquake, and for the tract which tells the meaning of these things. It is wonderful how an incident like this can arouse the people everywhere to service. This is another evidence that God has abundant resources within his power for setting in motion, the mighty forces which will close his work in righteousness. 5. Whereas in the past our people have worked hard to sell the Signs and other literature, this experience has turned the tables about so that the people call after our agents, and are greatly pleased that an opportunity is thus given them to buy the truth; and whereas our agents have often found it difficult to make a living from the sale of papers, they are now finding that they earn more from selling the Signs than from working at a trade. 6. The earthquake smashed nearly all the vases and breakable decorations in the homes of the people, and the Lord has enabled many of the sufferers to transfer their affections from such things to that which is more stable and enduring. This also, while it seemed a temporary grievance and annoyance, has really been a blessing. 7. Many who before were only half-hearted in the service of God have learned the infinite value of walking with God from day to day so as to be prepared for whatever may come. Naturally an earthquake of this kind stirs up the good, sets it working, and helps the people to take a bold stand against sin and to put it away. In thousands of homes in this stricken district the Lord’s name is honored and his will obeyed more than ever in the past. It seems good indeed to see the activity of the Pacific Press since the earthquake. The circulation of the Signs of the Times has gone beyond all past records. In fact the orders have come in so rapidly that it has been impossible to handle them on time. The hands have been working almost night and day, and yet several times they have told me that they had not had time to count up the orders for the Signs for two days. While I am dictating these words there are fully a score of our sisters sitting at large tables in the halls of the Pacific Press building folding the Signs of the Times. This morning the manager of the circulating department reported that the orders had gained on them until there were more than fifty thousand orders ahead of what they had been able to fill, and so an invitation was sent out to many of our sisters in the neighborhood to come in during the afternoon and help. Therefore if our good people who are doing such splendid work all through the United States should not receive their papers or their souvenir booklets, or their tracts, promptly, they will be able to excuse the workers in the Pacific Press in view of the splendid effort they are putting forth. But in behalf of the sacred interests of this, the greatest opportunity ever brought to our doors for spreading the truth, we appeal to our people not to stop work because their supplies are delayed for a few days or from fear that they will not be received. The Pacific Press is turning away every item of commercial work that would interfere with this movement, and with God’s blessing they will be able to meet the needs of the hour and supply our people with material for their work. The papers are still selling wonderfully and orders are being received for many thousands of copies of the souvenir booklet and the special tract. Watch the advertisements which appear in our papers from week to week and with all the energy and consecration which God has given you, join with us in the work. E. R. PALMER,
Sec. Gen. Conf. Pub. Dept. Dedication of Loma Linda (Cal.) Sanitarium
By J. A. Burden
THE Loma Linda Sanitarium, acknowledged by all who have visited it to be the most beautifully located of all the sanitariums conducted by this denomination, was formally dedicated on the fifteenth day of April. The exercises though somewhat brief and simple in character were such as to give a good idea of the principles, power, and objects of this great sanitarium movement. The institution is located in the renowned San Bernardino Valley near Redlands. It is said to be one of the grandest view-points of southern California. It certainly is ideal in location for a work of its character, and the climate is everything one could ask for. Upon this particular day everything seemed to be at its best. Over six hundred people assembled to inspect the buildings, partake of the hygienic lunch, and enjoy the exercises. The institution consists of one hundred and ten acres of productive land, lying along the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway—the grand Sunset Route, from Los Angeles to New Orleans and Chicago. In the midst of this beautiful tract of land, only about thirty-five rods from the railroad station of the same name, stands Loma Linda, the Spanish words for “Hill Beautiful.” Loma Linda is an imposing elevation about two hundred feet above the surrounding valley, on which stands the sanitarium building and a number of beautiful cottages, amid extensive lawns, shaded walks, and graded driveways. On the green lawns under the spreading pepper-wood trees just back of the sanitarium building a speakers’ stand, commodious seats, and a lunch-counter had been improvised for the exercises of the day. The people from the surrounding valley, Redlands, San Bernardino, Colton, and Riverside began to assemble early in the day. At ten o’clock a passenger-train from Los Angeles arrived, and poured out on the campus almost its entire train load, thus swelling the number of visitors to more than six hundred. When all had inspected the buildings and grounds and were seated in the grove, the sanitarium nurses served the entire company with a hygienic luncheon. Lunch being over the assembly was called to order by an address of welcome, setting forth in brief the reasons why sanitariums are dedicated. The chairman, Elder W. C. White, spoke of the nature of sanitarium work and of the far-reaching influence of such an institution as manifest in the cosmopolitan character of its workers and patrons, mentioning that the climatic conditions of this institution would tend to give it even a wider influence than many others. He referred to the criticism, that persons who visit institutions of this character are liable to get the sanitarium habit.18But he ventured to say that those who visit this institution would be in danger of getting the Loma Linda habit so badly that it would be difficult to keep them away. Prof. G. W. Rine spoke on the rise and progress of the Sanitarium Idea, showing that it stood for entire wholeness, physical, mental, and spiritual; that in an incredibly short space of time its influence had extended until it now encircled the earth, having representative institutions in almost every country; and that the small seed planted in Battle Creek less than fifty years ago had multiplied, until to-day there were nearly a hundred institutions, representing these ideas. Elder R. S. Owen spoke of the sanitarium work as representing the entire gospel, dwelling especially upon results of sin in its effects on the entire man, and showing how the gospel undertakes his complete regeneration, physical, mental, and spiritual, as illustrated in the work of Christ who went about healing the people of their physical maladies and freeing them from their spiritual bondage. Mrs. Ellen G. White then spoke on her favorite theme, the “Ministry of Healing;” dwelling especially upon the healing power of God that comes through contact with nature, showing how admirably Loma Linda Sanitarium is situated for a work of this kind. Here the sick may lie under the inviting shade of the beautiful trees listening to the songs of the birds, admiring the beautiful flowers, the beautiful scenery of the everlasting hills. Or, if strong, he can walk out into the fields and groves or work among the flowers. As she closed her remarks, all bowed while Elder S. N. Haskell offered a fervent and impressive prayer, dedicating the Loma Linda Sanitarium grounds to its mission of mercy to suffering humanity. As the company dispersed, you could hear remarked everywhere, “The beauty and charm of this place can never be described. It must be seen to be appreciated.” The Lake Union Conference
At the recent session of the Lake Union Conference held at Berrien Springs, Mich., May 8-18, the presidents of the conferences in the territory of the union conference presented reports of the work in their several fields. We present herewith brief summaries of these reports:— Elder H. H. Burkholder, the president, stated that the Ohio Conference was organized forty-three years ago, and was represented at the organization of the General Conference, at Battle Creek, Mich., May 20-23, 1863. The conference shows a gain in tithes and donations over the previous term of two years; and one noticeable feature in the report was that on the cash basis of conducting the book department, they have a present worth of $2,992.97 against a debt of a few years ago of over $4,000. Elder Wm. Covert, the president of the Northern Illinois Conference, gave a very encouraging report, especially of the work in Chicago and the unexpected financial support they are receiving, one person giving one hundred dollars, another five hundred dollars to help the work; also that a press had been bought, and some of the former hands of the old Review and Herald are printing gratis thousands of copies of Elder Luther Warren's addresses for circulation. The Moline Sanitarium was reported as full to overflowing, and a high regard was manifested for it by the public. Elder W. D. Parkhurst, the president of the Southern Illinois Conference, gave an interesting report of that conference which was organized in the fall of 1902, giving a statistical table of all important points. The tithes and donations show a marked increase over the previous term. Elder A. G. Haughey, the president, gave the report for the West Michigan Conference. He stated that there were five thousand Sabbath-keepers in that conference, with seventy-seven organized churches and twelve companies. The total earnings of the medical department for two years were four thousand five hundred dollars, and the total donations from the Sabbath-schools were $5,156.87; total tithes paid, $65,883.67. Elder E. K. Slade reported as president of the East Michigan Conference. He gave a very encouraging statement of the present situation in that conference over what it was two years ago, when they had not enough funds to pay their laborers, and were in arrears in their tithe to the Lake Union Conference. Now from month to month there is a gradual increase. Their receipts of tithe for the past two years were $33,408.77. Elder S. E. Wight, the president, spoke for the North Michigan Conference, reporting their added territory, members, and churches by annexing the Superior Mission Field since the second biennial session, and that all were pleased with the union of the two fields. Their total membership is now eight hundred and seventy. The gain in the tract society was $1,004.05. The book sales by canvassers amounted to $8,586.14. The prosperity of other days seemed to be returning to all of the conferences. Elder W. J. Stone read a report of the work in the Indiana Conference, which shows a healthy gain in finances since 1903, of four thousand dollars in tithe for 1905, and in donations for conference work in a greater degree, so that a large debt on the conference has been reduced about fifteen thousand dollars, and a net increased value of real and personal property of four thousand, thus improving their financial condition nineteen thousand dollars. They have paid one thousand dollars on Indiana's proportion of the Lake Union Conference's share of the General Conference Association's debt, and expect to cancel the remaining thirty-five hundred dollars the present year. Elder C. McReynolds gave the report for the Wisconsin Conference. He stated that that conference was organized thirty-eight years ago, and now has ninety-six churches, and a membership of over three thousand. The tithe for the two years was $49,009; the per capita for the last year being $9.01. A year and a half ago but fourteen hundred dollars of the six thousand dollars pro rata of Wisconsin on the General Conference Association debt had been raised, while at this time all but fourteen hundred dollars has been paid. The conference association is free from debt, and the surplus of tithe after their last audit was fifteen hundred dollars. They are paying fifty dollars a week for the support of workers in other lands, and the sun never sets on Wisconsin's laborers. Elder W. D. Curtis, the educational secretary, gave a carefully prepared report of the school work of the Lake Union Conference, in college, academy, intermediate, and primary, or church-school grades. There are in this union two colleges, five academies, one intermediate, and ninety-three church-schools. J. B. Blosser, the field secretary of the Lake Union, gave a report of his work for four years. For the last biennial term twenty-nine canvassers on an average were at work in 1904, for a total of 11,189 hours, making sales to the amount of $17,448.60, at an average of $1.55 an hour; and in 1905, thirty-one canvassers reported, putting in 11,427 hours and selling $13,464.40 worth of books, on an average of $1.17 an hour. The work represented many thousands of homes visited, and hundreds of books on the message placed in the hands of the people. An encouraging feature for the future of the book work is that in our schools there are many young people who have had a training in the canvassing work in vacations, who will soon be free to give all of their time to this important department of the Lord's work. The report of the treasurer, W. H. Edwards, showed that the total receipts for the biennial term had been $58,345.58, and that the disbursements had aggregated $55,686.84. Among the recommendations adopted at this session of the conference are the following:— Whereas, Our union conference has so large a constituency when compared with other conferences, we should do everything possible to develop work for more destitute fields; and,— Whereas, In all parts of the field there is urgent need of strong, well-trained leaders for the canvassing work, therefore we urgently,— Recommend that our conference give especial attention to this matter: - By providing classes in our schools for the study of our large books in order that students may be better prepared to go out during vacation to engage in this work, thus enlisting a very desirable class of young people.
- By encouraging young men who have capabilities to consecrate themselves to this work, with the definite object in view of remaining in it.
- By placing the wages of field secretaries at a rate commensurate with their services, and the extra expense that their traveling entails upon them.
- By holding at least one institute each year where all, both old and new canvassers, may gain a better fitting for work; and as far as advisable, pay the railroad fare and arrange for their board during the institute. We would,—
Recommend the following dates for such institutes in order that the Union Conference Field Secretary may be present, and unnecessary expense in his railroad fare be avoided:— Northern Illinois, January 10-23; Southern Illinois, January 24 to February 6; Indiana, February 7-20; Ohio, February 21 to March 6; East Michigan,19March 7-20; West Michigan, March 21 to April 3; Wisconsin, April 4-17; North Michigan, April 18 to May 1. That in church and conference the old-time spirit of the tract and missionary work be revived; and to this end we further— Recommend that the missionary secretaries be provided with competent help, so that it will be possible for them to devote some of their time in visiting churches and companies, to encourage and organize them for work. That the educational department of the Lake Union Conference prepare annually a program to be carried out in all our churches, setting forth the principles of Christian education, the date to be designated by the Lake Union Conference Committee. That all our workers, in co-operation with the missionary secretaries, encourage suitable persons to canvass for our papers, pamphlets, and forty-per-cent books. That immediate steps be taken to connect sanitarium work with the other lines now in operation at Emmanuel Missionary College. That a thorough follow-up work be done by securing at our conference offices a list of the names and addresses of those to whom our large subscription books have been sold, and then enlisting the co-operation of our brethren and sisters in taking up correspondence with these persons, and where an interest has been awakened, following it up with other literature; and that all our churches be urged to take clubs of the Signs, the Watchman, and Life and Health, to be used with the correspondence follow-up work. That one thousand dollars annually be paid in quarterly payments from the surplus funds of the Lake Union Conference, for the next biennial period, to the Northern Union Conference, to aid in carrying on its work in the Northwest Territory. That we express to the managers of the Pacific Press Publishing Company our deep sympathy in their experience, and pray that God will enable us all to learn the lesson that he designs we should by it; and further,— That all our conferences earnestly co-operate with the efforts being put forth by the Pacific Press Publishing Company to place the Earthquake Number of the Signs of the Times in thousands of homes. That we heartily endorse the plan of taking up a donation on May 19, for the benefit of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, and request all workers in the Lake Union Conference to lend their influence in securing a liberal offering in its behalf. That the holding of Sabbath-school conventions in the various conferences be encouraged, embodying the various lines of missionary work, and that conference officers and laborers assist in these important gatherings, not only in counsel, but in providing talented help, that they may be made a strong educational factor in the important work of the Sabbath-school, and assist materially in building up the work of the gospel. That we endorse the plan recommended by the Sabbath-school department of the General Conference, of setting apart the collections of one or more Sabbaths in the quarter for the purchase of supplies, the remaining contributions to be given to missions; and we hereby urge the adoption of this plan by the local schools. That we give the Sabbath School Worker our hearty support. That our young people, in their society meetings, follow the mission studies outlined in the Instructor, and that studies on the doctrinal points of our faith be given with the same. That we favor the proposition of the Foreign Mission Board of giving the young people the responsibility of supporting the mission work of Barotseland or other mission field; and further, we urge our superintendents to take this matter under advisement as early as possible; all such funds to be sent through the regular channels. That the Lake Union Conference appropriate one hundred dollars quarterly for the next biennial period, toward the carrying forward of missionary work among the immigrants in New York harbor. That the plan of the General Conference to raise a considerable sum of money for the work in the South, and a further sum for the completion of necessary buildings for the work in Washington be commended, and that the support of the Lake Union Conference be given to the efforts of the General Conference brethren in this matter. That each local conference be counseled to take immediate steps to warn faithfully its largest cities, and that strong conferences be urged to share their laborers and tithe funds with these conferences which have great needy fields and a small corps of laborers. That all our members in the Lake Union Conference be urged to take up the work of selling “Ministry of Healing,” ordering the same through the usual channels, the profits of such sales to be handled by each local conference. That the surplus funds in the Lake Union Conference Treasury, for 1905, be donated to the Foreign Mission Board. That each local conference elect a medical secretary, or similar officer, in conferences where the medical work is not provided for, to look after the medical missionary work in their respective conferences. That the duty of these secretaries shall be:—- To give our people instruction in the principles of healthful living and of home treatments.
- To bring about a harmonious action of all medical missionary workers in the conferences.
That these medical secretaries be recognized as conference laborers, and receive a salary commensurate with their labors. That the Lake Union Conference be organized, and all local conferences be urged to thoroughly organize for service, with the definite aim of bringing to every inhabitant of this Lake Union the true meaning of religious liberty, and the sure destruction coming on those who knowingly refuse to heed the warning of Rev. 14: 9-11. That our local conferences be urged to relieve the superintendents of education as far as practicable, from all duties which will interfere with the definite work of the education and training of our children and youth. That persons of proper devotion, age, and intellect be encouraged to enter the Bible work. That this conference approve of the recommendation of the General Conference of 1905, concerning the constituency of the Seventh-day Adventist Central Educational Association, and that we ask the trustees to amend the Articles of Incorporation in harmony therewith; the details to be worked out by the college board and the Lake Union Conference Executive Committee. That the Lake Union Conference assist in the establishment of an eight-page semimonthly paper for the Swedes in this country and Canada, to meet the wants in these fields, as do the Union Conference papers in their respective fields; and that the Lake Union Conference help to make up the deficit by paying one third of the same. That the executive committee be authorized to appropriate two hundred dollars from the available funds of the current year to assist in placing the Christian Record in the hands of the worthy poor blind in the Lake Union Conference. That each conference composing the Lake Union Conference put forth an effort to place the paper in the asylums, schools, and homes of the blind throughout the Lake Union. The following officers were elected: President, Allen Moon; Vice-President, Wm. Covert; Recording Secretary and Treasurer, W. H. Edwards; Field Secretary, Book Dept., J. B. Blosser; Medical Secretary, Dr. S. P. S. Edwards; Educational Secretary, W. D. Curtis; Religious Liberty Secretary, J. G. Lamson; Auditor, W. H. Edwards. Lake Union Conference Committee: Allen Moon, W. H. Edwards, the presidents of Ohio, Indiana, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Wisconsin, North Michigan, West Michigan, East Michigan, N. W. Kauble, S. M. Butler, J. B. Blosser, J. G. Lamson, S. P. S. Edwards. FOUR persons received baptism at Olin, Iowa, May 19, afterward joining the Olin church. A REPORT from Lorimor, Iowa, mentions the addition of ten to the membership of the church there. A REPORT from southern California states that it is planned to hold a tent-meeting at San Luis Obispo this summer. ELDER S. S. SHROCK baptized six persons at Oshkosh, Wis., on a recent Sabbath. Four of these joined the Oshkosh church. THE recent proclamation of the truth in Gladstone, Manitoba, has resulted in bringing twelve persons to obey it there. A Sabbath-school of nineteen members has been organized. A NEW church building was dedicated at Artesian, S. D., during the time of a special meeting held May 10-13. A church was recently organized at that place with twenty-one adult members, some others who were ready to join not being able to be present.20 STATISTICS show that about one half of those who have accepted the truth have done so as the result of reading our literature. How timely the instruction, “Where there is one canvasser in the field, there should be one hundred.”—Welcome Visitor. IN a report from Kansas, Elder J. W. Lair states that a new church building is complete and ready for dedication at Independence, Kan. A church of eight members was recently organized at Mineral, four others being prevented from joining by sickness. A church building is being planned for at this place. Four persons were added to the Hepler church at the time of the last quarterly meeting. Two persons were baptized and received into the church at Elsmore. ELDER ANDREW NELSON reports the following plan of work to be followed in the Oklahoma Conference this summer: A. E. Field, C. M. Hayhurst, and Luna Stevens to hold a tent-meeting at Pawnee. J. R. Bagby, David Voth, and wife, and Anna Olsen to conduct a tent effort at Clinton. U. B. Dake, Isaac Baker, and wife, and Mary Baxter hold a tent-meeting at Cordell. E. L. Maxwell, J. B. Hampton, and Nellie Sturgeon take a tent to Capitol Hill. T. J. Hickman, Ray Hickman, and Faye Waters to hold a meeting somewhere in Indian Territory. D. F. Sturgeon, W. E. Baxter, and J. M. Fittro to conduct a series of meetings at Cherokee. William Braley and Ezra Fillman and wife to hold a tent-meeting at Wynoka. C. Sorenson, Alpha Waters, W. F. Talburt, and Claude McDonald to conduct a tent effort at South McAlester. AMONG plans for the season in Wisconsin, announced by Elder C. McReynolds, we note the following: Elder Locken will begin a meeting in Rhinelander at once. Elder Swinson is called to assist him. A tent-meeting will be held not far from Cadott by Brother L. L. French and Byron Post. A German tent will probably be pitched at Peshtigo, and manned by Elder Herrmann and Brother J. Kloss. Elder W. W. Stebbins and Elder L. E. Sufficool, assisted by Walter Straw, will hold a tent-meeting in La Crosse. Sisters Anna and Bessie Sufficool, four lady canvassers, and perhaps some additional workers, will assist in the work among the English. Elder H. R. Johnson and K. Rasmussen will work for the Scandinavian people. Brother Rasmussen will canvass for “Prophecies of Jesus” and assist in the night meetings. Elder H. W. Reed and C. D. AcMoody, assisted by Elder C. W. Olds, Brethren S. T. Shadel, and W. J. Pflugradt, and a company of young people who are being developed for the work, will conduct a tent-meeting in Milwaukee. Some of our teachers will assist in this work. Elder L. H. Christian, assisted by Brother Grundset and a Danish Bible worker, will hold a tent-meeting in Milwaukee, and also a Danish camp-meeting the last part of June and first two days of July. Work will continue in Oshkosh, and Elder Gellert will make a special effort for the German work in Milwaukee. UNDER date of May 22, the president of one of our local conferences writes as follows:— “At the last meeting of our conference committee, we voted to send the Liberty magazine to the governor, and to the legislators, judges, attorneys, and county superintendents here in our conference.” This is certainly a good example, and we trust all other State and local conference committees will decide to do likewise. The communication referred to says further: “We are planning to have a man appointed in our union conference to give his time to this line of work. We are much interested in this phase of the message.” W. A. COLCORD.