Review and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 63. (12/23/1915)

Review and Herald

Dec 23, 1915

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1915

I Will Not Fear

By J. George Haller

I will not fear, Though storm clouds gather fast, Though kingdoms fall and mountains crumble into dust. When every ship comes home with broken mast, And every doubt of earth and hell assails my trust, Then, whether heaven above be dark or clear, My anchor chain will hold— I will not fear.

I will not fear, When dearest friends turn back, And earthly ties are snapped by unexpected strain; When those once dear now follow in my track And rend me, then, though bleeding, I will not complain. I shall expect my Lord will then appear To shield His trusting child— I will not fear.

I will not fear, When everything goes wrong; When losses, crosses, pains, and sorrows overwhelm; When days are dreary, nights are dark and long, And storm blasts hide from view the Master at the helm. I see Him not, but while His voice I hear, Unfalteringly I'll wait— I will not fear. —J. George Haller.

The Financial Prosperity of the United States

STUDENTS of the Scriptures recognize as a sign of the times the great increase in wealth which is seen in these days. To such the following extract from an editorial in the Washington Post of December 5 will be of interest:—

It is estimated that this fiscal year's balance of trade in favor of the United States, after deducting all possible debit charges, will be more than $1,000,000,000, an enormous addition to the wealth of the nation, and much of it in that most materialistic and realistic of all forms of money — gold.

The production of gold within our own borders this calendar year will approximate $100,000,000 new metal, an addition to the stock on hand last January that is in itself, in banking arithmetic, capable of sustaining safely a paper currency issued of an additional $400,000,000.

The most eminent masters of finance, the most experienced captains of industry, the shrewdest bankers, the keenest manufacturers, politicians of all parties, recognize that the financial affairs of the nation are today in superb condition, and that “panic,” so far as currency is concerned, has been banished from the republic.

While it is not money but the love of money which is “the root of all evil,” yet it is “the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,” which choke the word of the Lord so that it brings forth no fruit in the heart and life of the hearer.

Bible Distribution by the Roman Catholic Church

By L. L. C.

The real position of the Roman Catholic Church in the matter of the distribution of Holy Scripture is shown in the decree of the Council of Toulouse, 1229 A. D. We quote a careful translation:—

Let not laymen have the books of Scripture, except the Psalter and the divine office; but let them not have these books in the vernacular.

We also forbid laymen being permitted to have the books of the Old or the New Testament, unless perchance some one out of piety wishes to have the Psalter or the breviary for divine offices, or the hours of blessed Mary. But we most strictly forbid their having the above-mentioned books, translated into the vernacular.— Labbe and Cossart's “History of the Councils,” Vol. XI, part 1, col. 430, Decree of the Council of Toulouse, chap. 14.

The church whose motto is Semper idem has been forced by public opinion to modify its position on this point. Sometimes it is claimed that the Roman Church does not keep the Bible from the common people, but that the present Pope approves the wide distribution of the Scriptures. Attention has been called in the Catholic press to a papal letter, dated June 15 of this year, and addressed to Dr. Korum, Bishop of Treves, in which the prelate is earnestly commended for his work in wide distribution of the Scriptures. But as America of November 20 rightly comments, “It is to be noted, however, that it is not the mere distribution of the Bible the Holy Father approves, but the spreading of the Bible accompanied by the proper explanation;” and these explanatory notes must be accepted unconditionally as the real meaning of the Bible text. Such is not the Protestant idea of Bible study. The Protestant method is exemplified by the noble Bereans, who “searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things [preached by Paul] were so.” Even the prophets searched “what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.”

L. L. C.

Note and Comment

Red Hats Conferred on New Cardinals

At a public consistory held December 9, Pope Benedict conferred the red hats on four of the six cardinals created at the private consistory the previous Monday.

The prelates so honored were Cardinals Tonti, Gusmini, Cagliero, and Mistrangelo. The red hats for Cardinal Scapinelli, papal nuncio at Vienna, and for Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, were dispatched by special messengers to those cities.

By special dispensation of the Pope, Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and the king of Bavaria will impose the insignia upon the two cardinals who were absent from the ceremonies.

The Enrollment in Catholic Schools

SOME interesting statistics concerning the number of students in Catholic schools are presented in the Note and Comment column of America for December 4. The total number of students the present year in the Jesuit colleges of the United States and Canada is given as 15,873, to which must be added 5,793 students enrolled in the Jesuit universities, thus making a grand total of 21,666 in Jesuit colleges and universities.

According to the last “Catholic Directory,” there were in the United States 1,456,206 children in Catholic schools. Basing his estimate on this figure, Rev. Francis T. Moran, in an address delivered at the Catholic Educational Convention, says:—

A country-wide average annual per capita expenditure for education is $30.55. For easy figuring, change this to $30 for expenditure and 1,500,000 for children. Multiplying the number of children by the per capita expenditure, we have an annual tuition expense of $45,000,000.

“Earthquakes, in Divers Places”

CHRIST, in his great prophecy recorded in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, foretold “earthquakes, in divers places,” before his second coming. The New York Times of December 8, brings news of severe earthquake shocks in Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri:—

ST. LOUIS, December 7.—Five States — Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri — were severely shaken today by an earthquake, which was recorded on the seismograph of St. Louis University.

CAIRO, ILL., December 7.—A severe earthquake shock lasting from ten to fifteen seconds was felt here at 12:45 P. M., today. . . . Persons in all parts of the city ran to the streets badly frightened. This was the second earthquake felt here this year, the first being recorded on February 18.

MEMPHIS, December 7.—Advices to the local weather bureau from various points in the Memphis district state that a slight earthquake was felt at 12:40 P. M. Jonesboro, Ark., across the State line, also reported two shocks.

PADUCAH, KY., December 7.—An earthquake shock of several seconds’ duration, at 12:45 P. M. today, rocked buildings in Paducah and its vicinity. In some houses pictures were shaken from walls, and other objects were knocked down. . . . Benton, Marshall County, and Kevil, Ballard County, reported that the tremors were felt there.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., December 7.—An earthquake shock which seemed to last a minute, was felt here at 12:50 P. M. Houses were shaken.

Baptism the Memorial of the Resurrection

By W. A. S.

BAPTISM is the divinely appointed memorial of the resurrection of Christ. The great fact of the gospel is that “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15: 3, 4), to be our great High Priest and Saviour.

Baptism is a profession of faith in the Saviour, who went into the grave for us, and rose again to life. It is the great object lesson to teach the truth that the sinner must die to sin and the world, and have a resurrection by the power of divine grace to a new life of obedience. The ordinance is the sign of an actual experience.

The Scriptures teach the essential conditions necessary to baptism:—

“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” Mark 16: 15, 16.

“What doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.” Acts 8: 36, 37.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.” Acts 2: 38.

Thus instruction in the gospel, belief in it, and repentance are conditions to precede baptism.

Baptism Is for Believers

The experience of which baptism is the sign is thus stated:—

“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Rom. 6: 4.

“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Gal. 3: 27.

“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” Col. 2: 12.

In this ordinance, commanded of God, the believer is following the example of Christ, who, when baptized by John in Jordan, said, “Thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.”

The Form

The Scriptural form of baptism is thus shown:—

“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water.” Matt. 3: 16.

“And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.” Acts 8: 38.

“Buried with him by baptism. . . . For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.” Rom. 6: 4, 5.

While the outward form of a religious service, without the spirit and the experience which the form professes, must ever be unacceptable to God, yet when the Lord prescribes a form it is imperative that his instruction should be followed. The form of the ordinance as commanded by God emphasizes the divine meaning of the service.

Scriptural baptism is a burial “in the likeness” of Christ’s burial, as the lifting up of the believer from the watery grave is a likeness of the resurrection of Christ. Of the meaning of the word baptism, Luther wrote:—

Baptism is a Greek word; in Latin it can be translated immersion, as when we plunge something into water that it may be completely covered with water. — Opera Lutheri, De Sac. Bap. I, page 319 (Baptist Encyclopedia, article “Baptism”).

Calvin, after arguing that the form is an indifferent matter, says:—

The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was observed by the ancient church. — “Institutes,” lib. 4, cap. 15 (Baptist Encyclopedia, article “Baptism”).

Of the practice in primitive times, Neander, the church historian, says:—

In respect to the form of baptism, it was, in conformity with the original institution and the original import of the symbol, performed by immersion. — “History of the Christian Church” (Torrey’s translation), Boston edition, Vol. I, page 310.

The perversion of the ordinance into sprinkling, and that in infancy, takes away the divinely ordained object lesson; and in the case of the infant must of necessity substitute mere ceremonialism for experience, for the child of unaccountable years can have had no experience of believing and repenting, which are the necessary conditions to fulfill the meaning of baptism. The change in the ordinance, like most of the changes that came about in the days of the “falling away” from the primitive faith and practice, was by gradual process.

Dean Stanley, in his “Christian Institutions,” says that it is not till the third century that “we find one case of the baptism of infants.” Of the change from immersion to sprinkling, he says:—

What is the justification of this almost universal departure from the primitive usage? There may have been many reasons, some bad, some good. One, no doubt, was the superstitious feeling, already mentioned, which regarded baptism as a charm, indispensable to salvation, and which insisted on imparting it to every human being who could be touched with water, however unconscious.

The common practice as late as the twelfth century is thus described by a Roman Catholic cardinal of that time, named Pullus:—

Whilst the candidate for baptism in water is immersed, the death of Christ is suggested; whilst immersed and covered with water, the burial of Christ is shown forth; whilst he is raised from the waters, the resurrection of Christ is proclaimed. — Patrol. Lat., Vol. CXXX, page 315 (Baptist Encyclopedia, article “Baptism”).

Dean Stanley of Westminster, one of the first scholars of the Church of England, wrote:—

For the first thirteen centuries the almost universal practice of baptism was that of which we read in the New Testament, and which is the very meaning of the word baptize—that those who were baptized were plunged, submerged, immersed into the water. That practice is still, as we have seen, continued in the Eastern churches. In the Western church it still lingers among Roman Catholics in the solitary instance of the Cathedral of Milan; among Protestants in the numerous sects of the Baptists. It lasted long into the Middle Ages. . . . But since the beginning of the seventeenth century, the practice has become exceedingly rare. With the few exceptions just mentioned, the whole of the Western churches have now substituted for the ancient bath the ceremony of letting fall a few drops of water on the face. The reason of the change is obvious. The practice of immersion, though

peculiarly suitable to the Southern and Eastern countries for which it was designed, was not found seasonable in the countries of the North and West. Not by any decree of council or parliament, but by the general sentiment of Christian liberty, this remarkable change was effected. Beginning in the thirteenth century, it has gradually driven the ancient Catholic usage out of the whole of Europe. — “Christian Institutions,” pages 21, 22.

The facts are undeniable and emphasize the importance of reformation and return to the plain instructions of the Word of God. As the record shows, it was not the spirit of the New Testament church that made this change in the divine ordinance. Rather is it the spirit of the church of the “falling away,” against which the Lord warns all believers, “because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” W. A. S.

Our Words and Deportment

By F. M. W.

CHRIST'S representatives, above all others, should be examples in correct speech and proper deportment. For they are judged quite as much by these things as by the truths they teach. The whole course of life has its influence. The dress, the look of the eye, the expression of the face, the carriage of the body, all play their part in exerting a favorable or an unfavorable impression. The gentle voice, the loving look, the manly tread, produce the more favorable impression. From the opposite, the sensitive nature at once recoils.

In the world two extremes are witnessed: one, an overdoing of social relations and courtesies so that the hypocrisy and superficiality prompting the same are plainly evident; the other, a disregard of all forms of propriety so that offensive brusqueness pervades both speech and action. In the former those outward courtesies and forms which govern social intercourse become hollow mockery and meaningless ceremony, because needlessly profuse, and in the latter their entire absence leads to misunderstanding and offense. Both these extremes should be avoided. The style of roughly demanding, instead of kindly asking, favors is scarcely more obnoxious than the making of a request with so much ceremonialism and affectation as to appear ridiculous and insincere. The plain, ordinary, everyday man does not wish to be treated as a prince, nor yet as a slave, but desires to receive that respectful and courteous treatment from his fellows which is his due, and which he is willing to render in return.

It does not become necessary to address our neighbor as “My dear Mr. Jones,” with special accent on the second word, nor to speak of Mr. Smith as “The Right Reverend Bishop Smith, D. D., LL. D.” On the other hand, good breeding and due respect forbid that we should speak of or address them as “Smith” and “Jones,” without any prefix. While it is not always necessary for the husband to address the wife as “Mrs. Brown” in the quiet confines of the home circle, it is far more distasteful to the cultivated ear to hear her spoken of or addressed before strangers as “Polly Ann” or “Betsy Jane.” Close friends in private conversation may address each other by familiar names, but good breeding dictates more formal address on public occasions or in the presence of strangers. To hear a man speak of his wife as “the old woman,” or by the familiar name which should be counted sacred to the use of relatives and friends, lowers him at once in the respect of his fellows. Hence, while the common as well as the superficial should be avoided, there are certain forms governing social relations which all should understand and wisely conform to.

No less importance attaches to the words employed than to the construction into which those words are formed. Slang will have no more place in the vocabulary of the truly cultivated man than will words of profanity. Provincialisms and colloquialisms should likewise be avoided. Pure language, that employed by the best writers and speakers, that of which the Word of God itself is such a noble example, should make up the speech of every worker in our ranks. The Bible furnishes the finest examples to be found in the literature of the world, of nobility of sentiment and purity of style. The grandest truths are so simply expressed that they may be grasped by the weakest intellect.

The extensive use of big words is unnecessary. Indeed, the smallest words which can be employed correctly to convey the thought are the most forcible in impressing those who listen. The power of expression is not in that it may be understood, but in that it must be understood, when the listener cannot escape the intent of the words nor misinterpret their meaning. As examples of beautiful simplicity, observe the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the sower, the sermon of Peter on the day of Pentecost, and scores of other examples which might be cited in the Sacred Writings.

But a knowledge of how to speak and write correctly cannot be attained in a day. It is dependent upon knowledge,—knowledge obtained either from books or from observation, or from both. Hence it is necessary for all to be close students both of books and of human nature, studying by the wisdom that God will give, to know how to say the right things and do the right things in the right place.

The exercise of correct speech and proper deportment must come from within, and cannot be put on from without. The practiced “confidence man” may talk with smooth and oily speech, or the wily dealer may bow, and smile, and flatter, but the insincerity of these outward forms is at once evident. One desires our money; the other, our trade. There is a difference between diplomacy and diplomatic forms, and true politeness. One is the power of the scheming politician; the other, the outward exercise of unfeigned kindness. True courtesy must come from the heart. Then it will be but the exercise of naturalness. The individual will be himself, and not an assumed character. Christ, not man, is the only true model. Studying his life, his words, his works, with the use of the wisdom he will give, we may be able rightly to represent him in our words and our deportment. F. M. W.

Some Results of the War

By G. B. T.

THE Literary Digest of November 27, publishes an extract which gives a picture of some of the grim reminders of the bloody tragedy of war staged among the nations now engaged in a death struggle, as seen in one of the large capitals. The writer is one who has gone to offer her services in the hospitals:—

The opera house sparkled in the sunshine, the driver's whip snapped, the streets were crowded, but a shadow lay across the city. Sorrowing black-clad people filled the streets. I saw that practically every woman was in mourning. And the men, where were they? Gray-haired men drove cabs, white-haired, bent-shouldered waiters served drinks; but straight, upstanding young men there were none. A one-legged Turk, scarcely more than a boy, went hustling by on crutches, with an empty red trouser leg flapping aimlessly. . . . Legless, armless, blind men, all young, passed in a steady stream. Every able-bodied man . . . under forty-eight has gone to war. Cripples, widows, and ambulances—these are the dominant notes. . . .

Some wounded soldiers were being decorated. The place was packed. Weeping relatives came to honor their brave men. A mother with a baby stands beside me. Tears are on her cheeks, but pride shines in her eyes as a blind husband is led to his place. Then a band strikes up, and out across the courtyard move a hundred legless, armless, and blind men. The commander in chief is bestowing kisses and pinning on medals.

At the front are the vast cemeteries where tens of thousands are buried in unmarked and unknown graves. Yet the struggle goes on, taking from the nations that which is of far greater value than gold—the flower of young, strong manhood. Civilization is committing suicide. Somebody may win, but even then the clock of progress in all that is worth while is being turned back. The greatest waste the world knows is war.

G. B. T.

St. Helena Sanitarium

By F. M. W.

Notes From the Field — No. 7

The week following our visit to the Lodi Academy, it was our privilege to visit three other denominational institutions; namely, the St. Helena Sanitarium, the Pacific Union College, and the Pacific Press Publishing Association. We found in each of these centers a spirit of cheer and courage on the part of the workers.

St. Helena Sanitarium

This is the oldest sanitarium in the sisterhood of our medical institutions. With a small and humble beginning, it has grown in scope and influence through the years, until at the present time it is exerting a widespread influence in connection with this movement.

It has enjoyed an excellent patronage the past year, and at the time of our visit, the season when there are usually the fewest number of guests, between sixty and seventy patients were under treatment. As we mingled with these afflicted ones, we found a spirit of confidence in the physicians and management, and in the methods being employed in the treatment of disease.

The principles represented by our sanitariums are held in high esteem by thousands of men and women who resort to them for help in preference to the use of drug medications. These seekers after health show an appreciation of rational methods in the treatment of disease above that of many Seventh-day Adventists. Too many of our brethren and sisters are still employing drugs to the exclusion and neglect of simple treatments which would prove more potent and efficient, and which could be successfully used in every home.

The medical work is under the charge of Dr. G. E. Klingerman. With him are associated Drs. Ida Herr Nelson, F. Burton Jones, and Elsie B. Merritt as the other members of the medical staff, and Miss Helen N. Rice and H. F. Wilson as head nurses. The successful and efficient business management of Brother L. M. Bowen, assisted by Sisters J. L. Ings and W. H. Saxby as matrons, H. McDowell as steward, and L. V. Robertson as secretary and assistant treasurer, under the blessing of the Lord has carried the institution through many trying years of history, and brought it to its present state of prosperity.

Elders S. T. Hare and R. W. Munson are being blessed of God in their ministry as chaplains. With these leading workers are associated a large company of men and women whose hearts God has touched, and who are endeavoring faithfully to bear their part in the work here.

Though we did not have the privilege of coming in close touch with many of the young men and women in training, we were impressed with the spirit of earnestness which characterized the service they rendered the guests of the sanitarium.

We noted many improvements since our last visit. Several additional cottages had been erected. The dining room had been enlarged. The surgical hospital had been remodeled, making it at the present time one of the best-equipped and best-arranged surgical hospitals in the West.

Active plans are now in operation for the erection of a wing to the main institution, providing new treatment rooms for both men and women. This will require an outlay of about twenty thousand dollars. The necessary funds for this addition are in hand, from the surplus earnings of the sanitarium for the last few months. This is the manner, we believe, in which all our institutions should make additions and improvements. The St. Helena Sanitarium has long needed new treatment-room facilities. The workers, however, have contented themselves with their old equipment until the time has come when from its earnings the institution can build the necessary additions. It is better to work with humble facilities than to borrow money and thus place our institutions under a great load of debt.

Pacific Union College

The road to Dublin was never more rocky and precipitous than the one which winds up the mountain side from Napa Valley to the site occupied by the Pacific Union College. But the ascent is well worth while. Beautiful scenes of valley and mountain, glen and glade, stretch out on every side. The ascent may be made from the sanitarium in an hour, the descent in half that time.

Reaching the college settlement, one finds a quiet, rustic scene, amid the beauties and quietude of nature, well suited to study, meditation, and worship. We know of no other school connected with this movement so ideal in its situation as this college. Removed from the stir and activity of our great commercial centers, from the spirit and temptations of city life, the students are placed in an environment which is conducive to the attainment of the highest ideals and purposes in school life.

We had the pleasure here of speaking to a large company of young men and women. As we looked into their faces and recognized them as representative of the thousands of devoted students in our schools who are preparing themselves for active service in this work, we saw a solution of the problem of the culmination of this movement in this generation.

Since we last met this family, a new administration building, containing classrooms and a commodious chapel, had been erected; also a boys' dormitory. This work, being all done by the students, under the direction of their instructors, gave the young men a practical experience in carpentry. The lumber employed was sawed from the logs by the students, in the sawmill operated by the school.

The trades taught and the manual work furnished the students do much to forestall a demand for the harmful or useless sports and amusements constituting so large a part of the life of the students in the schools of the world.

Nor does the place which manual work occupies in the Pacific Union College lower in any degree the high standard of scholastic attainment which the school seeks to maintain. Prof. C. W. Irwin and his associate teachers are doing faithful and efficient service. This school is worthy of the hearty support of our brethren throughout the Pacific Union Conference, and this support we feel assured they are endeavoring to give.

Nearly one hundred students are doing college work in the school. A much larger number are doing work in the grammar grades and in the church school. But there is room for others, room for many young men and young women who are attending high schools and colleges not associated with this movement, educational institutions where these young people are in great danger of losing the spirit of the advent movement out of their lives. Let us encourage our boys and girls to attend our own schools. If they lack the necessary means, they may do as thousands are doing every vacation period — engage in the sale of our denominational literature, earning their scholarships in our own schools.

The Pacific Press Publishing Association

If any one has doubt as to the prosperity of this movement with which we are connected, he should visit one of our great denominational publishing houses. The busy editors, the click of the linotypes, the whir of the presses, the busy activity of the bindery and mailing departments, all indicate the spirit of strenuous activity which is taking possession of our publishing work.

This is the impression which one receives as he enters the busy plant of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, at Mountain View, Cal. There was a time when this institution, the same as the Review and Herald, devoted a large part of its energies to commercial work; but that day has forever passed in the experience of both these publishing houses. The faith exercised in entirely eliminating all commercial printing, has borne abundant fruitage in the large and constantly increasing volume of denominational work, taxing our publishing houses to their fullest capacity.

The Pacific Press Publishing Association

is nearing the close of another successful year. Increased sales throughout its territory have attended the efforts of its faithful representatives.

During the first ten months of this year the Pacific Press Publishing Association sold to the people west of the Mississippi River books and tracts to the value of $238,052.40, which is almost $50,000 more than for the same time last year. Exclusive of periodicals, the total sales of this institution, including those to foreign lands during that time, amounted to $313,767, which is a gain of almost $40,000 over the same period of 1914. More than $40,000 worth of these publications was in the Spanish language.

In addition to this, its international branch at College View, Nebr., has supplied literature in German, Danish, and Swedish, to the value of more than $25,000. Just before we arrived at Mountain View, a shipment of three tons of “The Great Controversy” (Finnish) had come from Finland. It had been more than six months en route, having been repeatedly delayed by war restrictions. This book is being bound in cloth and half leather, and will be sold at the same price as the English, although the freight and war charges amount to nearly half the original cost of the books themselves.

The journals published by the Pacific Press are exerting a wide influence for the truth of God. The Signs of the Times, in both weekly and monthly forms, has thousands of interested readers. Many are rejoicing in the message today as the result of the circulation of these papers. Our Little Friend is a welcome visitor to thousands of our children, in whose lives it is exerting a strong molding influence for the right.

It is cause for great rejoicing that our two older publishing houses will soon be in a position, under the prospering hand of God, where they will be able to turn their net earnings to the upbuilding of the work in other lands. The call to this people today is to the world's evangelization. Let us work steadily for the accomplishment of this heaven-appointed task, both as individuals and as institutions. Heaven will prosper us in so doing.

F. M. W.

A Visit to Fuchau, China

By R. C. PORTER

LEAVING Shanghai June 25, I reached Fuchau the twenty-eighth, where I was met by Pastor Keh and his son, in a house boat about two hours' sail down the river. We had a favoring gale, and were served with a first-class European luncheon while en route up the river, so the time passed very pleasantly.

Fuchau is one of the principal business centers of China. Foreign missions occupy a large island near the harbor, which rises to a good elevation, so securing the pleasant river breeze that reaches it from all sides. Upon this island are located two large foreign-operated colleges. The Anglo-Chinese is the older, while the Methodist College is the larger and later built. Bishop Lewis of the Methodist Church resides in this city, and as the result of a recent visit to America he succeeded in gathering $350,000 for erecting and equipping a hospital, and for further development of their college plant. This is one of their strongest mission centers in China.

Two years ago Pastor Keh, with his family, removed to Fuchau, settling in the very heart of the Chinese city, and opening our mission work. A desirable compound, formerly the home of a wealthy Chinaman, was soon offered him at a low rental for his city mission headquarters. Besides the chapel and living quarters off the open court, there were large servants' dormitories, which would serve as school quarters for nearly one-hundred students. A spacious open court is always found in the high-class Chinese house, and usually in all Chinese dwellings.

From this compound, which Pastor Keh and his family believed that God had given them in answer to prayer, they began their work by circulating literature and holding Bible studies with the people in their homes. They also conducted services in their compound chapel. Soon people began requesting baptism into their newly found faith in the third angel's message.

Pastor Keh and his assistant opened a small boarding school in their compound, and the school soon had an attendance of more than one hundred. While in attendance at their general meeting, I had opportunity to become acquainted with this school and the mission work in the city. All the boys dress in uniform, and it is the most orderly and best-conducted Chinese school I have visited in China. They all attend every Bible service, and, with Bible in hand, each student turns and reads every scripture used by the minister. They all come to the chapel in regular order; and when the minister enters the chapel, they arise and remain standing until he kneels for silent prayer, when they bow with him. At the close of the service they remain standing until the minister has passed out of the chapel, when they retire in regular order to their dormitory. Fourteen of these students have already received baptism, and many others are deeply interested in Bible study.

After two years of work among those speaking the Fuchau language, Pastor Keh and his associates have a church of eighty-seven members. They have received but little foreign supervision, so that the development of this work has been almost wholly by our Chinese workers. Others have requested baptism, and their membership will soon reach the one-hundred mark.

Pastors B. L. Anderson and W. C. Hankins carried the principal burden of the general meeting at this time. While we were there, we ordained one Chinese worker to the gospel ministry, and arranged for the purchase of a temple ground one hundred and fifty by three hundred and ten feet, situated on the city boulevard, near the center of the city. This ground has a large, well-built temple, and other buildings in good repair, with good walks, trees, well, and paved courts, surrounded by a large stone wall. With a little remodeling, these buildings can be utilized for our mission work. This compound, with improvements, was bought for $517.50. The Chinese have a fear of occupying temple grounds; and as it had been decided to discontinue this temple as a place of worship, it was bought without Chinese competition. For business purposes in that section of the city it would be worth several times what we paid for it.

Fuchau needs a foreign family to learn the language and take general supervision. The field is open. Calls are coming in from all parts of the territory, and every providential indication is that now is the best time to work for this people.

R. C. PORTER.

The Use of the Terms “Brother” and “Sister”

By Editor

We have received letters from several of our readers deploring the tendency in our church fellowship toward a departure from the old-time use of the terms “brother” and “sister.” Why should the use of these terms be considered objectionable on the part of any one? They are Bible terms. They have the authority of long usage. Indeed, we find these terms employed today not only by professed Christians, but by many members of worldly societies. Somehow we like the terms. We would much rather be addressed as “brother” than “mister.” Even when a stranger approaches us on the street and addresses us as “friend” or “brother,” it serves to kindle in our heart a feeling of warmth and fellowship which no other terms can create.

Of course it is perfectly proper on many occasions to employ the terms “Mr.,” “Mrs.,” “Miss,” etc., and it must be left for each one to use his judgment and discretion as to the form of address which he shall employ. We believe, however, that in our church relationships, as far as possible, it would be better for us to continue the old forms of address. They will convey to others a kindliness of feeling and fellowship on the part of the speaker which cannot be expressed by the ordinary forms of address.

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