I HAVE used the following device in the upper grades to get the pupils acquainted with the markings of letters:— Place on the blackboard a list of consonants, and a few of the vowels. Have pupils make as many words as they can from the list. Require them to mark the vowels properly, and some of the consonants, as c or g. At the end of the given time, it may be fifteen minutes, let the pupils exchange papers and correct each other's work. If a letter has not been properly marked, the word does not count.
The object is to see who gets the largest correct list.
I have found that where the pupils did not know the markings, they acquired such knowledge in a very short time, and that where they already knew them, this was a splendid review.— Selected.
Perception Cards
By N. E. I.
How many use perception cards? Do you make them? There is no knack about it, and they are nothing new; but you may have none of these cards on hand. They are useful in rapid drills, especially in number work and in phonics.
Any cardboard will do; those in mind are of the gray board we use for mounting pictures. Have the cards cut any size convenient to hold, and on which the characters can be seen across the room.
For number work, write all the difficult combinations, using white or colored crayons. Put a combination on each side of the card, writing it also on the upper corner of the reverse side in small figures, so that the cards may be held toward the class quickly. Have children give answers rapidly as held up.
Sometimes, place a number of the cards in a row on the blackboard ledge. See if a child can tell them all, letting him pick up each one he tells. Have the class name the ones he leaves, then let him try to take them up, repeating the process until he knows them all. See which children take up the greatest number of cards the first time.
Many ways will be thought of for using these cards in different lessons requiring rapid mental drill.—N. E. I.
Christian Education
By L. A. Hoopes; Frederick Griggs
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPES, Chairman,
FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.
A School in a Great City
By William Ambrose Spicer
IN due time, no doubt, our friends in Britain will find a country site for a school. But certainly they have done well in beginning their training work in the first place available, in rented quarters in the great city of London. They are just drawing near the close of their best and most largely attended school year, having paid their way, and gathered considerable material and outfit, and all the while holding intact their fund raised by the sale of the book “Christ’s Object Lessons,” for use when the permanent location is secured.
Brother Geo. R. Drew, our pioneer ship missionary, of the old Liverpool ship mission days, has presented the school with the best of his private library, nearly two hundred volumes of valuable historical books. With other gifts in cash and kind, the school has a library well under way.
Reporting last January, Brother Salisbury wrote:—
“The students are, as previously, depending largely upon canvassing as a means of support. In spite of the hard times through which we have been passing the past year in all Great Britain, they have had good success. Sunday is their best day for selling papers, and some of the students make enough on that day to pay more than half their expenses for the remainder of the week.”
Writing recently again, he says:—
“Of the eighty-nine students we had this year, fifty-five have paid their way while attending the school, a few working in the printing-office and the college home, but the great number wholly by canvassing for our books and papers.”
What a splendid opportunity such a school program has afforded of financially helpful work while studying, and of missionary effort in behalf of the dwellers in the most populous city the world has ever seen.
W. A. SPICER.
Notes
C. H. HAYTON, principal of Union College, near Cape Town, South Africa, reports that the school has opened for another year's work very encouragingly. South Africa, however, is passing through a severe financial depression, which has affected the attendance at the school, but, all things considered, it is felt that the outlook for the year is good. The students are, on the whole, rather young. He says that the English people, generally speaking, send their children to boarding-schools at an early age, and take them away while yet young, and that the schools find it rather difficult to keep them until they are properly fitted for work.
AVONDALE School for Christian Workers, Australia, has an enrolment of nine more students for the first two months this year than for the same months of 1904. The principal, C. F. Irwin, says that every available room has two students, and a few rooms have three each, and more students are expected. In addition to the regular dormitories a six-room cottage, which will accommodate twelve young students, has been taken into use by the school. The food factory and the Avondale Press have been affiliated with the school. They have heretofore been run under separate management. It would appear that the Avondale school was taking good steps toward solving some of the problems of industrial education.
THE NEW YORK Conference Committee has been giving considerable consideration to the intermediate school question. The idea of starting two or three small schools in different portions of the State within easy access of some of the larger schools has been thought to be more practicable than to establish one large school. The plan is to have in these schools accommodations for twenty or thirty pupils, taught by one teacher, or, if the school should be a little larger, by two teachers at the most. These schools, being in the country, would give opportunity for agricultural work.
Current Mention
—An epidemic of meningitis has become general throughout Germany. Three hundred and fifty-eight cases have been reported, of which two hundred and three ended fatally.
—The towns of Laredo and New Laredo, Tex., were devastated by a tornado, which swept through them late in the evening of April 28. Twenty-one persons were reported killed, and a larger number more or less seriously hurt.
—The Chilean port of Pisagua is reported to be in a dreadful condition from the ravages of the bubonic plague, deaths from which are so numerous that corpses are left unburied in the streets. The wretched inhabitants are forbidden to leave the city, and are shot down by the guard of soldiers if they make the attempt to do so.
—The legality of the lockout has been established in the State of New York by a decision of the Supreme Court, which holds that “if the workmen may decline to work, the master may decline to employ; therefore, if it be lawful for workmen to organize and conduct a peaceable strike to better their conditions, it seems a natural corollary that masters may organize and conduct a peaceable lockout for the same purpose.”
—European political and trade circles are reported to be greatly disturbed by the present attitude of the German kaiser, who, following his interference with the Franco-English program in Morocco, appears to be moving toward an alliance with Russia, and is said to have offered Russia a base in the Caroline Islands for Admiral Rozhdestvensky’s fleet, where it can be refitted and made ready for battle. Public feeling against Germany is reported to be very strong in England and France.
—The effort to cover up the scandal in which the president, vice-president, and other officials of the Equitable Life Assurance Company of New York are involved by disclosures connected with the management of its affairs, will not prove successful, Governor Higgins of New York having ordered that a searching investigation be conducted, which will disclose the facts leading up to the present state of affairs. Meanwhile the suit to force the appointment of a receiver for the company has been begun by a stockholder, on the ground that the assets of the company are endangered by the present controversy among its officials.
—A sensation in banking circles was caused by the announcement, April 24, that President Bigelow, of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, ex-president of the American Bankers’ Association, director in half a score of corporations, and custodian of a dozen estates, is a defaulter for $1,300,000 of the bank’s funds. That ruin did not overtake the bank is due chiefly to a statement issued as soon as the news of the defalcation came, announcing that men representing $20,000,000 of capital investment in Milwaukee had subscribed over $1,600,000 to meet the shortage.
—A strike of over 3,000 teamsters is in progress in Chicago, and the greatest industrial upheaval in the history of that center of labor troubles is said to be threatened. The point of controversy between the teamsters and their employers is the question of the “open shop,” and the employers declare that they will fight for this to the end. Rioting marks the progress of the strike, and a number of men have been badly injured. An injunction against interference by the strikers has been granted the employers by Judge Kohlsaat, of the federal court. The strikers are careful to avoid any interference with the business of the federal government. There is talk of asking President Roosevelt to effect a settlement of the controversy.
—Dispatches from the arena of conflict in eastern Asiatic waters received up to April 30 have brought no authentic news of the anticipated naval engagement between the fleets of Admirals Rozhdestvensky and Togo, though various rumors have been in circulation regarding the location and movements of parts of the opposing squadrons. One report states that Admiral Niebogatoff’s squadron has effected a junction with Rozhdestvensky’s force, which would give the Russians a great preponderance in battle-ships, though the Japanese commander would still be greatly superior in cruisers and torpedo-boats. Some minor engagements between the armies in Manchuria are reported, but no general engagement is expected until after the settlement of the question of supremacy at sea.
—Religious freedom for Russia is apparently no longer a dream of the future, but a reality, according to press telegrams from St. Petersburg, which state that such freedom is granted in the czar’s Easter ukase, issued April 30, to all nominally Christian sects and to Mohammedans and non-Christians, but not to the Jews. All Christian sects are permitted freedom of worship, among these being a body of 17,000,000 known as adherents of the “old faith,” who were deprived of their freedom twenty years ago by the procurator-general of the “holy synod.” The ukase provides that converts from the orthodox faith to other Christian beliefs shall not be punished, and makes lawful changes in faith, for which hundreds of thousands of families have been expropriated and exiled to Siberia. Thus one great benefit has already resulted from the war.
The Law of Ministry
ALL things both in heaven and in earth declare that the great law of life is a law of service. The infinite Father ministers to the life of every living thing. Christ came to the earth “as he that serveth.” The angels are “ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.” The same law of service is written upon all things in nature. The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, the trees of the forest, the leaves, the grass, and the flowers, the sun in the heavens and the stars of light,—all have their ministry. Lake and ocean, river and water-spring,—each takes to give.
As each thing in nature ministers thus to the world's life, it also secures its own. “Give, and it shall be given unto you,” is the lesson written no less surely in nature than in the pages of Holy Writ.
As the hillsides and the plains open a channel for the mountain stream to reach the sea, that which they give is repaid a hundredfold. The stream that goes singing on its way leaves behind its gift of beauty and fruitfulness. Through the fields, bare and brown under the summer's heat, a line of verdure marks the river's course; every noble tree, every bud, every blossom, a witness to the recompense of God's grace decrees to all who become its channels to the world.—Selected.
Obituaries
HARDCASTLE.—Died at Woodburn, Ore., April 8, 1905, of pneumonia, Harriet Hardcastle, aged 59 years, 5 months, and 6 days. Sister Hardcastle was born in England. She became a member of the Baptist Church at the age of fourteen. In 1891 she united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and was a devoted member until her death. She led a beautiful Christian life, and will be missed by a large circle of friends. The funeral service was held by the writer, in the Methodist church. H. W. DECKER.
WELTON.—Died in Iowa, April 14, 1905, Alma Welton, aged 69 years, 4 months, and 19 days. In 1863 he was converted, and united with the Christian Church, and in the year 1885 he united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which faith he remained faithful until death. His wife and five children survive him. Brother Welton was taken to College View, Neb., for burial, where the funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder J. S. Hart. L. A. HOOPES.
KENDALL.—Died at her home in Webster, S. D., April 7, 1905, Delia Kendall, aged 16 years, 7 months, and 6 days. In June, 1903, she was baptized, and a few days later united with the Webster church. She was an earnest23active member of the Young People's Society. Being unable to attend school during the past winter, she, with her mother, spent much time in prayer and study, seeking to point some one to the Lamb of God. Till the last, her hope grew brighter. The funeral service was held in the M. E. church. C. A. BURMAN.
MARKWELL.—Died at Des Moines, Wash., April 4, 1905, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Markwell. With sorrowing hearts the little one was laid to rest till the Life-giver shall come to claim his own. Then these parents hope to receive their child in immortal bloom. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Jer. 31:15, 16. WM. J. BOYNTON.
GRIFFIN.—Died in Battle Creek, Mich., March 30, 1905, Cecil S., son of Brother and Sister Eugene Griffin, aged 8 years, 2 months, and 10 days. He was a good and happy boy, a lover of the beautiful, and very careful to do right. He delighted in selling the Life Boat, and in sending to others his Little Friend. The parents and other relatives are comforted by the “blessed hope.” I. D. VAN HORN.
STEINBAUGH.—Died at his home in Academia, Ohio, March 29, 1905, of typhoid pneumonia, Philip S. Steinbaugh, aged 47 years, 8 months, and 15 days. In early manhood he united with the Baptist Church, and later, under the ministry of Elder J. M. Rees, he and his wife joined the Seventh-day Adventists, of which church he was a consistent member to the last. A wife, a daughter, a mother, three brothers, three sisters, and a large circle of sympathizing friends mourn his death. On Sabbath afternoon, April 1, the remains were borne to the academy chapel, where an appropriate funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by Prof. N. W. Lawrence. A choir composed of students furnished the music, and words of comfort were spoken from Ps. 116:15 to a full chapel of attentive listeners. H. H. BURKHOLDER.
COLCORD.—Died at Altoona (Pa.) Hospital, March 27, 1905, Arlon V., son of Brother and Sister Colcord, of Coudersport, Pa. Arlon was a fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and on March 14, as his engine neared Bolivar, the boiler blew up, and about twelve persons were injured, five fatally. Arlon was horribly scalded from head to foot. He was twenty-four years old, of good character, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. In his experience at the hospital, he surrendered all to Him who knoweth all things. He was taken to his home in Coudersport, accompanied by seventeen members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, where the writer, assisted by Elder C. F. McVagh, conducted his funeral service in the Seventh-day Adventist church, which was well filled. Members of the Methodist choir kindly rendered the music. Words found in Job 14:14, 15, were used by the writer. W. F. SCHWARTZ.
SAUDER.—Died at his home in Akron, Ohio, March 17, 1905, Joseph K. Sauder, aged 58 years, 6 months, and 9 days. When about sixteen years of age, he was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, remaining a faithful member until 1882, when he heard the third angel's message presented by Elders H. A. St. John and R. A. Underwood at a tent-meeting held in Akron, Ohio. He gladly accepted this message, and became a charter member of the church organized in October of that same year, and ever remained true to its principles. Though persecuted and called to pass through great trials, his faith was unwavering. For more than twelve years he was elder of the Akron church, leading the flock God had entrusted to him until called to his last rest. In the different offices he held in the church and Sabbath-school he was faithful and ever at his post. He leaves a loving wife, six sons, two daughters, and several grandchildren, also six brothers and four sisters and many friends, to mourn their loss. On the funeral occasion Elder M. E. Kirkendall spoke timely words of comfort and admonition based on Isa. 40:1, 2. The six sons carried their father to his last resting-place, where he awaits the soon coming of the Life-giver. ELLA M. TALMAGE.
EDGAR.—Sister J. L. Edgar fell asleep April 3, 1905, after a brief illness, as calmly and peacefully as one taking rest in natural sleep. She was taken with bronchial pneumonia a little over a week before her death, during which time she suffered much, but without a murmur. All those who knew Sister Edgar are aware of her strong faith and bright hope in the triumph of present truth. This hope grew brighter and brighter until she was overtaken by the unconsciousness of death. Sister Edgar was 78 years old the twentieth of last February. She was united in marriage to Elder J. L. Edgar over fifty-three years ago. During much of this time she faithfully labored by the side of her husband in his work in the ministry, which was the all-absorbing purpose of her life to the last. During these many years they have shared the toils and cares and joys of life together, having the advancement of the third angel's message as their supreme object. By her death a tender tie has been broken, which is felt most keenly by Elder Edgar and his three daughters, and a large number of friends. However, they mourn not as those who have no hope. As a ripened sheaf she is gathered for the harvest. By request of the friends, words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13. Elder Stureman assisted in the service. E. K. SLADE.
BRIGGS.—Died at her home on the island of Trinidad, British West Indies, my beloved daughter, Stella E. Colvin Briggs, aged 41 years. Stella accepted present truth in 1889, through the labors of her mother and C. H. Bliss. She was in the Battle Creek Sanitarium five years. In 1895 she was sent to this island, where she labored till her life work was ended. About a month before her death, she and her husband had the joy of bringing a man and his wife into the precious truth, which she so dearly loved. Stella was married in 1897 to L. J. Briggs, a gentleman of English birth. One child, Lindsay, was born to them; he brightened their home and hearts for five and one-half years, when with aching hearts, they were called to lay him away from their sight. Not quite nine months later she, too, after one week of suffering, was laid beside him. We truly sorrow not as those without hope, as she left bright evidences of her acceptance with God. I had noticed from her letters for about three months before her death that the Lord was doing a great work in her. She was perfectly resigned to his will. She sleeps in Jesus. There is nothing ahead of her now but joy. We expect to meet her in the resurrection morn when all sorrow will forever be wiped away. REV. 14:13. MRS. W. H. BARNES.
Laid to Rest in China
MILLER.—To our missionaries in the heart of China, has come a trying hour. One year and a half ago we left America, a company of six, to carry the truth to Central China; now, with aching hearts, we bow to the Father's will and lay to rest one of our number. We wait in hope, until the appearing of our Saviour, when we shall meet this loved one in the clouds of glory. Maude Amelia, eldest child of Cassius M. and Rachel Thompson, died Tuesday, March 14, 1905, aged 24 years, 10 months, and 10 days. She was born in Branch County, Mich., near Quincy, May 4, 1880. While she was yet a child her parents moved to Allen Township, Hillsdale County, Mich. She entered the Quincy high school in the fall of 1894, and completed the course in 1897. One year later she matriculated in the American Medical Missionary College of Chicago, Ill., from which she was graduated in the spring of 1902; she was the youngest member of her class. July 2, 1902, she was united in marriage with Dr. H. W. Miller; and shortly afterward she, with her husband, entered professional work as physicians in charge of the Chicago Branch Sanitarium. In the course of a few more months, they heard the call of God for the work of giving the third angel's message in China, and they consecrated their lives to the mission field. After a few weeks' preparation, they left for their chosen field, reaching their destination, Sin-tsai Hsien, Province of Honan, Nov. 7, 1903. Dr. Miller and his wife remained in Sin-tsai Hsien for nearly a year, and then undertook the difficult task of opening up the work in a new station. They were blessed of the Lord in securing a suitable location for the mission, and in opening up the work; and although for months Mrs. Miller was afflicted with the disease which resulted in her death, yet she persisted diligently in the study of the language, and improved every opportunity to teach and help her sisters of the East. While in Sin-tsai Hsien she was bereft of her twin baby boys, and as she laid them to rest, her mother-love went out to the children of China, and she had planned many ways of helping them. During her last illness her faith and courage found many expressions which we cherish to our comfort. She knew that the end was near, and faced death as only those can who have the assurance that they are accepted in the Beloved. Her last words were, “It will not be long, I shall awake in the New Jerusalem.” She died of sprue, or psilosis, a disease peculiar to the tropics; especially to India and China. We could not believe that she would be taken from us, and on three occasions we unitedly sought the Lord that if it was his will, he would raise her up; but it was not to be so, and we only know that God's ways are above our ways. May the seed of a consecrated life, laid down in the line of duty and self-sacrifice, be watered of God to bring forth a glorious harvest of souls, ere the soon coming of our King. We have the assurance that Mrs. Miller sleeps in Jesus, and that she is truly among those of whom John writes in Rev. 14:13: “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” Words of comfort from the scriptures referring to the resurrection of the just were spoken by the writer. Interment took place in a little plot of ground that was secured just outside the city wall. A. C. SELMON.
RESOLUTIONS BY THE OHIO WORKERS
[ELDER D. E. Lindsey, the chairman of the special committee, has forwarded for publication a statement, in behalf of the Ohio workers, of action taken upon learning of the death of Sister Miller.—ED.]
With grieved hearts we, the Ohio workers, have learned of the sad death of our beloved Sister Maude Miller, a missionary to China, the wife of one of our Ohio workers, Dr. H. W. Miller.
The following resolutions were prepared and presented at the recent State meeting at Cleveland:—
Resolved, That we heartily and unanimously extend to the dear brother, his parents, and the parents of the deceased, our deepest sympathy, assuring them that we shall ever hold in sacred memory the devotion and sacrifice of Sister and Brother Miller, and will bear the bereaved ones in our arms of faith to our dear Saviour and Father in heaven for consolation.
Resolved, That this sad death shall knit us more closely together and to the work in China; and under the sense of the great need of that far-off field, we pledge anew our hearty support of that work.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the minutes of the conference, and that copies of the same be sent to the Welcome Visitor, the REVIEW AND HERALD, and that other papers be requested to copy.
D. E. LINDSEY.
R. R. KENNEDY,
A. C. SHANNON,
Committee.
Business Notices
BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted.
All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column.
In the case of poor persons who wish employment, the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement.
If you wish to secure the most durable, light, and convenient steam cooker, send stamp for leaflet and special price to Rapid Steam Cooker Co., Laura, Ohio.
WANTED.—A gentleman nurse who has had experience in sanitarium work, to take management of sanitarium. Address Newark Sanitarium, 103 East Main St., Newark, Ohio.
FOR SALE.—80 acres, especially adapted to gardening and pasture; soil first class; water abundant; ten acres timber; meadows, etc. New three-room house. Seven miles to market. For particulars, address Sever Jacobson, Bottineau, N. D.
FOR SALE.—Absolutely pure, unsalted peanut butter, steamed or roasted, 12 cts. a pound in 50-pound lots and upward; cash with order. We pay freight on lots of 100 pounds by or over, east of Rocky Mountains. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.
WANTED.—Physician, A. M. M. College, S. D. A., good standing. Requisites: Christian, laboratory work, all our sanitarium methods, optimist, a growing man, a live man, non-migratory. An excellent opening; salary or interest. Address, at once, Garden City Sanitarium, San Jose, Cal.
FOR SALE.—In whole or in part, a full section of land, 640 acres, in Douglas County, Wisconsin. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad has a station within ten rods of the boundary line. A sawmill and other property are also to be sold. One half of the proceeds of the sales is to be given to the work of proclaiming the third angel’s message. For particulars, write to A. C. Woodbury, Hines, Wis.
FOR SALE.—Vegetable cooking oil and hygienic shortening. Contains no animal fat. Has no unpleasant odor or taste. Good keeper. Prices between the Rockies and Ohio west line: one 5-gal. can, $3.50; 2 cans, $6.50; 3 cans, $9.25. Farther east and west, $4 a can. Freight prepaid. Address R. H. Brock, Arkansas City, Kan.
WE offer at lowest prices sanitarium foods; B. gluten flour, $5.75 a bbl.; maple sugar, 13 cts. a lb.; maple sirup, $1 a gal.; potatoes, $1.40 a bbl.; apples, $2 a bbl.; white sweet turnips, 90 cts. a bbl.; Cal. prunes, $1.25 for 25-lb. box; larger ones, $1.50 a box, and more; malt honey, $1 a gal.; cooking oil, 90 cts. a gal. Write us. We wish to tell you about the goods. New York Food Co., F. W. Bartle, Mgr., Oxford, N. Y.
Important Notice
UNION COLLEGE takes pleasure in calling the attention of its patrons to the following letter from the Department of Education of the State of New York. From this letter it appears that students who complete the third year of the collegiate course at Union College will be granted by the New York Board of Regents the “forty-eight count equivalent credentials, including the medical student certificate,” and also that, upon proper certification by Union College, credit will be assigned for less work. So many inquiries in regard to this matter have been received during the past year, that it seems best to give general notice of this action of the New York Education Department:—
“APRIL 13, 1905.
“President C. C. Lewis,
“Union College,
“College View, Neb.
“DEAR SIR: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of yours of April 3 with enclosures. On the information submitted we are warranted in registering Union College, and can recognize the completion of the third year of your collegiate course as meeting the requirements for our 48 count equivalent credentials, including the medical student certificate.
“We can assign credit to certificates showing less work than the completion of the third year, provided it is certified in accord with the enclosed form.
“Yours respectfully,
“HOWARD J. ROGERS,
“First Assistant Commissioner of Education.”
Western Oregon Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists
By F. M. Burg; W. C. Raley
THE second annual meeting of the Western Oregon Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, is called to meet in connection with the annual session of the Western Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at 9 A. M., Friday, June 9, 1905, in Portland, Ore. The meeting is called, according to the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, for the purposes of electing a Board of five trustees for the ensuing year, and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. F. M. BURG, President, W. C. RALEY, Secretary.
How to Reach Takoma Park Upon Arriving in Washington
By W. T. BLAND
SOME annoyance, confusion, and extra expense will be saved to those who come to Washington for the first time, by observing the following suggestions:—
Those arriving at the Baltimore and Ohio Station may take, at the entrance, any street-car marked “Treasury,” “Georgetown only,” or “Mt. Pleasant.” On paying fare, ask conductor for Ninth Street transfer. Get off at Ninth Street, corner Patent Building, and take first car going north marked “7th and Florida Ave.” Take from conductor Brightwood transfer, and go to end of car-line. From this point take first car marked “Takoma Park,” and go to end of the line. Upon reaching Takoma Station, instructions will be given as to location of meetings.
Those arriving over any other railroad will enter the Pennsylvania station. These should take, at the entrance, any car marked “7th and Florida Ave.,” go to end of line, taking Brightwood transfer, and follow instructions as given above.
By observing these directions, passengers may reach Takoma from either station for fare of five cents.
W. T. BLAND,
Transportation agent for General Conference.
Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Save the Boys
OUT of six hundred boys admitted to the Indiana Boys’ School during the last three years, sixty per cent were known to have been cigarette fiends. Irregular in habits, listless, restless, nervous, emaciated, blear-eyed, no energy or ambition, sunken chest, agonizing death,—all due to the cigarette, is the record.
Now who dare say that if these boys could have had the reading of even such a journal as Save the Boys, for one year before they had touched the evil thing, such a history would not have been theirs? Will you help to circulate it? Only 30 cents a year.
Address Save the Boys, 118 W. Minnehaha Boul., Minneapolis, Minn.
Addresses
THE address of Elder E. W. Webster is Cheraw, S. C.
S. B. Horton's home address is now 916 Third St., New Orleans, La.
The present address of the British Columbia Missionary Society is Port Hammond, British Columbia.
The workers in Scotland should be addressed at 11 Shandon Place, Edinboro, Scotland, instead of 79 Bruntsfield Place, as given in the Year-book.
_Publications Wanted_
[SPECIAL NOTE.—All who receive periodicals in answer to these calls are advised to examine them carefully before distributing them.—ED.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
E. C. Stopp, R. F. D. 1, Monclova, Ohio, tracts.
Maud Warren, 709 Florence St., Fort Worth, Tex., periodicals and tracts.
Mrs. Kate Taylor, 40 Schelay Court, Cleveland, Ohio, Signs, Life Boat, Good Health, Life and Health, Instructor, Watchman, and tracts.
Any one having books treating on physiology, botany, vocal music, astronomy, geometry, or soil chemistry, and wishing to donate the same to a poor, disabled brother, may send them, post-paid, to Sever Jacobson, Bottineau, N. D.
Moral Instruction in Public Schools
By Editor
It appears that the question of teaching morals in the public schools has recently been agitated in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was in this very city that the famous case of John D. Miner et al., vs. the Board of Education, was brought before the courts, resulting in the decision of the Supreme Court of the State sustaining the Board of Education in their decision that there should be no religious teaching or exercises in the schools under their care. In the recent agitation we learn that protests were presented to the Board of Education by a representative of the Jews, a representative of the non-religious element, and by the local pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist church. The frequent instances of a tendency for a union of church and state and for a state-taught and state-enforced religion are like straws on the surface, indicating the direction of the current at this time. Full advantage should be taken of every opportunity thus afforded to present right principles to the people.
By special request we have recently forwarded to a gentleman in Corsicana, Tex., copies of the REVIEW containing the full report of the campaign for and against the movement for the introduction of religious instruction into the public schools of this city. We have no special information as to the circumstances leading to this request, but judge that there may be a similar movement in this Southern city. The promoters of this movement announced that an influence in favor of religious teaching in public schools might go forth from this city to other parts of the country, and it appears that the efforts to educate the people concerning right principles may also have a wide influence.
News from China and Australia
IN the Editorial Department will be found the announcement of the death of Dr. Maude Thompson Miller, in Honan, China. We know that there will be universal sympathy and prayer for Dr. H. W. Miller and the work in Honan. Our sister was of the family of the faithful ones who loved not their lives unto the death, and her messages to us must ever appeal to all hearts to press the battle in China.
BROTHER W. D. SALISBURY, the business manager of the Echo Publishing Co., of Melbourne, Australia, spent one day in Washington last week on his way to New York. Brother Salisbury is one of the delegates to the General Conference from Australia.
Missionaries Arrive from China and Japan
WE learn that Brethren Anderson and Field, from China and Japan, have safely arrived in this country, and are proceeding eastward to the General Conference.
Cady Accepts Walla Walla Presidency
THE Board of Directors of Walla Walla College have invited Prof. M. E. Cady of Healdsburg College to take the position of president of the institution, and the invitation has been accepted.
Missionary News-Letter Reports
The Mission Board has just sent out the missionary news-letter for use in all the churches on the second Sabbath in May. This letter contains interesting reports from China, Turkey, Africa, the Caucasus, and St. Petersburg.
Australasian Signs Gains Circulation
By Editor
DURING the six months ending with March, the Australasian Signs of the Times made a net gain of over eleven hundred copies in its weekly circulation. We are glad to note this encouraging feature of the work in the Australasian field.
Review and Herald Association Meeting
THE members of the corporation known as the Review and Herald Publishing Association, should remember that the second annual meeting of the association will convene at Takoma Park on Wednesday, May 10, at 9 A. M. Two other legal corporations will hold meetings on the same day, and a good attendance of members is greatly desired.
Barn Destroyed by Fire
WE regret to learn that a barn at Edgefield, Tenn., belonging to Brother J. E. White, together with its contents, including four horses and some other stock, was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning, April 23. The loss is estimated at about fifteen hundred dollars. We understand that the insurance was only three hundred dollars. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Washburn Accepts Southern Training-School Call
BROTHER H. A. WASHBURN, who was compelled to resign his connection with Emmanuel Missionary College in order to seek the more favorable climate of Colorado, has now accepted a call to act as teacher of the Bible in the Southern Training-school at Graysville, Tenn.
Increase in Sabbath-School Donations
FROM the April number of the Sabbath School Worker we learn that the Sabbath-school donations for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1904, which are reported in full by conferences, exceed the amount donated the previous quarter by four thousand dollars. We hope this gain is a permanent one. Systematic attention to this matter on the part of the officers will yield large returns in increased donations, and thus aid materially in the advancement of the message.
Trumpet of Truth Library
The workers in Manitoba are issuing a series of tracts under the general heading “Trumpet of Truth Library.” Number two of this library is written by Elder W. M. Adams, the president of the Manitoba Conference, and is entitled “Are You a True Protestant?” It consists of eight pages, and is devoted to the Protestant principle of religious liberty. The first week in May has been set apart as a special time for the circulation of religious liberty literature throughout that conference.
For the Atlantic Union Conference
By H. W. Cottrell
IN harmony with the general movement throughout the United States, I hereby earnestly recommend that a collection be taken in all the churches of the Atlantic Union Conference for the Washington fund and for the Mission treasury, on Sabbath, May 13. Let notice of this collection be given on Sabbath, May 6. Read what is said in other parts of this paper about this movement.