NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Western Washington Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual camp meeting and conference, at Manitou Park, Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 24 to Sept. 3, 1916. The first meeting will be held at 9:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 29. The Western Washington Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists will also hold meetings at this time, but the constituency will be notified by letter in regard to the time.
LEWIS JOHNSON, President.
T. L. COPELAND, Secretary.
Tennessee River Conference
By W. R. ELLIOTT; F. C. BRUCE
THE twenty-ninth annual session of the Tennessee River Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp meeting, at Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 3-13, 1916, for the purpose of electing officers, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the conference. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to one additional delegate for each ten members. The first meeting of the conference will convene at 9 A. M., Friday, August 4.
W. R. ELLIOTT, President.
F. C. BRUCE, Secretary.
Tennessee River Conference Association
By W. R. Elliott; F. C. Bruce
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Tennessee River Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the conference and camp meeting, Aug. 3-13, 1916, at Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of electing a board of trustees, changing the by-laws to provide for the election of officers for a term of two years instead of one, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the constituency. All properly accredited delegates to the Tennessee River Conference are voters in the Association. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M., Monday, August 7.
W. R. ELLIOTT, President.
F. C. BRUCE, Secretary.
North Texas Conference
By J. I. Taylor; A. M. Woodall
THE North Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its thirty-ninth session July 20-30, 1916, on the camp ground at Waxahachie, Tex., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as should properly come before the meeting. The first meeting is called to convene at 9 A. M., Friday, July 21, 1916. Each local church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to an additional delegate for each fifteen members or major part thereof. The conference executive committee and ordained ministers are conference delegates.
J. I. TAYLOR, President.
A. M. WOODALL, Secretary.
Bible Readings for the Home Circle
By G. B. Thompson
Trade Edition—Revised
IN placing this new book on the market, we are offering the best trade edition of a subscription book ever got out. It contains all the texts of the new “Bible Readings,” which has proved such a success, with the additional feature of thin Bible paper of a soft creamy tint. While it contains nearly 600 pages, it is only five eighths of an inch thick in the flexible binding, and less than three fourths of an inch thick in the cloth binding.
It has 18 sections on practical, historic, and prophetic topics; 200 readings on as many subjects; and 4,000 questions answered by direct Bible quotations.
The leather book will, because of its flexibility and compactness, appeal to all classes of workers. In size of page, binding, and price, it is uniform with “The Great Controversy,” “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Daniel and the Revelation,” and “The Acts of the Apostles.”
A book for the quiet hour. It develops the practical side of the Christian life; strengthens faith, hope, courage, and other Christian graces. It assists in making Christianity a real thing to the Christian, and the believer an aid and benefactor to those about him.
The book is naturally divided into three sections: First, a didactic treatise of the subject of the Holy Spirit (chapters 1-9), dealing with such topics as the Spirit in the Old and the New Testament, the promise and the advent of the Spirit; second, the effect of the Holy Spirit on the life (chapters 10-24), as indicated by the titles, “Prayer,” “The Tongue,” “Faith;” third, the effect of the Holy Spirit (chapters 25-31).
Lay aside business and forget the perplexities of life long enough to study this book and receive added power for future usefulness.
The book will be a valuable addition to any library.
Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C.
“The Best Paper Published”
RECENTLY one of our general workers, while giving a report of the work done for our periodicals at camp meeting, said:—
“The Sabbath School Worker takes care of itself. Everybody likes it. It gives the people just what they need to know about the Sabbath school lessons,—how to study and to teach them. It is the best paper published in the denomination—best because it simply delivers the goods needed.”
From Those Who Use It
“I feel that no teacher can do his best without the Worker. I have come to look upon it as a most valuable help to me in the Sabbath school work.”
Another
“The Worker is the most practical paper I have ever taken. While it is not particularly literary, it just meets my needs in the Sabbath school work. It hits the nail on the head every time. I wish all our magazines would fulfil their purpose as completely as does that good little Worker.”
Still Another Writes
“The Sabbath School Worker is my stronghold in Sabbath school work. I have taken it now for a number of years. Its general articles have helped me to understand the duties of every office I have filled. The teachers’ Training Course I have found of inestimable value. The various plans in the Worker I adapt for use in our own particular school, which is a small one in a little country town.”
The Midsummer Offering
By I. H. Evans
WHEN Sabbath, July 29, comes, the time when the Midsummer Offering will be taken, nearly seven months of the year 1916 will be gone, and the year's close hastening apace. At the present writing our mission offerings are far short of the full twenty cents a week per member. It is hoped that the year 1916 will bring a large ingathering of funds for foreign missions and for the liquidation of the indebtedness on our institutions. Fifteen cents a week from each member goes to the Mission Board, and all above that is to pay the indebtedness on institutions in the Division Conference.
At the present time we have no available comparison of the financial results of the years 1914 and 1915. The statistics for 1915 are not complete; but it is hoped that the liabilities in the North American Division Conference were lessened, and we believe that still more will be paid in 1916 than in 1915.
Then, too, the mission offerings must have their full tally for foreign fields. Greater demands are being made on the Mission Board for men and means than ever before. Developments in the Far East have already grown to such an extent that additional facilities must be provided in most lines of our work. The sending of each new family calls for a new home. Schools must be supplied in many places for the training of those who accept the message. Facilities which were once adequate have already proved unequal to the needs, and additional machinery and equipment must be installed in several of the fields if we keep pace with the progress of the work. Reports from abroad are encouraging, and the possibilities of successful work far exceed anything in the past. It seems pitiful that we cannot meet the reasonable demands of our brethren for new recruits. If ever in the history of God's work large offerings and a united front were a necessity, they are now.
The omens of encouragement are numerous in both home and foreign fields. The people are anxiously inquiring the meaning of current events. Even in war-stricken Europe, the results of the labor bestowed have been encouraging and marvelous. Not only has the gathering of general funds kept pace with every previous year's record, but the tithes have been more abundant. This seems the more amazing when one thinks of the nations involved in war, and the existing conditions among the people.
God has given us in America great prosperity. Since the dawn of recorded history the world probably has never seen a time of such unprecedented prosperity as we are having in the United States. The demands for labor are constant and insistent. Wages paid are more liberal than ever before. Work awaits nearly all who desire it. Wages are unprecedentedly high, and, while living is expensive, yet there is a call for investments such as the world has seldom seen.
In the North American Division Conference this financial prosperity is almost universal. Of course, there must be some local exceptions, owing to storms and calamities uncontrolled by man; but generally the prosperity in the North American Division Conference is beyond anything ever known before. Then why should we not roll up a Midsummer Offering far exceeding anything ever yet given? A few years ago the Midsummer Offering frequently reached twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars. This year we could easily pass fifty thousand dollars, if we undertook it. The money given in the Midsummer Offering applies on the twenty cents a week, so that none need hesitate to give large amounts. We are hoping for the best Midsummer Offering in the history of the work. Remember the date,—Sabbath, July 29.
I. H. EVANS.
Death of Victor Allen
WITH sorrow we learn of the death of Victor Allen, youngest son of Elder and Sister A. N. Allen, of Cuba. Our sympathy is with these workers thus called to mourn.
Victory Against the Oregon Sunday Law
Word has just come from Oregon that the efforts of the Sunday law advocates to submit a Sunday bill to the vote of the people have failed through lack of sufficient signatures to submit it through referendum. This surely is a victory for the cause of religious liberty.
Elder Butler Visits Takoma Park
It was a great pleasure to the Takoma Park church to listen to a sermon from Elder G. I. Butler two weeks ago, as he passed through Washington to his home in Florida. Elder J. S. Washburn, of Philadelphia, spent several days in Washington, in company with Elder Butler.
The Cuban Messenger
The cyclostyle news sheets published in various mission fields are always interesting reading to us, as well as those printed from type. The latest to come to us is El Mensajero Cubano (The Cuban Messenger), published at San Marcos, Cuba, and filled with interesting reports from that active little field.
New Workers in India
New workers are appreciated in the fields. The Eastern Tidings, of India, reports the arrival of Brother and Sister Floyd Smith at the Garhwal School in the Himalayas, accompanied by a procession which met them three miles and a half from the school, garlanding the members of the party with flowers, and escorting them “to the accompaniment of Indian drums and fifes.”
Workers for the Hawaiian Islands
We have omitted to record the departure of workers to the Hawaiian Islands field in June. Brother and Sister L. V. Bowerman, of Loma Linda, sailed last month for Honolulu, to work in connection with the treatment-rooms in that city. Passage that month was also secured for Miss Bertha Lofstad, of the British Columbia Conference, who will act as secretary and treasurer of the Hawaiian Mission.
Literature Distributed in Pittsburgh
SINCE March, 3,254,489 pages of literature in tract form have been distributed in Pittsburgh, Pa. About three million pages of these were mailed to those who attended the Pitt Theater meetings and asked for literature on the subjects presented.
Returning to the Mission Fields
We have been glad to greet in Washington, Elder and Mrs. I. G. Knight, of Oregon, who passed through on their way to New York, from which port they are sailing this week for Georgetown, British Guiana. Brother and Sister Knight formerly spent some years in Central America, and are glad to return to the mission fields.
An Aged Colporteur’s Good Report
A LETTER from an aged sister in Ohio tells of the work of her husband, Brother D. W. Edwards, who has been selling the little book "Armageddon." Brother Edwards is past eighty-one years of age and afflicted with bronchial asthma, and yet even in that condition has already sold $45 worth of this little book, and has sent in his order to the tract society for $10 worth more. This is surely a good report, and should encourage many of our brethren and sisters to go and do likewise.
Cheering Reports from the Philippines
AGAIN there comes from the Philippines one of those wonderfully cheering reports. Elder L. V. Finster writes: “I am glad to tell you that we have had some most wonderful interests from our tent meetings thus far this year. The one located in San Pablo, which has been conducted by our native evangelist, has been greatly blessed. Thus far I have baptized one hundred and thirty persons there, and expect to baptize forty more next week. They are of the better class of people, and there seems to be a deep interest in that place. The tent meeting here in Manila also was very fruitful. After the first series we baptized sixty-six persons, and we are now holding meetings in another place, and expect to have some there to baptize later on. Our canvassers are also having good success with their books, and we expect to put up the largest record this year in our book sales we have ever had in the Philippine Islands.”
A Catholic Priest Finds the Bible
WRITING from Iloilo, in the Philippine Islands, where a new work is being opened up, Elder Elbridge M. Adams tells of a native Catholic priest who found a Bible lying on the table in a house that he visited. "Several days he came to read the Book. Noticing the look of sadness on his face, the lady of the house inquired as to its meaning. 'This book,' he said, 'is the Word of God. The things in it are true. If I had known this Word before, I would never have taken oath of allegiance to the Catholic Church.'" "The words of the priest," Brother Adams says, "awakened the woman's interest in her Bible, and she is studying this truth."
CONTENTS
NOTE AND COMMENT........................ 2
EDITORIALS
The Isolated Ones—The Church and Dancing—How They Work for It—The Law ........................ 3-5
GENERAL ARTICLES
Warfare, A. J. Bristol........................ 6
Christian Experience—No. 2, W. E. Hancock ........................ 7
Changed into His Image, Mrs. E. G. White ........................ 7
The Atonement—No. 5, J. O. Corliss........................ 8
A Successful Life, J. M. Hopkins........................ 9
Camp Meetings and Long Sermons, C. P. Whitford ........................ 9
THE WORLD-WIDE FIELD........................ 10, 11