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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 42.

The All-Abounding Love

Review and Herald

Oct 20, 1910

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 20, 1910

The All-Abounding Love

By Susan Coolidge

How infinite and sweet, Thou everywhere And all-abounding Love, Thy service is! Thou liest an ocean round my world of care, My petty every day; and, fresh and fair, Pourest Thy strong tides through all my crevices, Until the silence ripples into prayer.

That Thy full glory may abound, increase, And so Thy likeness shall be formed in me, I pray. The answer is not rest and peace, But charges, duties, wants, anxieties, Till there seems room for everything but Thee, And never time for anything but these.

And should I fear, but lo! amid the press, The whirl and hum and pressure, of my day, I hear Thy garment's sweep, Thy seamless dress, And close beside my work and weariness Discern Thy gracious form, not far away, But very near, O Lord, to help and bless.

The busy fingers fly; the eye may see Only the glancing needle which they hold, But all my life is blossoming inwardly, And every breath is like a litany, While through each labor, like a thread of gold, Is woven the sweet consciousness of Thee.

— Susan Coolidge.

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Signs of the Times

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Is the End Near?................................. .50
Important Questions on Great

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How the Sabbath Came to Me...................$3.00
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The Treasure and the Heart

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Mark these words of the Great Teacher, who spake as never man spake. He sets before you the course to pursue if you would serve your best interests in this life, and lay up for yourselves an eternal treasure. “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth.” There is danger of losing all in pursuit of worldly gain; for in the feverish eagerness for earthly treasure, higher interests are forgotten. The care and perplexity that are involved in laying up treasures upon the earth, leave no time nor desire to estimate the value of eternal riches. The glory of the world to come is eclipsed by the corruptible things of earth. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Your thoughts, your plans, your motives, will all have an earthly mold, and your soul will be defiled with covetousness and selfishness. “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” The day is coming when the idols of silver and gold will be cast to the moles and to the bats, and the rich men will weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon them.

Christ entreats, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” This work of transferring your possessions to the world above, is worthy of all your best energies. It is of the highest importance, and involves your eternal interests. That which you bestow in the cause of God is not lost. All that is given for the salvation of souls and the glory of God is invested in the most successful enterprise in this life and in the life to come. Your talents of gold and silver, if given to the exchangers, are gaining continually in value, which will be registered to your account in the kingdom of heaven. You are to be the recipients of the eternal wealth that has increased in the hands of the exchangers. In giving to the work of God, you are laying up treasures for yourselves in heaven. All that you lay up above is secure from disaster and loss, and is increasing to an eternal, an enduring substance.

It should be your determined purpose to bring every power of your being into the service of Christ. His service is profitable for the life that now is, and for that which is to come. If your thoughts, your plans, your purposes, are all directed toward the accumulation of the things of the earth, your anxiety, your study, your interests, will all be centered upon the world. The heavenly attractions will lose their beauty. The glories of the eternal world will cease to have the force of reality to you. Your heart will be with your treasure, and every faculty of your mind will be so concentrated on the work you have chosen, that you will not heed the warnings and entreaties of the Word and Spirit of God. You will have no time to devote to the study of the Scriptures and to earnest prayer, that you may escape the snares of Satan, and render intelligent obedience to your Heavenly Father.

Satan has nets and snares, like the snares of the fowler, all prepared to entrap souls. It is his studied purpose that men shall employ their God-given powers for selfish ends rather than yield them to glorify God. God would have men engage in a work that will bring them peace and joy, and will render them eternal profits; but Satan wants us to concentrate our efforts for that which profiteth not, for things that perish with the using. The service of Satan is one of care, perplexity, anxiety, and wearing labor, and the treasure men toil to accumulate on earth is only for a season. The greatest caution is exercised in the worldly investment of means, that the expenditure may yield a good profit; but in things of eternal concern the utmost indifference is displayed. O, that the great interests of the world to come were appreciated! Why is it that men are so unconcerned about the salvation of the soul, when it was purchased at such a cost by the Son of God?

The heart of man may be the abode of the Holy Spirit. The peace of Christ that passeth all understanding may rest in your soul, and the transforming power of his grace may work in your life, and fit you for the courts of glory. But if brain and nerve and muscle are all employed in the service of self, you are not making God and heaven the first consideration of your life. It is impossible to be weaving the graces of Christ into your character while you are putting all your energies on the side of the world. You may be successful in heaping up treasure on the earth, for the glory of self; but “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Eternal considerations will be made of secondary importance. You may take part in the outward forms of worship; but your service will be an abomination to the God of heaven. You can not serve God and mammon. You will either yield your whole heart and put your will on the side of God, or you will give your energies to the service of the world. God will accept no half-hearted service.

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” If the eye is single, if it is directed heavenward, the light of heaven will fill the soul, and earthly things will appear insignificant and uninviting. The purpose of the heart will be changed, and the admonition of Jesus will be heeded. You will lay up your treasure in heaven. Your thoughts will be fixed upon the great rewards of eternity. All your plans will be made in reference to the future immortal life. You will be drawn toward your treasure. You will not study your worldly interest; but in all your pursuits the silent inquiry will be, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” Bible religion will be woven into your daily life.

The true Christian does not allow an earthly consideration to come in between his soul and God. The commandment of God wields an authoritative influence over his affections and actions. If every one seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness would be always ready to work the works of Christ, how much easier would become the path to heaven! The blessings of God would flow into the soul, and the praises of the Lord would be on your lips continually. You would then serve God from principle. Your feelings might not always be of a joyous nature; clouds would at times shadow the horizon of your experience; but the Christian’s hope does not rest upon the sandy foundation of feeling. Those who act from principle, will behold the glory of God beyond the shadows

and rest upon the sure word of promise. They will not be deterred from honoring God, however dark the way may seem. Adversity and trial will only give them an opportunity to show the sincerity of their faith and love. When depression settles upon the soul, it is no evidence that God has changed. He is “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.” You are sure of the favor of God when you are sensible of the beams of the Sun of Righteousness; but if the clouds sweep over your soul, you must not feel that you are forsaken. Your faith must pierce the gloom. Your eye must be single, and your whole body will be full of light. The riches of the grace of Christ must be kept before the mind. Treasure up the lessons that his love provides. Let your faith be like Job’s, that you may declare, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” Lay hold on the promises of your Heavenly Father, and remember his former dealings with you and with his servants; for “all things work together for good to them that love God.”

The most trying experiences in the Christian’s life may be the most blessed. The special providences of the dark hours may encourage the soul in future attacks of Satan, and equip the servant of God to stand the fiery trials. The trial of your faith is more precious than gold. You must have that abiding confidence in God that is not disturbed by the temptations and arguments of the deceiver. Take the Lord at his word. You must study the promises, and appropriate them as you have need. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Become rooted and grounded in the Word; then you will not renounce the important truths for this time, which are to exert a sanctifying influence upon your life and character.

It is faith that familiarizes the soul with the existence and presence of God; and when we live with an eye single to his glory, we discern more and more the beauty of his character. Our souls become strong in spiritual power; for we are breathing the atmosphere of heaven, and realizing that God is at our right hand, that we shall not be moved. Faith sees that God witnesses every word and action, and that everything is manifest to him with whom we have to do. We should live as in the presence of the infinite One.

“God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,” that the lost might be reclaimed. The sacrifice and mediation of Christ have brought the repentant soul into sacred relations with the eternal Father. He who has tasted and found that the Lord is good, can not bear the thought of following in the path of transgression. It is pain to him to violate the law of that God who has so loved him. He avails himself of the help which God has promised, ceases his disobedience, flees to Christ, and, through faith in his blood, receives remission of sin. The divine hand is reached to the aid of every repentant soul. Divine wisdom will order the steps of those who put their trust in the Lord. Divine love will encircle them, and they will realize the presence of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.

If the eye is single to the glory of God, the treasure will be laid up above, safe from all corruption or loss; and “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Jesus will be the pattern that you will seek to imitate. The law of the Lord will be your delight, and at the day of the final reckoning you will hear the glad words, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”

The Lord Hath Need of Thee

By MATILDA ERICKSON

MATILDA ERICKSON

(Concluded)

How to Hold Our Youth

THERE is nothing that will so well shield young Christians from the enemy's blows, nothing which will so well hold and train them, as Christian service. Some other denominations have tried literary societies, musicals, and mutual improvement clubs; but workers have found that the novelty soon wears off. Those methods neither hold the unconverted nor develop those who are already Christians. The importance of serving is well illustrated by an incident that occurred during the stormy night of Feb. 11, 1907. Two ships collided. The “Larchmont” sank immediately, with nearly all on board. A father and son somehow got into a boat. The father took the oars, and after a desperate struggle with the waves reached the shore exhausted. He turned to the boy, but, alas! there in frozen garments lay the lifeless form of his child. Rowing would have saved him.

Our youth may have the best of intentions — doubtless the boy in the boat did: but there is no more perilous position for Christians than to merely be content to do nothing wrong. Everywhere the frosts of sin are freezing inactive Christians; temptations are all about them; and aside from the grace of God, nothing will build so strong a barrier as that of being fully occupied in God's work. Thousands of young people in the world are being ruined by bad literature. Mr. Comstock has ventured to say that Satan has no more active agent in civilized nations for subjecting humanity to himself than bad literature. Multitudes are led astray through evil associates. We are told that Nero and Caligula, both monsters of cruelty, were very promising boys, but their associates were evil. The cheap theaters are a fast-spreading pestilence in our land. Then the industrial world is bidding high for young men and women to fill positions, many of which mean honest, useful toil. But the Lord has appointed the youth to be his helping hand in working out his plan of salvation; and truly “life holds no privilege more precious than to give itself for the salvation of men.”

Co-operation

It is to help the church in saving her youth for service, that the Young People's Department has been organized. Some years ago Francis Clark, leader in Christian Endeavor work, said that during the fifteen years after the Christian Endeavor organization, twice as many young people were added to the evangelical churches as during the previous fifteen years. It is hard to get figures which will give us a true conception of the work in our own denomination; but while our Missionary Volunteer organization has not done all that we wish it might have accomplished, the Lord has marvelously blessed the work for the salvation of our youth.

But all plans laid for work are only weapons for our warfare — weapons to help us in protecting the youth. Reports are but evidences of what can be done. What is being done in your community? Has not God blessed you in what you have attempted to do? In order to protect the young people from the temptations about them, and train them for service, we must all co-operate. The responsibility lies heavily upon the church, the home, and the individual. Wherever a family altar has been broken down, there is a breach in the wall through which the enemy may steal. Wherever there is one person, from the most prominent worker in the conference to the most obscure member in some small church, who is failing to do all in his power to save the youth for service,—wherever there is such a one,—there the wall needs repairing. His very negligence is an invitation for the enemy to enter. Wherever a young person is found, there comes the call to enlist, to hold, and to train such a one.

Nor count that duty small. Do you remember the story of the old Scotch minister? One year he toiled and prayed, but gained only one convert, and he “only a boy,” as the deacon sneeringly remarked to the devoted old man. But the minister refused to be discouraged; he clung to the lad, taught him, and some years later a voice whispered to that same lad, “The Lord hath need of thee” in Africa. He went to Africa, and heaven only knows what a blessing Robert Moffat was to that benighted land; yet at one time he was “only a boy.” Do you not think that the effort paid? Only a girl — but one day she laid her life upon the altar of service for the sufferers of the Crimean War. Several years ago, when a number of the old soldiers were asked who rendered the best service in that war, every one wrote the name of Florence Nightingale. Do you not think it worth while to lead other young women to consecrate themselves to unselfish service for God and for humanity?

Will you not firmly resolve that no young people touching your life shall be lost if it is possible for you and God working together to save them?

Takoma Park, D. C.

He Careth

What can it mean? Is it aught to Him That the days are long, and the nights are dim? Can he be touched by the griefs I bear, Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair?

About his throne are eternal calms, And strong, glad music of happy psalms, And bliss unruffled by any strife,— How can he care for my little life?

And yet I want him to care for me, While I live in this world where sorrows be, When the lights die down from the path I take; When strength is feeble, and friends forsake; And love and music, which once did bless, Have left me to silence and loneliness; Then my heart song changes to sobbing prayers, And my heart cries out for a God who cares.

When shadows hang o’er the whole day long, And my spirit is bowed with shame and wrong, And I am not good, and the bitter shade Of conscious sin makes my soul afraid; When the busy world has too much to do To stay in its courses and help me through, And I long for a Saviour,—can it be That the God of the universe cares for me?

O, wonderful story of deathless love,— Each child is dear to that heart above! He fights for me when I can not fight; He comforts me in the gloom of night. He lifts the burden, for he is strong; He stills the sigh and wakes the song; The sorrows that bear me down he shares, And loves and pardons because he cares.

Let all who are sad take heart again. We are not alone in our hours of pain; Our Father looks from his throne above To soothe and comfort us with his love. He leaves us not when the storms are high, And we have safety — for he is nigh. Can that be trouble which he doth share? O, rest in peace, for the Lord will care!

—Selected.

The Slaughter of the Innocents

By Mrs. Martha M. Allen

PROF. JOHN PEASE NORTON, of Yale University, in his pamphlet showing the need of a National Department of Health at Washington, makes the prediction that if present mortality rates prevail, six million infants under two years of age will die within the next decade. Last year in Greater New York 15,977 infants less than a year old died from causes largely preventable. Probably four fifths of these were from tenement homes.

Why do these babies die?—Largely because of ignorance on the part of mothers as to how to care for them. The New York City board of health is now teaching that there are ten deaths of bottle-fed babies to one of breast-fed infants. Acute gastro-intestinal diseases carry off twenty-eight per cent of these babies; these diseases result from artificial feeding, and from the giving of food difficult to digest.

Ignorant mothers feed little children exactly as they feed themselves, not knowing that the infantile stomach is incapable of digesting anything but the simplest foods. Convulsions almost always belong with gastric disturbances. Impure milk is responsible for many deaths. Proprietary foods are also responsible for a share of the infant mortality. Not long ago a young mother was lamenting the untimely death of her babe. Questioning elicited the information that the attending physician had advised that the child be fed upon a liquid proprietary “food,” which contains a considerable percentage of alcohol. The young mother had no idea that her little one had been starved to death, and the friend to whom she confided her grief had not the heart to tell her.

Proprietary “foods” were under discussion in the section of pharmacology and therapeutics of the American Medical Association at the 1909 session; and Dr. Abraham Jacobi, of New York, said of them: “I have been writing against baby ‘foods’ for forty years, and I believe some one must write against them for forty years more; and still some physicians will prescribe them. . . . There is only one reason why proprietary ‘foods’ should be given, and that is to enrich men who want to be enriched.” Dr. John Howland, of New York, speaking of the alcoholic “food” preparations, said that if a babe of six months were given enough of one of these foods to nourish it (provided even that the alcohol part were food), it would cost about a dollar a day, and would require the child to take, in twenty-four hours, alcohol equivalent to six ounces of brandy,—enough to terminate his brief life, or to keep him in a continuous state of alcoholic stupor.

Mothers should learn that there is no drug-store food equal to freshly cooked foods, as the freshness is essential to nourishment. Oatmeal or corn-meal gruel, cooked for hours in a double boiler, and then diluted with clean, good milk, is better and safer than any expensive prepared foods sold in drug stores.

Multitudes of babies have died as a result of soothing sirups, administered in ignorance of their alcoholic and morphin contents. Morphin cough sirups and croup sirups have also added their quota to the death list.

Parental alcoholism is a potent cause of infant mortality. In England, it is said that about sixteen hundred infants are killed yearly by overlying by drunken parents. This has recently been made a criminal offense in that country. The drinking of alcohol by parents, especially by the mother, leads to lowered vitality in the children, hence to lowered resistance to disease. Bunge, of Switzerland, has made a special study of the effects of parental drinking upon children. He states that the daughters of drunken fathers are frequently unable to suckle their children, and this inability goes down to the second generation. He says, also, that there is no real substitute for mother’s milk; that mother’s milk contains a substance, lecithin, which enters into the construction of the brain; hence breast-fed children will have better brain power, other things being equal, than babies fed upon cow’s milk or artificial foods.

From fifteen to twenty-five per cent of the blindness in America is said to be due to immoral living. The sins of the husband and father are visited upon the innocent wife and child.

In New York City at present, efforts are being made to teach the poorer mothers how to care for their children’s health. At depots where pure milk is sold, classes are taught by physicians and trained nurses. The need of cleanliness, the harmfulness of overdressing in warm weather (suggested by long red flannel bandages on some Italian babies), the value of breast-feeding, and the danger of feeding with crackers, sugar, tea, and beer, are all clearly set forth.

It would not be out of place to have classes for the instruction of mothers from better homes, whose little ones are allowed, even in the extreme heat of midsummer, to eat all kinds of indigestible food, at as frequent intervals as they wish. Sudden deaths from convulsions might be prevented by knowledge of the danger of acute indigestion in hot weather, and some bright and beautiful lives might be spared to gladden homes now sorrowful because of the vacant high-chair.—Mrs. Martha M. Allen, in address before the Mothers’ Congress at Chautauqua, N. Y.

Helen Keller’s Life Resolution

By Helen Keller

I HAVE, like other people, I suppose, made many resolutions that I have broken or only half kept; but the one which I send you, and which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this — always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush nor dwarf my soul, but rather be made to “blossom, like Aaron’s rod, with flowers.”—Helen Keller.

East China Mission

By R. F. COTTRELL

R. F. COTTRELL

It is now a year and a half since the reorganization of the China Mission, and the division of the field into local missions, which unite to form the China Union Mission. The provinces of Anhwei, Kiangsu, and Chekiang, having a total area of one hundred thirty thousand square miles, and a population of sixty millions, were to comprise the East China Mission. At that time a superintendent was chosen; but otherwise the East China Mission was to all practical purposes merely a “geographical expression.”

A few months later, a native evangelist of several years’ experience, who was the leader of a little company at Ying Shang Hsien, Anhwei, became interested in present truth, and sent an earnest invitation to one of our foreign workers to come and teach him more of the message. As Brethren F. A. Allum and H. W. Miller have both written concerning this remarkable opening, we will simply mention the fact that at present there is at Ying Shang Hsien a Seventh-day Adventist church of twenty-one members, six of whom are now devoting their whole time to the advancement of the work.

THE MING TOMB, JUST OUTSIDE THE SOUTH GATE, NANKING

Ying Shang Hsien is not a large place, neither is it a central location for the headquarters of our work in the province. The Tientsin Pukow Railway, which is to connect the cities of the Lower Yangtse-kiang with those of north China, will run north and south through a portion of this province. This railroad is now nearing completion, and it will probably be advisable to locate our principal station in Anhwei, on or near this railroad. Brother and Sister Frederick Lee, who came out to China last fall, are located in this province, and are making good progress in their language study. Another family should join them this autumn.

In the northern and western parts of this mission field, the language of the people is Mandarin; but along the coast, in the southeastern portion, we find quite a diversity of tongues, these being known as the “Wu dialects.” One of these is the Shanghai, which is said to be spoken by nearly twenty millions. Two years ago, when Sister B. Miller reached China, she began the study of this dialect. About the first of the present year, Brother and Sister O. J. Fisher, of Southern California, arrived and joined her in its study. In the early spring, a good location was secured in Kashing, a city on the Shanghai and Hanchau Railway, in the northern part of the Chekiang province. Here these three workers are located. They are happy, and confident that the Lord has some honest, responsive hearts in that place.

In the western part of the Kiangsu province, on the southern bank of the Yangtse-kiang, is Nanking, the ancient capital of China. Its wall is perhaps seventy feet high on an average, fifty feet wide, and is twenty-four miles in circumference. Nanking is a great educational center, and because of its location, it is destined to become a great commercial and railway center. In June there was opened in this city the first great Chinese industrial exposition. No one who has ever attended one of the great fairs in America, if placed upon these exposition grounds, would be at a loss to know what was taking place. The plan of the grounds, the spacious greyish-white buildings, the electrical display, and the arrangement of the exhibits, are all clear evidences of its kinship to those of Western lands.

A GLIMPSE OF THE ROADWAY LEADING TO
THE MING TOMB — A GLIMPSE OF THE ROADWAY LEADING TO THE MING TOMB

But this is not all. Nothing that has thus far occurred has given more unmistakable proof of the awakening of China than has this great gathering. For some time we have been planning to start work in Nanking; and it was therefore felt that the present was an opportune time for giving the message to those who, from many parts of the empire, are gathering in this place. Accordingly, a small mission compound has been rented, and seven of our native workers have been called to spend the summer in Nanking. We are printing two special editions of our Chinese paper for the use of these workers; and already they have sold over two thousand copies. Several very bright Chinese are deeply interested, a part of whom have expressed their determination to keep all the commandments of God. This work is in charge of Brethren E. Pilquist and F. A. Allum.

We are most thankful that a beginning has been made in each of these provinces. Still, when we consider the immensity of the work before us, which is truly beyond human strength and comprehension, we can take courage only in the thought that Christ has promised to be with us to the end of the world. And in this we have assurance. He is able to raise up men and means to finish the work. By his Holy Spirit our feeble efforts may be strengthened and multiplied.

Brethren and sisters, we ask you to pray for the work and workers,—pray, knowing that He who has begun the work, will soon finish it triumphantly.

Shanghai.

Peru

By O. H. MAXSON

O. H. MAXSON

The eight months we have been in Peru have passed very quickly. We often think of the pleasant evening at the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium before our departure, and of the friendship and good will expressed to us. I wish all who are called to leave their native land might carry away with them as pleasant memories to cheer them in their distant fields.

When we arrived, we found Brother A. N. Allen in poor health; and I was glad to be able to relieve him by beginning to take over the office work. This I could not have done if I had not taken Spanish in the Foreign Mission Seminary. Letter-writing was at first very slow, but it was good practise, and our native workers corrected all the letters before they were sent out. Now I can write an ordinary letter almost as quickly in Spanish as in English.

As our families are so far from Lima, we have organized a small Sabbath-school in Bella Vista. We gather in the neighbor children, usually from six to ten,

and hold the school in the afternoon, as Brother Allen and myself attend the Sabbath-school at Lima in the morning. Here I have been teaching the senior class since April, and when Brother Allen is away, I have charge of the prayer-meeting and the Sabbath services. In these meetings we have a Bible study, different ones reading the texts.

On account of the necessary office work, I have not tried to build up the treatment work, though some treatments have been given. I believe that if one were to devote his time to it, plenty of this work could be found.

July 1, in company with Elder Allen, I made my first trip to the mountains. We left Callao at daylight, and in three quarters of an hour we were in the foothills of the great Andes. From this point there is a continuous steep up-hill grade. A little before ten o'clock we reached San Bartolome, forty-eight miles from Callao, and nearly five thousand feet higher. Here we found Brother Flores, who was waiting for us with horses to cross the sierra into the valley where he lives. As it was my first experience on a mountain trail, there were times when I was glad my little animal knew more about mountain climbing than I did. After an hour's climb, we reached the top of the ridge. Here I saw a pile of stones, but no cross. Asking the reason, I learned that this brother had broken it off, and cast it down the mountain.

About a year ago Brother Flores received some copies of the Señales. He at once began to study the truth, and wrote to the office that many were interested in it also. After a three days' meeting with these people, six were baptized; several others acknowledged the truth, but would go no further. We pray that these new believers may remain firm under the persecution which surrounds them, and we hope to see others follow their Lord.

In this valley, as in hundreds of others, is still to be seen the work of the Incas. Some of the mountains are terraced to their tops, and water is carried to them by canals built centuries ago. Though only a part of the mountainsides is now tilled, the terraces remain, showing that there was a time when every foot of ground that would produce anything was under cultivation.

For nearly a year Brother Flores has used his spare time in selling Bibles and our literature, so all in his valley have had an opportunity to hear the message. But this is only one of hundreds of similar valleys. Who will carry the message to them? Our hope lies in the young men who accept the truth. They will take a bundle of books; and if they sell only a few cents' worth a day, it will be enough to keep them, as their wants are few. This brother has just ordered more books and some Bibles, and is starting out on a tour. Our seven canvassers are also working away, although in some parts the people are prejudiced, and they sell little.

Lima.

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