Review and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 31. (8/3/1905)

Review and Herald

Aug 3, 1905

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 3, 1905

JOPPA

Joppa is one of the most ancient of the world's seaports. Its historical importance was derived from its relation to Jerusalem, being the natural port through which flowed the traffic and travel between Jerusalem and the western world. It was a border town of the tribe of Dan, and is situated in a large plain, about forty-five miles northwest of the Jewish capital. It has a very poor harbor, affording but little protection to ships that come within it, but it is believed to have had a much better harbor anciently.

To the annals of Joppa belong many interesting incidents of sacred history. Here the ships of Hiram, king of Tyre, landed the timber for the building of Solomon's temple. Here Jonah, fleeing from the Lord, took ship for Tarsus, and embarked upon his short but eventful voyage. Here Peter, upon the housetop, had his vision of the sheet let down from heaven, filled with clean and unclean creatures, which he was bidden to slay and eat. Here dwelt the woman Dorcas, “full of good works and almsdeeds,” who was raised from the dead by Peter.

At the time of Judas Maccabeus and on a number of occasions since, the town was subjected to the vicissitudes of war, sustaining several sieges. It was a natural objective point of the Crusaders, and was taken by them from the Saracens, but was retaken by the latter when they recovered their ground in Palestine after the power of the Crusades was spent. Its last siege and capture took place as late as 1776, at which time its inhabitants were barbarously massacred.

The modern town of Joppa rests on a promontory jutting out into the sea, and rising to a height of about one hundred and fifty feet above its level. The buildings face chiefly to the northward, and are crowded very closely together, appearing in places to stand one upon another, on account of the steepness of the site. The streets, as would be expected, are very narrow, and are also very uneven and dirty. The inhabitants number between four and five thousand, of whom about six hundred are Christians, the remainder being Turks and Arabs. The Latins, Greeks, and Armenians have each a small convent for the reception of pilgrims.

The Publishers’ Forum

By Editor

Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review & Herald Publishing Association

WE trust that our readers will be more interested than ever in this page this week. “The Publishers’ Forum” is a new departure, and will appear from time to time on this page. Interesting notes in regard to our publications and some of the experiences of those who are circulating them will be published here. Will not our friends send us notes for the “Forum”? Mark all correspondence for this department “For the Publishers’ Forum.”

IT would do you good to take a peep into our Circulation Department. Even during this very warm weather there has been an incessant clatter of typewriters, turning out letters to agents and others, acknowledging their orders, and telling them about the good things now published or soon to appear in our publications.

NEARLY all agree that the Worker is an excellent help to them in the Sabbath-school. Not long ago we had a most interesting Sabbath-school convention here in Washington, at which several most excellent and instructive papers were read; one of the best was, “The Teacher’s Duty to Her Class,” by Prof. B. G. Wilkinson. This is printed in the August number of the Worker, and you will find it a real, practical help.

How is this for a report from territory near one of our long-established sanitariums, and which has been canvassed over again and again? In 40 hours 57 orders were taken at a value of $90.45, and helps to the amount of $4.95 sold. In addition to this $25.50 worth of books were delivered. The book used was “Heralds of the Morning.” What an excellent time this is to circulate books of this class which deal with matters so prominently and vividly presented from day to day in the newspapers.

IF you have trouble keeping that active boy or girl interested on the Sabbath, send and get a copy of the “Master’s Greatest Monosyllables.” This little book is full of those little anecdotes the young enjoy so well. They are not told as stories, but each one is brought in so that it emphasizes some truth. It stimulates an ambition in the child to do more active service for the Lord and to live better each day. One of these anecdotes will be sufficient to show the character of the book. Illustrating Christ’s monosyllable “Go!” a story is told of a drummer boy in Napoleon’s army, who, being asked to beat a retreat, said, “I was never taught a retreat, but I can beat a charge, sir, that will bring the dead into line. Shall I beat a charge, sir?” This shows the courage one should have to “go” forward while fighting the battle of life under a King who has never known defeat.

IN Life and Health for August, Mrs. Tuxford has some recipes for summer dishes that are most inviting. In the same department are some recipes for water ices. These are so nice on a hot day, and so much purer and better if made at home. This is only a suggestion of the good things in Life and Health. Fifty cents a year seems a very small price for such a magazine. Are you a subscriber?

HAVE you been trying to interest some friend in our literature? If so, possibly you will allow us a suggestion. The little book “Lover’s Love” is one of the most interesting of all our publications. You can interest almost any one with it. It is free from sectarian points of faith, and yet sets forth the gospel pure and simple, from the text John 3:16. When you have an interest aroused, follow it up with such a book as “Steps to Christ.” By the time this has been read, it is probable your friend will desire to read something more by the same author, and then you have at your command a splendid array of our denominational works.

THE International Sunday-school Lessons for 1906 are to be on the life of Jesus, as recorded in the three Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. What an excellent opportunity this will afford to introduce “Desire of Ages” to the Sunday-school officers, teachers, and scholars. You know how systematically the life of Christ is taken up in this book, and how complete a Scripture index it contains. This book ought to be introduced to all Sunday-school workers. Many excellent testimonials from prominent clergymen, such as Rev. Lyman Abbott, have already been secured. Suppose you prepare right away to introduce this important book to those who are nearest your home. Write our publishing house nearest you for helpful suggestions.

IN 1843, Nathanael Hawthorne, the well-known author, wrote an article entitled “The Celestial Railroad.” It was a modernized “Pilgrim’s Progress,” and attracted considerable attention, having been reprinted many times in various forms. It was gotten out in tract form by the Review and Herald several years ago, but has been out of print for a long time. We have had such urgent calls for this tract that we have decided to get out a new edition. Some corrections and changes have been made to bring it down to date, and proper explanations and notes have been added. It is now in press, and will make a tract of 32 pages, at the usual price, two cents. Announcement of publication will be made later.

Diplomacy

ONE of the definitions of this word is “artful management with a view of securing advantages.” In contrast with the diplomat is the straightforward man who is “free from concealment, dissimulation, reserve, or disguise.” The diplomat often uses language to conceal his thoughts rather than to express them. He will assume a frankness which is not genuine, and express beautiful sentiments which he does not feel, if by so doing he can gain an advantage. Diplomacy is often simply a polite word for dishonesty. The diplomatic habit often degenerates into unvarnished lying. It would shock us to think of Jesus as a diplomat, seeking by quibbles and perversions to secure an advantage over those with whom he was dealing. There is no place for diplomacy in the religion of Jesus. “I know also, my God, that thou . . . hast pleasure in uprightness.”

A Lesson in “Reform”

By Editor

In the Review of July 20 we called attention in a brief note to the questionable course of the International Reform Bureau of this city, conducted by W. F. Crafts, in sending out “reform” literature at government expense by the abuse of the franking privilege.

Since that time several influential papers have exposed the matter quite fully. In order to give to our readers a good view of these “reform” methods, we quote the following paragraphs from a Washington dispatch to the New York Herald which was published in the Pittsburg (Pa.) Times:—

What is declared to be a wholesale misuse of the United States mails and the franking privilege, is now taking place in Washington in the name of reform. The International Reform Bureau, which styles itself “The First Christian Lobby” and which has been engaged in righting everything that its manager deems to be wrong, is using the franks of Senator J. H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and Representative Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, to send through the mails a book about the work in Washington of Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, superintendent and treasurer of the International Reform Bureau.

This book is called “Patriotic Studies.” It purports to be a part of the Congressional Record, and contains one document which was ordered to be printed during the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress, on motion of Senator Wellington on Dec. 20, 1902.

The book contains another document, ordered to be printed in the second session of the Fifty-eighth Congress, on motion of Senator Gallinger. On the strength of this last being a bona-fide document, the book has obtained access to the mails on the Congressional franks.

The document in question is “Senate Document No. 150.” It is simply a puff for the International Reform Bureau. It lauds Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts as the bureau’s founder, gives the address of the bureau as No. 206 Pennsylvania Avenue, S. E., and gives its telephone number. It also advertises a great many books printed by Rev. Dr. Crafts, ranging in price from $1.75 to ten cents. The book weighs more than seventeen ounces, so that if it paid postage, it would cost nine cents to send it through the mails as third-class matter.

Enclosed with each copy sent out under frank is a return envelope, also franked. Persons to whom the book is sent are asked to return the book if they do not want to purchase it, and if they do want to purchase it, to use the frank in sending back to the Reform Bureau the sum of twenty-five cents, for the good of the cause. The government is not only giving to the Reform Bureau nine cents postage on each copy of the book sent out from Washington, but also is giving nine cents postage on the return of each copy that does not find a purchaser.

Thirty-five thousand envelopes were printed for the use of the Reform Bureau with the frank of Representative Gillett, which means that thirty-five thousand copies of the book are now burdening the mails, and it is presumed that an equal number of envelopes were printed with the frank of Senator Gallinger for the same purpose. Seventy thousand copies of this book weigh about 1,260,000 ounces, or 78,750 pounds, or thirty-five tons. The postage one way that the government is giving free amounts to $6,300. The return postage would increase the bill to $12,600.

This scheme is carried on without the knowledge of Representative Gillett, who has been absent for several months on a trip to the Pacific Coast. When the scheme of making the United States a free carrier for the sale and return of “Patriotic Studies” was ready to launch, Mr. Bassett, an agent of the Reform Bureau, waited on Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Gillett’s secretary. It was explained how nicely the government could be made the agent of the book merely by enclosing another franked envelope for the return of the publication. Mr. Gibbs refused to sanction the scheme, and said he did not think the postal officials would sanction it. He said Mr. Gillett was absent, and was very careful about the use of his frank, and Mr. Gibbs cautioned the reformers to be very careful about what they did.

The next move was on the post-office of the House of Representatives. The

post-master refused to indorse the plan, and declined to handle the mail matter until it had been passed on by higher officials. Application was next made to the capitol post-office inspector, who looks after such questions. The inspector shook his head. Agents of the Reform Bureau then went to the city post-office here. They saw the superintendent of mails, who said the scheme seemed to him to be so novel and so irregular that he would not let the books go through. Application was made to another officer with the same result.

Finally the request was made to a still higher official, who, eager to help along the Reform Bureau, gave the necessary assent, and since then the mail cars have been fairly groaning beneath loads of “Patriotic Studies.” The book contains a statement covering more than five pages, made by Rev. Dr. Crafts, its superintendent and treasurer, in favor of the Loud Postal bill at a hearing on Jan. 16, 1897.

In an editorial with the heading “Reform Work as a Graft,” the Washington Post refers to this exploit of the International Reform Bureau. We quote two paragraphs:—

One of the recent flagrant cases of grafting in public printing and free mail distribution is that engineered by the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, of Washington, whose superhuman energy in behalf of his fellow man has sometimes received the attention of the Post. He is the head of the International Reform Bureau, and is busily engaged in sending out a document called “Patriotic Studies,” under the frank of Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire. . . . The spectacle of the International Reform Bureau doing its purifying work by means of an insolent and offensive graft is peculiarly edifying. In the thorough reform to be undertaken by Congress, we hope the International Reform Bureau will not be overlooked.

And this is the organization which is working with might and main to make people religious by law! A congressional investigation of a Reform Bureau established on Capitol Hill for the express purpose of improving the quality of congressional legislation is certainly a remarkable turning of the tables.

Editorial

By Editor

No Surrender

THERE is no disposition on the part of the leaders in this cause to surrender any positions which have been gained and held after a severe struggle, and our people need not feel alarmed over any reports which may be designed to give a contrary impression. There are no personal ends to be served, there are no personal feelings to be gratified, and there will be no compromising of the principles involved in the effort to maintain uncorrupted the fundamental doctrines of this advent movement. The original advent platform, the message as God gave it to this people, must be preserved intact, and no new philosophy can be permitted to take its place. The old is better.

The Essentials of Happiness

An advertisement of a pleasure resort printed in the current issue of a popular magazine runs as follows: “All that makes one well and happy,—fishing, idling, hunting, swimming, mud baths, hot springs, varied sports, all the year through at ——.” And so these are the essentials of happiness—doing nothing, or killing God’s creatures for sport, or trying in various ways to kill time. How empty all this seems! How much more better is the inspired declaration, “Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee.”

No Time to Lose

By William Ambrose Spicer

TRULY, there is no time to lose. This truth was emphasized in the last week-of-prayer readings, in the following words:—

The judgments of God are in the land. The wars and rumors of wars, the destruction by fire and flood, say clearly that the time of trouble, which is to increase until the end, is very near at hand. We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecies of the eleventh of Daniel have almost reached their final fulfilment.

We see these troubles breaking upon portions of our mission fields, and here and there bringing our brethren into very straight places. In Japan and Russia the war has brought very grave trial to some of our brethren. Amid it all, however, the work has moved forward. The word comes from Germany that the sale by canvassers of the book “Great Controversy” and a book on Daniel has been prohibited by the lower courts. This prohibition is on account of the references to the papacy, and interpretations showing the papacy to be the subject of prophetic symbol. No doubt the higher courts will reverse such a decision, but this is just an indication, showing how quickly in different lands plans which we can readily follow now might be made impossible. Surely it is not without reason that the testimonies of the spirit of prophecy have emphasized the importance of getting our literature out and of selling our books throughout all lands.

Prophecy is fulfilling remarkably before our eyes, and the message is being pushed on from one land to another; elements of opposition long foretold are arising; just before us are the times in which the work will be closed up amid difficulties such as we have seldom experienced in the past, but with a measure of power and blessing which will give the truth victory. The things that we see, however, are truly trumpet calls to service. The man who is indifferent now, or listless, is like a sleeping sentinel in the face of the enemy. W. A. S.

The New Revival

By L. A. S.

The English revivalist, Rev. W. J. Dawson, who has recently been doing evangelistic work in the United States, notices a new attitude on the part of the churches in this country. He is quoted as saying that he detects a marked breaking away, on the part of the church, from its position of non-interference in the larger affairs of politics. He believes this to be a very hopeful sign.

The same view is taken by a Philadelphia clergyman, Rev. James H. Ecob, who is quoted as saying: “The revival for which the people and the world are waiting and perishing, is not a revival to greater pietistic fervor, but to simple, practical righteousness in all the affairs of common life.”

To join in the movement to purify politics, “turn the rascals out,” make people obey the laws of the land, promote “civic righteousness,” etc., is not a thing that requires pietistic fervor, or any of the essentials of the old-time revival, such as repentance, confession of sin, faith in the divine Sacrifice, etc., but is a proceeding in which the atheist can join as readily as the professor of religion. This is truly a new type of Christian revival. If the energies of the church are to be directed into this channel, and prominent revivalists of the day look upon the tendency in this direction as a hopeful sign, we may fairly conclude that the era of the old-time revival, marked by pietistic fervor, is in the past, so far as the prominent churches of the country are concerned.

This, though sad, is not a strange proceeding on their part at this time. For as they pay decreasing attention to the laws and the government of heaven, it is natural that they should more and more turn their attention to the laws and the governments of earth. “Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

L. A. S.

The Test of the Genuine

By L. A. S.

The true religion centers about the cross of Christ. The sentiment of the true Christian is, “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” Gal. 6:14.

Every false religion eliminates the cross of Christ. It may substitute some other cross, or it may have no cross at all. To the latter class of false religions belong most of the new cults of the present day.

Any one who will examine these new religious movements of the day, which claim to bring new Christian light and truth to the world, will find nothing in them relating to the cross of Christ. That is conspicuous by its absence. Take for example, Christian Science, or the New Thought. Where in all of Mrs. Eddy’s writings, or where in all the literature of the New Thought, is the soul brought in touch with any such experience as that which it meets at the cross of Christ?

“Down at the cross where my Saviour died, Down where for cleansing from sin I cried, There to my heart was the blood applied, Glory to His name!”

Where does the soul meet with this experience in any of the new cults? Where does it meet with the experience of crucifixion?

A religion without the cross,—that is a pleasing substitute for gospel religion to the natural heart. How easy to believe in Christian Science, which involves no cross, no crucifixion, death, and burial of self! Or how easy to believe in a religion which promises salvation through works and ceremonies, as does Roman Catholicism. The adherent of Rome knows all about saying prayers and “Hail, Marys;” all about doing penance, attending mass, and other outward religious forms and ceremonies; but he knows nothing about being crucified with Christ. He feels secure in sin. Is it not the business of the church to save him, and can he not, in the hour of

death, obtain absolution from the priest?

Pagan religion makes a show of denying self, which is really a parade of self. The religion of Christ involves true self-denial, which is self crucified with Christ, self dead and buried, self entirely out of sight, self forgotten and lost, swallowed up in the love of Christ and the service of those for whom he died.

A religion without the cross of Christ is a religion without Christ; and a religion without Christ is a religion without salvation; fair and pleasing indeed to the natural mind, but a satanic delusion which has perdition at its further end.

L. A. S.

“A General Slump of Conscience”

At the recent Christian Endeavor Convention held in Baltimore, Rev. Washington Gladden, of Columbus, Ohio, who has been speaking some very plain and wholesome things about John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil methods of money making, delivered an address upon “The Education of Conscience.” In the course of his address, as reported in the daily press, Dr. Gladden said:—

There is a tremendous amount of uneducated or miseducated conscience in this country to-day. People in good society—people who are members of our churches—people who are known as our leading citizens—are doing things which are horribly wrong; and neither do their own consciences protest, nor is there any moral sense in the community which adequately disapproves their wrong-doing. The things which have been going on of late can only be explained upon the theory of a general slump of conscience in financial circles, and in political circles, and in society, and most deplorable of all, in the church itself.

The one thing that this country wants to-day is not better laws or better methods of administration, but a clearing up and toning up of the consciences of its citizens; and while the young people of our churches are considering what culture could do for them, and what they are going to do with their culture, I hope that they will give heed, first of all, to this primary need of the training of their consciences, so that they shall speak promptly and decisively upon the practical moral questions with which they will have to deal.

What will clear up and tone up the consciences of the citizens of this country and of every other country? Is it not the message of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus? The Lord foresaw the condition of things in these last days, and he has sent a message which is calculated to meet the needs of the time, but as it was with the generation which witnessed the first advent, so it is now,—the people will not give heed to the instruction.

Iniquity abounds, and every day adds some fresh revelation of crime to the bloody list; but those who should be proclaiming God’s way of deliverance for this generation are setting aside that gospel which is “the power of God unto salvation,” and are preaching a gospel of self-salvation based upon tradition and speculation. On every hand the evidences are multiplying that “Babylon is fallen,” and the call, clear and strong, should be raised, “Come out of her, my people.”

A Danger Point

By L. A. S.

As the world's unrest increases and startling and sensational events marking the moral degeneracy of the times follow one another with increasing rapidity, there is increasing need of diligence on the part of Christians to avoid being turned aside from the narrow pathway by the things of the world. “Looking unto Jesus” is the motto for those who would run successfully the Christian race. Nothing in the world around us can be more attractive or essential to the Christian's welfare than the view of his Saviour and High Priest performing his grand and solemn work in the heavenly sanctuary.

We are in the time when some will say in their hearts, “My Lord delayeth his coming.” Judging by appearances and reasoning from a human standpoint, rather than from the Word of God, they conclude that there has been delay in the fulfilment of the promise. They forget that they were never commissioned to set the time for its fulfilment. This class is mentioned in the description of the journey of the advent people to the city of God (“Early Writings,” page 10): “Some grew weary, and said the city was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it before. Then Jesus would encourage them by raising his glorious right arm, and from his arm came a light which waved over the advent band, and they shouted, Alleluia!”

Jesus raises his arm to attract their attention and recall their thoughts to himself. It is the special plan of their enemy to distract their attention from their great Leader, and cause them to look at human and earthly things around them, and be affected by the influences from this source. He would have them judge the truth by human appearances and human reasoning. Those who do this soon deny the light in which they have previously walked, and become identified with the world. This is the time when some will make a fatal mistake, and when all are in particular danger, upon this point. L. A. S.

An Explanation

By A. G. DANIELLS.

Those who have followed with care the business proceedings of the recent General Conference, are aware that Elder G. A. Irwin was elected one of the vice-presidents of the General Conference, and transferred from Australasia to the United States. In view of the earnest efforts we are continually making to send good laborers from the States to foreign fields, it seems proper that the reasons should be given for calling Brother Irwin from a distant land where he was so sorely needed, and where he was rendering the cause such valuable service.

The principal reason for making this change was to secure Elder Irwin’s experience and services for the general administrative work of the cause. Thank God, our cause is not standing still. It is growing. It is continually adding new territory, increasing its facilities, and enlarging its range of operations. This of necessity steadily adds to the burdens and responsibilities of the general administration.

Many of us can well remember when the operations of the General Conference were confined to the United States, and principally to the English-speaking people of the States. Then administrative affairs of the General Conference could be attended to very efficiently by a General Conference Committee of three. But a great change has taken place.

Missionaries have gone from the United States to nearly all the countries of the world. Thousands of believers have been added to our ranks. Scores of conferences and missions have been organized in all parts of the world. Departments representing special phases of work have been added, and have grown to large proportions. Many new languages have been added, calling for new publications. Schools, sanitariums, and printing plants have been multiplied throughout the wide field. This has called for a larger number and a wider range of workers, and for a broader and more perfect organization. And all this has necessarily very greatly increased the variety and weight of the responsibilities of the General Conference Committee. To meet the situation the committee has been gradually increased from three to thirty-one members; union conferences have been organized to take larger responsibilities than could be taken by local conferences, thus transferring many details from the general committee; large departmental committees have been appointed to look after the details of special lines of work. It is only by this method of distributing responsibilities that the General Conference officers have been kept from being overwhelmed with responsibilities.

Two years ago Elder Conradi was elected a vice-president of the General Conference with the understanding that he would have the general supervision of the work in Europe. Professor Prescott was elected a vice-president for the North American union conferences. His duties as editor of the REVIEW and president of the Review and Herald Publishing Association made it impossible for him to devote a large amount of time to the details of the administrative work in North America. Therefore these details came to the president of the General Conference. They proved to be so varied, numerous, and pressing that interests of a more general character and pertaining to more distant fields could not receive the attention they required.

It was to strengthen this weak point in our administrative affairs that Elder Irwin was elected vice-president for North America, and transferred to that territory. Brother Irwin will now take the same general supervision of the work among the North American union conferences that Brother Conradi takes among the European union conferences and missions. He will arrange with the union conference presidents for the time and place of union conference sessions, camp-meetings, and other special general meetings, also for providing the general laborers required. He will confer with the chairman of the various departments regarding their work, the holding of united conventions, etc. All correspondence of a general character relating to the transfer of laborers from one union conference to another will go to him. In short, the many details of the work in North America that pertain to the General Conference, and which have heretofore gone to the president, will now be addressed to Brother Irwin. He will also arrange to attend camp-meetings, union conference sessions, special meetings and conventions.

From this brief and incomplete outline it will readily be seen that the vice-president will have all that he can do. His time and powers will be taxed to the utmost. Should it be asked what the president will do with so many details assigned to others, I will state that he hopes to be able to give some attention to many important, weighty interests of a general character which he has seriously neglected in order to attend to more local details. The great problems of our mission fields, the translation, production, and distribution of literature in behalf of the great masses of humanity now in the darkness of heathenism, the improvement and enlargement of our ministry, the development of our educational work, and the visiting of distant mission fields to assist in organizing and strengthening the work begun are some of the interests to which the president of the General Conference may now be able to give proper attention. They are worthy of the best service he is able to render.

I am greatly relieved and sincerely gratified with the arrangement that has been made for Brother Irwin to take this large part in the general administrative work: I believe the hand of the Lord is in this move. The Lord has blessed his labors in Australasia, and he will be missed by our people there. But Elder O. A. Olsen will take his place in that important field. The outlook was never more encouraging to me than at present. This cause is surely speeding onward to a triumphant close.

A. G. DANIELLS.

A New Agency in China

By W. A. S.

From far Honan comes the first number of the first paper proclaiming the third angel’s message in the Chinese language. It is the Fuh in Hsuen Pao (The Gospel Herald), printed by the Seventh-day Adventist Mission press, Shang-tsai Hsien, Honan, China.

In the February general meeting in Honan, attended by Brother and Sister Anderson, from Canton, it was decided to start a little paper. Now it comes from out of China’s depth, and we thank God for another forward step among the millions of the land of Sinim.

It is a ten-page monthly paper, all in Chinese save a portion of the first page, which, we are glad to see, gives the title and table of contents and rates in English.

The subscription price is 25 cents a year, single copy, or ten copies to one address, $1.50; five copies, 90 cents. Subscriptions in this country may be sent through the Mission Board. Many will doubtless desire copies to use among the Chinese in this country.

From month to month this message is making its sure way out through the world’s millions toward a finished work. When we have fairly planted the leaven in the great mass, as the Lord instructs us to do, he will show how quickly he will cut the work short in righteousness. W. A. S.

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