p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 27. (7/2/1914)

Earlier text: Religious Liberty Department

VACATION BOOKS

Improve your summer vacation by reading good books. The following lists contain very carefully selected books of unusual merit:—

WORKS OF S. D. GORDON

THE QUIET TALK SERIES includes “Quiet Talks on Service,” “Quiet Talks on Prayer,” and “Quiet Talks on Power.” Bound in cloth. Each book contains over 200 pages. Price, 75 cents each.

“PRAYER CHANGES THINGS,” a remarkable little book, just what the title indicates. Will encourage prayer and strengthen faith. Bound in gray board. Price, 35 cents.

IDYLL ENVELOPE SERIES includes the “Consummation of Calvary” and “Crowding Out the Christ Child.” Bound in attractive covers. Inclosed in art envelopes made from the same stock. An inexpensive gift. Price, 25 cents.

THE KINGSHIP SERIES. “Keeping Tryst” and “Jesus’ Habit of Prayer.” Paper covers, 20 cents each.

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

“SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND METHODS,” by Joseph Baldwin. A very valuable addition to the library of any teacher. 395 pages. Price, $1.50.

“WAYMARKS FOR TEACHERS,” by Sarah Arnold, contains much general information and many helpful suggestions greatly appreciated by teachers, especially of the lower grades. 276 pages. Price, $1.25.

“LIFE OF LIVINGSTONE,” by W. Gardner Blaikie. A standard record of the life of one of the world’s most famous missionaries. 503 pages. Price, 50 cents.

“UGANDA’S WHITE MAN OF WORK,” a fascinating story of the life and experience of Alexander Mackay, the missionary to Africa. 289 pages. Price, 50 cents.

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An Everyday Revival

A NEW spirit is working among us. Greater power is accompanying the efforts of our ministers. This is evidenced by the cheering reports which are now coming to us from every quarter. The spirit of revival felt by our churches at the last week of prayer occasion is also being seen in the camp meetings which are being held in the various parts of the country. The people of God are consecrating themselves anew to his service.

Backsliders are being reclaimed. Unconverted youth and children are consecrating their young lives to the cause of their Master. In the various tent meetings and evangelistic services being carried on in different parts of the field a larger number than usual are being converted.

Victory is turning on the side of Israel. And we earnestly hope that this spirit of consecrated service will take possession of every member of the church. With every Seventh-day Adventist church member enlisted in active service in the salvation of souls, what might not be accomplished during the closing months of 1914? And there must be this general enlistment of effort if this work shall ever be accomplished. This message cannot be carried to all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples by our ministers alone. There must be a strong, united effort on the part of all believers. Nor will any general spasmodic effort accomplish this result. A missionary zeal and enthusiasm which is dependent continually upon special revival services is of little value. We need something more than a week of prayer revival, a camp meeting revival. We need an everyday revival in our religious experience. We need a religion that will stand the wear and grind, the perplexity and irritation, of the six days of toil as well as the period of Sabbath rest.

Sentiment and emotion, however appropriate at times in religious experience, can never furnish the motive power. There must be the deeper, underlying forces of conviction, integrity, principle, faithfulness, etc., to hold us calm and steady, and to keep us true to a settled purpose. Let us aim to cultivate in our lives and let us seek God for an experience which will enable us to pursue resolutely and faithfully and unswervingly the purpose of our existence as a denomination in the giving of the message of the Lord’s soon coming to the nations of men.

Midsummer Offering for Missions

NEXT Sabbath, July 4, is the time of the regular Midsummer Offering for missions. We trust that in every church this offering will be remembered, and that the isolated ones and those not having the privilege of attending the public service may send in their gifts to the church treasurer to swell the fund so urgently needed in the mission fields. The Mission Board depends upon this Midsummer Offering as a special lift in the midsummer, when regular gifts are not so large usually as in the autumn of the year. The fields are continually calling for more help, and the results achieved thus far are truly an incentive to liberal missionary giving. The Mission Board has sent a program of readings for the occasion to church elders and conference laborers.

A NOTE from Elder Stemple White, of Minneapolis, speaks of the splendid camp meeting recently held in Minnesota, fifty-one being baptized in the Mississippi River. Brother White adds: “Our conference is prospering, and we wish to do our part in the closing work of God.”

College of Medical Evangelists Graduates

We have received announcement of the commencement exercises of the College of Medical Evangelists, which were held in Loma Linda, Cal., June 11. Four received diplomas as postgraduate nurses. Nine were graduated from the regular nurses’ training school, one from the medical evangelistic course, and four received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. A class of six was graduated in medicine and surgery.

A Fifty-Year Test

BROTHER J. WARREN WRIGHT, of Detroit, Mich., in renewing his REVIEW subscription, makes the following statement: “For more than fifty years I have read the REVIEW,—read it when the Testimonies, the REVIEW, and a few tracts and pamphlets comprised about all our denominational literature. These, with our Bibles and hymn books, were prized above temporal necessities, and the REVIEW should now be the first of our periodicals in every Seventh-day Adventist household, and the last to be dispensed with. God bless the dear old REVIEW, and he does, and none can afford to forgo that blessing.”

Prosperous Work in the Philippines

By Elder L. V. Finster

ELDER L. V. FINSTER, of the Philippines, writes: “I am glad to tell you that our work here was never more prosperous. Brother Manalaysay has been at Santa Rosa for two months, and he reports that over twenty are keeping the Sabbath there. We are having splendid meetings here in Manila.”

Professor Loftfield Returns to Norway

PROF. GABRIEL LOFTFIELD recently spent several days in Washington and its vicinity, arranging for his children to enter the school home at New Market, Va. Brother Loftfield will spend the summer in Norway, his native land, for which he sailed from New York on June 20.

No Second Sabbath Reading in July

No Second Sabbath Reading will be sent out from the Mission Board office for July, the special program prepared for the first Sabbath in July in connection with the Midsummer Offering taking the place of the second Sabbath service this month.

Elder Goodrich Called to Cuba

ELDER H. C. GOODRICH, who has long labored in the Panama Canal territory, reached Cuba last week, where he has been called to labor. His help in that field will be greatly appreciated.

A Little Missionary’s Burial

IN a letter dated April 22, but not received until June 11, Brother S. M. Konigmacher writes from Matandane Mission, Nyasaland: “Last week we were called upon to pass through another trying experience. Little James fell asleep not to awake till that day when all righteous sleepers awake. He is lying beside his little brother on the hillside across the stream. He died in the evening. The boys went at once to dig the little missionary grave. When they came back, we could not part with him then, so laid him on the bed till morning. Then I carried him over myself, and one of the teachers placed him in his last little bed.” Brother and Sister Konigmacher will have the prayers and sympathy of all.

Calls for More Mission Laborers

STILL the calls come in to the Mission Board for more laborers. Two evangelists are urgently needed in China. Two city evangelists are needed in South Africa. India calls for two couples as teachers, and for one or two evangelists. The West Indies has lodged with the Mission Board calls for several laborers. Most of these calls are for help within appropriations already voted, so that they are listed as live calls. Truly the work spreads, and the needs are great. We must pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth the laborers, and to lay a burden upon those who ought to respond.

Dr. Tornblad Returns to Burma

WE learn that Dr. Ollie Oberholtzer-Tornblad, of Burma, is sailing this week from San Francisco on her return to the Burmese field. Dr. Tornblad came to this country at the time of the last General Conference, and has been staying with her people in the West. While not directly in the employ of the Burma Mission since her marriage to one of our brethren engaged in business in Burma, she, nevertheless, is counted as one of the workers in that field.

The Message Reaches Chung-king

THE first report has come from Brethren Allum and Warren after reaching Chung-king, in Szechuan, one of the far-western provinces of China. After a long, toilsome journey of over fifteen hundred miles from Shanghai, they are now preaching the message in a rented chapel at the above-named place. From there the word that the coming of the Lord draweth nigh will now go out into that populous province. Pray for them.