The past three months I have spent chiefly with the churches in the Natal Conference, the Orange River Colony, and among the missions. I met Elder J. N. Loughborough at Durban on his arrival from Australia, and we there began a tour of the churches of South Africa. Elder Loughborough stood the journey from Australia remarkably well. He has gained ten pounds since landing in Australia from America, and his health is excellent. He reported ready for work at once, so we began meetings without delay at Bellair and Durban. From there we left for Maritzburg, in the midst of a great railway strike. The Lord so overruled that our journey was not hindered. After a pleasant and profitable meeting at that place, we visited the Dutch churches in the Orange River Colony. En route we were led to praise the Lord on account of his special providences. At Ladysmith the strikers were assuming so threatening an attitude that the railway officials were uncertain as to the possibility of passing them with our train. They added a push engine to the rear of our train, then ran back so as to get under rapid motion before it left the station, and thus we swept swiftly by the danger point.
We had written the Heisterbach church that we were coming, and also sent a telegram several days in advance of our starting, in order to make sure of being met at the station. The members of the church live fifteen miles from the station, and the mail service is not good, so they failed to receive notice of our coming. The Lord knew of our plans, however, and he had it arranged so that we were met. The elder of the church came to meet his wife, who was returning on the same train from a visit, and a sister who was canvassing in the town had come in that day with a team to make her delivery of books, and so they were providentially prepared to carry us and our luggage home with them. This church and the Wilgehoek church manifested great interest in the meetings. The brethren came as far as sixty miles, with their families, and remained through the meetings. The brethren living eight miles from the place of meeting would come in for the early morning meeting before breakfast, and remain all day. It was a real pleasure to labor for a people who were so appreciative.
From this meeting Elders E. R. Williams and I went to visit the Kolo Mission in Basutoland, while Elder Loughborough went on to Johannesburg alone. We were much pleased with the work being accomplished through the sale of literature from the Basutoland Mission station. The last letter from Brother M. E. Emmerson states that a deep interest is being awakened on the Sabbath question. The natives are asking the other missionaries about the subject, and as the result they have given Brother Emmerson notice that he will have to either come over to them or leave the field, as they say our literature is undoing all that they have done in many years. Brother Emmerson kindly informed them of our message and work, and told them that his mission forbade his accepting either of the propositions they had made. Brother Emmerson is working carefully, but here, as in America, where our literature goes, it does its work and creates a stir. O that the world could be filled with it speedily, and as the leaves of autumn!
The work at the Maranatha Mission is still progressing. Elders W. S. Hyatt and F. B. Armitage are planning in the near future to go out to hold a series of meetings wherever there is a native interest, and undertake to develop a church, as we do among the Americans and Colonials.
We next spent a few days at Bloemfontein. Here we found Sister Furks, who is superintendent of the state normal school for the Orange River Colony, rejoicing in the truth. One other teacher and one student in the institution are also living the truth. A man who has been prominent in official work in the city, and whose wife has been a faithful missionary worker for some years, has recently accepted the faith. They all expressed great appreciation of the meetings that we were able to hold with them. A good work is being done in this vicinity, and also near Wilgehoek, for the natives. About forty are keeping the Sabbath in these two places, and others are interested. Most of this work is the result of faithful missionary work and the consistent lives of the members.
From here we went to Kimberley, where Elder Williams joined Elder Loughborough to visit the churches in the Cape Colony Conference, while Mrs. Porter joined me for a visit to the mission stations in Rhodesia. A report of this part of our trip will be given later.
R. C. PORTER.
Nyassaland
By S. M. KONIGMACHER
NENO.—The work in this field is onward. God is blessing the efforts put forth. Last Sabbath evening three boys came in from quite a distance, about ten miles up in the mountains, to learn about the beasts of prophecy, and the great beast power. We took them into our house, and taught them the prophecies of Daniel and The Revelation. It is very easy for them to understand these; because not far from us is the Portuguese territory, which is still under Rome's control, and the missionaries there are greatly opposed to teaching the native anything but the catechism; and eight miles from us is a mission under the control of the White Fathers. There is also another sect called the Black Fathers, which is working in portions of Nyassaland.
Last week we took a trip up to the mountain to visit the villages of the hill people, also to visit a boy who had been attacked by a lion. I found the boy, and also the village, very filthy. I asked the chief to bring him to the mission, but the boy would not consent. It is a very hard trip up the mountain. For miles I walked in a narrow trail, with grass over my head, forded three streams, and was wet to the skin with dew; but when I reached home and had rested, I was all right. Yesterday this same chief came to the mission. I brought him into the house, and showed him our home, to try to teach him to have the people of his village keep their places clean. Some of these people have only a goatskin around the loins. They sleep on mats made of reeds.
We are very thankful for a place in God's work, and we allow no opportunity to pass when we can speak to the people of the soon coming of Jesus. The mission people are just coming to study now, so I will close. There is a strange boy here to-night. It is wonderful how they hear of our mission's teaching about the beast.
We thank our people at home for their prayers. S. M. KONIGMACHER.
Chile
By J. W. Westphal
VALPARAISO.—I came here yesterday, expecting to get a boat for Antofagasta; but the steamer had left the evening before, and so I have to wait here three days. This affords me a little opportunity to do urgent writing.
It was hard work for me to pull away from home and the Argentine work for this long, perhaps eight-months’ trip. Everything is in a formative, developing state. Discouraging feelings have crept over me of late as I have seen so much to do, so many things untouched, others incomplete and inadequate for the work, and the churches not more than half looked after. So much is lost because souls can not be cared for. I am tramping over a continent, and seem able to do so little. How can we ever do this great work? Where will the men and means come from to do the work and place our institutions in these fields on a basis, as regards their appearance, condition, and conveniences, that will make them in some measure representative? We are so glad for the help you have been able to send to Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil recently. This gives us hope. But some time will pass before a number of them can do much, on account of the language, and then it is little, compared with the great needs.
God bless the brethren that are willing to sacrifice of their means for this work, and those who are willing to come to our assistance! What a day of rejoicing it will be when the work is done, the souls gathered for whom we have labored or sacrificed, and we all be taken home!
In Chile the message is making progress. The people seem to be more susceptible to the truth than those of Argentina, and somewhat stable. They are also quite faithful in paying tithes and giving offerings. They are more willing to buy our literature and read.
J. W. WESTPHAL.
The Turkish Mission
[With the thrilling events which have taken place in the Turkish empire during the last few months, the following report presented at the General Conference by Elder C. D. AcMoody, will be read with interest.]
The Turkish Mission comprises Turkey in Europe, and that part of Turkey in Asia lying north of the Bay of Alexandretta, the country known as Asia Minor and Armenia.
Past History
In presenting a report of the Turkish Mission for the past four years, it may be well to briefly review the way in which the truth entered the Turkish empire. It first entered Constantinople about twenty years ago. An Armenian brother who had accepted the message in America, returned to his own country to let his light shine, and to disseminate the principles which he had learned to love. In the course of a few months Elder Z. G. Baharian, who at the time was a student in the Aintab Protestant College, became interested in the principles of the third angel's message through literature sent him from Constantinople. After his graduation he came to Constantinople, and studied the truth with this Armenian brother. He was then sent to Basel, where he remained several months studying the principles of Seventh-day Adventists, returning to Turkey as a worker in 1892. His work was confined for several years to the Asiatic coast in the vicinity of Constantinople, where several companies of Sabbath-keepers were raised up.
A Bible institute was held in 1895, and another was held in 1896, from which six workers were sent out into the field. Unfortunately, the majority of these workers soon left the work for various reasons. The third Bible institute was held in the winter of 1898-99. The workers sent out from this institute did good work for a time.
Some workers were sent into the central part of Turkey in 1904, and Brother Baharian was exiled from Constantinople to the country of his birth, at Aintab. Many of those who hear this report will remember reading an account of the imprisonment of Elder Baharian which followed his banishment, when, for several months, it was thought that he must face the penalty meted out only to anarchists and traitors, which in Turkey means banishment for life or capital punishment; but God delivered his servant.
The fourth Bible institute was held in Aintab in 1905. Elder Wakeham had charge of this institute. There were four workers in attendance, besides Elder Baharian.
The late Dr. George went to Turkey in 1903, and began immediately to prepare himself for work among the people of Constantinople in medical lines. His task was greater than that of the ordinary foreign missionary, as it was necessary for him first to acquire the French language in order that he might pass the medical examination in Turkey. He was successful in passing his examinations, and then devoted his attention to acquiring the Turkish language. He started treatment-rooms in Constantinople after visiting among the churches, and making patient effort in preparing a suitable location. Having thus started his work, he was afflicted with tuberculosis, and was forced to leave the field in 1906, two weeks before my arrival in Constantinople. He went to Switzerland for his health, and later to Germany, where he died in February, 1907.
Too much could not be said in paying high tribute to the character and work of this missionary, who laid down his life in the interests of the third angel's message in the land of the sultan. Though I was not privileged to meet him personally, I found that he had left behind him, through his earnest work, that which was lasting, and that which was to stand as an encouragement to those who would follow him. In everything he did, persevering effort and painstaking care were shown. He clung to his work too long for the good of his health. When he left Constantinople, he was confined to his bed. His death was indeed a severe blow to such a weak mission field as Turkey. The burden which rested upon all of us as the result of this experience seemed heavy indeed. The treatment-rooms had to be closed up, and the furniture stored and finally sold, because no one could be found to take his place. This is an appeal to all who love the message throughout the world, and especially to those assembled at this Conference, to place some one in the Turkish empire to take up the work of him who fell at his post.
Work During the Past Four Years
Time does not permit me to dwell longer upon this subject, and I will proceed to make a statement of the work that has been done during the last four years.
The chief matter of interest in the years of 1905-06 relates to the establishment of the treatment-rooms in Constantinople, which has already been referred to. During these years, Elder Baharian was not allowed to travel, and was confined almost entirely to the city of Aintab. Here he has not been able to do as much as has been desired, because of the bitter antagonism of the Protestants against his work. Besides, there have been obstacles to meet in Turkey which are met in no other fields. These I will speak of later.
I arrived in Constantinople, Dec. 3, 1906. My efforts were expended during the following winter in traveling among the churches and companies in the vicinity of Constantinople, as they had not been visited by any minister, either native or foreign, for some time. The summer of 1907 I spent most of my time in the city of Constantinople, traveling18again among the churches in the fall.
The first week of December, 1907, a general meeting was held at Bagtchedjik, which was attended by Elder Conradi. We enjoyed his presence with us very much.
The winter of 1908 a Bible institute was conducted in Bagtchedjik. From eight to ten young people were in attendance; some of these, however, were too young to go out into the work. Only one active worker was developed from the institute.
In the middle of May, 1908, Elder R. S. Greaves and wife arrived in Smyrna to take up work among the Greeks. Smyrna is the second city in size in the Turkish empire, and is composed of Greeks, who are Turkish subjects. Brother and Sister Greaves have been diligently working upon the Greek language, and hope so to master it as to be able to work to advantage on the west coast of Asia Minor, and in the islands of the Greek Sea.
Prior to July 25, 1908, and especially since 1903-04, our native workers, wherever located in Turkey, have labored under such tremendous disadvantages as in many cases to render their work quite fruitless, as far as securing converts to the faith is concerned. But since the declaration of the Turkish constitution in July, such liberty has prevailed in the Turkish empire as has never before been known. Perfect freedom of speech and press was granted, and that for which we had prayed many years, and which we had endeavored to secure by various means for a long time, was granted to us in a single day.
Our First General Meeting
A Levant Union general meeting had been planned for, but it had not been decided where it should be held. We were desirous that some of the native workers attend this meeting. The liberty came in time so that the general meeting could be held in Turkish territory. Accordingly, the workers came together at Beirut, Syria, the last week in September, and three of our native workers from the Turkish Mission were able to attend this meeting. For the first time in the history of our work in Turkey we had liberty and were free to meet together to sing praises to God, and counsel together regarding his work, knowing that we were not infringing upon the tyrannical laws of the sultan. This meeting was a great help to the whole Levant Union, as workers were gathered together from all the various mission fields. Especially was it a great help to the Turkish Mission.
The Turkish Mission contains the greater part of the constituency of the Levant Union. At this meeting various plans were laid for furthering the cause in Turkey as well as throughout the Levant; a large portion of those plans are still to be carried out. Their execution depends largely upon the action of our brethren in this country, in supplying the men and means.
Following this meeting, Elder Baharian and myself made a tour throughout central Turkey, visiting the isolated companies of Sabbath-keepers, some of whom had never seen a Seventh-day Adventist minister. Few can appreciate what this meant to the native constituency. God's blessing attended us throughout the trip, most of which was made on horseback, as there are very few roads in that part of Turkey. During the trip, we were ten days in the carriage, and eleven days in the saddle. We visited ten churches and companies.
Upon arrival at Constantinople the middle of December, I found it necessary, on account of my health, to make immediate plans to come to America, and I accordingly left Turkey, Jan. 10, 1909.
Statistics
At the close of 1908 the membership shows 233 members, with five churches and ten companies; number baptized during the year, 18; total workers, 9; total money received, $621.30.
Of the workers reported for 1908, there are 4 ordained ministers, 2 native workers, 2 licentiates, 1 nurse, and 1 Bible worker. So it can be seen that the force of workers for the population of eighteen millions of people is small indeed. The cry for workers comes from many a land, but there are many reasons why the special attention of our people should be called to our great Mohammedan mission fields.
Freedom for Turkey
Prior to the granting of the constitution, the Turkish field was in many respects the most difficult in the world in which to work. Our brethren were not recognized by the government officials, because our church is not an established church according to Turkish law. If a man be not a church-member of some established church which is recognized by the Sublime Porte, he is not a protected subject under Moslem law. It would take a great deal of space to enter into details to show the embarrassing situation under which our work has been conducted. No meetings could legally be held anywhere. None of our people could become legally married without being baptized according to the rites of the Gregorian or Greek Orthodox churches. Neither could our people secure permission to travel. Our native workers were especially watched, and were not able to do any effectual work for weeks at a time. We sought God earnestly for a door to be opened whereby we might be able publicly to spread the gospel; and just while we were considering some plan by which we might accomplish this, the hand of God, which rules over the affairs of nations, was manifested in causing to come to pass a complete change in the Turkish empire. This change will be recorded in history as a miracle in the doings of nations, and we praise God that since July we have had a free hand in Turkey. The problem that now presents itself is not, How shall we secure the right to labor? but, How shall we fill the great open door that we now face?
Facing the Future
Before us lies an empire of many nations; for so diverse are the peoples of the Ottoman empire that it can be said to be a grouping together of several nations and tribes into one great empire.
As distinct and separate from each other are the different languages of Turkey, as the English language is separate from any one of them. There are some 19 or 20 distinct languages spoken in the empire, besides the various dialects of these languages. The acquiring of one of these languages is practically of no assistance in acquiring a second. We need workers to master these languages, and to enter into the field to reach the various peoples with the message.
Whether you consider it politically, religiously, or prophetically, there is no country in the world to-day that occupies a position of so unique importance as does the Turkish empire.
No longer can we maintain the plea that Turkey is so largely a closed field that it will not pay to spend our energies upon it until the door is opened, for now the door is opened. O, how important that we should be ready to enter the regions beyond at these critical moments! Hours might be spent in making pleas, but, brethren, consider just a moment that in the world there are two hundred million Mohammedans, from whose ranks but one has been converted to the truth.
I hope a liberal supply of men and means may be supplied to carry on our work not only in Turkey, but also in Persia and in Egypt. In view of the fact that God has permitted me to be so afflicted as to make it necessary to lay down my work for the present, I would urge that some strong, devoted Christian worker be found to take up the work in the Turkish field immediately. May our prayers go up to God in behalf of the millions who to-day turn their faces in their devotion toward Mecca. Let us supply means whereby their faces may be turned toward the New Jerusalem.
The Maine Camp-Meeting
By E. W. Farnsworth
THIS meeting was held in a suburb of Portland. The communication was easy and direct with the city. The camp was beautifully located, and the weather was delightful.
Sister E. G. White, Elder W. C. White, Elder S. N. Haskell and wife, and Elder H. J. Edmed, and other union laborers were present and took an active part in the labor of the meeting.
Portland is the city where Sister White had most of her early Christian experience. It was in this city, at the age of thirteen, that she heard William Miller, and embraced the advent message. It was here that she was disfellowshiped from the Methodist Church for so doing. It was here that she attended school, and here that she received the unfortunate injury that made her an invalid during her early years. Ever since that time some of her relatives have lived in Portland, and during the camp-meeting she lived with the family of her nephew, the son of her twin sister. Sister White feels a very deep interest in the progress of the truth in Portland, and during past years the burden has rested on her heart that the people of that city where the first message was proclaimed with such power should also have the third message carried to them.
Elder C. H. Edwards, of the Southern New England Conference, attended the camp-meeting, and greatly assisted in the labors of the meeting. He was called to attend a mass-meeting held in the interests of religious liberty at Rumford Falls, and after it was over, he returned to assist in the work in Portland, and has been holding meetings since the camp-meeting closed. We hear there is considerable interest, and we feel hopeful that a good number of honest souls may be gathered out.
The Sabbath-keepers in Portland have begun the erection of a house of worship. It will be a heavy task for them to complete this, and we bespeak for them the sympathy and assistance of all the brethren and sisters in the Maine Conference, and of any others who desire the prosperity of the work in our large cities.
E. W. FARNSWORTH.
Field Notes
Six persons were recently baptized at New Home, N. D.
Four young men were baptized at Campion, Colo., on July 3.
On Sabbath, July 10, at Baraboo, Wis., four persons were baptized.
Four new converts to the truth were recently baptized at the Chicago (Ill.) German church.
Two persons were baptized at Comstock, Neb., on June 12, and on the twenty-sixth a church was organized at that place.
As a result of the tent-meeting in Fowler, Cal., seven persons have accepted the truth. Six of these converts were baptized recently.
At the time of the dedication of the church at Wolcottville, Ind., five new members were added to the church—two by baptism and three by vote.
Brother A. R. Sandborn, reporting from Michigan, says: “At Coleman one sister was buried with the Lord in baptism, and at Greendale five were baptized.”
A baptismal service was held recently on the banks of the St. Joseph River, when five of the students of the Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich., were buried with Christ in baptism.
The following report comes from Elder E. E. Farnsworth, of Colorado: “July 17 was another very pleasant day for me. This was spent with the Dover church, where I had the pleasure of baptizing five.”
_National Reformism the Central Theme_
By W. A. C.
WRITING concerning the International Christian Endeavor Convention, which was held at St. Paul, Minn., July 3-8, 1909, the Christian Statesman for August says:—
“It has been the privilege of the senior editor of the Christian Statesman to attend this convention in St. Paul, and to make one of the addresses. . . . The program for the convention was built up around the central theme, ‘Thy kingdom come.’ This was developed in a series of earnest and instructive addresses covering the coming of Christ’s kingdom in the individual heart, in the family, in business life, in society, and in the nation. The theme of the editor’s address, ‘The March of the Nations Toward the Kingdom of Christ,’ was thus in perfect accord with its surroundings on the program.”
“The refusal of the railroads, on account of the prevalence of the two-cent-a-mile rate, to grant any special rates to the convention was responsible largely for the lessened attendance as compared with some former conventions. But six thousand young people are a noble audience, and are capable of manifesting and inspiring great enthusiasm. And it was a cheerful spectacle to see that enthusiasm displayed in behalf of the central theme of the program, and the kindred topics which were included in it.”
From this, as well as from reports of the convention which have already appeared in the REVIEW, it is evident that this organization of Christian young people is being led off into the deceptions and delusions of National Reformism, which, in a word, mean religion by law, or a union of church and state. Is not this a call to the members of our own young people’s society to do something to enlighten these misguided young people of the Christian Endeavor? This can be done by becoming acquainted with them and holding wise private conversations with them, and also by placing in their hands copies of Liberty and of our religious liberty leaflets.
W. A. C.
Worthy of Imitation
By N. Z. T.
WRITING to the Publishing Department of the appointment of Brother C. M. Everest as missionary secretary of the Minnesota Conference, Elder R. A. Underwood says:— “He is taking hold of this work with a good deal of earnestness, and expects to pursue a systematic effort throughout the conference to arouse the churches to active missionary work. His first work, after having had a talk with me over the matter, was to make an effort to get every Sabbath-keeping family in the conference to take the REVIEW as a foundation. He began one week ago in the English church in Minneapolis, and during the week he secured about thirty-six subscriptions, just about doubling the number of subscriptions in the church. In one week’s time, through the co-operation of Elder D. C. Babcock, he has secured the subscription of every member of the Duluth church. He will visit St. Paul next, and then perhaps will undertake a general campaign of the State. In connection with this, he will try to organize missionary efforts in various lines, and encourage the brethren to raise their quota for foreign missions each week.”
Brother Everest is certainly laying a “good foundation” for the missionary work in his conference, and we trust that many other conferences will follow his good example.
N. Z. T.
What We Represent
THE Pacific Press Publishing Association supplies our denominational books, pamphlets, and tracts to the entire United States west of the Mississippi, with the exception of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico; and to all of Canada from Port Arthur, north of Lake Superior, to Vancouver Island, on the Pacific. Its three periodicals, the Signs of the Times (weekly), the Signs of the Times Monthly, and Our Little Friend, have the world for their field.
It has three branch offices,—located at Kansas City, Mo.; Portland, Ore.; and Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,—with eight persons employed. There are twenty-three State depositories, employing thirty-six persons. There are twenty-two field agents, and three general agents, making sixty-nine in all, who are exclusively engaged in supplying literature and directing its circulation. There are between four and five hundred gospel canvassers carrying its publications from house to house. The retail value of its sales during the past five years has been—
During the past two years the scope of the work of this institution has become international. About one shipment a week goes out from its stock-rooms through the Golden Gate into foreign lands. During the past nine months over five thousand dollars' worth of books has been exported to Mexico, and about twelve thousand dollars' worth to South and Central America. The bulk of these has been in the Spanish language.
But the Pacific Press Publishing Association is only one of twenty-six similar institutions. True, it is one of the largest, but yet there are twenty-five others doing a similar work. The entire investment in these twenty-six houses is $1,038,215. They employ 515 workers, which, together with 1,681 canvassers, brings up the number engaged in the manufacture and circulation of our publications to 2,196, or one in every thirty-seven Seventh-day Adventists.
Of the 6,521 students in our intermediate schools and colleges, at least ten per cent are there because of scholarships earned by the sale of our books. At least ten per cent more have been greatly assisted in their education by the same means.
Sixty years ago our first periodical20was published. The number and retail value of our publications now is as follows:—
These 1,834 different publications contain 168,376 pages, and are issued in sixty-one languages. The sale of denominational literature last year amounted to $1,286,981, which is more than the tithe for the same period, which was $1,101,396. The average sale for each member last year was $15.47. The entire tithe of the denomination since records began to be kept is $12,260,362. The book sales for the same period are $11,259,755.
May the Lord continue to add his blessing to the mighty agency which we here represent, which is now circulating 1,834 publications in sixty-one languages, to the value of more than a million and a quarter dollars a year.—From a Talk given by H. H. Hall, at Pacific Press Outing, July 1, 1909.
A “Christian Citizenship” Institute
By W. A. C.
A “CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP INSTITUTE” is to be held under the auspices of the National Reform Association, at Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 9-20, 1909. This will be the fifth annual institute of this kind held by the National Reform Association at this place.
Some of the topics to be discussed at this meeting are: “The Nation and Its Constitution,” “Christian Citizenship—Passive or Militant,” “The Citizen on the King’s Business,” “America’s Mission Among the Nations,” “The Enthronement of Christ in National Affairs.”
Four lectures are to be devoted to answering objections designated as “Union of Church and State,” “Infringement Upon Rights of Conscience,” “Can Not Make Men Moral by Law,” and “State Should Have Nothing to Do With Religion.”
Thus the National Reformers, blind as to results, but in fulfilment of prophecy, are steadily persevering in their efforts to unite church and state in the United States, and pave the way for this nation to take its place among the other nations of earth as a persecuting power.
W. A. C.
Our Spanish Books Are Selling
By N. Z. T.
IN a letter to Brother H. H. Hall, the general agent of Southern California says, “Yesterday we went into a little Spanish village of about seventy houses, and took sixty dollars’ worth of orders for ‘Coming King’ in Spanish.”
In a letter just received from Brother Hall, he says: “We are just finishing the printing of an edition of five thousand eight hundred copies of ‘Coming King,’ Spanish, on the heavier paper. Our back orders will cover almost a thousand. We have a telegram today for ninety copies of this book to go to an agent in Southern California, who is working with another book. The boys are taking along a Spanish prospectus for ‘Coming King’ in connection with their other work, and when they strike a Mexican settlement, they get orders from nearly every house. They are delivering them, too.” Wherever Spanish-speaking people are found, they seem to be ready to buy our books. Are there not others who would like to learn the Spanish language and take up this work?
N. Z. T.
Christian Liberty
By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord
Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL . . . . . . . . . Secretary
W. A. COLCORD . . . . . . . . . Corresponding Secretary
The Publishing Work
By E. R. Palmer; N. Z. Town
Conducted under the auspices of the General Conference Publishing Department
E. R. PALMER Secretary
N. Z. TOWN Assistant Secretary
A Long-Term Subscription
By N. Z. T.
IN a report of the work in Spain, sent by Brother Walter Bond to the Revista Adventista, he tells of a colonel in the Spanish army who gave him his subscription for Las Señales de los Tiempos, the Spanish missionary paper published in Chile, and paid him for the paper for sixteen years in advance.
N. Z. T.
The Correspondence School
By F. G.
The Correspondence School which is being established is of vital concern, first to our educational workers, and secondly to our people generally. Our educational workers should be especially interested in this matter from the fact that it is to be a means of helping to fill our schools with an earnest class of students. We have thousands of young people who do not have the means or energy to attend our schools, but who can be induced to undertake school work at home.
This work in the Correspondence School is to be so conducted as to make it acceptable in lieu of actual school work done in the class room of our schools. This being so, many young people whose circumstances now forbid their attending a regular school, will be enabled to accomplish a certain amount of work as thoroughly as though they were in school; and later on, when it is possible for them to take studies in school, they will have accomplished in a thorough manner that which will put them well forward in their school course. The aim of all earnest students in the Correspondence School will be to enter our other schools as soon as possible. The canvassing work is a means of assisting our young people to attend our schools. This Correspondence School will make it possible for them to pursue studies while earning scholarships.
This school is of value to our people generally from the fact that there are thousands of men and women whose work for life is well settled, yet who desire to qualify themselves for more acceptable service in the cause. There is much latent help that is not cultivated. Fathers and mothers in their homes can take a course of study in this Correspondence School, and qualify themselves to do efficient work in their home neighborhoods. Mothers can receive special instruction in teaching, and thus be qualified, where necessary, to teach their own children in their homes. Many of our ministers desire special studies that will help them. The same is true of teachers. Special assistance can thus be given to them, and they can be better qualified for efficient service.
So from every point of view, we look for the new Correspondence School to be of inestimable value in educating and giving to our people, old and young and in all avocations and walks of life, such an education and inspiration as will enable them to get the most out of life; for he alone enjoys life who is putting to the stretch all his powers of mind and body and soul. These studies will bring a spirit of contentment and happiness, because progress and advancement is being made and victories won. But the greater result from it will be the increased capacity for effective service in the cause of Christ. Every one should avail himself of the excellent opportunities which are offered through the medium of this Correspondence School.