(1) "JOSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. (2) And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. (3) For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images. (4) And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. (5) And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. (6) And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about. (7) And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
(8) "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Jehovah his God. (9) And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (10) And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and the workmen that wrought in the house of Jehovah gave it to mend and repair the house; (11) even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. (12) And the men did the work faithfully; and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and others of the Levites, all that were skilful with instruments of music. (13) Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service; and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters."
Golden Text.—Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.—Eccl. 12:1.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) How old was King Josiah when he began to reign? How long did he reign? Verse 1. (2) What is said of his reign? In whose way did he follow? Verse 2. Note 1. (3) After eight years on the throne, what course did the young king pursue? And in four years more what did he do? Verse 3. Note 2. (4) In what way did he aim to utterly destroy idolatry? Verse 4. (5) How did he emphasize his destruction of the heathen implements of worship? Verse 5. Note 4. (6) Did Josiah confine his work of reform to the territory of Judah? Verse 6. (7) How is this work of destruction further described, and to what extent? Verse 7. (8) In the eighteenth year of his reign, what further work did Josiah undertake? Verse 8. Note 4. (9) To whom was money for this purpose brought? Who had gathered this money? Of whom had they collected it? Verse 9. (10) To whom was the money eventually given? Verse 10. (11) What special artificers are mentioned? Verse 11. (12) With what spirit did the workmen labor? Who were overseers in the work? Verse 12. Note 5. (13) What other workmen were these men over? What positions did the Levites fill? Verse 13.
NOTES.
1. As Manasseh's life illustrates how one may grow up under good influences, and yet become evil, so Josiah is an illustration of the possibility of becoming a servant of God, altho surrounded by evil influences. It is most probable, however, that, while the court environment of King Amon's reign was exceedingly wicked, Josiah's mother was a godly woman.
2. At the age of sixteen years Josiah began to serve the Lord in earnest. David is called the father of all his descendants, especially those of the royal line in the kingdom of Judah. When Josiah was twenty years old, he began to destroy all the evidences of idol-worship in the land. This had been prophesied of him many years before. See 1 Kings 13:1, 2. At the age of twenty he seems to have taken the reins of government more fully into his own hands.
3. Imbued with the spirit of David, Josiah evidently aimed, not only to restore the worship of Jehovah, but also to regain the political control of the former dominion—Simeon being in the extreme south of Palestine, and Naphtali in the north. The Assyrians, who had conquered the kingdom of Israel, were now being oppressed by their more powerful enemies on the east, and it was a favorable time for Josiah to act. As the son of David, he evidently thought it his right to reign over all the kingdom of David.
4. After six years of aggressive work in renovating the country, and preparing the people for the true worship, Josiah set about the work of repairing the house of God in Jerusalem. For this purpose the Levites had been collecting money. Two centuries before this, another young king, Joash by name, had, in a similar way, repaired the temple. See 2 Kings 12.
5. That the men worked faithfully is evidence of thorough repentance and earnestness in returning to Jehovah, as had been the liberality of the people in giving of their means to the work. As in the times of Hezekiah (2 Chron. 31:12), there was faithfulness in bringing in the tithe, and liberality in offerings. As in the time of Joash (2 Kings 12:13), the overseers and workers were so honest that they were not required to give account of the money put into their hands for expenses. There is no better evidence of true service than faithfulness in material things—bringing in all the tithes, liberality in offerings, and energetic labor for God, and for any employer in legitimate business.
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HEADQUARTERS of East Michigan Conference have been transferred from Lansing to Holly.
FIVE candidates were recently baptized in the lake near Jackson, Mich., by Brother O. F. Butcher.
THE annual session of Ohio Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Mansfield, August 10-21.
THE baptism of three persons at Bunker Hill, Mich., is noted in the Banner by Brother C. N. Sanders. Two others, who were not able to be baptized at that time, deferred action till later.
A CHURCH of twenty-two members was organized at Medaryville, Ind., June 17, by Brother W. J. Stone, president of the conference. Eleven of these had not before been members of the church.
IN reporting the baptism of four persons at Aledo, Ill., Brother L. D. Santee says in the Recorder: Aledo has had very little ministerial labor, and yet in my last three visits there I baptized sixteen.
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IN May last, two churches were organized by Brother S. M. Cobb, president of New South Wales Conference. One of these is at Forbes, and had a membership of thirteen, the other being at Parkes, with a membership of twenty-two.
ON June 24, at a union meeting held at Trinway, Ohio, twelve candidates were baptized by Brother B. L. House. On returning to the place of meeting, a church of fourteen members was organized. Brother H. H. Burkholder, president of the conference, also officiated in the organization.
AT the recent session of the Iowa Conference, the following officers were elected: President, L. F. Starr; secretary, Flora V. Dorcas; treasurer, C. W. Larson, who is also secretary and treasurer of the tract society; assistant, Nettie Shaw. Executive committee—L. F. Starr, Chris Juhl, J. H. Kraft, C. W. Larson, C. A. Washburn, J. W. Dorcas, J. C. Clemens.
BROTHER A. G. DANIELLS, president of the General Conference, sailed from New York for Europe July 4. He was to attend the Latin Union Conference at Gland, Switzerland, July 11-16, and, immediately after this, the German Union Conference at Freidensau. He expects to sojourn in England during August. He was accompanied on his voyage by Sister E. N. Holser, widow of the late Elder H. P. Holser. She goes to take the position of matron in the sanitarium at Gland.
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FROM the Illinois Recorder we learn that since the Chicago camp-meeting, evening services have been continued in the large tent, and much interest is being manifested. Another feature of advance work is a school for the training of workers, which has been opened in the Keefe Mansion, Sixty-ninth Street and Anthony Avenue. The purpose is to fit workers for immediate service. No tuition is charged. All are welcome who desire to use what they learn. Mention is also made of the baptism of ten candidates at South Side Church. This progressive work is conducted by Brethren Luther Warren, L. D. Santee, and John J. Irwin.
FROM Brother C. Rentfro, who has been laboring in Portugal, we learn that his address has been changed from Lisbon to Carcavelos. He notes having written and translated four articles to be published in the Arauto da Verdade. He relates the following interesting incident: "On Sunday, June 4, some of the English residents had a cricket match. A few days afterward the Scotch Presbyterian preacher who comes out from Lisbon every two weeks, gave a talk on Sunday observance. He based the weekly holiday on the decree of Constantine, A. D. 321, and said there was no such holiday up to that time. It created quite a stir among the hearers, and some began to see the difference between Sunday and the Sabbath."
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REASONS FOR CHANGES IN DATE AND PLACE OF HOLDING OUR GENERAL CAMP-MEETING.
By Editor
First, as to Date.
(a) The special railway rates can be secured on the date selected (Aug 11-21.)
(b) Nearly all reports from churches favor the middle of August.
(c) This date, and also the place, will exactly suit in the important matter of following the large tent effort in Los Angeles, which must close July 31st, and will give ample time to transfer the pavilion to the camp ground.
(d) The date decided upon will greatly economize the time of Elders Owen and Simpson, so that they can have the full months of September and October for a series of meetings in San Diego, and they did not feel free to have the general camp-meeting break into the midst of the series of meetings in San Diego.
(e) This date will give time for some of our College Faculty to go to all of our churches, after camp-meeting, and work continuously till September 15, to help our young people in planning to attend our college.
Second, as to Place.
(a) The selection of a place near the center of our conference, and also the holding of a local camp-meeting at San Diego, will enable probably one-third more of our people to attend than could possibly do so if only one meeting were held, and that at San Diego.
(b) Nearly all of our people voted in favor of two meetings; the general camp-meeting and conference, in or near Los Angeles, and the local meeting at San Diego.
(c) Our conference funds are very low, and it will cost much less to hold the general meeting at Los Angeles than at San Diego, on account of our conference tents and supplies being stored in or near Los Angeles.
With such preponderating weight of evidence in favor of holding the two meetings as above outlined, and the decision having been virtually made by our churches, the conference committee feels clear in announcing the two meetings, at Los Angeles for Aug. 11-21, and at San Diego, Sept. 7-17.
Southern California Conference Committee.
The Sabbath-school lessons have been discontinued. The Lesson Quarterly may be obtained, containing three months' lessons and notes, for five cents. Address, Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal. The Sunday-school lessons will continue.
EDUCATION IN THE HOME. NO. II.
By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
BY MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE.
"WELL, mother," said Brother Hartman, after their guests had departed, "it is quite evident to me that our good neighbors are deeply interested. My only regret is that we have been so tardy about beginning these readings."
"Yes, that is true; we should have begun them long ago," replied Sister Hartman. "The studies seem really to be doing as much good to our neighbors as to our children. Of course we planned them especially for our own; but it seems to me that the Holy Spirit is already watering the seed sown, and I fully expect to see a goodly harvest."
"Mrs. Wilbur seems to be in earnest, at least," observed Mattie. "Why, just as they were ready to go home, Josie whispered to me that her mama seemed awfully worried because she couldn't find the text she's looking for; and Josie is going to ask her ma if she can't go to Sabbath-school with me next Sabbath."
"That would be nice," said grandma; "but of course our Sabbath-school is very small compared to the Sunday-school which she is used to attending; so we must try to make the lessons and the exercises doubly interesting."
"But, my children, how do you all like these home readings? do you feel, any of you, as if you would care to discontinue them?"
"O, no," said John, heartily, "it is about as good as a church school, I believe."
"Yes," agreed Mattie; "and I would much rather my own father and mother would teach me the Bible, than any other teacher."
"I like to have grandma teach me," said little Beth. "Grandma knows the Bible better'n lots of preachers. She taught me the Fourth Commandment and the Lord's Prayer, and now she's teaching me the ninety-first Psalm, and when I learn that, she's going to teach me the other nine commandments."
"I will ask you to repeat the ninety-first Psalm at our next reading, dear child," said papa. "It's too bad that you should not have some part in our meetings."
"I've been thinking, John," said Elsie, "that it's about time some of your chums came in to spend the evening. There's Walter Gray, for instance; he's not been here for some time."
"But he's coming; I forgot to mention it before; but I told him about our studies, and I was afraid he wouldn't like to have our old-time chats in my room broken up, but actually he said he would be glad to come and join our circle. By the way, he surprised me by saying that he hoped some day to be a preacher. Whew! just think of it? Walt Gray to be a preacher!" and John clapped his hands enthusiastically.
"That's all right, John," said Sister Hartman. "Bring him along to our studies; they are just what he needs if ever he intends to preach the Word. He needs to study it while he's young. My father used to say that as we are all in an evil world, we could not always keep out of evil, but we could, by God's help, keep evil out of us!"
"That's true; and while it seems to be necessary for you, my dear children, to attend school here in the village, where you meet many temptations, still if you all remember that Christ was tempted also, but never yielded thereto, and that He always met these temptations with a verse of Holy Scripture, these things need only serve to add strength to your faith. Christ's prayer is a very fitting one: 'I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil.'"
"You know," said grandma, with a tremble in her kind voice, "that the more the wind blows on a tree, the deeper the root grows and the stronger it becomes. But, John, I was just wondering what had ever become of poor Billy Black, whose father died a drunkard a year ago. Does he live alone with his grandmother still?"
"Billy Black? why, he goes to school every day when he doesn't play the truant," answered John, "Why do you ask, grandma?"
"Because, don't you think it would be a good plan to invite him, too, to attend our studies?"
"First rate plan; I'll do it, grandma, if father doesn't mind."
"Indeed, I should be glad, my son; it would be good missionary work. We will help the poor lad all we can."
"But we haven't decided upon the subject for our next meeting, have we, father?" questioned Elsie.
"I think we are not yet done with that Fourth Commandment, are we, children? that one seems to cause very much trouble and discussion in the religious world, and I want you to be well fortified, -rooted and grounded in the truth, your feet planted on the broad platform of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
"Well, for one thing at our next meeting, Mrs. Wilbur is going to bring in that text which she feels so sure she can find, that enjoins Sunday-keeping. We would be willing to promise her five hundred dollars for every one she can find, wouldn't we, father?" smiled Sister Hartman.
"We certainly would,—or five thousand, for that matter. But the keeping of God's Sabbath alone, important as it is, is not all we have to do, don't forget that. There are nine other commands, which the apostle James says must each be kept, or we become guilty of breaking the whole. Then we must not forget that Christ is our salvation: without Him, we could never overcome. At our next study I will tell you a little story of my life, if you will remind me, that will illustrate this great truth so well expressed by the apostle James."
"There's no fear of our letting you forget to tell the story, father," said Mattie, delightedly; for she knew her father's ability to tell a story and to tell it well. "We'll not let you forget, father."
"O grandma!" exclaimed Beth, "you know Emma McLane's parents are Catholics; she told me to-day at school that she had a great secret to tell me if I'd never tell any one."
"I hope, my dear, that you didn't promise her," said mama. "I would not like my little girl to listen to anything which she might not tell her mother," said Sister Hartman, anxiously.
"Why, no; I told her I must tell my ma and my grandma—"
"And all the rest of us?" questioned John, roguishly.
"No, but finally she did tell me, and she said she did not care a bit if I told any one. She said she knew how it happened that everybody keeps Sunday. She says it was in her last week's lesson in her Catechism. I asked her how it was, and she said their church had changed the day from Saturday to Sunday,—did they, ma?"
"I am thinking your little friend made you acquainted with a tremendous fact, my child; and I am inclined to think it was providential in bringing it up just at this time. Do you suppose you could borrow Emma's book, so that we might have it at our next study?" questioned her father, eagerly.
"I guess so; I'll ask her, anyway," and little Beth crept off to bed, wondering what her papa could possibly want to do with Emma McLane's Sunday-school Catechism.
A SLUM GIRL.
SHE was a child of the slums, a ragged, unkempt, forlorn little girl about ten years of age. Some one had given her a penny, and she had hurried away to the penny store and there purchased a stick of striped red-and-white candy. She was running along the streets, proud and happy in her new and rare possession, when I saw her. Suddenly another little girl, equally ragged and forlorn looking, came limping out of the dark hallway of a dilapidated old rookery of a tenement house. She was very lame, and had evidently suffered much in her short life. Her face had a drawn and permaturely old look, such as one is always sorry to see in the face of children.
The two little girls met, and the one with the candy held it aloft, exclaiming, " See what I've got! Just see what I've got!"
"Where'd you get it, Janie?"
"Bought it."
"Where'd you get the money?"
"A man gave it to me for scooting after his hat when the wind blowed it off."
"Gimme some of it, won't you, Janie? Please do."
There was a wistful, eager, hungry look in the drawn little face.
Janie hesitated. Evidently sticks of candy came rarely to her. She looked longingly at the candy and then at the girl. Suddenly she rushed forward eagerly, joyously: " You take it all, Maggie; you take it all. You can't scoot after gentlemen's hats and earn pennies, and I can. So you take it all; and if I git a chance to earn another penny I'll give it to you to buy anything you want to with it."
Generous little heart, in which love of self had not yet found an abiding place! What a lesson it teaches to the grasping and self-centered, who care not for the wants, the weakness, or the woes of others!—Young People.
"LIKE AS A FATHER."
THE life of a beautiful girl was nearing its close. The busy father, active in legal and political life, made short visits to his office to perform the most necessary duties, and hurried home again day by day to be near her in her last days. He spent every possible moment in granting every wish, and it was a comfort to him that his daughter was finding in her religion a source of strength that robbed approaching death of terror. He was an upright man, but one from whose busy life religion had been crowded out.
One day, as he sat by the bedside his daughter asked him to read to her. He found a magazine and read some bright bits of poetry and fiction. It pleased her, but she wanted something else.
"Father," she asked, "will you get my Bible and read from that?"
"Certainly, my dear," he answered, and was rather glad than otherwise of her request.
He was a strong man with a clear voice and with a good degree of self-control. He had mastered his own feelings in those days of patient and affectionate ministration, that he might bring to the sick room every element of cheer that was possible. And now he began, calmly and quietly, to read the Sermon on the Mount. He knew where to find it, and he knew that it was good, and he read with a growing appreciation of its beauty and its sublimity.
But the daughter grew more and more restless.
"Don't you like it?" he asked.
"O, father," she exclaimed, "it isn't that I want, about our righteousness exceeding that of the scribes and Pharisees! Can't you find the place where it says, 'Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him?'"
His voice trembled a little, but he said, "I will find it," and he turned to the concordance in the back of the Bible. But when he found the place and began to read, "Like as a father," he could bear no more.
"O, my child," he cried, "if God cares for me as I do—"
He bent over the bed and wept.
"It is the verse we both need," she said, softly, after a few minutes.
And he knelt beside the bed and said:
"Yes, my dear, that is the verse for us both. —Youth's Companion."
TWELVE RULES FOR THE CARE OF THE EARS.
1. NEVER scratch the ears with anything but the finger, if they itch. Do not use the head of a pin, hair pins, pencil tips, or anything of that nature.
2. Never put anything in the ear for the relief of toothache.
3. Never wear cotton in the ears if they are discharging pus.
4. Never attempt to apply a poultice to the inside of the canal of the ear.
5. Never drop anything into the ear unless it has been previously warmed.
6. Never use anything but a syringe and warm water for cleansing the ear from pus.
7. Never strike or box a child's ears; this has been known to rupture the drumhead, and cause incurable deafness.
8. Never wet the hair if you have a tendency to deafness; wear an oiled-silk cap when bathing, and refrain from diving.
9. Never let the feet become cold and damp, or sit with the back towards the window, as those things tend to aggravate any existing hardness of hearing.
10. Never put milk, fat, or any oily substance into the ear for the relief of pain, for they soon become rancid and tend to incite inflammation. Simple warm water will answer the purpose better than anything else.
11. Never be alarmed if a living insect enters the ear. Pouring warm water into the canal will drown it, when it will generally come to the surface, and can easily be removed by the fingers. A few puffs of tobacco smoke blown into the ear will stupefy the insect.
12. Never meddle with the ear if a foreign body, such as a bead, button, or seed enters it; leave it absolutely alone, but have a physician attend to it. More damage has been done by injudicious attempts at the extraction of a foreign body than could ever come from its presence in the ear.—Anon.
THE PERIL OF FLIRTING.
A FRIEND asked an inmate of an asylum for homeless women what started her in an evil life, and she replied without hesitation, "Flirting. When I was a child I flirted with boys who visited my brothers. I thought it fun, and never dreamed of harm. As I grew older I continued to flirt. I lost the respect of the men and boys of my acquaintance, and before I realized my position I had a stain upon my name." One can not make sport of a heaven-given passion and hope for safety. A girl casts away her dignity and protection with the first glance, the first whisper, of mock love. Flirting breeds disrespect, disrespect familiarity, familiarity contempt and ruin. Flirting hardens the heart, blunts the sensibilities, and encourages a deceitful and trifling disposition. Our girls forget that a man has no friendship, no respect nor love for a flirt. No matter how desperate he may be himself, a man uses the coquette as a play-thing for an idle moment, that is all.
"Yes, I have great admiration for Miss B.," I heard one young man say to another. "All the fellows honor and respect her. She never flirts."
When that young man married, he chose for a life partner the girl who was open and above board, Miss B., who never flirted.
Many girls start flirtations on the impulse of the moment. They are gay and full of life, and think not of the consequences. Permit me to give a word of advice: Pray every day, that when you are tempted to flirt, you may remember that such a practise is profanity against the very name of God, for He is love.—Christian Work.
THE SUN IN SICKNESS.
DID you ever notice that when animals are sick or tired, they seek a sunny place to lie down? The uncivilized races of men do the same. Savages and animals alike lie down in the sun when they are sick or fatigued. It is instinct that prompts them to do this. They know nothing of the color of the sun's rays, nothing as to the size of the sun, or its distance from the earth, or the revolution of the earth around the sun. They are simply led by an unerring instinct of nature to seek the sun for healing. They lie in the sun, bask in it, and its potent rays penetrate every tissue and fiber of their bodies, bringing to them a soothing balm, a calming nervine, and the real elixir of life.
Did you ever notice what civilized man does when he is sick or tired? He goes into a house, into an unwholesome room, no sunlight, no fresh air. If he must have heat, he gets artificial heat. He saturates every tissue and fiber of his body, not with the rays of the sun, but with poisonous drugs. The whole atmosphere about him is depressing and ruinous both to mind and body. Sometimes, in spite of it all, he manages to live, and get out in the air and sunshine again. Sometimes he does not, and the undertaker comes.
Instinct in some cases is better than civilization. Instinct teaches the savage and the animal that the main sources of life are sunshine and fresh air, that both are necessary to maintain life or to restore health. So the animal and the savage have sense enough, instinct enough, to stay out-doors in the sunlight and fresh air, while civilized man shuts himself up in a close, darkened room, away from the very elements that would heal him.—Australasian Good Health.
CARE OF THE KITCHEN.
By S. H. H.
NO PART of the home needs more care and attention than the kitchen; and yet it is often neglected in the interest of other household duties. It is advisable for a housekeeper to provide herself with every reliable kitchen convenience that can be found. Money is never wasted in purchasing labor-saving aids of real merit. Where there is a small family and plain cooking required, there is no need of a large quantity of cooking utensils. The plainer the kitchen the better. It ought to be a pleasure to cook in a well-arranged kitchen. Dirt should never be allowed to accumulate in it, dishes should never be allowed to stand unwashed. The floor should be mopped once a week, and thoroughly scrubbed about once a week. Linoleum is the best covering for a wooden floor, as grease and other spots can be removed. It is always better to have the pantry shelves covered with a thick coat of varnish or with oilcloth. The kitchen table should have as much tin about it as possible; and you should keep a little tin box filled with Gold-dust Washing-powder to clean tin with, as it brightens it up wonderfully, and cleans so quickly and easily. There are many styles of self-wringing mops which can be procured at low prices. Scrubbing-brushes with long handles may be had for a small sum. The care of the kitchen is an important item. Keep borax to clean your kitchen sink with, and to flush the pipes out with always.—S. H. H.
WHICH IS WORSE?
A LITTLE girl came in her night clothes very early one morning to her mother, saying:
"Which is worse, mama, to tell a lie or to steal?"
The mother, taken by surprise, replied that both were so bad that she couldn't tell which was the worse.
"Well," said the little one, "I've been thinking a good deal about it, and I think what's worst: it's worse to lie than to steal. If you steal a thing you can take it back, unless you've eaten it; and if you have eaten it you can pay for it. "But—and there was a look of awe in the little face—" a lie is forever."
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TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES (Incorporated). Next class now forming. We teach Bible, physiology, practical surgical and obstetric nursing, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, diseases and their treatments, children's diseases, gynecology, massage, bandaging, Swedish movements, and materia medica. Only substantial young people who are willing to work are wanted. Address T. H. Midgley, Supt.
