Earlier text: WHO IS YOUR MASTER?THE OPENING OF UNION COLLEGE.
By C. C. Lewis
The enrolment is 212 before the close of the first week. Students will be coming for several weeks yet. So far as the total enrolment is concerned, it is a little larger than last year, but there is marked increase in the number of students in the Home. Last year at this time we had only ten or eleven tables. Now we have sixteen. Our enrolment at the Home is 111. As for the character of the pupils, I think I have never before seen a more earnest class of students together. The organization of the school was effected easily and quickly. We gained a day's time over last year, being ready to take up regular recitations on Friday, instead of on Monday as we did last year. One hundred and twenty-six persons have enrolled in the different Bible classes. Most of the remainder of the students have either completed the Bible work, or have some excellent reason for not taking Bible study this year. No special effort was made to induce them to choose Bible studies, but nearly all seemed glad to do so. The enrolment in industrial studies and trades is also encouraging. Sixty-six is the number at present. The industrial studies come at three o'clock in the afternoon, and many of our students desire to work in the afternoon to help meet their expenses. If it were not for this fact there would be many more in the industrial classes, but we feel gratified that the number is so large. An excellent spirit pervades the school. At the social meeting in the Home parlor at the beginning of the Sabbath, it was evident that the Spirit of the Lord was present in a marked degree, and it seemed as if the work was beginning where it left off last year. We are encouraged to believe that the blessing of the Lord will rest upon the work at the College in a larger measure even than it did last year, and the teachers and students enter upon the work with hearts full of courage and good cheer. OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
By Editor
THE school at Bozeman, Mont., is announced to begin November 1. AT Stowell, Wis., September 23, three persons were baptized by Brother F. F. Peterson. FOURTEEN converts are reported at Melrose, Mont., where Brethren W. H. Holden and S. H. Kime have been laboring. IN the West Michigan Herald Brethren R. C. Horton and M. S. Burnham report good meetings at Benton Harbor, seven candidates baptized being partial fruits of their labor. IN the Montana Bivouac Brother J. A. Holbrook, president of that conference, notes the baptism of two candidates at Spring Gulch; three at Clinton, and three at Rimini; besides the conversion of two young girls at Philipsburg. THE East Caribbean Gleaner contains a report of the baptism of seven persons at San Fernando, Trinidad, by Brother D. E. Wellman. Of the candidates were an East Indian mother and daughter. Mention is also made of the baptism of five candidates at Indian Walk. FROM British Guiana, South America, there recently came an appeal to the East Caribbean Conference for a teacher. The appeal was made by some Arawaks, who represent about a thousand aboriginal Indians, who dwell in the Guiana forests. There is already a church organization among them. THE following request of our brethren and sisters is from Brother O. H. McCrillis, Bethel, Wis.: "You who are living near the insane asylums, will you not place on the reading tables in the wards of these needy places, some good reading matter, such as the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and Life Boat. Such reading as will be easily understood I know will be appreciated by many." THE Educational and Young People's Department of the Central Union Conference will continue the Home Improvement Courses conducted with marked success last year. These include courses in General Culture and Special Training. All who desire to take the General Culture Course should write at once to M. E. Kern, College View, Neb. Those desiring the Special Training Course should address B. E. Huffman, College View, Neb. The outlines for these courses will be found in the Educational Messenger (College View, 50 cents a year), beginning October 15, to continue eight months. IN the Workers' Record Brother R. C. Porter, president of Missouri Conference, notes that in various points in the southeastern part twenty persons had accepted the faith. Also that at Sedalia, eleven have been added to the church as a result of labor by Brother D. E. Scoles after camp-meeting. Also, seven additions at Marceline, where Brother W. T. Millman had been laboring; four at Kansas City, under Brother E. A. Merrell's labors; two added to St. Louis German church, and six to the English church, under the labors of Brother M. E. George. At Marceline a Sabbath-school of seventeen members has been organized. ONE by one the faithful laborers in the cause of God are laid to rest. Of the more prominent ministers, the latest death we have to record is that of Brother Nels Peter Nelson, president of Southwestern Union Conference for the past two years. He was aged 61 years, 8 months, and 16 days. He had been failing in health for several months. His faithful wife, who was very nearly his own age, fell asleep only twenty-two days before her husband, at Keene, Texas. Brother and Sister Nelson accepted the truth at Swan Lake, S. D., under the labors of Brother J. F. Hansen, and, when Dakota Conference was organized, he was chosen a member of the first conference committee. He afterward served six years as president of that conference. Then for five years he was president of Nebraska Conference, which he resigned to take charge of the Southwestern Union Conference, at the same time acting as president of Texas Conference. He leaves five sons and one daughter, all of whom are faithful adherents to the religion of their parents. Andrew is president of Oklahoma Conference, and Dr. N. P. has charge of our sanitarium at Frederikshavn, Denmark. Ida has been a valuable assistant to her father, besides holding official position in conference Sabbath-school work. The youngest son, William, is connected with the faculty of Walla Walla College. Brother Nelson died at College View, Neb., where funeral services were conducted by Brethren J. H. Morrison and E. T. Russell. The remains were taken to his old home at Swan Lake, S. D., for interment. A MISSIONARY SPIRIT.
By A. H. Piper
[A. H. Piper, Rarotonga Missionary, in Union Conference Record.] It has been the practise for more than half a century to train Rarotongans and other islanders to become native teachers and missionary workers in islands shrouded in the darkness of heathenism. Many years ago, a Rarotongan man and his wife, especially the latter, had a great desire to become missionaries to the heathen of New Guinea. They entered the training school, and received some preparation for the work. It was found, however, that the husband had not the constitution necessary to stand the trying climate of New Guinea, and hence he had to be contented with working for his own people at home, and soon after died. This was a great disappointment to the wife, for the death of her husband cut off all opportunity to fulfil the desire of her life, as only married couples were sent to New Guinea. Prevented from going herself, she determined that, if possible, one or more of her children should, on reaching manhood, go in her place. But they did not seem inclined that way, and marrying, settled down in their own land. The mother was again disappointed, but did not give up hope. As her grandchildren began to grow up, the hope that one or more of them would take her place in the mission field was the inspiration of her life, and to this end she labored and prayed. In the meanwhile the old mother, now whitened by the hand of time, had heard the Third Angel's Message preached, and had accepted the truth thereof. She lived with some of her grandchildren in a village almost ten miles from the village in which our school is situated, and, wishing the children to have the advantage of attending the school, brought them with her, and settled near the school. Gradually the eldest boy became interested in his lessons, and made good progress. Six or eight months later, during our last annual week of prayer, he attended every meeting, and listened with rapt attention to the subjects presented. A day or two after its close he came to us, and asked to be baptized. He was so quiet about it that we wondered whether he realized the significance of baptism, but a few questions put to him were answered quite to our satisfaction. "Nobody has influenced me," said he, "but the Spirit of God." He had given his heart to God during the week of prayer, and now wished to join the church, and eventually to become a worker in the cause. The following evening the old grandmother came to us, and, with tears of joy flowing down her cheeks, told us what we have here related. Her eldest grandchild, now no longer a child, had taken the first and most important steps to fulfil the desire of her life. She placed him in our hands to train, saying as she did so, "Take him, and teach him, while I go back and do what I can for the remaining children." Child Marriage Not Abolished.
By Editor
It has been extensively believed that child marriages had been abolished in India, but we are assured that such is not the case. The Indian Witness is an authority on the subject, because it is in a position to know. In a recent utterance on the subject it says that "child marriages are an every-day occurrence. Girls of eight, nine, and ten years become wives, as everybody knows who knows anything about it; and yet, among a list of the signs of progress made in the treatment of women, in an English paper, is the abolition of child marriage, coupled with suttee. Suttee [the burning of widows] has been abolished in the main, tho it occurs occasionally, even now." The Witness further informs us, however, that the marriage of children has become "a burning question," and there is a law raising the age of marriage to twelve years. It takes time, however, for such laws to become generally effective, as in the case of the law prohibiting suttee. WANTED FOR MISSIONARY WORK.
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By Editor
THE International Publishing Association at College View, Neb., will concentrate their whole effort to one number of the German, Danish-Norwegian, and Swedish papers, instead of four numbers, for the missionary campaign this fall. They are planning to get them out about the time of the second number of the series of the Signs of the Times. The foreign papers will have a choice collection of articles from our best writers on the Second Coming of Christ, Saints' Inheritance, Last Message, State of the Dead, the Sabbath, Sunday Laws, Characteristics of the Last Church, etc. These special numbers will be finely illustrated, containing twenty-four pages and cover, which will make them valuable papers for circulation and good sellers. All of our readers should order a supply of these papers for their friends and neighbors who read either of these languages. Price, five cents each; ten or more, three cents each. Order of your tract society, or of the publishers. Wanted: Prophetic Charts
By Editor
WANTED.—Two prophetic charts found in the series of seven which have been in common use during the past few years. They are now out of print. The titles of the charts wanted are "The 7th Chapter of Daniel," and "The 13th Chapter of Revelation." Any one having these charts or the full set, would confer a favor upon us by reporting same, together with price, to Pacific Press Pub. Co., Mountain View, Cal. THE HEROISM OF MARTHY.
By Lissie C. Farmer
[Lissie C. Farmer, in Country Gentleman.] An awkward, overgrown negro girl of about fifteen years of age presented herself before her mistress in answer to the call. "Marthy, I am going to town and will be gone two or three hours, and you must look after Beatrice while I'm gone. Don't let her get into any mischief—" "Please, ma'am, what am mischief?" "O well, don't let her do anything she oughtn't to while I am away." "Please, ma'am, what oughtn't she to do while you're gone?" "Well, she oughtn't to do anything to hurt herself; and you must stay right with her—mind that, now, Marthy—you must stay right with her all the time. Don't let her be away from you, not even for a minute." "Yes, ma'am," responded Marthy, dutifully. Half an hour later she was alone with Beatrice, while Mrs. Hagen was speeding away over the Kansas prairie to the nearest town. "Come heah, honey lamb," she called to Beatrice. "I'se gwine to take awful good care ob you whille youh ma's gone. I ain't to let you out ob my sight foh a minute—you mind dat—not eben foh a minute." "What'll we do, Marthy, while mama's gone? You tell me stories, Marthy." So Marthy told some of the wonderful stories that had come down to her from a former generation of dusky darkies, and Beatrice listened till her curly, golden head began to nod, and she slipped away from Storyland to Dreamland. "Now I don't see no hahm," soliloquized Marthy, "in me takin' a little nap, too. I'll stay right beside dis honey lamb like as Missus Hagen said, and I ain't gwine to sleep real sound—jes' take a little cat nap, kase it's so wohm and sleepy-like." The black, woolly head was soon still in slumber beside the golden one. "O, Marthy, Marthy! Wake up! There's a terrible storm coming." Marthy rubbed her eyes and jumped up on hearing this call from Beatrice. "Come to the window, Marthy. Isn't that awful?" Marthy's big dark eyes bulged out in terror. "It is a sly coon comin', honey lamb, and what in de worl' is we gwine to do?" "What is a sly coon, Marthy?" "O, you blessed honey lamb, don't you know? A sly coon's a terrible big, powehful win, dat takes up houses and trees and blows dem clean to nowah, and it'll jus' take you and me and blow ebery bit of haih clean off ouh heads." "O, Marthy, will it blow mama away? O, I wish mama was here," and Beatrice began to cry. "So do I, honey lamb, but don't cry. I promised youh ma dat I'd stay right beside you, and dar won't no sly coon get you away from me." She caught Beatrice up in her arms just as the first force of the cyclone struck the house. "Don't you cry, honey lamb; don't you cry," she admonished, but Beatrice heard not a word of what was said, for the horrible noises of the cyclone swallowed up all other sounds. A huge mass of living and inanimate things was rolling and churning about the house. Horses neighed, cattle bellowed, dogs howled and snarled, wild creatures, torn from their haunts and borne along with their enemy, man, to the same destruction, screeched and screamed and wailed and growled and whined; women sobbed and moaned, and men cried out in agony. Stately trees that had grown through long years to a hoary age of dignity suddenly grew young and frisky, and dancing and gamboling through all their boughs and leaves, careened away skyward. The prince of the power of the air was taking his subjects on a lightning excursion from nobody knew whence to nobody knew whither, and they had no choice but to bend to his iron will. Through all the tearing and the swaying and the grinding of boards and posts and trees, a kinky, woolly head kept close beside a golden one. They rose; they fell; they rolled; they tumbled, according to the caprice of the Storm King, but nothing could tear the faithful negro girl away from her duty. Suddenly they felt a still coldness rising about them. The tempest had grown tired of part of its burden, and had cast these two down, with boards and trees and branches and all sorts of debris about them, into the middle of a little stream; not small now, but angry and swollen with the heavy rain that had been falling all the time. "O, Marthy, Marthy, where are we now?" piped the childish voice. "We's all right, and ain't killed yet, honey lamb, and don't you think you'se gwine to be drowned, honey lamb, kase I'se a-prayin' powehful agin it." "Marthy, where do you s'pose mama is?" "De good Lawd only knows, honey lamb. She ain't at home, kase we's brought most ob de house with us. She must be somewhah, but de good Lawd only knows whah." "O, Marthy! we're getting deeper in the water! Why, Marthy, it's clear up to your waist. Can't you get out, Marthy?" "No, honey lamb, my knee is ketched fas in somethin', and I kain't move." "O, Marthy, Marthy! the water's getting deeper and deeper all the time. Why, it's up to my waist now, Marthy!" "Don't you be gettin' scared, honey lamb, kase I'se a-prayin' all de time powehful hahd dat you won't get drowned. Dere's a lot ob stuff piled up down dar and de water's backin' up, but you jes' climb up on dat board out ob de water, and I'll hold you dar, so you kain't get drowned. Dat's de way! Now you's clean out ob de water." "O, Marthy, Marthy! The water's clear up to your neck now—O—O—O!" "Don't you be scared, honey lamb, kase I'se prayin' powehful hahd—" From the bank of the stream a woman's voice cried out: "O, there they are! There they are!" A mother's quick eye took in the whole situation. "Hold on a little bit longer, Marthy, and the men will be there." "O, Missus Hagen! O, Mister Travers, I'se so glad you've come, kase I kain't hold on much longer. De water's clean up to my mouf now." The men waded into the stream, but before they could reach the two, the arm that held Beatrice in place above the water had fallen senseless and the kinky head sunk beneath the gurgling yellow waters, but Beatrice was rescued unhurt, and the faithful negro girl's prayers were answered. "Can't you save Marthy, too?" screamed Mrs. Hagen from the bank. The men were trying. They got her head above water and released the mangled foot; then bore her out of the stream, where they worked with her until the big eyes opened once again. She saw her mistress bending over her. "O, Missus Hagen, won't you forgive me?" she sobbed. "Forgive you? What in the world have I to forgive you for, Marthy?" "Kase I went to sleep and let the sly coon come and take Beatrice away. O, I'se so sorry, Missus Hagen, dat I went to sleep and let the sly coon come!" "Why, you blessed child, you couldn't have stopped the cyclone if you had been awake." "Den you ain't mad at me, Missus Hagen?" "Mad at you, child? Well, I should think not, after you saved my little girl's life." "O, I'se so glad you ain't mad;" and Marthy laid back and closed her eyes with a great sigh of relief. KEEP THE SILVER BRIGHT.
By M. A. T.
FEW household utensils are more highly valued by good housekeepers than nicely-kept pieces of silverware, and while not many are fortunate enough to own such in large quantities, many have a few pretty articles which they take pride in keeping beautifully clean. Whiting, wet with diluted ammonia, will usually remove tarnish and discolorations from silver. If the tarnish is of long standing, it may be necessary to use the ammonia undiluted, but this should be used sparingly especially on plated ware. Silver knives, forks, and spoons that are in daily use are kept bright and shining without hard rubbing if they are15washed after each meal in a strong suds of ivory soap and warm water and then carefully dried and rubbed with a piece of soft flannel, and even the plated ware may be made to look beautiful by careful handling and proper washing. Vinegar should not be allowed to stand in the pantry or closet where silver is kept, as acids, coal gas, or vinegar will tarnish silver very quickly, and it is hard to make the pieces bright again when they once become tarnished. It is in loving, not in being loved,
The heart is blest;
It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,
We find our quest.
Whatever be thy longing or thy need
That do thou give;
So shall thy soul be fed, and thou indeed
Shalt truly live.
—Selected. SINGING PRAISES.
By Charles P. Whitford
1. WHO should be the object of all praise and adoration in our singing? 2. In what spirit should hymns of praise to God be rendered? "I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the Spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also." 1 Cor. 14:15. It is not pleasing to God to sing the words of a hymn in a careless and irreverent manner. "Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31. The true motive of singing is expressed in Ps. 21:13: "Be Thou exalted, Lord, in Thine own strength; so will we sing and praise Thy power." Too often we sing to praise our own power,—to show the range and compass of the voice, and thus gain the applause of our fellows. Singing is only another way of preaching. When good words are set to pleasing melodies, and sung "in the spirit," they become a means of instruction in spiritual things. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Col. 3:16. I am afraid we do not always heed this admonition,—"singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Too often we sing with love of self in our hearts, and court the favor of those who do not love sacred song. The tendency of Christian people today is to sing to please the world and worldly people, rather than to preach the truth of God to them in song, and thus glorify God who gave us our musical talents and voices that we might glorify Him. Singing is an appropriate way of expressing thanksgiving for blessings received. "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise Him." Ps. 28:7. Let us resolve to sing as did David, "I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live." THE TRAMP AND THE HOBO.
By P. Padurson
ON the road are found two classes of men—the tramp and the hobo. The tramp is willing to work, as a rule, when he can get anything to do, while the hobo is said to pray that he may not find work, or, in other words, that nobody will offer him work. The first-named class do not ask anything for nothing, while the other class wants everything for nothing. One has the spirit of independence, while the other class is morally weak. The tramp may or may not be a Christian, while the hobo is not. A man becomes a tramp for several reasons; among the many being discouragement in life, lack of opportunity to meet those who could give him help, or men for whom he could conscientiously work. Some tramps are Christians. "Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." The apostle Paul tramped a great deal. When the disciples of old, and even Christ Himself, could not find any more Gospel work to do in one city, or were hindered from doing it, they would walk to another. With the hobo it is different. He can get along almost any place, as long as there is an empty barn or a haystack near, and he can get a piece of bread and a cup of coffee. But Christ died for both the tramp and the hobo. Now I know that some Seventh-day Adventists have copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, tracts, health journals, etc., laying around or stored away, that are not being used in any way. To me it seems as bad to waste the literature God gives us for the spread of the Gospel as to waste the food He gives for the body. And I believe that there is many a man on the road who is hungry for something that will satisfy his desire for truth and righteousness—a desire for peace with God. Now I propose to those who have this old literature on hand, even tho it may be a little soiled, that they distribute it along the roads where these men travel. They can make boxes or sacks and hang them upon trees and fences, with proper signs to indicate what they contain. If all our literature was put to its right and full use, I believe it would please Him who, as He walked on this earth, was often lonely and forsaken by man, and was in all points tried and tempted like as we are. A YOUNG girl was talking about mosquitoes. She had spent the summer in a place where they were numerous. "But I noticed," she said, "that when I wore a yellow dress I didn't get a single bite." "Did you notice that?" said the young scientist. And he went on eagerly: "I am glad you noticed that, for it is a verification of certain experiments that have been made. "We made these experiments in a gauze tent, and their object was to ascertain the effect of colors on mosquitoes. "We placed in the tent boxes lined with cloth of different hues, and we found that the little pests frantically crowded into the dark blue box, while the yellow box they would not under any circumstances enter. "The experiments extended over several weeks. We had in the tent stone vessels for the mosquitoes to breed in. We discovered that, next to the dark blue, the mosquitoes sought the dark red box. After the dark red came the brown, then scarlet, then black, then slate gray, then olive green, then violet, then pearl gray, then white. "Thus we proved that mosquitoes notice colors, and we formulated two helpful hints for the inhabitants of mosquito districts. "The first hint is to wear yellow to escape mosquito bites and to use yellow netting for bed canopies and window screens. "The second is to use a blue-lined box if you want to trap the mosquitoes. With this box, in an infested region, you could easily catch and destroy thousands of the insects daily."—Selected. ALONE, OR WITH THE CROWD.
By Sunday-School Times
ENTIRELY apart from the matter of religious belief or Christian living, men are divided according to their likeness to, or difference from, the average man. Perhaps it makes the importance of the distinction clearer to say that men are divided according to their descending to the dead level of the majority-average, or their rising above that level to the prominence attained only by a few. In every profession and occupation under the sun there are the ordinary individuals who take their cue from the crowd, and the extraordinary individuals who refuse to remain with the crowd by accepting its standards, and who in consequence rise above the crowd. Such refusal to do the expected thing is never easy, and must invariably be carried out in the face of earnest majority-counsel to the contrary. But such refusal marks the difference between nine men out of ten, and the tenth man. A young man who was highly esteemed by his employers left his attractive position with them, acting under their advice, to take a position in another city in a business in which they were interested, where he had good reason to believe a bright future lay ahead. The new position to which he was assigned proved to be not the one that he had expected, that having been filled by a relative of the local manager. The work given him was drudgery of the most exhausting sort; his remuneration remained what it had been; and the general treatment he received was apparently intended to discourage the idea of promotion. The firm at the home office could not well interfere, just then, with the local management. What should he do? His majority acquaintances and friends and relatives were prolific in advice as to what they would do. They wouldn't stand it. It was unfair, outrageous. He had no backbone if he submitted to such treatment. Better no work at all than slavish oppression of that sort. Yet this young fellow was not of the ordinary sort, and he got the idea into his head that it took more backbone to stay in that difficult position than it would to resign from it because it was hard. He was earning enough to support himself comfortably, he was in good health, and he was young. He believed that the local managers were, perhaps, trying to tire him out for reasons of their own; but he had entered upon the work under good advice, and he had as yet been called to no other position. So he quietly ignored the sympathy and advice of the many who urged him to "be a man and quit," and he unconsciously enrolled himself as a "tenth man" by going contrary to the opinion of nine men out of ten. Of course it is easy for one looking disinterestedly at that case to forecast the inevitable result. If the exceptional grit and perseverance of that young man are maintained, the day will come when some employer, perhaps even his present employers, looking about for a man to fill a place of exceptional difficulty and responsibility, will turn to this "tenth man" as one who could not be "tired out" or beaten down merely by hardship and oppression. The other nine, who urged his yielding, will not be candidates for the new place.—Sunday-School Times. AN opium monopoly is imminent in China. A German firm located at Shanghai has offered to pay the government the enormous sum of $38,000,000 a year for the privilege of handling this drug exclusively. Such a proposition clearly shows the illegal profits realized from the sale of opium, as well as its frightfully-growing use among the orientals. Not only California, but all the great West, is truthfully described in the beautifully illustrated pages of this virile Western monthly. Its fine half-tones make you SEE the country, while its descriptive and industrial articles TELL YOU EXACTLY what is to be found there. It is in visible form, for it shows the wonderful chances for success now open in the new West for wide-awake people. If your news dealer doesn't carry SUNSET, send us his name and address and write for sample copy. HOME OFFICE: 431 California St. San Francisco, California. THE NORTHWESTERN LINE RUSSIA-JAPAN ATLAS.
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