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Encouraging Items from the Orient

(From the "Asiatic News-Letter")

BROTHER GEORGE HARLOW writes regarding the work around Pakhoi, as follows:

"On Sunday Brother Bach and I left Pakhoi on wheelbarrows en route for Limhoi, which is about sixty li from Pakhoi. There we found the brethren waiting for us. All were of good courage, and we had several meetings. A church was organized, the second church in that district. I desired to go farther inland; but it was thought best not to attempt the journey at this season, for the plague is raging all through the villages. This, of course, made it unsafe to lodge in the country inns; so we returned to Pakhoi, where a general meeting was held. I was very glad to see the attention that was given to each study. Even at this time, when people are afraid to go out on account of the plague, the meeting-house was full at almost every meeting.

"The plague is raging fearfully in nearly all the towns around Pakhoi; and unless something shall intervene, it seems that the inhabitants will be wiped out, for they die off by hundreds. Every day coffin after coffin passed us, being carried to the burial-place. In some instances children are buried two and three together. All night long the gongs and drums are beaten to frighten away the evil spirits, which the people think are the cause of the disease. While seeing so many dead carried out, and hearing of so many dying, it was a comfort to read Ps. 91:7, and to trust the promise that 'a thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.' As yet not one of our members has been taken away by the fearful sickness."

Brother Bach, who is laboring in Pakhoi, writes of the plague conditions as follows:

"The work here has been greatly hampered by the plague. To give a description to any one who has not experienced these days of worry and anguish, and seen the ravages of the sickness, is nearly impossible. People one had seen at morning were buried by evening, and one was nearly afraid to ask for a man, lest he were dead already. This spring's plague here has carried off nearly three thousand people, old and young, and that means one out of every ten of the Pakhoi population. The houses are closed by four o'clock in the afternoon, and people did not dare go out. Even in broad daylight some streets were deserted. Of course this state of things made it very easy for robbers to break open the houses at night and rob the people. Two houses just beside our station have been robbed in this way, and the robbed people have no place to ask for help. One fellow was robbed and murdered just behind the law court, and seemingly no one cares. Altho the plague has been so fearful, not one of our church-members has died. One old woman got the plague boils, but recovered. A little girl started with fever, but got better. One of the inquirer women was three days sick, when we were notified by her landlord, and when we sent up to find out, it seemed that her last day had arrived. However, we brought her the next day to the French consulate physician, a very kind man, who stated that it was seemingly too late to do much for her, but he wanted to do all he could. He gave her six injections of anti-plague serum, the next day five, and so on. We had to find a place for her near the sea beach, where she stayed in rain and sunshine. Now she is recovered, and, thanks be to God, not one believer has died."

Teachers and students of the S. D. A. Mandarin training-school, Nanking, China; Brethren and sisters decorating the grave of Brother Esta Miller, May 13, 1913, Bubbling Well Cemetery, Shanghai

The following from Elder R. F. Cottrell will touch the hearts of those in the home land who know nothing of the poverty and sufferings which these poor natives are obliged to endure, and we trust will incite many to liberality in helping to better the conditions among these people:

"At this writing I am waiting at the Yen Cheng station for the Hankow train, which is six hours late. On my way from Hankow last week, scenes of poverty and distress were on every hand. At the railway stations there were scores, and often hundreds, of famine refugees; and at such places as Sin Yang Djou and Dju Ma Tien, there could not have been less than a thousand. It seemed to me that their pinched faces would have moved a heart of stone, and my soul in its helplessness yearned to do something for the poor people. I prayed earnestly that the Lord would quickly send copious showers upon these parched plains, and also that the relief work that is being undertaken might quickly become effectual to alleviate this awful distress.

"The following evening, I reached Chow Kia Kow. Altho for the present that city is just outside the real famine belt, there will hardly be a quarter of a wheat crop in that vicinity. Brother Westrup told me that owing to conditions, he did not look for more than about one hundred at the general meeting; nevertheless, the people kept coming until the chapel was crowded, and the attendance was quite as good as it was a year ago. The second day, at the early morning prayer-meeting, we read some of the precious promises of the Word regarding prevailing prayer and its conditions, and then besought the Father of mercies to send rain. The following day came the response in a heavy twenty-four hours' downpour. This answer to prayer made a deep impression on the people; and when the need of the Yen Cheng intermediate school was presented, together with the appropriateness of showing our gratitude by a liberal thank-offering, the people responded with a gift of one hundred fifty-eight dollars, Mexican, in cash and pledges. This will be increased within a few days by money from others who were not present. Where has greater loyalty, thankfulness, or self-sacrifice ever been manifest by advent believers?"

When we consider that these natives receive wages of only four to eight cents a day, and skilled workmen receive only nine cents, we will understand something of what a sacrifice such a large donation means to them. From a letter from another worker we learn that there had been no rain in this district for eight months.

A later letter from Brother Cottrell contains the following:

"A further indication of growth was the Hunan offering to the Mission Board of $225 Mexican, in cash and pledges, making a total for the three provinces of $455 Mexican. Our Sabbath-school offerings for the first quarter of 1913 amounted to $56.76. Those in the home land who are giving for missions may observe that their brethren and sisters on this side of the Pacific are, to the extent of their ability, beginning to share the financial burdens of the work.

"The most of the students who were in the Nanking training-school have returned, and are full of courage and zeal. In planning for the summer's campaign in Hunan, we are sending fourteen evangelists and twenty-nine canvassers into the field. Twelve out-stations are being manned, and earnest pleas have come to us from six other places where there are interested companies. We confidently believe that the Lord is about to do a great work in Central China, and the needs and magnitude of the work bring us often upon our knees to confess our helplessness and to plead for strength and wisdom."

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The Paterson Strike

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The long strike in Paterson, New Jersey, lasting for five months, closed by the defeat of the workers; they go back to the mills at their old pay and hours. It is said that there has been a loss in wages since February 25 of $5,600,000; the city of Paterson is out about $50,000 spent for extra police protection; and manufacturers estimate their loss at $1,000,000, and admit that it will take years for the silk city to regain its prestige as a manufacturing center. Hundreds of merchants, doctors, lawyers, bankers, and small capitalists, who have faced ruin during this industrial war, when sixty per cent of the working population was not earning a dollar, are trying to recoup their losses. The real cure of the trouble, seemingly, those that kept it boiling to the very last minute, have been the I. W. W.'s. The I. W. W. leaders have now left the city, it is said. Haywood, the chief, is reported as "very sick." Surely there are better ways of settling troubles than such as this.

A Century of Peace

The powers of the world do not want war. Eminent statesmen tell us this again and again. There really is no need that they should go to war. We have a standing demonstration of this in the Perry Peace Monument now in progress of building at Put-in-Bay, on Lake Erie. It is second only in height to the Washington Monument of the national capital,—335 feet from base to the top. It is there to commemorate the one hundred years of peace between Great Britain and the United States. It also commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the naval battle on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, won by Oliver Hazard Perry, who captured the British fleet under Barclay. But preeminently it is designed to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which has kept peace ever since between Great Britain and the United States, and preserved the neutrality of the Great Lakes for a full century.

During this entire century there has been one of the longest boundaries in the world between different powers, but no armed soldiers or patrolmen have been needed to keep the peace, notwithstanding the fact of the rigid customs laws which prevail on either side. And yet despite this example, the nations of the world are continually preparing for war, fitting themselves for the great Armageddon.

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Violence in the Wheatland Hop Fields

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On August 3 four persons were killed and several others severely wounded in a clash between officers of the law and about five hundred strikers in the hop fields in the neighborhood of Wheatland, California. The strikers were demanding more pay and protesting against the introduction of labor-saving machinery and Japanese laborers. The despatches say that the I. W. W. were the prime agitators in the rioting, and that they had sent out a general call for other members from various parts of the state to come to their help. But troops were sent in to supplement the forces of civil officers, and quiet was promptly restored. The continued and sudden outbreaks of violence in these times are causing thousands of people to ask earnestly, "What are we coming to?" It is well to sense and to face properly the gravity and significance of this situation.

Wilson’s Plan for Pacifying Mexico

President Wilson has made public his policy for the pacification of Mexico. He proposes to exhaust every possible means for the peaceful settlement of their troubles. To this end the good offices of the United States are tendered to assist in preserving order while both parties to the revolution cease hostilities and hold a general election for president. This will allow the people to decide the matter by their votes, and their decision is to be final. Permission is asked that the United States oversee this election, to insure that it be fair to all concerned; all this work to be done in the open, before all the world, so that the powers of Europe and the Orient may not be in the dark. If Mexico refuses this plan, then all embargo to furnishing arms and other military equipment is to be removed, and all parties be permitted to buy as they please, and fight it out, the United States holding all factions responsible for the safety of the lives and property of all our citizens and of foreigners. No foreign power will be permitted to have any voice in the program marked out. In case of the failure of mediation, and the continuation of the revolution, the United States will step in with armed intervention only when it becomes apparent that neither party can succeed in establishing order and law.

The Demand for War with Mexico

The demand for war with Mexico, the New York World points out, does not come from missionaries, students, investigators, and travelers for health. It comes, on the most part, from those who are in Mexico only with their money. They have agents and employees in Mexico, but personally they are absent. The World says that moneyed men are in Mexico not because of the fabulous value of Mexico's undeveloped resources, but because they can get men there to work for a pittance. It is the cheap labor that they are working in Mexico for a profit, rather than the great, undeveloped resources of nature. And the World concludes that before we talk seriously of war with Mexico we must be sure that Americans have been wronged in that country because they are Americans.

War Preparations in Turkey and the Balkans

The despatches from London say that Turkey is preparing for a new military campaign on a prodigious scale. She is drawing reinforcements from Asia Minor to complete an army of 300,000 men that she proposes to use in the Balkan struggle. And in the meantime the Greeks and Servians have rejected the proposals of the Rumanians for a provisional armistice during the conference at Nish, and furthermore Greek troops are reported to have burned the buildings of the large settlement of American missionaries in the town of Bansko. Both the Old World and the New have their war broils that are chronic and that baffle every effort at pacification. These conditions are strikingly significant.

Is It "Meaningless" to You?

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Is It "Meaningless" to You? — Says the Christian Herald: "There is a tendency, even on the part of many very good Christian people, to regard the Lord's coming as an event still very remote, or improbable. Its actuality has no recognition in their daily lives. They pray, 'Thy kingdom come,' but it is to many a meaningless phrase. That which was the dearest and most precious hope of the early church has faded, so that it is now to many but a dim tradition, if not wholly obscured. We need, more and more, to realize the fact of this great truth, to study it in the light of the revealed Word, and to make it a part of our own lives." To which we respond, Amen.

Will Not Hypnotize.

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A correspondent sends us a cartoon, from the Washington Star, in which Mr. Bryan is represented as a professional hypnotist. On the floor at his feet is his great hat, from which are flitting forth white doves. Before him sits the world in military uniform, armed, booted, and spurred. Holding magic hands over the great head of the world, Mr. Bryan asks, "Now can't you see doves of peace filling the air!" and honestly the world answers, "Not yet." Men may cry "Peace," but peace comes by righteousness, and the world is ready for war. Peace is "not yet."

Mine Explosion and the Evils of Carelessness

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Twenty-five persons were killed and a number of others were injured by a dynamite explosion in an anthracite mine near Tower City, Pennsylvania, on August 2. The explosion seems to have been accidental. Fearful accidents of this and a similar character are becoming more and more common and appalling. How much of this is due to the criminal carelessness that is produced by the grasping hand of greed, and by the general lowering of the moral tone of society? Lawlessness and carelessness are twin evils that stalk hand in hand.

Dynamite Wrecks Arizona Catholic Church

On August 2 the Catholic Church at Morenci, Arizona, was wrecked by dynamite, and the priest, who was sleeping in an apartment near the sacristy, narrowly escaped injury. The work is believed to be that of a young Mexican who recently swore that he would destroy all institutions maintained by contributions from the poor.

Christ’s Sanctuary and Priesthood

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The great and important subject of the sanctuary, the priesthood that is effectual, and the putting away of sin, as revealed in types and shadows, is greatly illuminated in our Bible reading department this week. A study of our first page cover will also help to an understanding of the subject.

Contained in This Issue

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Question Corner ..................................... Page 2 4152—Suffer the Little Children; 4153—One Hour; 4154—Marriage and Divorce; 4155—Blasphemy

Our Bible Band ..................................... Page 2

General ............................................. Pages 3-7 The Touch of Faith ......................... Mrs. E. G. White A Predicted Power ........................... Andrew Nelson Does Not Indicate Greater Morality God’s Witness in the Church To-Day ............ The Editor

Poetry .............................................. Page 7 When the Lord Cometh .................... Mrs. E. J. S. Keen My Daily Bread ............................. Delwin Rees Buckner Go or Give .................................. John Francis Olmsted From out the Fog ............................. L. E. Stratton Shade and Shadow .............................. Dr. J. Faye

Bible Studies of Vital Import ................... Pages 8, 9 Object-Lessons of God’s Mercy Civilization and Crime — Heresy and the Ministry

The Outlook ........................................ Pages 10, 11 Physiologic Signs of the Times ............ George Thomason, M.D.

The Home ........................................... Page 12 Innocent Enemies ......................... Adelaide D. Wellman My Experience in Story-Telling — Believe and Climb

Missions ........................................... Page 14 Encouraging Items from the Orient

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Turkey Defies Europe

Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria pleads with Europe to stop Turkey, but Turkey does not stop. Russia would be glad to check her, and would have the support of France and England in doing it, but she has not the consent of the Triple Alliance; consequently Turkey is yet safe.

California Camp-Meeting Results

The California camp-meeting at San Jose closed with splendid interest. Nearly a score who had not made profession yielded to the message. Twenty-one were baptized. A strong force of workers will continue the meetings.

Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens: a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. Hebrews 8:1,2