Earlier text: Simple Remedies for Distressing DisordersIn Sunny Arizona
By E. R. Palmer
A RECENT notice in the REVIEW has informed my friends and fellow workers that my little boat has been forced into dry dock for repairs. These few words are to tell you that the good hand of God has been upon me, and he has so blessed the treatments and exercises, under the direction of the Arizona Sanitarium, that I am steadily, but surely, improving in every respect; and, with the daily touch and blessing of the great Healer, this will evidently prove a sure road to complete recovery. I am greatly blessed in the privilege of living at our clean, wholesome, thoroughly Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium. Until near the time of coming here this institution was quite unknown to me, as it may be also to the large majority of our people; but it ought to be better known; for I am persuaded that it will become a favorite winter resort and place of healing for many who are going to less pleasant and less satisfactory places. The sanitarium is located at 525 Central Ave., Phoenix, Ariz. Phoenix is the territorial capital, and has a population of about twelve thousand people. It is one hundred and ninety-six miles south of the main line of the Sante Fe Railroad, on the branch line running south from Ash Fork. Located in the Salt River Valley, with fine mountains to protect it on either side, and with an elevation of about twelve hundred feet above sea level, Phoenix enjoys a salubrious winter climate, which is almost, if not quite, without an equal. In the warmest part of the day the temperature is seldom above eighty degrees in the shade, and about the coldest temperature known here is twenty-five degrees above zero; it is seldom below freezing. The days are calm and bright; the nights are cool; there is seldom any wind. No one says, “If it is fine to-morrow, we will do this or that,” for it is always “fine to-morrow.” The first morning after I arrived here, I said to a gentleman, “This is a fine morning, isn’t it?” He replied, “Of course it is!” The weather is not considered a proper topic of conversation, for there are so few changes. Though Phoenix is in the heart of the great American desert, yet it is a beautiful place, one hundred thousand acres of fertile land being under irrigation. Thus the place enjoys perpetual sunshine, together with rich, fertile fields that are always green, and flowers that bloom all winter. The sanitarium is in charge of Dr. E. C. Bond. Persons wishing to enjoy the advantages afforded by the sanitarium and the fine, dry climate should write to the doctor before coming. While thus isolated from my work, I shall be glad to hear from my old friends. The Past, Present, and Future
By S. N. Haskell
It is some time since I have given a general report of labor through the REVIEW, and as we are changing our field of labor, I thought it would be well to let our brethren know something of our movements. At the General Conference in the spring of 1901, it was decided that my wife and I should enter New York City to labor. The first of July, 1901, we entered that field, and remained there two years and three months. We conducted a Bible training-school, and had from six to twenty associated with us in the work all the time. The inexperienced workers were paid five dollars a week. This enabled them to pay their board, and have a little left to pay other necessities. We became responsible for their wages, and paid them without conference help. It can be readily seen that the wages alone would be from one hundred and twenty-five dollars to four hundred dollars a month. We taught the workers to canvass for books as well as give Bible readings, and our book sales were always a large source of revenue. During most of the time we had nurses in the training-school, and they gave treatments, which made another important item in our resources. Many times, seeing that we were not going to be able to pay our bills at the end of the month, we cried unto the Lord; and we could fill this article with records of the way he sent us help again and again. Two Bible classes were held each forenoon, and the remainder of the morning was spent in private study. The afternoons and evenings were spent in missionary work in the city. During the two years and three months there were twenty-five who remained in the training-school from three to nine months, while there were six or eight who remained from two to three months. There were a goodly number of brethren and sisters living in the city who attended the classes more or less regularly. In some instances Bible workers of other denominations attended our morning classes. Some hardly missed a class for six months or a year. Some of these last referred to are now doing efficient work, as well as those who were members of the training-school family. The New England and Ohio Conferences each supported two workers for a term in the training-school. Indiana also supported one. Many thousands of tracts and papers were distributed free, and a large quantity of books and small periodicals was sold. Bible readings were held wherever opportunity was given. Some of our workers did good work teaching in Sunday-school, and holding Bible studies at social gatherings that were held among other churches. All classes were visited. A part of the time the training-school kept three halls every day in the week,—one large hall in a respectable part of the city, another hall for meetings held in the interest of the work among the colored people, and a small hall in one of the worst sections of the city. The use of this last hall was given us free of rent by the owner of the building. The work begun in this hall is what finally developed into the first colored Seventh-day Adventist church in the city. The work among the colored people was largely carried on by Brother Uchtman, who accepted the truth the second month we were laboring in the city. Most of the workers who came to us were inexperienced, and by the time they were able to do efficient work, they left, and new ones filled their places. This did not enable us to do the same work we would have done had the workers been retained in the training-school after they were prepared to do efficient work. The health work was not neglected at any time. Three cooking schools and one health school were held by the workers connected with the training-school. A large quantity of health literature was circulated in the city by the workers. A church was organized the first year we were in the city, known as Seventh-day Adventist church No. 3. The Lord gave us honest souls as the fruit of our labors. The workers who received instruction in the training-school we trust will continue to be faithful, and will meet their Lord with sheaves of precious grain at his coming. Our work in New York City has demonstrated the fact that a self-supporting work can be carried on in our18large cities, and workers trained for service in the field without being an expense to any conference. Soon after we began our work, many requested outlines of the Bible lessons given in the school. To meet this need, in June, 1902, we published the first number of the little journal called the Bible Training School. We intended to send out only a few, but the Lord scattered them all over the world, until our subscription list has grown to over six thousand, and faithful souls in the distant foreign fields and in the home land are giving the Bible lessons in the Bible Training School to hungry souls, and the Lord is blessing the work. We have been sending out many sample copies, and find that honest souls of other churches appreciate the Bible Training School as well as our own people do, and many names from this class are being added to our list. It is also being sold at five cents a copy in many cities. Clubs of from ten to five hundred are taken by many, and used in missionary work. The subscription price of the Bible Training School is twenty-five cents a year. In quantities it is sold at the rate of two cents a copy. The address of this paper is Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass. The earnest appeals made for the work in the South during the last few years have touched my heart, but I thought perhaps I was too old to enter such a difficult field; but last summer while attending the camp-meetings, in company with Elder Butler, and witnessing the way in which the majority of our people treated the earnest pleadings for help in this destitute field, I decided that I was not too old to work in a hard field, even if I had entered my seventy-first year, and said that as soon as we could close up our work in New York City, we would go South. We gave up our house in the city, September 30; but I was taken sick at that time, and during October was not able to do any work. We thought best to remain in South Lancaster, Mass., for a few weeks, that I might regain my strength before beginning vigorous work in a new field. I am feeling stronger now, and we long to be at the front of the battle again. We expect to start for our Southern field of labor about December 14. We wish to thank the many friends whom the Lord inclined to assist us by sending donations of money and provisions while in New York City. We hope all will pray that the Lord will sustain us, and give us souls for our hire in our new field. If any feel that they want to give substantial help to the work in the South, we assure them that it will be welcome. S. N. HASKELL.
1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn. The blessing of the Lord is attending the work in this conference. The population is about two million five hundred thousand, scattered over a territory as large as New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Vermont, and Delaware, or a total area of two hundred and twenty thousand square miles. It contains a most excellent class of citizens, who, though somewhat conservative, are as willing to receive the truth as any other people. We are in great need of earnest, consecrated laborers to extend the work into new fields. Some of the stronger conferences in the United States, especially Michigan, have helped to establish the work here, and it is very much appreciated. During the summer two tent efforts were held, and a company brought out at each place, which we hope soon to see organized into churches. I recently organized a church of twelve members at Lindsay, where one of our Bible workers has been laboring the past year. Others are interested here, and steps are being taken to establish a permanent place of worship. The industrial school was opened in September, with Brother and Sister Leland in charge. It was necessary to begin in a limited way in order not to incur further debt, but it is hoped that some buildings can be erected the coming year. The Lord has abundantly blessed the school thus far. We have several faithful canvassers in the field, whom the Lord is blessing in their work. A good interest is manifested in disposing of the Capital and Labor number of the Signs. We are hopeful that the coming week of prayer will be a season of great spiritual blessing to all, and as a result laborers be raised up to enter the work. 4 Revival in Sight
By F. E. Painter
SINCE the canvassing work began, I think we have never had greater cause for encouragement than at the present time. The reason for this does not exist in any outward circumstances or conditions, though these are favorable, but in the fact that God is giving us the clearest evidence that he is stretching out his hand to finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. One evidence of this is that God's people are beginning to take a deeper interest in this branch of the work. Our conference presidents and committees who are thoroughly awake to the fact that they have important responsibilities with reference to the canvassing work, and are trying to devise plans whereby they can best discharge them. We confidently expect that in the near future most of our local conferences will have a competent State agent at work, and that every minister will consider himself a committee of one to help enlist new recruits for the State agent to train. If this is done, we shall find that there is plenty of use for the State agent, and he will earn his salary, too. The conferences which are the most prosperous to-day are the ones where the circulation of our literature is a live issue, and where earnest efforts are made to enlist the people in this work. The most prosperous days this message has ever seen was when all the ministers and people took an active interest in the sale of our books, papers, and tracts. A thorough revival of the book work and of the tract and missionary spirit is the shortest road to prosperity for any conference. When this work is revived as it should be, we shall see many more souls coming into the truth from the work of our canvassers and church-members, as well as more fruit from the efforts of our ministers. I believe that such a revival is already in sight, that God's people are being awakened to the importance of this work as they have not been before in years, and therefore the outlook is most encouraging. Word has come to us that “the canvassing work is to be revived, and carried forward with increasing success.” This does not state that this thing ought to be done, but it “is to be” done. It will be done; for God says so. It will be done because his people are willing in the day of his power. It will be done in spite of the opposition of the enemy, and in the face of all the difficulties and obstacles that can be placed in our way. Battles are not won by timid, indolent soldiers, but by men who are strong, energetic, well trained, and full of courage. And that is the kind of men we want for the canvassing work,—men who are not afraid of anything, not even hard work. They are not afraid of anything Satan can do, of any barriers he can place in their way, because they know they are backed up by the power of an almighty God. Success awaits such men and women who will enter the canvassing work. Now no one need feel discouraged because he thinks this does not describe his condition; for all the qualities that are essential to the workers in the canvassing field are possible of attainment by any man or woman of average intelligence and ability who will seek for them in the right way. We are told that “the Lord imparts a fitness for the work to every man and woman who will co-operate with divine power.” In fact, no one is fitted for the work who does not obtain his fitness from the Lord. “What hast thou that thou didst not receive?” The answer to this question must be in every case, “Nothing.” So there is no room for boasting on the part of any one; for all the talents possessed by any man were imparted by the Lord. The idea seems to have obtained that only a few who naturally possess certain qualities can make a success of the canvassing work; and therefore many who would like to engage in it do not have the courage to do so because they feel that they do not have these qualities. But I am thoroughly convinced that this is a mistaken idea. It is true that not every one can make this work successful, and that there are some who could who have not been called to this service. But it is also true that there are many who have been called to it who are not in it now; and that the average man or woman can, by careful study and preparation, by energy and close application to the work, and faith in God's power to help, find success in the canvassing field. If this were not true, it would be unreasonable for the Lord to call for so many volunteers for this work. The fact that the call is sounding is proof that it can be done; for God does not ask that which is impossible. Therefore the canvassing work offers a fruitful field for the exercise of the talents that have been entrusted to those who make up the rank and file of our people. Now the fact that the man of ordinary ability can succeed in this work should not give the impression that it is in any sense undeserving of the best efforts of the most talented. God has told us that men of the best talent and ability should be in this work. The greater one's ability, the more efficient work will he be able to do. The canvassing work is not to be regarded as a dumping ground for those who are not able to do anything else; but it should be recognized as one of the greatest and most effective agencies God is using to finish his work in the world, and therefore it calls for the brightest minds, the stoutest hearts, and the best talent that can be found. “This is the very work the Lord desires his people to do at this time. All who will consecrate themselves to God to work as canvassers are assisting to give the last message of warning to the world. We can not too highly estimate this work; for were it not for the work of the canvasser, many would never hear the warning.” If the salvation of many honest souls depends upon their being found by our canvassers, surely we ought to have many more in this work to help search them out. The following comprehensive statement found in “Manuel for Canvassers,” page 17, is worthy of careful consideration by all who enter this work:— “The work of the canvasser is elevating, and will prove a success if he is earnest, honest, and patient, steadily pursuing the work he has undertaken. His heart must be in the work. He must rise early and work industriously, putting to proper use the faculties God has given him. Difficulties must be met. If confronted with unceasing perseverance, they will be overcome. The worker may continually be forming a symmetrical character. Great characters are formed by little acts and efforts. . . . Exercise strengthens and expands the mind, and if heart-culture is not neglected, the character will be well balanced. The means of improvement are within the reach of all. Then let none disappoint the Master when he comes seeking for fruit, by presenting nothing but leaves. A resolute purpose, sanctified by the grace of Christ, will accomplish wonders.”
This ought to give courage and confidence to all; for it points out the fact that success may be attained, and how it may be secured. May the Lord lay19the burden for service upon many who are now idling away their time, so they may have a part in the work; and in the great harvest come with rejoicing, bringing their sheaves with them. Our Colored Training-School
By B. E. Nicola
As we recall the many kindnesses of the friends of this institution in the past, we feel sure that they will be interested in hearing occasionally of its progress and its work. This is the ninth year of the school, every year of which has brought fresh evidences of God's love and tender care of the work. In opening a school for the training of colored workers, the effort was of necessity an experiment, and these have been years of close study of the situation, and an effort at solving some problems. Quite a number of changes have consequently been introduced in the plans of the work; yet the general policy of establishing an institution in which all worthy students who might apply should be received, and permitted to work their way, when necessary, through a course of training, remains the same. The beginning, of course, was small, but the school has steadily grown from year to year in numbers. And these experimental years have, we believe, established confidence in the propriety and the effectiveness of a training-school especially for colored workers. And it is certainly clear to all who keep up with the spirit of our times, and make an intelligent study of the much discussed "race problem" of to-day, that it is of the highest importance that in our work there should be a most thoroughly trained class of men and women among the colored people, who will be able to carry the message with force and wisdom to their own race. Nothing but the third angel's message in a converted heart will ever solve the race question to the mind of either colored or white. Those unacquainted with all the circumstances will not understand the difficulties in selecting a class of students for a place like this. With practically no constituency to begin with, the school became at once a place where a student must not only be taught how to be a worker in the cause of truth, but in most instances he must be taught every step of the way to a knowledge of the truth, and thus considerable time must be spent in preparation. Yet almost all of those who have stayed in the school for a year have accepted the truth. One of the chief difficulties is to get them to remain long enough to become thoroughly grounded in its principles; for they generally go home at the end of the year, and in many cases are not able to return, and being surrounded by adverse influences, are led away. Yet in nearly all instances those who have a knowledge of the truth, and have come here to prepare as workers, are now engaged in the work, or are still under training, and our most enthusiastic supporters are the students who have gone into the field as workers. The problem of securing from the student's labor the cost of his expenses, and at the same time teaching him an industry, as well as giving him a literary training, has proved one most difficult to solve. Consequently only a few industries could be introduced, and these such as are most practicable under our surroundings. There is scarcely a more practical study for the Seventh-day Adventist young man and young woman than the study of all that goes to make a good practical farm and home. Such training is being given in the work the student does while earning his expenses. Practical sewing is done, also weaving; canning and molasses making were successfully carried on in their season; and a broom-making outfit is on hand for the winter's work in making up the broom corn we raised. In any of this work we can go only as far as we can raise means to introduce it, as nothing can be raised from our students, either by work or otherwise, toward this improvement. In the earlier years of this school the contributions toward its support were frequent, but as the institution grows older, naturally there is a decline in the interests that would bring it its support. And yet nothing has happened, nor can happen, to change the conditions which made it impossible for the student to bring into the school a sufficient amount for its support. The colored people among us are practically as poor now as they were eight years ago. And yet we have not the policy — nor do we believe in it — of simply giving the people an education which they themselves may be able to earn or buy. But we have adopted the plan of first bringing from the student all that is possible for him to furnish by honest effort and good work, after which we feel it is proper to do for him by philanthropic assistance what he is unable to do for himself in gaining a Christian education; and in any direction which we see that the student can be led to do more, and to depend less, we call upon him to do it. At best, however, these students, as has been the case in other schools where it has been tried, are unable, through industrial means, to bring in sufficient to support the school. Hence the institution must look to its friends, or very soon it must close its doors to the great work for which it was planned. Like the other schools for colored students in the South, we are unable to charge tuition, but consider that we have done unusually well when we receive from them sufficient to pay their boarding expenses. But this leaves our teachers without a source of income from the school, and leaves us without means with which to make improvements. So at present the question confronts us as to what shall be done. We are in great need of a suitable girls' home. Without this we shall be unable to give the training which should be given. Our teachers this year have paid their way to the school, and so far have not received a dollar for their services. But we have the utmost confidence that the Lord will provide as he has every step of the way. This school is not local; being the only colored training-school among us, it draws its students from all directions. Its support should come from as wide a field. And yet at our last board meeting, it was seriously felt by some members to be the proper thing to close its doors until some substantial financial basis could be found. Could such a step be pleasing to the Master? It was thought best to continue trusting. While every dollar is spent with the utmost economy, there must still be philanthropic assistance. For fear that some of our people should think that this is an unusual request, let me state that in our neighborhood there are two other colored schools, both of which are so supported. One of them receives regularly fifteen thousand dollars a year in this way, and the great Tuskegee Institute in this State receives from eighty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars annually, for its support, besides what is paid by the students. Locally a good spirit prevails, many blessings attend teachers and students, and souls are turning to the Lord. Prin. Huntsville Training-School. “The Feast of Books”
By P. T. Magan
In ancient Israel the people left their homes three times a year to attend the annual feasts. All the able-bodied men and all who could make the journey, were expected to leave their places of abode, and proceed to the place of assembly. In the meantime their places of abode were surrounded by fierce, warlike tribes anxious to seize upon their lands and property, and even to destroy the lives of the aged and feeble ones left behind. To the human vision it would look as if in thus leaving their homes unprotected, Israel had done a very foolish thing. Yet we have no record that any calamity ever befell their homes or loved ones while they were thus engaged. They were off on the service of the Lord. The leaving of their homes by the entire people to assemble at a common point for the worship of God was one of the Lord’s ways of teaching the truths concerning himself to the heathen nations. While Israel was absent on the Lord’s service, a precious promise was in force: “I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.” It is the same to-day. By manifesting perfect confidence in God to care for our welfare in temporal affairs, we shall do much to convince the world that we have in deed and in truth the religion of him who said: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Passover, Pentecost, and Feast of Tabernacles in their material form are no more. But their meaning, the moral lessons which they taught, will remain as long as the tides of time shall flow. In these last hours of earth’s history, the opening providences of the hour, the voice of the spirit of prophecy, the inner and most spiritual impulses of our souls, all call upon us to manifest our faith in God and in the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Just now is a great opportunity to do this by taking “Christ’s Object Lessons,” “Education,” and the special number of the Signs on Capital and Labor, and going forth to sell them to our friends and neighbors. Who will join God’s workers in setting aside the month before the Christmas holidays each year to be a feast of books? Shall we not dedicate this time to the Lord by laying aside as far as possible our regular occupations, and devoting our service to the distribution of the literature which the Lord has given us20for the advancement of his kingdom in the earth? Let us begin at once to celebrate the feast of books. New Gods That Came Newly Up
By P. T. Magan
IN the thirty-second chapter of Deuteronomy and the seventeenth verse it is written concerning the children of Israel: “They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up.” In heathen countries new gods and new religions are constantly springing up. To the shrine of these the pious worshipers immediately flock. To these senseless images of wood and stone they bring their sacrifices of sheep and cattle, of gold and silver and precious stones. The hard-earned money of weeks of toil, the little savings which had been laid up against the day of trouble, are all in a few hours expended as a sacrifice to some worthless new god that came newly up. Nor is this all. In the course of a few weeks or months, these gods become old and out of date, and still other “new gods” come “newly up,” calling for fresh expenditures of means and further sacrifices on the part of their devotees. Thus it is on account of these “new gods” which in a never-failing stream keep on coming “newly up” that the devil is able to keep the mind of the heathen continually engrossed. Thus it is that the great mass of the heathen are made poor and are kept poor, their money being consumed in sacrifices to these worthless idols whom they vainly hope will be able to give them happiness. But the means expended upon, and the sacrifices made to, these degrading idols do not bring real happiness at all. In the end the heathen awake to find that they have “sold themselves for naught.” Satan’s principles are ever the same, and in all this there are lessons for the Christian to-day. We are not tempted to bow down to idols of wood and stone. Our adversary knows that an attempt to get us to do this would be useless. Nevertheless, the principle involved in “new gods that came newly up” still lives and works. Have you ever noticed that you will go along perhaps for months or years without some article of dress or comfort or pleasure, and then are suddenly seized with a desire to possess it? This to you is a new god “that came newly up.” It is not, to be sure, a graven image of stone, but you have sacrificed your God-given means at its altar, as verily as does the benighted heathen sacrifice to his new god. The money which is needed in the work of God has been prostituted to another purpose. The devil is continually manufacturing new gods with which to ensnare us. A few years ago there was a perfect craze for bicycles. Almost every young man and woman became infatuated with a desire to possess one. Convenience, health, longevity, were all urged as reasons why one should be purchased. At that time the spirit of prophecy stated that other infatuations and delusions would follow this one. Since then the automobile, altogether unknown a few years ago, has appeared. There is now a rage for this sort of vehicle. With many it has become an absorbing passion. This, too, is a “new god that came newly up.” The cause of Christ is suffering for means, while our money is continually being invested in new idols—new gods newly come up. My brother, my sister, has Satan brought any new god to the altar of your heart? It may be a piece of land, a fine horse and buggy, a new dress, some expensive furniture. Is it something you have done without for years, but for which you now feel an insatiable desire? Beware of this “new god that came newly up.” Of those who expended their money on “new gods” in days of old, God says, “They sacrificed unto devils.” And when Christians now use their God-given wealth to satisfy some imaginary want, they sacrifice to the evil one. The pleasure which they hoped to derive from their “new god” either is not realized21at all, or it soon fades away. The “new god” quickly becomes an old one. Satan then brings up something else to take its place. It matters but little to him if he can keep our minds engrossed with the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and the sinful lusts of the flesh. Be it land, house, carriage, furniture, or dress, it is nothing to him so long as the money is kept from investment in the gospel message for the salvation of souls. In the REVIEW AND HERALD of Dec. 3, 1903, was an article from Sister White on the Battle Creek College debt and the Missionary Acre Fund. There are people, aged brethren and sisters, who are waiting for the money which the Battle Creek College owes them. Some are in deep distress for need of it. They have loyally supported the cause, and now since old age and infirmities have overtaken them, they need the money which they loaned this institution, in order that they may be able to live. Are there not thousands who will take the means which they had intended to sacrifice to some “new god” and dedicate it to the Missionary Acre Fund, that these who are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh in the third angel’s message shall not be left to suffer? All contributions to the Missionary Acre Fund should be sent to the undersigned at Berrien Springs, Mich. Friday in Emmanuel Missionary College
By M. Bessie DeGraw
Of all the days of the week, Friday is one of the most interesting to both students and teachers of Emmanuel Missionary College. Under ordinary circumstances Friday is not an unusual day. Once upon a time it was not different from other days of the week in our school. True, the Lord has said that it is the preparation day, and theoretically Sabbath-keepers recognize that fact, but our school work used to progress on Friday much the same as on Thursday. Possibly toward the close of the day there might be a general rush to complete the work before the beginning of the Sabbath. Otherwise there was little to distinguish it from the rest of the week. But things have changed. Last year the Sabbath question was studied by the students. The Bible was searched for truth, and the spirit of prophecy was also read. In the course of the study, the following quotation from Volume VI of the Testimonies was read:— “We should jealously guard the edges of the Sabbath. Remember that every moment is consecrated, holy time. Whenever it is possible employers should give their workers the hours from Friday noon until the beginning of the Sabbath. Give them time for preparation, that they may welcome the Lord’s day with quietness of mind. By such a course you will suffer no loss, even in temporal things.”
Immediately action was taken by the students and teachers, in harmony with this suggestion, that on Friday afternoon no regular work should be done in any of the departments, but that that portion of the day should be devoted to preparation for the Sabbath. It meant that in the building department all work closed at noon on Friday; that on the farm the horses were brought up, and all work stopped at dinner-time. It meant, too, that the home work was arranged with the same object in view; and that when the bell rang at sunset on Friday afternoon, our students were prepared to welcome the Sabbath. Stepping out thus in harmony with the instruction of the Lord, brought a blessing. Naturally, when the matter was suggested, the question arose as to whether we could afford to do this or not. Could the student who is obliged to make his school expenses by work afford to lose a half day’s work? Could the institution afford to do this? But there stood the promise that the Lord is able to make up what, from a financial standpoint, might appear to be a loss; and I believe he has done this. But this is not the only reason that Friday is an unusual day in Emmanuel Missionary College. The institution was removed to the country in order that industrial training might be exalted to a position of equal importance with intellectual culture. In the training of workers, three phases of education call for equal recognition,—the industrial work, the intellectual, and the practical missionary work. These three phases of the work, so often separate and distinct, are in this institution very closely united. Every student has the privilege of understanding the inner workings of every department of the school. Friday morning is devoted in a special manner to the manual training work. To illustrate, there is a farm committee which is now considering all problems connected with the farm,—the best methods of cultivating different portions of the land; the trees which should be set in the fall; how the corn should be cared for during the winter; what should be done with the stock; and all the various questions which naturally come to the farmer and the fruit man. There is the fuel and light committee, which has problems of its own. How shall the wood on the lowland be cut for winter purposes? In what way shall the school buildings be protected against fire? Plans for caring for the different buildings, for keeping up the grounds, etc., belong to this committee. Its duties are varied. The boarding-club committee must wrestle with all problems connected with feeding the members of the school family, the purchase of all food supplies, the cost of board, etc., as well as the education of young women in the domestic arts. There is a committee on law and order, which deals with all irregularities in attendance upon school duties. The laundry committee has its distinctive duties. These various committees, with others that have not been mentioned by name, hold their meetings Friday morning. These are not committee meetings in the usually accepted sense of that term, but are classes in which the problems of the day are studied and disposed of. After these classes have met, the students and teachers hold what is known as a union meeting, and the various committees report. They do not only tell what they themselves have done, but the lessons which they have had, and the problems with which they are wrestling are presented to the entire school. This puts every student in direct connection with every department of the school. Problems which the farmer must settle are studied in this union meeting. Proper combinations of food, what is best to purchase for winter supplies, how best to care for the fruit, the organization of a fire brigade, a husking bee, the union of all departments for a half day in wood chopping,—these are some of the questions which come before this union body, and which all have a voice in deciding. Should one wish to catch the spirit which pervades the work of Emmanuel Missionary College, I know of no better opportunity than to spend Friday in the school. There is another day, Sunday, which has a special interest, and concerning which I hope to tell at a later time.