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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 33.

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Australia

By R. D. Quinn

YANGAN, QUEENSLAND.—In our last report, appearing in the REVIEW of May 12, we were in Warwick, still continuing the tent effort which finally resulted in a company of twelve taking their stand for the truth, among whom are two local preachers, men of ability and consecration, who have since entered the work as canvassers. As soon as the work was established there, we came to Yangan, where we are at present.
Being late in the fall, the nights were cold, and it became necessary to devise some means of heating the tent. As there are no heating stoves here, we manufactured one out of sheet iron, of the American air-tight type, which has kept the tent perfectly comfortable. By this means we shall be able to keep up a continuous campaign in Queensland, winter and summer. A special power has rested upon the work here, and for six weeks crowds have attended the meetings. At times we have not had the seating capacity. Eighteen have thus far taken their stand, while many others are just on the point of deciding. One wealthy farmer who has just received the truth, has promised to give five hundred dollars toward the building of a church. All this has so enraged the local pastors that a big meeting was called, at which we were denounced as last-day deceivers. They also spoke on the “Jewish sabbath,” giving us subject-matter enough for a three nights’ review at the tent before an immense crowd, the results turning greatly in favor of the truth. At this point the pastors seemed fairly dazed at the overwhelming evidences of truth deduced from the Scriptures, and the power attending the message. Not being able to refute the Sabbath truth from the Bible, they immediately sent for a large consignment of D. M. Canright’s book against Adventism, and placed it in the homes of those who showed an interest in our work. All this, however, has been powerless to stay the work of the third angel.
We have reached the decisive hour in this work when there is to be no more delay. “The safeguards which false shepherds have thrown around their flocks will become as naught; thousands will step out into the light, and work to spread the light. Thus encouraged, the church will indeed arise and shine, throwing all her sanctified energies into the contest.” The time spoken of here is at hand. We bear a decided testimony from the front that God’s power is being mightily displayed, encouraging us to press the battle to the gates. In a recent Testimony an angel was seen flying in the midst of heaven, putting the standard of Emmanuel into many hands, while a mighty general cried with a loud voice, “Come into line. Let those who are loyal to the commandments of God and the testimony of Christ, now take their position.” Thousands of honest souls are praying for light, and are sighing and crying for all the abominations that are being done in the midst of her. “All over the world men and women are looking wistfully to heaven. Prayers and tears and inquiries go up from souls longing for light, for grace, for the Holy Spirit. Many are on the very verge of the kingdom, waiting only to be gathered in.” “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: . . . and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
R. D. QUINN.

Mississippi

By W. H. Sebastian; M. C. Strachan

BROOKHAVEN.— It is wonderful how God goes before us to prepare the way for his work. About three years ago the holiness people came here, and wrought havoc, so to speak, among the four hundred members of the St. James Baptist church (colored). The pastor of the church and about sixty members professed the then popular doctrine of holiness and sanctification. The rest of the church was scattered, or withdrew and organized another Baptist church.
The Lord revealed the Sabbath truth to the wife of the pastor, who was a teacher in one of the public schools and prominent worker in the church. She soon resigned her position in the school, and became very zealous in teaching the Sabbath truth, both among the holiness believers and among others. Finally the pastor saw the light, and began to teach it, and a company of sixteen Sabbath-keepers was raised up. Both companies worshiped in the same building, but on different days. They knew nothing of Seventh-day Adventists or their work, but they have been worshiping in this manner for the past three years. The pastor’s wife was the apparent leader of the Sabbath-keepers.
We learned of this company here, and after reporting it to the Mississippi Conference, we were advised to come to the place to hold a series of meetings. We arrived July 25. Meetings were held in the church building for ten nights. Sister Sebastian and Sister Strachanconducted women’s meetings daily, at 5 P. M. Then from nine to two o’clock daily we all went out and visited nearly every home in the town, canvassing and circulating books and tracts. We handled “Story of Joseph,” “Gospel Primer,” “Christ Our Saviour,” “Coming King,” “Object Lessons,” and “Story of Daniel the Prophet,” with good results. We held gospel conversations with the people, prayed with them, and invited them to our meetings; thus we kept up the interest and attendance at our evening services to the very last. One Saturday night we took the pastor’s wife out with us, and gave her a little experience in selling the special copy of the Watchman on the business streets; and she did well. The five of us sold nearly a hundred copies.
Near the close of our series of meetings we organized a Sabbath-school of nineteen adults and three children. We shall return some time later, and organize a church. They are desirous of having this done, but they are not quite ready yet. Three or four accepted the truth as taught, and Brother Strachan is to remain to labor with a few others who seem to be in the valley of decision. The tithe question and health reform principles were heard, and received with but little hesitation. The pastor says, the rest of the holiness band will either accept the truth and light that God has sent them, or they will go to some other place to worship. But it is his purpose to continue to labor for the salvation of their souls.
It is wonderful to behold sometimes how the Lord prepares the heart of the honest ones to receive the truth. Pray for us, brethren, that the truth may triumph in the Black Belt of the South.
W. H. SEBASTIAN, M. C. STRACHAN.

Barbados

By A. J. Haysmer

BRIDGETOWN.— We are locating in Speightstown, the second largest town on this island. We have a good hall, and will push the country work from this center.
We are trying to reach out to the unentered portions of our field. But as we do so, it thins out our tried workers, so we hardly know what to do; yet I believe that the Lord is directing in the moves. We have started two natives to work—a brother of St. Thomas, and a sister of St. Lucia. We have given another brother assistance to enter the hard field of St. Lucia as a canvasser, and to help in the church work. We have laid all our plans at the feet of Jesus, to be carried out or laid aside as he directs. A. J. HAYSMER.

Grove Meeting at Takoma Park

By W. A. Colcord

A VERY pleasant all-days' open-air grove meeting was held at Takoma Park, Sunday, August 7, on the Washington Sanitarium and Training College grounds. The object of the meeting was to have a sort of general rally of our own people in and about Washington, and to set before them and the public the objects of the institutions which are now being established in this place. Invitations had been sent out a few days before the appointment.
The meeting was held under the shade of the trees on the site selected, chairs and board seats being provided for the accommodation of those who came. About three hundred were in attendance, quite a good number of citizens from Takoma Park and Washington being present, and a number of brethren coming from as far as Baltimore.
In the forenoon brief but pointed addresses were given by W. T. Bland, W. C. White, P. T. Magan, E. A. Sutherland, G. A. Hare, and G. B. Thompson; vocal selections, with organ and orchestral accompaniment, being interspersed between the addresses.
Professor Bland spoke of our object in building schools, and why we deemed it essential to maintain a separate educational system of our own. Not only was it necessary in order to give a religious, intellectual, physical, and all-round education to our young people, which they could not get in the schools provided by the State, but we have a specific work to do in the world, to warn the world of Christ's soon coming, and to prepare a people for that event; and an education and training especially for this work is absolutely essential. Those who go out into the world to give this message, must believe it, and be inspired with it. Emphasis was laid on the importance of students knowing how to build, work the soil, and labor with their hands when they go to labor in foreign lands, and how an education in these things can not best be gained in large, expensive buildings in the cities, fitted up with all the modern improvements and conveniences, but rather in modest, plain buildings, located in the country, with land to cultivate, and other work to do.
Elder White spoke of how we build, and why we build as we do. We had selected Washington as a location for one of our schools and sanitariums because we wished to get near the capital of the nation. We had selected Takoma Park because we thought it one of the most beautiful suburbs of Washington. And we had selected this particular site in Takoma Park because of its many natural advantages and adaptability to our purposes, and because of the beautiful place we thought it could be made. It is rural, has timber on it, rock and sand, a running spring, and a delightful stream of pure water. Instead of building in the ordinary way, by contract, and then inviting the students to come to the school, we invite young men who desire to attend school to come and gain an experience, as well as to earn some means, in helping to erect the buildings and prepare the grounds of the school which they expect to attend, managers, foremen, and draftsmen simply being placed over them to direct in the work. Twenty-five young men, from eighteen different States and countries, were here helping to erect the buildings. On request, these, with their foremen, all lined up in front of the assembly, presenting a fine company of intelligent, thoughtful, earnest-looking young men. Later these same young men, from the experience gained here, will be able to assist in establishing schools elsewhere. The school and sanitarium were placed close together because they could be mutually helpful to each other in their work, and to the young people in gaining their education. All the rock and sand being used in the construction of the buildings are taken from the place, which is a great saving in expense, the concrete walls thus far built costing only seventeen cents per cubic foot, or only half the cost of ordinary brick walls. About two hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber are to be used in the erection of the various school and sanitarium buildings, one hundred and fifty thousand of which are on the grounds.
Professor Magan spoke briefly of the Berrien Springs school, and how, contrary to the ordinary custom of erecting the buildings and then inviting the students to come to them, the students were invited to come and assist in erecting the very buildings in which they expected to go to school, thus gaining an invaluable experience and education in practical work which would fit them to go to other fields and build up schools in the same manner.
Professor Sutherland called attention to the fact that God did not first make the bark of a tree or the shell of a tortoise, and then have the tree or the tortoise grow up inside of these, but that whatever bark or shell was necessary grew up along with the plant or animal inhabiting it. So he believed this was the best way for us to build our schools. Let the students themselves, as far as possible, help build the “shell” of the school in which they are to receive their education. This of itself is a necessary part of practical and essential education.
Dr. Hare explained the objects and aims of the Washington Sanitarium Association. The world was sick both physically and spiritually, and the sanitarium was designed, under God's blessing, to help restore both body and soul to health and soundness. To best meet life's battles men must not only have health, but a strong, fixed hope, a hope of a future, immortal life. To give both is the object of our Washington sanitarium enterprise. It is not to be a branch of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, but a plant planted, conducted, and controlled by the people who founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Elder Thompson spoke briefly of the relation between healthful living and the religious life. Man can best glorify God and serve his fellow men when he is well, and to fulfil these ends is the great reason why we should seek to maintain health.
Lunch hour having arrived, all separated into little groups on the seats or under the trees as they chose, and enjoyed heartily the lunch they had brought with them. Free lemonade was served to all throughout the day.
After lunch, all who wished strolled about the grounds, viewing the buildings that have been started, and the sites of others yet to be built, or, in company with some of the employees, went down the banks to see the Sligo, the stone quarry, the sand pit, and the spring. Those who remained in camp were entertained by the orchestra, composed entirely of our own young people here in Washington, mostly from the employees on the ground or from the Review and Herald Office.
In the afternoon Elder J. S. Washburn and Mrs. E. G. White addressed the people.
At some length Elder Washburn explained why we believe in the advent of Christ and keep the seventh day, and why our headquarters have been removed from Battle Creek to Washington. We have a world-wide message. Years ago we were told not to center so much in one place, but to scatter out and build up our work in many places. But the instruction was largely unheeded, until finally our two largest and most beautiful structures in Battle Creek were suddenly destroyed by fire. This, those who believed in our great mission and work regarded as the voice of God to us, speaking through his providence, to heed the warning, and branch out. So this work of scattering out and building up the work in many places has begun in earnest, and this accounts for our presence in Washington, the capital of the nation. Our institutions are being erected here as a part of a great plan to evangelize the world with the advent movement.
After singing by a male quartet, SisterWhite spoke on the education that should be given both in the home and in the school. She spoke with great power and freedom. The duties of fathers and mothers toward their children, the spirit of love, kindness, and helpfulness that should pervade the home, and the education which our youth should receive, were dwelt upon. The whole span of life, with all its opportunities, privileges, and duties, is but a school in which to fit for the higher life. If we do not gain the victory and learn to manifest the right spirit here, there will be no place for us in heaven. Should one sinner be admitted there, there would have to be another great war in heaven, and he and his sympathizers and followers cast out. A deep impression was made upon all by the address.
After the singing of another male quartet, the day's exercises closed with the doxology and benediction. It was the universal verdict of all present that a very pleasant, enjoyable, and profitable day had been spent, many expressing the hope that this would not be the last of the meetings of this kind that would be held on our grounds at Takoma Park.
W. A. COLCORD.

A Review of the Work in the Southern Union Conference

By George I. Butler

(Concluded)

Educational Institutions

In the educational work there are many encouraging omens. The prospects before the Graysville Training School, as they appear at present, were never so encouraging. Those best acquainted with the conditions think we shall have the largest attendance there has been at Graysville since the origin of the school. They are having considerable anxiety in regard to how the pupils may be accommodated. Some embarrassments that seemed quite perplexing last year have cleared away. The school has certainly been doing excellent work.
Those who came from Graysville to Nashville, to assist in the work of canvassing, Bible readings, etc., have made excellent improvement, and are developing into valuable laborers. Elder and Mrs. Haskell, who have had charge of the work, have expressed themselves as highly pleased with these pupils, and say that they have never seen any, in all their experience, more promising.
The Graysville school has a great hold upon the affections of our people in this Southern Union Conference, and our hopes for it were never brighter. We trust the coming year will be a success beyond any in the past. If so, we shall have occasion to thank God and take courage.

The Huntsville Training School

The Huntsville Training School, we trust, has passed a very trying crisis. We are looking for a new era of prosperity in its history. The visit of Sister White, connected as it was with the gathering of the executive committee of the Southern Union Conference and the board of the Huntsville Training School, at Huntsville, June 20-23, was a very encouraging and important occasion. We had been looking forward for several months to this visit, knowing that Sister White would come south, and probably visit Huntsville. This school, which had been established for about nine years, like all new institutions, had various difficulties to meet in its progress. These difficulties cluster around an institution established to benefit the colored people, in greater profusion, perhaps, than in almost any other undertaking. Few who have not been connected with such a work can comprehend and understand the peculiar difficulties and perplexities which arise.
Our schools are usually sustained by a liberal tuition, and by means received for board and for other expenses, but with our colored work it is very different. Very few, indeed, can pay anything.
A large farm of three hundred and sixty acres had been purchased, and some buildings provided, but on account of a scarcity of means, there was a great lack of many things very essential to the prosperity of the school.
The last two or three years the attendance was about fifty. Instead of increasing, there was perhaps some little decrease.
We are far from wishing to criticize or find fault with any one. On the contrary, we give credit for good motives and earnest endeavors. But the difficulties to be met were not overcome. The school should be far more prosperous than this statement would imply.
We felt that it was a great privilege to have one present through whom light from the Lord has often been communicated to this people to help our poor human understanding and experience to more clearly discern what would tend to the building up of the institution. We feel sure that light has been given, and that a new order of things will be seen, if our brethren and sisters generally will help with their means, to make the necessary improvements. With the instruction furnished, we hope to see a good degree of advancement.
Elder F. R. Rogers who for years past has had much experience in connection with work among the colored people of Mississippi, and who has suffered great hardships, and made great sacrifices in connection with it, has been chosen to take the leading part in the management of the institution. The faculty has not yet been fully elected, but steps are being taken to bring in those who, we hope, can be very helpful in the progress of the work.
The school will open September 21, and the action of the executive committee has been taken that the school should be continuous, with no long vacations, there being only short ones between different terms, so that the colored students coming there will be under the influence of the school continuously until their education is finished. With the long vacations that have been given each summer, the students have gone out to the world from under the influences of the school, and in many instances their interest has never returned, and they are lost to the school and to the cause. We hope this evil will now be prevented.
The servant of the Lord stated, emphatically, that there ought to be a hundred students present the coming year, and that the school ought to grow until at least two hundred or two hundred and fifty would be in attendance.
Influences are at work in the South, in various places, which are designed to hinder the instruction of the colored people by the whites, and confine their instruction to that which they can receive from their own race. Such a course is being indorsed by the legislatures of some States already. Efforts have been made, even in Tennessee, to bring about such a result, but up to the present without avail. How long it will be before such a plan is indorsed by State authority we can not tell, but everything indicates that our work for the colored people should be done rapidly, so that when such a condition does exist, they may be amply supplied with teachers; and how can this be done unless they are trained and prepared for future work in our training-schools? Our people ought to awaken to the situation, and be aroused concerning this matter.
We beseech our people to furnish us the means to put the school in proper condition so that one hundred pupils can be taught there the coming season. Provisions have not yet been made whereby the school could accommodate so many, but we are anxious to enter upon the work of repairing and building, so that this increase of facilities can be secured. If it is not accomplished, the fault will be with those who have not furnished the means for this purpose, for we are ready here to immediately take hold of this work of preparation.
Sister White’s counsel was that not a foot of that land should be sold, but that it should all be used for the upbuilding of the colored work, as was designed when this institution was originated.
By this instruction many doubts and fears have been set at rest, and we do believe that God will be greatly pleased as we move forward in the establishment of this institution for a great work in the future. It is the only colored training-school in the denomination. Shall it be left to struggle along in weakness and inefficiency? or will our people rally to help in this work?

The Colored Work in the South

The colored work in the South demands the deep interest of our people. It can not be left merely to our comparatively small white constituency in the South. To sustain our own white work is all that could be reasonably expected of us in the South, while doing a reasonable proportion for the sustenance of the colored work. Our white people in the North have the same obligation placed upon them that we of the South have. We are not responsible for the present condition of things here, any more than they are in the North. Quite a portion of our southern constituency are northern people who have moved here, while we also have excellent brethren and sisters who have embraced the truth in the South.
Our Union Conference Committee has unanimously appealed, in an earnest petition to the General Conference Committee, to appoint one day in each year throughout the whole of our country for the raising of funds to support the colored work in the great southern field. This matter has been before our people for years. The Lord has given us line upon line, counsel upon counsel, and earnest entreaties to take hold of this work, and give it the consideration it demands.
The Lord looks with sympathy and thedeepest interest upon this unfortunate people, who have not had the opportunities we have had, and our people will not be clear from guilt unless this light is heeded.
We do trust our General Conference Committee will give heed to this earnest petition, and appoint such a day, so that we can appeal to our people everywhere in this country to assist in building up the colored work. The funds can be sent here, and a committee appointed by the General Conference will divide them equitably, according to the different needs in the colored field. This will save various appeals for particular objects. This is, in every respect, a consistent course to take in order to meet a great want. We trust we shall not be disappointed.
GEO. I. BUTLER.

The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

By W. T. Bland

OUR attention has been called to the fact that the “Amount previously reported” in the REVIEW of July 28 was $100 less than the “Total reported” in the previous issue. This was a typographical error. In preparing the copy for the list, the correct amount was brought forward and added in, so that the total of the list is correct.
The following amounts have been reported under the names of treasurers, and hence have already been included in the total. We are now supplied with the names, and gladly publish them.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Haines — $3.50 Simon A. Campbell — 1.00 Charles Lee — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Haines — 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. P. McLeon — 2.50 Wancel McLeon — .25 Cecil McLeon — .25 R. J. Haines — .50 A friend — 1.00 A friend — 5.00 A friend — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Young — 5.00 Jane Hill — 1.00 John Hill — .50 Alfred Emonc — 11.00 South Dakota Conference — 8.25 Mrs. John Reeves — .50 Thos. Yeakel — 1.00 Dr. M. E. Eastman — .50 Herman Gast — 3.25 Fargo (N. D.) church — 4.66 Harvey Cassell — 5.00 Sadie Cassell — 1.00 W. H. Trissel — 5.00 Armand E. Trissel — 1.00 J. W. Faulkner — 10.00 Mrs. Lavina Faulkner — 10.00 K. Conzelman — 5.00 Gus Steinborn — 5.00 Mrs. Sederloff — 5.00 John Greenleaf — .50 Mrs. Smith — .50 Ch. Elders — .25
Further partial list of the donations received on the Washington building fund at the General Conference office:— Amount previously reported — 26,166.03 Atlantic Union Conference — 122.35 Ella A. Carman — 100.00 Mrs. L. R. Flint — 100.00 H. and L. Atkins — 50.00 Friends in Portsmouth, Va. — 30.00 Catherine Conyers — 28.80 Potterville (Mich.) church — 26.45 Annie J. Brown — 26.00 Samuel Hayner — 25.00 W. F. Hastings and family — 25.00 Lucy B. Williams — 25.00 Elder I. and Mary E. Sanborn — 25.00
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Rachel Davis — 25.00 E. R. Westing — 25.00 R. E. Nelson — 25.00 Wm. Dexter — 20.00 Lucinda Dexter — 20.00 Robert Blackwood — 15.00 Hilda Samuelson — 15.00 Peoria (Ill.) church — 14.00 Reese (Mich.) church — 13.25 Wm. Stappe — 12.00 Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Campion — 10.00 C. G. Coglizer — 10.00 R. J. Carr — 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rocke — 10.00 H. W. Carr — 10.00 Mrs. N. L. Hayward — 10.00 S. D. Burdoin — 10.00 J. W. Clement — 10.00 C. N. Clement — 10.00 W. B. Roberts — 10.00 Santa Anna (Cal.) church — 10.00 Steven McCrea — 10.00 A friend — 10.00 H. A. Ziegler — 10.00 Kalamazoo (Mich.) church — 9.82
Wm. Olmstead — 9.74 Vicksburg (Miss.) church — 8.15 Bellingham (Wash.) church — 8.10 Lovington (Ill.) church — 7.70 B. Julius — 7.00 Madison (S. D.) church — 6.50 Mr. and Mrs. Highsmith — 5.70 Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Taggart — 5.50 Clinton (Iowa) church — 5.50 R. W. Dougan — 5.00 Timothy Carroll — 5.00 Mrs. H. M. Howe — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Harris — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. S. Mortenson — 5.00 D. L. Roser — 5.00 Mrs. D. L. Roser — 5.00 A. H. Francisco — 5.00 Enos Rishel — 5.00 L. W. White — 5.00 Elliott Leonard — 5.00 D. W. Drake — 5.00 F. M. Conklin — 5.00 R. D. Benham — 5.00 Mrs. J. A. Benham — 5.00 Ella Armstrong — 5.00 F. DeFruiter — 5.00 N. P. Neilsen — 5.00 Samuel J. Eitel — 5.00 Rosa Meader — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Howland — 5.00 O. P. Neilson — 5.00 Wm. Fox — 5.00 Daniel Gray — 5.00 H. H. Loop — 5.00 R. W. Talcott — 5.00 D. M. Kelly — 5.00 Zach Kelly — 5.00 A. P. Foster — 5.00 Laura S. Ross — 5.00 Earl B. Dobbin — 5.00 Mrs. Fannie Harmon — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. S. Whittinger — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. Kamstra — 5.00 Mrs. Anna Clay — 5.00 Youngstown (Ohio) church — 5.00 T. L. and Hannah Waters — 5.00 Mrs. W. H. Place — 5.00 J. B. Parker — 5.00 C. W. Kellogg — 5.00 L. C. Reed — 5.00 John Reid — 5.00 Albert Zachrison — 5.00 Miss M. L. Howlett — 5.00 Mrs. M. C. Rouleau — 5.00 Mrs. Sarah J. Barnett — 5.00 Mrs. J. P. Jasperson — 5.00 Allen Maury — 5.00 Mrs. L. C. Smith — 5.00 Mrs. L. J. Roberts — 5.00 Mrs. Huldah J. Williams — 5.00 Miel P. and Cora I. Calkins — 5.00 James and Nellie Cargill — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ryan — 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Parker Atwood — 5.00 Chagrin Falls (Ohio) church — 4.00 Steven Boze — 4.00 Alice Williams — 4.00 Mrs. Etta M. Stone — 4.00 Margaret McCrea — 4.00 Anna Green — 4.00 Arkansas Tract Society — 4.00 James Alexander Chiles — 3.00 Jacob Garrison — 3.00 Mrs. V. R. Nichols — 3.00 S. J. Northrup — 3.00 Wm. Fenner — 3.00 Maria Conklin — 3.00 Emma S. Nelson — 3.00 Maria Jensen — 3.00 Pulaski (Iowa) Sabbath-school — 3.00 Mrs. L. S. Russell — 3.00 A friend — 3.00 James R. Smith — 2.50 A. McKinnon — 2.50 Mrs. A. McKinnon — 2.50 Mrs. E. L. Morrow — 2.40 Kenard church — 2.35 Mrs. R. W. McMahan — 2.00 Grover R. Fattie — 2.00 Albert Carey (Hildebran, N. C.) — 2.00 J. E. Root — 2.00 Mrs. L. M. Hill — 2.00 R. C. Post — 2.00 G. H. Smith — 2.00 Anna H. Smith — 2.00
H. A. Tandy — 2.00 Verna Davis — 2.00 E. Mary Wilcox — 2.00 J. D. Brownsey — 2.00 Mrs. Anna Hodges — 2.00 Selma E. Swenson — 2.00 Sarah J. Harp — 2.00 Mrs. Etta Clark — 2.00 J. H. Mikkelson — 2.00 C. L. Bowen — 2.00 G. M. Bowen — 2.00 Mrs. A. E. Townsend — 2.00 Mr. and Mrs. George B. Thomson — 2.00 M. H. — 2.00 Pearl L. Rees — 2.00 S. J. Nathie — 2.00 Hallia McFarlan — 2.00 Mrs. Lucy Andrews — 2.00 H. S. Cornish — 2.00 Dr. A. L. Dobson — 2.00 Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hall — 2.00 Catherine Campbell and family — 2.00 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson — 2.00 Wm. Christensen — 2.00 Mrs. Hannah Beans — 2.00 Mrs. William Tensk — 1.75 Josie H. Clement — 1.67 Mary A. Clement — 1.67 E. Natalie Clement — 1.66 B. B. Johnson — 1.53 Mrs. Emma L. Perry — 1.50 Mrs. Wahner — 1.50 Laura Carroll — 1.50 Mrs. Edith Hooton — 1.50 A friend — 1.50 Fannie J. Chiles — 1.50 Wm. Morey — 1.50 Mrs. Maggie Swank and family — 1.40 Miscellaneous — 1.35 Mrs. Emma Knapp — 1.25 J. N. Scott — 1.10 Decatur (Illinois) church — 1.10 Mrs. C. L. Frost — 1.00 W. C. Presley — 1.00 Sarah Lichty — 1.00 Mrs. M. Denman — 1.00 A. G. Goodson — 1.00 Julia Thomas — 1.00 F. N. Bartholomew — 1.00 S. M. Bartholomew — 1.00 Mrs. James Wilson — 1.00 A friend — 1.00 Thos. and M. E. Keemer — 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Halstead — 1.00 Mollie Parker — 1.00 Verdie Parker — 1.00 George Parker — 1.00 Mrs. S. J. Wilkins — 1.00 Chas. Davis — 1.00 T. D. Waller — 1.00 M. N. Wallar — 1.00 Mrs. E. A. Campbell — 1.00 Lila Orr — 1.00 S. P. Reed (blind) — 1.00 Mrs. N. M. Guthrie — 1.00 A. A. Guthrie — 1.00 Mrs. S. A. Clark — 1.00 Hans Johnson — 1.00 A. Ebert — 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Graves — 1.00 Ella Coglizer — 1.00 Mrs. H. F. Williams — 1.00 Mary A. Dessesure — 1.00 E. O. Warfield — 1.00 Emma E. Tandy — 1.00 Mary E. Briton — 1.00 Mrs. R. J. Carr — 1.00 Nona Carr — 1.00 Zona Carr — 1.00 George E. Davis — 1.00 Mrs. George E. Davis — 1.00 Avery Davis — 1.00 Martin Philips — 1.00 H. M. Hayes — 1.00 George R. Mandy — 1.00 Mrs. C. L. Richards — 1.00 James DeVinnney — 1.00 M. E. Cleveland — 1.00 W. R. Lemon — 1.00 Florence Conklin — 1.00 Bessie Conklin — 1.00 George H. Chrisman — 1.00 Cass Bean — 1.00 Mrs. Liza Bolliver — 1.00 Ann Kersey — 1.00
Orpha Griffin — 1.00 Harlan Griffin — 1.00 Wm. Estell — 1.00 J. A. Adams — 1.00 Mrs. R. F. Worden — 1.00 Maria Peterson — 1.00 Jennie Peterson — 1.00 Edvarda Johnson — 1.00 Mrs. Clara Abbott — 1.00 Homer Abbott — 1.00 Mrs. Eli Sherman — 1.00 Eugenia E. Briggs — 1.00 A friend — 1.00 Mrs. M. J. Martin — 1.00 Mollie E. Beard — 1.00 Mrs. Maud Vaughn — 1.00 J. J. Price — 1.00 C. A. Godfrey — 1.00 Orlando (Florida) church — 1.00 Emanuel Larson — 1.00 Margaret Christensen — 1.00 Lucy Fox — 1.00 Mrs. L. J. Guither — 1.00 Mrs. George Olson — 1.00 N. P. Johnson — 1.00 Ernest N. Bowen — 1.00 Effie F. Bowen — 1.00 Frank Hall — 1.00 Emily Lewis — 1.00 Mrs. Veely — 1.00 Mrs. Paul Hickman — 1.00 Mary E. Merricle — 1.00 Mrs. N. C. Jacobson — 1.00 John Gunderson — 1.00 Mrs. John Gunderson — 1.00 Chas. Nickerson — 1.00 H. Bradbury — 1.00 Mrs. C. A. Collins — 1.00 J. T. Luyster — 1.00 Mrs. M. J. C. Luyster — 1.00 R. M. Carroll — 1.00 D. M. Carroll — 1.00 VanChurch — 1.00 Lothi Nathie — 1.00 Ida Griswold — 1.00 C. E. Dunlap — 1.00 V. J. Ong — 1.00 James H. Cook — 1.00 Mrs. Mary M. Cook — 1.00 Mrs. K. G. Bernard — 1.00 Hannah Barker — 1.00 Mrs. Maggie Pulver — 1.00 Mrs. Eva Conan — 1.00 Mrs. Latie Rothballer — 1.00 Mrs. M. A. Reese — 1.00 Mrs. A. M. Pierce — 1.00 A friend — 1.00 W. H. Brown — 1.00 Thos. Hallern — 1.00 Lida Hallern — 1.00 A. E. Seitzinger — 1.00 Neta Hermann — 1.00 Lottie McConnell — 1.00 Mary E. Smith — 1.00 Mrs. Priscilla P. Jessup — 1.00 Mrs. A. M. Sumner — 1.00 Mrs. J. P. McKay — 1.00 H. L. Warner — 1.00 H. Smelser — 1.00 John Tarneson — 1.00 Mrs. Frances E. Whittaker — 1.00 Mrs. Odell Fletcher — 1.00 P. W. Province — 1.00 Dores Hoffman — 1.00 Alvin Beans — 1.00 Mrs. Fannie Goodspeed — 1.00 E. J. Holman — .96 W. J. Kirk — .85 Mary Henkes — .80 Mrs. Louisa Dallas — .75 Mrs. Ruby McKinley — .50 S. W. Nay — .50 E. K. Hamilton — .50 J. A. Presley — .50 C. F. Hinton — .50 Isa. B. Walter — .50 Fannie Walter — .50 Twylah Hinton — .50 Vivian Halstead — .50 Edith Parker — .50 Goldie Walter — .50 H. B. Moore — .50 J. C. Presmar — .50 Mary Bedman — .50 Abbey Coglizer — .50
Lamont Hunter — .50 Darrell Davis — .50 Aura Davis — .50 Mrs. R. R. Phillips — .50 Mrs. H. M. Hayes — .50 Mrs. J. Wrate — .50 E. J. Lemmon — .50 D. F. Ramletta — .50 E. Worden — .50 Anna McTune — .50 Mrs. Annia Ore — .50 Agnes Johnson — .50 Sophia Konger — .50 M. A. Crownhart — .50 Hilda M. Larson — .50 J. P. L. Svane — .50 Martin Christensen — .50 Peter Collins — .50 Minnie Fisk — .50 Mrs. M. I. Vanderhoof — .50 Peter Lindahl — .50 Julia Lindahl — .50 M. Madsen — .50 H. Lehman — .50 Mrs. Matilda Green — .50 Dora Kamstra — .50 Cora Kamstra — .50 G. F. Schonk — .50 Belle R. Flesher — .50 Warren B. Cook — .50 Mrs. S. E. Hardcastle — .50 Ellen Whitehead — .50 George Tribby — .50 Mrs. C. Gibson — .50 Mrs. Annie Province — .50 Georgia Walsh — .50 Adolph Beans — .50 Ralph Beans — .50 Edith Beans — .50 Lillie Beans — .50 O. W. Loomis — .47 Edith P. Worden — .35 Maggie Kemp — .35 C. French — .32 Emily E. Gresswell — .30 Arthur Briggs — .30 George L. Munyan — .25 John Brenton — .25 M. Murry — .25 C. F. Fellers — .25 G. Wither — .25 K. K. Presley — .25 Fred Moore — .25 Lora Shipley — .25 J. V. Carney — .25 Wm. Morgan — .25 Mettie Brown — .25 A friend — .25 Charlie Coglizer — .25 Elsie Coglizer — .25 Anna M. Brice — .25 Hallie Brice — .25 Lillian M. Chiles — .25 Dorris Davis — .25 W. J. Hare — .25 Mrs. George R. Mandy — .25 Mrs. Eunice Briggs — .25 Eugene H. Worden — .25 Lucy C. Worden — .25 Carl J. Worden — .25 H. I. Hilliard — .25 C. M. Larson — .25 G. C. Mikkelson — .25 A friend — .25 Mrs. Price — .25 Jennie Lindahl — .25 J. P. Jacobson — .25 M. K. Jacobson — .25 D. A. Jacobson — .25 P. T. Jacobson — .25 A. K. Jacobson — .25 Mrs. Andreason — .25 Peter J. Lyngback — .25 W. G. Phillips — .25 Mrs. Ethie Osborn — .25 Birdie Rupert — .25 Rhea Bernard — .25 W. P. Clark — .25 M. C. Simms — .25 Mrs. Nettie Wilkinson — .25 S. T. Laskey — .25 Mrs. Gidham — .25 Bert Evins — .25 Bessie Huey — .25 Mrs. Collison — .25
Johanas Loun — .25 Mrs. I. E. Gibson — .20 Mrs. W. E. Hawks — .20 M. E. Presley — .20 W. C. Presley, Jr. — .18 Mildred Davis — .15 Louis McFadden — .10 J. W. Furlong — .10 C. E. Jackson — .10 A friend — .10 Lydia Shaw — .10 Lucy T. Battis — .10 Louise Perry — .10 Hugh Bassett — .10 H. M. Barnsdell — .10 Francis Hare — .10 Mrs. Drew — .10 Alice Hare — .05 Jesse Emmerson — .05 Esther Washbond — 1.00 M. Q. and Ethel Oliver — 2.00 G. B. Jenkins — 3.00 Will G. Nethery — 5.00 Mrs. W. A. Spicer — 10.00 L. J. Philo — 25.00 F. Rosseau — 50.00 S. C. Conrey — 100.00
Total reported — $27,984.40
A further list will follow.
W. T. BLAND, Assistant Treasurer.

Field Notes

ELDER W. B. BROWN reports ten new Sabbath-keepers at Blue Rapids, Kan.
BROTHER W. H. BROWN reports the recent baptism of three persons at Jetmore, Kan.
FIVE persons were recently baptized at Onondaga Valley, N. Y., who will unite with the Syracuse church.
TEN persons have begun the observance of the Sabbath at Sidney, Ohio, where meetings are being conducted by Brethren A. C. Shannon and G. P. Gaede.
THE company at Punta Gorda, Fla., have a new church building in which they now meet for worship. Two persons have recently taken a stand for the truth there.
BROTHER F. MILLER, who has recently been in the employ of the Pacific Press at Oakland, Cal., sailed with his family for Australia, July 28. He will connect with the Echo Publishing Company.
THE Lancaster, Pa., tent company report: “Eleven souls have already accepted the truth, and the prospect is that this number will be more than doubled before the effort is over.”
A COURSE of tent-meetings at Clay Center, Kan., which was closed July 24, resulted in bringing ten persons to the observance of the Bible Sabbath. Four of these received the ordinance of baptism.
BROTHER T. H. DAVIS, of Esmerelda, Cal., who has spent several years in Chile as a missionary canvasser, but came home on account of failing health, has returned to South America, his health having improved. He will go to Quito, Ecuador.
IN a recent report in the Canadian Union Messenger, Elder Wm. Guthrie says: “At eleven o’clock on Sunday, July 17, Elder Andrews officiated at the first baptism ever administered by Seventh-day Adventists in Prince Edward Island. Only a small company witnessed the service, but we trust that it may be the opening of a new era in the history of the work here.”
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