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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 35.

The Glorious Reality

Review and Herald

Aug 29, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1907

The Glorious Reality

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God: and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away. And He that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true. And He said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son. Rev. 21:1-7.

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A New Edition of the Seer of Patmos

This companion volume to “The Story of Daniel the Prophet” has recently been bound in full cloth, with marbled edges. The cover is neatly embossed in white foil, which makes it a very attractive, as well as a durable volume. The book, therefore, is now bound in two styles,—half cloth, plain edges, $1, and full cloth, marbled edges, $1.50.
This thrilling book contains a story of the prophecies of the book of Revelation, written in simple narrative form, and presents a new setting of the important messages recorded in John's prophecies heretofore supposed to be the incomprehensible book of the Bible. It will be found to be interesting, instructive, and essential to all Bible students. It is illustrated with original drawings especially prepared for the book. Being written in story form, it is especially attractive to the young. No better book could be placed in the hands of a young man or woman than “The Story of the Seer of Patmos.”

The False Hope of a Second Probation

“THE False Hope of a Second Probation” is the title of a new tract, No. 48, Words of Truth Series, composed of the series of articles recently printed in the REVIEW upon the subject of the Millennial Dawn.
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The Spirit of Prophecy

The purpose of this new pamphlet is to establish the believers more fully upon the law of God, and the testimonies of his Spirit. Of its importance Elder George I. Butler writes:—
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The Story of Daniel the Prophet

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Report of the Mount Vernon Sabbath-School and Young People’s Convention

By Editor

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Editorial

By Editor

It is worthy of notice that when Jesus began his ministry, he called attention to the fulfilment of a definite time prophecy concerning himself. “Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” The time here mentioned was the period recorded in the prophecy of Daniel: “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks.” Those who think it is foolish to attempt to interpret the prophecies, and especially the time prophecies, ought to remember that our Lord himself recognized both his mission and the time of his entering upon it as in fulfilment of a time prophecy. We are safe in following in the footsteps of the Great Teacher. There may be many fanciful interpretations and applications of the prophecies, nevertheless the prophecies can be rightly understood, and should be preached. The example of Jesus shows this.

Jesus, a Real Being

DURING the years of his association with his disciples, Jesus became to them a beloved companion. He lived with them and worked with them, and they learned to look to him for counsel and help. It is true that they did not fully understand his mission, but after his resurrection he made all these things clear to them as he spoke to them of “the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Afterward “he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven,” but he was still the same real friend to whom they could look for counsel and help. They could not behold him with their natural eyes, yet they knew that the very same Jesus who associated with them on the earth was now their Advocate before the Father, and they did not hesitate to present their requests in his name. The experience of the disciples has been placed on record in order that the being and work of Jesus may be just as real to us as they were to them, and that we may be able to think of him and to deal with him with the same sense of certainty as they had. Jesus is not a myth, but a real being. The heavenly sanctuary is not a mere figure of speech, but a real place. God is not simply Infinite Power, but a loving Father. Let the experience of the disciples become our experience.

_Editorial Letter_

By William W. Prescott

_Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book_

OUR meetings at Skodsborg closed with a good Sabbath day’s experience. Friday evening I spoke to the patients and helpers; Sabbath morning I was with the church at Copenhagen, and dwelt upon the provision made that we might be just the people described in the prophecy — commandment-keepers. In the afternoon I spoke again to the patients and helpers at Skodsborg, and in the evening following I met with the helpers in our closing meeting. From what was said to me I feel confident that many were helped as the result of the work done at Skodsborg, and for this I am thankful. I was glad to meet the friends whom I had known before, and to greet others for the first time.
From Skodsborg we returned to Hamburg, and after a stay of one day only we went to Friedensau via Berlin, where we spent one day. Friedensau is well named — a place of peace. Entirely shut away from the rush and whirl of life which so wear upon the nerves in the great centers of population, it is an ideal place for rest after arduous labor, and here we spent two weeks before the German Union Conference camp-meeting. This gave opportunity for reading and writing as well as for some needed rest. I found that great changes had been made in Friedensau since my last visit
six years ago. The sanitarium had been enlarged; the school building, the power-house, and two large dwelling-houses had been built, and they were just completing the latest addition to the group of institutions there — the Old People’s Home. The grounds had also been prettily laid out, and the gardens well developed, and an artificial pond and various attractive summer houses and restful places pleased the eye and refreshed the body. The hearty welcome extended to us and the kind hospitality shown to us by our friends both at the school and at the sanitarium rendered all the other features doubly enjoyable.
During these two weeks I met the nurses, physicians, and helpers twice, and spoke to them of their special work and the opportunities which it offered for leading souls to an acquaintance with Christ and his salvation, and to a knowledge of the message for this time. I had an intelligent and earnest company of hearers who seemed to appreciate the instruction given.
Preparations for the camp-meeting were already in progress when we arrived in Friedensau, and the work was carried steadily forward from day to day. In anticipation of a larger attendance than at any previous time, the meeting tent was enlarged so that it would seat twelve hundred, and a large platform was provided for the school choir, whose singing was one of the helpful features of the meeting.
At least a week before the date for the opening of the conference the people began to arrive. It was evident that the brethren and sisters looked forward with pleasure to this annual gathering, and that they wished to make the most of the occasion. The last day or two before the appointed time they came in crowds, and when Brother Conradi spoke the first evening, preaching an excellent sermon on Christ as the true foundation of our faith, the large tent was full. It was a grand sight, and a splendid testimony to the prosperity of the work in Germany. So far as I was able to learn, this was the largest company of our people ever assembled outside of the United States, and the meeting throughout proved to be a most excellent one.
A report will doubtless be prepared for the REVIEW, which will give a detailed statement of the growth of the work and of the present standing of the various departments of the conference, and so I will only say that the reports
both from the institutions and from the different local conferences were all encouraging, and showed that the Lord had blessed the workers and given them success. There had been a substantial increase in the membership in the field. The brethren from Russia were rejoicing in the greater freedom allowed them now for developing the work in that great country since the government had formally removed all those restrictions which had heretofore made it necessary for them to conduct their meetings, administer baptism, etc., under the greatest difficulties. The brethren from Bavaria spoke of the open door in that country as the result of a governmental proclamation, granting the same privileges to Seventh-day Adventists as are enjoyed by other denominations. Others asked for special prayers in behalf of their fields where they were still hampered by unfavorable laws, or where local authorities so administered the laws as to make them oppressive. One feature of special interest was the attention which had been drawn to this message as the result of the steadfastness of some of the young brethren in the military service who for conscientious reasons had declined to report for duty on the Sabbath. In one of the leading papers of Germany, which circulates among the highest classes, both civil and military, there had recently appeared an article dealing with this matter, occupying the whole of the first page, written by a minister of high standing, in which the work of this denomination had been fully discussed, complete statistics as to membership, publishing interests, etc., given, and a very emphatic and remarkable testimony borne as to the Christian character of this people. From the general tenor of this article it was evident that the authorities were troubled, as they plainly did not wish to punish for disobedience those whose Christian character was above reproach, and yet they did not know what to do. Elder Conradi has promised that a translation of this most interesting article shall be furnished for the REVIEW, and I do not therefore need to speak of it further here.
Brother G. F. Haffner and I were the only laborers in addition to those in the conference, and a good number of the local ministers took part in the public services. All the sermons and Bible studies were earnest and practical, and seemed to be appreciated by the people, who attended all the meetings of every kind with remarkable regularity, and listened attentively. At the close of Brother Haffner’s sermon the first Sabbath morning, many responded to an invitation to give themselves to the service of the Lord, and on the second Sabbath there was a renewed consecration on the part both of the workers and
of the people, and a goodly number made the first public avowal of their faith in Christ, some of whom had been patients at the sanitarium. Two baptisms were held, and between sixty and seventy were baptized. All seemed to feel that this was not only the largest, but the best meeting ever held in the German Union Conference.
Thursday afternoon was devoted to the exercises connected with the dedication of the Old People’s Home, and the program was both interesting and profitable. Elder Conradi gave an appropriate address based upon scriptures which speak of the aged and our duty to care for them, and Elder Haffner offered the dedicatory prayer. The school orchestra and choir furnished the music for these exercises, and at the close gave a most excellent concert in the school chapel. The program was made up of music of the highest class only, including a selection from “Elijah” and the Hallelujah Chorus for the choir, and every part was rendered in a most acceptable manner. Quite a large number of strangers were present at all these exercises.
On the last Sunday of the meeting hundreds of people from the surrounding country came to Friedensau, and the grounds were thronged. Extra services were held, at which there was a good attendance, although many seemed to come to see the place and to have a little outing. This was quite in harmony with the German idea of the observance of Sunday, and the crowd was quiet and orderly.
So closed this excellent meeting, and I left Friedensau the same evening for England, to attend the British Union Conference.
W. W. P.

National Reform Convention

By C. M. S.

The regular annual institute and conference of the National Reform Association was held at Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 12-17. The first part of this convention was termed the Christian Citizenship Institute, and the latter part the Christian Citizenship Conference.
This institute had by far the smallest attendance of any of the institutes, conventions, or other special gatherings held on the grounds. It was advertised to be held in a large tent near the auditorium; but for some reason no tent was pitched for it. The speakers used the band stand for a pulpit, and the meager audience occupied portable settees under the trees surrounding the band stand. The chairman of the convention, Rev. J. S. Martin, had on hand a considerable quantity of literature, which was distributed gratuitously, and the names and addresses of all in attendance were taken by the chairman, that the literature of the National Reform Organization might be sent them during the year. As a partial offset for the meager attendance, quite copious reports of the different addresses were published each day in the Winona Assembly Review.
The people in attendance at the Winona Assembly did not seem intensely interested in the themes presented by the National Reformers, in spite of the fact that large cards advertising the meetings and the themes to be discussed were tacked up in every conspicuous place, and the programs were printed each morning in the Assembly Review. This was noted and regretted by several of the speakers; and yet they propose to go on with their project of erecting a Temple of National Reform at this place or purchasing some hall already erected.
Nevertheless, we could make no more serious blunder than to think, and to act upon the thought, that the seeming indifference of the people here toward these questions is an indication that the objects for which the National Reform Association is working are dead or dying issues in this country. The National Reformers are exceedingly desirous of gaining the attention of the thoughtful, earnest people who annually assemble at Winona Lake to attend lectures, summer schools, Bible institutes and conferences, and Sunday-school workers’ conventions. But between the sessions of these various institutes, conventions, etc., these people prefer to take some sort of recreation, on the lake, in the lake, strolling through the park, studying the lessons given them to learn, or attending musicales and band concerts. Their attitude here toward the “Christian Citizenship” convention is not an indication that the National Reform propaganda is raveling out, nor that the country at large is drifting farther away from the principles which the National Reformers stand for; nor even that these same Winona attendants would not give attention to the propaganda if carried on in their own churches.
The National Reformers now understand this, and for that reason they are planning a number of institutes to be held in churches in various parts of the country during the year. But the country is not dependent upon these institutes for the promulgation of the ideas for which the organization stands. Throughout the length and breadth of the land pastors are inculcating the ideas of the National Reform platform, and urging the enforcement of “sabbath” laws.
The writer noted a striking difference between the addresses of this year and last. There was not so much advocacy of political wire-pulling, not so much talk of a union of religion and the state; but there seemed to be a well-organized, deep, purposeful propaganda to educate thepeople to an adoption of their purposes. They have seen that the people do not take kindly to the idea of religious legislation. Therefore they are extolling the advantages of “moral” legislation; but through that “moral” legislation idea they will accomplish their set purpose—the enforcement of religion by law. It is their design to educate the people to demand of their legislators “moral” legislation, and to weary them with petitions until they see the necessity of yielding to the growing chorus of importunities along that line.
When legislators have grown to realize how close a relation is to be established between their retention of their office and their attitude toward “moral” legislation, there is no question as to the attitude they will assume toward the demands and petitions of those interested in such legislation. Laws for the protection of the “Lord’s day” will then find easy access to the statute-books of the States. It will not be done as a matter of religion—not at all—only a matter of moral legislation.
Next week we will give an epitome of the positions taken and the arguments used at this convention, and which are to be given in substance at the various conventions to be held during the year throughout the country. C. M. S.

Note and Comment

THE ambassadors at Constantinople have finally signed the protocol, providing for the establishment of a permanent police force under European control in Macedonia, to be supported by an extra tax upon imports into Turkey. The people of these Balkan States, however, do not feel that this has satisfactorily settled the question of the Turk in Europe. The Balkan Christians claim that the European scheme of reform has failed to achieve any good, and that the only effective solution of the Macedonian problem would be the expulsion of the Turk from Europe. As a matter of fact, that is the settlement which the Turk himself expects. It is also the solution indicated in the Word of God.

The “New South”

By William Ambrose Spicer

VERY frequently in the South this phrase is met with. It is interesting to see on every hand the evidence that the phrase correctly describes the development going forward in the South. In fact, it is generally recognized that the strongest movement in the United States, in the way of fresh commercial and industrial expansion, is just now going forward in the most of these Southern States.
This is as a signal of good cheer in our work. In our own cause in the great Southland there is evidence of the new time in the New South. In the fields where the message has been least preached, there, if we will but push in, we may redeem the lost years. It is the time of the latter rain. And we may now claim that promise of the time of the latter rain, “I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.” The locust of neglect and delay has eaten many a year in the unworked fields; but God’s providence brings about a new time and an awakening through the fields, giving opportunity to enter in and regain the lost time.
The ranks of believers in the South are being increased at a rate that shows that God is abundantly blessing the work of the little band of laborers. The Sabbath-keepers in the Southern field have been increasing at the rate of twenty per cent a year. That rate would double the number every five years; but as a matter of fact, the ratio of gain is increasing.
Well may we thank God for the timeliness of the fifty-thousand-dollar gift to the institutional work in the South that has now been made from the large fund. Help just in time is doubly helpful. One thing that is written large all over the Southern work is the fact that the training-school, publishing, and sanitarium centers being helped by the $150,000 fund are giving the strength and solidity to the work which the cause has long needed. This timely lift will mean still greater expansion in our work for this great field. It is not a matter of prediction, but only an observation of cheering developments. W. A. S.
Spartanburg, S. C.

The Tendency of Our Times

By C. M. S.

ON the morning of July 18 there occurred at Oak Grove, Ky., an incident which shows that the spirit of unionism is the same in all parts of the country and among all classes. The planters of tobacco and wheat had formed a Farmer’s Association in the above vicinity, and had begun the work of compelling their neighbors to join. Persuasion failing, threats were used, and these failing, the threats were carried out. One man who refused to join the organization received an order not to thrash his wheat. He thrashed the wheat, and a stick of dynamite hidden in a sheaf exploded in the threshing-machine, destroying the machine and injuring four men. Twenty-five night-riders made a raid on the home of another farmer, and at the point of a gun mercilessly flogged him with a rawhide, and before his release brutally kicked him. He had been a member of the association and had withdrawn from it. He had been ordered not to raise any more tobacco or wheat, and had not heeded the order. Tobacco stemmeries have been burned, and the plant beds of non-association growers have been dug up. No one dares to appear against the offenders, and their depredations go on unchecked. These acts of lawlessness are indicative of our times, and carry their own lessons for the people of our day.
While these things were going on in Kentucky, the labor unions of the West were making, against the capitalists of the country, dire threats whose execution hung upon the conviction of Haywood and Moyer. In some of their halls were hung the following mottoes:—
If Moyer and Haywood die, for every hair in their heads we will have the life of a capitalist.
If the capitalists convict Moyer and Haywood, there will be death sentences in every rich man’s family.
These expressions all have in them the threat of murder, a spirit at variance with the laws both of God and of the country; and this movement of combinations of men for selfish purposes is spreading through all the world. It is a spirit of intolerance toward the wishes and the rights of others — intolerance of another’s liberty when it does not promote my temporal advantage. It is manifest in the labor unions, agricultural associations, in the trusts, and among those religious bodies whose religion is more an affair of the head than of the heart. When men have lost their faith and their trust in God, the tendency of the times in this direction is a striking comment upon the waning spirituality of the people. With the tide set so strongly in this direction, the soul that would be true to God needs to set his face resolutely toward the city of God, and keep strong hold of the hand of the Infinite. C. M. S.

Sunday Saloon Closing and Moral Uplift

As a “part of the great moral uplift that is going on everywhere,” the Portland Oregonian instances the growing movement for the closing of saloons on Sunday. That the movement is a growing one all can see, but that it is great for morality is a long way from an established fact. It has had three results that all have witnessed. It has increased Saturday selling for Sunday drinking at home, turning households into miniature saloons; it has given the saloon more of the air of a respectable, law-abiding business enterprise; and it has compelled the saloon-keeper to go through the motions of reverencing a religious institution. These are results which no one who understands the soul of Christianity can look upon as great in their power for moral uplift, truth, and righteousness.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By T. E. Bowen

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

“I’m Done”

OFTEN we hear the above expression as some tired worker falls into a chair at the completion of some task. It sounds good, if the individual has really completed the work. But if a daughter thus remarks in the very midst of some hard job, like the family washing, and the poor, overburdened mother and other members of the family still have to tug away at the work, then the “I’m done” does not sound quite so good.
God is not pleased to have some eased and others burdened, in his work. He teaches us to be noble and unselfish. He marks any departure from these high principles in any of his children.
When the call for the $150,000 was first made, the brethren figured it out that to estimate the membership of the denomination very conservatively, this fund would call for only about $2.50 to be raised by each member, and that if every one would give this small amount, the sum would be quickly made up.
But it was voted by those present at the council not to enter upon the raising of the fund under the quota idea. This sounded too much like a tax—a principle not brought forward in the Bible.
While there can be no burden in reckoning up what a certain field would have to raise according to its membership, and endeavoring to reach that mark as quickly as possible, still, should it happen to be possessed with a well-to-do class of members who would, and should, perhaps, according to the prosperity with which God had blessed them, pay this amount very easily and quickly, for them to sit down with the complacent, “I’m done,” while the rest of the people tug on with the job, does, certainly, not appear to be quite fair, nor the proper thing to do.
And, too, these good people whom God has so richly blessed may not have approached giving the “two mites,” nor “as God hath prospered” them, nor yet even to that amount which the Lord expected them to give.
God says, “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance [in some other matter] also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: as it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.”
God has given liberally—“abundantly”—to many of our brethren. He has done this to test them. He asks of them now large gifts for his needy work. He has withheld money from some, and blessed them more abundantly in other ways. For these talents each is held responsible.
Shall we not all stick to the task until the work is done? The work goes harder when some stop. On the other hand, shall those who have been diligent at their task while others have loitered, do the work of the tardy ones? Is this fair and just? As none besides the Lord knows who has and who has not done his duty toward raising the means called for in this large fund, we are left to simply urge all to do their duty before God, and stick at it until the amount is made up. T. E. BOWEN.

Atlantic Union Conference

By I. H. Evans

Received on the $150,000 Fund up to Aug. 20, 1907

Atlantic Union Conference

Central New England ........$ 2,635.61 Chesapeake .................. 456.34 Eastern Pennsylvania ........ 1,793.50 Greater New York ............ 462.07 Maine ....................... 364.77 New Jersey .................. 552.63 New York .................... 1,626.50 Southern New England ........ 1,138.50 Vermont ..................... 910.18 Virginia .................... 468.58 West Pennsylvania ........... 1,150.74 West Virginia ............... 336.64 Western New York ............ 1,302.67 Total ....................... $13,198.73

Canadian Union Conference

Maritime ....................$316.43 Quebec ...................... 63.14 Ontario ..................... 505.28 Total ....................... $884.85

Central Union Conference

Colorado ....................$ 1,219.08 Iowa ........................ 3,930.12 Kansas ...................... 2,445.89 Missouri .................... 1,278.64 Nebraska .................... 5,379.82 Wyoming ..................... 740.94 Total ....................... $14,994.49

District of Columbia

Washington churches ........$1,310.59

Lake Union Conference

East Michigan ...............$ 1,824.77 Indiana ..................... 5,152.07 North Michigan .............. 421.57 Northern Illinois ........... 2,378.74 Ohio ........................ 3,714.44 Southern Illinois ........... 767.08 West Michigan ............... 3,574.34 Wisconsin ................... 2,614.69 Total ....................... $20,447.70

North Pacific Union Conference

Conference not specified ....$ 362.96 British Columbia ............ 112.80 Montana ..................... 292.05 Upper Columbia .............. 1,722.87 Western Washington .......... 1,160.26 Idaho ....................... 854.90 Western Oregon .............. 1,420.47 Total ....................... $5,926.31

Northern Union Conference

Alberta .....................$ 156.10 Manitoba .................... 239.70 Saskatchewan Mission Field .. 34.85 Minnesota ................... 5,036.20 South Dakota ................ 2,645.47 North Dakota ................ 1,768.66 Conference not specified .... 73.82 Total ....................... $9,954.80

Pacific Union Conference

Arizona .....................$ 236.99 California-Nevada ........... 6,012.92 Southern California ......... 649.03 Utah ........................ 327.43 Total ....................... $7,226.37

Southern Union Conference

South Carolina ..............$ 135.69 Alabama ..................... 264.05 Tennessee River ............. 723.55 Florida ..................... 551.77 North Carolina .............. 455.50 Kentucky .................... 30.36 Cumberland .................. 732.74 Louisiana ................... 390.61 Mississippi ................. 252.76 Georgia ..................... 355.89 Total ....................... $3,892.92

Southwestern Union Conference

Not specified ...............$ 20.18 Arkansas .................... 373.86 Oklahoma .................... 1,844.73 Texas ....................... 1,198.76 Total ....................... $3,437.53

Unknown

Unknown .....................$153.20

Foreign

Algeria .....................$ 13.33 Australia ................... 137.06 Bermuda ..................... 35.00 China ....................... 26.60 South Africa ................ 128.16 Jamaica ..................... 13.41 Yukon Territory ............. 10.00 England ..................... 256.32 West Africa ................. 14.06 Mexico ...................... 2.00 Costa Rica .................. 6.25 India ....................... 12.48 South America ............... 30.95 Switzerland ................. 9.69 Panama ...................... 19.00 Nicaragua ................... 4.00 Central American Mission .... 26.00 Trinidad .................... .34 Norway ...................... 25.00 Japan ....................... 12.50 Hayti ....................... 5.00 Egypt ....................... 51.55 Palestine ................... 2.00 Tobago, W. I. ............... 1.22 Cuba ........................ 4.00 Total ....................... $845.92 Grand Total ................. $82,273.41
I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.

C. D. REASER

By C. D. Reaser

ENCLOSED find nine dollars, which you will please place in the $150,000 fund for myself and family, as our fourth-of-July offering. I would like to send much more on this fund, but we are few, and I am crippled by the loss of my left hand through blood-poison.
I have lately begun to keep the commandments of God, and have been trying to teach the truth to our neighbors. One family of four have lately joined us in keeping the Sabbath. We are isolated, have no church or Sabbath-school privileges. We live a hundred and fifty miles from the railroad station, Kemmerer, on the O. S. Line in western Wyoming, and we are surrounded by cow-men, a very rough and profane, but kind-hearted people.
We shall sell out as soon as possible, and move our families where they will have church and school privileges. Then we expect to enter the canvassing field for Seventh-day Adventist publications.

C. D. REASER

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