Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 17. (4/25/1907)

Review and Herald

Apr 25, 1907

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Editorial Letter

By William W. Prescott

Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book

We left Kobe Tuesday morning, January 8, and the whole day was occupied in the ride to Shimonoseki, a city at the extreme south end of the principal island. Here we took a steamship for Korea, traveling second class. This meant that we had a large room with mats on the floor, similar to the room which we occupied at the Japanese hotel, where we could make ourselves as comfortable as possible with such bedding as we had. This would have been all well enough, but unfortunately for me it turned quite cold in the night, and a strong wind blowing through an open port-hole onto the back of my neck was the direct cause of a bad cold. This stayed by me very faithfully during my week in Korea, and prevented me from seeing and doing as much as I otherwise would have seen and done during that time.

We reached Fusan at ten o’clock the next morning, having passed over the scene of the famous naval battle between the Russian and Japanese forces near the close of the late war. At Fusan we took a train over a line constructed by the Japanese for the purpose of transporting troops and supplies, and which is still operated by them as a military railroad. The day was bitterly cold, and there was no heat at all during the first part of our journey, and a very uncertain amount the remainder of the time. From looking at the map of Korea one would readily conclude that the ride from Fusan to Ping-Yang, sixteen miles south of Soonan, where Brother Smith is located, would probably occupy one day, but I found that trains in Korea make very slow progress and run only by day, stopping overnight at Seoul and Ping-Yang, so that it required two days and nights and a part of the third day to reach our destination.

The country around Fusan was bare and mountainous, and I found it about the same during the whole of the journey. It reminded me of some parts of Colorado and Utah. Little groups of houses with mud walls and thatched roofs were scattered along the line, and occasionally there were larger towns, and we saw one walled city.

The people were an interesting study. They are of larger stature than the Japanese, with about the same color of skin and of rather a sturdy appearance. Almost without exception, men, women, and children dress in white garments (or in garments which were once white) summer and winter, padding their clothes with cotton in the winter, in order to keep warm. The trousers worn by the men are of enormous size (one writer has said that a pair would serve to clothe loosely the statue of liberty in New York harbor); and their hats appear to the careless observer to be neither useful nor ornamental. They seem to be intended to protect the knot of hair which crowns the top of the head like a monument on the top of a hill. Like the Japanese, the Koreans are inveterate smokers, and every car is a smoking-car. We breathed tobacco smoke for three consecutive days. And yet I liked the people. There was something about them which suggested solidity of character, and gave a ground for hope that the soil would be favorable for the good seed.

It was ten o’clock that night when the train stopped at Seoul, the capital of Korea, where it would remain overnight. We found comfortable accommodations at a foreign hotel (all but natives are foreigners in the far East), where I took some vigorous treatment for my cold. I was thankful for some knowledge of hydrotherapy, and that Brother Smith had had some instruction in nursing.

Seoul is a large walled city, and a stay in it would have been interesting, but we were compelled to leave the next morning. The day was occupied in the journey to Ping-Yang, a distance of about two hundred miles. Here we stopped at a hospital under Presbyterian management, but with Korean helpers, and on account of local conditions were compelled to occupy one room.

Here I had my first experience with the Korean method of heating their houses. The fire is in the kitchen at one end of the house, and the smoke passes through several flues under the floor of the other rooms. They have no chairs, and we sat down flat on the floor. In a short time I felt an uncomfortable sensation from the heat, and was obliged to lift myself from the floor and sit on my hands. The Koreans sleep on these floors, but foreigners who have tried it report results which were not altogether satisfactory.

Ping-Yang is built on the bank of a large river, and is in the shape of a boat. No one is permitted to dig a well within the city, as it is held that this would make a hole in the bottom of the boat and result in sinking the city! The people are therefore compelled to bring all their water from the river, or to employ the professional water-carriers.

A short ride the next morning brought us to the village where Brother Smith lives. We were thankful for his hospitable home and the kind entertainment which we received. I greatly regretted that, owing to my weak condition, I was unable to meet with the people on the Sabbath, but I made an appointment for the next day, which I was able to keep, and so I had the privilege of speaking to this company of Korean believers. The little church was crowded to its utmost capacity, and others stood outside. I could talk only a short time, Brother Smith interpreting, and then the leader, a Korean brother, followed with an appropriate response.

It was a most interesting experience for me to look upon this company of Koreans who had accepted the third angel’s message, and especially as I called to mind the fact that in a very short time nearly four hundred had begun to keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, about half of whom had already been accepted for church-membership. It is a striking illustration of what the Lord will be able to accomplish in a short time when the message swells to the loud cry. We must certainly send more help to Korea. The providence of God urges us to do this. It promises to be a most fruitful field, and many doors are already open.

Soon after my meeting closed, it was necessary for me to take the train in order to reach Chemulpo in time to make connection with the steamer for North China. Brother Smith accompanied me as far as Ping-Yang, where we again spent a night, and during the remainder of the journey I had the company of a Presbyterian missionary who was taking his son to Chefoo to place him in school at that place. We sailed from Chemulpo the next morning, and anchored in the harbor of Chefoo about eleven o’clock the following day, when I got my first glimpse of China. Of this I will write later. W. W. P.

“All the World for Peace”

By C. M. S.

The above is the title under which the great dailies give their report of the “peace congress” which opened in New York City on April 14. It was held in the great Carnegie Hall, and everything was done that could be done to indicate the world-prevalence of the movement for peace. From a press report we quote the following:—

Two strange flags hung over the heads of choristers on the stage of Carnegie Hall to-night. They were silk stars and stripes set into a field of white satin, which enclosed the emblem on all sides. A golden angel, bearing in one hand a palm leaf, supplanted the usual war eagle or pike head on the staffs; broad bands of white, inscribed with the golden word “Peace,” depended from the feet of the gilt angel. This is the flag of the state to come, the United States of the Federated Nations of Peace.

In the audience were Jews and Gentiles, unbelievers and Christians, and the decorating of the hall consisted of the flags of all the nations of the world. The speakers professed to believe that the sword was being turned into the plowshare, and that as a result of such congresses universal peace would prevail. The actuating purpose of the movement, and some of the very words used in the addresses, Holy Writ recorded centuries ago in fortelling this very movement. See Micah 4:2-5.

In the scripture referred to occurs this significant expression, a prophetic quotation from the sayings of the people in these our days: “Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.” That means at least the attempt to establish some power in the ancient capital of the Holy Land which shall claim the authority to speak to the nations in the name of God. It means that Christendom will be willing to come under one leadership; that the time will come when “all the world” will recognize one person as the spiritual king of this world, to whom all must yield homage and obedience.

There was present at this “peace congress” a representative of a certain power making a bid for that very place. It was Monsignor Lavelle, who read an address from Archbishop Farley of the Catholic Church. The press report of the address says:—

Archbishop Farley, writing on “Universal Peace,” said that he was not prepared to say that war could ever be removed from society, but that much might be done to mitigate its horrors and lessen its frequency. Efforts for universal peace, he declared, would accomplish only imperfect results until the moral power and authority of organized religion were openly recognized. He spoke of what he called “a famous tribunal of peace,”—the holy see at Rome,—and expressed his belief that if the holy see were admitted to The Hague, American Catholics would look with more interest on the efforts for the abolition of war.

What the archbishop meant by “organized religion” was the religion of the Catholic Church, or Christendom organized under the leadership of the papacy. The pope has long desired the title of “arbiter of nations,” and in the above quotation there is a bid for that title and position, though veiled in diplomatic language.

Denominations in this country are making united demands upon corporations, and the corporations are yielding. It would seem but logical, then, that if united Christendom were to make demands upon nations, the nations would yield; and that is the argument that is used and will be used to induce Christendom to come under the leadership of Rome. That, they argue, would bring the universal peace. The nations would not need then to go to war—would not dare to go to war—for the “arbiter of nations” would be king of the world, and no one nation would dare to stand against the world, or oppose the dictum of its king, speaking and ruling as “Vicegerent of the Son of God,” “God on earth,” “Lord God the Pope.”

This is no dream, no hallucination, no human invention. The revelator saw the combination, and wrote of it. He says: “There was given unto him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.” Rev. 13:7, 8.

Putting these things together, we have the prophecy of a combination of the nations for universal peace, under a religious leadership; we have the fulfilment of that prophecy in a movement now on foot to that end, using the very words of the prophecy in bringing it about; we have the self-styled “arbiter of nations” bidding for the leadership of that movement, and promising universal peace if given it; and we have the revelator’s declaration that that very power would attain that leadership and secure the religious allegiance of all the world save a certain small company (Rev. 14:12) who remain loyal to the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and whose names are written in the book of life. This striking fulfilment of God’s Word before our very eyes, indicating the culmination of God’s work for this world, should give us unbounded confidence and courage and hope.

C. M. S.

Report of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

By Arthur G. Daniells

Organization—No. 13

A Brief Account of Its History in the Development of the Cause of the Third Angel’s Message

While arrangements were being made for the general council to be held May 20, 1863, Elder White published a statement of the purpose of the council, in which he said:—

A few weeks only, and our General Conference will be in session. Delegates are being appointed to this assembly from different States, and our people are looking forward to it as the most important meeting ever held by the Seventh-day Adventists.

The great object of this contemplated meeting, as far as it has been expressed by those who plead that the present state of the cause demands it, is to secure the united and systematic action of the friends of the cause in every part of the wide field. . . .

We call for system. And while ministers call for systematic benevolence,

let the people loudly call for systematic labor. Can the General Conference take this matter in hand? If not, what use have we for the General Conference? Again, should not the General Conference control all missionary labor in new fields? If so, would it not control missionary funds, and require, among other officers, a treasurer and board of directors? Every such organization should be as simple as possible and accomplish its design. Useless machinery of this kind is badly in the way. But that which is worth doing at all, should be done correctly and well. If the General Conference is not higher in authority than State conferences, we see but little use for it. Think of these things, brethren, and be ready to act when assembled in General Conference.—Review and Herald, Vol. XXI, page 172.

Believing that our conference officers, ministers, and many of our people will be interested in the proceedings of the council which report the organization of the General Conference, I shall give them as they were published at the time:—

Report of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists convened according to appointment at Battle Creek, Mich., May 20, at 6 P. M. The meeting was temporarily organized by choosing J. M. Aldrich chairman, and U. Smith secretary. The conference was then opened by singing the hymn on page 233, and prayer by Brother Snook. A committee to receive and judge of the credentials of delegates being called for, it was—

Voted, That we have a committee of three on credentials.

The following brethren were thereupon chosen as that committee: Elder J. N. Loughborough, of Michigan; C. O. Taylor, of New York; and Isaac Sanborn, of Wisconsin.

The remainder of this session was occupied in the presentation of credentials to the committee, and the meeting adjourned to the following morning, May 21, at nine o’clock.

In the morning session, the committee announced the following brethren as the duly elected delegates from their respective States: From New York, Brethren J. N. Andrews, N. Fuller, C. O. Taylor, and J. M. Aldrich; from Ohio, I. N. VanGorder; from Michigan, the ministers present from that State, namely, Brethren White, Bates, Waggoner, Byington, Loughborough, Hull, Cornell, and Lawrence, with a lay representation of Brethren James Harvey, of North Liberty, Ind., and Wm. S. Higley, Jr., of Lapeer, Mich.; from Wisconsin, Isaac Sanborn; from Iowa, Brethren B. F. Snook and W. H. Brinkerhoof; from Minnesota, Washington Morse.

The report of the committee was accepted.

Voted, That Brother H. F. Baker be received as an additional delegate from Ohio.

The following brethren were then appointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws for the government of this conference: Brethren J. N. Andrews, N. Fuller, I. Sanborn, W. Morse, H. F. Baker, B. F. Snook, J. H. Waggoner, and J. N. Loughborough. After due deliberation the committee presented the following constitution for the consideration of the Conference:—

Constitution of the General Conference

For the purpose of securing unity and efficiency in labor, and promoting the general interests of the cause of present truth, and of perfecting the organization of the Seventh-day Adventists, we the delegates from the several State conferences, hereby proceed to organize a General Conference, and adopt the following constitution for the government thereof:—

ARTICLE I.—This Conference shall be called the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

ART. II.—The officers of this Conference shall be a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of three, of whom the President shall be one.

ART. III.—The duties of the President and Secretary shall be such respectively as usually pertain to those offices.

ART. IV.—It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive and disburse means under the direction of the Executive Committee, and keep an account of the same, and make a full report thereof to the regular meetings of the Conference.

ART. V., SEC. 1.—It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to take the general supervision of all ministerial labor, and see that the same is properly distributed; and they shall take the special supervision of all missionary labor, and as a missionary board shall have the power to decide where such labor is needed, and who shall go as missionaries to perform the same.

SEC. 2.—Means for missionary operations may be received by donation from State conferences, churches, or individuals; and the Committee are authorized to call for means when needed.

SEC. 3.—When any State conference desires ministerial labor from a minister not a resident within the bounds of such conference, their request shall be made to the General Conference Executive Committee, and ministers sent by said Committee shall be considered under the jurisdiction of the conference committee of such State: Provided, 1. That if such minister consider the State committee inefficient, or their action so far wrong as to render his labor ineffectual, he may appeal to the General Conference Executive Committee: Provided, 2. That if such State committee consider such minister inefficient, they may appeal to the General Conference Committee, who shall decide on the matter of complaint, and take such action as they may think proper.

ART. VI.—Each State conference shall be entitled to one delegate in the General Conference, and one additional delegate for every twenty delegates in the State conference, such delegates to the General Conference to be chosen by the State conferences or their committees: Provided, that the delegates to such State conferences be elected according to the following ratio, to wit: Each church to the number of twenty members or under shall be entitled to one delegate, and one delegate for every additional fifteen members.

ART. VII.—The officers shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and shall be elected at the regular meetings of the Conference.

ART. VIII., SEC. 1.—The regular meetings of the Conference shall be held annually, and the time and place of holding the same shall be determined by the Executive Committee, by whom due notice thereof shall be given through the REVIEW.

SEC. 2.—Special meetings may be called at the option of the Committee.

ART. IX.—This constitution may be altered or amended by a two-third’s vote of the delegates present at any regular meeting: Provided, That any proposed amendment shall be communicated to the Executive Committee, and notice thereof given by them in their call for the meeting of the Conference.

The report was accepted and the committee discharged.

The Conference then took up the reported constitution item by item, for consideration and discussion, which resulted in its entire adoption.

The Conference being now ready for a permanent organization, it was—

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed to nominate officers to act under the constitution already adopted.

Brethren Wm. S. Higley, Jas. Harvey, and B. F. Snook were appointed as that committee.

Adjourned to one o’clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION.—Prayer by Brother Cornell. The committee on nominations reported as follows: For President, James White; Secretary, Uriah Smith; Treasurer, E. S. Walker. Executive Committee: James White, John Byington, J. N. Loughborough.

Report accepted and committee discharged.

On motion the Conference proceeded to vote on the nominations presented. Brother White was unanimously chosen president, but declined to serve. After a considerable time spent in discussion, the brethren urging reasons why he should accept the position, and he why he should not, his resignation was finally accepted, and Elder John Byington was elected as president in his stead. The nominations for secretary and treasurer were then ratified. J. N. Andrews and G. W. Amadon were chosen as the remaining members of the executive committee. On motion of Brother Loughborough it was—

Voted, That, as one object of the General Conference is to secure uniformity of action throughout all the States, a committee of five be appointed to draw up a constitution for State conferences, to be recommended to the brethren in the different States, that there may be uniformity in the matter of State conferences. The following brethren were then chosen as that committee: Brethren Sanborn, of Wisconsin; Brinkerhoof, of Iowa; Aldrich, of New York; Loughborough, of Michigan; and Morse, of Minnesota.—Id., Vol. XXI, pages 204, 205.

The committee on a constitution for local conferences presented one that was unanimously adopted by the council, and was subsequently used by the States.

This ended the long, perplexing, harassing controversy among Seventh-day Adventists regarding organization. Writing of this meeting, Elder Uriah Smith said:—

Taking a general view of this meeting as a religious gathering, we hardly know what feature of the joyful occasion

to notice first. We can say to the readers of the REVIEW, Think of everything good that has been written of every previous meeting, and apply it to this. All this would be true, and more than this. Perhaps no previous meeting that we have ever enjoyed, was characterized by such unity of feeling and harmony of sentiment. In all the important steps taken at this Conference, in the organization of a General Conference, and the further perfecting of State conferences, defining the authority of each, and the important duties belonging to their various officers, there was not a dissenting voice, and we may reasonably doubt if there was even a dissenting thought. Such union, on such points, affords the strongest grounds of hope for the immediate advancement of the cause, and its future glorious prosperity and triumph.—Id., Vol. XXI, page 204.

It will be interesting to study the general principles upon which this plan of organization is based, and the influence this system of organization has had upon our cause.

A. G. DANIELLS.

The Sabbath-Schools and Missions

By W. A. S.

An indication of the growth of our Sabbath-schools and of the growth of the missionary spirit in them is afforded by the report which the secretary of the department, Sister L. F. Plummer, makes in the May Sabbath School Worker, just coming from the press.

In 1906 the schools determined to aim at a thousand dollars a week for missions in the class-contribution envelopes. In all the world our schools responded. The gifts were small, but regular and systematic. The result shows what can be done by united effort. The report for the year shows $57,901.96 given for missions by the schools—a thousand dollars a week and a surplus of $5,901.96.

While the Sabbath-schools have been feeding upon the good things of the Word of God, they have remembered the hungry world outside. This splendid gift to missions has meant blessing and salvation to many souls in the mission fields. The schools are a powerful factor in the missionary advance.

So cheered are the Sabbath-school workers at the result of the 1906 effort, that they have taken as the aim for 1907, “A thousand dollars a week for missions in the schools of the United States and Canada.” W. A. S.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

The Good Word from Arizona

The good news comes from Elder F. I. Richardson, president of the Arizona Conference, that they are through as a conference, and more, in the raising of their share of the $150,000 fund, if it be based upon the rate of $2.53 a church-member. In writing to Elder Daniells, he says:—

This is to inform you that the Arizona Conference has raised four hundred and six dollars on the $150,000 fund. The pro rata for each member was $2.53. Our membership, including children, is one hundred and fifty-three. You will see by this that we have quite a margin to our credit. When we take into consideration that quite a majority of our membership are women whose husbands are not with them in the truth, and that all are poor, we feel to praise the Lord that we have been able to gather it in so soon.

But now that the song of jubilee has begun, and one conference, as such, has raised its share of the fund, it is but reasonable to suppose that others will soon be prepared to join in the jubilee song, and that before very long all will be able to join in the grand chorus, when the full amount has been brought in.

T. E. BOWEN.

Received on the $150,000 Fund up to April 16, 1907

Atlantic Union Conference

Central New England ............ $1,244.41 Chesapeake ..................... 138.70 Eastern Pennsylvania ........... 452.09 Greater New York ............... 415.75 Maine .......................... 250.18 New Jersey ..................... 303.42 New York ....................... 1,018.17 Southern New England ........... 728.80 Vermont ........................ 656.77 Virginia ....................... 213.12 Western Pennsylvania ........... 552.67 West Virginia .................. 180.67 Western New York ............... 479.56 Total .......................... $6,724.31

Canadian Union Conference

Maritime ........................ $281.43 Quebec .......................... 10.00 Ontario ......................... 129.41 Total ........................... $420.84

Central Union Conference

Colorado ........................ $ 345.94 Iowa ............................ 1,720.96 Kansas ......................... 1,064.27 Missouri ........................ 463.80 Nebraska ....................... 2,036.90 Wyoming ......................... 362.87 Total .......................... $5,994.74

District of Columbia

Washington churches ............ $1,113.77

Lake Union Conference

East Michigan ................... $ 671.05 Indiana ......................... 2,682.52 North Michigan .................. 61.23 Northern Illinois ............... 1,077.69 Ohio ............................ 2,558.61 Southern Illinois ............... 656.68 West Michigan ................... 2,493.53 Wisconsin ....................... 1,451.37 Total .......................... $11,652.68

North Pacific Union Conference

Conference not specified ....... $ 315.30 British Columbia ................ 57.80 Montana ........................ 152.70 Upper Columbia .................. 1,101.42 Western Washington .............. 877.79 Idaho .......................... 245.90 Western Oregon .................. 694.48 Total .......................... $3,445.39

Northern Union Conference

Alberta ........................ $ 75.80 Manitoba ........................ 238.70 Saskatchewan Mission Field ...... 24.85 Minnesota ....................... 2,825.20 South Dakota .................... 2,104.10 North Dakota .................... 1,527.62 Total .......................... $6,796.27

Pacific Union Conference

Arizona ......................... $ 166.87 California-Nevada ............... 2,743.26 Southern California ............. 291.94 Utah ............................ 96.01 Total .......................... $3,298.08

Southern Union Conference

South Carolina .................. $ 58.99 Alabama ......................... 141.71 Tennessee River ................ 367.03 Florida ......................... 177.69 North Carolina .................. 133.97 Kentucky ........................ 30.36 Cumberland ...................... 190.93 Louisiana ....................... 288.51 Mississippi ..................... 118.65 Georgia ......................... 146.55 Total .......................... $1,654.39

Southwestern Union Conference

Arkansas Tract Society .......... $ 213.14 Oklahoma ........................ 896.17 Texas ........................... 761.13 Indian Territory ................ 3.00 Total .......................... $1,873.44

Unknown

Unknown ........................ $146.20

Foreign

Australia ....................... $122.45 China ........................... 3.00 South Africa .................... 128.16 Jamaica ......................... 3.17 Yukon Territory ................. 10.00 England ......................... 256.32 Gold Coast, West Africa ......... 10.00 Mexico .......................... 1.50 Costa Rica ...................... 2.00 India ........................... 12.48 South America ................... 23.35 Switzerland ...................... 5.81 Panama .......................... 1.00 Nicaragua ....................... 2.00 Trinidad ........................ .84 British Honduras ................ 17.00 Norway .......................... 25.00 Japan ........................... 12.50 Total .......................... $636.58

Grand Total .................... $43,756.69

I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.

Note and Comment

The germ idea in the “universal peace” propaganda was brought to view by Mr. W. T. Stead at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on April 14, when he declared that “too many Christians devote their time to saving an individual soul, and not to saving the soul of humanity.” That is practically the position taken by the National Reform Association, which is working to bring about the salvation of nations through civil enactments and the gateway of politics. Jesus Christ came into this world to save individual souls. No single individual soul was regarded by him as of too little consequence for him to spend his time and to shed his blood in its behalf. He would have done it all for one such. But many of his professed ambassadors are turning aside from the salvation of the individual, for whom Christ died, and are turning their attention to the “civic” salvation of the nations, whom Christ has declared he would break in pieces as a potter’s vessel. There has been no provision made for the salvation of nations. God has declared that at the setting up of his everlasting kingdom, he would scatter the nations of this world as the “chaff of the summer thrashing-floor; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them;” but the individual souls that accept Christ “shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many [individual souls] to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.” Which work then furnishes the more permanent results, the work for the salvation of nations or that for the salvation of individual souls? With the completion of man’s salvation comes the destruction of earth’s nations.

Reverence for Holy Things

By Eliza H. Morton

ELIZA H. MORTON

The angels bow in holy awe Before Jehovah's throne. The Lord of hosts requires and asks A reverence from his own, In days of old the burning bush Made sacred all around, And Moses felt that where he stood Was blest and hallowed ground.

And shall not we in this our day Regard the things of God With due respect, and in his house Walk softly with the Lord?

Not form alone is what we need In this, earth's closing hour; But order based on heaven's law Tends to increase our power.

In reverence bow when prayer is said, And angels linger near; For heaven's blessing rests upon The humble and sincere; But carelessness and thoughtlessness, Disorder here and there, Will grieve the Spirit, check its work, And close the listening ear.

Then careful, reverent, humble, pure, Let all our worship be, And in the love and fear of God We shall be glad and free; Then our example will go forth From a united band In winning souls from chaos dark To heaven's own order-land.

North Deering, Maine.

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