ON our way East we spent a Sabbath with the brethren at New Orleans. This city has been chosen as the headquarters of the work for that field, and the center for the religious liberty work in the Southern Union Conference.
As our work extends in Central and South America and the West Indies, New Orleans will become a more and more important center for it, as that city is the seaport through which workers and supplies will reach these countries.
Commercially, New Orleans is second to only one city in the United States—New York City. Its influence in the cotton States is very great. It is a cosmopolitan city with about three hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and furnishes unusual advantages in reaching the Spanish and other nationalities among whom our work is extending at the present time. About seventy-five thousand of its inhabitants are colored, and about fifty thousand are Jews.
New Orleans is a strong educational21center. The Tulane University, costing about one million dollars, is located here. Its influence is felt throughout the entire country. There are also several important institutions of learning for the colored people. This city possesses some advantages above any other city in the South.
It has been decided by our leading brethren that New Orleans be made one of the centers for our work. Providentially there has come into our hands a large twelve-room building and an adjoining lot on Jackson Avenue, at a greatly reduced price. Judging from the location and character of the property, it could not be replaced for ten thousand dollars. They pay only six thousand dollars. It will do very well for a meeting-house for the present, also for conference offices and a dwelling-house. Already they have paid on this property five hundred dollars. One thousand dollars is due the first of July, and fifteen hundred dollars the first of September. The rest is to be paid in monthly payments thereafter, which can be met by the rent of a part of the building for dwelling purposes.
We made arrangements with Elder Horton by which the first one thousand dollars could be raised by the sale of the special Bible Training School, thus affording an opportunity for each of our brethren to take part and never feel it. Those who two years ago sold the “Help for India” special Bible Training School can now thank God for the way the Lord has blessed the work that was started among the eighty million Hindustani-speaking people by the sale of that special. Now we have an opportunity of helping establish a memorial for God in the largest city in the South. The New Orleans special sells for ten cents a copy. Now is the golden opportunity to work the cities. What is done will have to be done soon. May God hasten the time when the last soul will be gathered from both city and country for the everlasting rest in the city of God.
If any of our brethren have a stray dollar or two and wish to aid in the purchase of this building, let them send in their orders at once for a quantity of the New Orleans special Bible Training School and sell them or give them to their neighbors and friends. Address all orders for papers to the Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass.
S. N. HASKELL.
Kimberley Baths
By J. V. Willson; Wife
It is a long time since I have written a report of the Kimberley Baths, but it is not because of lack of interest in the work that we have been silent.
Business in Kimberley has suffered much from financial depression, but the Lord has cared for his work. There are four departments to our work—baths, treatments, rents, and flower garden. There has been a steady financial growth from year to year. Aug. 15, 1899, the present worth of the Kimberley Baths was £221 13s. 11d. Dec. 31, 1906, it had increased to £3607 1s. 1d., a gain of £3385 7s. 2d.
We have looked forward from year to year to having a Seventh-day Adventist physician connect with our work here, and hope we shall see that done not long in the future. We have been made very sad by the news of the death of our daughter, our only child, but can say, “Thy will be done.” We devoted her to the service of the Lord from early childhood, and sent her to America to receive a fitting up for the Lord’s work, and we do not regret the sacrifice we made. We desire to press the battle to the gates, and start out on another year’s work with renewed zeal and courage.—J. V. Willson and Wife, in South African Missionary.
Chile
By Frank H. Westphal
PITRUFQUEN.—We are plodding along in this country, and some souls are being saved.
You will remember that in one of my reports I mentioned the throwing of dirt in our faces and the hurling of stones at us, during a baptism. When one of the women who participated went home, her husband gave her a whipping, and said he was ashamed of her. The Catholic priest made some of his members do penance. They had to crawl around the church on their hands and knees. The priest was ashamed of his own members, and so humbled them in this way. At this writing we are called to baptize several souls at that place. The truth is onward.
In the north I baptized six persons, and several others have received the rite since, and others are waiting for a minister to visit them, so that they may be baptized.
After I had spoken on the United States of America in prophecy, one man said that he had never heard the "Monroe doctrine" explained so clearly before. Everything that comes from the United States of America is the Monroe doctrine to the people here, whether good or bad. F. H. WESTPHAL.
Field Notes
Six persons were recently received into the church at Hawleyville, Iowa.
REPORTING from Illinois, Brother M. G. Huffman tells of four additions to the church at Woodburn, and one at Urbana.
BROTHER T. J. HICKMAN reports three as having accepted the truth near Columbia, Okla., where his meetings are still in progress.
BROTHER F. A. DETAMORE reports the baptism of five persons and their reception into the church at St. Paul, Minn., on Sabbath, March 16. Six others have publicly expressed their intention to join the church in the near future. Several are keeping the Sabbath who are expected soon to unite with the body.
ON March 23 Brother J. W. Watt closed his series of meetings at Beaver Falls, Pa., with one discouraged brother revived, one sister united with the church, and one of the leading physicians of the place keeping the Sabbath, paying tithe, taking the REVIEW, etc.
Current Mention
— The House of the Illinois Legislature has passed an anti-cigarette bill making unlawful the selling of cigarettes or cigarette papers in Illinois. The bill now goes to the Senate.
— All the regular liners running between New York and Great Britain are going away only partly filled with cargo nowadays, because the railroads have not the cars to bring wheat, oats, rye, and barley.
— All parties in Cuba express satisfaction with Secretary Taft’s announcement that Cuban elections will follow a taking of the census. Municipal elections will probably not be held before September 15, and the presidential elections later. It is not probable that the Americans will evacuate the island before 1909.
— The Immigration Bureau has been informed that hundreds of Japanese have arrived in Mexico, destined for the United States. Scores are being smuggled across the border. Information also comes that many Japanese are arriving in Honolulu, where they take passage to British Columbia, expecting to get across the northern border of the United States.
— Justice Gould, of the District Supreme Court, decided recently that the “treaty funds,” which are made up of moneys appropriated by Congress annually to carry out treaty stipulations of the government with the Indian tribes, can not be legally used by government officials to pay for the education of the Indians at sectarian schools. Practically all the Catholic Indian mission schools, as well as many Protestant educational institutions operating among the Indian tribes of the West, will be affected by the decision, and some of them will find their revenues seriously interfered with hereafter.
— The California and Chile earthquake disasters have been repeated in Mexico, but with less loss of life. Between midnight and 1 A. M. of Monday, April 15, severe shocks were felt over the southern half of Mexico, the center of the disturbance (which lasted four minutes) seeming to be about 200 miles south of Mexico City. Latest advices say the death list will reach more than a hundred, but not all sections have yet been heard from. A tidal wave was experienced at Acapulco on the west coast. Repeated shocks have followed, and a sulphurous odor is causing discomfort to the survivors. On the seventeenth earthquake shocks were reported from various parts of Eurasia, as Spain, Turkey, and Transcaspian Russia. On the eighteenth shocks were felt at Manila, and the Puyahue volcano on the border between Argentina and Chile is in very active eruption, causing the inhabitants of mountain villages to flee for safety. Large areas are covered with lava, and many cattle have been killed.
— A menacing French naval demonstration is taking place off Mogador, Morocco, and the general situation is grave, owing to the resentment of the Moors over the French occupation of Oudja. Native opinion is unanimous that France is seeking to pick a quarrel with Morocco in order to make further annexations of territory.
— The Florida Senate has adopted a joint resolution to declare the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal Constitution void, and to disfranchise the negro in Florida. As the house is overwhelmingly for the resolution, the question of the legality of the amendments in question will go before the United States Supreme Court.
— President Bonilla of Honduras has surrendered, one of the conditions being that he leave Central America. He was taken by an American gunboat to Salina Cruz, Mexico. A conference between representatives of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador is in progress at Amapala, Honduras, which it is thought will terminate the war, as the Nicaraguan troops are being withdrawn from Honduran territory. There is a uniform desire on the part of the Central American republics for a permanent peace conference to be held in Washington, where special envoys from each of the republics shall negotiate a treaty for lasting peace.
— At the Peace Congress Andrew Carnegie was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor by the representative of the French government in appreciation of his work for peace and his gift of the palace at The Hague. The congress also adopted resolutions recommending, among other things, that The Hague conference shall hereafter be a permanent institution; that The Hague court shall be open to all the nations of the world; and that the coming conference shall draft a general treaty of arbitration providing for the reference to The Hague court of such international differences as can not be adjusted by diplomacy.
— For some weeks the management of the great railroad systems of the country has been prominently before the public. In the investigations made by the Interstate Commerce Commission, E. H. Harriman was called to testify, and his manner of acquiring control of so many Western roads is severely criticized. Many of the State legislatures are enacting railroad laws, and already in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Wisconsin they have laws requiring low passenger fares, generally two cents a mile. Similar laws are pending in Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Such general legislation is thought to have been largely responsible for the sudden drop in stocks in Wall Street Market recently. At all events, J. P. Morgan had an interview with the President, and arranged for conferences between President Roosevelt and prominent railroad presidents. The money market has become more firm; and the railroads in numerous instances are adding to freight rates to compensate for the forced reduction of passenger fares. Different leaders predict that the final settlement of the difficulties involved will be some form of federal control of the railroads of the country.
California-Nevada, Merced, Cal.
..............................May 23 to June 2
California-Nevada, St. Helena,
Cal. ........................June 20-30
Montana ......................June 20-30
Upper Columbia, Walla Walla,
Wash. .........................May 30 to June 10
Western Washington, Kent, Wash., May 16-26
MEETINGS IN EUROPE
Gen. Conf. Com. with Scand. Com.,
and Danish Conf., Aalborg ....April 24-30
Gen. Conf. Com. with German Union
Committee .....................May 3-7
Gen. Conf. Com. with Latin Union,
Gland ........................May 10-25
Norway ........................June 5-9
Finland .......................June 14-18
Sweden, Södertälje, near Stockholm ....June 19-24
German-Swiss ..................July 3-7
French-Swiss ..................July 10-14
German Union, Friedensau ......July 18-28
British Union .................August 2-11
Holland .......................August 15-18
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made, of either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.
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THOSE who want farms near a church and church-school, should write to J. C. Wells, R. F. D. 5, Hesperia, Mich.
WANTED.—Seventh-day Adventist tinner, one who understands plumbing and furnace work and can do roofing and spouting. Address Rapid Steam Cooker Co., Laura, Ohio.
FOR RENT.—Eighty acres good land near Petoskey, Mich. Can be rented for 2, 3, or 5 years to a good Seventh-day Adventist. Address Deuel & Backus, Harbor Springs, Mich.
WANTED.—A vegetarian cook and helper for restaurant work. No Sabbath work. Kindly state age, experience, and wages expected. Address Elder C. A. Pedicord, 121 Shillito Place, Cincinnati, Ohio.
WANTED.—A first-class cook at once—lady or gentleman. No Sabbath work. Good chance for man and wife. Steady employment to the right person. Address Vegetarian Café, 814 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo.23
WANTED.—To sell or exchange for desirable farming lands close to city or for a paying mercantile business, our 8-room house, good basement, on College St., Graysville, Tenn. Address J. L. Maroon, Graysville, Tenn.
WANTED.—At the Riverside Sanitarium, a cook and a thoroughly competent female nurse experienced in bedside nursing, both surgical and otherwise. Good wages to the right persons. Address Riverside Sanitarium, Montrose, Colo.
WANTED.—To share my pleasant home with one of our canvassers who has had experience in painting. Good chance for the right person. References given and required. Address William H. Smith, Box 50, Fishkill on the Hudson, N. Y.
WANTED.—A good, strong Seventh-day Adventist girl to do general housework, one who is fond of children. A good home with church privileges for the right person. Wages, $20 a month. Address Mrs. Charles Koelsche, Box 682, Snohomish, Wash.
WANTED.—Sabbath-keeping carpenters; not necessarily first-class. Those willing to hustle. State wages expected. Steady work for a few of the right kind. Room for painter and iron worker also. Address Karr Portable House Co., 603 Belleplaine Ave., Chicago, Ill.
WANTED.—Two graduate nurses (man and wife) to take charge of a new sanitarium and treatment rooms in Ohio; must be competent Christian young people. State experience, give reference. Fine opportunity for right persons. Address R. T. Ragsdale, Newark, Ohio.
WANTED.—Seventh-day Adventist journeyman brush block bore-hand. Must be able to make his own patterns. We make floor brooms, window washers, counter brushes, glass brushes, and the like. Good wages for skilled man. Address Three “B” Duster Co., Buchanan, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Cooking oil. Freight prepaid. Straight $4 for 5-gal. can to Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas; $4.50 a can to Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Other States, please write for prices. Address R. H. Brock, Arkansas City, Kan.
WANTED.—Seventh-day Adventist journeyman brush-maker who can mix hair and understands making twisted-wire bottle brushes, also drawn and pitch-set floor brooms, window washers, counter brushes, molders' brushes, street brooms, etc. Good wages for skilled man. Address Three “B” Duster Co., Buchanan, Mich.
WANTED.—Agents for radiodescent therapeutic lamp. Greatest invention of the age for relieving pain and curing disease. Combines X-ray, electricity, and hydrotherapy. Special discount to Seventh-day Adventists. All should have one, especially nurses. Address Michigan Sanitarium of Kalamazoo, Mich., Dept. 12.
FOR SALE.—Treatment rooms in one of the best locations in southern California. Growing patronage. Low expenses. Electric light and steam cabinets, etc. Best of reason for selling. Snap price to sell quick. Excellent opening for Adventist physician. Church and church-school. Address Treatment Rooms, 307 W. Holt Ave., Pomona, Cal.
FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful vegetable oil for cooking and salads; no odor, keeps indefinitely: gal. can, $1; 5-gal. can, $4.50. Also pure virgin olive-oil: gal., $2.75; half gal., $1.40; quart, 85 cents. Lunch Nutrena, a hygienic fat and blood producer: 1-lb. box, 35 cents; send for samples. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.
A Missionary Opportunity
By R. W. Parmelee
JACKSONVILLE has been rightly termed the “gateway to Florida,” situated as it is in the northern part of the State. Almost all the railroads entering the State pass through the city, and it is the end of their divisions, or of the line, so that the passengers bound for Florida must spend a few minutes or a few hours in Jacksonville. The St. Johns River runs through Jacksonville to the Atlantic coast, and furnishes a highway for many ocean steamers to the city; so that, whether coming by boat or by rail, passengers bound for a sojourn in Florida visit Jacksonville first upon entering the State. Thus thousands of people from all parts pass through Jacksonville in the fall, to spend the winter in Florida, and returning, stop there in the spring.
Our little church there has recently organized a missionary society, and intends to place our literature in the hands of these tourists as far as possible. One sister conducts a rooming house, in which she is able to distribute a large amount of literature to excellent advantage. They would appreciate any of our literature that can be provided them, sent post-paid, and can use a large amount of it. Address the same to Mrs. W. W. Gatlin, Corner Market and Ninth St., Jacksonville, Fla. R. W. PARMELEE.
Year-Book Revisions
By H. E. Rogers
SINCE the publication of the Year-Book the following changes have been made in the officers of various conferences, or their addresses. Those wishing to note the latest changes should revise accordingly:
Secretary and Treasurer of the Maine Sabbath-school Department, Mrs. W. O. Howe, 357 Allen Ave., North Deering, Maine.
Acting President of the New Jersey Conference, Elder E. W. Farnsworth, vice J. E. Jayne.
E. E. Franke, of New Jersey Conference, resigned.
C. S. Longacre, transferred from Pittsburg to R. F. D. 7, Buffalo Road, Erie, Pa.
O. O. Bernstein transferred to 5334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Secretary Sabbath-school and Young People's Department of the Ontario Conference, Mrs. Katie Hancock, Lorne Park, Ontario.
E. W. Webster transferred to R. F. D. 2, Box 80, Dayton, Tenn.
Acting Director of the South Carolina Mission, R. T. Nash, Campobello, S. C.
Secretary and Treasurer of the Tennessee River Conference, T. E. Pavey, transferred to Hazel, Ky.
F. J. Harris transferred to Lock Box 5, Holcomb, Ill.
Educational Secretary Ohio Conference, Miss Bessie E. Russell, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Field Missionary Agent Ohio Conference, E. R. Numbers, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, vice C. E. Weeks.
Member Ohio Conference Executive Committee, A. C. Shannon, vice Thomas Thornton.
Secretary and Treasurer Southern Illinois Tract Society, Gilbert J. Iles, vice S. J. Quantock.
Educational Secretary West Michigan Conference, Miss Frances L. Case, vice Clifford Russell.
J. H. Kraft transferred to Nebraska Conference, with address at College View.
Missionary Secretary Nebraska Conference, M. E. Ellis, College View.
Church-school Secretary Nebraska Conference, Miss Alma J. Graf, College View.
General Missionary Agent Southwestern Union Conference, W. W. Eastman, Keene, Tex.
General Missionary Agent North Pacific Union Conference, C. E. Weeks.
Secretary British Columbia Conference, Miss Bertha Lofstad, Hammond, British Columbia.
W. H. Holden, Secretary Montana Conference, transferred to 703 Dakota St., Butte, Mont.
The name of F. D. Starr should be added as a member of the Executive Committee of the Upper Columbia Conference.
H. W. Oliver, Twin Falls, Idaho, should be added to the list of ministers of the Upper Columbia Conference.
T. H. Watson, of the Western Washington Conference, transferred to the British Columbia Conference.
Secretary and Treasurer South African Union Conference, J. V. Willson, with headquarters of that conference transferred to 7 Cheapside, Kimberley, South Africa.
The address of W. S. Hyatt, President of South African Union Conference, transferred to 24 Zeeland St., Cape Town, South Africa.
Secretary of the Sabbath-school and Young People's Department South African Union Conference, Miss Mary Robertson, Stranach St., Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.
To the office address of the South American Union Conference and of the Argentine Conference add, "care Argentine Conference."
Cable address West Indian Union Conference: Adventist, Kingston, Jamaica.
Sabbath-school Secretary India Mission, Mrs. J. L. Shaw, 39-1 Free School St., Calcutta, India.
Medical Secretary India Mission and Superintendent of Calcutta Sanitarium, Dr. H. C. Menkel, 50 Park St., Calcutta, India.
Treasurer of the India Mission, W. W. Miller, 39-1 Free School St., Calcutta, India.
Members of Board of Trustees of Washington Training College, K. C. Russell and W. A. Ruble, vice A. P. Needham and W. T. Bland.
Manager of the New York Branch of the Review and Herald, L. W. Graham.
H. E. ROGERS,
Statistical Secretary.
Wabash Valley Sanitarium Nurses’ Class
Notice!
THE Wabash Valley Sanitarium, located at LaFayette, Ind., wishes to announce that there is room for four more, two ladies and two gentlemen, in their new nurses' class started April 1. Any one interested in this line of work or knowing of any one interested will confer a favor on the management by writing us at once. The institution is located on a twenty-five-acre tract of land three miles north of LaFayette, on the banks of the Wabash River. The sanitarium is owned and controlled by the Indiana Conference, and is in good running order. Kindly address all correspondence to Wm. W. Worster, M. D., Superintendent, Wabash Valley Sanitarium, LaFayette, Ind.
Loma Linda College of Evangelists
LOMA LINDA COLLEGE is organized for the training of missionary nurses and physicians, and offers a very thorough course of study in both these lines of work. We should be pleased to forward circulars to all who are interested in these particular lines of study. Address all communications to College of Evangelists, Loma Linda, Cal.
Minnesota. Notice!
By H. S. Shaw
THE forty-sixth annual session of the Minnesota Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists will assemble in connection with the camp-meeting at St. Cloud, Minn., May 30 to June 9, 1907. The purpose of the conference will be to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may be brought before the delegates, pertaining to the carrying of the message to the world.
The constitution provides that each church is entitled to one delegate regardless of numbers, and one additional delegate for each fifteen of its membership. The elder of each church is a delegate to the conference by virtue of his office, and the church should elect its full number of delegates besides the elder. All our churches in Minnesota are hereby requested to send the names of their delegates as soon as possible to the conference secretary, Wm. Asp, Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn. H. S. SHAW.
Obituaries
MEHRING.—Died at Columbia, Okla., Pearl Mehring, aged 4 years, and Byed Mehring, aged 2 years, little son and daughter of Brother and Sister William Mehring. Their death was caused by prairie fire. They were buried in one grave. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer; text, 2 Kings 4:26.
T. J. HICKMAN.
CHAPMAN.—Died at Madison, Wis., June 30, 1906, Mrs. C. E. Chapman. The deceased was born Nov. 8, 1833, and spent the active portion of her life near Cambria, Wis., where she accepted present truth more than forty years ago. Since her acceptance of the third angel's message she has ever been a faithful servant of the lowly Jesus, whose name she held dear to her dying hour.
W. T. LINDSAY, M. D.
REA.—Died at his residence, ten and one-half miles northeast of Baker City, Ore., Feb. 22, 1907, of hemorrhage of the brain, John Thomas Rea, aged 63 years and 6 months. Brother Rea has been an Adventist for years, and died in the hope of having a part in the first resurrection. He leaves a wife and several children. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Eccl. 12:7.
E. E. SMITH.
FICKES.—Died at his home in Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 20, 1907, of heart trouble, followed by a complication of diseases, Charles R. Fickes, aged 36 years. Brother Fickes died with a well-grounded hope in the soon coming of his Saviour. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and a loving father. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, assisted by Elder G. W. Spies.
W. H. SMITH.
STONE.—Died at her home in Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 3, 1907, Mrs. Esther L. Stone, aged 69 years. Sister Stone was converted and united with the Friends Church about twenty years ago. A few years later she became an enthusiastic believer in the Adventist faith, to which she was loyal until her death. Funeral service was conducted by the writer in the Methodist church at Portland; text, Rev. 14:13.
W. J. STONE.
MORRIS.—Died at his home in Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 10, 1907, Wm. H. Morris, aged 76 years and 20 days. Brother Morris was converted at the age of eighteen, and united with the Methodist Church. About the year 1889 he accepted the third angel's message through Bible readings. He showed great Christian fortitude through a long illness, and rests in the hope of soon meeting his Saviour. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer.
J. W. ADAMS.
HAMILTON.—Died at the home of her mother on the Auten homestead three and one-half miles southwest of Knoxville, Iowa, Feb. 10, 1907, Estella Hamilton, aged 44 years, 1 month, and 27 days. When but a child, Stella received an injury from which she never recovered. Her suffering was intense during her last illness, which lasted two weeks. She fell asleep looking forward to the coming of the Blessed One. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Job 14:14, 15.
T. GODFREY.
SIZEMORE.—Died in Baker City, Feb. 21, 1907, of old age, Eli Sizemore, aged about 82 years. Brother Sizemore had been a sufferer for years, and for the last few years was almost helpless from injuries received by a fall. He bore his afflictions patiently, and went to sleep fully expecting to see Jesus soon. He leaves an aged wife and several sons and daughters. The funeral service was conducted by the writer.
E. E. SMITH.
KIME.—Died at the sanitarium in College Place, Wash., Feb. 14, 1907, of tumor, Ellen King Kime, aged 51 years. Two months before her death Sister Kime made a thorough consecration to God. Her husband, who is now laboring in the ministry in the Montana Conference, and eight children mourn their loss. Assisted by Prof. M. E. Cady and Elder Hill, we laid her to rest in the College Place Cemetery, there to await the Master's call.
G. E. LANGDON.
SMITH.—Died at Woodland, Cal., Feb. 14, 1907, William Wesley Smith, aged 78 years, 7 months, and 7 days. Brother Smith was among the first to accept the present truth in California, and was a charter member of the Woodland church when it was organized thirty-five years ago. Death came unheralded, but we believe Brother Smith was prepared. He leaves a companion, two grown daughters, and a son to mourn. The writer conducted the funeral service.
W. M. HEALEY.
WEINCHKE.—Died at her home in Cold Spring, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1907, of consumption, Catherine Weinchke, wife of Joachim Weinchke. She was born in Keksen, Germany, and came to this country in 1872. Four years later they were converted to the truth by reading the German tract “Elihu on the Sabbath.” She loved the Sabbath meetings, always taking part in them and in family worship as long as she was able to speak aloud. She leaves a husband, one son, and one daughter. Remarks were made at the funeral by W. L. Brisbin, from Rom. 6:23.
BRYANT.—Died at her home in Newport Center, Vt., Feb. 12, 1907, of paralysis, Mrs. Clara Bryant, aged 80 years. At an early age she joined the Baptist Church. In 1844, she attended meetings at West Derby, Vt., where she heard and accepted the first angel's message, and later the third angel's message. It was a great grief to her that none of her family stood with her in the truth. She longed for a return of the spirit of the 1844 meetings to come into our churches. She was a friend to the poor and needy. At his appearing, she will joyfully hail the Saviour, for whose coming she longed.
ELIZA H. BRAMHALL.
SWINENGER.—Accidently killed by a railroad train, July 20, 1906, in Loveland, Colo., Benjamin Franklin Swinenger, in the twenty-first year of his age. He had not openly confessed Christ, but was trying to do right and was a believer in Christ's second coming. He was kind, loving, and devoted especially to his invalid mother, who, with his two sisters, mourns her loss, but not as those who have no hope. The funeral service was conducted by the writer in the First Presbyterian church of Loveland, assisted by Brother Cush Sparks and the pastor of that church. The discourse was based on James 4:14, 15.
L. A. SPRING.
DANIELLS.—Died at Norwalk, Cal., Feb. 7, 1907, of cancer of the bowels, Josephine Daniells, aged 50 years and 7 months. She was converted at the age of twelve years, and joined the Christian Church. In 1886, under the labors of Elder E. A. Briggs, she accepted the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists. Her peace was made with God. She suffered much, but without a murmur. She leaves a husband, three sons, and two daughters, also a mother, stepfather, three brothers, and three sisters. The funeral service was conducted by Elder J. W. Adams, assisted by the writer, the text, one of her own choice, being Ps. 17:15.
C. F. MARVIN.
Addresses
The address of Elder W. Woodford is Albion, Ill.
The address of Elder J. O. Miller is 82 Metcalf St., St. Johns, New Brunswick.
Publications Wanted
[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—Ed.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
J. T. Whited, Busch, Okla., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, Liberty, and tracts.
Mrs. J. A. Brown, Fullerton, Neb., Signs, Instructor, Watchman, Life and Health, and tracts.
The Proposed Campaign for the “Signs of the Times”
By Arthur G. Daniells
I HAVE read with great interest the plans set on foot for a large circulation of the Signs of the Times during the coming summer. These plans appeal to me as being timely, practical, and effective. Those who have inaugurated the plans announce the following:—
Beginning May 1, we will issue a series of twenty-six special numbers in which the truth will be taken up in about the same general order as is followed by our ministers in tent-meetings. These subjects will be well illustrated, supplemented by Bible readings, and presented in such a thorough, systematic, progressive way that they can not fail to interest and convince the honest in heart, and bring them to a saving knowledge of the truth. We are asking our people everywhere—every one of them, from the Atlantic to the Pacific—to subscribe for two, five, ten, fifty, or one hundred copies each, of this series, and in a systematic way, sell, give away, loan, or mail these papers to their friends and neighbors. Thus we hope to introduce a national movement which will mean the placing of at least one hundred thousand copies of the Signs of the Times each week in the homes of the people.
They then point out how some can devote the whole, or at least a large part, of their time to the sale of the paper; how our busy brethren and sisters can sell or give away, at least a few each week; how those tied at home can send copies to their friends in home and foreign fields; and how even invalids and aged people can join in this great campaign.
These plans must surely appeal to every lover of this cause who reads them. Why should not conference presidents and church elders take hold of this campaign with great earnestness?
In the early days of camp-meeting work in Australia our brethren and sisters used to sell from ten to thirty thousand copies of the Bible Echo in connection with the meeting. The whole camp would be organized for service, and the city would be divided and assigned to companies. A few hours each day were set apart for missionary service, when nearly the whole camp would go out with the paper. If this plan were carried out in all our State camp-meetings this summer, a great work would be done, and great blessings would come to both the workers and those for whom the work would be done.
Our time and message call for great zeal in the distribution of our literature. Its pages are to fall like the leaves of autumn, and the Signs campaign is one of the agencies for this wide distribution.
A. G. DANIELLS.
Elder W. A. Spicer Sails for Gland Council
ELDER W. A. SPICER sailed last week to join the General Conference Committee at the Gland council.
Arizona and District of Columbia Raise Apportionment
ARIZONA and the District of Columbia are both singing the jubilee song, both having raised their apportionment of the $150,000 fund. What conference will be next to join in the victorious anthem?
Earthquake Special Stirs Porto Rico
ELDER B. E. CONNERLY, of Porto Rico, writes that their earthquake special of El Centinela has stirred the people of that island wonderfully, and hundreds are asking the meaning of it all, and what they ought to do. Their edition of five thousand was quickly exhausted.
Offering for Foreign Missions
“A SISTER” in California writes to the General Conference Treasurer: “With joy I send this free-will offering of seventy dollars for foreign missions, hoping it may serve to bring the gospel light to some soul in the darkness of sin. My only wish is that I could do more for the Master who did so much for me.”
