Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 35. (9/5/1907)

Review and Herald

Sep 5, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 5, 1907

The Ideal Life

By Mary Lowe Dickinson

We should fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day; We should drink alone at the purest springs In our upward way; We should love with a lifetime’s love in an hour, If our hours were few; We should rest, not for dreams, but for fresher power To be and to do.

We should bind our weary and wanton wills To the clearest light; We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills (And they lie in sight); We should trample the pride and the discontent Beneath our feet; We should take whatever our Master sent With a trust complete.

We should waste no moments in weak regret If the day were but one; If what we remember and what we forget Went out with the sun, We should be from our clamorous selves set free To work or to pray, And to be what our Father would have us be, If we had but a day.

—Mary Lowe Dickinson.

Books that Help

In the Home

To Make Home “the Best Place on Earth”

¶ Men and women of the world to-day are realizing that with the destruction of the home comes the destruction of the nation. Articles are appearing day by day in the leading journals, calling the attention of the masses to the responsibility which they have in preserving the home life. Surely we should not be behind in this matter. For helpful suggestions, you will find the little book, “Making Home Happy,” invaluable. It tells how one home that was not “the dearest place on earth” was made a haven of rest and happiness. No one should be without this book, for the price is within the reach of all,—25 cents for paper, and 50 cents for the cloth binding.

¶ Our home here is but a preface to the home above, and the little book, “Our Paradise Home,” gives the beauties of our home above, and adds a daily incentive. The price is also 25 and 50 cents.

To Keep the Children in Evenings

¶ Nothing interests a child so much as the common things around us. God’s works of creation are limitless; and the deeper we look into them, the more we find. In “Uncle Ben’s Cobblestones” many of the commonplace things of life are made to appear in their best light. New things of interest are found in such common articles as salt, paper, coal, bread, air, water, pins, and needles. The book will furnish many hours of amusement for the little ones. Price, $1.

¶ No one hears the cheering song of the birds but wishes to become better acquainted with our feathered friends. L. A. Reed, in a book called “My Garden Neighbors,” gives a new insight into the habits of these little messengers of happiness, and makes us feel really akin to them. The price of this book is $1.

To Interest the Young in the Bible

¶ Every child longs to travel, and see the sights in the great world beyond. Not all are permitted to do this, but any one, for the small amount of $1, may take a trip with Miss Leona M. Bicknell to Africa, seeing with her eyes strange sights in this far-away land. Ostrich farms, diamond mines, and strange wild animals are described by this little girl as she saw them herself. This is not a book for grown people, but one which the children will enjoy.

¶ Every child loves a story, and while the mind is young, impressions sink deep. How necessary, then, that the first impressions should be the best! “Best Stories from the Best Book” is truly what its name signifies,—a collection of stories from the Bible, which will ever retain the children’s interest. This book is also moderately priced, in three styles of binding—paper, board, and cloth—at 25, 50, and 75 cents respectively.

To Lighten Mothers’ Work

¶ A true knowledge of one’s self is the best defense against the inroads of Satan among our young people. Mothers often find it difficult to talk to their children about personal things. They will find great advantage in the little books, “Almost a Man” and “Almost a Woman,” while “Teaching Truth” will give many added thoughts to the mother on the value of early imparting this knowledge which is so necessary. The price of these books in the cloth binding is 50 cents.

¶ When tired with the day’s work, and at your wits’ end to know what to prepare for the next meal, “A Friend in the Kitchen” comes truly as a “friend in need.” You should not be without the aid of this valuable little book, for the small price of 25 and 50 cents.

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Editorial Letter

By William W. Prescott

Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book

It seemed very pleasant and much like coming home to be in London again after an absence of six years. The greeting from friends old and new was extremely cordial, and there was a satisfaction in being among a people whose language I could understand, after hearing strange tongues so many months. Now I could speak directly to the people without the intervention of an interpreter, and those who have had the experience know how much this means in dealing with gospel truth, especially along new lines.

As soon as possible after our arrival we visited Watford, the place selected as the new headquarters for the work in Great Britain. Here we found a fine old estate of over fifty acres situated on elevated ground overlooking a wide stretch of country, and with most attractive local surroundings. In company with Brother W. C. Sisley, under whose general superintendence the new buildings are being constructed, we made a thorough inspection of the whole place. The printing plant to be occupied by the International Tract Society Ltd., now at 451 Holloway Road, London N., is a plain but substantial structure well adapted to the purpose for which it is intended. The workrooms are all on the ground floor, directly connected with the offices and editorial rooms which occupy two floors. Electricity for power and light is generated on the premises by a gas-producer plant very similar to the one in use at the Review and Herald Office at Washington. All the buildings will be lighted from the same station.

The food business now carried on at Birmingham will be removed to Watford as soon as the factory building is ready for occupancy, which will be almost immediately. This new building is well adapted to its intended use, and will be a wonderful improvement upon the present quarters. No money has been expended for the ornamentation of either of these buildings, but they are modest and neat in appearance, well lighted and comfortable, and will meet satisfactorily the needs of the work. Being located in the country, entirely apart from any other buildings, it was possible to follow plans which might not be so well adapted to some other locations.

The large and well-built mansion on the estate will serve as a place for the training college, which will open its first term in the new quarters this fall. As soon as the funds can be raised, a suitable building will be erected upon a site already selected on a beautiful part of the estate, and thus the college, which has already done such efficient work, will be provided with a permanent home.

The brethren in Great Britain are certainly to be congratulated upon securing such a pleasant and desirable location for their headquarters. It is a long step in advance.

After three or four busy days in London, we went to Nottingham, where the annual meeting of the British Union Conference was held. We found the meeting and dining tents pitched in an open field directly adjoining a densely populated portion of the city and near the Victoria Embankment on the River Trent, a favorite promenade where throngs of people are found evenings and Sundays. Rooms were secured in the neighboring homes for those attending the meetings, a plan which has a double advantage of providing warm and dry quarters for the visitors, and of making it easy and natural to give personal invitations to the people to attend the meetings. The meeting opened with the large tent well filled with representatives from the different conferences and mission fields in the union, and the total number in attendance was, I was told, larger than at any previous gathering of this kind. The interest among the people in that part of Nottingham was excellent from the beginning, and many were in attendance every evening.

It was the design of those in charge of this meeting that the special message committed to this people should be made prominent in the sermons preached, and the program was arranged with that purpose in view. On the first Sunday evening I spoke to a very large and attentive audience on “The Second Coming of Christ,” and Elder Andross in the second service immediately following presented “The Signs of the Times.” During the week such topics as “Waymarks to the Kingdom,” “The Four Great Empires of Prophecy,” “Our Paradise Home,” “The Millennium,” and “The Eastern Question,” were considered, and on Friday evening I spoke again on “The Heavenly Sanctuary,” laying special stress upon the priesthood of Christ in the sanctuary above as the climax of the work of the gospel, and incidentally touching upon the Sabbath and the law of the new covenant. At the close of this talk a man remained behind for counsel with reference to closing his place of business in the city the next day, and as the result he decided to observe the Lord’s Sabbath, and joined us in our services the following day. The closing Sabbath was a specially profitable one, a goodly number responding to the invitation to give themselves to the service of God, and all being strengthened in their experience. In the afternoon four brethren who had given proof of their fitness for the calling were set apart to the work of the gospel ministry.

The theme of the four preaching services on the last Sunday of the meeting was the Sabbath question, and I led out in the forenoon by dwelling upon “God’s Standard of Righteousness.” Others presented the following topics: “Creation’s Memorial,” “Is Sunday the Sabbath?” and “Who Changed the Sabbath?” Much interest was created by the consideration of this subject, and many seemed desirous of studying it further. Brethren Harry Armstrong and J. J. Gilliatt continued the services each evening after the close of the regular meeting, and I learned that the attendance was good, and the outlook was favorable for a goodly number of additions to the company of believers at Nottingham.

Personally it was a privilege to me to attend this meeting, and to greet again so many with whom I became acquainted

during my four years’ sojourn in the British field in 1897-1901. The large number of believers whom I had not seen before testified to the growth of the work during the last six years.

In the business sessions of the conference the varied interests of the field were considered, and such actions taken as would tend to the advancement of the work, but a full report of this part of the meeting will be prepared by some one else, and so I need not speak of it here.

After my return to London I responded to an invitation to visit our sanitarium at Caterham, and to speak to the patients and helpers concerning the peoples of the far East and missionary work among them. This was the first time I had been at Caterham, and I was much pleased both with the sanitarium and its facilities and with the work being done. The institution was well filled with patients, and a nice audience gathered in the evening to listen to my address. A clergyman who was a patient in the house presided and conducted the devotional exercises, and there seemed to be much interest in the subject presented. In the morning before our return to London, Dr. A. B. Olsen, the medical superintendent, showed us over the institution and its grounds, and told us of their experiences in the work. We carry with us very pleasant recollections of this visit to Caterham.

The last Sabbath of our stay in London I spoke in the morning to the North London church, and in the afternoon to the Kensington church. In both places I met some whom I had known in former days, but who were not able to attend the meeting at Nottingham. This was a privilege which I appreciated.

This last letter of my series in which I have given some account of my missionary trip around the world is written en route from London to New York, and we are now drawing near to the American coast. My long journey is nearly at an end. I have visited Japan, Korea, China, the Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and England. To find this message established in these countries, and with a large constituency in several of them, is a testimony to the rapid advancement of this advent movement, and is, in itself, a sign of the times. I return with an enlarged sense of the world-wide nature of this movement, a more intelligent view of our work in “the regions beyond,” and a greatly stimulated desire to arouse all the believers in the home land to accept the responsibility laid upon them to provide workers and means for quickly finishing this work in all lands.

There can be no mistake about it. The prophecies have been fulfilled or are being fulfilled. The closing scenes are just upon us. The mystery of God will soon be finished. The most important thing in the world now is to realize these things and to give ourselves unreservedly to the spread of this last message. The fields are white already to the harvest. O that an intelligent missionary zeal might be kindled in the heart of every professed Seventh-day Adventist which would manifest itself in a united concert of prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all our workers and in an inflow of means into the treasury so that there might be no lack of what is required to send forward the volunteers to the distant fields. During the past few months the situation in many waiting fields has been set before our people through the columns of the REVIEW. If the facts presented by eye-witnesses do not arouse our people, what can be done? My soul is greatly stirred, and I would that I had a trumpet voice with which I could say to every believer, “Awake! Lift up your eyes and look on the fields! Let your heart be moved by the appeals for funds for the mission work! Think of the lone workers on the frontier calling for re-enforcements! Think of those who are willingly giving their lives that this message may be planted in the dark parts of the earth! How can you go on adding house to house and farm to farm when the cause of God is languishing for means? How can you who have tens of thousands listen unmoved to the piteous appeals which come from nigh and from far off? May God help you!”

In closing it seems fitting to call attention to the fact that those who have visited the different parts of the world at the request of the General Conference Committee have all been preserved amid many dangers, and have all returned to their work again in safety. For this we should acknowledge the goodness of God. To him be the glory forever.

W. W. P.

National Reform Convention

By C. M. S.

FROM the beginning to the end of the Christian Citizenship Institute at Winona Lake, Ind., a series of studies was conducted by R. C. Wylie, D. D., on the basic theme of The Kingdom, divided into the following subtopics: The Kingdom in Old Testament History, The Kingdom in Old Testament Prophecy, The Kingdom in the Gospels, The Kingdom in the Epistles, and The Kingdom in the Apocalypse.

The doctor ignored the idea of the future setting up of the kingdom of God in the earth, and made no reference whatever to the great work of God in cleansing the earth from the defilements of sin and sinners through the fires of the last day. On the other hand; he sought to inculcate the idea that Christ has already received his kingdom, and is now the real ruler of this world in every line of its multifarious activities; and that because of this fact it was the duty of all Christians to bring the legislation of the various countries into harmony with the divine will. This nation is, of course, out of harmony with the divine will as long as the name of God is put in its Constitution, and “Christian laws, rules, and usages” are not placed “on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land.” As long as that condition exists, the idea was advanced that this nation was a rebellious nation, unwilling to recognize the sovereignty of its rightful ruler.

Dr. Wylie went so far as to declare that Dan. 7:13, 14, was fulfilled when Christ ascended on high, utterly ignoring all that must be fulfilled, as brought out in that same chapter, before that wonderful scene could be enacted at the Father’s throne. Never was text of Scripture more thoughtlessly used than was this wonderful text at that time to prove Christ the present ruler of “all the peoples, nations, and languages.”

Dr. Wylie declared that “Christ is this world’s king,” and he called upon the nation to recognize its allegiance to him. It reminded the writer of the clamorings of Christ’s disciples and of the people that he should be their king. They would indeed have taken him and made him king; but he declared,—and still does declare,—“My kingdom is not of this world.” In direct opposition to this declaration of our risen Lord, the National Reformers place their declaration that “Christ is this world’s king.” No plainer contradiction of the words of our Saviour have we ever seen than this by those who profess to do him honor. We prefer to believe our Lord’s words, and to believe that he understood the nature of his kingdom and the time of its establishment better than do those who are seeking to make him king over a realm still reeking with sin and flooded with sorrow. Nay, verily, the day of the “perdition of ungodly men” (2 Peter 3:7) must first come; the fires that are to cleanse the world of sin (verses 10-13) and to burn up sin, root and branch (Mal. 4:1), must first come; the reception of the righteous subjects into the mansions prepared for them (1 Thess. 4:16, 17) must precede the setting up of the kingdom of our Lord upon this earth once defiled by sin. A thorough study of the theme of the second coming of Christ will prove a defense against such a misconception of the nature and establishment of the kingdom of Christ.

Viewing the matter from the standpoint taken by the National Reformers, that Christ is now this world’s king, and that the only way our King’s will can be

accomplished is through the enactment and enforcement of “moral legislation,” we see at once arising the necessity for that strong right arm of a legal church, the Inquisition. For to make men moral by law, as the National Reformers are proposing to do, we must have some apparatus that can go down into the souls of men and draw up to the light the hidden thoughts, the secret motives, the feelings and purposes of men. The courts of to-day can not be sure of testimony that is sworn to on the Bible. No such loophole can be permitted where religion and morals are to be enforced by law.

Dr. Smiley in one of his lectures at this institute had much to say of the great crime of treason against government, and the justice of the death penalty for that crime. Dr. Wylie used an illustration on the same day which seemed to fit in very aptly with Dr. Smiley’s observations upon treason. Dr. Wylie’s illustration was this: Somewhere in Colorado there was a very steep railway up a mountainside. At certain places there were derailing switches where “wild” trains might be derailed against the mountainside or hurled down the mountain to prevent their wrecking some other train. This was done on the theory that it was better to wreck one train than two. It will be remembered that a similar argument was used to justify the execution of our Lord.

From Dr. Smiley’s observations on treason and Dr. Wylie’s forceful and peculiar illustration, the writer could draw no other conclusion than that when their program for this nation had been carried out, there would again be occasion for men to witness with their lives for the truths they hold. The writer therefore asked Dr. Wylie what in his mind would constitute treason against this government when they had succeeded in getting God in the Constitution, and all the “Christian laws, rules, and usages of the nation on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land.” The doctor was unwilling to commit himself, and could not be induced to make any statement whatever in reference to the matter. Nothing that the writer could suggest seemed to constitute treason against such a government. A crime that had occupied a large portion of an eloquent sermon had evanesced into an intangible something that could not be defined, located, or handled.

Nevertheless, knowing from the Word of God the kind of power that is to arise—is even now arising—in this country, and the work that it is to do in compelling the consciences of men, we do not need a statement from the National Reform Association in order to know what will be denominated treason under that form of government. Neither do we need such a statement in order to know that that power will pronounce the death penalty upon those who stand for God and his truth against the federated powers of darkness. The issue is clear, and everything points to an exact fulfilment of Rev. 13:11-18. A definite campaign has been entered upon by the National Reform Association to educate the people to a point where they will demand the legislation that will bring that thing to pass. C. M. S.

Yearly Collection for the Work Among the Colored People

By George I. Butler

This annual collection, appointed by the General Conference to help the work for the colored people in the United States, occurs this year on Sabbath, October 5. By the time this notice can reach our people through the papers, it will be about one month ahead. Surely it is time that the attention of our people was drawn to it.

We are well aware that the present prospects of a large collection are not very brilliant. While the large fund of $150,000 occupies the attention of the people so absorbingly, it is difficult to draw attention to other worthy enterprises. What then shall be done? Shall we let this fund devoted by the decision of the General Conference to this exceedingly needy work pass by unnoticed?—God forbid. The $150,000 fund is not devoted to the aid of the work for the colored people to any great degree. To be sure, there are two institutions assisted by it which are closely related to that work. We refer to the Huntsville school and the work in Jamaica. But the far larger portion has no relation to this needy work.

This October collection is intended to be wholly devoted to the building up of this great branch of the cause, so much in need of help. This collection is not sectional in the sense that the word is usually understood. While the Southern Union Conference receives more than any other conference, it is because the larger number of colored people are in that section.

The amount raised last year in this collection was very small compared with the amount that was raised the year before. To the best of the writer's knowledge, it was about one fourth of the amount that was raised the preceding year. The work of the Southern Missionary Society has been greatly crippled the past year as the result of the smallness of the collection last October.

There are very few comparatively who realize the beneficent work which has been and is being done by the Southern Missionary Society. This society is now an honored department of the Southern Union Conference, just the same as the Educational, Sabbath-school, and Medical Departments. It comes under the control of the Southern Union Conference and its committee, and its general interests are and will be considered by the Southern Union Conference, and by the conference committee when in session. While its daily and monthly workings are superintended by a committee or board, of which the president of the Southern Union Conference is the chairman, yet this missionary society is simply an integral part and department of the Southern Union Conference.

The society is especially interested in schools connected with the churches composed of colored members. Some of these schools were established preceding the bringing into existence of the church. It is a fact of deepest interest in connection with the rise of the Southern Missionary Society that it has been an agency which has done much to educate poor colored people, young and old, wherever its benign influence has been extended. When the “Morning Star” began its work on the Mississippi River, meetings of the colored people were held upon it, and night and day schools were conducted in its cabin. Aged persons who did not know their letters were taught to read their Bibles. This was noble missionary work. Ever since that time schools have been kept up and furnished with teachers by the aid of the Missionary Society. Many of the schools could not have existed but for the help of this society. And what is most remarkable and blessed about it is that in almost every instance where a school has thus been inaugurated, a church of believers has been the result. My brethren and sisters, lovers of the cause in this Southern field, this plan of work is the very best that can be instituted for the promulgation of this truth among that people. Our work has given them a Christian education in place of the ignorance and darkness, indolence and lack of ambition, often prevailing.

Another most important feature of the work of the Southern Missionary Society is the help that it extends to the weak, struggling companies which have here and there embraced the truth. Their helplessness is sad and most heart rending in many instances. The truth reaches them either by preaching or through reading-matter. They embrace it. Their former brethren cast them off, and make it hard for them. They are without place of meeting, and have no schoolhouse. Often few in number, they are in great perplexity and distress. The Missionary Society opens correspondence with them, encourages them to hope, assists them with reading-matter, and encourages them to trust in

God. And when the society is able to do so, it helps them in building meeting-houses, the basements of which are usually used for schoolrooms.

The Missionary Society is verily a cherishing mother to the poor, needy little companies of colored workers, lending a hand when no other organization is prepared and in readiness to do it. It will be seen by every thoughtful believer that the purpose of this society is a noble one. It is an absolute necessity to meet the wants of this very needy branch of the work, and very few of our people have ever realized the importance of its work. Any one who will visit the special field (the State of Mississippi, in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Natchez, etc.) where the most of its work has been carried on, will find many gratifying results. The rank and file of the colored workers in the Mississippi Conference have come, to a great extent, from those raised up by this society, and there are practically as many colored believers in the State as there are white. In the opinion of the writer, who has given a great deal of study to this question, the Southern Missionary Society, though it has been crippled for want of means, has accomplished fully as much as in any previous year.

The great fund of $150,000 furnishes no means for the Southern Missionary Society and its work. But the October collection should be very helpful to it. Indeed, this collection is the main source of its income. The collection is also very helpful to the training-school and its very important interests at Huntsville, Ala. This school is now especially preparing for a far greater sphere of usefulness than it has ever occupied in the past.

The establishment of a small sanitarium, with physicians capable of training nurses connected with the school, is a very hopeful feature. The new school building, just completed, is a great improvement on the old one which was burned. There are many encouraging omens of good in connection with this training-school. The more mature class of pupils, who realize their need of training, is a great encouragement. The institute held at that school during the past summer has been the most encouraging of any institute held in connection with the Southern Union Conference. Probably as many as seventy-five young men and women were in attendance for weeks, and they gave the best attention, and highly appreciated the instruction given. Altogether, the prospects of a great advance of this branch of the work never looked so hopeful to the writer as at the present time. And this branch of the work has been a theme of deep study for years past. To our brethren and sisters throughout the field we appeal for a liberal contribution to the regular collection to be taken October 5. Do not neglect this important branch of the work. Its claims upon our people are very strong. The Testimonies continually for more than twelve years have most urgently pressed upon our people the necessity of caring for this branch of the work. Do we believe this precious instruction? Then prove it, dear brethren and sisters, by a generous contribution October 5. Begin from the time you read this article, if you have not begun before, and plan for it. We know there are many throughout our country who feel an interest in this branch of the work. The small collection last year has crippled the work.

A generous offering this year will gladden the hearts of the workers and encourage them, and it will greatly strengthen the weak hands. It will put new life into this work. We have been instructed that the work here in the South is liable to be hedged up with special difficulties a little later. The discerning reader can see ominous signs of trouble ahead. Now is the most favorable time that we shall ever have for accomplishing good results in this branch of the work. Work while the day lasts; the night soon cometh when no man can work. Then it will be too late. We appeal to our dear, loyal people to remember generously this most needy branch of the work, October 5.

GEO. I. BUTLER,

President Southern Union Conference.

Our Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department

By Arthur G. Daniells

The prophet Malachi says: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

From the beginning of our work, Seventh-day Adventists have believed that this prophecy is fulfilled in the third angel's message. Hence, we have believed that the hearts of our parents and gospel workers should be turned toward our children, and that the hearts of our children should be united with us in the work of our Master.

At an early date in our history, when there were but few young people among us, the pioneers began the publication of The Youth's Instructor. They published that series of little books called “Sabbath Readings.” They organized and developed our efficient Sabbath-school system. They established and operated schools of various kinds for giving the young a Christian education.

But notwithstanding all that has been attempted in this direction, a deep conviction has been laying hold of the ministers, teachers, Sabbath-school workers, and many parents that a greater work must be done for the young people among us. As our cause has grown, the numbers of our children and youth and young men and women have greatly increased; until at the present time they constitute a large and important factor to be reckoned with. There are between ten and fifteen thousand of our youth in our schools. It is believed that there are as many more not attending them. There are thousands who have finished their school work, and are ready to enter upon life's duties. All these require aid, service, and training peculiar and appropriate to their age and talents.

In order to render our young people the best and highest service possible, we have added to our General Conference organization a Young People's Department. This was done at the General Conference Council held in Gland, Switzerland, last April. A large executive committee has been appointed with Prof. M. E. Kern chairman and Miss Matilda Erickson secretary. These officers will devote their entire time to the important and varied interests of this great work.

At the Sabbath-school and Young People's Convention recently held at Mount Vernon, Ohio, careful consideration was given to the name by which our young people's department should be known. We desired a name that would be appropriate and expressive, one that would tell as clearly as possible who the department represents, and what their mission is in the world. After very careful study and deliberation, the convention adopted the following:—

Resolved, That the young people's organization in the General Conference and in the union and local conferences be known as the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department, and that the organization in the local churches be known as the Seventh-day Adventist Young People's Society of Missionary Volunteers.

Please note three features of this name: first, “Seventh-day Adventist”—our denominational name; second, “Young People's Society”—the class or part of the denomination to which the department especially relates; third, “Missionary Volunteers”—the purpose, or mission, of all connected with the department.

This name clearly conveys the idea that the young people of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination are volunteers for missionary service that will glorify their Master and save their fellow men. These missionary volunteers are not to be confined to any particular countries or people. Their missionary endeavors are not limited to any particular class of

people, or kinds of service, except that it is to be Christian in character. They are to give their lives in unselfish ministry to all who need help.

The Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department covers a wonderful range of Christian endeavor. It includes the preaching of the gospel, giving Bible readings, distributing religious literature, teaching, nursing, visiting the lonely, discouraged, and helpless, relieving the distressed, and in short, doing any and everything that lies within one's power to uplift and save this lost world.

A nobler purpose can not be conceived; a better service can not be rendered; a truer life can not be lived. May the signal blessing of God be with all connected with this Missionary Volunteer Department.

A. G. DANIELLS.

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