p. 19 | Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 52. (12/28/1911)

Earlier text: Sensational Church Advertising

Closing the Year's Campaign Work

By L. A. H.

THE end of the year witnesses a good endeavor on the part of a number to bring up the quota of sales of ‘Ministry of Healing.’ Several conferences entered upon the special-week effort with evident purpose of making it a success. A few examples are here given, of the zeal manifested and of the methods followed to create interest.

In a letter to the Wisconsin workers, Elder W. H. Thurston calls attention to the recommendation for the special-week effort, and says: “It seems to me that we, those in conference employ, should heed this recommendation, by putting in five days’ hard work with this book, and bring results. It will be very easy to excuse ourselves on account of conditions, etc.; but as I view it, we should not ask to be excused. I think we should sell at least enough to cover our salary for the week, and as many more as possible. . . . I am urging no more than I take to myself. So come along, fellow workers, for a forward movement.”

A letter was also sent to the churches, to be read the last Sabbath of the week of prayer. The last part of it especially is suitable for general reading, as follows: “The Lord will bless every faithful effort put forth in his name. Let us make a special effort during this time, and place several thousand books in the homes of the people. We would encourage all to do something. Think about it, pray over it. Let this be the burden of prayer at morning worship during this week. Isa. 6:1-8. We know that every one can not devote all the time to this work for a week; but some can put in full time, others part time, and all can do something. Then, after the time of the special effort is past, we shall keep right on selling the book as time and opportunity permit, until the fifteen thousand copies are sold, as voted at our camp-meeting. To him that believeth, all things are possible. Let us round up the year’s work with satisfactory results, and begin the new year with renewed hope and courage, moving forward, knowing that in all things we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us. This is our desire and our expectation.”

In Nebraska

Elder J. W. Christian, president of the Nebraska Conference, in an article in the Central Union Outlook, presents the call for the special campaign, and says: “We are asking all our workers to spend the week of December 18-25 among the people in behalf of this valuable work. The idea is not for the workers to get our people to take a certain number of books, but to actually get out among the people not of our faith, and interest them in the messages ‘Ministry of Healing’ brings to all who read it.

“In this special effort in behalf of our best health book, we urge our people generally to participate. You may have the books laid away somewhere; why not join the rest of the workers in disposing of them? or you may not have ordered your quota at all. If this is the case, send for your books at once. They can be had from the office in the English, Swedish, Danish, and German languages. Let us pray that we may be prospered during this week as we unite with our brethren and sisters in other parts of the field in disseminating the light given to us by the Lord.”

Nebraska has already been doing something. A monthly circular letter to the church workers gives an itemized list of 498 orders received for books up to the time of the report, the orders ranging from one to fifty copies. Several individuals have sent orders repeatedly, in one instance amounting to forty-five books, all paid for. This circular letter is accompanied by a very neat order blank for final rally, with a strong appeal from the missionary secretary, M. E. Ellis.

“Will You Help?”

This is the heading of an appeal by Elder G. F. Watson, in the Southwestern Union Record, using the entire front page, with a good display heading, “‘Ministry of Healing’ Work.” After calling attention to the matter, he says: “What a blessing would come to our sanitariums if our people would do this work! Just a little time spent with this good book by every Seventh-day Adventist would bring the much-needed help to our burdened sanitariums; and besides we should be placing in the hands of the people a book that is worth much more than the one dollar fifty cents that it costs.

“I know that this book will sell. Go to your neighbors and show them the merits of the book, for it is true to its name. When will your neighbors come in touch with these grand principles if you do not bring them to their attention?”

“Another Jericho to be Taken”

This is the title of an article by Elder M. N. Campbell, president of the Iowa Conference, in the Northern Union Reaper. After giving the general plan of the work, and the special call in particular, Brother Campbell says: “Let us all take hold of this in a united effort to bring results. The week following the week of prayer is the time, we are the people; let us do the right thing at the right time, and indicate our willingness to cooperate with God’s purposes. May we not see as a result of the blessing to us during the period of prayer a return in genuine service? The ‘Ministry of Healing’ contains knowledge that the world is starving for, and God is looking to his people to take it to the world. Shall we not swing into line, and make December 18-25 a time long to be remembered in our experience?”

In the same paper, Elder C. M. Babcock, president of the South Dakota Conference, presents the matter and adds: “Shall we take hold as suggested by the General Conference Committee recommendation, and make special effort to dispose of these books, thus bringing blessing to many homes and relief to our institutions?”

Some parts of the field found it too late to make adequate preparation for the kind of effort they would want to put forth, and decided to make the special effort a little later. The West Virginia Conference, however, appointed a time previous to the special week and to last longer, their date being December 8-22. They followed up the effort energetically.

There will no doubt be various conditions in the final completion of the year’s work. Some of these may hinder doing all that was intended, leaving some books unsold. May we not take courage from our experiences thus far, and enter upon the new year with a stronger purpose than ever to complete the whole allotment of work within the time devoted to it? The sort of spirit expressed in the foregoing quotation will surely help carry through this movement to a successful completion. May more, leaders and people, partake of it.

L. A. H.

Kingston, Jamaica

By H. J. Farman

It is nearly six months since I came to this city to take the pastorate of the church. On arriving I was quite happily surprised to see how wonderfully God had wrought for his people in this island.

I soon found that only a beginning had been made as compared to what must be done to reach the sixty thousand people of this city, and perhaps half that number more in the adjoining suburbs; in fact, the very class of people spoken of in the Testimonies as living in the highways and byways of the earth have never heard of this blessed message. This is no small task to us, with almost as strong a color-line here as in the South of the United States; however, we are of good courage and are seeing souls brought to Christ. The week of prayer is beginning in a most interesting way, and many are getting victory over past sins.

It has been my blessed privilege to baptize fifteen earnest believers. Sabbath, December 9, was one of the best meetings I have attended in a long while. Elder J. K. Humphrey, from New York, is here visiting his mother and friends, and has rendered excellent help. There is a marked growth weekly with some, and we hope for genuine advance for all. It is truly a needy field. The people are poor, wages are very low, and living is very high; but praise the Lord, most all our people have a good reputation and show a commendable spirit.

Our school has exceeded our highest expectations. The record shows over eighty in attendance. Some had to be dismissed, while others are irregular in attendance. This particular work Satan fights hardest to destroy; but the Lord is giving victories all along the way. Our teacher, Brother E. M. Tonjes, is of good hope and enjoying his work bravely; in fact, there is no such thing as defeat with God. Many other interesting things I would like to tell, but space will not permit. We are sadly in need of more consecrated workers and means. Pray for us and for the work in this needy island field.

H. J. FARMAN.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

GEORGE THOMASON, M. D. Secretary L. A. HANSEN Assistant Secretary

Was It You?

SOMEBODY did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, “’Tis sweet to live;” Somebody said, “I’m glad to give;” Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that “somebody” you? — Selected.

Important Temperance Convention

By S. B. H.

The fourteenth national convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America was held in Washington, December 11-14. Excellent addresses were delivered by Hon. John G. Woolley, Congressman Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, Senator Geo. F. Cotterill, of Washington, Judge A. Z. Blair, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and others. The spirit of the convention seemed to hold as fundamentally important the points that (a) it is first necessary to obtain a vision, so to speak, of the conditions resulting from the manufacture and sale of alcohol, to be followed by (b) a stirring program of education, and (c) the commitment of the boys of our country in particular, by pledge, to abstinence from intoxicating liquor.

It was held that the universal abolition of the liquor traffic rests upon two principles; namely, moral suasion and legal suasion. Did space permit, it would be interesting to give extracts from all the speeches made upon this important subject. Two are deserving of special mention. Referring to the fact that the nation's life itself is at stake in the liquor habit, Congressman Hobson said:—

“The menace of this destroyer extends yet farther, to the very life of the nation itself. In the rural life of the country, the people do not have the poison continually in their path. Thus it is that the great empires and enduring civilizations of history were all built upon rural life. A time comes, however, in the life of each nation when its citizens, having accumulated wealth, gather into cities to enjoy it. There the great destroyer does his deadly work. . . .”

“It is not a day too soon to grapple with this foe. We have reached the beginning of the second stage of American life. When degeneracy has gone much farther it will be too late. At the present rate it will not be long before abnormals and degenerates will swamp our cities and overrun our States. Nature will not tolerate a race of degenerates. A backward and usually a despised race, but undegenerate, is found ready to give the coup de grâce. When Persia degenerated, Greece was on hand to strike. When Greece degenerated, Rome was ready. When Rome degenerated, Gaul was ready.

“If America degenerates, the yellow man will be on hand. Some may make light of the yellow man; so did Romans make light of the ‘barbarians.’ The yellow man is not degenerating. He can shoot as straight as a white man now; and undegenerated, he can live on one tenth of what is necessary for the white man while he is in the field doing the shooting. A race of degenerates can not occupy the American continent. In this generation our people must take their choice; in the next generation it may be too late. There is no alternative. We are fairly in the death grapple. All the pages of history are crying out to America, ‘Conquer the great destroyer, or perish.’ The first law of nature, self-preservation, which holds for a nation or for a man, demands of the nation the death-warrant of the saloon.

“Suppose America should go down before the destroyer, whither would a rural and frugal fragment of America go to start a new empire? History leaves no hope to go back eastward. There is no longer any westward. We have reached the shores of the last ocean. In America the star of empire moving westward finishes the circle of the world.

“In America we are making the last stand of the great white race, and substantially of the human race. If this destroyer can not be conquered in young America, it can not in any of the old and more degenerate nations. If America fails, the world will be undone and the human race will be doomed to go down from degeneracy into degeneracy till the Almighty in wrath wipes out the accursed thing.”

Mr. Woolley, in a masterly address, said, among other things:—

“And first. What is a sumptuary law?—It is, or was, a law directed at the buyer, attempting to regulate his conduct, in matters of mere indifference, without any good end in view. For instance, in the reign of Edward IV a statute was enacted prohibiting anybody ‘under the degree of a lord,’ from buying shoes having points over two inches long at the toes. The idea was to discourage habits of luxury among the common people, but it was manifestly unjust and foolish.

“A prohibitory liquor law is directed at the business of selling poison as a beverage and of maintaining a rendezvous for temptation, dissipation, and disorder. It says to no man: ‘Thou shalt not buy nor drink,’ though it may, and may well, come to that. It is in the nature of a quarantine regulation, which never says: ‘Thou shalt not catch yellow fever,’ but, ‘Thou shalt not spread yellow fever.’ Incidentally a law that restrains a man from selling liquor to his neighbor diminishes the neighbor’s liberty to spend his own money and experiment with his own body, but that does not make it a sumptuary law.

“Prohibition rebukes personal selfishness. But how does it violate personal liberty? Personal liberty, according to Judge Cooley, our greatest writer on constitutional questions, is simply that condition in which rights are established and protected by means of such limitations and restraints upon the action of individual members of the political society as are needed to prevent what would be injurious to other individuals, or prejudicial to the general welfare; that is to say, ‘Obedience to law is liberty,’ and the liquor dealer is incorrigibly a traitor in the camp of law.

“Absolute liberty exists only where the person possessing it is powerless to injure others. A shipwrecked man, alone on a raft in mid-ocean, has it, but would give the whole world to swap it for the limitations; that is to say, the enlargements of civil liberty—the only kind of liberty that anybody but a fool or a villain counts worth having. In short, absolute liberty is only the obverse side of vital bankruptcy.

“The liquor business is injurious to everybody, including the owner, and prejudicial to every public interest. Nobody denies that. Prohibition is not tyranny, but protection for all men, women, children, and domestic animals.

“Does prohibition hurt business?—Yes, all the business that tends to ruin—brothels, gambling-dens, the white-slave trade, vagrancy, begging, pawning, divorcing; but it helps every business that makes for ‘more abundant life.’”

S. B. H.

Christian Liberty

Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to the current history of the rights of conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL - - - - Secretary

S. B. HORTON - - - - Assistant Secretary

Religious Education in the Home

THERE is no cheap way of making Christians of our children. It is not sufficient that we have our children sent to Sabbath-school in childhood, while our own minds are occupied with things far from God. Spiritual comradeship with their children is, alas, a thing of which many parents know nothing. In as far as we delegate this most precious of duties — the religious education of our children — to others, we fall short of God's ideal of parenthood. The Sabbath-school, the church, were not instituted to supplant domestic religion, but to strengthen it. In these days many are too prone to manifest their religion through public institutions rather than in domestic relations. Indeed, there is no cheap way of making Christians of our children.—Selected.

An Unseen Stone in Africa

A BRILLIANT Oxford student was giving himself to the Wesleyan Missionary Society for African service. His tutor remonstrated: “You are going out to die in a year or two. It is madness.” The young man (who did die after being on the field only a year) answered: “I think it is with African missions as with the building of a great bridge. You know how many stones have to be buried in the earth all unseen to be a foundation for the bridge. If Christ wants me to be one of the unseen stones lying in an African grave, I am content.”—Selected.

Educational Secretaries' Council

By H. R. S.

This meeting was held at College View, Nebr., November 29 to December 6. Every year for nearly a decade, a meeting covering some phase of education has been held. Two years ago it was a general convention, held at Washington, D. C., in connection with the General Conference, in which all departments of our educational work were considered. Last year a convention was held at Berrien Springs, to study the work covered by our academies and colleges. At no time has there been a council for the elementary grades alone; but that department has grown to such proportions that this year it seemed best to hold a meeting of all the union educational secretaries, for the purpose of laying plans which would unify the organization of our church-schools throughout the United States.

The delegates were: H. R. Salisbury, general secretary; and the union educational secretaries, as follows: M. M. Hare, Atlantic; N. S. Ashton, Columbia; H. M. Hiatt, Southeastern; M. B. Van Kirk, Southern; Mrs. Carrie R. Moon, Lake; E. E. Farnsworth, Southwestern; Frederick Griggs and Meade MacGuire, Central; W. W. Ruble, Northern; M. E. Cady, North Pacific; C. C. Lewis, Pacific. Miss Katherine B. Hale, educational superintendent of the California Conference, and Miss Sarah E. Peck, director of the normal department at Union College, were appointed delegates to represent the normal and text-book interests.

One gratifying feature of the council was that every union secretary was present. The daily sessions, which began each morning at nine o'clock, were preceded by an hour devoted to prayer and the study of those testimonies which give light to the educational problems under consideration. These morning hours of devotion brought much light and encouragement to the delegates, and earnest prayers were offered up morning by morning that all our plans might conform to the divine plan which God had so mercifully given us. There was a large amount of work to be done, and every hour of the council was fully occupied, either with committee work or in regular session.

The main subjects discussed were: (a) a uniform plan of organization, (b) courses of study, (c) text-books, (d) uniform system of blanks, (e) uniform teachers' certificates, (f) more thorough plans for summer schools and institutes. Many resolutions were passed relating to each of these subjects, which will appear in the new educational manual. Every effort will be made to have this manual published in time for the summer schools of 1912.

The resolutions under courses of study affected only the subjects in the seventh and eighth grades. Those relating to text-books called especial attention to our tardiness in following the light given regarding the preparation of our own text-books, which should contain the principles of Christian education as they have been given us in “Education” and in other writings by the same author, and which should eliminate those objectionable features so prevalent in the text-books of to-day, which destroy the student's faith in the inspiration of the Bible. Broad plans were laid looking toward the speedy preparation of the books which are most needed at the present time, especially those which would complete the full line of text-books for the first eight grades.

The council adopted a uniform organization plan, to be followed in all union conferences, so that the general plan of organization as relates to school management, examinations, text-books, courses of study, etc., will be the same in each conference.

Books were chosen for the Teachers' Reading Course for 1912-13, and reviewers appointed to prepare the outlines for the journal Christian Education.

One subject which was discussed with much enthusiasm was that relating to a better plan for the development of home schools. During the last two years especially a large number of mothers have expressed themselves as anxious to receive some special training which would enable them to teach their own children until they were old enough to go to the church-school, or, in case they were not located near a church-school, until they were old enough to send to one of our academies. The following resolution was the outcome of the discussion on this question:—

“Whereas, There has long existed the need of instruction for mothers having children of school age who are not accessible to church-schools; and,—

“Whereas, We encourage parents not to send their children to school until they are seven or eight years of age, even when church-schools are accessible; and since children should receive home instruction, and parents be assisted to conduct it successfully; and,—

“Whereas, Such preparatory home instruction would in time somewhat relieve the present congested state of the church-school curriculum; therefore—

“Resolved, That a normal correspondence school for mothers be organized, under the direction of the Department of Education of the General Conference.”

Inasmuch as the General Conference is to be held in 1913, at which time a large number of educational workers will be together, it was recommended—

“That during the year 1912, instead of holding a general convention, there be called a meeting of such members of the department, and such other general educational workers as can most conveniently be brought together; the meeting to be held at such time and place as may best suit the needs of the field and the convenience of the workers.”

The delegates expressed their sincere appreciation of the entertainment given, and the courtesy shown, by the board of management and the faculty of Union College. It was a most interesting and profitable council, the earnest desire of every one being that we might be hourly led of God, so that the great principles of Christian education which he has so mercifully given us, might be seen in all our plans.

H. R. S.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

—On November 10 Great Britain launched the “Centurion,” its twenty-first dreadnought, said to be the best armored ship afloat.

—Thousands of home-going foreigners, mostly bound for Mediterranean ports, have had to be left on the docks in New York City, because the ships about to sail could not hold all who applied as steerage passengers.

—The Japanese expedition for the south pole under Lieutenant Chirase, which last spring was compelled to return because the vessel proved too weak to stand the ice pressure, has started out again with a strengthened ship.

—A wireless message was flashed for 4,000 miles on November 19, the greatest distance such a message has ever traveled. It was sent from the newly opened station at Coltano, near Pisa, Italy, the most powerful station in the world, and it was received by the wireless station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

—Twenty-seven Bible societies are printing the Bible; one in the United States, three in Great Britain, and twenty-three on the European continent. These societies reported an output in 1910 of 12,843,196 Bibles. It is stated, conservatively, that more copies of the Bible were sold last year than of any other hundred books of the world combined.

—Prince Chun, regent of China and father of the five-year-old emperor, has abdicated. The vice-president of the privy council and a Manchu noble succeed him as guardians of the throne. Provincial delegates assembled at Wuchang to discuss a constitutional monarchy having a descendant of Confucius, or a man like Yuan Shih Kai, as a Chinese king.

—On December 16 the greater part of Mexico was shaken by an earthquake which is said to have cost twenty-one lives, and caused damage to property amounting to thousands of dollars. The volcano of Orizaba, which has been silent for more than 300 years, is smoking heavily, and belching sand and boulders, which are falling hot in all towns within a radius of 20 miles. The quake was accompanied by a cloudburst at Taxco.

—The commission appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, in 1910, to settle the long-drawn-out controversy over the boundary between Maryland and West Virginia, has completed its work and submitted its report to that tribunal for final action. The report of the commission is said to favor West Virginia on nearly every point, and should the Supreme Court approve of it, many who have been voting and paying taxes in Maryland will become citizens of West Virginia. The controversy has been waged for over 200 years, and involves about 36 square miles of land and the citizenship of several thousand persons. The question, “What are the head-waters of the Potomac River?” is at the bottom of the trouble.

—The State fisheries and game commission has decided to abandon artificial hatching of quail after having expended nearly $4,000, and getting one quail chicken, which, the commissioners assert, owes its existence to the fostering care of its feathered mother and not to an incubator. A large number of male and female quail were obtained at large expense from Western States for the experiment at the Connecticut Agricultural College.

—It is computed that in all America there are 8,000,000 children and youth between the ages of five and eighteen not attending Sunday-school. Two thirds of the children in eight of the Western States are not reported in Sunday-school. New England is said to have 800,000, and New York State 2,200,000, not yet reached. Among the colored children of the nation, there are believed to be 3,000,000 more. Narrowing the figures down to the city of New York, it is stated that over 800,000 of the boys and girls of the metropolis come directly under the influence of no church or Sunday-school or other religious organization.

—In the year 1832 a treaty between the United States and Russia was effected. This treaty fully met conditions existing at that time, and was very satisfactory to both governments. There has been a feeling, however, for some time that some of the provisions of this treaty are obsolete, or at least do not cover the proper relations which should exist between the two governments at the present time. Particular point has been given to this contention of late, from the fact that certain Jewish citizens, who were naturalized subjects of the United States, were not accorded proper recognition by the Russian government. Dec. 18, 1911, President Taft notified the Russian government, through the American ambassador at St. Petersburg, of the termination of the treaty on Jan. 1, 1912. Both branches of Congress have expressed approval of this action on the part of the President, and it is hoped that a new and more up-to-date treaty may be negotiated during the coming year.

—During the last few days, under impulse of pressure brought to bear by the United States and the powers of Europe, an earnest effort has been made by the leaders of the government and revolutionary parties in China to arrive at some understanding as to the future of the country, and thus end the disastrous civil war which has been raging for several weeks. This conference has been held at Shanghai. The revolutionary leaders have from the first earnestly contended for a republican form of government, and at last reports the government representatives had well-nigh conceded this contention, and strong hopes were entertained by both sides that the present armistice, which has been arranged to extend to the end of the year, will be extended into the permanent cessation of hostilities. Whatever may be the outcome in the present struggle, one thing is conceded by all students of the situation, and that is that China will emerge from its present revolutionary state with greater liberty than it has heretofore enjoyed.

—Sir William White, designer of the steamship “Mauretania,” received the John Fitch medal lately “for notable achievement as a naval architect.” This medal, which is awarded for “a great achievement in the applied sciences,” has been presented to six other men, Lord Kelvin, George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas George Edison, Charles Porter, and Alfred Noble.

—Dr. Ira S. Wile, editor of the department of Surgical Sociology of the American Journal of Surgery, says in speaking of cancer that “statistics reveal a striking increase in the mortality from the disease. Since 1880 the death-rate from cancer in seventeen States has risen from 3.61 per 10,000 population to 7.35. The rate for the registration area rose from 74.3 in 1908 to 77 in 1909, while the average rate from this cause during the period 1901 to 1905, was 68.3.”

—The Persian government has for some time been in practically a bankrupt condition. Some months ago it requested President Taft to recommend to them some capable financier who would be able to act as treasurer and general financier for the government. Mr. W. Morgan Shuster of Washington, D. C., was recommended. The administration of Mr. Shuster has been a very vigorous one since taking charge of the Persian finances. He has sought to levy and collect taxes impartially. His earnest work has brought him into conflict with the Russian government, which now demands that Persia require his resignation and also the abrogation of certain offensive measures he has been instrumental in pushing forward. While in full sympathy with Mr. Shuster’s work and desirous of having his services continued, no doubt the Persian government will be compelled to yield in the near future to the pressure which is being brought to bear upon it.

Christian Education

By H. R. SALISBURY

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference

H. R. SALISBURY Secretary

Wherever There Is Most to Do

By Zinzendorf

WHEREVER at the moment there is most to do for the Saviour, that is our home. — Zinzendorf.

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WANTED.—Woman, thirty to sixty years of age, to do general housework, cooking, and plain sewing. Permanent work for the right one. Hygienic living. Address J. S. Comins, R. F. D. 6, Battle Creek, Mich.

FOR SALE.—Ripe olives, in 5-gallon cans, 55 cents, 75 cents, and 95 cents a gallon. Pure honey, candied, fine flavor, in 60-pound cans, 7 cents pound. Cotton, corn, and pure olive-oils. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.

SPECIAL until January first: 100 Bible Mottoes delivered, $3.65; 300, $10. 50 cards free with a $10 order. Highest Grade Cooking Oil (delivered): 5 gallons, $4; 30 gallons, $23. Address Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa.

COOKING OIL direct from refinery; pure, healthful, delicious. Bbl. (50 gallons), at 58 cents; 30 gallons, at 59 cents; five-gallon can, $3.25; ten gallons, $6.25; 8 one-gallon cans, $5.90. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

SANITARIUM Cooking Oil. Noted for quality. Free from animal fat. Eight one-gallon cans, $6.60; 5-gallon can, $3.90; two 5-gallon cans, $7.60; 30-gallon barrel, 66 cents a gallon. Cash with order. Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

LIBERAL OFFER.—Best cottonseed-oil for all cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutritious, fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guaranteed free from animal fats and all impurities: 5 gallons, $3.25; 10 gallons, $6.25; ½ barrel, $17.60. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

WANTED.—Woman, Sabbath-keeper, good in culinary and general housework. Family: two adults; two children, aged fourteen and sixteen. Permanent home given to right person. Church privileges. Best of references required. State age, and wages expected. Address Dr. Ernest Woolgar, Clyde, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—Twenty-five acres land, seven-room, two-story house, barn and other out-buildings; 100 apple- and peach-trees, pears, cherries, grapes, and strawberries. Price, $2,000; one half cash, terms for balance. Good reason for selling. Address John H. Allran, Box 141, La Grange, N. C.

Annual Meeting, Southern Publishing Association

By C. F. McVagh; L. A. Smith

NOTICE is hereby given that the fourth annual meeting of the constituency of the Southern Publishing Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on Thursday, Jan. 18, 1912, at 10 A. M., at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the coming year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

C. F. McVagh, President; L. A. Smith, Secretary.

Northern Union Conference

By R. A. Underwood; T. D. Gibson

THE Northern Union Conference will hold its fifth biennial session in connection with the ministerial institute to be held at College View, Nebr., January 16 to February 4. The first meeting of the conference will open January 16 at 10 A. M., for the election of officers and such other business as may properly come before the conference. All names of delegates who are selected by the local conferences should be reported to the union conference secretary, Thomas D. Gibson, 2718 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn.

R. A. UNDERWOOD, President; T. D. GIBSON, Secretary.

Northern Union Conference Association

By R. A. UNDERWOOD; S. E. JACKSON

The Northern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, incorporated, will hold its opening local meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may be necessary, at College View, Nebr., January 16 at 2:30 P. M. The delegates of the Northern Union Conference which meet at College View at this time are the constituency of the corporation.

R. A. UNDERWOOD, President; S. E. JACKSON, Secretary.

Atlantic Union Conference Association

By W. B. WHITE; H. B. TUCKER

THE biennial session of the Atlantic Union Conference Association constituency will convene in Tollner Hall, in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1912, at 10:30 A. M. All constituency members should be present.

At this time seven members must be elected to take the place of seven whose terms expire, a board of seven trustees elected for the coming biennial term, and all other necessary business transacted.

W. B. WHITE, Chairman; H. B. TUCKER, Secretary.

Southern Union Conference

By C. F. McVagh; W. A. Wilcox

NOTICE: is hereby given that the fifth biennial session of the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the church-school building on Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, Jan. 18, 1912, at 9 A. M., and continue until Jan. 28, 1912, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing biennial term, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

Each conference will be entitled to one delegate at large, and one additional delegate for each fifty of its organized church-membership. Please forward the names of the delegates to the secretary, at 511 Cole Bldg., Nashville, as early as possible.

C. F. McVagh, President; W. A. Wilcox, Secretary.

Southern Union Conference Association

By C. F. McVAGH; W. A. WILCOX

Notice is hereby given that the third biennial session of the constituency of the Southern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the church-school building, Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1912, at 9 A. M., for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing biennial term, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

C. F. McVAGH, President; W. A. WILCOX, Secretary.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent post-paid:—

James Harvey, 1373 Grove St., Oakland, Cal., desires copies of our papers and tracts for free distribution. Week of prayer readings are especially requested.

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