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The Sale of Literature in California

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

THE work accomplished by Nehemiah was done with great rapidity, because the rank and file of the people took part in it. “The people had a mind to work;” otherwise Nehemiah could never have completed the wall in fifty-two days. In like manner the “loud cry” of the third angel will be given when the rank and file of our people have “a mind to work.”

We have had an object-lesson of this in the California Conference this year. Last March we appointed a workers’ institute, to be held in Oakland, and most of the laborers in the conference were in attendance.

Before the institute we counseled with the brethren at the Pacific Press, and secured permission to sell tracts in quantities at greatly reduced rates. These tracts were made up into three sizes of well-assorted packages. A large package containing nine dollars’ worth of tracts was sold for five dollars. The second size package contained four dollars’

worth, and was sold for two dollars and a half. The third sold for one dollar, and contained $1.40 worth of tracts. Any one purchasing in smaller quantities was required to pay the regular price. The brethren at the Pacific Press also consented for us to offer four copies of “Great Controversy,” which retails for two dollars and a half each, for five dollars. “The Story of the Seer of Patmos” and “The Story of Daniel” were also sold at fifty-per-cent reduction to all who would buy five dollars’ worth at one time.

During the Oakland institute a large quantity of literature was purchased by the people. This was followed by a short institute in San Francisco and a longer one in Chico. Much literature was sold during these two institutes.

At the first camp-meeting, as our people, in response to the appeal of our ministers, came up and purchased large quantities of literature, some of our brethren said, “There will be a reaction in this thing; the people will get stocked up with literature, and then you can not sell them anything.” Their predictions failed; for we have just closed our fourth and best camp-meeting of the season, held at Fresno; and while the attendance was not so large as at the Melrose camp-meeting, held in June, yet the sale of literature far exceeded any meeting this year, in proportion to the number in attendance. One hundred seventeen copies of “Great Controversy” were bought by the people and carried to their tents. About two hundred fifty dollars’ worth of tracts were sold in packages during the camp-meeting. It was a common sight to see a large quantity of books or tracts piled up on the stand in the large tent, and at the close of the meeting to see the people going to their tents with their arms full of literature.

While heavy sales of literature were made during the three institutes and four camp-meetings, work was going on steadily between the meetings. We have kept our different periodicals on hand, and have encouraged everybody to sell. We ordered the papers by the thousand, and gave all the new beginners the advantage of the low rate to encourage them in selling. Sometimes we have had more than three or four thousand copies of Liberty and Life and Health on hand, but have always found some one who would sell them.

In the past seven months our people have purchased literature to the value of $15,563.48, consisting of books, tracts, Signs of the Times, Liberty, Life and Health and the Bible Training School. This amount does not include the sales made by the regular canvassers in the conference, neither does it include any of the orders sent in by the librarians of the churches to the tract society. It represents work done by the rank and file of our people over and above that carried on by the organized work in the churches and in the canvassing field.

Often those who had purchased large quantities of literature at one of the other camp-meetings, were the first to hold up the hand at the Fresno meeting for a five-dollar package of tracts, or five dollars’ worth of books, saying they had either sold or given away all they had purchased before. Some of our brethren bought several of the large packages of tracts, and gave them to the various tent companies to distribute.

The question may arise, “What is the result of the lay members handling such a large quantity of literature?” The result thus far is that interests are springing up all over the conference, and we have not sufficient ministers and workers to fill the openings. In some instances, after a few meetings have been held, a company is ready for organization.

We thank the Lord for the large amount of literature distributed in this conference; but this is nothing compared with what can be done when the entire denomination has “a mind to work.” Let the good work go forward.

S. N. HASKELL.

British Guiana

By T. L. MCKENZIE-SPENCER

NEW AMSTERDAM.—It is now six months since my family and I arrived at this place, after laboring three years and four months in the island of Tobago. During that time a church was organized, many converts were made, twenty-one persons were baptized, and we left several awaiting baptism. Money was also raised for a church building. There are many discouraging features in our new field, but with courage in the Lord we have started out.

New Amsterdam is the next town in importance to Georgetown, and is in the county of Berbice, on the right bank of the Berbice River. It contains about nine thousand inhabitants. We have a small church here, and two others in country districts, and a few companies. Berbice is quite large, and there are many places in which the truth has not been preached. I have been holding six meetings a week regularly, and there is a good interest in two districts. In one about three miles from New Amsterdam I have started open-air meetings, which have been well attended. Four persons have begun the observance of the Sabbath, and we hope that others will soon follow their example.

About thirty miles up a near-by creek, a church building is in course of erection. Disunion prevailed among the believers at this place, but at my last visit wrongs were confessed, and the work was put on a solid basis. They are now working together for the advancement of the cause. At Number Twenty-nine Village, West Coast of Berbice, the brethren have partially rebuilt their church. I have baptized four persons, and there are others awaiting baptism. We were pleased to have Elder O. E. Davis, our president, with us on two occasions.

T. L. MCKENZIE-SPENCER.

Field Notes

Six persons were baptized at Kansas City, Kan., on August 6.

Four persons are reported ready for baptism in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Elder T. B. Westbrook recently baptized four persons at Medina, N. Y., and two others are waiting for baptism at Corning.

Fifteen of the students of the academy at South Lancaster, Mass., have been baptized since the beginning of this school year.

The camp-meeting at Atlanta, Tex., was followed by a tent effort, as a result of which eleven persons took their stand for the truth.

Elder A. R. Ogden reports the baptism of two sisters at Midway, Mo., and states that the prospects are favorable for a good company at both Keytesville and Excello.

At the present time twelve are keeping the Sabbath at Homestead, Pa., as a result of the tent effort there, and as many more are halting between two opinions.

Elder H. J. Farman reports eight as having begun to keep the Sabbath at East Concord, Vt., and others are interested. A Sabbath-school of thirteen members has been organized.

On September 12 three persons were baptized and united with the Pierrepont (N. Y.) church, making five who have recently been baptized and joined the company at that place.

As a result of the summer's work at Deadwood, Wyo., three members were added to the church on a recent Sabbath, and four others, one from the Catholic Church, asked for baptism.

The company at Coleman, Mich., was recently organized into a church, with a membership of eighteen, and a full corps of officers. After the Sunday afternoon service, three were buried with their Lord in baptism. Others are expected to unite with the Coleman church in the near future.

Elder J. O. Miller, president of the Maritime Conference, in a recent letter to the Review says: “On Sunday morning at 11 A. M., September 27, a company of men, women, and children gathered at the beautiful beach on the shore of the Bay of Fundy, in St. John, New Brunswick, and witnessed the baptism of five adults who had covenanted to obey their Maker. These, with others who have been baptized, will be received in the St. John church at our next Sabbath meeting. In spite of the rigid Sunday law in Canada, men and women are saying, ‘As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’ I have just returned from the field where we held our tent effort, and find the company of eleven who took their stand, still faithful. While we thank God for what he has done and is doing, we ask the readers of the Review to join us in prayer for greater results.”

Tennessee River Conference

By G. B. Thompson

THE annual camp-meeting of the Tennessee River Conference was held in Memphis, October 1-8. The attendance of our people from the various parts of the conference was fair. The business session of the conference was held in connection with the meeting, and was marked throughout by a spirit of unity. Elder W. R. Burrow was re-elected president.

The reports rendered during the conference indicated progress. The tithe for the past year was the largest in the history of the conference. About eighty have accepted the truth and been baptized during the year. A spirit of liberality was manifested toward the various local enterprises presented. A deep interest was also shown in the advancement of the work in the fields abroad. The “thanksgiving week” plan for helping our missions was enthusiastically indorsed, also the ten-cent-a-week plan; and about three hundred fifty dollars was raised in cash and pledges for the foreign work.

On the grounds where the meeting was held, Elder J. S. Washburn has been conducting a tent effort for some weeks. These meetings have been quite largely attended by an excellent class of citizens, and the stirring truths of the message have reached the hearts of quite a number who have begun the observance of the Sabbath. Many others are interested; and as the tent effort will continue, it is hoped that still others will decide to obey the Lord.

Nearly all the local conference laborers attended the meeting; also the representatives of the various union conference departments were present and shared in the burdens and blessings of the meeting. Elders G. A. Irwin and C. F. McVagh and the writer were also in attendance.

A meeting for the colored Sabbath-keepers was held in another part of the city at the time of this meeting. Good reports were given of this meeting by those who attended.

I was glad to note the spirit of general progress seen in the Southern field. Memphis is a progressive city of over two hundred thousand inhabitants, and in general appearance and business thrift compares favorably with most cities of the North of similar size. A refined, intellectual, and enterprising class of citizens are found scattered throughout this field, especially in the cities, who, though conservative, can be reached by the truths of this message. Consecrated, progressive laborers are needed to respond to the many openings for labor.

G. B. THOMPSON.

Idaho

By O. L. COY.

SANDPOINT.—During the summer the writer assisted Elder C. L. Ford in holding a series of meetings in this place, as a result of which several accepted the truth. My wife and I have been asked to remain here during the winter to follow up the interest, and do house-to-house work. If any reader of the REVIEW who has a friend here or is corresponding with some one to whom he has been sending literature, will send me the name and address of his friend or correspondent, I will call upon him, and by the help of the Lord do all I can to help him to see the truth. O. L. COY.

Current Mention

— The city of Bisbee, Ariz., was swept by fire on the night of October 14, fifty acres of the residence and business section being destroyed. The loss is estimated at from one million to a million and a half dollars.

— The San Francisco wireless telegraph station now claims the record for the longest distance covered by a wireless telegram, this telegram having been received from the Kuhuku station on the island of Oahu, H. T., 2,200 miles from San Francisco.

— During the course of an address at Tremont Temple, Boston, on October 12, United States Senator Henry C. Lodge, of Massachusetts, made a vigorous plea for a large increase in the American navy, declaring that such a navy was the only guaranty of peace to this country.

— Eleven persons lost their lives, and six others were badly injured, as a result of the work of Italian incendiaries in New York City on October 5. Three barrels of oil were rolled into a tenement-house, and set on fire. Before firing the oil, the fire-escapes were so tampered with that they could not be used, and children were tossed down from these to the crowds below, many of them receiving bruises and broken limbs.

— A report from Caracas, Venezuela, states that Holland has at last delivered an ultimatum to Venezuela, demanding, by November 1, the revocation of the decree of May 14, which has so seriously interfered with the commerce of the Dutch island of Curacao. The report also states that it is not anticipated that Venezuela will yield to the ultimatum. The coast defense batteries are being made ready to resist an invasion.

— Soon after the arrival of the American battle-ship fleet at Manila, a hurricane, which is said to have blown at the rate of one hundred miles an hour, swept over Manila harbor and city and vicinity. There was no loss to the fleet, but much damage was done on shore. A report from Tokyo states that Japan is planning to give the battle-ship fleet a reception which will eclipse all others that have been tendered it since its departure from America.

— At Hickory, Miss., on the night of October 9, three innocent negroes were lynched by a mob bent on securing the murderer of a white planter. It was not even charged that those lynched had anything to do with the murder. A negro church and lodge hall near the scene of trouble were also destroyed by fire.

— At Youngstown, Ohio, early on the morning of October 11, union men or their sympathizers attempted to wreck a hotel in which non-union iron workers were sleeping. The wreckers attached a chain to the building, and fastened this to a freight-train which had stopped opposite the hotel. When the train started, the building was partially demolished, though its occupants escaped without serious injury.

— A destructive forest fire is raging in the northern portion of the southern peninsula of Michigan and in Marinette County, Wisconsin. In Michigan the town of Metz is destroyed, and Alpena is seriously menaced, while a number of settlements in the path of the flames have been wiped out. The loss of life is heavy, but no definite figures can be given. One relief train carrying persons from a burning town was wrecked while running through the blazing district, and seventeen perished. Many others are known to have perished.

— At a meeting of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in the new National Museum, at Washington, D. C., and representing organizations with a membership of over eight hundred thousand women, the representatives of these organizations pledged their individual societies to an earnest and energetic battle against the spread of tuberculosis. Their campaign will be carried on by general publicity, and by entering the homes of the people, and teaching them how to prevent infection, and how to facilitate the cure of persons already infected.

— A despatch from London, dated October 12, states that as one of the far-reaching results of the present European crisis, Great Britain will build still more ships and muster more men. Russia has never abandoned her design to secure a passage for her war-ships through the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean, and there is a possibility that she may accomplish her purpose as a result of the present developments in Europe. This determination on the part of England will stir Germany to still greater exertions, and add still greater burdens to the already overtaxed millions of Europe.

— A new grand jury has been impaneled to deal with the cases of Sunday violations at Atlantic City, N. J. Supreme Court Justice Trenchard, in a speech to this grand jury on October 13, denounced the stand taken by grand juries in the past on the Sunday-closing law in Atlantic City, and demanded that the new grand jury bring in indictments against all persons who have violated the law within the past two years, where evidence to prove the violations is presented. It was the refusal of the last grand jury to bring in such indictments that provoked some time ago a sensational proclamation from Governor Fort in reference to the use of the militia to enforce the law against those who violated the Sunday law.

— Mr. Wilbur Wright has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the French judges the practicability of his flying-machine, and is to receive $100,000 for the patent rights for France and French colonies. He has remained in the air for over an hour, with a passenger aboard. After teaching three aeronauts to navigate the air-ship, he will return to America.

— The situation in the near East has not yet assumed a peaceful aspect. Russia, England, and France seem to have come to an understanding in reference to the preliminaries of a conference without consulting Germany, and this has naturally offended the German government. It is feared that this may occasion a halt in the progress of a settlement of the difficulty. The negotiations between England, France, and Russia are reported to have resulted in the formation of a dreibund more powerful than any international combination ever created; and this adds to the unpleasantness existing among the powers, instead of helping to unravel the tangle. The basis of the proposed conference is said to be proving very unsatisfactory to Turkey, in view of the fact that only a money consideration is to be offered her for the loss of her four provinces. Montenegro is still urging Servia to join her in war upon Austria, but reports from Servia indicate less of a warlike spirit than existed last week. The latest advices from Turkey state that her troops in both Asia Minor and Europe are being mobilized; that Turkey is entirely dissatisfied with the proposed program of settlement; and that she will now depend upon her own resources. Austria is massing troops on the Montenegrin frontier, and a railway bridge between Austria, and the capital of Bosnia has been blown up, evidently by Servian sympathizers. War seems more probable than at any time since Bulgaria declared her independence. A European conference seems now improbable.

Stirring Times in Portland, Oregon

By A. J. BREED

Our first religious liberty institute in the North Pacific Union Conference has just closed. It was held in Portland, Ore., the latter part of September. In many ways it was a very interesting meeting. One thing that gave it an interesting feature was the Sunday-closing law put into force in Portland, September 27. We had visited several small stores where cigars, confectionery, fruit, soft drinks, and other things were sold, and found quite an excitement among them. The evening after the Sabbath, September 26, I visited others, and found that many had decided to keep open. When Sunday morning came, there was no little interest in the question all over the city.

The prosecuting attorney had notified

the police department to arrest all who were found violating the law. So Sunday morning all were anxious to get to their beats. Soon fifty-three arrests were made; but the chief of police issued orders not to make any more arrests, as they would not know what to do if things continued as they had started.

Monday morning at nine o’clock those arrested were arraigned for trial, but the suits were postponed until the next day, and it was thought they would be referred to the grand jury, to see what disposition it would make of them.

I visited the district attorney’s office, and had quite a talk with his assistant. He said they were going to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, until it was obeyed in the State of Oregon. I called his attention to the fact that there were those in the State who kept the seventh day, such as Jews, Seventh-day Baptists, and Seventh-day Adventists, and asked if he would show any favors toward those who conscientiously kept another day. He said the law was there, and must be obeyed as long as it remained upon the statute-books of the State. He did not show any spirit of bitterness, but he did show a spirit of determination.

The brethren secured a hall in a good part of the city in which to hold a public meeting. They advertised the meeting, and there was a large attendance. It was estimated that there were nearly eight hundred present. Elder W. F. Martin introduced the meeting by giving a talk upon the subject of “The Limits of Civil Government.” This was followed by Elder D. Nettleton, upon the subject of “Bible Examples of Where a Law Has Interfered With Religion,” citing the cases recorded in Daniel, the Acts of the Apostles, and other places. Following this the secretary of the Religious Liberty Department of the North Pacific Union Conference (the writer) gave a talk upon the question, “Has the United States Government Maintained the Principles of Religious Liberty as Enunciated in Its Constitution?” This was followed by Elder E. E. Andross, upon “Sunday Laws; Their History and Results.” We believe that much good was accomplished by the effort. A. J. BREED.

Christian Liberty

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL Chairman

W. A. COLCORD Secretary

Experiences in the Publishing Work—No. 12

By John Norton Loughborough

DURING the eight months of publishing the REVIEW in Paris, Maine, eight new names were added to the list of ministers who gave themselves more or less to preaching the truth of the third angel’s message. Among these were S. W. Rhodes, Hiram Edson, F. Wheeler, E. P. Butler, and J. N. Andrews. This accession was a source of spiritual strength, and an encouragement to the believers, as it furnished more ministerial help for the New England States, New York, and Michigan. Meanwhile Elder Joseph Bates was still doing pioneer work in these States, and also pushing the work and gaining vantage-ground in Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Canada.

Volume I of the Advent Review is replete with articles upon the past movement, the third angel’s message, perpetuity of the law, and the Sabbath and its history. In the number for May, 1851, is an article occupying over five pages from the pen of J. N. Andrews, on the subject of the three messages. In this he applies the prophecy of the two-horned beast of Revelation 13 to the United States, taking the position, on the strength of the prophecy alone, that the enforcement of Sunday as the Sabbath would be the point on which a union of church and state would finally be formed in this nation. His argument rested wholly upon the prophecy, as no movement at that time pointed very strongly in that direction, the strongest expression that could be found favoring it being a statement from Dr. Durbin, taken from the Christian Advocate and Journal:—

“When Christianity becomes the moral and spiritual life of the state, the state is bound, through her magistrates, to prevent the open violation of the holy sabbath, as a matter of self-preservation.”

This article was printed also in a tract of thirty-two pages, entitled, “The Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14, and the Two-Horned Beast.” An edition of one thousand copies of this tract was not all distributed until the year 1853. This was the first effort of our people in publishing a work of that character. It had required much careful and prayerful study to produce that brief treatise on the subject. Of this we read, from the words of Sister White:—

“When we began to present the light on the Sabbath question, we had no clearly defined idea of the third angel’s message of Rev. 14: 9-12. The burden of our testimony as we came before the people, was that the great second-advent movement was of God, that the first and second messages had gone forth, and that the third was to be given. We saw that the third message closed with the words, ‘Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus;’ and we as clearly saw as we now see that these prophetic words suggested a Sabbath reform; but as to what the worship of the beast mentioned in the message was, or what the image and the mark of the beast were, we had no definite position.

“God by his Holy Spirit let light shine forth upon his servants, and the subject gradually opened to their minds. It required much study and anxious care to search it out, link after link. By care, anxiety, and incessant labor has the work moved on until the great truths of our message . . . have been given to the world.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. I, pages 78, 79.

In the spring of 1851 Brother Thompson, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., a farmer in comfortable circumstances, having accepted the truth, offered to Brother and Sister White rooms in his house, and their provisions for living, if they would move the printing business to that place. This they did, and published there the second volume of the Advent Review, the first number bearing date of August 5 of the same year. This volume consisted of fourteen numbers, and was issued as a semimonthly. The last number was published March 23, 1852. The name of the paper was slightly changed, from that of Second Advent Review, to ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD, the name which, in its eighty-fifth volume, it still retains. The size of the journal was increased to three columns, eight pages, the printed page measuring eight and one-fourth by eleven and three-fourths inches.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Rome's Ambitious Aims

In his sermon at the centenary of the establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States in 1889, Archbishop Ireland said that the work which Roman Catholics in the coming century were called to do in the United States was—

“to make America Catholic, and to solve for the church universal the all-absorbing problem with which the age confronts her. Our work is to make America Catholic. . . . Our cry shall be, ‘God wills it,’ and our hearts shall leap with crusader enthusiasm. We know the church is the sole owner of the truths and graces of salvation. . . . The Catholic Church will confirm and preserve, as no other human power or human church can, the liberties of the republic.

The Catholic Church is the sole living and enduring Christian authority. She has the power to speak; she has an organization by which her laws may be enforced.”

The Publishing Work

Conducted under the auspices of the General Conference Publishing Department.

C. H. JONES - - - - Chairman

E. R. PALMER - - - - Secretary

H. H. HALL - - - Assistant Secretary

Notes

From a letter written by Elder H. C. Goodrich, at Panama, we quote the following: “I have found here in this country a great demand for our books,—I think the most wonderful demand that has been seen in the work. I believe the Lord is in this work, and that it is the means of carrying the message to the people. I need a man just now to help me hold a good strong institute with our canvassers.”

To those whose hearts call them to the book work, but who for some reason or other have held back in the past, we would say, Write to your State agent or conference office, and those in charge of the work will take pleasure in seeing that you receive the training which supplies one half of the element of success in this or any other work, and thus at an early date become a sharer in the wonderful success and the blessing which the Lord is bestowing upon those in the field.

From nothing to one thousand dollars a month is the record of one of the most recently organized conferences in the Southern Union Conference, in our subscription-book work. Aside from the financial point of view, it speaks volumes for the patient, consecrated efforts of those in charge of the work, and the way in which the Lord can use his servants who have a mind to work, and are determined to have a part in the spreading of this wonderful threefold message he has committed to us as a people. There is nothing to prevent other conferences, in which little is now being done, from making a similar record.

Business Notices

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.

No discount for several insertions.

FOR SALE.—Treatment-rooms and agency for Battle Creek Sanitarium health foods. A. C. Pease, 30 Maple St., Springfield, Mass.

FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor; keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $7; 64 cents a gal. in half barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

STEREOPTICON SLIDES.—Specially prepared for Seventh-day Adventist workers. Dealing entirely with Present Truth. Until Jan. 1, 1900, colored, 25 cents each; plain, 20 cents. Send for circular. J. M. Wagner, 3104 Chadwick St., Philadelphia, Pa.

RIPE OLIVES at 50, 60, 70, and 80 cents a gallon. Cheaper than nuts or beefsteak. At 60 cents they cost 11 cents a pound, freight paid to the East. Considering increased strength, they virtually cost nothing. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.

WANTED.—To correspond with isolated Sabbath-keepers who wish church and church-school privileges; those who wish to “leave the large cities,” and health-seekers. All about the beautiful Mesilla Valley of New Mexico. Wm. A. Ross, Las Cruces, N. M.

WANTED.—A good housekeeper; middle-aged sister preferred. A good home for the right one. Housework is light. Situated two miles from Bay City (Mich.) church. Write for information. B. E. Newberry, R. F. D. 6, Station A, Bay City, Mich.

FOR SALE.—500,000 beautiful Bible mottoes; over 95,000 sold in 5 months just past. Mothers, fathers, and children love our mottoes. 50 Imported Cards, size 4 x 7 1/2, $1.75; 50 heavy paper, 12 x 16, $3; 100, $5. Sent by mail. Address, with stamps, Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.

FOR SALE.—Best opening in California for a physician; an established practise, office equipments, and treatment-rooms centrally located. Price, $1,250, one half the value. Population, 45,000. Called to another field; will sell soon. Address T. S. Whitelock, M. D., 1027 Fifth St., San Diego, Cal.

KIEFFER PEARS FREE.—With every order containing $5 for five two-bushel crates, will send one crate free. Great care taken to ship only sound fruit, a few may be slightly bruised. Too ripe to ship beyond Chicago. Our bushel measures 10 x 15 x 17, containing 400 cubic inches more than legal bushel. Occoquan Fruit Farm, Occoquan, Va.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Addresses

The address of Elder F. J. Harris is 1721 South Main St., Rockford, Ill.

The address of Elder E. E. Andross is 257 South Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Obituaries

By R. D. Benham; Mrs. Brunk; O. Montgomery; M. B. Butterfield; M. N. Campbell; C. E. Ford; George Crawford; S. D. Hartwell

IRISH.—Died in Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 16, 1908, of apoplexy, Sister Sophia L. Irish, aged 72 years, 5 months, and 25 days. She came to the Pacific Coast in 1892, living in the States of Oregon and Washington. She leaves two sons, one daughter, and many other friends and relatives to mourn. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, from Ps. 116:16. R. D. BENHAM.

BURLINGAME.—Margaret A. Burlingame died at the home of her daughter in Stillwater, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1908. She was born in Pennsylvania, Jan. 26, 1830; was married to William R. Burlingame at Beverly, Ohio, May 28, 1851; and was left a widow, Feb. 20, 1868, with nine children, seven of whom are living. She became interested in the Seventh-day Adventist truth while living at Rushville, Neb., and became a member of that church, and was a faithful Christian to the end. The remains were taken to Pawnee City, Neb., for burial. MRS. BRUNK.

OSTERHOUT.—Artemisia J. Osterhout was born in Oswego Co., N. Y., Jan. 19, 1832, and died very suddenly of heart failure at the home of her daughter in Brownington, Vt., Oct. 1, 1908, aged 76 years, 8 months, and 12 days. Three daughters,—Mrs. M. C. Wilcox, of Mountain View, Cal.; Mrs. J. W. Strickland, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Mrs. A. E. Taylor, of Brownington, Vt.,—together with the aged husband, survive to mourn their loss. At an early age, Sister Osterhout gave her heart to God, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she has been a faithful and earnest member until about thirty-eight years ago, when she saw, believed, and accepted the truths held by the Seventh-day Adventist people, uniting with this body, and continuing faithful to the day of her death. Her Christian life was marked by her fidelity to God in all which she believed to be right. Her heart was cheered by the hope of the soon-coming Saviour, and she looked into the future with an unwavering faith in the great Life-giver. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from John 11:25, to about seventy-five neighbors and friends who gathered at the home of Brother and Sister Taylor. We laid her to rest in the Brownington Cemetery, believing that she will come forth in the first resurrection. O. MONTGOMERY.

BLACKMER.—Died at his home in Baldwin, Mich., Oct. 3, 1908, Rollin N. Blackmer. He was born at Pittsford, Vt., in 1837. He accepted the third angel's message a few years ago, and was faithful until his death. He leaves a wife, two sons, and two daughters to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Job 14:14. M. B. BUTTERFIELD.

CARTER.—Died at Atlantic, Iowa, Sept. 23, 1908, Mrs. Catherine Stonehouse Carter, aged seventy-three years. For the last forty years Sister Carter was a Seventh-day Adventist, and her faithfulness was a constant witness on the side of righteousness and truth. The Adventist church at Atlantic was filled to its utmost capacity at the funeral service, and the audience gave thoughtful attention to the words spoken by the writer from Num. 23:10. A husband, six children, and many sorrowing friends mourn the loss of this faithful mother in Israel. M. N. CAMPBELL.

HAFFORD.—Died in Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 20, 1908, of typhoid fever, Bertha E. Hafford, aged 26 years, 9 months, and 18 days. Sister Hafford was a consistent Christian. To those who were in trouble or distress she always gave a kind word and a helping hand. At times of death she would write poems of consolation to those who mourned, one of which was so applicable in her sufferings that it was read at her funeral. The husband, Rollin P. Hafford, two small children, and an aged father and mother, are left to mourn. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. C. E. FORD.

HILDRETH.—Fell asleep in Jesus, July 26, 1908, at the home of his daughter, near Lenoir, N. C., Daniel Hildreth, aged 75 years, 1 month, and 22 days. He was a patient sufferer for many years, death being caused by a complication of diseases. He was a faithful member of the Cincinnati (Ohio) church. For fifty-three years he had looked forward to the coming of our Saviour, and had always hoped to live to witness his appearing. His greatest joy was in the service of God and the study of the Bible. At the age of thirty years he was united in marriage to Miss Loretta Dun. He leaves a wife, three daughters, and two grandchildren to mourn his loss. He was laid to rest at Hickory, N. C., to await the call of the Life-giver. Words of comfort were spoken at the funeral by Prof. J. W. Beach, from Ps. 116:15 and Rev. 14:13. GEORGE CRAWFORD.

HAYSMER.—Killed Oct. 1, 1908, by the falling of a tree, James Haysmer, at his home in the township of Bushnell, Montcalm Co., Mich., aged 75 years, 8 months, and 17 days. Brother Haysmer was born in Staplehurst, England, where he resided until he was about nineteen years of age when he came to America, settling in the State of New York. Here, in 1856, he was married to Miss Anna M. Staines. In the fall of the same year he moved to Michigan, where he has since resided. Soon after the close of the war, Brother Haysmer accepted present truth, uniting with the Bushnell church, of which he was a member till death. Three of the nine children born to Brother and Sister Haysmer have served as missionaries in foreign lands. Albert J. served eleven years in the West Indies; Jennie (Mrs. Wilson) nine years in Australasia; and Nora (Mrs. W. H. Anderson) eleven years in Africa, where she died last February. The rest of the children with the exception of one who died in infancy, are engaged in the service of the Master, either directly or indirectly, and their consistent Christian lives bear witness to the early instruction and influence of the home. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer to a large and sympathizing audience in the Bushnell Seventh-day Adventist church. Text, 1 Thess. 4:13, 14. S. D. HARTWELL.

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