p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 28. (7/15/1902)

Earlier text: Mission School and Farm Work in Mississippi

Business Notices

WANTED.—At once, two experienced lady nurses. Address Cleveland Branch Sanitarium, 230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—A clean stock of groceries, hardware, etc., in a town composed largely of Seventh-day Adventists. Address J. D. De Tar, University Place, Neb.

WANTED.—At once, at the new Sanitarium building, Battle Creek, Mich., fifty strong, robust men, as laborers. Good wages and steady employment. Apply to John I. Gibson, on the grounds.

FOR SALE.—House and barn with three lots in Seward, Neb. House has six rooms, well, and cistern. S. D. A. church three blocks away. Owner desires to sell to accept call to foreign mission field. Address Elder Geo. M. Brown, Seward, Neb.

SACRED MUSIC COURSE BY CORRESPONDENCE.—For the benefit of those who are desirous of improving in sacred music, and who do not have access to a competent instructor in this branch, a course of lessons by correspondence has been prepared. These lessons will include instruction in fingering, time, expression, harmony, and proper methods of accompanying congregational singing. Each lesson will contain several hymns, phrased and annotated, and a graded system of exercises for the development of finger strength and agility. For terms, etc., address, inclosing stamp for reply, Geo. B. Miller, Instructor of Music, Healdsburg College, Healdsburg, Cal.

Tenement Tragedies and the Johnstown Mine Disaster

WRITING in The Independent about “Tenement Tragedies,” which are a characteristic feature of life in the great cities, the Rev. David M. Steele says that “more than enough people to form the population of the second largest city” in the State of New York live in the “double decker” type of tenement in New York City, “where from twenty to thirty families enter by one doorway from the street, and where sixty odd children fight, scratch, and scramble up and down a single stairway.” Is it any wonder that criminals are on the increase in this country?

WHAT appears to be the most appalling calamity in the history of mining disasters in this country, is reported from Johnstown, Pa., the scene of the great flood in May, 1889. An explosion occurring from some unknown cause took place in the mine owned by the Cambria Steel Company, July 10, the result being that over four hundred men, according to present estimates, met death in the mine from the shock or from the deadly gases generated by the explosion. Thus the record of wholesale loss of life from unusual catastrophes goes on, and we have another reminder of the insecurity of human life in these last days.

A Severe Arraignment

ANOTHER comment on the destructive effect of the “higher criticism” upon the Christian faith and efficiency comes from the Rev. W. T. Euster, pastor of the Wheaton Methodist church in Evanston, Ill. For a year Mr. Euster has had charge of this church, which is located near the Methodist university at Evanston, and he makes these statements after having investigated the religious conditions developed by the course of study at the Garrett Biblical Institute, which is a part of the university. He found that out of over one hundred men in the junior and senior classes less than a dozen were capable religiously and spiritually of leading a prayer meeting. “Evanston,” he says, “receives every year the cream of Methodism all over the land, and generally sends it back skim milk so far as Methodism and the Bible are concerned.” As quoted in the Chicago Tribune, he said further:—

The worst things are not upon the surface, and those who live outside this pretty city do not know the real undercurrent of affairs theological. In all that makes up true religion and faith in Christ this place should be at the apex; for with all this cream coming in each year, there should be power enough to overcome any doubting spirit that might linger here among these beautiful groves and walks. But what really does take place?

Then, after mentioning that there was one instructor in the university whose teaching supported the idea that the work of the Holy Spirit can be explained by hypnotism, and that all religious experience is but a manifestation of animalism, he continued:—

This I have found: That of all the Biblical students I have become acquainted with during this time, and I have questioned many, only four have I found with little enough of infidelity and Unitarianism in them to make it possible for me to vote for them as pastor if I were on some official board in any Methodist church in the land.

I had a number of the seniors and juniors in Garrett run over the little book of members there printed by the institute, and asked them to mark each student of theology who was capable religiously and spiritually to lead acceptably a prayer meeting, and hold his own evangelistic meeting, for the church is speaking loudly about every man his own evangelist. None of these knew that others had done the same thing. Not one senior was marked. Only a few, comparatively, of all were marked—less than a dozen in over a hundred! . . .

Some of these young men are going out to preach in Methodist pulpits with a faith but little better than that of Tom Paine expressed in his “Age of Reason.” The trend is toward mere naturalism, and a sort of Unitarianism that Channing would not have accepted in all its phases. I have not found one who would acknowledge that Jesus Christ knew as much about the Old Testament as do these modern professors! The Christ they talk and preach about is not the Christ of the Bible, but the one conjured up in the imagination filled and fumed with German rationalism, and this Christ is constantly changing.

This is the fruit of the tree, and by its fruit the tree is known.

Iowa Sanitarium Benevolent Association Annual Meeting

By Emma A. Perrine

Notice

THE second annual meeting of the Iowa Sanitarium Benevolent Association will be held at Ames, Iowa, Sept. 3, 1902, at 4 P. M., standard time, for the purpose of electing a board of seven trustees, and for the transaction of such other business as may legally come before the association. By order of the board, EMMA A. PERRINE, Secretary.

A Message from Norway

By W. A. Spicer

ALL who have taken hold to help in the Christiania matter will be pleased to know that their efforts are appreciated by our brethren in Norway, whose hearts and lives are devoted to this message. In a letter from Christiania, dated June 15, Elder Daniells says:—

Friday there was passed in the conference a resolution expressing gratitude to our brethren in America for the help they have rendered in the calamity that has befallen the cause in Norway. It would have done your heart good to see the tears that flowed as they expressed their deep gratitude, and as they pledged themselves to take hold of the work with new energy and greater loyalty. Somehow this one meeting made me feel that we were almost entirely remunerated for all that we have done for Christiania. As I thought of what their situation would have been if the property had been taken from them and the creditors paid but a small percentage of what was due them, I realized, as never before, what a wonderful victory we have gained.

It is too soon to say how the offering of July 5 has turned out. By word received from some of the isolated ones, who have sent their offerings direct, we know that many have experienced the joy and blessing of this service. It is desired that the churches shall send the collection to their state treasuries at once, so that the funds so greatly needed now may be received by our Mission Board treasury.

W. A. SPICER.

American Delegates Conclude European Conference Work at Friedensau

THE delegates from America to the European General Conference are closing their work on the Continent with a general council meeting at Friedensau, Germany, July 18-28. They plan to sail from Bremen, July 29.

Donations Sought for Christiania Publishing House Relief Fund

It is not too late to send in donations for the Christiania Publishing House relief fund. If you have not already made your contribution, you are still invited to forward cash or pledge through the usual channels.

Good Health and Pacific Health Journal Growing in Circulation

THE publishers of Good Health and the Pacific Health Journal are giving to the public excellent instruction in an attractive form. We are glad to know that the subscription lists are steadily growing larger.

Progress on the New Sanitarium Building

THE work on the new Sanitarium is getting a good start, and the walls are beginning to rise. More help is needed at once. Read the call among the business notices on the twenty-third page.

Present Truth Issues Coronation Number

THE publishers of Present Truth, London, England, issued a Coronation Number, which was filled with appropriate and instructive matter suitably illustrated.

Encouraging Young People to Read the Youth's Instructor

By Editor

We hope our young people are reading the Youth’s Instructor. It is filled with matter which is both interesting and instructive.