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Western Canadian Union Conference

By H. S. Shaw; F. L. Hommel

THE fourth biennial session of the Western Canadian Union Conference is appointed to convene at Calgary, Feb. 24 to March 2, 1916, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing union conference term, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference for consideration.

In connection with this meeting will be held a ministerial institute and a colporteurs’ convention. Instruction will be given in Sabbath school, home missionary, and young people’s work. Church officers will also find many things to help them during the session.

This will be perhaps one of the most important meetings ever held by Seventh-day Adventists in Western Canada. Since our last gathering of this nature, many grave happenings have overtaken the world, and at this time our country is engaged in the awful struggle into which the nations of the earth are being plunged. This meeting will mean more to those who attend than it could mean in an ordinary time. We expect a large attendance.

H. S. SHAW, President. F. L. HOMMEL, Secretary.

The Atlanta Sanitarium Association

By W. H. Branson; W. H. Williams

The Atlanta Sanitarium Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at 10:30 A. M., Monday, April 3, 1916, at 508 East Fair St., Atlanta, Ga. At this session trustees will be chosen, amendments to the constitution will be made, and such other business transacted as may be proper to come before the meeting. W. H. BRANSON, President. W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

Obituaries

AUSTIN.—June Austin, daughter of R. V. and Ruby Austin, was born in Woodward, Okla., June 19, 1914, and died Dec. 29, 1915, after a short illness. The bereaved parents sorrow in hope. W. H. HENDRICK.

HALE.—Mrs. Maude Smith Hale was born in Iowa, June 28, 1887, and died at the home of her parents, in Iola, Kans., Dec. 30, 1915. About six years ago Mrs. Hale united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and she fell asleep in the hope of a part in the first resurrection. A. B. CAMPBELL.

RILEY.—Jesse Allen Riley was born Oct. 25, 1890, and died Dec. 31, 1915. He was a member of the newly organized Seventh-day Adventist church at Townley, Mo., where the writer held meetings a year ago. He was a consistent Christian, ever faithful to the call of duty. C. G. BELLAH.

DOW.—Mrs. Eliza Veeder Dow died at the home of her brother, in Santa Rosa, Cal., Dec. 31, 1915, aged 79 years and 25 days. She was born in Quincy, Ill., and for forty-five years was a school-teacher in the State of California. During the last years of her life her sympathies were with the third angel’s message. C. S. PROUT.

BRITTON.—Charles N. Britton was born in Hillsdale County, Michigan, Oct. 15, 1843. In 1900 he united with the Seventh-day Adventist church of Jefferson, and at the time of his death, Jan. 4, 1916, was a member of the company at Prattville, Mich. His wife, one son, one sister, and many friends are left to mourn. I. J. WOODMAN.

CARTWRIGHT.—Lester Harold Cartwright was born in Eureka, Cal., Feb. 23, 1903, and died at the home of his parents, in Medford, Oregon, Jan. 11, 1916. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, a message of comfort and hope being given from John 14: 15-17. We believe Lester will have a part in the first resurrection. T. G. BUNCH.

WEST.—Bertha Elois West was born Sept. 4, 1903, and died at the home of her parents, near Shell Lake, Wis., Jan. 5, 1916. Although only twelve years of age she had learned to love her Saviour, and her last words were of him. Her parents, four sisters, and many relatives and friends are left to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. H. H. HICKS.

HADDOCK.—Ruth Wells Haddock was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and died at the home of her sister, in Ridgewood, N. J., Jan. 3, 1916, aged 51 years. She accepted present truth about twelve years ago, under the labors of Elder L. H. Proctor. A brother and a sister survive. She rests in the Cypress Hills Cemetery of Brooklyn, awaiting the call of the Life-giver. R. H. MARTIN.

GROVES.—Mrs. M. M. Groves was born in Vermont, Oct. 12, 1845, and died at her home, in Sitka, Ark., Dec. 26, 1915. About thirty-seven years ago mother became a Seventh-day Adventist, and her only ambition was to lead others into the truth she loved so well. During the last six months of her life she suffered much, but through it all was faithful unto death. She is survived by her husband, two sons, and five daughters. MILDRED G. BAKER.

WHITLAW.—Cecelia Eskelson was born in Denmark sixty-seven years ago last March. At an early age she gave her heart to God, and about twenty-one years ago, while residing in Utah, heard and accepted present truth. At the age of twenty-one years she was married to Cristobal Nelson, and to them were born twelve children. In December, 1914, she was united in marriage with W. Chas. Whitlaw, of Toledo, Oregon. She died Jan. 2, 1916, at the home of her daughter, near Silverton, Oregon. Ten children are left to mourn. H. G. THURSTON.

McCLARY.—Horace McClary was born in Compton, Quebec, May 14, 1838, and died at his home, in South Stukely, Quebec, Dec. 29, 1915. Feb. 21, 1864, he was married to Melissa Areta Sears, who, with their two sons and many relatives and friends, mourns his death. Brother McClary accepted present truth more than forty years ago, through the efforts of Elder A. C. Bourdeau, and died in hope of a part in the first resurrection. A. V. OLSON.

GRANT.—Charles Grant was born on the island of Java in 1839. He was a sailor the greater part of his life, visiting nearly all the important ports of the world. Shortly after he came to the Hawaiian Islands, several years ago, he accepted the truths of the third angel’s message, and faithfully obeyed the commands of the Captain of our salvation until he fell asleep in Jesus, Jan. 31, 1915. The funeral services were conducted by the writer, speaking from Ps. 116: 15. F. H. CONWAY.

MAXSON.—Mrs. Eva E. Maxson died at her home, in Prescott, Wash., Dec. 30, 1915, aged 75 years. She accepted present truth about fifteen years ago, in Waterloo, Iowa, where she was a teacher in the city schools for twenty-five years. The family moved West about six years ago. She was an earnest Christian and an active church worker. Her aged husband and one daughter are left to mourn. The funeral service was conducted by Elders W. H. Decker and Oscar Hill. C. A. LESSARD.

BURNAP.—Mrs. Sarah Burnap was born in Chester, N. J., Dec. 25, 1832. She was married to Joseph Burnap at Butler, Ill., in October, 1853. Seven children were born to them, two of whom are living. About eighteen years ago our sister became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and remained faithful to the end. She fell asleep in Jesus at Pasco, Wash., Jan. 11, 1916. She was laid beside her husband, in Centralia, Wash., to await the call of the Life-giver. OSCAR HILL.

RUSSELL.—Lucretia S. Russell was born in New York State in 1837. Her parents moved to Wisconsin when she was fifteen years old, and there she was married to F. W. Russell. They made their home in South Dakota. She embraced present truth while living in Deadwood, that State, through reading the Signs of the Times, and when called by death, Nov. 3, 1915, was an esteemed member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Sheldon, Wyo. The Methodist minister, Reverend Albone, conducted the funeral service. R. M. LAMIE.

REID.—Mary E. Willson was born in Loraine, Ill., Nov. 15, 1857. She was married to William J. Reid in 1879, and they made their home near Dorchester, Nebr. Nine children were born to them, and all of these, with the bereaved husband, are left to mourn her death, which occurred Dec. 27, 1915. The eldest daughter, Elinora, is a missionary nurse in India. Sister Reid was a faithful Seventh-day Adventist for twenty-five years, and was zealous in sowing the seeds of truth among her neighbors and friends. She sleeps in Jesus. B. L. HOUSE.

MERTENS.—Jennie Mertens was born Dec. 26, 1873, and died in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2, 1915. She was an invalid for five years. Although confined to her room, she carefully trained her two children. She never complained of her lot, but expressed happiness and joy in the Saviour’s love, and brought cheer and sunshine to the hearts of those with whom she came in contact. The tender care and devotion shown by her husband and only daughter was precious in the sight of God. The husband, daughter, and little son do not mourn as those who have no hope, but are looking to the near future, when, if faithful, they expect to meet their loved one at the first resurrection. Words of comfort were spoken from Rev. 14: 13 by the writer. F. H. CONWAY.

Lake Union Conference

By L. H. Christian; A. N. Anderson

THE eighth biennial session of the Lake Union Conference will be held in the Battle Creek Tabernacle, at Battle Creek, Mich., March 7-14, 1916. The first meeting of the conference is to open at 9:30 A. M., Tuesday, March 7. Each local conference in the union is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and to an additional delegate for each one hundred and fifty of its membership.

L. H. CHRISTIAN, President.

A. N. ANDERSON, Secretary.

The Southeastern Union Conference Association

By William H. Branson; W. H. Williams

THE Southeastern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at 10:30 A. M., Monday, April 3, 1916, at 508 East Fair St., Atlanta, Ga. At this session trustees will be chosen, amendments to the constitution will be made, and such other business transacted as may be proper to come before the meeting.

W. H. BRANSON, President.

W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

Columbia Union Conference Association

By B. G. Wilkinson; R. T. Dowsett

THE legal meeting of the Columbia Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the auditorium of the Carnegie Library, Lang and Hamilton Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pa., in connection with the Columbia Union Conference, and will hold its first meeting at 10:45 A. M., Tuesday, March 14, 1916, for the transaction of such business as may come before the constituent body, which is composed of the delegates of the Columbia Union Conference. B. G. WILKINSON, Chairman. R. T. DOWSETT, Secretary.

Publications Wanted

THE persons named below desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for use in missionary work. In sending publications care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have been credibly informed that some who oppose this movement and the truths which it represents answer these requests for literature, and are sending to our brethren and sisters in various parts of the country tracts and papers representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this literature with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out matter not printed in the interests of the cause of truth.

E. I. Haad, Huron, S. Dak.

George A. Pratt, Edward St., Saranac Lake, N. Y.

B. H. Palmer, Tenstrike, Minn. Continuous supply.

Mrs. Henry Malone, 819 College St., Sherman, Tex.

J. H. Downes, Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C., England.

Mrs. C. O. Jones, 27 Curtis St., East Chattanooga, Tenn.

Mrs. Ernest Sayers, Hydropathic Treatment Rooms, Lansing, Mich.

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Requests for Prayer

A MICHIGAN sister asks prayer for healing from rheumatism.

“Please pray that a cancerous growth may be stayed,” writes another sister, from New York.

A sister in New York who has been a chronic sufferer for years, asks us to pray that she may be restored to health.

Writing from Pennsylvania, a sister desires our united prayers for the success of a critical surgical operation to which her son-in-law must submit.

Somber Colors With Sober Work

The photo-brown ink used on the 1916 Temperance Annual is in perfect keeping with the cause it represents. The temperance issue is not a flower garden, as yet. We are in the reconstruction time. We are just now struggling with the liquor traffic, just as the cartoon represents David struggling with the lion. We are in the midst of a tremendous battle, and no battle field is marked by the presence of beautiful flowers and attractive colors. It is smoky and deathlike, exceedingly serious and somber. When the smoke is gone and the turmoil past, then we can consistently print the Temperance Annual in beautiful, sparkling colors, but not now. While the crisis of the battle is on, we think the color of the cover this year corresponds with the sober nature of the issue it represents.

The rank and file of temperance people throughout the field recognize the 1916 Temperance Annual as the master number. They do not make a single exception. The following statement concerning this year's Temperance Annual comes from the manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, of Niles, Michigan:—

“Your favor of January 4 received, and the paper, which is all you claim for it. It is the best temperance paper I have seen. I write to know if you will kindly mail the paper to the following list of names at my expense. I send you 70 names with addresses, and inclose money order for the papers. If anything is due me, you may send the amount in copies of the paper, which I will distribute.”

The following statement is from the Lake Union Educational secretary, C. A. Russell, Berrien Springs, Michigan:—

“I was very much interested in the sample copy of the 1916 Temperance Annual. Yesterday, Sabbath, I took occasion to delve more deeply into the contents of this issue. I do not deal in flatteries, neither do I throw out bouquets indiscriminately, but really I think it is the greatest piece of temperance literature ever given permanency by the press. I lay awake last night planning in my own mind how best to promote the circulation of this splendid issue in the Lake Union Conference. I propose to have the matter taken up by our young people's workers, church-school teachers, and other leaders in securing the interest of various temperance organizations in the circulation of this issue. The striking picture from real life painted by ex-Governor Hanly is worth many times the price of the paper. If I had any stronger words of commendation to use, I would certainly use them. I am simply delighted with the paper, from cover to cover.”

The following expresses the opinion of thousands of temperance people in all parts of the field:—

“I received the Temperance Annual for 1916, and have read every item in it, and I can assure you that every line it contains has my hearty approval. If I live to see prohibition nation-wide, and I hope I will live to see it, and in the near future at that, I will firmly believe that the Youth's Instructor has had more influence in making the nation dry than any other paper or magazine, or than all of the other papers and magazines that are printed in the United States have had. “FELIX R. SHIPP, Athos, Va.”

“SHAMS”

The following are expressions found in a few of the letters that have come to us from persons who have had the opportunity of reading the new book, “Shams:”—

This book is most profitable as well as very interesting. C. C. MATTISON.

I think it is the most interesting and charming book on this theme that I have yet read, and it has given me a few hints that I would profit by to follow this coming year. CHARLES MENTE.

This little book contains truths, and I find that when we measure our lives by them, we fall far short of what we ought to be and what many of us profess to be. E. A. CHASTENEY.

I have received a live inspiration from reading it through. Surely I do not want to be a sham, nor do I want to live and die without causing even a ripple in the great sea of life. P. E. BRODERSEN.

Although I have had the book only a few days, and do not have very much time for reading, yet the little work was so attractive that somehow I have found the time to read it through, and wish to say, I like it very much. V. O. COLE.

The message it brings is short, but sorely needed and helpful. It diagnoses the case and advises the remedy. Repeated thoughtful reading with self in mind is bound to produce beneficial results. O. F. SCHWERDRAT.

There are a great many truths in it. Any person that is not too far gone with egotism ought to profit by reading it. G. PALMER.

While there are many shams in the world, I didn't find this book a sham, and of course we do not want any shams in this message. N. P. NEILSEN.

I have read it through, and have appreciated it very much. I am reading it to the students in the chapel this week, and it seems to please them, too. The thoughts presented are indeed very practical. J. H. SCHILLING, President Clinton German Seminary.

I have found it very interesting. It brings home one's shortcomings very strongly, and I would heartily recommend it for boys and men to read; and at the beginning of the new year it should make a strong appeal. A. G. OGDEN.

Your admirable little book, “Shams,” with its splendid articles useful for the guidance of man, boy, and girl, was received this morning. Something in the title and appearance of the booklet impelled me to drop all else to sit down and read it through. It was richly worth the time I spent on it, and I shall pass it on to my family and others as a model of Christian advice and Christlike teaching. W. F. FRENCH.

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News From Hilo and Seoul

FROM Hilo, on the island of Hawaii (the largest of the group), comes the good word that the first fruits of the message were added to the church on Sabbath, January 15, when three new believers were baptized on the occasion of Elder F. H. Conway’s visit. Others are studying the truth, and it is hoped that ere long a strong church may be raised up on this island, where the people have waited so long for workers. Brother and Sister McKeague are pleading for help to be sent them, as they are unable to meet the present demands.

WE cannot fully appreciate what it means to our missionaries out in the far fields, separated as they often are by long distances from skilful physicians, when a sudden attack of some disease overtakes them, which might be relieved perhaps by an operation. Brother H. A. Oberg, connected with the publishing work at Seoul, Korea, recently had a severe attack of appendicitis, yet scarcely knows where to go for relief. Let us not forget to pray earnestly that God’s special blessings may rest upon our faithful missionaries at work amid the many difficulties in distant lands.

It Sounds Good

By T. E. Bowen

THE other day when glancing through union conference papers, I saw so many good things reported here and there, especially the paying of institutional indebtedness, that somehow it seemed as if some of these good things ought to be collected so that we might get one good look at what is actually being done before our very eyes. Here are a few of the “good things” I saw that did my soul good:—

First, the Northern Union Reaper, in Brother Charles Thompson’s biennial report, said:—

“The thing that has been paramount upon our hearts, and which we have endeavored to emphasize in our administration, has been the winning of souls to Christ, and the upbuilding and advancement of the kingdom of righteousness in the earth. While we are in no sense satisfied with results, we do view with gratitude of heart and thankfulness to God the fact that 1,224 persons have been baptized by our ministers into the faith during the past two years. Nineteen churches have been organized, and fifteen meetinghouses have been secured or erected, and dedicated.”

“Two years ago the total indebtedness reported was, Notes payable, $121,400. Today it is approximately $76,000, with $36,000 of this provided for.”

The first article in the Lake Union Herald is from the president of Emmanuel Missionary College, entitled “The College Debt is Paid.” Somewhat over a year ago the students set out with a determination that the debt must be paid. It surely seemed a large undertaking for them, but the plan for freedom from debt was successfully carried out, and now they are singing their jubilee song. This paragraph tells their joy at the meeting when the final report was given:—

“The members of the board were on the platform, and the friends and patrons of the school had gathered in to hear the annual speeches of the board members, which had been announced the previous day. But during the night the plans for the program had been changed. Elder L. H. Christian, the president of the board, after a few preliminary remarks, came to the keynote of the whole meeting, and the school was fairly electrified as he made the statement, ‘The College debt is paid!’ Scarcely had the last words fallen from his lips when the appreciation of the students and teachers found expression in a spontaneous outburst of applause.”

In the same paper the story of the debt of Adelphian Academy is told. In it we are informed that this school in East Michigan was born in debt, like many others. But the climax of this story is that its debt of $14,000 has been wiped off the records, and the school enters upon its new career of “freedom from debt” with properties worth $30,000.

The Pacific Union Recorder came out recently with all the squares of its oft-printed block of squares marked off. These represented $150,000, which the union has been struggling to raise for paying indebtedness on the large training schools in its territory. This large goal is now reached, in cash paid in and in good pledges to be paid soon.

Then we learn that by the close of the present school year it is expected that the great debt on Union College will have been provided for, including possibly the German Seminary. This is in the Central Union.

The Columbia Union Conference paid during 1914 the last of the $33,000 debt on Mount Vernon Academy, and this year paid off the last of the big debt which formerly was on the Pennsylvania Sanitarium. That conference has also given this year $10,000 for the payment of the debt on the Washington Missionary College, and has already begun its large campaign to raise $27,000, $25,000 of which goes for a new building at the Washington Missionary College, and $2,000 for industrial facilities at Mount Vernon Academy.

With all this good news before us, and remembering that this year for the first time in the history of the denomination the Mission Board was able to vote in its budget practically all the requests from distant mission fields, surely it would seem that we all have cause for great rejoicing, and reason for sincere gratitude to God for his prospering hand which has attended the efforts put forth by his people to extend his cause at home and abroad. The work of the third angel’s message has grown to such proportions as we scarcely dreamed of a few years ago, and in its onward progress has gathered such great strength that could its pioneers now behold it all, we fancy it would be a great surprise as well as cause of rejoicing to them.

In view of what is being accomplished, truly it is appropriate that we look up, and lift up our heads and rejoice, for our “redemption draweth nigh.”

T. E. BOWEN.

India Publishing House Reports Best Year

Our India publishing house at Lucknow reports the year just closed as the very best in its experience. Such little books as “The World's Crisis,” and “The Shadow of the Bottle” are in great demand, the former being ordered faster than the books can be supplied. The third angel's message contains the only satisfactory answer for the many world questions arising in the hearts of men and women today the world over.

Venezuela Workers Exchange Fields

Word from Brother S. A. Oberg, who has been laboring alone in Venezuela most of the past year, while his wife and children have been on the Pacific Coast regaining health, says that he is leaving on the first boat (via Trinidad) for New York. Brother and Sister Neff are on their way to take up the work Brother and Sister Oberg have been obliged to lay down. They will probably pass each other on the sea in this exchange of fields.

Tithes and Offerings in Every Land

BROTHER E. D. THOMAS, himself a Tamil, in charge of the mission at Nazareth, South India, says that he observes a great change going on in the hearts of the people. “Those who used to be very timid,” he says, “in paying tithes and offerings, now give very liberally. One young girl has even paid tithe on a little present given her by her heathen brother. These things encourage us greatly.” And it is in the loyalty of these things, often apparently small in themselves, that believers everywhere manifest their truest interest in God’s cause. “It makes no difference how small the income may be,” Brother Thomas continues, “the principle is the same. A man, be he an Indian or a European, is interested in what he helps to support, and I believe the payment of tithes and offerings is God’s divine plan to that end. It applies to all peoples in all ages and in all lands.”

Daniells’s Portland Lectures to Be Published

By Editor

The lectures delivered by Elder A. G. Daniells in the city hall auditorium, Portland, Maine, were stenographically reported, and will appear in the Signs of the Times weekly, beginning with the first issue in March. These reports will make interesting reading for our neighbors.