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Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 7.

TIME COMES BACK NO MORE
Earlier text: Remarks of Elder A. G. Daniels

CALIFORNIA WORKERS' CONVENTION.

By David Paulson

Our California brethren set aside the month of January for a convention or institute for their laborers. The first part of this was devoted to a study of the underlying principles of the various lines of work, and a consideration of the best methods of labor. The last ten days of this convention were devoted exclusively to the medical missionary phase of the work. About a score of the Pacific Coast physicians were in attendance, as well as quite a number of medical students and representatives of our various health institutions in this section. Brethren Jones, Corliss, and Sadler, Dr. Kellogg, and other workers were specially led by God to lead out in important lines of instruction.
We were all impressed as never before with the beauty and clearness of truth, and an earnest longing was created in our hearts for higher attainments, mentally, morally, and physically, to enable us to accomplish the work for humanity which the present situation demands.
The trend of medical thought is now in the direction of utilizing the wonderful possibilities which are wrapped up in the physiological methods of caring for the sick. This idea is what our health institutions have stood for and helped to keep alive for more than a quarter of a century. In order to accomplish what we may with natural remedies, it is necessary to possess a thorough knowledge of the human body and its functions. This is a point which some of our brethren have not seen as clearly as they should; consequently they have allowed the idea to prevail among many of our young people that a mere smattering of medical knowledge, a superficial training, was all that was really essential to make them efficient medical missionary workers. This is a great mistake. The man who is to stand at the bedside of the sick and dying must shoulder a responsibility that no other worker in the cause is compelled to assume, and he needs to be thoroughly fortified with the highest and best training that it is possible for him to secure. To dabble with physiological remedies in such an ignorant way that the patient's life must be jeopardized thereby is a sin for which the inefficient worker will be held accountable in the day of God.
The great truth of God's manifestation in all nature, and particularly in the human body, was emphasized in this convention to a degree to which it has perhaps never been presented before in the history of our work. A clear recognition of this truth marvelously simplifies to our minds such questions as divine guidance, forgiveness, spiritual as well as physical, prayer, and what constitutes real service.
Brother Jones's closing study upon the sanctuary question will probably never be forgotten by those who had the privilege of listening to it. He called attention to the fact that when God in a special manner spoke to His people at Mount Sinai, He veiled himself so that they should never have any temptation to build up, either in their minds or outside of themselves, any image of God; for any image which they could make would so cheapen the thought of God that it would make them a small people, and they would do only a small work in the earth. So the Lord sought to impress the idea of His existence and His character upon His people, knowing that they could not crystallize these two conceptions into an image. But by and by they began to build images outside, after they had first imagined for themselves images in their minds. We have reached the time when we are beyond making images to God outside of ourselves, but there are still thousands of Christian people who are setting up images of God in their minds, and thus belittling both God and themselves, just as the people back there did when they constructed the images outside of their minds. The results are the same in both cases. The great God that upholds the entire universe, that controls the waves and the winds, that manifests himself in the glistening of the dew-drop and in the fragrance of the rose, that is every moment performing those wonderful miracles that are constantly taking place within every human body, cannot be conceived by a mental image without belittling Him, and belittling ourselves by entertaining such a meager conception. The whole sanctuary service was to impress the people with the great God that was dwelling in their own temples, but by and by the people degenerated to such an extent that they saw only the boards, the shining gold, the altar, and the veil; then God took away the entire service.
In this generation, God is to cleanse in a special manner, by the presentation of cleansing truths, our bodies and characters. And so He has again presented before us the whole sanctuary truth, but if we see no more in it than the children of Israel did anciently, we shall receive no greater benefit from its study. If we do not appreciate the fact that the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary can take place no faster than we adopt in our hearts and lives truths which shall cleanse these temples here below, then we shall make the same mistake that God's people did anciently.
Not a discordant note was struck in this convention. Medical missionary physicians, students, evangelical workers, and lay brethren sat down together, and alike feasted upon the same glorious truths. If that spirit of earnestness for truth and zeal for unity of work shall characterize these laborers as they return to their positions in our institutions and to their respective fields of labor, then eternity alone will be able to measure the good which was accomplished by this never-to-be-forgotten convention.
DAVID PAULSON.

SPECIAL NOTICES

By C. W. Flaiz

The Northwestern Union Conference.

The first biennial meeting of the Northwestern Union Conference will convene in Des Moines, Iowa, April 1-10, 1902. Each local Conference will be entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and to one additional delegate for each three hundred of the Conference membership.
This will be a very important meeting, and will have a bearing upon the future interests of the cause. We therefore desire that the Conferences shall be as fully represented as possible. C. W. FLAIZ, Pres.

Business Notices.

WANTED.—Heavy farm horse. Brethren in Mississippi, Tennessee, or Arkansas, who have one for sale, please address A. L. Dawson, Deval Bluff, Ark.
WANTED.—Employment in saw-mill, among S. D. A. people, in Washington, Oregon, or Idaho. References furnished. Address A. C. Tucker, Silver Cliff, Colo.
WANTED.—A man, with small family, for general farm work; one capable of taking charge of large farm. References required. Address Ezra Brackett, Allegan, Mich.
WANTED.—Good Adventist farmer, with team and tools, to work farm on shares, three-fourths mile from market, S. D. A. church, etc. Good references required. Address Lewis D. Pierce, Ainger, Mich.
FOR SALE OR RENT.—My home, 61 Manchester St., Battle Creek, Mich., two doors west of College campus; two-story, nine-room house, with basement and cellar. Lots 70 ft. front by 210 deep, garden, fruit trees, city water, cistern. Address Mrs. Cordie H. Wood, 519 Badger St., La Crosse, Wis.
FOR SALE.—Farm of 252 acres of fine fruit land five miles west of Battle Creek, for $8,000. Adjoining land set out to fruit was sold last season for $225 per acre. For further particulars address Samuel Barr, Battle Creek, or Harrison B. McGraw, administrator, 456 Russell Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
FOR SALE.—Farm of 108 acres, 3½ miles north of Berrien Springs; 2 miles from Emmanuel Missionary College grounds; all under good cultivation; 25 acres well started in peaches, pears, berries; 25 acres of winter grain; 25 acres in grass; all in good condition, situated on proposed electric railway line. For further information, address George P. Pullen, Arden, Berrien Co., Mich.
FOR SALE CHEAP.—A nice home consisting of 50 acres with good buildings; 1,550 bearing fruit trees; ½ mile north of Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich. Address C. M. Christiansen, Berrien Springs, Mich.

Especially for Teachers.

ARE you a teacher, or have you been endowed with the ability to teach? If so, there is but one thing for you to do. We have parleyed for years, thinking we might work half for the world and half for the Lord, but the crisis has been reached. Those who know the truths of the Third Angel's Message are now called to consecrate every talent, every power, to the advancement of that message. Consequently, if you have teaching ability, the only conclusion we can draw is that now is the time for you to teach wholly with the idea of preaching the gospel by your teaching.
The number of Christian schools must be multiplied next fall. The Foreign Mission Board and the Educational Department of the General Conference are planning to send well-equipped teachers into the foreign fields. Many of the persons to be sent are already listening to the pleadings of the Spirit of God. To those we appeal. For these we are laying broad, far-reaching plans. This call is not to the young and inexperienced, but to men and women of maturity.
The summer school this season will be a great gathering of laborers for home and foreign fields. During the spring term of Emmanuel Missionary College, classes will be conducted which are directly preparatory to the special instruction of the summer. If a person needs a review of the common branches, let him enter the college at the opening of the spring term, March 19. If there is any doubt about being able to teach a church school next fall, then plan to take work both the spring and summer terms. For the necessary qualifications of the missionary teacher, or for further particulars concerning work offered, address Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich.

Notice to Tract Societies and Missionary Workers!

THOSE wishing the names of persons to whom the Signs of the Times may be sent, can have any number they wish, as I have several hundred, from Western States, that I will be glad to send to any who will use them. I also have the names of a limited number of Danes, Swedes, Germans, and French, to whom are to be sent papers in their respective languages; and a very few names of Poles, Finns, and Italians; also a few names of children, to whom the Instructor should be sent. I shall be glad to hear, as soon as possible, from those who wish any of these names. Address Walter Harper, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

To Relatives of Thomas Wade.

By Mrs. M. V. Boyd

ABOUT three years ago there came to my home, in Temple, Tex., a man named Thomas Wade, about sixty years of age; he was destitute and broken in health, having just come from the hospital at Waco, Tex. He made his home with me for about a year and a half, when he died at the hospital in Temple, Tex. He told me he was from Canada, and when he left there, had two sisters and a brother living. If this notice reaches any of his relatives in Canada, and they wish to know more of the particulars, I will tell them all I know. Would have written to his sisters at the time of his death, but had lost their address. (Canada papers, please copy.)
MRS. M. V. BOYD. Temple, Tex.

The Pacific Union Conference.

By W. T. Knox; J. J. Ireland

The first annual meeting of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is called to assemble in the Seventh-day Adventist church at Portland, Ore., Feb. 27, 1902, at 10 A. M. for the purpose of selecting the officers that are to serve during the ensuing biennial term, and for the transacting of such other business as may come before the meeting.
Each local Conference will be entitled to one delegate in the session of this Conference, without regard to numbers, and an additional delegate for every three hundred church-members in the Conference.
W. T. KNOX, Pres., J. J. IRELAND, Sec.

The Southwestern Union Conference.

By C. McReynolds

The first annual session of the Southwestern Union Conference will convene April 16, 1902, and continue till the night of the 26th. Each Conference in the Union is entitled to send its president as a delegate, and one additional delegate for every two hundred and fifty members; one delegate also from Boulder Sanitarium, one from Keene Academy, and one from the Keene Sanitarium. Services will begin the night of the 15th. The first meeting of the Conference will open at 10:30 A. M. the 16th. Reduced rates will be given on all railroads in our territory. Rate will be announced soon. Ample preparations will be made for all. We expect from five to seven hundred to attend. Let all come who can. Place will be announced soon.
C. McREYNOLDS, Pres.

Evangelistic Canvassers.

Jesus Christ loves the canvassing work. It is written that when He was here, He “went about doing good.” It is stated that “there is no higher work than evangelistic canvassing;” “a great and good work may be done by evangelistic canvassers.” There are many other statements as strong as these. Every one who has Christ abiding in his heart believes them.
“Canvassers are to be educated and trained to do the work required in selling the books upon present truth which the people need. There is need of men of deep Christian experience, men of well-balanced minds, strong, well-educated men, to engage in this work. Christ in me has the same mind as Christ in heaven, and when Christ in heaven sends the above message, what can I do but say, Lord, give me this education, for I desire not only to love the canvassing work, but the preparation for it?
“A great and important work is before us. The enemy of souls realizes this, and he is using every means in his power to lead the canvasser to take up some other line of work. This order of things should be changed. God wants the canvassers to be at their work. He wants volunteers who will put all their energies and enlightenment into the work of helping wherever there is opportunity. . . . Who will respond to the call? . . . Who will sacrifice ease and pleasure, and enter the places of error, superstition, and darkness, to work earnestly and perseveringly, speaking the truth in simplicity, praying in faith, doing house-to-house labor? Who at this time will go forth without the camp, imbued with the power of the Holy Spirit, bearing reproach for Christ’s sake, opening the Scriptures to the people, and calling them to repentance?”
“God has His workmen in every age. The call of the hour is answered by the coming of the man. Thus, when the divine voice cries, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ the response will come, ‘Here am I; send me.’ Let all who labor effectually in the canvassing field feel in their hearts that they are doing the work of the Lord in ministering to souls who know not the truth for this time.”
The Lord is coming soon. The work is closing rapidly. Those who know Christ will be in sympathy with Christ, and will do His will on this earth. Every Christian should canvass; he cannot please God unless he does. He should carry to his neighbors and friends the printed page of truth.
There are many who should devote their entire time to this grand work. God is calling them to receive a training for it. Emmanuel Missionary College will give a course of instruction for all such, beginning February 18. Tuition will be free. Living expenses are light. The teachers in this department are men who have had rich experience in the canvassing field. For further information, address Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich.

Addresses.

HEREAFTER the address of Elder W. H. Saxby will be Spokane, Wash., care of Sanitarium.
The address of Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Read, after February 20, will be 1809 Wallace St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Mexico.

By G. W. Caviness

For nearly all Mexico there are but two seasons, the rainy season and the dry season. When it rains, it sets about it in good earnest, and keeps it up almost daily from the last of May or the first of June until October, then it stops as suddenly as it began, and for the remainder of the year there is practically no rain at all. In the matter of the seasons Mexico does not do things by the halves; when it rains, it does thorough work; and when dry weather comes, it is good-by to rain until the next year.
One crop can be raised each year in nearly all parts, and if a mountain stream can be controlled, or water caught in the rainy season can be kept in reservoirs and used in the dry weather for irrigation, two or three crops may be secured. There is still some government land on the market at prices ranging from fifty cents to three dollars an acre, depending of course on the quality and location. As there are comparatively few railroads in the country, much of the land can be reached only by mule and donkey paths over mountains and down deep and rugged gulleys.
The public lands are not always surveyed, and one cannot be sure of his claim in every case. Various companies have secured large sections, and offer land for sale at prices ranging from one dollar an acre up. The titles given by such companies are a little more sure to cover the land purchased, and the prices vary according to whether it is near civilization or in the wilderness. Life and property, except small things that can be carried away readily, are generally safe throughout the country. One need have no more fear while traveling in Mexico than in the United States. The natives generally are kind and hospitable.
Such grains as corn, wheat, oats, and barley do well in most parts of the country. The fruits and vegetables of temperate zones are produced in the higher parts, while in the lower sections grow tropical fruits, sugar-cane, coffee, and rubber trees.
Much of the farming is still done in crude and ancient ways. Grain is trampled out by oxen or mules, and the forked stick is used for a plow. I have seen from twelve to twenty yoke of oxen in a small field of only a few acres plowing with that kind of plow. Each yoke had a separate plow and driver. Modern implements and methods are being introduced in various parts, and the country is being transformed rapidly; but much still remains to be done.
The farm laborers are ignorant and poor, living much like animals, in a rude and filthy condition. Frequently chickens, pigs, and other animals live in the same room with the people. Such persons certainly live close to nature, but are not elevated by the association. Their clothing, when they have any, consists of a shirt and trousers of cotton cloth, a hat, a pair of sandals made of sole leather, and a blanket, which they carry around with them by day, and in which they sleep at night.
The staple articles of food for this class are corn cakes and beans. Wages are from thirty-seven to fifty cents a day, Mexican money. Many times they spend for drink the greater part of the few cents they get, so higher wages would not be a real blessing unless they were helped to a better life at the same time. For this class some Christian families with unlimited patience and love of souls could do a noble work. Enough money to purchase suitable property and keep the workers a year or so while getting started and learning enough of the language to do ordinary business would be essential.
G. W. CAVINESS.

About Red Albumen.

By Editor

THOSE who have written us regarding the article “How to Make Hens Lay in Winter,” which appeared in our issue of Dec. 10, 1901, will please take notice that a contradiction of the same was printed in the very next paper, Review for Dec. 17, 1901, entitled “Best Winter Food for Hens.” It seems that thousands of other papers throughout the country were also deceived by the statements made concerning red albumen, by the U. S. Salyx Co.

Bureau of Information

SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE.

THERE are many favorable and unsolicited recommendations coming in for the new book, “Scriptural Foundations of Science.” We quote the following from Prof. Geo. E. Price, author of “Modern Science and Christianity,” soon to be issued by the Pacific Press:—
“I have received your book, ‘The Scriptural Foundations of Science,’ and am delighted with it. For several years I have been reading everything I could get my hands on along this line, but if I were to say that it is the best of its kind I have ever seen, I would be slandering it,—there are no others of its kind. I wish there were. I have read dozens of books trying to ‘harmonize’ science and the Bible; but what are they compared with one that shows that the Bible is the sure guide to safe scientific theory in original research? If modern theological leaders only realized and believed the principles you have set forth as to which is the safer guide to follow, human science by the trial-and-error method, or the word of the Eternal, they would not now be calling on us, as they are almost unanimously doing, for ‘a complete reconstruction of Christian theology,’ so as to bring it in harmony with the proved (?) results of modern science as to origins. If they had only been willing to take their theories from the Bible instead of Lyell and Darwin, they might long ago have learned the lessons stored up for us in the fossiliferous rocks.
“You have done a noble thing in showing investigators how to get safe and sure theories of nature. And I am convinced that we are on the eve of the greatest revival of a true knowledge of Nature and Nature’s God. For is not our message one that calls upon this generation of Evolutionists to ‘worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters’? And is not the Sabbath, as the souvenir of creation, an everlasting protest against the Evolution theory?”
Price, 75 cts. Order of State Tract Societies.

FOREIGN TRACTS.

The last issue of the Danish and Swedish libraries contains the matter that was formerly printed in the old English tract entitled “Present Truth.” This old tract has proved to be one of the best ever published by our people in the English language, and is expected to accomplish fully as much in the foreign languages. In its new form in these foreign libraries it makes very attractive literature to present to the people.
This little tract briefly reviews the facts of God’s revealing the coming of the flood, the time of the sojourn of the children of Israel in Egypt, the destruction of Sodom, the famine in Egypt, the time of the journey of the children of Israel in the wilderness, the seventy years’ captivity in Babylon, and the very year of the coming of the Messiah, and from these instances and the general teachings of the Scriptures, draws the conclusion that if God is careful to warn His people of such minor events, it would be reasonable to expect the revelation of such an important event as the second coming of Christ, and then proceeds with a full exposition of this most important subject.
It is a tract that should be in the homes of all the people; 32 pages; price, 2 cts.
Order of the State Tract Societies.

A NEW TRACT.

REVELATION the fourteenth chapter and the eighth verse, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,” is the subject of the new tract entitled “The Fall of Babylon,” by Elder R. C. Porter. It is published in the Bible Students’ Library, No. 169, January, 1902. It has an appropriate illustrated cover, contains 22 pages, and sells for 1 1/2 cts. per copy, with usual discount to tract societies.
What is Babylon? What is her fall? What is meant by the wine of her fornication? and what is the remedy for her salvation? are clearly and carefully answered in this tract. It is good for general circulation.
Order of the State Tract Societies.

A CHART OF THE WEEK.

A SPLENDID display in chart form showing the unchanged order of the days and the true position of the Sabbath, as proved by the combined testimony of 159 ancient and modern languages.
This chart is substantially mounted on rollers, and is printed on paper on cloth, in the original languages. It is eighteen inches wide and seven feet long. It is an excellent arrangement to have in presenting the Sabbath question. The regular original price of the chart is $1.25, but for a short time we will send it, postpaid, for 45 cts.

Manual for Canvassers.

By Editor

We have a small vest-pocket book, nicely bound in leather, containing a compilation of the principal matter written by Mrs. E. G. White upon the canvassing work, gleaned from the Testimonies and the “Gospel Workers,” combined with unpublished manuscript compiled under the direction of the author, and arranged in convenient form for reference. It is indispensable to the canvasser, and good for all who are interested in one of the most potent factors in the dissemination of the Third Angel’s Message.
It is largely through the medium of the printed page that the message is to be made known to the world, and as the work of the canvasser is to be greatly enlarged to meet this responsibility, it is important that all have a thorough knowledge of the methods to be employed in the accomplishment of this important work. Price, only 25 cts.
Order of the State Tract Societies.

IN DEMAND.

By Editor

A few weeks ago we advertised a little folder entitled, “The King’s Royal Life Insurance Company,” and were surprised to receive almost immediately orders for 15,000, and still the orders are coming in, and we are obliged to print another large edition.
In these days when the great majority of men insure their lives in the various life insurance companies, and are interested in securing the very best companies, it seems to be an easy matter to call their attention to the advantages of being insured by Him who not only will keep the insured, but will care for the beneficiaries through this life, and provide a home for them in the world to come. If this little tract calls the attention of thousands from insurance associations to the Source of all life, we bid it God speed.
Price of the tract, 50 cts. a hundred, postpaid.
Order of the Review and Herald Pub. Co.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK.

THE “Facts for the Times” is a volume especially designed to furnish a compilation of important facts in a compact and convenient form for reference.
The information contained in this book covers a wide range of subjects of deep interest to the general reader, and especially valuable to those who wish to make a study of the subjects to which the facts pertain.
The book contains accounts of remarkable fulfillments of prophecy; interesting comments upon different texts of Scripture from the ablest critics; past and present striking occurrences of natural phenomena; important facts in the development of our own country; statistics concerning population, intemperance, war, crime, and the present condition of the religious, political, and physical worlds; and many other important subjects — a compendium of important facts in a simple and easy form for ready reference. It contains 329 pages, nicely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cts., postpaid.
Order of the State Tract Societies.

THE MASTER'S GREATEST MONOSYLLABLES.

In commendation of the new book by Wm. Pearce, entitled “The Master's Greatest Monosyllables,” Elder W. E. Frederick says: “The writer, in a concise way, has developed thoughts that are especially applicable to us at this time. . . . Those who fail to read this book will lose a great blessing. If the chapter headed ‘Go’ were read and heeded by each one of us as workers, the gospel would soon be carried to all the world, and our blessed Lord would come. May the Lord wake up His people, that they may become intense workers.”
Price, postpaid, 50 cts. Order of State Tract Societies.

SCRIPTURAL INDEX.

A COMPENDIUM of the Scriptures quoted in the various writings of Mrs. E. G. White. These scriptures are arranged and classified so that the comments which have been made on them by the Spirit of Prophecy can be easily referred to. The book is of great value in the study of the Bible and the Testimonies. The prices are reduced from, cloth, 60 cts. to 30 cts.; morocco, $1.00 to 50 cts., postpaid. Order of State Tract Societies.

THE MARVEL OF NATIONS.

In Swedish, Danish, and German.

ALTHOUGH this excellent book has been published in the English language for a number of years, and has accomplished a wonderful work, it has never been printed in any of the foreign tongues until the present time. It is now in type in the Danish and Swedish languages, and the translation into the German will be completed in a few weeks.
The time appointed for its completion in all three of the languages is MAY 1, 1902. It will be issued simultaneously in the three languages. Agents can take orders now for delivery after May 1.
This is a book that tends to revive the old-time energy in the canvassing work. It is an easy book to sell; and that it contains the message for this time is evident from its power to stimulate believers, and to attract the attention of the people. It accomplishes good wherever it has been placed in the English language, and there is no question but that it will be the means of bringing the message to thousands of our foreign neighbors.
The prices in the foreign languages are the same as the English prices,—$1.25 for the plain edges, and $1.50 for the gilt edges.
Place all orders with the State Tract Societies.

Michigan Central

By O. W. Ruggles; R. N. Wheeler

“The Niagara Falls Route.”
Corrected Nov. 3, 1901.
EAST
Station 8 1 12 2 6 10 14 1 4 1 36 1
Chicago pm 9.35 am 6.45 am 10.30 pm 9.00 pm 6.30 pm 11.30
Michigan City 11.25 8.43 12.08 9.40 7.00 am 1.20
Niles am 12.40 10.15 1.00 9.85 7.55 2.30
Kalamazoo 2.10 pm 7.30 12.10 2.08 9.45 9.00 4.10
Battle Creek 3.00 8.10 1.00 2.42 7.17 9.97 5.00
Marshall 3.33 8.85 1.90 3.09 7.43 5.30
Albion 3.55 9.00 1.50 3.30 8.08 5.52
Jackson 4.50 10.05 2.85 4.05 8.40 10.50 6.10
Ann Arbor 5.55 11.10 3.47 4.58 9.30 11.40 7.45
Detroit 7.15 pm 12.25 5.30 6.00 10.00 12.40 9.15
Falls View pm 5.19
Sup. Bridge 5.32
Niagara Falls 5.40
Buffalo am 12.20 am 7.00 7.50 6.30
Rochester 8.13 10.00 8.40
Syracuse 5.15 10.55 pm 12.15 / 10.45
Albany 9.05 pm 2.50 pm 4.50 2.50
New York pm 1.30 6.00 8.45 7.00
Springfield 12.16 6.00 9.32 6.05
Boston 8.00 9.00 11.30 8.46
WEST
Station 17 9 1 5 8 28 1 13 37 1
Boston am 4.15 pm 6.00
New York am 8.45 am 8.15
Syracuse am 9.00 10.30
Rochester am 1.20 4.00 pm 12.10
Buffalo 3.20 pm 6.25 5.20 8.50
Niagara Falls 6.02 4.32
Sup. Bridge 5.00
Falls View 6.31 6.07
Detroit pm 8.20 8.25 pm 7.15 am 12.30 pm 12.40 4.35 11.15
Ann Arbor 9.38 9.23 8.40 1.20 1.88 5.45 12.20
Jackson 11.20 10.20 11.05 2.20 2.40 7.25 1.35
Battle Creek am 12.40 11.34 12.25 3.30 3.50 9.00 3.00
Kalamazoo 1.40 12.10 1.20 4.05 4.28 10.00 3.40
Niles 3.25 1.22 3.25 6.28 6.05 5.08
Michigan City 4.40 2.30 4.45 6.22 7.05 6.08
Chicago 6.55 4.00 6.40 7.55 8.55 7.50
*Daily.
†Daily except Sunday.
Trains on Battle Creek Division depart at 7.45 a. m. and 4.00 p. m., and arrive at 12.40 p. m. and 6.30 p. m. daily except Sunday.
O. W. RUGGLES, General Pass. & Ticket Agent, Chicago.
R. N. R. WHEELER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek.

GRAND TRUNK R'Y SYSTEM.

EAST
8 4 6 2 10 76
Chicago AM 11.05 PM 3.02 PM 8.15 AM 7.32
Valparaiso PM 12.49 4.55 10.25 10.05
South Bend 2.08 6.15 11.52 11.35 AM 7.10
Battle Creek 4.14 8.15 AM 2.00 AM 7.00 PM 2.00 PM 5.00
Lansing 5.20 9.28 3.28 8.30 5.25
Durand 6.00 10.15 4.25 9.30 6.30
Saginaw 8.10 11.05 8.10
Bay City 8.45 11.40 8.45
Detroit 8.00 7.30 11.50 9.20
Flint 10.40 4.54 10.21 7.28
Port Huron 9.40 AM 12.32 7.00 PM 12.20 9.30
London AM 12.32 3.27 10.10
Hamilton 2.10 5.24 PM 12.25
Susp. Bridge 3.40 7.05 1.55 8.50 AM 3.40
Buffalo 8.20 3.05 10.00 6.15
Philadelphia PM 3.47 PM 7.20 AM 6.55 8.56 PM 8.47
New York PM 4.33 8.25 8.25 9.34 4.33
Toronto AM 7.40 PM 1.30 7.40
Montreal PM 7.00 AM 7.30
Boston AM 8.15 PM 7.05
Portland 8.00 6.30
WEST
3 5 9 11 76
Portland AM 8.15 PM 6.00 AM 10.50
Boston 11.30 7.30
Montreal PM 10.30 AM 9.00
Toronto AM 7.40 PM 1.00 PM 5.25 AM 8.30
New York PM 6.10 8.00 AM 10.00
Philadelphia 7.00 8.45
Buffalo AM 6.15 AM 8.00 PM 9.30
Susp. Bridge 7.00 PM 2.00 11.15
Hamilton 8.45
London 11.05
Port Huron PM 2.00 9.00 AM 3.20 AM 6.50 PM 3.50
Flint PM 1.35 11.07 4.54 8.45 5.54
Bay City 7.25 4.00
Saginaw 8.00 4.25
Detroit AM 11.30 10.00 7.00 4.10
Durand PM 2.02 AM 12.05 5.22 9.30 6.30
Lansing 2.45 AM 12.57 6.05 10.50 7.50
Battle Creek 3.50 2.17 7.10 PM 12.15 9.10
South Bend 5.35 4.08 8.55 2.39
Valparaiso 6.51 5.25 10.05 3.57
Chicago 8.45 7.20 11.55 6.18
Nos. 2-4-6-8 Daily.  Nos. 3-5-7 Daily. Nos. 10-76 Daily except Sunday.  Nos. 9-11-76 Daily except Sunday.
G. W. VAUX, A. G. P. & T. A. Chicago
W. C. CUNLIFFE, Agent Battle Creek,

Canvassing for Christ’s Object Lessons

We have been told that the canvassing for “Christ’s Object Lessons” would bring strength and courage to our people. Already this is the experience in the Conference and in the Lake Union District. Each president is organizing his work, and has pledged himself that he will not leave it until four books apiece are sold for each member in his Conference.
Elder Allen Moon, the president of the Illinois Conference, writes that his courage was never better. The brethren throughout his State give every evidence that the movement will be a general one. In Chicago and other places the work has started. One sister in Chicago began canvassing for the book last week. On the first presentation she sold three copies. She told the lady to whom she presented the book the object for which she was selling it, and she not only took it herself, but induced two of her friends to do likewise.

Mortal or Immortal?

By Editor

THIS is the question which the noted clergyman, Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, propounded to his congregation in the Madison Square Presbyterian church, New York, January 26. The question has reference to the soul. His position is that it depends on how it is trained, whether it will live forever or not. The report says that he declared against the popular evangelical belief that all souls are immortal. He expressly gave it as his opinion that the Scriptures do not teach immunity of a soul from death, and that the soul must be taken care of in this life, or else it will perish utterly, either at the death of the body or after a longer or shorter period of the life beyond the grave. Dr. Parkhurst said in part: “There is nothing in Scripture or in things that encourages us to feel that the soul cannot be kept from dying any more than the body, unless it is taken care of. There is no warrant from Bible or from nature for supposing that a soul carries within itself a policy of insurance against its own eventual obliteration.”
The report says that “the sermon is attracting some attention, owing to the fact that most Presbyterians adhere to the belief in the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.”
We are glad to see such utterances from such a source, as they will tend still further to weaken the fast-disappearing doctrine of the immortality of the soul, which has been prolific of so many and such immovable errors in the Church.

Sell Christ’s Object Lessons

SUNDAY morning, February 16, the Review and Herald Office employees subscribed for over 1,000 copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” This is truly encouraging. Let every Seventh-day Adventist do his utmost to sweep away the debts of our educational institutions by selling this valuable book.
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