p. 112 | Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 7. (2/18/1902)

Earlier text: CALIFORNIA WORKERS' CONVENTION

Special Mention

By Editor

WE add to the paper this week a new department, headed “Special Mention,” in which we design to call attention, from week to week, to special events and conditions of such a nature as entitles them to be regarded as signs of the times. We shall endeavor to make this page one of unusual interest.

Encouraging Letters for the Review

BROTHER W. D. CURTIS, educational secretary of the Illinois Conference, writes: “I am going on a tour of our churches. I am anxious to do all I can for the good old REVIEW. Could you send a few copies of the paper to me as I go from place to place?” This is but a sample of the many encouraging letters we receive.

Articles on Pedagogics

The articles on Pedagogics, the second of which appears this week in the Home department, are the first of a series which Prof. W. T. Bland, lately president of Union College, will contribute, on the general subject of the education, training, and discipline of the young. Parents and educators and all who are interested in these subjects will do well to give them a careful reading.

Elder W. H. Saxby Leaves for Spokane

ELDER W. H. SAXBY left this city for Spokane, Wash., Wednesday, the 12th inst. For two years he was associated with this church, and did much to help and encourage those with whom he came in contact. He now connects with our Spokane sanitarium.

Employees Subscribe for Christ’s Object Lessons

BROTHER A. G. DANIELLS, president of the General Conference, reports that, at a meeting held at the Sanitarium, Wednesday evening, February 12, the employees of that institution subscribed for 2,000 copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Thus the good work goes on.

Christ’s Object Lessons

“CHRIST’S OBJECT LESSONS” can be sold when there is a real interest in the book by the seller. One brother alone in Chicago last winter, without losing a day from his regular work, sold two hundred and ninety books. A sister in Chicago, nearly seventy years old, sold seventy-five. God has said that angels would prepare the hearts of the people for the books. Those who have confidence in this can sell them readily.

Children’s Missionary Band at Cedar Lake

BROTHER J. G. LAMSON, principal of our Cedar Lake, Mich., school writes that he has just organized the children of that church into a missionary band to secure new subscriptions for the REVIEW. He will superintend the work himself. Would it not be a good idea for some of our other churches to follow the example of this little church? Who will be the first one to do something of the kind? Sample copies furnished free for the asking. Drop the editors a postal.

Berrien Springs Book Canvassing

The Berrien Springs church and the Emmanuel Missionary-College believed that they were “able to dispose of five hundred and ten copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” which is four books for each member of the church and college. The time set apart for canvassing was the most disagreeable for traveling that we have had this winter. The trains were blockaded for more than a day. Yet some sold as high as twenty-eight books. Many sold more than their quota. The courage of all is excellent, and the whole school has voted to spend another season in the field. Brother Magan, who is recovering from his long illness, has just ordered two hundred more copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons” for the school. He says that he alone can sell one hundred of these books.

“Christ’s Object Lessons.”

By Arthur G. Daniells

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

The people of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana have gone out to war in behalf of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” They have pledged to sell sixty thousand copies of this blessed book before the first day of April, 1902. Never has there been so much courage in the work, so much confidence in the Lord of hosts. The sound of success is abroad in the land. It was written of Abram and Sarai of old: “They went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.” The same determination to conquer and to win is now being shown. The precious song of victory, even before the battle, is already on the lips of hundreds of anointed men and women as they go forth to battle.

Prof. E. A. Sutherland, the president of Emmanuel Missionary College, has, by act of the General Conference Committee, been placed in charge of the work. He will keep the field until the day is won. All general matters concerning this work should therefore be referred to him.

A. G. DANIELLS.

The World-Wide Week of Prayer.

By William Ambrose Spicer

LETTERS to the Mission Board, from other lands, with one accord bring the word that the week-of-prayer season was one of special blessing. It marked an advance move all along the ranks. It is too early as yet to say how large an offering for the missions was given during the week. It takes several months for full reports to come in through the various channels. But the treasurer's accounts show that, combining the annual offerings and the regular contributions for last quarter, the funds for the world-wide mission fields have been flowing in at the rate of about a thousand dollars a day this year.

From many States comes the word that the largest offering in the history of the Conference is assured. The president of the Southwestern Union Conference, for instance, writes: “Colorado will show about double the previous year. Texas doubles any former year, or nearly so. Oklahoma has two and a half or three times as much as in any former year. Kansas is indefinite, as yet, but an encouraging increase is evident. Others I have no direct word from.”

These are words of cheer to the needy fields abroad, and to all, and it shows that many people believe that the Lord is soon to come. This money is not to be banked, but to be laid out in pressing the lines of truth into the dark world beyond. The workers are going out. But in order that the work may be not only begun, but carried on to the finish, all must rally to keep up the regular weekly offerings during this year. Last year's full report of contributions for the missions shows an increase over 1900 of $37,500. What increase shall 1902 show over 1901?

W. A. SPICER, Sec. Mission Board.

There Are Four Tuesdays

By Editor

in March, 1902; and we find, by examining our REVIEW mailing list, that subscriptions will expire on each Tuesday of the month. Here are the names of four subscribers (taken at random from the list) whose subscriptions expire on the 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th of March, respectively:—

F I King C M Kinney A P Gladden A C Hamilton

If your subscription to the REVIEW expires in March, 1902, you will find a renewal blank inclosed in this REVIEW. While renewing your own subscription, will you not also send us a two months' subscription for that friend of yours?

REVIEW AND HERALD.