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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 16.

The Bible
Earlier text: The South Sea Islanders

Statement of the Fifteen-Cent-a-Week Fund for Quarter Ending March 31, 1912

Atlantic Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Central New Eng. $20.85 $248.21 $189.38 $.... $1.00 $403.84 $147.81 $.... $1011.09
Gr. New York 15.20 564.51 310.15 2.25 21.03 1006.76 564.60 3.00 2487.50
Maine 3.30 48.40 43.04 .... 41.44 94.85 65.99 5.13 302.15
New York 7.92 363.83 24.81 .... 210.00 266.59 119.30 24.17 1016.62
N. New England 10.92 103.72 32.28 25.27 1.00 163.61 43.55 ...... 380.35
S. New England 10.35 280.29 125.90 .... ...... 159.05 196.35 3.90 775.84
W. New York 18.55 453.09 171.47 .... 5.25 119.01 134.39 15.00 916.76
Totals 87.09 2062.05 897.03 27.52 279.72 2213.71 1271.99 51.20 6890.31
Canadian Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Maritime .... 174.63 31.63 .... 15.00 85.47 117.24 3.08 427.05
Ontario .... 443.91 73.97 .... ...... 186.11 277.05 ...... 981.04
Quebec .... 181.45 9.05 .... ...... ...... 161.92 ...... 352.42
Newfoundland .... 69.65 ...... .... ...... ...... ...... ...... 69.65
Totals .... 869.64 114.65 .... 15.00 371.58 556.21 3.08 1830.16
Central Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Colorado 1.71 225.00 ...... .... 59.96 268.50 ...... 79.81 634.98
East Kansas 6.19 76.85 83.81 .... 72.35 290.22 163.96 12.75 706.13
Nebraska 10.23 1376.88 33.74 .... 1094.92 812.19 674.23 152.86 4155.05
North Missouri .... 27.18 8.55 .... 10.45 .... .... .... 46.18
South Missouri .... 207.86 6.65 117.67 76.08 50.07 110.90 ...... 569.23
Western Colorado .... 80.35 ...... .... ...... 183.56 93.15 ...... 357.06
West Kansas .... 493.96 33.30 .... 123.61 382.83 302.51 2.26 1338.47
Wyoming .... 100.92 1.20 .21 131.59 159.89 29.51 1.40 424.72
St. Louis Mission .... 27.30 ...... 2.66 84.28 132.95 87.49 ...... 334.68
Totals 18.13 2616.30 167.25 120.54 1653.24 2280.21 1461.75 249.08 8566.50
Columbia Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Chesapeake 6.29 176.32 70.35 .... 50.54 305.77 255.01 ...... 864.28
Dist. of Columbia 7.74 670.73 7.90 .... 160.84 350.97 172.71 ...... 1370.89
E. Pennsylvania 6.10 1013.28 76.79 2.30 239.64 502.29 1450.96 6.95 3298.31
New Jersey 10.03 344.06 48.90 .14 183.79 386.45 434.53 11.45 1419.35
Ohio 1.33 879.21 252.47 .... 220.28 1177.42 675.59 4.76 3211.06
Virginia 14.99 137.74 18.05 .... 39.03 117.88 132.34 6.97 467.00
W. Pennsylvania 9.90 201.86 47.56 .... 67.65 331.47 319.01 2.90 980.35
West Virginia .... 63.96 2.50 .... 30.65 76.64 54.29 .60 228.64
Totals 56.38 3487.16 524.52 2.44 992.42 3248.89 3494.44 33.63 11839.88
Lake Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
East Michigan 10.50 215.28 14.27 .... 98.87 339.42 129.73 ...... 808.07
Indiana .... 311.22 138.22 .... 173.24 458.69 223.18 7.96 1312.51
Northern Illinois 1.54 139.43 5.85 .... 145.57 434.11 322.52 2.50 1049.98
North Michigan .... 101.13 6.15 .... 51.74 143.24 107.76 ...... 411.56
Southern Illinois .... 26.47 ...... .... 62.35 216.95 45.97 10.00 361.74
West Michigan 49.02 246.67 147.71 .... 179.35 539.95 138.26 37.48 1338.44
Wisconsin 6.23 704.09 113.50 .... 606.27 725.95 121.56 30.71 2308.31
Totals 67.29 1744.29 425.70 .... 1317.39 2858.31 1088.98 88.65 7590.61
Northern Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Iowa 10.20 299.20 189.79 .... 113.39 635.09 445.82 ...... 1693.49
Minnesota .... 895.30 153.52 .... 225.50 934.16 790.36 32.67 3031.51
North Dakota .... ...... ...... .... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
South Dakota .... 251.73 30.75 .... 149.13 486.38 314.10 5.05 1237.14
Totals 10.20 1446.23 374.06 .... 488.02 2055.63 1550.28 37.72 5962.14
North Pacific Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Montana .... 200.99 132.32 .... 155.74 256.00 230.67 8.47 984.19
Southern Idaho .... 372.66 33.78 .... 227.16 327.01 195.18 15.63 1171.42
Southern Oregon .... 272.12 19.61 .... 243.85 312.90 113.31 .43 962.22
Upper Columbia .... 1668.12 68.52 13.00 475.26 1268.85 781.75 95.56 4371.06
Western Oregon .... 1499.88 131.48 .... 3814.33 1172.89 565.05 219.35 7402.98
W. Washington .... 1849.83 121.95 .... 540.25 635.80 483.61 55.24 3686.68
Alaska .... ...... ...... .... ...... 7.60 ...... ...... 7.60
Totals .... 5863.60 507.66 13.00 5456.59 3981.05 2369.57 394.68 18586.15
Pacific Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Arizona .... 270.96 ...... .... 79.93 117.72 71.18 50.00 589.79
California .... 1954.86 ...... .75 495.90 1267.73 908.79 10.65 4638.68
S. California .... 2341.54 ...... 3.05 1550.79 1706.14 931.46 6.46 6539.44
Utah .... ...... ...... .... 1.45 64.25 57.89 ...... 123.59
N. Cal.-Nevada .... 872.36 ...... .... 601.51 658.27 213.98 ...... 2346.12
Central California .... 1088.09 ...... .... 256.60 602.22 258.56 ...... 2205.47
Totals .... 6527.81 ...... 3.80 2986.18 4416.33 2441.86 67.11 16443.09
Southeastern Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Cumberland .... 280.90 33.91 .... 238.42 289.50 153.65 ...... 996.30
Florida 13.41 436.88 68.21 .... 286.14 454.41 164.34 32.81 1456.20
Georgia 5.49 103.17 10.57 .... 353.55 280.92 183.02 53.82 990.54
North Carolina $.40 141.82 21.04 $.... 46.20 122.12 244.39 8.25 584.22
South Carolina .... 22.69 10.90 .... 38.50 112.05 36.92 1.84 222.90
Bahama Mission .... ...... ...... .... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
Totals 19.30 985.46 144.63 .... 962.81 1259.00 782.32 96.72 4250.24
Southern Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Alabama .50 76.00 6.19 .... 47.17 139.04 136.76 2.00 407.66
Kentucky .... 82.74 ...... .... 7.10 107.62 156.61 ...... 354.07
Louisiana .... 50.60 5.25 .... ...... 37.62 28.67 ...... 122.14
Mississippi 16.23 8.50 8.80 .... 3.10 83.42 34.33 ...... 154.38
Tennessee River .... 110.63 2.05 .... 1.87 99.14 49.61 5.00 268.30
Southern Un. Mis. .... 55.25 11.96 .... 15.39 17.62 6.80 8.42 115.44
Totals 16.73 383.72 34.25 .... 74.63 484.46 412.78 15.42 1421.99
Southwestern Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Arkansas .... 75.46 18.45 .90 27.16 58.72 87.81 ...... 268.50
New Mexico .... 111.28 22.55 .... 175.64 338.26 265.08 20.40 933.21
North Texas .... 779.02 ...... 2.25 59.60 570.37 328.26 15.91 1755.41
Oklahoma .... 684.38 8.23 15.00 484.10 799.95 226.20 16.62 2234.48
South Texas .... 138.10 34.80 .... 131.96 433.12 102.17 28.73 868.88
West Texas .... 153.48 2.25 .... ...... 59.18 86.45 ...... 301.36
Sw. Union Mission .... 8.70 2.14 .... 12.43 59.59 ...... 11.40 94.26
Totals .... 1950.42 88.42 18.15 890.89 2319.19 1095.97 93.06 6456.10
Western Canadian Union Conference
REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Alberta .... 152.45 ...... .... 89.45 197.10 237.70 1.50 678.20
British Columbia .... 230.35 ...... .... 136.25 290.11 277.36 ...... 934.07
Manitoba .... 19.45 ...... .... 665.95 117.37 45.35 ...... 848.12
Saskatchewan .... 239.05 ...... .... 64.45 166.96 25.45 ...... 495.91
Totals .... 641.30 ...... .... 956.10 771.54 585.86 1.50 2956.30

Summary

REL. LIB. ANNUAL FIRST-DAY MID.-SUM. MISSIONS SAB.-SCH’L INGATH’G COLORED TOTAL
Atlantic $87.09 $2062.05 $897.03 $27.52 $279.72 $2213.71 $1271.99 $51.20 $6890.31
Canadian .... 869.64 114.65 .... 15.00 271.58 556.21 3.08 1830.16
Central 18.13 2616.30 167.25 120.54 1653.24 2280.21 1461.75 249.08 8566.50
Columbia 56.38 3487.16 524.52 2.44 992.42 3248.89 3494.44 33.63 11839.88
Lake 67.29 1744.29 425.70 .... 1317.39 2858.31 1088.98 88.65 7590.61
Northern 10.20 1446.23 374.06 .... 488.02 2055.63 1550.28 37.72 5962.14
North Pacific .... 5863.60 507.66 13.00 5456.59 3981.05 2369.57 394.68 18586.15
Pacific .... 6527.81 ...... 3.80 2986.18 4416.33 2441.86 67.11 16443.09
Southeastern 19.30 985.46 144.63 .... 962.81 1259.00 782.32 96.72 4250.24
Southern 16.73 383.72 34.25 .... 74.63 484.46 412.78 15.42 1421.99
Southwestern .... 1950.42 88.42 18.15 890.89 2319.19 1095.97 93.06 6456.10
Western Canadian .... 641.30 ...... .... 956.10 771.54 585.86 1.50 2956.30
Miscellaneous 9.01 271.67 ...... .... 2664.86 ...... 153.52 21.00 3120.06
Totals $284.13 $28849.65 $3278.17 $185.45 $18737.85 $26159.90 $17265.53 $1152.85 $95913.53

An Interesting Reminiscence

By Sybil Read

ABOUT twenty or twenty-two years ago, Brother T. Whittle canvassed Goulburn, Australia, with “Daniel and the Revelation.” I believe that was the first work done there. He was very successful in his delivery, and passed on.
My late foster-mother was among those who purchased the book. Though not particularly interested in such themes herself, she ordered it with the intention of presenting it to her father. But about the time of the delivery of the book, he died, so she kept it herself and read and reread it, studying it with intense interest. No matter who came to the house, she would talk of the wonderful things in this book, the Sabbath included.
In June, 1894, a man called selling papers—the Bible Echo. As soon as he began to talk, mother brought out her precious book, and was surprised to find the man was acquainted with it, and thought as highly of it as she did. Before he left, mother decided she would no longer desecrate God’s holy day. She kept the next Sabbath, and I with her.
I think it was one day during the week following our first Sabbath that a cab stopped at our door, and an aged woman whom I had never seen before alighted. It was Mrs. Griffiths. I learned afterward that when mother was a girl her parents’ farm joined that of Mrs. Griffiths at Merrilla, and the Methodist Church services were always held at Mrs. Griffiths’s house. She had a daughter who died when a young woman. This daughter was a very earnest Christian and Bible student, and would frequently tell people that God had not changed the Sabbath, and was not honored by the keeping of Sunday.
Although Mrs. Griffiths and my mother now lived less than two miles apart, they had not met for years. When Mrs. Griffiths came, she told mother she had felt impressed to call on her. She had not been long in the house when mother told her that she had found the truth for this time, and was keeping God’s true Sabbath. I well remember the dear old lady’s joy and astonishment. When they had last met, mother was not a Christian. Mrs. Griffiths told us she had been much troubled over the Sabbath for some time past, and said, “Now I understand the impression to find you.”
Before she went home, she decided to keep the next Sabbath, and she did; and though over seventy years of age, she would walk about a mile and a half to our house to study God’s Word with us on the Sabbath. How well I remember that little Sabbath-school of three members aged seventy-two, sixty, and fourteen respectively. We had one, or perhaps two, of Sankey’s hymn-books and our Bibles. The Bible Echo had Sabbath-school lessons published in it, and we used them while we had them. What precious seasons we had together! We were not personally acquainted with any one else of like faith, save the man who sold us the papers; and we never heard from him again, though through him we knew there were some Sabbath-keepers in Sydney. But Sister Griffiths had met no one. We had no set time for closing our meeting, but as I look back now I see that we unconsciously followed the Sabbath-school with a missionary meeting, for we would talk of the literature scattered during the week, of persons interested through our efforts, and plan for further work.
Sister Griffiths loved the message dearly. The truth was very precious to her. She did not disconnect with her former church till she had tried in class-meeting and in every possible way to present the truth to its members, and she never neglected any opportunity with friends and relatives. She was always happy when she could entertain God’s messengers, and her life was a bright testimony to the keeping power of her Saviour. SYBIL READ.

A Hearing Before the Secretary of the Interior

By S. B. H.

An important gathering of clergymen, lawyers, and publicists took place in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Walter L. Fisher, on Monday morning, April 8, the occasion being a hearing granted on the subject of an order issued by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Valentine, prohibiting the wearing of a religious garb in the government Indian schools. This order was suspended by President Taft, with the recommendation that a public hearing be given to all parties interested in the question.
Among those present at the hearing, which began at eleven, and closed at half past five, were: Hon. Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Rev. Chas. L. Thompson, president of the Home Mission Council; Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church; Dr. Laws; Wm. H. Ketcham, superintendent of the Bureau of Catholic Missions; Attorney Edgar H. Gans, of Baltimore; Rev. S. H. Woodrow; Rev. E. B. Sanford; H. B. F. Macfarland, attorney of the Home Mission Council; Prof. W. W. Prescott, who represented the Religious Liberty Association; Hyland C. Kirk, president, and John D. Bradley, secretary, of the Washington Secular League; A. T. Jones; Attorney Scoville, representing the Indian Rights Association, and the writer.
The particular order (601), which was the cause of the hearing, by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Valentine, is as follows:—
“In accordance with that essential principle in our national life—the separation of church and state—as applied by me to the Indian Service, which as to ceremonies and exercises is now being enforced under the existing religious regulations, I find it necessary to issue this order supplementary to those regulations, to cover the use, at those exercises and at other times, of insignia and garb as used by various denominations. At exercises of any particular denomination there is, of course, no restriction in this respect; but at the general assembly exercises and in the public-school rooms, or on the grounds when on duty, insignia or garb has no justification.
“In government schools all insignia of any denomination must be removed from all public rooms, and members of any denomination wearing distinctive garb should leave such garb off while engaged at lay duties as government employees. If any case exists where such an employee can not conscientiously do this, he will be given a reasonable time, not to extend, however, beyond the opening of the next school year after the date of this order, to make arrangements for employment elsewhere than in federal Indian schools.”
In opening the question, the Secretary of the Interior expressed the hope that definite and full consideration be given the subject-matter, in order that he might arrive at a just and proper conclusion. He requested the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to state his position and the circumstances which led to the order above referred to. Mr. Valentine read his speech, which was a very carefully prepared document dealing with the fundamental principles connected with the foundation of our government, and consumed about an hour in reading and answering questions from the Secretary and Attorney Gans. Mr. Valentine's argument, in our judgment, was a masterpiece, and his position unanswerable.
The commissioner gave evidence of having studied the principles of civil government and religion quite thoroughly, and his earnestness reflected a marked spirit of patriotism. His paper will be presented in full in the columns of the magazine Liberty.
Mr. Valentine reported that when the Indian schools were opened, thirty-eight years ago, twenty teachers were members of the Catholic sisterhood and wore the garb of their order. That number has increased to fifty-one, but according to the admission of Father Ketcham, none of them had taken the civil service examination.
Following Mr. Valentine's address, the Secretary suggested that it would be proper to hear from the Catholic Indian Bureau representatives. Attorney Gans suggested that inasmuch as his clients were on the defensive, it would be well to hear from all who had anything to say against the Indian schools as conducted by the government in which the Catholic teachers figured. This was accepted, and Reverend Thompson, of the Home Mission Council, gave a short talk, which was designed to be introductory to the work of the council's attorney, former District Commissioner Macfarland. Mr. Macfarland held that the order of the Commissioner of Jan. 10, 1895, providing for the “covering” into the classified service without examination of officers and teachers of private Indian schools taken over by the government and the practise under that order had no warrant in law. In 1892 the Indian Service was brought into our classified service by rules transmitted to the civil service commission by the Department of State, Rule 1 of which reads:—
“The classified Indian Service shall include all the physicians, school superintendents, assistant superintendents, school-teachers, and matrons in that service, classified under the provision of Section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved Jan. 16, 1883.”
Mr. Macfarland contended that the order of Mr. Valentine was fully warranted. Prof. Hyland C. Kirk, of the Secular League, followed with a short address, designed to show the inconsistency of the government's teaching religion.
Dr. Laws appealed very earnestly to the Secretary in his protest against continuing Catholic-garbed nuns in government schools. He had several copies of the Protestant Magazine, and told the Secretary that he had documents to show that the Catholic Church is doing an unconstitutional work in their connection with the government.
Prof. W. W. Prescott submitted a brief, which thoroughly covered the point at issue, and which is given in full in another column of this paper. In addition, Professor Prescott in his statement referred to encyclicals of the popes, particularly Leo XIII and Pius IX, in which the true position of the Roman Catholic Church with reference to the union of church and state, is fully given. The contention which Protestants make against the union of church and state is deprecated in these encyclicals.
The Reverend Ketcham, superintendent of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, made a short statement introductory to the argument which was to follow by Attorney Gans in support of the present conditions. Both of these representatives contended that they were not violating the principles of the separation of church and state in the present Indian school arrangement. Mr. Ketcham referred to the fact that it came with ill grace from Protestants to charge that Catholics were teaching religion at public expense, when it should be remembered that several years ago the Protestant ministers of Washington invited the Roman Catholics to confer with them with the view of adopting an arrangement whereby religion could be taught in the public schools of the District of Columbia. Of course, the majority of the Protestant preachers present could say nothing in response to this point, but Professor Prescott took advantage of the occasion to show that Seventh-day Adventists protested against the proposed arrangement for teaching religion in the public schools.
Reverend Woodrow said: “I fail to see how it is that relatively more numbers of the Catholic sisterhood are employed as teachers in the government Indian schools to-day than there were twenty years ago, if the civil service rules have been applied to the appointment of the teachers, as the law provides.”
“At this point, Secretary Fisher said: ‘I am not very clear on this subject, and it will be one of the questions I shall ask Commissioner Valentine, of the Indian Affairs, to explain. The civil service rules have been governing the appointment of teachers to the Indian schools for twenty years, and any appointments made other than through the regular channels will have to be accounted for. I shall ask Mr. Valentine to account for the appointment of every nun teacher in the Indian Service.’”
In carefully studying the question, there seems to be no doubt but that the religious garb worn by a teacher is tantamount to sectarian teaching. It was stated, in a New York Supreme Court decision on this point:—
“We are thus brought to the question whether in this State a regulation is to be deemed unreasonable which prohibits teachers in common schools from wearing a distinctively religious garb while engaged in the work of teaching. In my opinion it can not be justly so regarded. . . . There can be little doubt that the effect of the costume worn by these Sisters of St. Joseph at all times in the presence of their pupils would be to inspire respect, if not sympathy, for the religious denomination to which they so manifestly belong. To this extent the influence was sectarian, even if it did not amount to the teaching of denominational doctrine.”— 184 N. Y., 421.
The Secretary of the Interior now has the entire matter under consideration, and he will be expected to rule as to whether the order of Commissioner Valentine is warranted; and if so, it will be necessary for the Secretary to make some ruling with reference to religious garb in the Indian School Service.
S. B. H.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; S. B. Horton

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL. — Secretary
S. B. HORTON. — Corresponding Secretary

Our Nyassa Training-School

By J. C. Rogers

In our Nyassa mission we are trying to strengthen constantly the educational feature of our work. We realize that our hope of getting this message into the hearts of the masses of Africa will depend largely upon our success in training native evangelist-teachers. I believe our people in America will be glad to hear how we are doing this.
From our school at the main station we find a few each year who are capable of joining our teaching force. Some of these two hundred students come from distant parts of the country. They have heard about the school from friends, and come to give us a trial. Others come from our own village schools, of which we now have about forty around our main station and our principal out-station.
The main station’s training-school is made up of several divisions: First, the beginners, consisting of children coming from the villages on the mission land and those near by. In this school we enroll about one hundred each year. The work is carried on in an outbuilding, which is simply made of grass and poles, with a brick floor, and rough board seats. Only the native language is taught, by four or five native teachers, with one of our European laborers to oversee them. In this, as in all our village schools, simple Bible lessons are given from outlines prepared at the mission. We have no printed lessons nor text-books except the Bible. We find that we can not use the same text-books as in our American schools, as our lessons must be of the very simplest nature, each covering perhaps only five or six verses. We have reading-books in the native language, which we purchase from other missions, and the lessons in arithmetic are copied on the blackboard from a teacher’s text-book. The individual student has no text-book in arithmetic.
The second part is called the English Vernacular School. In this we teach English up to second-grade work, and drill the students constantly in advanced reading in the native tongue. We try to keep them on their own language as long as possible. These natives will sometimes tell us that they know it, and do not need to study it any more. They think they must take up the English, and all of them are very anxious for it. No doubt some of them come to us with the selfish motive of merely learning it. However, we discourage this as much as possible.
Most of our text-books in this division are also obtained from the other missions. We have just published a new book of our own, which is a simple story of the Old Testament record up to the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. This will be a great help to us. It is printed only in the Chinyanja language, but we shall use it in all divisions of our schools.
THE NYASSA TRAINING-SCHOOL Pastor Rogers, with his wife and Mrs. Konigmacher, in the center of the group.
THE NYASSA TRAINING-SCHOOL Pastor Rogers, with his wife and Mrs. Konigmacher, in the center of the group.
The two divisions which I have described have their sessions in the forenoon.
We also have another, which we may call the English Bible School, occupying the afternoon period. This is made up principally of the native teachers who are engaged in the village work and in the station schools which I have mentioned. Besides these, there are some older men, who work in the forenoon and attend the classes in the afternoon. Some of these married men also become teachers. Many of our village schools are too far from the main station for the instructor to go and return every day. For those we always try to provide a married native who goes to live at the school.
In the school held in the afternoon we have classes in the second, third, and fourth grades. All the teaching here is done by members of our European staff. The Bible is made a prominent study, including lessons in Old Testament history, New Testament, the prophecies, and the Revelation. Before sending out any native teacher, we try to give him a thorough understanding of the simple Bible doctrines, especially the third angel’s message. We endeavor to keep before him the desirability of going on learning more and more of the Bible.
Our natives take a special interest in such study, and we are often surprised at their efficiency in presenting our doctrines. They seem to have an intelligent grasp of the message, and are always able to find plenty of texts for their arguments.
Besides the training which our teachers are given in the divisions mentioned, we give them from one to three months for special study at the main station. For the past few years this special school has had a session of only one a month; but we have felt that they need a more thorough training, and this year we have arranged for a three months’ teachers’ school. This session began February 1 and will continue to the end of April, when all will go out and open their village schools May 1. While Mrs. Rogers and I are away from the station on furlough, Brethren C. Robinson, S. M. Konigmacher, and G. A. Ellingworth are in charge of the training-school. Last year we had about fifty enrolled, and it is probable that there are seventy-five this year.
At our out-station called Mantandane, Brother and Sister Konigmacher have for four years been doing a work similar to that of the main station, so far as the circumstances admit. Our plan is to have most of the teachers trained at the main station, as we have a larger staff there and better facilities.
The industrial feature is also made prominent. All the food supplies of the main station are grown on the farm. This requires cultivation of about one hundred acres, which are planted with Indian corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and beans. All students do from three to four hours’ work each day. We also have a good dairy at the mission, and are able to pay a small wage to those who help in it. There are always some boys who must earn a little money to help their parents pay taxes, buy clothing, etc. Our dairy has an income of from fifty to one hundred dollars a month, and is the best in Nyassaland. We also cultivate some cotton and rubber. About twenty acres have been planted to rubber, and it is our plan to go on increasingthis crop as we are able, hoping to obtain a good income from it a little later.
With these various divisions of the station school, and the industries, we are all kept busy from morning till night. For the last three years we have generally had four European laborers, and more could find employment. We have not been able to do very much for the women and girls of the villages. One woman is needed to give her whole time to this work, and we hope that soon the Mission Board will be able to provide some one suitable for this. We also hope that at least one new station can be opened in Nyassaland the present year.
J. C. ROGERS.

Christian Education

By H. R. Salisbury

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
H. R. SALISBURY b7 b7 b7 b7 Secretary

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— A serious railway strike in Argentina, South America, bids fair to tie up the transportation of the immense grain crop of that country, said to be the largest in its history.
— The United States Bureau of Internal Revenue recently inaugurated a crusade against the shipment of alleged alcoholic beverages into “dry” territory under false labels.
— Newspaper reports and official communications received by the State and War Departments agree in describing a condition of general outlawry throughout the greater part of Mexico.
— Trouble is increasing between the Christians and Mohammedans in the island of Crete, and the European powers have determined to send additional warships there in order to preserve the peace.
— The fall of Venice is predicted as the result of the deepening of her harbor. Water has filtered through under her great buildings. The doge's palace and St. Mark's Cathedral are cracking and crumbling.
— A photographic map of the entire sky, showing about 1,500,000 stars, has been prepared in sections by Harvard University astronomers. Placed together, the map sections would cover more than five acres.
— Two brothers have just finished a 3,500-mile walk from Boston to Los Angeles. One lived on a meat diet during the walk, and the other on vegetables exclusively. And the vegetarian was in the best condition when they reached the end of their journey.
— The enormous extent of the swindling operations that are carried on by the use of the United States mails is indicated by the fact that the fraudulent promoters who were arrested and put out of business last year by the crusaders of the Post-office Department had already obtained from the gullible public the almost incredible total of $77,000,000. The annual report of Robert S. Sharp, the chief inspector of the department, shows that during the past year 529 persons were indicted, 497 were arrested, 184 convicted, 12 acquitted, and 177 are awaiting trial. There are 72 awaiting action by United States grand juries, and 48 are fugitives from justice.
— Direct telegraphic communication between the United States and China, Japan, and the Philippines has been temporarily interrupted by the breaking of the Pacific cable.
— Sixty-two railroad instruction trains operated during the past year by the Department of Agriculture covered more than 35,000 miles, and the meetings held in them were attended by nearly 1,000,000 persons, according to the report of Dr. A. C. True, director of the work. Farmers' institutes were attended by more than 3,000,000 persons, an increase of nearly 400,000 over the preceding year.
— There are 11,483,876 Jews in the world; 8,876,299 are in Europe, 1,880,579 in America. The Russian empire leads by far all the nations, with 5,215,805. The United States follows second, with 1,800,000. The distribution in the United States is very incomplete. While the city of Warsaw, with 220,000, leads Russian cities, New York City alone includes 595,000 Jews in its population. Philadelphia has only 100,000, and Chicago, 98,000. New York is veritably the New Jerusalem. It embraces one thirteenth of the entire Jewish race. It includes in its population more Hebrews than ever before in the history of the world have been gathered together in one city. Every fourth person in New York is a Jew. Even London has only 140,000 Jews.—The Christian Work and Evangelist.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent post-paid:—
James Harvey, 1729 Grove St., Oakland, Cal., desires a supply of denominational papers and tracts, for use in missionary work.
Mrs. S. M. Housler, Santa Monica, Cal., desires to express her gratitude to those who have sent papers for use in the reading-rack at that place. She requests a continuous supply of literature.
Mrs. Marie Beermann, R. F. D. 1, Box 28, Gable, Oregon, wishes to have a continuous supply of our English denominational literature for use in a reading-rack and for general missionary work. Magazines preferred.
Any Seventh-day Adventist tracts, papers, books, or leaflets will be gratefully received by J. H. Downes, Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C., England, who can use a large and continuous supply for missionary purposes. Signs, Life and Health, Youth's Instructor, and Little Friend are specially requested.

Southern Oregon Conference Association

By F. S. Bunch; J. P. Wheeler

THE Southern Oregon Conference Association will meet on the camp-ground at Roseburg, Oregon, Wednesday, May 15, at 9:30 A. M., for the purpose of electing a board of five trustees to have charge of the legal affairs of the conference for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the delegates. Delegates to the conference are delegates to the association.
F. S. BUNCH, President; J. P. WHEELER, Secretary.

Southern Oregon Conference

By F. S. BUNCH

THE second annual session of the Southern Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at Roseburg, Oregon, May 10, 1912, at 9 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the delegates. The conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting (May 9-19) in Bellows Park, the same beautiful grounds we occupied last year. Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization, and one additional delegate for every ten members. Members of the executive committee, ordained ministers, and other conference employees, and representatives of the General and North Pacific Union Conferences are delegates at large.
F. S. BUNCH, President.

Southern Idaho Conference Association

By J. M. Willoughby; A. C. Bird

THE annual session of the constituents of the Southern Idaho Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will convene on the camp-ground at Nampa, Idaho, Tuesday, May 21, 1912, 9:30 A. M., for the election of a board of trustees for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the session.
J. M. WILLOUGHBY, President; A. C. BIRD, Secretary.
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