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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 18.

(Awakened by a Robin)

Review and Herald

May 5, 1904

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 5, 1904

(Awakened by a Robin)

By Mrs. H. I. Farnum

Reverie

(Awakened by a Robin)

MRS. H. I. FARNUM
When twilight falls, and mem’ry calls Dear forms long hid away, Enchanting song is borne along As dawns or wanes the day.
Mid the sighing and the dying, The sorrow, pain, and blood, With lashes wet, we might forget That erst all things were good.
But that clear trill when all is still Floats on the summer air, And visions rise of paradise, When earth was young and fair.
And then I seem as in a dream To view a vista, vast, Long rows of years in mystic tiers— The ages of the past!
And all the sheaves the dead past leaves In annals, true, are traced For good or ill. All human skill Is powerless to deface.
How many eyes have scanned these skies As sunlight crept away! How many heard the robin bird Alike as we, to-day!
Now, they are not, save lonely spot Perhaps, without a trace To tell the tale, or mark the vale— Their silent hiding place.
We view the sod, but hid in God Are many pass’d away, Who faithful wrought, his wisdom Sought, And duty, day by day; Ah, they will live and sing When “Morning” plumes her wing!
O, gladdest prime! Earth’s gala time, ’Tis coming, sure and fast! Unwelcome fears, unbidden tears Forever overpast! The bruisings of the wicked cease, And weary ones find perfect peace.
Then, ever, song will glide along Without a touch of pain, Where all is good. There mem’ry’s flood Includes no minor strain.
Peterboro, Ontario.

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The blessedness 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. 7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. 9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
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What Is Said About Testimonies, Volume VIII

I HAVE read a copy of “Testimonies,” Vol. VIII. It certainly contains a burning message to the church of to-day. No Seventh-day Adventist should be without it. R. A. UNDERWOOD, Pres. Northern Union Conf.
The copy of the “Testimonies” has been received, and I desire to express my sincere and heartfelt thanks to you for the same. I have looked forward with much desire to the reading of the volume. We will advertise the book thoroughly in our Union Record, and assure you that we shall spare no pains in recommending it, and in calling the attention of others to it. E. HARRIS, Sec. Texas Tract Society.
From what I have been able to see in the book thus far, I conclude that Volume VIII holds within its covers, perhaps, the most important information ever written for the denomination. A. J. BOURDEAU, Sec. California Tract Society.
Received yours of the 11th inst., also “Testimonies,” Vol. VIII. I thank you very much for the copy. I have read Section V with much interest, and esteem it a privilege to write a note concerning the value of this book, to be published in the Atlantic Union Gleaner. H. W. COTTRILL, Pres. Atlantic Union Conf.
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Blessed is the Man

By Editor

Editorial

“Blessed is the Man”

THERE IS no greater blessing that can come to the poor child of fallen Adam than the blessing of forgiveness. “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.” Forgiveness is the all-inclusive blessing in which is involved the whole experience of redemption. To save his people from their sins was the mission of Jesus to this lost world, and in him “we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.” We can not fully appreciate nor adequately describe the blessedness of the one whose life record of evil has been covered, who has been clothed “with the garments of salvation.” “Blessed is the man.” Jesus “died for us, and now he offers to take our sins and give us his righteousness. If you give yourself to him, and accept him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for his sake you are accounted righteous. Christ’s character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned.” With what fulness of meaning we can say, “Blessed is the man.” “Jesus loves to have us come to him just as we are, sinful, helpless, dependent. We may come with all our weakness, our folly, our sinfulness, and fall at his feet in penitence. It is his glory to encircle us in the arms of his love and to bind up our wounds, to cleanse us from all impurity.” What a wonderful Saviour! “The sweetest frame, the most heart-enduring frame that possibly a Christian can get into while in this world, is to have a warm sight of sin and of a Saviour upon the heart at one time.” Ah, “blessed is the man.”

It Will Come

THE day of the Lord will come. It has been long delayed, but it will come. It is now almost exactly threescore years since the definite time passed which it was thought would usher in that day, and although the believers of that time were sorely disappointed, yet it will come, and it is threescore years nearer now than it was then. The scoffers may mock, and may ask, “Where is the promise of his coming?” but “the day of the Lord will come.” The evil servant may say in his heart, “My Lord tarrieth,” and he may “begin to beat his fellow servants,” and he may “eat and drink with the drunken,” but the day of the Lord will not always be delayed. It will come. And we have reached the time when we may with assurance take up the promise, “There shall be delay no longer,” and we may declare by the word of the Lord that those now living, even some who are already crowned with the snowy crown of threescore and more years, will “remain unto the coming of the Lord.” To the scoffer we say, It will come. To the careless and the indifferent we say, It will come. To those who have just learned of this blessed truth we say, It will come. To those who have waited long and patiently for their returning Lord we say, It will come.
“Our Lord is now rejected, And by the world disowned; By the many still neglected, And by the few enthroned; But soon he’ll come in glory! The hour is drawing nigh, For the crowning day is coming by and by.”

Half the Battle

IT is an old proverb that courage is half the battle. There is much truth in it. He who begins the conflict with a strong assurance of victory is much more likely to win than he who yields to his opponent before they join forces in actual combat. So when Joshua assumed the leadership of the Lord’s hosts, both the Lord and the people filled his heart with courage: “Be strong and very courageous, . . . be strong and of good courage; . . . only be strong and of good courage.” Under the inspiration of this threefold exhortation to courage, Joshua led the people into the promised land. We stand to-day near the borders of the heavenly Canaan. We are living in the time of the promise. We must go up and possess the land, but difficulties, like the giants of old, threaten to defeat our best efforts. How shall we face the situation? Relying upon the promises of God, we must first settle it in our own hearts, as Abraham did, that what God has promised, he is able also to perform, and then we must be strong and of good courage. It is not the greatness of the difficulties, but the greatness of the power available with which to meet the difficulties, which will determine the result. We must realize “the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe,” and then we have a sound basis for good courage. “Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.”

Three Essentials and Their Sign

IN writing “unto the churches of Galatia” of the utter insufficiency of a merely ceremonial religion, the apostle Paul said: “As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” According to this form of statement, neither the careful performance of a ceremonial nor the studied avoidance of a ceremonial is of any value in the way of salvation. There must be “a new creation.” This led David to pray, “Create in me a clean heart.” That same creative power which brought the world into existence in the beginning is the power of the gospel, and through the working of this power alone can man be restored.
In the same letter to the same churches the same apostle gave expressionto the same principle in another place in these words: “We through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.” It is here affirmed again that neither performing nor avoiding a ceremony is a means of salvation, but the essential experience demanded is “faith working through love.” This is in harmony with the teaching that “without faith it is impossible to please God.” “For by grace have ye been saved through faith.” “It is of faith, that it may be according to grace.”
In his first letter to the church at Corinth the apostle Paul again inculcates the same lesson about ceremonialism: “Was any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.” Rotherham renders the last verse as follows: “The circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing; on the contrary, a keeping of God’s commandments is everything.” Thus for the third time is the statement made that it is not by doing or refraining from doing some outward act that we obtain salvation, but it is expressly declared that keeping God’s commandments is the essential thing. “Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.” “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”
If we bring these three principal statements together, we find that they all agree in saying that there is no power unto salvation in ceremonialism; whether performed or omitted, but each emphasizes a different experience as essential. According to the first it is “a new creation.” According to the second it is “faith working through love.” According to the third it is “the keeping of the commandments of God.” A little consideration of the subject, however, will make it clear that these three statements are not in any sense contrary to one another, neither are they descriptive of different and disconnected experiences, but they present simply different and closely related phases of the same experience. The gospel is “the power of God unto salvation.” This power is creative power. Without this creative power we have no gospel, even though we have abundance of form and ceremony. “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, there is a new creation.” This is the essential and fundamental truth of Christianity. This distinguishes a genuine Christianity from all false religions and from all mere formalism in professed Christianity. But this creative process touches each individual only through the exercise of personal faith. Creative power has been introduced into sinful flesh by the gift of the Son of God to share our nature. “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” The benefit of this gift is enjoyed by each individual only as he accepts it through a personal faith in Christ. It follows therefore that while there must be “a new creation,” yet “faith working through love” is an essential factor in the problem. Both are essential, and they are the complement of each other. There can be no salvation when either is lacking.
It is also worthy of note that the only channel through which this creative power can reach the sinner is the Word made flesh. We may behold and admire the working of this creative power in the grass, the flowers, and the trees; we may study its marvelous manifestation in the animal kingdom, from the mote in the sunbeam to the leviathan of the deep; we may lift up our eyes on high and “see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number;” but through none of these channels can there come to us the application of this same creative power to save us from sin. There is great danger lest we fall into a fatal error here. Some are today substituting nature study for a personal faith in Christ. Such will meet with disappointment and eternal loss. It is true that it is the power of God which is seen working all about us, but we may thus behold it on every side, and still remain in the bondage of sin. Only through Christ is the power which builds the flower and the tree brought near enough to us so that it can build a character in us which is after the similitude of the divine. In him humanity is brought into saving touch with divinity. He is “able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him,” but through no other avenue can we find our way unto God and salvation. Jesus said, “I am the way.”
When through personal faith in Christ the creative power of God works in the life, the fruit is seen in “the keeping of the commandments of God.” This is the evidence of a genuine Christian experience. The law of God is the transcript of his character. This character was revealed in Christ. Through personal faith in Christ this character is both imputed and imparted to the believer. The proof of this is seen in the fact that the life of the believer is found to be in harmony with the law of God. He is a commandment-keeper.
Thus we find that there are three essential experiences for the Christian,— “a new creation,” “faith working by love,” and “the keeping of the commandments of God.” It is also clear that these three experiences are, after all, only three phases of the same experience. There must be a new creation, but this is brought about only through the faith of the individual, and the result of such a faith is seen in keeping the commandments. Herein we see the true relation between the law and the gospel. In the gospel is found the creative power which when applied to individual experience through faith brings one into harmony with the law.
The Lord gave the Sabbath as the memorial of the original creation. “In six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” The Lord gave this same Sabbath to his children as a sign of the new creation—his sanctifying work. “Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth them.” Thus the Sabbath becomes the sign of all that is connected with the new creation. It is the sign of righteousness by faith, and the mark of true commandment-keepers.
In this closing message it is necessary to emphasize these three essentials in their relation to one another, and the Sabbath as the sign of them all as parts of one complete experience. This will “make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

Lawlessness, Anarchy, Despotism

By J. A. S.

For some months a reign of lawlessness has been in progress in the very heart of the American republic; not lawlessness of the sort that one finds on the border line of civilization, where the laws and officials of civil government are set at defiance by a few reckless individuals, but lawlessness on the part of the government itself, or of those forces upon which law and order depend for their preservation. The story of this lawlessness is told by Mr. Ray Stannard Baker in the May issue of McClure's Magazine. No one class of the people, Mr. Baker shows, have been responsible for it. It is not the lawlessness of any one party, but of all parties, exhibited through their representative organizations. Two mining regions of Colorado, Cripple Creek and Telluride, constitute the scene of this strange disturbance in the course of American free government. Four parties have been participants in the events that have taken place—the mine owners, the miners' union, the militia under orders from the government, and the citizens' alliance. Oneach one rests the guilt of lawlessness, says Mr. Baker.
The miners' union has broken the law, there have been dynamiting and assassination; the corporations have broken the law, there have been bribery and corruption; the citizens' organizations, representing in some degree the great third party—the public—have broken the law; even the legislature itself, wherein the law is made, has been lawless. We have to-day, indeed, in certain parts of Colorado, a breakdown of democracy, and through anarchy, a reversion to military despotism.
The parties concerned in this lawlessness have not even professed to be observing the fundamental rules of republican government. Constitutional law is openly violated and scoffed at.
The trouble began with an attempt by the Western Federation of Miners to force several non-union mines in Cripple Creek to come into the union; that is, to discharge all their employees who were not union men. The Federation also had in mind the forcing of a universal eight-hour day in the mining industry. The attempt brought on a strike, which involved a number of large smelting mills in various parts of the State, but was not successful. The miners' federation attempted to shut off the supply of ore to the non-union mills, by ordering the miners to refuse to work in any mine shipping ore to these mills. Under this order the mines in Cripple Creek and Telluride were closed down, about five thousand miners being thrown out of work. By this action, dictated to the miners, who had no grievance against their employers, by a few men who had secured despotic power in the miners' organization, one of the chief industries of Colorado was seriously affected, and the prosperity of the State was threatened.
In making this demand for an eight-hour day, the miners' union was asking what the State legislature had in 1899 granted them, but which, despite this fact, the miners had never been able to obtain. When an attempt was made to enforce the law, says Mr. Baker, ‘the smelter trust, the coal operators, and other interests fought it before the State Supreme Court, which finally declared the law unconstitutional, although the United States Supreme Court had already approved a similar law passed in Utah.’
The union then began the work of getting an amendment to the constitution. In November, 1902, the question was submitted to the people of Colorado, and an amendment carried by the tremendous majority of 46,714 votes. Both Democratic and Republican parties solemnly pledged themselves in their platforms to execute the will of the people and make laws to enforce this amendment in the legislature of 1902-03.
When the legislature met, a powerful lobby representing the mining corporations, appeared at the State capital, and through its efforts the legislature finally adjourned without passing the amendment. ‘Rarely, indeed,’ says Mr. Baker, ‘has there been in this country a more brazen, conscienceless defeat of the will of the people, plainly expressed, not only at the ballot, but by the pledges of both parties.’
The effect of this defeat upon the unions may well be imagined. They had worked long and hard to secure this legislation, they had voted for pledged legislators only to see the plainly expressed will of the people deliberately defeated! Is it a wonder that they were discouraged, even desperate? Here they were compelled to strike to enforce what should have been a State law. It is just such doings as these that drive men to socialism. We preach to the agitators: ‘Your remedy is the ballot; vote and get your rights.’
Here voting did no good. In nearly all the strike speeches I heard in Colorado, this defeat of the will of the people was the strongest argument that could be used. I heard President Moyer say in a speech at Pueblo:—
‘What is the use of your ballots anyway? You might as well tear them up and throw them in the gutter.’
The conclusion drawn by the leaders is that union men must vote the Socialist ticket.
To fight the strike, the mine owners organized, and secured from the governor State troops to protect their mines while being operated with non-union men. But in connection with this move an unprecedented and significant thing appeared—the mine owners advanced the money to pay the troops. The Army and Navy Journal said of this act that it ‘virtually placed the troops, for the time being, in the relation of hired men to the mine operators, and morally suspended their function of State military guardians of the public peace.’
The troops, says Mr. Baker, ‘sided openly with the mine owners, were paid and directed by the mine owners.’ ‘The troops came out not merely to prevent violence, but to break the strike.’ ‘On the other hand,’ Mr. Baker adds, ‘no one who knows anything of the history of the miners’ union in Colorado can doubt that there would have been violence and assassination if the operators had attempted to open their mines without military protection.’
Martial law was declared in Cripple Creek in December, 1903, and in Telluride one month later. This was after there had been assassination and dynamite outrages by the miners’ union, or for which at least the union was responsible.
Martial law was but another name for military despotism. The office of the Victor Record was visited by an army officer, and a military censorship established. Free speech and a free press were suppressed, as is done in Russia. Citizens were ‘arrested without warrants and without charges, locked up in an unsavory place called the Bull-Pen, and kept incommunicado, often for weeks.’ Decrees of the civil courts were disregarded; the writ of habeas corpus was suspended; small boys and even women were arrested and thrown into the Bull-Pen for speaking disparagingly of the soldiers. This was in the Cripple Creek district. In Telluride citizens long resident in the town, owners of property, were arrested on a charge of vagrancy, and set to work in the chain-gang. In January twenty-six men, some being well-known citizens, were escorted under military guard to the border line of the county and ordered not to return, although in some instances they were leaving property and families behind.
Concluding, Mr. Baker inquires, ‘Who is to blame for this condition of anarchy?’ and says:—
We hear the military forces roundly abused for their despotism; but without wishing to excuse any of their usurpations or excesses, it is yet pertinent to inquire whether they have done anything that the citizens have not long been doing. Has not the union broken into the homes of citizens? Has not the union interfered with the personal liberty of many a ‘scab,’ driven him from his home and his work, as many a strike leader is now being driven by the bayonet? Has it not even killed its enemies?
Have not the corporations of Colorado defeated the will of the people? have they not broken laws every day without punishment? Have not the citizens’ alliances driven men from their homes and their families?
Has not even the legislature itself broken the highest law of the republic, the will of the people, for private, or political, or selfish ends?
The significance of the situation in these Colorado districts is best expressed by the question whether what has resulted there is a sample of what may result elsewhere and everywhere throughout the country from the unstable industrial conditions that so generally exist in these times. Is what is now seen on a small scale in Colorado, to be seen ere long on a large scale, perhaps a national scale, in this country? Is there to be anarchy followed by the establishment of a military despotism? This is not an idle question. Truly we are living in most serious times, when he who would be safe must be sober and be guided by the higher Wisdom that has foretold the perilous character of these days, and pointed out the way of escape from coming destruction.
J. A. S.

Plans for the Work in Washington

By Arthur G. Daniells

WHEN we moved our headquarters from Battle Creek to Washington, D. C., we expressed strong confidence that the providence of God was leading. We have been here about nine months, and have had many excellent opportunitiesto test this matter. Our observations and experiences thus far all confirm us in the assurance we had that the Lord led us to this city. We have not met with a reverse, nor suffered a disappointment regarding any features of this change. To-day the outlook in Washington is brighter and more encouraging than at any time since the decision was made to come here.
The wisdom of making the national capital our headquarters grows more apparent each month. The opportunities for rendering valuable service to those who do not know this truth, in connection with our office work, seem to multiply as we gain a better knowledge of the city. The advantages of our rural surroundings are greater than we realized when we selected our grounds. We can truthfully say to all our people that we have not found one thing to cause us to regret having come here.
Since coming we have found it necessary to make careful preparation for the building we are required to do. As we have had all the regular work pertaining to the office to keep up, we have not made the progress in building that we desired. But we are now almost ready to break sod for the first building. We hope to be able to make quite a full statement of our plans next week.
The special object of this article is to place before our readers some ways we believe should be taken this summer to give the people of this city the message God has committed to us. We have here three hundred thousand persons. Through the city papers the attention of thousands of these is being called to us and our work. Now is the most favorable time there has ever been for presenting our message to them. This is the opportunity for doing an effective work in this place.
The work we shall be able to do with the two tents which we plan to use will be very small, compared with what should be done. We ought to canvass every house with our denominational books. We ought to work up a large sale of our denominational missionary paper, The Signs of the Times. Millions of pages of tracts explaining our message should be placed in the hands of the people. Thousands of Bible readings should be given to those who are willing to open their homes to us.
All this could be done if we could have the workers to do it. We think we see a way to secure the workers, if we only had the money to support them. Recently we have been considering the following plan:—
1. Make a call to the most advanced, mature, and capable young men and young women in a number of our training-schools to spend the coming summer in Washington, doing the work suggested above.
2. Ask the fathers and mothers of the young people they have been sending to our schools for several years, to support, as far as possible and necessary, their sons and daughters in practical, useful work in this city during the coming summer.
3. Organize thoroughly in this city, to give these young people the very best instruction possible in Bible work, canvassing, paper-selling, and missionary visiting.
4. Direct this whole movement to the point of training and preparing our young people who have about finished school, for practical work in mission fields.
We can see great possibilities in this plan. At the close of each school year scores of young people go to their homes and lose the summer, simply because they have no direct line of work to follow in the cause. Many drift out of the cause. The parents of many could, with a little sacrifice, send them to Washington and help to support them here in this practical training-school during the summer. Next summer a strong company might be sent to another city.
We expect to be able to give exceptional advantages this summer. Sister White is now with us, and will probably remain in the East through the summer. We hope that she will be able to meet these workers every week, when she is in Washington, and give them the rich instruction she has received from the Lord. We shall have able and experienced Bible teachers in the city. And we can make arrangements for experienced leaders in canvassing, periodical-selling, and Bible-reading work, to spend the summer with us.
We present this much of what seems to be a feasible plan, for our brethren and sisters to study. We shall be glad to hear from young people and parents who would like to join us in this work. In writing, tell us just what you are ready to do in making this large missionary effort self-supporting. Address the writer at 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.
A. G. DANIELLS.

The Pacific Union Conference

By Arthur G. Daniells

The Pacific Union Conference was one of the first union conferences organized in the United States, and was among the first to develop its various departments and important features. Its first session was held at Portland, Ore., early in 1902. The meeting was well attended, and was counted as one of the best union conference sessions of 1902.
The second session was held in Healdsburg, Cal., March 18-27, 1904. Considering the long distances to be traveled by the delegates, the attendance at the Healdsburg Conference was excellent. This brought together for mutual conference and co-operation, representative men from the distant conferences both north and south along the coast. The Pacific Union Medical Association held a session of its organization in connection with the conference. The publishing, medical, and educational institutions were all well represented in the gathering. Sister White was present, but owing to a cold she contracted at the beginning of the meeting, and the continual rain, she spoke only twice during the conference. Her second sermon was given the last Sunday afternoon of the meeting. Notwithstanding a heavy downpour of rain at the time, the large building was filled with a deeply interested congregation. The message borne was as clear and forceful as ever from this servant of the Lord.
Elder W. T. Knox, the president of the union, had the general charge of the meetings. Reports were presented by conference presidents, heads of departments, and managers of institutions, giving an account of the work of which they have had charge during the last two years. Although none of our reports can be considered altogether satisfactory, yet they are full of interest and value. They recount the experiences through which we pass, and record the progress we make. Were these facts all studied as carefully as they should be, most important lessons would be learned from them. The reports of this conference were in many respects encouraging. These, with the proceedings of the conferences, will be prepared for publication by the officers.
One of the most excellent features of this conference was the series of Bible studies conducted by Professor Prescott. The epistle to the Hebrews was chosen as the basis of these studies. Christ, the Son of God and Son of man, was presented as the central theme of the epistle. The study of his ministry in the heavenly sanctuary brought out the fundamental truths of the third angel's message. It was made very plain that every feature of this message is necessary and harmonious with every other feature; that the integrity and continuance of the whole message is involved in the genuineness of any of its parts; that the rise of this message in 1844 was a part of the plan of redemption, and absolutely necessary to save men from the sophistries and the delusions that are even now deceiving the world. These Bible studies were held at the best hour of the forenoon, and were attended by the entire conference, and the senior students of the school. When the time came to close the session, it was found that nothing had been lost by devoting an hour and a half in the forenoon, and also each evening, to the study of the Scriptures. A prayer and praise service was held each morning at eight o'clock.The entire business of the conference was disposed of when the hour for adjournment arrived. Much is lost by allowing the business of a conference to drag along and crowd out the Bible studies and devotional meetings.
The finances and general business affairs of the conference showed careful management on the part of the officers. In the election of officers for the ensuing term, but little change was made. There was general and deep regret among the delegates that Elder Knox felt compelled to decline re-election to the presidency of the union conference. Although pressed to continue in office, Brother Knox could not consent to do so. He was placed on the committee, and will give his associates the benefit of his experience in the general work. Elder W. B. White, of Montana, was chosen president. He will have the hearty support of the brethren on the coast. That conference covers a vast stretch of territory, and holds a very important relation to the Pacific mission fields. Its opportunities and responsibilities are great, and so also are its resources.
A. G. DANIELLS.
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