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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 20.

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Earlier text: Faithfulness and Love of the Husband

Experiences in Brazil

By Caleb L. Gregory, M. D.

In the municipio (county) of Santo Antonio, State of Rio Grande do Sul, we have about eighty believers in present truth. The opponents became so incensed against them that the Sabbatistas were forbidden to hold any public service, the threat for such being that kerosene would be thrown on the house, and fire applied, also that should any person escape, he would be shot. The outcome was that our brethren gave up singing at family worship, and held Sabbath-school in another district where Catholic indignation was not so intense.
The conference, taking cognizance of the situation, asked the writer to go to the municipio, and see what could be done. About one month was spent in visiting, before any public effort was begun. Finally, with a young Portuguese, we settled in the county seat, and began preaching, when, to our astonishment, only a few men and boys attended, the women being prohibited by the men, on account of certain reports which had been circulated about us. We therefore abandoned meetings until my wife could come. In the meanwhile we visited, and took orders for our Portuguese paper, The Herald of Truth. The writer worked at dentistry, and thus gained enough money to be self-supporting during all the time he was out—three months and a half. At the end of a month and a half, Mrs. Gregory came, and we began another public effort, which was soon abandoned, as the Catholic influence was too much for us.
Some of the ministers of Protestantism who say Rome is reforming ought to have been here and experienced the things we had to endure; then they would see that “Rome never changes.” We cite one case: The priest determined to run us out of town. While he was perfecting his plan to call in two hundred of the faithful to expel us, the chief of police called him to audience, and informed him that the Sabbatistas have as much right under the Brazilian constitution to hold quiet assemblies as the priest has to hold mass; that as a public officer, it was his sworn duty to uphold law and order; and that Dr. Gregory should be protected, or the chief of police would die. He said the vigario could bring the two hundred men, but that the police would greet them by the voice of the musket. This soon quieted matters, and we finished our work in peace.
The results were apparently small. An ex-priest, who now has a wife and family, began keeping the Sabbath, while others say we have the truth. The ex-priest is an Italian, very learned, speaking Spanish and Portuguese as well as his own language. He attended our conference in Taquary, where he made his public renunciation of Catholicism, and signified his determination to join the Adventists. He now goes home, and settles down to the practise of medicine, until we have somebody to send with him into the field, to assist him in the truth.
We need men who know the truth, and are as true to it as the needle to the pole. We are looking to America for help, but, brethren, our hope wanes. We have asked Germany for a man for the school. Five years we have now been in Brazil, calling to you to come over and help us. Sometimes we could wish that persecution would come on you there, and scatter you to the four winds, and that a few faithful men would alight on the soil of Brazil. The Portuguese language is not difficult, and we find it a great help to our English.
Now, we have one worker less, since Elder H. F. Graf has gone back to America. Does not the good Spirit move some reader to say, “Here am I; send me”? Five years we have been self-supporting in this country. What we have done others can do. Three years of this time we have had one or two orphans in our house. One of these is now in the capital, selling papers and books. There are three boys in the canvassing company who are about sixteen years of age. Young, you say?—Yes, but we have no others.
Brazil has an area almost as large as the United States of America, and more than half of it has not been entered by representatives of the truth. Reader, will you pray once for the work here? Would you like to help us?
CALEB L. GREGORY, M. D.
Taquary, Rio Grande do Sul.

Opportunity for All

By R. W. PARMELE

OPPORTUNITIES for service for God come to all. These opportunities are not always observed, and the opportunities that are observed are not always improved. All around us are souls perishing for the light of present truth. There are many lines of work in which we might engage acceptably to save souls from sure destruction.
A missionary aboard a large ocean steamer had just disrobed to spend the night in his berth, when the cry was raised, “Man overboard.” The crew and nearly all the passengers rushed to the side of the vessel to render assistance to the man, who was battling with the angry waves. The missionary’s condition forbade his appearing on deck, but he longed to do something to help save the drowning man. He seized his candle and held it close to the small window in his room. By the aid of that light the drowning man was located, and was soon safe on deck. The earnest desire to help rescue the perishing led to the missionary’s finding an opportunity.
Hezekiah had been sick. The Lord healed him, “and he gave him a sign.” 2 Chron. 32:24. The shadow went backward ten degrees on the dial to prove to him that God would fulfil his promise. The Babylonians noticed the strange phenomenon, and sent ambassadors “to inquire of the wonder.” Verse 31. That was Hezekiah’s opportunity to impart to them a knowledge of the true God.
“But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.” The knowledge of the true God must be carried to Babylon, and failing to improve this opportunity, it became necessary for Israel to be carried into Babylon. The Lord’s work must be done, and he is not limited in resources for doing it; but he offers to human beings the first opportunity.
In this article, I wish to call especial attention to that work which might be termed “resident canvassing.” In every church there is at least one who can not spend the entire time in the canvassing work, or could not leave home. These could engage in the work in their immediate neighborhoods. The territory could be worked over and over again. We have such a variety of books that once covering the territory would not interfere with subsequent efforts in the same territory with other books. In this way many could have constant and profitable employment, and the cause of truth would be furthered.
Many of our churches see the need in their neighborhoods, and are calling for ministerial help. Our books contain as good sermons as can be preached. The truth they contain is in a form that can not so easily be lost sight of as can a sermon. There is more of it than would usually be given in a course of lectures. After the minister’s voice is stilled, the books will still testify. To present the truth in this way, is not an expense to the cause of God, but is an actual financial help. And the work is more thoroughly done, for every family in the neighborhood is personally invited to investigate.
The ministry is a noble calling. God has chosen “by the foolishness of preaching to save them who believe,” but the spirit of prophecy has said that if there is one work more important than another, it is that of getting our publications before the people. If we really sensed the peril of souls and loved this truth as much as we profess to love it, we would, at least, find port-holes through which our lights would shine to help rescue the perishing.
Write to your tract society or to one of the publishing houses for information as to how to begin, kind of book to sell, etc.
Should any who read these words wish to consider the Southern States as a place to work for the Master, we would be glad to hear from them.
R. W. PARMELE. 24th Ave., North, Nashville, Tenn.

Chile

By F. H. Westphal

The following letter was recently received from a brother who has been employed as an attorney for some time. He has been in the truth for several years. He says:—
“With much pleasure I write to you that I have decided to give up my employment, and to consecrate myself to the work of the Lord. I have suffered much in the past because I have not been able to liberate myself from earthly business; but I have resolved to retire from my employment, and after that shall sell my properties, with the help of the Lord. Therefore, I ask you to pray for me that the Lord may admit me as one of the eleventh-hour servants into his vineyard. At the end of March I think that I shall be ready for work.”
A few weeks ago I read in one of Sister White’s articles that men would give up their employment as farmers, merchants, etc., and enter the work of the Lord. It seems to me that the above letter shows that the time has arrived when what was written is coming topass. Nevertheless, we shall see it fulfilled to a greater extent, no doubt, in the future. The latter rain will surely fall, and God’s work will be rapidly completed in the earth. We ought to be able to read the signs of the times in the events that are taking place in the earth.
F. H. WESTPHAL.

Elder Simpson’s Death

By G. W. Reaser

It is with inexpressible sadness that we report the death of Elder W. W. Simpson, who fell asleep in Glendale on the twenty-eighth of April, at 10 P. M., after an illness of nearly five weeks. His illness began with spells of dizziness, and developed later into a condition which produced violent pains in the back of his head. He gradually failed till the end came. Much prayer was offered in his behalf, but our Father knew what was best.
Seven expert physicians were called in council over his case. The concurrent decision was that his death was caused by the failure of certain organs to perform their natural functions.
Elder Simpson had a remarkable gift in reaching hearts and impressing them with the truth. We do not understand why he should be taken away as his labors seemed so valuable to the cause. In the midst of our grief we reverently and submissively say, “Thy will be done.”
Elder Simpson leaves a wife and three children, the eldest of whom is six years of age. This bereaved family have the deepest sympathy of all who know them.
The funeral service was conducted by Elder Owen, assisted by Elder H. W. Cottrell and the writer, in our Central church in Los Angeles, where Elder Simpson’s voice had been so often heard proclaiming the truth with power.
The fall of a loyal worker in the cause calls for renewed consecration on thepart of those who are spared to give the last message to the world. When this message is finished, the saying will be brought to pass, as it is written, “And there shall be no more death.”
G. W. REASER.

Argentina

By Delwin R. Buckner

OFTEN a word in a foreign language makes the Bible clearer than the same word in the English can do. Let us take the word “Sabbath,” for example. Some time ago I was talking with a Scotch-Argentine woman—a woman born in Argentina, of Scottish parents—to concerning the relative merits of Saturday and Sunday. She had always considered Sunday as the seventh day of the week. She thought the Saviour must have risen on Monday, which would be the first day of the week. This lady was born in the province of Buenos Ayres. She can speak the Spanish of the country as well as she can English. In Spanish, Sábado is the word used for both Saturday and Sabbath. I explained to her the meaning of the verse in Luke 23: 56, where the woman went home and rested “el Sábado,” according to the commandment. The verse can mean that the women returned and rested on Saturday, according to the commandment, or that they rested on the Sabbath day, according to the commandment.
It was impossible for her, as well as others, to call the Sabbath Sunday, when Sábado means Saturday, and Saturday and Sabbath are one and the same thing in the Spanish tongue.
The Spanish has become the predominant tongue among the inhabitants of South and Central America, the Philippine Islands, and elsewhere. Many in Argentina and Uruguay are showing an intense interest in the truth.
To a Spanish-speaking person the Bible speaks plainly in regard to the Sabbath, and says definitely that Saturday, and not Sunday, is the day to observe. Let us pray that many may see the light. DELWIN R. BUCKNER.

An Artistic Cover

OUR readers will be interested in seeing the attractive cover design of the Christlicher Hausfreund (Christian Friend of the Home) which appears on this page.
This is the title of our German paper issued by the International Publishing Association of College View, Neb. The Swedish and Danish-Norwegian papers will also have a similar cover during the Special Gospel Series which continues for six months, beginning early in May.
Orders for these papers should be sent to the publishers promptly, in which case the first numbers of the series will be furnished. The German paper is 50 cents for the six months, and the Swedish and Danish-Norwegian papers, 65 cents each.

A Thrilling Experience

By Walter G. Bond

“THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”
Last evening about seven o’clock we were forcibly impressed that this scripture is being fulfilled. I was returning from a meeting held on the opposite side of the city from our home, and was accompanied by an interested man who had attended the meeting. As we reached the principal street of the city, we were shaking hands to separate, when within twenty yards of the place where we were standing, a bomb exploded. It was the sixth that has exploded in this city during the last twenty-four hours. The street was filled with people. The screams and moans of the wounded and frightened were heart-rending. Four persons were fatally wounded, and a score or more of others were badly injured, while perhaps as many others fainted. The scene was not one to be soon forgotten. It reminded us of the Saviour’s words in giving the signs of his coming: “Great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences: and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” As this morning’s newspaper expresses it, “Horror was pictured on every face.” When these things begin to take place about us, the Master commands us to look up and lift up our heads for our redemption draweth nigh. The next event to be seen is the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory. May that glad day be hastened.
It would be difficult to find a place where the spirit of anarchy is more prevalent than here, but we thank God for his protecting care. “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men.”
WALTER G. BOND. Barcelona, Spain.

An Advance Step

THE time has come when an advance step must be taken in the work for the colored people in Atlanta. A mission school and chapel building must be erected there in the near future; and at the January council of the Southern Union Conference the Southern Missionary Society was asked to undertake the work of raising seven hundred dollars for this purpose. This we have consented to do, and up to the time of writing these lines, we have received eighty-one dollars on the Atlanta building fund.
Nearly five years ago we, as a people, were called upon through the spirit of prophecy to provide “memorials for God throughout the Southern States,” in the way of modest school and church buildings. Only a little of this work has yet been done. Is it not high time that we were up and doing?
The need of a building in Atlanta, such as is contemplated, is imperative. But little can be accomplished without a building. The sum we are asked to raise is small. Let us, then, do our work quickly.
The proposed lot and building will cost more than seven hundred dollars, but the few colored believers in Atlanta have undertaken to raise several hundred dollars themselves; and in this effort they have the co-operation of the white believers in Georgia, so that in contributing to this enterprise, friends in the North may know that they are only lending a helping hand to those who are doing what they can to help themselves.
Donations for the Atlanta building should be labeled, “For the Atlanta Building Fund,” and should be sent to the Southern Missionary Society, North Station, Nashville, Tenn.
SOUTHERN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

_Canvassers’ Summary for March, 1907_

_Atlantic Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Central New England 11 959 527 $1,024.75
Chesapeake … … … …
Eastern Pennsylvania 6 528 261 $391.35
Greater New York … … … …
Maine … … … …
New Jersey … … … …
New York 14 400 164 $313.28
Southern New England 5 191 140 $153.75
Vermont … … … …
Virginia 8 537 723 $492.85
Western New York 16 592 391 $577.75
Western Pennsylvania 13 429 184 $391.35
West Virginia 7 483 61 $274.29
Totals 80 4,119 2,451 $3,619.37
_Canadian Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Totals 5 304 209 $433.70
_Lake Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
East Michigan 2 74 96 $104.05
Ohio 19 788 440 $657.80
Indiana 9 188 74 $135.00
Northern Illinois 5 319 174 $331.15
North Michigan … … … …
Southern Illinois 6 362 132 $231.25
West Michigan 7 152 39 $71.00
Wisconsin … … … …
Totals 48 1,883 955 $1,530.25
_Southern Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Alabama 5 522 … $608.25
Cumberland 3 381 … $402.65
Florida 3 168 … $81.40
Georgia 7 311 … $282.15
Louisiana 7 698 … $594.18
Mississippi 4 250 … $298.10
North Carolina 11 719 … $622.00
South Carolina 6 563 … $780.15
Tennessee 14 940 … $891.85
Totals 60 4,552 … $4,460.73
_Northern Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Alberta … … … …
Manitoba … … … …
Minnesota … … … …
North Dakota … … … …
South Dakota … … … …
Totals … … … …
_Central Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Colorado 17 390 196 $572.25
Iowa 20 1,807 683 $1,367.75
Kansas 18 1,024 337 $892.25
Nebraska 8 249 41 $197.65
Missouri 7 443 204 $535.80
Wyoming 1 145 … $97.35
Totals 71 4,058 1,461 $3,663.05
_Southwestern Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Arkansas 8 465 148 $303.75
Oklahoma 4 213 92 $170.10
Texas 20 1,642 676 $1,806.20
Totals 32 2,320 916 $2,280.05
_North Pacific Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
British Columbia … … … …
Montana … … … …
Upper Columbia … … … …
Western Washington 1 … … $127.95
Totals 1 … … $127.95
_Pacific Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Arizona … … … …
1 California 6 285 122 $1,906.68
Southern California 37 244 605 $627.88
Utah … … … …
Totals 43 529 727 $2,534.56
_British Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Irish Mission Field 5 467 141 $386.00
North England 16 943 548 $572.79
South England 23 705 355 $455.60
Scotch Mission Field 14 867 488 $533.68
Welsh Mission Field 6 363 252 $228.75
Totals 64 3,345 1,784 $2,176.82
_Australasian Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Victoria 10 613 172 $697.31
New Zealand 13 799 275 $940.25
West Australia 11 867 244 $1,870.62
New South Wales 13 1,329 433 $2,335.50
South Australia 9 532 143 $953.00
Tasmania 5 373 270 $1,180.00
Queensland 5 122 107 $692.00
North Queensland 2 170 49 $113.62
Malaysian Mission 1 117 36 $355.00
Totals 69 4,922 1,729 $9,137.30
_South African Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Cape Colony … … … …
Natal-Transvaal 8 127 228 $761.30
Totals 8 127 228 $761.30
_German Union Conference_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
German Union District 4 … … …
East German 44 3,295 … $1,142.68
West German 25 1,824 … $608.47
South German 36 3,696 … $1,306.74
Prussian 25 1,210 … $281.34
Rhenish 28 2,032 … $655.62
North German 14 1,413 … $640.32
Silesian Conference 16 1,169 … $263.06
German Swiss 15 792 … $272.56
Holland and Flem. Mis. Field 13 1,135 … $257.78
Totals 220 16,566 … $5,428.57
_General Summary_
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE
Atlantic Union 80 4,119 2,451 $3,619.37
Canadian Union 5 304 209 $433.70
Lake Union 48 1,883 955 $1,530.25
Southern Union 60 4,552 … $4,560.73
Northern Union … … … …
Central Union 71 4,058 1,461 $3,663.05
Southwestern Union 32 2,320 916 $2,280.05
North Pacific Union 1 … … $127.95
Pacific Union 43 529 727 $2,534.56
British Union 64 3,345 1,784 $2,176.82
Australasian Union 69 4,922 1,729 $9,137.30
South African Union 8 127 228 $761.30
German Union 220 16,566 … $5,428.57
Grand Totals 692 42,725 10,460 $36,253.65
  • Four months.

Effective Work

By J. R. FERREN

DURING the recent campaign with religious liberty literature here in California, the members of our Young People’s Society spent many hours in folding, wrapping, addressing, and sacking for the mails, the tons of printed matter to go to the churches for distribution. The Religious Liberty Department of the conference appreciated the help of a live Young People’s Society at such a time. Although the nights were dark, the weather rainy, and the roads muddy, the folding room in one of the temporary Pacific Press sheds was crowded night after night with cheerful workers.
We were privileged two weeks ago to enjoy a talk by Elder Wm. Healey, who had just been in attendance at the legislature in Sacramento. He briefly referred to the defeat of the proposed Sunday amendment to the Constitution of California.
One of the principal agencies used in influencing public opinion with reference to the dangers of the amendment was our pioneer missionary paper, the Signs of the Times. An extra edition was circulated far and wide. Copies of it, together with special letters, were furnished to the press of the State. Later the Young People’s Society sent copies of the issue of January 23, the number devoted almost exclusively to religious liberty, to each legislator.
At the close of Elder Healey’s talk the leader gave opportunity for subscribing for copies of the Signs to be added to the regular club for missionary work. Those wishing to add five copies at a cost of ten cents a week were asked to report. In less than five minutes enough copies were subscribed for to raise the club from two hundred to three hundred and fifty copies, and by personal work during the week following, the number has been raised to over four hundred. Five hundredis now the mark set, and it will soon be reached.
We believe other societies will likewise organize for more effective work.
By united effort this Society enables our good old pioneer minister to preach four hundred sermons on present truth each week. The members are encouraged to keep this continuous, effective work growing. J. R. FERREN.

Does Our Work Spoil Territory?

By J. B. BLOSSER

We often hear our workers speak of territory that has been receiving attention as “being burned over.” This has a tendency to make our workers avoid such fields. Especially is this true with our canvassers. Some recent experiences in the West Michigan Conference should cause us to change our views on some of these things. One canvasser, Brother Butterfield, who has been working in Kalamazoo, only a few miles from Battle Creek, took one hundred and nine orders by showing the book two hundred and twenty times, or one order for about every other house visited. This was done with “Daniel and the Revelation.” Another canvasser, Brother Johnson, is taking an average of one order to three exhibitions for “Bible Readings” in Battle Creek. These records are equal to, if not ahead of, what is considered our most favored territory. It shows us that our work prepares and waters the soil of the hearts of the people, instead of spoiling it.
J. B. BLOSSER.

Current Mention

— The differences between Mexico and Guatemala have been satisfactorily adjusted without the severing of diplomatic relations.
— The Florida House of Representatives on May 8 defeated the bill passed by the Senate proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the suffrage to white male citizens.
— The British chief secretary for Ireland, Mr. Birrell, on May 7 presented to the House of Commons the long-expected Irish bill, designed to meet the demands for Irish home rule. It really confers but little self-government upon Ireland, and is disappointing to all political parties.
— A rebellion in Chau Chufu, China, has been suppressed by decapitating seven hundred of the participants.
— In a collision of a limited with a local interurban electric car, fifty passengers were severely injured near Bowling Green, Ohio, May 5. Two of these will probably die.
— Another cyclone in Texas on May 6 practically destroyed the small towns of Ridway, Birthright, and Antioch. Cyclone cellars were used by many, or the fatalities would have been many more than the eight that are known to be dead.
— Civil and commercial suits are to be brought by the attorney-general of the State of Pennsylvania against those responsible for the State Capitol scandal. It is estimated that the profits of the general contractor for the furnishings was $3,500,000.
— For some time Mt. Stromboli has been in eruption, and continues to grow more threatening. Nearly all the inhabitants have left the island, which has been devastated by ashes. Mt. Etna, on the eastern coast of Sicily, is also active, sending out great volumes of smoke, which reflects the fires within the crater. The inhabitants of the vicinity are panic-stricken.
— Finding further resistance to the German troops in German Southwest Africa useless, 15,000 natives migrated to the northeastward to establish a new settlement. Only 4,000 reached their destination, the other 11,000 having perished from starvation.
— All Spain is rejoicing at the birth of a prince in the royal family, on May 10. A three days' holiday was proclaimed, and bull-fights, state operas, and distribution of $100,000 in lottery prizes, as well as the pardon by the king of thousands of prisoners, were some of the ways taken to express their joy.
— Thirty persons were killed and probably fifty injured in the wreck of a limited train on the Southern Pacific line near Surf, Cal., May 11. Breaking of parts of the engine derailed the train. The same day on the Mexican Central Railway twenty-five persons were injured by a derailment of a fast train near Bermejillo, Mexico.
— Seventeen hundred motor-men and conductors of San Francisco went on strike May 5, completely tying up the system for over two days. On the 9th the attempt to run the cars resulted in a riot in which one man was killed, and fifteen or twenty wounded, some of them fatally. There is talk of calling for the State militia, and possibly the federal troops.
— The unstable conditions in Russia may be judged by the fact that during the month of March there were 640 attempted assassinations, and over 400 persons were killed. During the week ending May 3 there were 172 political murders. Both revolutionists and reactionaries are arming, and are accused by public men of preparing another St. Bartholomew.
— An agreement between France and Japan is said to have been reached by which each guarantees the possessions of the other as well as the integrity of China. Some construe it to mean that Japan is getting ready for the day when she must clash with the United States, and Germany sees in it a further evidence of her own isolation among the nations of the world.
— There is reported serious rioting in various parts of eastern Bengal. Thousands of natives, both Hindus and Mohammedans, are roaming about, plundering and burning villages, and ill-treating loyal natives, many of whom have been murdered. Thirty-seven agitators have been arrested. Although for the present the Punjab seems to be the center of trouble, grave fears are entertained of a general uprising against British rule. Military reinforcements have been summoned to Lahore.
— A strike of the longshoremen of New York seriously interfered with the lading of vessels for a week. About 5,000 men were involved. Some of the great transatlantic liners were delayed two days in sailing, and others, as well as coast steamers, are sailing light-loaded. Workmen of other occupations have, in sympathy with the longshoremen, joined in the strike, until there are now said to be 30,000 strikers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Staten Island. Some have been injured in clashes between the police and the strikers.

The Washington Sanitarium

By D. H. KRESS

It will not be necessary for me to attempt to give a description of the building and its equipment, or speak of the favorable surroundings, since this has already been done. I do, however, wish to express my gratitude to God for giving us such a delightful spot in which to begin what we hope will prove to be the nucleus of a work that will be carried forward in harmony with the revealed will of God and in the spirit of the great Medical Missionary.
In order that this may be done, we must have connected with the Sanitarium men and women who are Christians and are willing to lift and stand ready to do whatever needs to be done. Every work has to have a beginning, and the beginning is always hard. The little sprout in the soil meets with many obstacles and obstructions in its efforts to come to the surface. So it is with every principle of truth and every effort of reform. But all this is needful, and should not lead to discouragement. These supposed hindrances and obstacles are really blessings and helps in disguise. All our sanitariums come up out of a certain amount of tribulation. This is needful for the development of faithful workers. Adversity affords an opportunity to make manifest men and women of real worth, and aids in the development of promising young men and women.
Our sanitariums should have connected with them as workers only those who have been previously tested, and who have given evidence that they are in possession of the spirit of the true Medical Missionary, who for man's sake became poor, and lived among men as a servant, not to be ministered unto, but to minister and give his life a ransom for many. We expect to carry forward a training-school in connection with the Sanitarium. The object of the training-school will not be to turn out professional nurses. Its true aim will be to afford an opportunity for missionaries to receive a medical training, thus fully qualifying them for gospel work and enabling them to carry out the commission of Christ in their labors: “Into whatsoever city ye enter, . . . heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.” The young man who has the ministry in view needs such a training in order to make a success of the ministry. The young woman who is desirous of becoming a church-school teacher certainly should possess the medical training in order to do justice to her work. The Bible workers can not accomplish the good that God desires them to accomplish, in house-to-house labor, without this training. Our sanitarium training-schools should not draw men and women away from our conferences into the purely medical work; they should exist for the purpose of aiding in qualifying missionary workers to do successful gospel work in the conferences as recognized conference laborers.
In order that our sanitariums may be sanitariums of missionary influence, we must have connected with them men and women of maturity and experience who have given evidence that they are real home missionaries. In reading the many letters already received from former sanitarium workers and those desiring to enter the training-school for medical missionaries, our hearts have been made glad because of the willingness expressed on the part of so many to come to the Lord's help in placing this institution in a position so that his purpose concerning it may be carried out. We must expect to meet with difficulties, but we have no doubt that the work will prosper, and that the Lord's blessing will attend the efforts put forth in developing this branch of the third angel's message. There is a bright future before the Sanitarium at Washington.
We desire the hearty co-operation and prayers of all our people in behalf of the sanitarium work at this place, and we trust that the right kind of workers may be encouraged to connect with this and similar institutions. We would be pleased to hear from those who desire further information in regard to the Sanitarium or the training-school. We shall also be pleased to have our brethren assist us by recommending patients to the Sanitarium that could be benefited by a short stay. We can assure our brethren that we will do our utmost to help all such. D. H. KRESS, M. D.
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