GRANT.—Christina Grant, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, died at Claremont, after a brief illness, Feb. 3, 1909, aged fifty years. Sister Grant accepted the truth in King William's Town, Cape Colony, in 1897. She was highly respected as a devoted wife and mother, and a loyal church-member. Her faithful endeavors to rear her family in the message have been rewarded, some of them being active members in the Johannesburg church. Suitable words were spoken by Elder R. C. Porter, who conducted a funeral service at Sister Page's house, and Sister Grant was laid to rest in the Maitland Cemetery. H. J. EDMED.
MACDONALD.—Linda Macdonald died Feb. 13, 1909, at Sweetwaters, Natal, at the age of twenty-four years. She accepted the truth at Johannesburg about two years ago, and shortly afterward married our esteemed conference secretary and treasurer. Sister Macdonald had apparently always enjoyed splendid health, and the day before her demise celebrated the anniversary of her wedding with her husband and a brother and sister. During the night, however, the family were awakened to find her in a very sad condition, and the symptoms increased in severity until eleven o'clock Sabbath morning, when she passed away in spite of every help which medical science and loved ones could render. The loving esteem in which our young sister was held was evidenced by the large gathering at the funeral services conducted by the writer, first in the church and then at the grave at Marlborough. Many people who are not of our faith were present also. Brother Macdonald received letters and telegrams, expressive of tender sympathy from all parts of the world, and with him our conference mourns the loss of one who gave promise, had she lived, of helping forward the third angel's message. H. J. EDMED.
Business Notices
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
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Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
For Sale.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 62 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
For Sale.—Best grade of watches, kodaks, fountain pens, fountain syringes, bath cabinets, electric batteries, atomizers, ice-bags, etc. We handle only high-grade articles. Write us your wants or for catalogue. Address College View Supply Co., College View, Neb.
For Sale.—160 acres irrigated land. Fenced; small buildings; six miles from town; healthful climate; good water; under the famous Government Ditch in western Nebraska. $4,000 will buy it, or it may be rented satisfactorily. Address M. J. Fritz, Morden, Manitoba.
For Sale.—Peanut Butter, 10c a pound. 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7. Olive Oil, $2.50 a gallon, 6 cans (57 pounds) Vegetable Cooking Oil, freight paid, $6.50. Cereal Coffee, Wheatee, and Whole Wheat Flour cheap. Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.
For Sale.—One million Bible Mottoes. Our new Father and Mother Mottoes take the lead. First issue, of about 40,000, is almost sold. We have about 100 designs in stock. To any address, all assorted, 200, $11. We prepay all express. Bible Post-Cards, as well as Bible Cards, in stock. Don't write us unless you mean business. Address Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.
The Paradise Valley Training-school for Missionary Nurses will be ready for first-year and second-year students October 1. Please send applications early. Address all communications to the superintendent, Winnifred W. Frederick, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal.
Hygienic Vegetable Cooking Oil.—Used by our institutions, government inspected and guaranteed. Send stamp for circulars. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Midget Massage Vibrator.—Patented; foreign patents pending. A hand-massage machine that is operated without electricity. Nickel-plated, will last a lifetime. $3 to Adventists. We make all kinds of medical lamps. Send for folders. Radiodescent Lamp Co., 54 South, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Glass Decoration.—Decorate your church, home, or place of business! Samples and estimates free! Send for them! The translucent Glass Decoration easily applied; looks like stained glass; costs little. We also make the real stained glass. Address Art Decoration Co., 521 Seventh St., Des Moines, Iowa.
Adventist families desiring to start school will do well to correspond with me. Good fruit land in the Okanagan country will be sold in small lots joining lands settled twenty years. Government is spending $30,000 on our valley road. This sale to help missionary work. Address H. Augustus Baxter, Enderby, B. C., Canada.
For Sale.—Gladioli Bulbs, beautiful colors, mixed, at 15c and 25c doz. Princeps Gladioli at 15c and 20c a bulb. Magnificent. Hardy Phlox, 3 colors, 25c. Blue Violet clumps, hardy, 15c, or 2 for 25c. Hyacinthus Candicans, 5c. All post-paid. All kinds of plants to order. To help the cause. Oxford Floral Co., Oxford, N. Y.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1909
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Minnesota, St. Paul ............ June 17-27
North Dakota, Jamestown ........ June 21-27
South Dakota, Sioux Falls ...... June 24 to July 4
Iowa, Nevada ................... August 19-29
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Louisiana, Alexandria ........ July 22 to Aug. 1
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Wyoming, Crawford, Neb. ........ June 17-27
North Missouri, Chillicothe...... Aug. 5-15
South Missouri, Springfield..... Aug. 12-22
Kansas, Council Grove .......... Aug. 19-29
Nebraska, Hastings ............. Sept. 2-12
West. Colorado, Grand Junction.. Sept. 16-26
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
General Conference Corporation
By A. G. DANIELLS
THERE will be a meeting of the members of the General Conference Corporation, Friday, June 11, 1909, at 10:30 A. M., in Takoma Park, Md. The members of this corporation are the delegates to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
By order of the Trustees.
A. G. DANIELLS, President.
The Manitoba Conference
By Wm. C. Young
THE annual meeting of the Manitoba Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held June 24 to July 4 at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, to elect officers for the coming year, and to attend to such other business as usually pertains to annual gatherings.
Tickets may be bought on the certificate plan, thus insuring a great reduction in cost of railroad fares on all lines running into Portage.
We are assured of good help for this meeting. Come expecting great things.
Wm. C. Young.
Legal Meeting of the British Columbia Association
By W. M. Adams
NOTICE is hereby given that the trustees of the British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists were not elected at the special meeting called April 13, 1909. The meeting adjourned to June 28, 1909, 11 A. M., in order to secure legal counsel with regard to the meaning of certain points in the articles of incorporation and the by-laws. Let all our churches elect delegates to send to this meeting, at the following ratio: One delegate for the church, and one additional delegate for every ten members. The trustees will be elected at the said coming meeting. Place—Port Hammond, British Columbia, at the office of said association.
W. M. ADAMS,
President of Association.
Northern Union Conference Camp-Meetings
By R. A. Underwood
THE attention of members of the Northern Union Conference is directed to the notice, in another column, giving the places and dates for the camp-meetings in the different conferences. Arrangements are now being made so that all who attend these meetings will be made comfortable, and may enjoy the instruction which will be given. Some of the many missionaries now in attendance at the great missionary Conference at Takoma Park, D. C., will attend each of the camp-meetings in the Northern Union Conference, and will give the people a very definite idea of the wonderful progress of our work in the world. All are urged to attend these gatherings to receive the personal benefit which will naturally accrue from participating in the deliberations of the conventions, and to receive the spiritual uplifting which always follows the associating together of believers. It is thought the camp-meetings this year will be of greater importance than any that have ever been held.
R. A. UNDERWOOD.
South Dakota Conference
By J. W. Christian
THE next annual session of the South Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on Seney Island, Sioux Falls, June 24 to July 4, in connection with the State camp-meeting. At this meeting officers for the conference for the ensuing year will be elected, and such other business matters will be considered as will be of interest to the constituency. Some duly appointed person will meet the trains at each depot. Do not give your checks to any stranger. Take them with you to the camp, and prompt attention will be given to the matter of transporting baggage.
J. W. CHRISTIAN, President.
Central New England Camp-Meeting
By H. C. HARTWELL
THE camp-meeting of the Central New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held from June 24 to July 4 at Nashua Junction, N. H.
Since this will be the first camp-meeting that has been held in New Hampshire for about nineteen years, the brethren in this State will especially appreciate it. The point at which the meeting is to be held is fairly central for the whole conference, and it is hoped there will be a large attendance. It is expected that good ministerial help will be furnished at the meeting.
H. C. HARTWELL,
Chairman Camp-meeting Committee.
Departmental Meetings
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Sabbath-School Department
Sixth Meeting, May 26, 8 A. M.
Every member present felt that the most essential feature of the Sabbath-school work was up for consideration at this meeting—“The Daily Family Study of the Sabbath-school Lesson.” Miss S. Lela Hoover, the Western Washington secretary, introduced the topic by a thoughtful paper. It is a truth beyond all controversy in the mind of every Christian who has had any experience in the things of God, that in order to maintain a vital connection with the Holy Spirit, he must apply himself daily to study, meditation, and prayer.
Enumerating the many essentials which go to make an ideal school, she stated that “they are the signs which follow a faithful daily study of the Sabbath-school lessons.” If we can get all of our people to studying the Sabbath-school lessons daily, we shall have solved many problems that now perplex us in every department of the work.
A valuable paper prepared by Mrs. Jessie B. Everett was read by the secretary, as the writer was unable to be present. Miss Dollie H. Callender, the Kentucky secretary, continued the discussion by presenting a number of helpful thoughts.
E. K. Slade: The blessedness of the Sabbath-school centers largely in the study of the Sabbath-school lesson. The thought, the idea, of the Sabbath-school is the study of the lesson. This should be the central theme. There is no question but that there is a tendency on the part of many to neglect the Sabbath-school lesson. I hope that an influence may be set on foot in favor of studying the lesson that will reach every home.
Miss Ella E. Merickel: We have arranged to supply each tent at our camp-meeting soon to be held, with a copy of the Sabbath-school lesson and a suggestive program for family study. The conference committee have agreed to urge that the program for study be carried out by the attendants at the camp-meeting.
The next topic was that of “Sabbath-school Membership: Attendance, Punctuality.” A paper going into all the details of this subject was presented by Miss Tillie E. Barr, the East Michigan secretary. She presented the evil attending irregular attendance and tardiness. The example of the officers and teachers is very far-reaching in bettering this condition. Several methods were suggested for increasing attendance and promptness on the part of our Sabbath-school membership.
The Publishing Department
Eleventh Meeting, May 26, 8 A. M.
This was one of the most enthusiastic, interesting meetings of the session thus far. The Publishing Department is not spending much time upon theories or lengthy presentations. A careful study of the details of the work is being made, in order to bring the many varied features of the publishing work into harmonious, effective operation.
The following outline of the reporting system was given careful study, and unanimously adopted:—
(a) That all canvassers report to the field missionary agent and the secretary of the tract society at the end of each week on blanks provided for that purpose, except in cases where it is found satisfactory for agents to send their weekly reports to the tract society secretary, and have the tract society secretaries forward them promptly to the field missionary agent.
(b) That tract society secretaries enter reports in agent's weekly record-book.
(c) That the tract society secretary forward reports to field missionary agent, unless duplicates have been sent to him by the canvassers, and make up a summary on or before Tuesday morning of each week, covering the work for the previous week. Send copy of this summary to State conference president, field missionary agent, general missionary agent of the union, the publishing house or branch which must supply the books, and the union conference paper, or other periodicals which publish the reports.
(d) That the general missionary agent of the union compile monthly summary of State conference reports on or before the twelfth day of the following month on blank provided for that purpose, and send to secretary of the Publishing Department.
(e) That field missionary agents and tract society secretaries unite in supplying reports and suitable instruction for each number of the State paper wherever there is such a periodical.
(f) That the general missionary agent of each union join with the manager of the Circulating Department of the wholesale house supplying goods to his territory in preparing suitable reports and articles for each number of the union conference paper.
(g) That the secretary of the Publishing Department supply monthly reports for the Review and Herald.
(h) That the field missionary agent of each conference be responsible for keeping the territorial record accurate and up to date.
(i) That the general agents of union conferences provide themselves with suitable record-books in which to record the reports from each conference in their territory.
Religious Liberty Department
Eleventh Meeting, May 26, 8 A. M.
The meeting was devoted to a consideration of the question, “How to Do the Most Effective Work at Our Camp-meetings Along Religious Liberty Lines.”
Elders E. T. Russell and A. J. Breed occupied most of the time, quoting in their remarks quite largely from the chapters on “The Coming Conflict” and “An Impending Crisis,” in “Testimonies for the Church,” Nos. 32 and 33. Both brethren thought that time should be devoted in our camp-meetings to the subject of religious liberty, and that special meetings should be held at these, in which the subject should be studied, and opportunity given for questions to be asked and answered. There can be no better place than our camp-meetings to interest our people in, and arouse them upon, this important phase of the message. At these meetings our people should be encouraged to subscribe for Liberty, and an effort should be made to encourage individuals to devote their time as regular agents for this magazine. The religious liberty work, if understood, and heartily engaged in by our people generally, will bring renewed spiritual life to them.
Medical Missionary Department
Eleventh Meeting, May 26, 8 A. M.
Dr. G. H. Heald read a paper on “General Hygiene,” emphasizing the thought that while we should not do less on the subject of diet, etc., we should do much more than we have been doing on other lines. For instance, we should give more attention to the prevention of communicable diseases, including tropical diseases; we should make more of a study of school hygiene, sanitation, ventilation, the remedying of defects in the eye, nose, throat, teeth, etc., which greatly diminish efficiency of students; and we should have a more complete course of hygienic instruction introduced into the schools.
Miss Bilz, who is a national W. C. T. U. lecturer, related personal experiences in the temperance work. Some of these emphasized a deplorable lack of co-operation on the part of our people in some localities in the matter of actively supporting the cause of temperance reform, while others gave abundant evidence of the benefits a proper co-operation with this work can bring in the way of promoting interest in proper diet, healthful dress, and other lines of reform. In one society, as a result of the example of the Seventh-day Adventist woman who was its leader, every woman in the organization was wearing a health waist. The two ways of promoting the cause of temperance were mentioned, that of active prohibition and that of education in temperance principles.
There was a general expression of interest in this paper, and other examples were related showing the excellent results of a judicious co-operation with the W. C. T. U. and other temperance organizations.
