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St. Joseph, Trinidad

By L. Rashford

IN February of this year, I was transferred from Grenada to take up work in the island of Trinidad. About ten days after landing I started a tent effort in St. Joseph, the ancient capital, and the most formidable stronghold of Roman Catholicism. Its inhabitants make their boast of being members of the holy Church of Rome. The tent was pitched on the savanna, to the northeast of the town, one of the most pleasant sites in the whole parish. The attendance was fair at the beginning, but after a week the novelty wore off, and the people learned we were Protestant. Some nights the audiences were very small. These people have a decided distaste for anything else than that which they usually term their grandfathers' religion. Five have decided to obey, but the enemy is fighting fiercely for their overthrow.

There is quite an interest in an outlying district, and we have planned for an effort there as soon as the rainy season is past. At this place Protestantism is looked upon with less disfavor. Only

those who have had experience in Catholic fields can appreciate the difficulties and embarrassments which must be encountered in giving the message. The people have been trained for centuries to the sacrifice of the mass, hence they see little or no significance in the sacrifice of Christ. To be denied the Communion by the priest is the surest way of going to purgatory, and by threat of this the people are held in abject fear. Here for the first time I met a full-grown person who could read and yet never had read the Bible.

On a hill two miles from St. Joseph is the shrine of St. Benedict, and people from all parts of the island make that the center of healing, as St. Benedict is a supposed healer. Candles and money must accompany each visitor, and one who visited the place told me that he saw there the greatest quantity of candles he had ever seen at any one time. These candles are sold by the priests for less than the wholesale price.

Ignorance and superstition abound everywhere, and I never appreciated these words of Isaiah any more than I do now: "Darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people." May the Lord help us to be living channels through which the light of his truth can brighten the path of these Rome-enslaved people.

L. RASHFORD.

Iowa

By M. B. Butterfield; Mrs. M. B. Butterfield

KNOXVILLE.—March 15 we began a series of meetings in this city, which lasted six weeks. To start the work, we engaged the opera house for a big Protestant mass meeting. At the last moment the opera house was refused us because of Catholic opposition, and we transferred the mass meeting to our own church. The church was packed to the doors, and all the pastors of the city, except one, were present. Forty copies of the February Protestant Magazine were sold at the door that day, and more were sold later.

As a result of this effort, nineteen are rejoicing in present truth. Fifteen were taken into the church May 9.

M. B. BUTTERFIELD.

MRS. M. B. BUTTERFIELD.

Educational Department

By W. E. Howell

J. L. SHAW, General Secretary F. GRIGGS, N. Am. Div. Secretary W. E. HOWELL, N. Am. Div. Asst. Secretary

Notes Afield

Fox River Academy

Before leaving the territory of Lake Union Conference, one of the most active, educationally, in the North American Division, I visited for the first time our academy near Sheridan, Ill. It is situated a pleasant drive of two miles from a spur of the Burlington Railroad, on a productive plot of forty-three acres, including the school campus. All the land is tillable but about five acres, and this is good for pasturage.

Owing largely to frequent changes in the teaching force and to the consequent lack of thoroughly working the territory for students, the enrollment of this school has decreased from seventy to fifty the last three years. Prof. J. R. Clymer, the principal, who is a seasoned teacher, came too late last year to work the field, but vigorous campaigning is planned for this summer. The enrollment the past year was fifty, with forty-one held in attendance to the close. With two conferences to supply students, there ought to be at least one hundred in the school next year, and the managers are aiming at this goal. In harmony with the Lake Union plan, only ten grades are taught, and the teachers are determined to make the school tell in quality what it may lack in scope.

Oak Park Academy

Situated at the geographical center of Iowa, this school is the successor of the academy formerly conducted at Stuart. It stands on a commanding eminence near the town of Nevada, on a common campus with the Iowa Sanitarium. It is substantially built of brick, with the dormitories and schoolrooms all in one inclosure. Some excellent work has been done in the school this year, but it has suffered much from frequent changes in faculty and working plans.

All the teachers but one in this school were changed last summer, and all but one will be changed again this summer. Nevertheless the school has excellent possibilities. While the enrollment the past year was only one hundred and one, with about sixty held in attendance to the close, yet the Iowa Conference has a constituency of twenty-five hundred, with close to five hundred young people. There is no reason why the academy should not enroll two hundred next year. The students have pledged themselves to try to bring back one each next autumn, and with the help of the teachers and field workers they can do it if they set about it with a will.

Schools for Other Nationalities

It is a matter of gratification that our educational system includes distinct schools for the foreign-speaking people of the United States. The justification for such schools is found in the fact that there are, for example, enough Germans, Danish-Norwegians, and Swedes in this country to form an important mission field for each. Their number is being constantly added to by fresh recruits from the old country. There is also a constant movement back to the fatherland, either for temporary visit or business or for permanent residence. Too little has been done for these classes in the past, both because we have not been keenly alive to the opportunity they afford for aggressive effort, and because we have not had qualified laborers to work for them. Schools conducted in their own language, then, will serve the double purpose of winning and establishing younger people in the truth, and of developing workers to carry the message into the homes of their own nationality in this country and abroad.

One striking example comes to my mind of how work for foreign-speaking peoples in our own country may affect the work abroad. While laboring in Greece a few years ago, I met in Athens a Greek who had come to America and gone into business. Coming in contact with Age to Come teachings, he accepted them, closed out his business, returned to Greece, and at his own charges had Age to Come literature translated into Greek, and personally scattered these teachings throughout Athens and several outlying districts. At the time I met him, he had already developed two or three companies of believers. Three summers ago, also, while in San Francisco I met two Sabbath-keeping Greeks who told me that they were constantly writing and sending literature to relatives and friends in Greece, and were looking out for others who came to this country, that they might receive the truth.

One thriving school for foreigners which is doing good work in soul winning and in training for service is the—

Broadview Swedish Seminary

It is located a little west of Chicago, a city which is said to contain more Swedes than any other city in the world except Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Brother G. E. Nord, who spent two years at Battle Creek College and two at Union College, besides doing evangelistic work in New York City, has been principal of the school during the four years of its existence. Under his enterprising leadership, with the strong field support of Elders Olsen and Mortenson, the enrollment has increased from twenty-two to fifty, the school debt has been reduced $2,000 the last two years, and $7,000 worth of improvements has been made. The Swedish Seventh-day Adventist constituency in America is only 1,500, yet they have given $23,000 to the seminary since it was started.

Other efficient members of the faculty are J. M. Erikson, who was ready for ordination as a Baptist minister when the truth found him, who taught several years in the Swedish department of Union College, and has served in the ministry in Sweden; H. O. Olson, who holds a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, studied one year at Upsala University, Sweden, and has spent two summers in the ministry; A. G. Goude, a graduate of Union College four years ago, who goes to agricultural college next year to qualify for better service on the seminary farm, which consists of seventy-seven acres, with an additional forty rented. Next year the faculty will be strengthened by the addition of Dr. and Mrs. Jespersson, both college graduates in both literary work and medicine, and formerly missionaries in Jerusalem and in Algeria. The seminary maintains a strong balance in industrial education, and a fervent spiritual and missionary spirit pervades all the work of the school.

W. E. H.

Religious Liberty Department

By S. B. Horton

C. S. LONGACRE — — — — — — — — — — N. Am. Div. Secretary

President Wilson on Patriotism

REFERRING to President Wilson's address at the unveiling of the Barry statue in Washington recently, the Washington Herald comments editorially, in part: —

"Every American should read the address of President Wilson at the unveiling of the Barry statue yesterday. A great many will be better Americans if they give it careful study. The address ought to and probably will take its place as the best and clearest definition in American literature of genuine patriotism. First of all, it should be printed in the schoolbooks, that the principles which it proclaims may be learned early by those who later in life must be depended upon to maintain the nation's honor and traditions."

The President's address, excerpts of which we present below, proves a timely utterance. The Barry statue had its inception in 1902 when, at a meeting of the Robert Emmet Club of Georgetown, a resolution was indorsed to take steps to induce the national government to erect a statue in the nation's capital in honor of Capt. John Barry. As a result of that resolution, the necessary legislation was passed to honor the first commissioned officer in the American navy. The circumstance of his being an Irishman and a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church was seized upon by the Roman hierarchy to bring that church

and its influence into prominence. A military mass was devised to round off the unveiling ceremonies, to which the President and other national officials were invited.

Whether intended or not, the President's address was quite significant in its bearing upon the principles of patriotism as exemplified in such cases as that of Captain Barry. He said: —

"Patriotism is, in my mind, not merely a sentiment. There is a certain effervescence, I suppose, which ought to be permitted to those who allow their hearts to speak in the celebration of the glory and majesty of their country, but the country can have no glory or no majesty unless there be a deep principle and conviction back of the enthusiasm. Patriotism is a principle, not a mere sentiment. No man can be a true patriot who does not feel himself shot through and through with a deep ardor for what his country stands for, what its existence means, what its purpose is declared to be in its history and in its policy. I recall those solemn lines of the poet Tennyson in which he tries to give voice to his conception of what it is that stirs within a nation: 'Some sense of duty, something of a faith, some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, some patient force to change them when we will, some civil manhood firm against the crowd; steadfastness, clearness of purpose, courage, persistency, and that uprightness which comes from the clear thinking of men who wish to serve not themselves but their fellow men.'"

"What does the United States stand for, then, that our hearts should be stirred by the memory of the men who set up her Constitution? John Barry fought, like every other man in the Revolution, in order that America might be free to make her own life without interruption or disturbance from any other quarter. You can sum the whole thing up in that, that America had a right to her own self-determined life; and what are our corollaries from that?"

"There are just as vital things stirring now that concern the existence of the nation as were stirring then, and every man who worthily stands in this presence should examine himself and see whether he has the full conception of what it means that America shall live her own life. Washington saw it when he wrote his farewell address. It was not merely because of passing and transient circumstances that Washington said that we must keep free from entangling alliances. It was because he saw that no country had yet set its face in the same direction in which America had set her face. We cannot form alliances with those who are not going our way; and in our might and majesty and in the certainty of our own purpose we need not, and we should not, form alliances with any nation in the world. Those who are right, those who study their consciences in determining their policies, those who hold their honor higher than their advantage, do not need alliances. You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself. You are weak only when you are in the wrong; you are weak only when you are afraid to do the right; you are weak only when you doubt your cause and the majesty of a nation's might asserted."

"There is another corollary. John Barry was an Irishman, but his heart crossed the Atlantic with him. He did not leave it in Ireland. And the test of all of us—for all of us had our origins on the other side of the sea—is whether we will assist in enabling America to live her separate and independent life, retaining our ancient affections, but determining everything that we do by the interests that exist on this side of the sea. Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them have come over. But when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. This man was not an Irish-American; he was an Irishman who became an American. I venture to say if he voted he voted with regard to the questions as they looked on this side of the water, and not on the other side; and that is my infallible test of a genuine American, that when he votes, or when he acts, or when he fights, his heart and his thought are nowhere but in the center of the emotions and the purposes and the policies of the United States."

"This man illustrates for me all the splendid strength which we brought into this country by the magnet of freedom. Men have been drawn to this country by the same things that have made them love this country—by the opportunity to live their own lives and to think their own thoughts and to let their whole natures expand with the expansion of this free and mighty nation. We have brought out of the stocks of all the world all the best impulses, and have appropriated them and Americanized them and translated them into the glory and majesty of this great country."

"When we go out from this presence, we ought to take this idea with us—that we, too, are devoted to the purpose of enabling America to live her own life, to be the justest, the most progressive, the most honorable, the most enlightened nation in the world. Any man that touches our honor is our enemy. Any man who stands in the way of that kind of progress which makes for human freedom cannot call himself our friend. Any man who does not feel behind him the whole push and rush and compulsion that filled men's hearts in the time of the Revolution, is no American. No man who thinks first of himself and afterward of this country, can call himself an American. America must be enriched by us. We must not live upon her; she must live by means of us."

It may be said to the credit of the President's good taste and judgment that he did not attend the mass held on the Monument grounds on the day following the ceremonies. If these principles so suggestively presented by the President were to govern our legislators and executives, and were heeded by those who would use the government for propagating religious doctrines and observances, there would be no need of fear as to the future course of the United States government.

S. B. HORTON.

Missionary Volunteer Department

M. E. KERN - - - General Secretary C. L. BENSON - - - Assistant Secretary MATILDA ERICKSON - - - N. Am. Div. Secretary MEADE MACGUIRE - - N. Am. Div. Field Secretary

Parents' Meetings

To make our annual camp meetings in fact what they are in theory should be the aim of all who have any responsibility in connection with them. In theory they are supply stations at which we may lay in a store of provisions against the year to come. If they were literal supply stores, how carefully they would be filled with just the variety needed for the journey; not all one variety of food, but suited to each individual requirement,—milk for the weak, strong meat for those of age.

Shall we not, then, study the needs of each class, and try to deal out to them that which will make them better able to meet their perplexities? If this is done, it must be planned for. We do plan for most of the classes. The children have their carefully arranged children's tent, and the care of teachers who have given time and thought to the lessons for each day of the session. The same is true of the young people. But it seems that the parents have been neglected. Apparently it has been thought that the general exercises are sufficient to satisfy all their wants.

The parents of our church have much to meet in these days. They have a most definite part to act in the message that is to draw parents and children together before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. Many of them live in remote districts where they have not many advantages, and where they may not have heard a sermon since the previous annual gathering. They do not have much in the way of reading, perhaps, that will really help them in their practical duties; or if they have the reading, many of them find it hard to make the application to their individual cases. They long for an opportunity to ask questions about certain problems that perplex them. They want to hear a living voice enunciate the things they have pondered over,—the things that they daily meet in their homes. Here is where they need help. And while what may be given them may not be so wonderfully new, any more than what they hear from the desk in the regular meetings is strikingly new or strange, it will set their minds to working along the lines of some of the small things that make for righteousness in their families. The families of Seventh-day Adventists should be models in every way that a family and a home may be a model. Wherever a family tree is planted, there should be found by those around it no occasion for fault or criticism, except it be concerning the law of its God.

Arrangements for the Meetings

These should be arranged for early. Some one who is qualified should be appointed to take charge. He should be one who appreciates the importance of the subject, and, if possible, who has successfully trained children as a parent or teacher. Let this leader arrange topics

and assign them long before the camp meeting. He should be explicit in the assignment of these topics, and should give the person who is to speak or to write a paper a definite idea of the subject to be treated. He should not fear to ask some of our good fathers and mothers in Israel, who, by the blessing of God, have succeeded in rearing their sons and daughters in the truth. One such mother, after much persuasion, wrote out some of her experiences, and her paper was considered the most helpful of all.

There should be a regular time and place for the meetings. The best time, perhaps, is the hour in the afternoon when the children's and youth's meetings are held. There are some objections to this hour, but strong considerations in its favor.

The Spirit of Good Cheer

By W. C. Gannett

The thing to seek is not the good time, but the spirit which can make good times out of common times,—the spirit of good cheer. The spirit of good cheer,—that is the spring in the hills whence laughter runs.—Rev. W. C. Gannett.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— The Japanese-American arbitration treaty was ratified by Japan on May 23. It was ratified by the United States on February 22, last. The treaty pledges the contracting governments to arbitrate all questions except those affecting vital interests, independence, or national honor, and the rights of third parties.

— Three barges laden with 1,300 tons of sugar from Hawaiian steamships at Panama arrived at Cristobal at seven o'clock on the evening of May 19, after passing through the Panama Canal. The sugar was transferred to the steamships "Colon" and "Oregon," for conveyance to Philadelphia, thus completing the first commercial use of the canal.

— The battered hulk of a new light-ship, "Halifax No. 19," was found lying among the breakers on Liscomb Island, five miles from the mainland of Nova Scotia, on May 23. It probably struck during a dense fog which enshrouded the coast in the vicinity of Halifax for several days, and it is believed that the crew of twenty-five Scotchmen was lost. The ship was on her maiden voyage.

— Just what will be accomplished by the Mexican Mediation Commission, now in session at Niagara Falls, Canada, is indeed a doubtful issue. The United States will tolerate no plan which does not include the unconditional elimination of Huerta. The president of Mexico declares, "I will not resign." The mediators have been anxious that Carranza, leader of the Constitutionalists, send representatives to their conference. This he has finally refused to do.

— Prince William of Albania, formerly Prince William of Wied, upon whom the rulership of Albania was conferred by the powers last February, was forced to take refuge on an Italian gunboat as an insurgent force supporting the former minister of war for ruler neared the capital city, Durazzo, on May 23. He returned to the palace the following day under an Italian guard. It is reported that he has already signed a treaty of abdication, but this has not been confirmed.

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On May 7 the king and queen of England opened a new wing of the British Museum, which has been completed at a cost of $1,000,000. The building of the new wing is part of a general scheme for the extension of the museum.

— Aeroplane passenger service across San Francisco Bay to Oakland was instituted on May 14, with a regular schedule of trips. Mayor James Rolph, Jr., was the first passenger carried, making the round trip. The distance between the terminals is 6.7 miles.

— For some time the question of Sunday amusements, especially professional baseball, has been under discussion in the District of Columbia. On Friday, May 22, Justice Gould of the District Supreme Court rendered the decision that the commissioners have no jurisdiction over the commercialism of Sunday amusements.

— Following the thirty days' grace allowed by the laws of Illinois to the saloons which were voted closed, largely by women, at the recent local option elections, approximately 1,100 whisky dives in all parts of the State went out of business at midnight on May 7. In all, more than 200 cities and villages were freed from rum sellers.

— The President on May 16, served warning on Governor Ammons that the State of Colorado must be prepared to maintain peace in the coal miners' strike districts without federal aid. The President said that federal troops would remain in the troubled districts, "only until the State of Colorado has time and opportunity to resume complete sovereignty and control."

— China now has a real constitution, drafted by friends or agents of Pres. Yuan Shi Kai, who have been sitting in Peking for several weeks since the president's summary dismissal of the parliament. The revised constitution, which is still called "provisional," was promulgated a week ago, and in effect gives the president dictatorial power over administration and legislation. Dr. Luther Anderson, a Chinese correspondent of note, avers that the instrument is a distinct advance on conditions which prevailed prior to the revolution, and paves the way for constitutional development, even though it is admitted that the constitution is strongly reactionary in character.

— A definite legislative program for the remainder of this session of Congress has been agreed upon by leaders of the House and Senate in conference with President Wilson. This plan contemplates adjournment not later than July 10 if that is possible. Failing that, August 1 has been set as an arbitrary date. Only the failure of the appropriation bills will prolong the session longer. As now agreed upon, the House legislative program includes the passage of the following bills: Trade Commission Bill; Monopoly and Injunction Bill; Federal Control of Issue of Stock and Bonds Bill; Rural Credits; Appropriations; General Dam Act for regulation of water power. The Senate program is: Repeal of the free tolls clause of the Panama Canal Act; the enactment of the three antitrust bills designed separately above; Rural Credits; Appropriations.

Medical Missionary Department

By L. A. Hansen

W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - General Secretary

L. A. HANSEN - - - Assistant Secretary

H. W. MILLER, M. D. - N. Am. Div. Secretary

Temperance Missionary Work in Western Canada

SEVERAL interesting experiences in temperance work are reported. The Temperance Instructor is still being used to good advantage, and bids fair to be a timely piece of campaign literature for most of the year. In the United States and in Canada it and other temperance matter can be profitably used in creating and maintaining interest in the prohibition measures now being considered, which will, in some instances, be brought to an issue next fall.

The Temperance number of Our Little Friend offers an excellent medium for children, as well as others, to aid in the temperance cause. The price is three cents each, postpaid, for five or more copies. The paper sells readily for five cents. It has a beautiful cover in colors, and contains some interesting temperance reading. Order a supply from your tract society, and let the little ones get started in this good work.

The Western Canadian Tidings reports considerable activity in that field. In Alberta it is the plan of temperance organizations to introduce a petition in the legislature next fall calling for prohibition. The formal launching of the movement took place at Edmonton, Sunday, April 26, when many ministers made strong appeals to their congregations to rally to the support of the temperance cause. Thousands of people throughout the province are becoming deeply stirred over the question. Our own people are taking an active part in the movement, and are furnishing a good supply of literature, which is being well received. A favorable attitude is taken toward this work.

At Edmonton, W. L. Manfull and F. L. Hommel spent a day in the interests of the temperance work. They called on the officers of the Alberta Temperance and Moral Reform Movement, to whom Brother Hommel had previously sent a copy of the Instructor and of "Temperance Torchlights." The brethren were well received. They were told that the publications were acceptable, and that the book is fine for assisting local organizations in getting up programs, as well as for its much valuable information which can be used in a general way. Brother Manfull sold twenty copies of the Instructor on the train on his way. He met the Canadian Northern Railway office inspector, who recommended his work very highly, buying a paper and expressing a wish that a copy of it might go into every home in the land.

During the past few weeks over sixteen hundred copies of the Temperance Instructor have been distributed in Alberta. The workers find it easy to dispose of the paper. One brother sold twenty copies to the first twenty-one persons canvassed.

In the British Columbia Conference, Brother E. R. Potter has been combining temperance work with other missionary effort, and has met with most gratifying results. He is working in a city that has been considered one of the most prejudiced in that part of the country. After a careful study of special instruction regarding suitable methods of labor, he decided to use the Instructor and "Ministry of Healing" as a means of meeting the people. He says:—

"The first call I made was on the Baptist minister, and I laid before him the plan I had of circulating temperance literature of an educational nature, leaving a copy of the Instructor and a copy of Ministry of Healing for him to examine so he might recommend them if he considered them worthy publications. I also left him a copy of the Protestant Magazine, which appealed to him at once.

"In the course of our conversation he told me that he had recently given an address in his church to a full house on the second coming of Christ. This gave me a good opportunity to explain my church relationship and my interest in the second advent. From that day to this he has been a very warm friend, and we have several times met for counsel and prayer.

"I had been told that the Methodist minister was very prejudiced, but I pursued the same course with him as with others, and he waxed very enthusiastic concerning the temperance campaign, and was much in favor of the work with the Protestant Magazine. When, just before leaving him, I mentioned that I was a Seventh-day Adventist, he seemed almost shocked to think that after all the good talk we had had together, he should find that I was an Adventist.

"As a result of this and other visits, he not only gave me a splendid recommendation for the Temperance Instructor, but asked for and is now reading Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists.

"I have now visited the seven pastors of the churches here, including the Catholic priest and the Salvation Army officer, and in every case have had a splendid visit on some phase of our work, and left each on friendly terms. The W. C. T. U. of this city formerly refused to have anything to do with the Temperance Instructor because of its connection with the Seventh-day Adventists. Just last Thursday this society indorsed the paper by asking its president and secretary to assist me in soliciting funds for its circulation in Vernon."

Another worker, C. O. Smith, says:—

"This year our Temperance Instructor sales have been very encouraging. To date (about April 15), our orders totaled five thousand copies. Eighteen hundred of these have been sold in Vancouver alone, and about two thousand in other parts of the province, chiefly in the Okanagan Valley. Those who work in the business section find no difficulty in disposing of fifty copies in three or four hours."

From Regina, Saskatchewan, Brother M. Mackintosh writes:—

"We have sold five hundred copies of the Temperance Instructor on the north side of the city, and I am sure from many expressions we hear that some good will result. A number of people bought extra copies to mail to friends in the old country." L. A. H.

Camp Meetings

ATLANTIC UNION

Massachusetts, Boston ...... June 11-21 New York, Utica ...... June 18-28 Western New York, Salamanca .... June 18-28 Maine, Camden ...... June 25 to July 5 Northern New England, Claremont, N. H. ...... Aug. 20-30 Southern New England, New Haven, Conn. ...... Aug. 27 to Sept. 6

CENTRAL UNION

Nebraska, Seward ...... June 4-14 Wyoming, Edgemont, S. Dak. ..... June 11-21

COLUMBIA UNION

West Pennsylvania, Homestead Park, Pittsburgh ...... June 11-21 Eastern Pennsylvania, Emmanuel Grove, Allentown ...... June 18-28 New Jersey, Camden ...... June 25 to July 5 Ohio ...... Aug. 13-23 Chesapeake ...... Sept. 24 to Oct. 1 West Virginia, Parkersburg ...... Oct. 1-11

EASTERN CANADIAN UNION

Maritime, Moncton, New Brunswick ..... ...... June 4-14 Quebec, South Stukely ...... June 16-23 Ontario, Oshawa ...... June 25 to July 5

LAKE UNION

North Michigan, Gladstone ..... June 5-14 East Michigan, Orion ...... June 11-21 Wisconsin, Wausau ...... June 18-28

NORTHERN UNION

Minnesota, St. Paul ...... June 4-14 South Dakota, Huron ...... June 12-21 North Dakota, Jamestown ...... June 22-28

NORTH PACIFIC UNION

Upper Columbia, Milton, Oregon ... June 4-14

PACIFIC UNION

Nevada Mission, Reno ...... June 1-7 Northern California, Sacramento ... June 10-21 Montana, Helena ...... June 11-21 California, Oakland ... June 23 to July 5 Southern California, near Los Angeles ... ...... Aug. 3-16 Western Washington, Auburn ... Aug. 20-30 Utah ...... Aug. 23-30 Arizona ...... Oct. 8-18

SOUTHERN UNION

Tennessee River, Jackson ...... July 10-20 Mississippi, Jackson ...... July 23 to Aug. 2 Louisiana, New Orleans .... July 31 to Aug. 9 Louisiana, New Orleans (colored) ..... ...... July 31 to Aug. 9 Alabama, Montgomery ...... Aug. 7-17 Kentucky, Nicholasville ...... Aug. 20-30

SOUTHWESTERN UNION

South Texas, Houston ... July 23 to Aug. 3

WESTERN CANADIAN UNION

British Columbia, Coquitlam ...... June 2-7 British Columbia, Vernon ...... June 9-14 Alberta, Red Deer ...... June 18-28 Saskatchewan, Regina ... June 25 to July 5 Manitoba, Morden ...... July 2-12

New York Conference

NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual session of the New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp meeting in Utica, N. Y., June 18-28, 1914, for the purpose of electing officers and transacting necessary business. The first meeting will be held Friday, June 19, at 10:30 A. M. Every delegate should be present at the first meeting.

W. H. Holden President;

B. N. Brown, Secretary.

New York Conference Association

NOTICE is hereby given that the New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) is called to convene in Utica, N. Y., on the Seventh-day Adventist camp ground, at 10:30 A. M., June 23, 1914, for the purpose of electing officers and transacting other necessary business.

W. H. HOLDEN, President;

F. N. JOHNSON, Secretary.

Maine Conference Association

The first meeting of the regular annual session of the Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) will be held on the Adventist camp ground in Camden, Maine, Monday, June 29, 1914, at 10:30 A. M., in connection with the Maine Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to elect a board of trustees for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association. All the accredited delegates to the regular session of the Maine Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (unincorporated) are members of the association.

FRANKLIN M. DANA, President;\nW. O. HOWE, Clerk.

Pennsylvania Tract and Missionary Society

The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Tract and Missionary Society will be held in connection with the Eastern Pennsylvania conference of Seventh-day Adventists, on the Emmanuel Grove camp grounds, Allentown, Pa., June 18-28, 1914. The first meeting will be held Monday, June 22, at 4 P. M. This meeting will be for the election of constituent members for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of any other business that may come before the meeting.

H. M. J. RICHARDS, President;\nLuCY PAGE EMERSON, Secretary.

West Pennsylvania Association

ThE next session of the constituency of the West Pennsylvania Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Homestead Park, Homestead, Pa., June 15, 1914, at 10 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The constituency will meet in connection with the camp meeting to be held in Homestead Park, June 11-21.

I. P. GAFDE, President;\nH. K. HACKMAN, Secretary.

Saskatchewan Conference

THE third annual session of the Saskatchewan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in connection with its camp meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan, June 25 to July 5, 1914. The first meeting of the conference will be held Friday, June 26, at 9:30 A. M.

A. C. GILBERT, President;

U. WISSNER, Sec.-Treas.

Wisconsin Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association

THE annual session of the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association of the State of Wisconsin (incorporated) will be held at Wausau, Wis., in connection with the camp meeting of the Wisconsin Conference, June 18-28, 1914. The first meeting of the session will be held on Monday, June 22, at 11 A. M. At this session officers and trustees will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before this body. The accredited delegates to the Wisconsin Conference are delegates to this association.

W. H. THURSTON, President; P. L. LARSON, Secretary.

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