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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42.

A Prayer
Earlier text: Godless Schools

The Maine Camp-Meeting

By W. B. White

THIS meeting was held at Norridgewock, September 1-10, and was one of the best and most successful camp-meetings held in this conference for many years.
Years ago, in the early days of the message, Elder M. E. Cornell and other workers went to Norridgewock, and began to proclaim the truths of the third angel's message. As a result, the whole country was stirred, a large number accepted the truth, a commodious house of worship was built, and for many years there was a strong, flourishing church at this place. But years went by, and the company, by removals and deaths, was reduced in numbers, till a few years ago the church became so small that the house of worship was closed, the remaining few meeting in a private home for worship. The sessions of the conference were held in this church. Some tents were pitched near it, but most of the people in attendance lived in rooms in the city.
At the time of this meeting the great temperance campaign was in progress in the State of Maine, or rather was drawing to its close. In this great movement, which was to decide whether Maine should retain its constitutional prohibition against the manufacture and sale of intoxicants, our people took an active part, distributing throughout the State over fifty thousand copies of the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. This literature was gladly received everywhere, was endorsed by the leading temperance people, and no doubt did much good in the great campaign. At this writing (September 29) the official count has not yet been made public, so the results of the campaign are in doubt. The vote was very close, and it is a question which side gained the victory. Many of our conferences, institutions, and individual church-members assisted in providing copies of the Instructor for Maine, and the conference passed a resolution of thanks for all the assistance thus given. That this great amount of literature which has been scattered will do much good in this State is beyond a doubt; it has been a great blessing to our cause already.
A few weeks before the conference, Elder J. F. Piper, the conference president, with his wife, went to Norridgewock and began a series of meetings in the house of worship. There was a fair hearing, and, as a result, five or six began to keep the Sabbath, and later received baptism. It is hoped that the interest in this place may be revived, and the house of worship again opened.
During the conference sessions a liberal spirit was manifested, and quite a goodly sum was pledged for different departments of the work. To assist in operating the conference there was raised $905, $399.50 of this being paid at the meeting. To help small church-schools to carry on their work, there was provided an educational fund of $328, $112.75 of which was immediately paid in. The brethren and sisters also raised a tent fund of $329. There was given for foreign missions $102.05; $13 was raised to provide legislators with copies of Liberty, and $6.35 to send the REVIEW AND HERALD to the poor; and there were also miscellaneous offerings to the amount of $89.58. Our people at this meeting paid in $171 tithe, and made $1,564 worth of pledges, which in part were redeemed at once to assist the cause.
The conference was fortunate in having at this meeting Elder and Mrs. S. N. Haskell, who are now conducting a small Bible training-school in the city of Portland. The conference appreciates the labors of these tried workers, and is cooperating with them in their work. Brother and Sister Haskell led our people in Maine in the temperance campaign, and God certainly blessed their labors. They were assisted by Elder and Mrs. Geo. B. Starr, and a nurse from the Melrose Sanitarium; and by Brethren C. J. Tolf and M. M. Hare, of the Atlantic Union Conference, and Brother Thurber, of the Northern New England Conference.
During the conference two temperance rallies were held, which were largely attended by the citizens of the place.
A deep spiritual interest existed throughout the conference, and new life and power were received by the people. We believe there are better days for the great cause in Maine, and trust our people in that conference will take courage, and work and pray as never before for the advancement of the work in that State.
Elder Piper was elected president of the conference, and Brethren M. B. Butterfield and E. E. Osborne were ordained to the gospel ministry. All the conference sessions were graced by the good Spirit of God, and all went to their homes with a feeling that better days are ahead for the cause in Maine.
W. B. WHITE.

An Oasis in a Desert

By W. H. Pascoe

ON being informed of an interested family in Wellington, New Zealand, I visited their comfortable home and found the woman hungering and thirsting after righteousness. From the book “Coming King” she had learned something about the message, and in her new-found joy was giving what she knew to her neighbors and friends. She informed me that, having felt condemned for working on Saturday, and not realizing any compunction from working on Sunday, for some time past she had done her work on Friday and rested on Saturday, and intended to continue to do so unless she could be shown from the Scriptures that she was wrong. In this resolve she was encouraged by her husband.
It seemed like an oasis in a desert, a refreshing to my soul, to listen to her earnest questions, and then to see her countenance brighten as the light of truth illuminated her mind. When I left, she gave me five shillings which she had collected in her Sabbath offerings.
Such cases cheer our hearts and assure us that Jesus, with and for whom we labor, will surely cause his truth to triumph, and will bring every honest heart to a saving knowledge of the truth.
W. H. PASCOE.

The New Jersey Camp-Meeting

By H. R. Salisbury

THE New Jersey camp-meeting was held at Trenton, September 7-17. The camp was favorably located in a part of the city very convenient for outside attendance, and as a result, the evening meetings especially were well attended. On both Sundays, at the afternoon and evening services, the tent was full to overflowing. The meeting seems to have made a good impression on the people of Trenton; the large tent, with a strong corps of workers, was left to follow up the interest, which, we hope, will result in greatly strengthening the work already established in that city.
On the first Sunday afternoon, a successful temperance meeting was held. One of the speakers, the president of the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey, spoke highly of the work done by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination for the cause of temperance. He said the Temperance number of the Instructor was the best paper of the kind he had ever received, and he was glad that large numbers of it were being used in his State. He further stated that if the other Christian denominations of New Jersey would take the same stand on the temperance question as our denomination, the battle for prohibition could be fought and won in a single day.
Brother B. F. Kneeland, who, as president, has served that conference faithfully for four years, was called to the presidency of the West Pennsylvania Conference, and his place in New Jersey has been taken by Brother A. R. Sandborn, of the East Michigan Conference.
The General Conference laborers in attendance were Brethren W. A. Spicer, F. C. Gilbert, J. H. Schilling, and the writer; while Brethren B. G. Wilkinson, J. E. Shultz, and I. G. Bigelow represented the Columbia Union Conference.
There was no conference session held at this meeting, but the reports of the work done by the conference president and his associates, showed an encouraging growth in every part of the work, both spiritual and financial.
H. R. SALISBURY.

Field Notes

Over twelve Sabbath-keepers are reported as the result of the camp-meeting for colored people at Macon, Ga. Brother Williams is following up the work there.
As the result of a tent effort at Park Rapids, Minn., seven persons have been baptized. Brother S. A. Ruskjer, who conducted a series of meetings at Blackduck, reports nine persons keeping the Sabbath. Brother Ruskjer also reports twenty-one persons baptized into the Feeley church as the result of work in that vicinity.

Rome and Good Citizenship

By S. B. H.

THE Washington Post of September 22 reports President Taft as having made the following statement in a speech at Kalamazoo, Mich.:— “At Nazareth College he spoke of the tenets of the Catholic Church, which he said are loyalty to constituted authority and love of country. ‘The better the Catholic, the better the American,’ he said.”
Suppose we view this last statement which the President is alleged to have made, “The better the Catholic, the better the American,” in the light of the following statements:—
Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical of June 20, 1888, on “Human Liberty,” said:— “From what has been said, it follows that it is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or grant unconditionally freedom of thought, of speech, of writing, or of worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.”
Pope Boniface VIII, in his famous bull “Unam Sanctam,” said:— “In this church and in its power are two swords,—to wit, a spiritual and a temporal,—and this we are taught by the words of the gospel. . . . Both, therefore, the spiritual and material swords are in the power of the church, the latter indeed to be used for the church, the former by the church, the one by the priest, the other by the hands of kings and soldiers, but by the will and sufferance of the priest. It is fitting, moreover, that one sword should be under the other, and the temporal authority subject to the spiritual power. . . . We, moreover, proclaim, declare, and pronounce that it is altogether necessary for salvation for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff.”
Pius IX, in his syllabus of 1864, condemned as heretical the proposition, “The church must be separate from the state, and the state from the church.”
Pope Leo XIII, in an encyclical, made the following statement:— “We exhort all Catholics who would devote careful attention to public matters, to take an active part in all municipal affairs and elections, and to further the principles of the church in all public services, meetings, and gatherings. All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate wherever possible in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert their utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God’s law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of States, and legislation, to be modeled after the principles of the true church. All Catholic writers and journalists should never for an instant lose from view the above prescriptions. All Catholics should redouble their submission to authority, and unite their whole heart, soul, and body, and mind in the defense of the church.”
These utterances have never been amended nor repealed by the Catholic Church, and so we are justified in believing that they continue to be the voice of the church. As an evidence that these principles continue to reflect the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church, we have but to point to the struggles made in Portugal and Spain in behalf of religious liberty. It seems plain that the good Catholic must subscribe to the principles mentioned above; but, in so doing, he is far from being an exponent of the principles of American citizenship. America stands for the absolute separation of church and state. The matter should stand, The better the Catholic, the worse the American.
S. B. H.

Selfishness in the Home

SELFISHNESS is a vice that may intrude itself on a household in the ugliest of forms, but it is also apt to insinuate itself in numberless little requirements, which in the end are most exasperating and injurious. It may be almost impossible to verify the individual act of exaction, it is so trifling and momentary; but the numberless acts which evince the selfish mind are like a cloud of midges. It is a grand rule in the house to ask others to do nothing for us that we can do for ourselves; and when any service is rendered us, to let it be clearly seen that we receive it as a gift, not as a right. The selfishness of our nature needs careful watching and incessant discipline; everything that enters into ideal home life is peculiarly delicate and beautiful, and for the spirit of egotism and selfishness to get into a household is like blight sitting upon a garden of roses. — Selected.

South Carolina

By W. H. Branson

Last week Brother J. A. Brown and wife were arraigned before a magistrate and six jurymen to answer a charge of Sabbath-breaking. The trial was set for September 23, and Brother A. H. Evers and the writer were present to defend the case. The circumstances which led to their arrest were these: The weather had been bad for some days previous, and the corn fodder, cotton, etc., in the vicinity of the Battle Ground church were wasting. Sunday being a clear day, the early morning found many of the farmers in that neighborhood out in their fields trying to save their crops, and among them Brother and Sister Brown. Several of these were closer to the public road and nearer to places of residence than were these two Sabbath-keepers, but it seems that they were the only ones who in any way disturbed the peace. They were quietly picking cotton in the field, while some others, among them the constable himself, had their teams at work hauling fodder to the barns.
From the first, it was very apparent that it was a case of religious persecution, and that the only real fault they could find with these two persons was that they had not worked the day before also. The law of South Carolina says that persons are not to perform labor of their ordinary calling on “the Lord’s day, commonly called the Sabbath.” When the writer arose with Bible in hand to address the jury and give the reasons for our contending that Brother Brown and his wife had not violated the Sabbath law, the opposing attorney immediately objected to the use of the Bible as evidence, and the judge ruled that it was incompetent evidence, and must not be referred to in the trial. It was stated that the question as to which day is the Sabbath is to be decided by the State of South Carolina, and not by the Bible: that for God’s law to be introduced as evidence God must be present in person, else it would be only hearsay or supposition.
The only thing left for us to do was to improve the opportunity of presenting the true principles of religious liberty, and both Brother Evers and myself did so. The trial lasted about two hours, and a verdict of “guilty” was returned by the jury.
The writer remained with the Battle Ground church over Sabbath and Sunday, and we were glad to see that the trial had resulted in creating in the hearts of some of those who were present an interest in the truth. These eagerly listened to the preaching of the word. One family promised to obey, and there are other interested ones who we hope will obey soon.
The brethren here are arranging to sell their little church building and to erect a larger one. The new building will be started about the first of December, and will probably be located near the town of Chesnee. The Sabbath the writer spent at Battle Ground, two persons were baptized, and three united with the church. W. H. BRANSON.

Thirteen New Members at Paradise

ELDER T. H. WATSON reports thirteen new members as the result of a tent effort at Paradise, Cal. He feels that God has blessed his work in a special manner.

Christian Liberty

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

Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to the current history of the rights of conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL - - - - - Secretary
S. B. HORTON - - - - - Assistant Secretary

A Crime to Ride in the Air on Sunday

By S. B. H.

THERE seems to be a law against aviating on Sunday in New York. October 8 the sheriff and three deputies of Nassau County went to a certain aviation field to stop a proposed series of flights. Upon their arrival they proclaimed, “Any one who flies from this field to-day, being Sunday, will be arrested.” The air-men heeded the words of the sheriff, but a young woman, Miss Moisant, defied the proclamation. She at once soared into the air above the heads of the officers, who immediately began to plan for her arrest as soon as she descended. She escaped them, however; but upon learning of her whereabouts, at six o’clock the sheriffs went to the home of Justice of the Peace Gittens, at Hempstead, and asked for a warrant for Miss Moisant, the attempt to arrest her without it having provoked a small riot.
“What has she done?” asked the justice.
“She’s been flying in the air on Sunday,” was the reply. The justice refused the warrant, saying he could not see that riding in the air on Sunday in a machine was any worse than riding on the ground in an automobile.
This is but another illustration of the incongruity of Sunday legislation. Evidently, the supreme court of New York will have to decide why it is a crime to ride in the air in an aviation machine but not so on the earth in an automobile — on Sunday. S. B. H.

The Opening of Our Schools

By H. R. S.

While we are giving reports from our colleges and academies, we should remember with deep thankfulness that during the past month there were opened throughout the United States six hundred church-schools, with an enrolment of about fourteen thousand students. Every year the church-schools are becoming more firmly established; they are better organized, the teachers better trained, and facilities improved. True, there is room for improvement, but there is great cause for thankfulness that every year shows progress. And now, secretaries, superintendents, church-school boards, and teachers are united in harmonious effort to place the work of the schools during 1911-12 in advance of the past year.

Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash.

Professor Kellogg writes: “The college opened on the thirteenth of September. Wednesday and Thursday were given to the work of registration. Friday, classes met, and lessons were assigned. Monday the recitations were conducted, and the work went on in the regular way.
“Friday evening we had a social meeting, in which the students and teachers took part. There was an excellent spirit in the meeting. The school is making a good start. In fact, I think I never saw students more responsive than those in the college here.
“At the end of the first week, we had registered in the first eight grades one hundred twenty-one pupils, and above the eighth grade one hundred two, thus making at the close of the first week two hundred twenty-three students. Others have come since then. Every one is busy and happy; and apparently the work is moving along in a normal condition.
“We are organizing a Foreign Mission Band, and shall soon organize a canvassers' band. We hope ever to be imbued with the spirit of the message, and to answer the purpose of our existence in training laborers for the great, needy field.”

Fox River Academy, Sheridan, Ill.

Principal W. E. Straw says: “School opened at the Fox River Academy on September 20, with the largest attendance in the history of the institution. Fifty-six young people had arrived before the close of the first day, and now (October 2) there are sixty-two enrolled, and several others will be here soon. Practically all of these are dormitory students, there being only four who reside in the vicinity of the school, and three who are staying in private families near the school.
“We have a more mature class of students than usual; and a good spirit seems to pervade the institution. At our Sabbath evening services the Spirit of the Lord has been especially near, and six have taken their stand for the Lord. We look forward to a pleasant and profitable school year.”

Gravel Ford Academy, Gravel Ford, Ore.

Miss Minnie Comer, the principal, sends the following report: “Our school opened with a fairly good attendance, which is rapidly increasing, with prospects for the largest enrolment we have ever had. The interest is the best we have had during my three years here.
“About twenty per cent of our students are not Adventists; many of them are residents of this neighborhood, but prefer this school to the public school. This affords an excellent opportunity for missionary work, and has resulted in the conversion of some young people. The Lord certainly is manifesting his power with us by helping us in every way, and we have only words of thankfulness and cheer to offer.”
A good report comes from Bermuda, where Brother Roland Loasby is beginning his second year's work. Last year the school opened with eight pupils, this year with twenty. One of the students of last year is in South Lancaster Academy. Besides his school work, Brother Loasby finds time to carry on work for the church, and to conduct Sunday night meetings for the public; he also gives some time to holding Bible readings with those who become interested.
H. R. S.

Ebenezer

By R. D. Quinn

The first seven chapters of First Samuel record experiences in the history of ancient Israel which, when viewed from a spiritual standpoint, are of inestimable value to the people of God to-day. The time covered in these chapters is the period between the judges and the kings, when “every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” The sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were sons of Belial, and knew not the Lord. Their greedy extortions finally caused the people to abhor the service of God, and besides all this, for the first time the priests had introduced into their worship some of the abominable excesses of the heathen, and strange gods and Ashtaroth were among them.
In this condition Israel dared to go out to fight the battles of the Lord. They suffered a great defeat, about four thousand of them being slain. A spirit of intimidation and dismay spread through the entire host. On the evening of that disastrous day the elders of Israel held a council of war. They recognized that God had smitten them, but instead of searching their hearts and lives for the thing that had caused their defeat, they suddenly remembered the ark of the covenant in Shiloh, and they said: “Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.”
They remembered the wonderful experiences in which that ark had played a part,—how the waters of the Jordan had fled before it, and the walls of Jericho had fallen down. Surely it would do the same for them again. But they did not seem to realize that unless the sacred principles of that holy law were a part of their very lives, the mere presence of a material symbol would do them no good. They were depending upon form and external machinery, instead of those moral and spiritual conditions on which alone the cooperation of God could be given. If we regard iniquity in our hearts, the Lord will not hear us.
In due course of time the ark was brought into the camp, borne by the unconverted priests. “And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man unto his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.” A swift runner was immediately despatched to carry the sad news to Shiloh. “And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he [Eli] fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died.” Phinehas's wife, although she did not survive the terrible shock, seemed to divine the true cause of the disaster as expressed in her mournful words, “The glory [or character of God] is departed from Israel.”
Israel must learn by dear experience that the mere possession of the symbol of the covenant was valueless so long as the strange gods were cherished. “Go ye now,” says the Lord through Jeremiah, “unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did unto it for the wickedness of my people Israel.” Jer. 7:12. And the further fate of the city which for so many years had been the center of national life and worship, is told in the pathetic words of the psalmist: “He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; and delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.” Ps. 78:60-62.
But while disaster upon disaster was befalling Israel, still God was teaching them terrible things in righteousness. He had raised up Samuel to stem the tide of evil and turn the nation back to God. The record says: “The time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord,” or, as the margin of the revised version says, “was drawn together” after Jehovah. “And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.”
When the Philistines heard of this great turning to God, they came up against Israel to battle. Whenever the people of God have vital power, they are sure to enlist against themselves the united forces of evil. Another great battle was fought on the same spot
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where the ark was taken twenty years before. Geographically the battle-field was unchanged, but there had been a mighty change in the hearts of God's people, and God wrought for them, and a great victory was gained; “the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel . . . all the days of Samuel.”
“Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” The ground upon which that stone was erected had witnessed a most crushing defeat and a most signal victory. In their first encounter with the Philistines thirty-four thousand of the flower of the nation had been slain, and the ark of God was taken. The message was in the ark, and it was the ark, but not God, to the rescue. Twenty years later a great change had been effected through the prayers and earnest labors of Samuel. The message now was in the men, and God was taken into account, and he wrought for them.
This is the great message of the whole story for us. No truth can ever be of much value to us if that truth is outside of us. O, if only the church of God would put away the sins that grieve the Holy Spirit! If only we would separate from our idols and cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and surrender ourselves unreservedly to God, then might we hope for the manifestations of his power in the saving of the lost. R. D. QUINN.

Christian Education

By H. R. Salisbury

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

Gospel Workers' Department

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

Their divine calling, qualification, and preparation. Methods of labor, plans, etc.
Conducted by A. G. DANIELLS

Statement of the Ten-Cent-a-Week Offering to Missions for Nine Months Ending Sept. 30, 1911

CONFERENCES ANNUAL OFFERING FIRST-DAY OFFERING MIDSUMMER OFFERING MISSIONS SABBATH-SCHOOL OFFERING HARVEST INGATHERING TOTALS
Atlantic Union Conference
Central New England $488.47 $666.19 $252.36 $38.85 $1799.27 $230.51 $3475.65
Greater New York 919.50 767.98 274.23 465.85 1407.59 677.33 4512.48
Maine 70.55 98.43 67.35 7.15 254.73 56.67 554.88
New York 155.11 238.64 181.49 97.78 724.15 221.68 1618.85
Northern New England 85.96 247.13 270.94 7.61 625.14 89.10 1325.88
Southern New England 434.07 369.42 149.42 27.42 626.20 340.36 1946.89
Western New York 223.84 261.27 326.86 94.00 1072.25 123.87 2102.09
Totals 2377.50 2649.06 1522.65 738.66 6509.33 1739.52 15536.72
Canadian Union Conference
Maritime 169.11 93.77 85.90 .... 235.42 115.28 699.48
Ontario 240.25 270.48 135.28 304.00 529.56 368.18 1847.75
Quebec 22.87 43.60 153.00 1.25 180.71 91.55 492.98
Newfoundland 123.01 .... 31.60 .... .... 121.34 275.95
Totals 555.24 407.85 405.78 305.25 945.69 696.35 3316.16
Central Union Conference
Colorado 200.41 309.76 .... 451.20 912.89 189.44 2063.70
East Kansas 992.27 118.67 20.60 1040.61 1116.76 242.44 3531.35
Nebraska 521.78 100.31 110.65 3039.15 1733.59 424.26 5929.74
North Missouri 67.68 48.33 65.75 214.22 422.89 51.20 870.07
South Missouri 262.40 98.93 94.46 469.41 728.56 156.53 1810.29
Western Colorado 213.53 179.12 .... 142.42 329.48 179.17 1043.72
West Kansas 748.70 191.07 12.50 1577.67 1157.83 328.82 4016.59
Wyoming 181.06 33.00 19.60 466.23 443.03 93.15 1236.07
St. Louis Mission 3.00 .... .... 115.43 116.05 25.68 260.16
Totals 3190.83 1079.19 323.56 7516.34 6961.08 1690.69 20761.69
Columbia Union Conference
Chesapeake 200.26 190.38 159.05 55.34 564.94 187.34 1357.31
District of Columbia 1128.50 18.69 202.77 394.35 1129.93 401.07 3275.31
Eastern Pennsylvania 446.71 292.46 228.59 517.90 1483.70 1508.23 4477.59
New Jersey 491.99 116.81 163.85 248.68 1138.90 510.47 2670.70
Ohio 1263.47 601.95 488.83 721.72 2323.36 574.38 5973.71
Virginia 165.27 49.50 45.42 139.48 258.00 132.76 790.43
West Pennsylvania 263.09 248.24 87.12 130.09 803.12 197.27 1728.93
West Virginia 54.05 16.20 38.26 129.91 178.82 113.55 530.79
Totals 4013.34 1534.23 1413.89 2337.47 7880.77 3625.07 20804.77
Lake Union Conference
East Michigan 171.06 118.43 361.21 971.08 1495.01 112.57 3229.36
Indiana 632.14 872.89 381.51 660.80 1811.37 458.85 4817.56
Northern Illinois 232.77 55.30 406.03 476.03 1408.00 414.74 2992.87
North Michigan 178.68 93.70 89.80 145.53 500.06 131.31 1139.08
Southern Illinois .... .... 93.04 502.05 912.79 64.68 1572.56
West Michigan 577.25 587.70 892.16 575.90 2579.16 176.17 5388.34
Wisconsin 1466.49 415.33 512.05 687.39 2232.38 752.72 6066.36
Totals 3258.39 2143.35 2735.80 4018.78 10938.77 2111.04 25206.13
Northern Union Conference
Iowa 381.06 714.80 791.28 997.66 2834.62 378.08 6097.50
Minnesota 486.71 .... 380.92 559.04 2727.43 771.51 4925.61
North Dakota 800.00 6.50 .... 436.65 1350.00 223.81 2816.96
South Dakota 388.33 28.09 122.01 1156.29 1845.15 820.17 4360.04
Totals 2056.10 749.39 1294.21 3149.64 8757.20 2193.57 18200.11
North Pacific Union Conference
Montana 369.39 426.69 76.09 586.45 763.66 418.13 2640.41
Southern Idaho 561.86 110.75 155.00 460.80 848.21 235.90 2372.52
Southern Oregon 454.17 85.89 131.29 661.45 902.06 165.20 2400.06
Upper Columbia 2184.80 403.17 520.97 1514.26 3458.47 864.47 8946.14
Western Oregon 1593.94 134.09 189.10 1856.87 2427.42 413.08 6614.50
Western Washington 1093.05 486.80 228.22 1365.59 2121.81 499.34 5794.81
Alaska .... .... .... .... 11.00 .... 11.00
Eastern Oregon 14.75 6.10 1.00 8.35 57.97 46.75 134.92
Totals 6271.96 1653.49 1301.67 6453.77 10590.60 2642.87 28914.36
Pacific Union Conference
Arizona 282.49 .... 169.50 147.50 469.50 103.75 1172.74
California 3584.15 .... 625.32 2748.69 5213.26 1515.91 13687.33
Southern California 3141.56 .... 960.77 3037.55 4399.15 1015.80 12554.83
Utah 96.47 .... .... 22.60 181.57 44.73 345.37
N. California-Nevada .... 10.48 574.29 578.86 1066.43 .50 2230.56
Central California 12.83 .... 198.90 366.88 734.87 .... 1313.48
Totals 7117.50 10.48 2528.78 6902.08 12064.78 2680.69 31304.31
CONFERENCES ANNUAL OFFERING FIRST-DAY OFFERING MIDSUMMER OFFERING MISSIONS SABBATH-SCHOOL OFFERING HARVEST INGATHERING TOTALS
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland $450.20 $101.25 $172.73 $319.12 $650.66 $141.56 $1835.52
Florida 728.95 69.73 215.66 434.22 1034.22 104.53 2587.31
Georgia 137.38 25.68 134.18 321.72 650.80 197.21 1466.97
North Carolina 132.32 32.56 79.81 250.07 344.25 53.96 892.97
South Carolina 76.14 36.09 31.80 109.18 259.00 91.85 604.06
Bahama Mission .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
Asheville No. 1 76.05 43.63 51.96 .... 66.27 6.45 244.36
Asheville No. 2 .... 3.85 .... .... 4.09 .... 7.94
Totals 1601.04 312.79 686.14 1434.31 3009.29 595.56 7639.13
Southern Union Conference
Alabama 56.60 123.61 38.96 19.51 176.75 21.35 436.78
Kentucky 37.45 .... 51.57 81.92 246.90 162.11 579.95
Louisiana 234.72 69.87 .... .... 148.03 117.79 570.41
Mississippi 105.99 40.09 70.06 33.53 114.90 48.75 413.32
Tennessee River 196.99 48.54 17.13 62.28 216.19 83.31 624.44
Southern Union Mission 163.11 10.88 .... 14.31 162.31 78.86 429.47
Totals 794.86 292.99 177.72 211.55 1065.08 512.17 3054.37
Southwestern Union Conference
Arkansas 110.11 97.39 14.22 105.04 369.66 59.87 756.29
New Mexico 181.24 45.31 47.56 105.48 371.52 143.46 894.57
North Texas 477.55 .... 147.00 337.01 1630.17 253.85 2845.58
Oklahoma 709.66 28.75 265.45 1585.61 2600.23 260.39 5450.09
South Texas 44.27 17.26 1.00 44.51 298.25 47.05 452.34
West Texas 118.53 1.30 5.00 47.65 217.61 111.13 501.22
Southern Union Mission 21.76 2.26 .... 11.45 103.29 2.04 140.80
Totals 1663.12 192.27 480.23 2236.75 5590.73 877.79 11040.89
Western Canadian Union Conference
Alberta 492.15 8.50 78.80 190.25 1053.67 63.45 1886.82
British Columbia 233.33 .... 89.55 262.36 512.19 305.00 1402.43
Manitoba 97.70 .... 88.27 96.91 406.83 47.10 736.81
Saskatchewan 193.95 .... 45.25 261.30 504.14 99.55 1104.19
Totals $1017.13 $8.50 $301.87 $810.82 $2476.83 $515.10 $5130.25
## Summary
CONFERENCES ANNUAL OFFERING FIRST-DAY OFFERING MIDSUMMER OFFERING MISSIONS SABBATH-SCHOOL OFFERING HARVEST INGATHERING TOTALS
Atlantic $2377.50 $2649.06 $1522.65 $738.66 $6509.33 $1739.52 $15536.72
Canadian 555.24 407.85 405.78 305.25 945.69 696.35 3316.16
Central 3190.83 1079.19 323.56 7516.34 6961.08 1690.69 20761.69
Columbia 4013.34 1534.23 1413.89 2337.47 7880.77 3625.07 20804.77
Lake 3258.39 2143.35 2735.80 4018.78 10938.77 2111.04 25206.13
Northern 2056.10 749.39 1294.21 3149.64 8757.20 2193.57 18200.11
North Pacific 6271.96 1653.49 1301.67 6453.77 10590.60 2642.87 28914.36
Pacific 7117.50 10.48 2528.78 6902.08 12064.78 2680.69 31304.31
Southeastern 1601.04 312.79 686.14 1434.31 3009.29 595.56 7639.13
Southern 794.86 292.99 177.72 211.55 1065.08 512.17 3054.37
Southwestern 1663.12 192.27 480.23 2236.75 5590.73 877.79 11040.89
Western Canadian 1017.13 8.50 301.87 810.82 2476.83 515.10 5130.25
Miscellaneous 204.35 107.08 23.00 4871.25 666.85 63.55 5936.08
Totals $34121.36 $11140.67 $13195.30 $40986.67 $77457.00 $19943.97 $196844.97

Alone with Jesus

“In the long run,” says Moreau, sagely and wittily, “men hit only what they aim at.” Luck may play queer tricks for a while with a life; but in the end the aims and principles of the man or woman come out clearly.
ALONE with Jesus! What a sweet and holy spot! What a blessed refuge to which the soul may betake itself from the charges of Satan, the accusations of the world, and the sorrows of life! Sweet spot for the heart to unfold itself, to tell its hidden tale in the ear of infinite love, tenderness, and compassion! Alone with Jesus! How different a front would Christianity present to the world if the Lord’s people were oftener there! What humility and gentleness and love would characterize all their dealings! What holiness stamped on the very brow, that all might read! What few judgments passed on others, how many more on ourselves! What calmness and resignation and joyful submission to all the Lord’s dealings! Be much alone with Jesus! Then will the passage to glory be one of sunshine, whether it be through the portals of the grave or through the clouds of heaven.—Frederick Whitfield.
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