Earlier text: The South American IndiansEmmanuel Missionary College
By M. Bessie DeGraw
Once upon a time, some twenty-eight hundred years ago, the young men of a certain school found themselves in quarters too cramped to allow them to do their work to the best advantage. So these young men spoke one day to the principal of that school and said, “The place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.” The head of that school was evidently pleased with the energy and independence of his students. They were willing to fell the trees, to cut them into lumber, and build more commodious quarters. This they would do for the sake of having school privileges, and the teacher, seeing that it would be not only the means of providing more room, but an education as well, said to the young men, “Go ye.” Then he was invited to go also, and his ready answer was, “I will go.” There was no drawing back. Evidently there was no hesitancy on the part of any one. This was co-operation, a sign of unity in the Lord; for those students were preparing for the Lord’s work. It is little wonder that the schools which were taught by such men as we find in this one, and were attended by such pupils as these, exerted a great influence, and trained men who brought their nation to the pinnacle of earthly glory. This story, divinely recorded, reminds me of a more modern experience which I have no doubt is recorded with equal care in the books of heaven. God recognized the schools of ancient Israel as one of the most effective means of promoting the righteousness of the nation. To the church to-day, God has given certain positive principles of education. As then, so now he says that schools should be in country places; by the Jordan, as it were. Believing this, Emmanuel Missionary College was established on a farm. Having no buildings whatever, a company of young men was organized under the direction of a skilled mechanic to erect the buildings. When the money for purchasing material was exhausted, the students did practically the same thing as Elisha’s students. The place was too narrow. Books were laid aside, and students and teachers went into the field and sold books and raised the money to put up more buildings. When the books had been sold, the students returned to their studies. The young men in the building department spent hours of patient labor in the mechanical drawing class. They began by drafting the simplest structure, a henhouse, I think it was. Gradually their skill increased, until, as a result of that class work, the plans for Study Hall were produced. This is a building two stories above the basement, the dimensions of which are forty-five by one hundred and four feet. It contains a chapel with seating capacity for about two hundred and fifty students, six recitation rooms, and several offices. For hours at a time those students and their teacher have stood over those plans, working out details, figuring on lumber, thinking, planning, computing. During the summer active work was begun on the building. We have watched it as it has grown. Others, too, have watched the progress of this building. It can be seen by every one passing on the main road to St. Joseph. That is a much traveled road, and all who pass know that building, and it is a witness to the world of the educational idea being worked out by Emmanuel Missionary College. Some visit the buildings, and as they do, their surprise is great when they find that every stroke of the hammer is given by student laborers,—young men who are preparing for other and wider fields of missionary work. The students have carried brick and mortar up a ladder sixty feet high. They have done the carpenter work, the tinning, the plastering, and the plumbing. They have set the furnaces, they have put in the registers, they have painted and put on the hard-oil finish. This is a part of the education given at Emmanuel Missionary College. Not all the energy of the students goes into the building department, however, I mention that because it would be one of the indications of co-operation most noticeable to a casual observer. A more careful inspection of the work reveals the fact that this is a type of what is done throughout the institution. For instance, during the grape season, over twelve thousand baskets of grapes were picked and shipped to Chicago. Twenty students were employed in the vineyard for six weeks. At the same time the college cannery was putting up fruit juice for home consumption. There was wood to cut for the winter. The young men in one-half day felled trees enough to make forty-five or fifty cords when cut into cord lengths. When there is corn to husk, the young women lend a hand. The fall term opened October 21, with about seventy-five students. It was hoped that Study Hall would be in readiness for the fall opening. In this we were disappointed. One half of the dining room was again cleared, and all our public services are held there, as they were last year. But the chapel will soon be finished. Even then accommodations for students will be limited. Sleeping rooms are improvised, the young men using the large rooms over the printing office and the second floor of the Manual Arts Building. No cottages have yet been built, and until they are, it will be impossible to accommodate a large number of students. During the winter term there will be room for about one hundred and twenty-five. I would not give the impression that our students are uncomfortable. They are not, but they are not supplied with luxuries, by any means. They realize that they are in camp, and that they are to be soldiers. They are workers, and they are willing to co-operate even under difficulties. I wish that the readers of the REVIEW might spend a little time in the school. It would warm their hearts to this work, I am sure. I hope at another time to tell of some of the workings of the co-operative plan. God is blessing this work. The school is training missionaries, and in this time of need we make an appeal for the prayers and good will of all who wish to hasten the coming of the Saviour by preparing workers for needy fields. M. BESSIE DE GRAW. Requests for Money
By J. M. Rees
As we travel through our fields of labor, we are confronted with such questions as, “Will they ever stop asking for money?” As we are just now entering upon a time when large amounts will be called for in order to meet the present demands, doubtless Satan will suggest that it is time to call a halt. To such questions I wish to answer. The calls will not cease until our High Priest shall throw down the golden censer, not until he lays aside the mediatorial robe, not until he says, “He that is holy, let him be holy still,” and “he that is unjust, let him be unjust still,” not until there comes a famine for hearing the word of the Lord, and not until the Master proclaims the awful words, “It is done.” Then no more means will be solicited. The voices of God’s faithful servants will be hushed, so far as asking for means to carry on the work is concerned. Doubtless those who have persuaded themselves that there is ample time in the future to do what they should, will then come and offer their means to God’s servants. They would then be glad to have it accepted, but the prophet says, “Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath.” “In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, . . . to the moles and to the bats.” Now we are coming to another week of prayer. This should be the greatest self-denial week of our lives. However, to obtain money is not the object of the week of prayer. We must make it a spiritual blessing, or it will be of no practical good to any of us. We should reconsecrate ourselves to the Lord at this important time. If we do this, there will be no trouble with the amount of our offerings at the close of this series of meetings. Then the money will come as the Lord needs it, and in place of twenty thousand dollars we will surely receive fifty thousand dollars. We must be fully consecrated to God and his service to be tided over the billows that are just before us. We should put our hands into his wounded hand, confidently saying, “Jesus, Saviour, pilot me.” Let the nearness of the coming of the Master inspire our hearts to the endurance of every trial, to the forsaking of every sin. It is the warning to be uttered, the exhortation to be spoken, the comfort to be administered, and the gospel to be preached. I quote from an unpublished Testimony the following: “Let us remember that the coming of the Lord is nearer than when we first believed. What a wonderful thought it is that the great controversy is nearing its end. In the great closing work we shall meet with perplexities21that we know not how to deal with, but let us not forget that the great powers of heaven are working, that a divine hand is on the wheel, and that God will bring his purpose to pass. He will gather from the world a people who will serve him in righteousness.” What Our People Are Saying
By H. H. Hall
“We do not know what we can do until we give up our own way, and ask the Lord to do the work for us,” said a sister to me the other evening, after having gone out for the first time with papers and books. She is a timid, retiring woman, but her heart had been so stirred as she saw people all about her without this saving truth, that she felt forced to carry it to them herself. “I know the Signs of the Times can be sold, because I have tried it,” said one of our brethren, a business man, at a recent prayer-meeting which I had the privilege of attending. He told how he had taken a few papers down town the preceding Saturday night, and had sold them to merchants with whom he was acquainted, and how he wished he had more when they were gone. “No, I do not care for your book; who publishes it?” said one man, as a canvasser was showing him “The Desire of Ages” yesterday. “It is published by the Seventh-day Adventists,” was the reply. “Is that so? Well, come in, and I will look at it.” He did so, and an order was the result. “I was talking with my wife a few weeks ago as to whether or not we should remain at home in such a crisis as this,” said an experienced salesman last week, “whether or not a real Seventh-day Adventist with some ability to circulate in printed form the truth for this time could remain at home when the demand for such workers is so great. Long and earnestly we discussed our home comforts, and the needs of the field, until finally we concluded that God was calling us to the field.” This man and his wife are now successfully selling the “Desire of Ages.” I heard another brother say, two or three days ago, “I am perplexed to know whether I should give up my regular work where I am earning money for the cause, and engage in house-to-house effort in this city with books and periodicals.” He has not yet decided fully, but is doing such work as he can with the Life Boat and Signs, and we believe the Lord is leading him to give to such work his entire time. Dear readers, what does all this mean? The spirit of prophecy replies: “There is a work to be done in our cities, and work to be done in other places. God will take men from the plow, from the sheepfold, from the vineyard, and will give them a work to do. . . . The Lord is preparing the way before those who are seeking wisdom from above, those who are willing to walk in his way.” But, dear brethren and sisters, there are many who have not as yet decided, as have those mentioned above; for from this same authority we hear this agonizing appeal: “O that thousands more of our people had a realization of the times in which we live, and of the work to be done in field service in house-to-house labor.” Are you one of the thousands who will respond to this call? Shall We Be Free?
By William C. White
In the days of ancient Israel, when the Lord was stirring the hearts of his people to arise and cast off the yoke of bondage, and free themselves from oppression and servitude, it sometimes happened that at first a portion of the people took part in the battle, and when they saw that the Lord was working with them, and that victory was theirs, they sent forth messengers throughout all the land, carrying the glad news that the day of deliverance had come, that God had given them the victory, that the enemy had been turned back, and that all were called to come and make the victory complete. In response, there was a grand rally, and the oppressors were completely vanquished and driven out of the land. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” When “Christ’s Object Lessons” was given to our colleges, and our publishing houses, our Tract Societies, and our people were invited to unite in its publication and sale, I spent several days in working out plans and making calculations as to the probable results of the effort, and then wrote to Brethren Haskell, Magan, and others that I dared to hope that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars might be realized by the effort. Already about two hundred thousand dollars has been realized from our united effort to cast off the yoke and free ourselves from the bondage of debt; and there are books in the hands of our people which will net us upward of fifty thousand dollars more. Surely “the Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams of the south.” A decisive battle has been fought. A great victory has been won. The power of the oppressor is broken. The enemy has been put to flight, but the fleeing hosts have not yet been exterminated or driven out of the land. Thousands of our people have taken part in this battle for the deliverance of our schools. Thousands are enjoying an advanced Christian experience because of this effort. And there are thousands who have not yet done what they could, and who have not yet participated in the blessings which accompany personal experiences in the work. There are, we believe, thousands of our people who feel that it is their duty to take part in the struggle; they believe there is a blessing in it, and they mean to have that blessing, but many circumstances have hindered. It is a case of procrastination and drowsiness. Shall we not send runners throughout the land, calling them to the battle? It is action, not looking on, that brings strength and courage. If our people in all the churches will just now rally to the work, the new recruits and the veterans marching side by side, we can clear the land of our school debts this winter. By an earnest rally just now, we may make “the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer.” Let us read the exhortation, and some of the promises contained in the first call to this work. “We shall call upon the people to help to the utmost of their ability just now. We shall call upon them to do a work which will be pleasing to God in purchasing the book. We shall ask that every available means be used to help to circulate this book. We shall ask that the whole field be supplied with canvassers. We shall call upon our ministers, as they visit the churches, to encourage men and women to go out as canvassers, to make a decided forward movement in the path of self-denial by giving part of their earnings to help our schools to get out of debt. Surely they can do this much to help the Master.” “A general movement is needed, but this must begin with individual movements. Let each member in each family in each church make determined efforts to deny self. Let us have the whole-hearted co-operation of all in our ranks. Let us all move forward willingly and intelligently to do what we can to relieve those of our schools that are struggling under a pressure of debt.” “The schools must be helped. Let all lift harmoniously and help as much as they possibly can. Great blessings will come to those who take hold of this matter just now. Let no discouragement be offered by our ministers, as though it were not a proper thing to do. They should take hold of this work. If they do it aright, cheerfully, hopefully, they will find it a very great blessing. The Lord does not force any man to work, but to those who will place themselves decidedly on his side, he will give a willing mind. He will bless the one who works out the spirit which he works in. God will make the movement for the help of our schools a success if it is made in a free, willing spirit, as to the Lord. Only in this way can be rolled back the reproach that has come upon our schools all over the land. If all will take hold of this work in the spirit of self-sacrifice, for Christ’s sake, and for the truth’s sake, it will not be long before the jubilee song of freedom can be sung throughout our borders.” “The movement I have suggested will result in reconciliation. It will unify the churches.” A few months later another call to this work contained these words: “Have faith in God. He gave me the idea of giving ‘Object Lessons’ for the relief of the schools. He is testing his people and institutions in this thing, to see if they will work together and be of one mind in self-denial and self-sacrifice. Carry forward this work without flinching, in the name of the Lord. Let God’s plan be vindicated. Let his proposition be fully carried out and heartily indorsed as the means of uniting the members of the churches in self-sacrificing effort. Thus they will be sanctified, soul, body, and spirit, as vessels unto honor, to whom God can impart his Holy Spirit. By this means they will accomplish the work God designs to have done.” “Stir up every family, every church, to do the very utmost of their power, every one consecrating himself to God, putting the leaven of evil out of his heart, out of the home, and out of the church. Let every family make the most of this the Lord’s opportunity. Let self-denial and self-sacrifice be revealed.” “My brethren, after you have done all you can do in this work for the schools, by sanctified energy and much prayer, you will see the glory of God. When the trial has been fully made, there will come a blessed result. Those who have sought to do God’s will, having laid out every talent to the best22advantage, become wise in working for the kingdom of God. They learn lessons of the greatest consequence to them, and they will feel the highest happiness of a rational mind. This is the result that will surely come if you fulfil the purpose of God. Peace and intelligence and grace will be given. It is the design of God that we should all glorify him, regarding his service as the chief end of our existence. The work that God calls you to do he will make a blessing to you. Your heart will be more tender, your thoughts more spiritual, your service more Christlike. ‘If ye abide in me,’ Jesus said, ‘and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.’ In considering these things my spirit rejoices in God.” “You will need to have patience with the tardy ones, who do not feel the necessity of doing anything promptly, thoroughly, earnestly. They have so much to say, so much unbelief to express, and so much criticising, that they lose the peace and joy and happiness in the purposes of God before they can decide to move. We must become men and women of God’s opportunity. I am so glad that so much harmonious action has been shown in striving to carry out this purpose of God, and to make the most of his providences.” Difficulties and Opportunities
Difficulties are often like doors. They mark the entrance to opportunities. Obstacles may be used as stepping-stones to higher attainments. Difficulty Number One.—“The ground has been burned over.” “If I offer ‘Object Lessons’ to the people in our neighborhood, they will say, ‘I have had that book for a year;’” or, “Four or five of your people have tried to sell me that book, and I am tired of hearing about it.” Ways to Avoid This Difficulty.—Take the “Story of Joseph,” a beautiful little book for children, which is published and sold on the same plan as “Object Lessons,” in behalf of the colored mission schools in Mississippi, and offer it first. Then ask if they have “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and if not acquainted with it, bring out a copy and show its value. If they have seen it, and rejected it, tell briefly of what it has done for our schools. Also speak of its value, and offer them another opportunity to secure a valuable work, and also to help clear the balance of our school debts. Difficulty Number Two.—“There is so much else to do. We have the Capital and Labor number of the Signs to sell, special numbers of our health journals, tracts to distribute, pamphlets and small books to sell, and ‘Education’ to introduce everywhere. Then how can we make another canvass for ‘Object Lessons’ now?” Answer.—It is just because we have so much to do that we can make a success of closing up the campaign with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Those who sell “Education” can ask if the family has a copy of “Object Lessons.” Those who sell small books and pamphlets can make a similar inquiry, and wherever there is a family without it, speak of its value, and secure, if possible, an order. So also with those distributing tracts or selling the Signs. Always have a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons” along, and wherever it is consistent, speak of it. If the family has it, learn how it is liked. If not, introduce it, or say a word about it that will pave the way for its introduction at a later visit. “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that.” Let us go on to victory. TEN persons were received into the Boise, Idaho, church, Sabbath, October 29. BROTHER H. E. RICKARD reports a Sabbath-school organized at Bishop's Crossing, Ontario. SIX persons have been added to the Pueblo, Colo., church since the State camp-meeting. THE church at Perry, O. T., has been strengthened recently by the accession of five new Sabbath-keepers. A SABBATH-SCHOOL of seventeen members has been organized with bright prospects at Newton, southern Illinois. FIVE new members were added to the Darbyville, Iowa, church, on the occasion of the last quarterly meeting. BROTHER WILLIAM KENNEDY reports that his work in Farmington, Cal., has resulted in the conversion of six souls. A CHURCH building has been erected at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and November 29 has been fixed as the date for its dedication. A GOOD interest in the doctrines of present truth exists at Farmington, Ill., where several have recently begun keeping the Sabbath. FIVE adults and one young girl have accepted the Sabbath at Adams Mills, Ohio, under the labors of Brethren F. M. Fairchild and B. L. House. THE company at Putnam, O. T., have recently had eight accessions to their number, and six others are keeping the Sabbath who have delayed joining the church on account of obstacles growing out of their family relationships. SABBATH, October 24, a church of fifteen members was organized at Okmulgee, I. T., by Brethren E. L. Maxwell and A. E. Field. Two others were added the following day. Several others at that place are keeping the Sabbath. SEVERAL persons have recently begun the observance of the Sabbath at Fort Scott, Kan., as a result of a course of tent-meetings; among the number being an elderly man who has been twenty years a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. TWELVE converts were baptized at Douglas, Tex., October 18, by Elder J. N. Sommerville. Three others afterward offered themselves as candidates for the same ordinance. This is some of the fruit of a six weeks' effort, by Brother Sommerville in that place. — Christian Science has won a victory in the State of Ohio. The Ohio supreme court has declared that believers in Mrs. Eddy's doctrines have a right to refuse to call a physician to treat a child who is under age. — The ruins of twenty-two Macedonian villages were viewed by a correspondent of the London Times recently during an eight days' tour in the vicinity of Lake Ohrida. These ruins testified to the havoc wrought in that country by the Turkish troops. — The president of Switzerland, M. Deucher, was the intended victim of an anarchist plot, the discovery of which led to several arrests at Milan. The anarchist selected to kill the president surrendered to the police at Lugano, Switzerland, making a confession in which he stated that his courage failed him at the time when he was to have committed the deed.23 — Senator Dubois, of Idaho, having championed in Congress the movement in opposition to the seating of Senator-elect Reed Smoot, of Utah, Mormon “apostle,” the threat is made by the Mormons that the Idaho senator will be turned out of Congress at the next election of senators, the Mormons being confident of accomplishing this because they hold the balance of power in that State. — The thirtieth annual convention of the National W. C. T. U. was held at Cincinnati, closing November 18. Action was taken at the convention opposing the seating in Congress of United States senator and Mormon “apostle,” Reed Smoot, “on the ground that his highest allegiance is given to a government other than that of the United States,” and calling for an anti-polygamy amendment to the national Constitution; also expressing the pleasure of the W. C. T. U. in the closing of the gates of the coming St. Louis World's Fair on Sunday, and in efforts being made to purify that city; declaring their opinion that all women of the United States should be allowed to vote on equal terms with the men; and authorizing a memorial to Congress to prohibit the importation of opium into the Philippines. Among the reports of department superintendents was one by Mrs. E. N. Graham, stating encouraging facts in reference to the attitude of railway officials in the United States toward temperance on the part of their employees. Twenty-five saloons in Cheyenne had been closed through an order from the Union Pacific Railway forbidding its employees to enter them. Over 200,000 railway employees are now wearing the railroad temperance button. A protest was adopted against attacks which are being made on the compulsory teaching of temperance in the public schools. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Maine, was re-elected president of the national body. — It is instructive to note the reasons, or what are given for reasons on the part of those responsible, for the existing street railway strike in the city of Chicago. According to statements from an authoritative source, the question of wages was only indirectly concerned, the street-car companies offering to submit this question to arbitration. What the labor union demanded in addition to an increase of wages was this: “That every employee of the company shall belong to the union, and that every non-union employee of the company either be compelled to join the union or be discharged; that the employees of the company have the right to control what is known as the ‘routing’ of cars, which includes the assignment of men and the selection of the working hours; that no employee of the company be discharged from its service without the consent of the officers of the union, who are to be judges of the conduct of the employees of the company.” This amounted practically to a demand that the management of the street railways be turned over to the labor union, the railway companies retaining the privilege of paying wages, taxes, and other fixed charges, and of responding in suits for damages and paying judgments. The people of Chicago have been put to the inconvenience and expense of a strike because the railway companies refused to consider these preposterous propositions. It is hoped that the strike may be settled by arbitration. Three Ways of Doing
By Editor
We feel confident that every Seventh-day Adventist will wish to take an active part in helping to circulate the Capital and Labor number of the Signs of the Times. We wish to call attention to three ways in which this may be done. First, by taking a certain number and selling them on the street, or from house to house. For those who can spare the time, this is the best way; for it brings them face to face and in personal touch with the people. If necessary, this work can be done in the evening after the regular day's labor, and without expense. Indeed, it may be made a source of income, as twenty-five papers cost only seventy-five cents, and can be sold for one dollar and a quarter. The statistics which this number contains are worth the price of the paper, to say nothing of the general articles and striking illustrations. The paper will sell at sight. Second, those who can not take the time, or for other reasons can not engage in selling the paper from house to house, can take a club of from five to one hundred copies, or more, and mail them to their friends, or to a select list of names. Ministers, school-teachers, and professional men should certainly have a copy of this paper. Perhaps some will feel a burden to send to such. The price to you is only three cents a copy in lots of twenty-five and upward—a very inexpensive way in which to do missionary work. Third, possibly there may be some who do not have the time even to attend to re-mailing the papers. Such can send a list of names to the office of publication, and have the papers sent directly to the individuals. The charge when sent in this way is as follows:— 1 to 24 copies, 5 cents per copy. 25 to 99 copies, 4 cents per copy. 100 or more copies, 3½ cents per copy. This price includes wrapping, addressing, and mailing. The retail price of this special number is 5 cents per copy. 5 to 20 copies, 4 cents per copy. 25 or more copies to one address, 3 cents per copy. Address Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal., or your State tract society. LA BAR.—Died at Belvidere, Ill., Oct. 22, 1903, in the seventy-eighth year of her age, Sister Caroline La Bar. Together with her husband she accepted the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists under the labors of Elder R. F. Andrews more than twenty-five years ago. She had been a widow about ten years. She loved the truth devotedly, and lived it consistently. The funeral services were conducted by a Baptist minister. E. A. CURTIS. CUTLER.—Died at Dallas, Ore., Oct. 21, 1903, Sister Mary J. Cutler, aged nearly 81 years. Though past fourscore years, she was in possession of an unusual degree of vitality until she was suddenly seized with an attack of erysipelas, which caused her death after a few days of great suffering. Her last moments were full of peace. Her aged companion survives her, and also her only son, George E. Cutler, who is the elder of the Dallas church. Funeral services were held in the M. E. church, South, at Dallas, October 23, conducted by the writer; text, Eccl. 7:2. F. M. BURG. KILGORE.—Died at Washington, Iowa, Aug. 19, 1903, John Lindsay Kilgore, aged 91 years, 1 month, 8 days. Father was afflicted with cancer of the face for eleven years. During his early Christian experience, for many years he was an elder in the Associate Presbyterian Church, and when the union was affected, he served as elder in the United Presbyterian Church till 1862, when he accepted the third angel’s message under the preaching of Elders J. H. Waggoner and B. F. Snook. The Sabbath, to him, was a delight, and he loved it with all the truths of the message, to the end. His faith was steadfast, and his hope of salvation held him in his darkest, stormiest hours. He knew that his Redeemer lived, and that he should see him, and stand with him on the new earth. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. C. Allen, pastor of the Church of the Covenanters. R. M. KILGORE. WANTED.—Health food baker; 4 men and 5 women to work in food factory beginning about December 15. Established business. Send references and full particulars with first letter. Address The Twin City Nut Food Co., Minneapolis, Minn. WANTED.—Address of my sister, formerly a S. D. A.; went by name of Mary A. Fulmer; lived for some time at Boulder, Colo., but last heard from near Denver; had a son working near there, Pierson Fulmer, aged about 20. Will give $5 reward to one sending proper address. Address G. E. Bartholomew, Gage, Woodward Co., O. T. FOR SALE.—Apples in bushel boxes, at 60 cts. a box. Tallman Sweets, to bake in winter. We have Greenings, Baldwins, N. Spies, etc. For fancy stock we get 75 cts. a box. Order soon, as winter is at hand. We sell by car-load, too, in bulk or packed. After our rush with fruit, we shall be able to do more to supply dates, figs, nuts, lentils, peas, malt honey, etc. Write to New York Food Company, Oxford, N. Y. All profits from this business go to advance the good work. An active worker among our young people said, not long ago, “Our young people do not know what we believe, nor why.” This referred to the principles of Bible truth which Seventh-day Adventists believe and teach, and was spoken of their children. If this is true, and it undoubtedly is, then it is high time that some vigorous effort was made to encourage these young people to study these important truths. Most helpful to this end are the articles by Elder G. B. Thompson now appearing in the Youth’s Instructor. The subjects of the Second Coming of Christ, the Millennium, the Home of the Saved, the Kingdom, the Judgment, the Prophecies, the Sabbath, the End of the Wicked, in fact all the distinctive points of Bible truth, will be taken up. Parents who wish their children to grow up in the truth instead of out of it, should see that they are thoroughly instructed in the Bible, and this series, together with the many other articles of great interest to the young now being printed in the Instructor, will help to solve the question of how the winter evenings can be profitably and pleasantly occupied. These studies, too, may result in establishing your children in the truth. Seventy-five cents sent now to the Youth’s Instructor will secure to new subscribers the paper for 1904, and in addition the publishers will send free the last seven issues of 1903, which contain the first articles of a series for boys, entitled, “Around the Work-Table.” To any one who will send five new subscriptions for the Instructor, with $3.75, the publishers will send as a premium a nice India-paper Bible printed in good, clear type, and well bound in leather. Address Youth’s Instructor, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C. THE address of S. B. Horton, as well as of the Louisiana Conference office, is 5013 Laurel St., New Orleans, La.