p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 7. (2/13/1908)

Opium Pipes Burned in China

On September 28, during the celebration of the autumn festival at Hangchow, China, the officials of the city gathered together all the opium pipes and wooden opium trays from the recently closed opium dens, piled them in two huge pyramids in a conspicuous place, covered them with oil, and set them on fire. Much better business this, than burning Bibles; and while speaking of Bibles, it will be appropriate to add that China is buying many more Bibles since the decree against opium has begun to go into effect. The number of Bibles sent out from Shanghai for the first eight months of the year 1907 amounted to 943,000 volumes. During the two slackest months of the year, July and August, the office of the British and Foreign Bible Society at Shanghai sent out 96,000 more volumes of the Bible than during the corresponding months of 1906.

India Sabbath Keepers and Toluca School

WE shall watch with interest for reports from India regarding the visit paid to the southern district, where a thousand people, Tamil-speaking Christians, were found keeping the Sabbath and earnestly desiring further instruction and help. Doubtless Elder George Enoch will respond to the call. The providences of God in the opening of field after field in recent years should encourage every heart.

THOSE who correspond with the manager of the Toluca Industrial School, Toluca, N. C., should be careful to enclose postage. This is a self-supporting home for orphans, and letters containing no postage for reply add considerably to its financial burdens.

A Splendid Conference

In a note written at the close of the Central Union conference, at Boulder, Colo., Elder G. B. Thompson says: “We have had a splendid conference.”

Return from South Africa

AFTER nearly fifteen years in business in South Africa, Brother A. H. Mason and wife have returned to America. They are spending a little time in Washington.

Memorial and Sunday Bills

By Editor

ON page 4 of this issue will be found the memorial which we promised last week to publish, and we trust that our people will not neglect to study its contents carefully. On page 21 will be found the texts of the Sunday bills against whose passage the memorial protests.

Dr. Ruble Passes Medical Examinations

RECENTLY the secretary of the General Conference Medical Missionary Department, Dr. W. A. Ruble, took the examinations in Maryland and in the District of Columbia, passing well in both. Dr. Ruble is acting as superintendent of the Iowa Circle Branch Sanitarium, in the city, in addition to looking after the work of his department. Both the Washington sanitariums have been very busy.

Morning Watch Calendar

By Editor

We have received a copy of the “Morning Watch Calendar” for 1908. This is a complete calendar for the year, and contains a series of texts of Scripture arranged by subjects, to be used in the morning devotions of young people throughout the world. In addition to this, each division of the calendar contains suggestive subjects for special prayer and suggestive supplementary reading for the week. We believe that this calendar will be a great incentive to our young people to take up systematic Bible study. The price of the calendars is six cents each, and they may be procured from the conference secretary of Young People’s Work, or from the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference, College View, Neb.

Missionary Progress in Korea

THE first Protestant missionary landed in Korea in 1884. Up to the year 1882 it was death to a foreigner to land there, and death to a native to harbor a foreigner. At the present time there are 120,000 Christians in that land. The change of conditions in that regard is certainly one of the mighty miracles of missions. In referring to this situation, the Missionary Review asks:—

Can the prayers be sincere which beseech God to break down the barriers, and then, when in such marvelous manner he sweeps them away, hesitating, tardily and inadequately coming up to his help and the help of the benighted millions to whom he has granted access?

Death of Sister W. H. Anderson

By African Cable

By African Cable

ON the sixth a cable message came to the General Conference Office from South Africa bringing the sad news of the death from blackwater fever of Sister W. H. Anderson, of the Northwest Rhodesia Mission. In a letter recently received from Elder W. H. Anderson, dated December 16, he reported his wife's serious illness, she having been attacked with the fever November 25. He felt for a time that she would be unable to live, but she revived under treatment, so that he took her to the hospital at Livingstone, and later to Kimberley, where, as she was making progress, Brother Anderson left her, returning himself to the mission at Pemba. He expected her to go on to Cape Town, and then, as medically advised, return home for a sea voyage and a furlough in America. The doctor said, however, that if a relapse occurred, he would not expect her to recover. This relapse must have come. On January 8, writing from Cape Town, Elder Hyatt reported that Sister Anderson was at our Claremont Sanitarium, near Cape Town, and planning to sail in March. Her letter to her parents told how she regretted leaving her husband and the mission, but she consented to it in order to make the quicker recovery, so as to be able to engage again in the work. Now comes the brief cable telling of life's work ended. We assure Brother Anderson and little Naomi, in Africa, of the prayers and sympathy of all the believers; the same assurance also to the aged parents and family of Sister Anderson in this country. Again it is a sad reminder that the missionary advance is a constant conflict. The workers in unhealthful climes, battling with fevers, sound no wavering note, but they do long to see the reinforcements pressing in. Pray for this also. It is in the "blessed hope" of a work soon to be finished that believers are ready to lay down their lives in service. Sister Anderson rests from her work, but her long and loving labors for darkest Africa will follow her. Read Brother Anderson's article on page 15.