p. 16 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 9. (2/27/1900)

Earlier text: Minorities and Great Mistakes

AN APPEAL FOR TEACHERS.

By E. A. Sutherland

“In all our churches, and wherever there is a company of believers, church schools should be established, and in these schools there should be teachers who have the true missionary spirit; for the children are to be trained to become missionaries.”

“There is earnest work to be done for the children. Before the overflowing deluge shall come upon all the dwellers upon the earth, the Lord calls upon all who are Israelites indeed to serve him. Gather your children into your homes; gather them in from the classes who are voicing the words of Satan, who are disobeying the commandments of God. Get out of the cities as soon as possible. Establish church schools. Gather in your children, and give them the word of God as the foundation of all true education. Had the churches in different localities sought counsel of God, they would not need to be thus addressed on this point. . . . Any one of the children of the Hebrews who was found in the Egyptian habitations was destroyed, . . . We have a special work to do in educating and training our children, that they may not, either in attending school or in associating with others, be influenced by those of corrupt habits. . . .”

“The education that is generally given in the schools of the world is not that which can be accepted as the true education. Let us view the case correctly. Children are the heritage of the Lord, and are to be educated that they may be the younger members of the Lord’s family, prepared by proper instruction to serve the Lord in their childhood life. Shall the members of the church give means to advance the cause of Christ among others, and then let their own children carry on the work and service of Satan? . . . Can we wonder that children and youth drift into temptation, and become educated in wrong lines, when they are continually associating with other neglected children? . . .”

“Workers must be educated. Schools which will provide for the education of children must be opened in places where they are so much needed. In the last days, children’s voices will be heard proclaiming the message. As Christ in the temple solved the mysteries which priests and rulers had not discerned, so in the closing work of this earth, children in their simplicity will speak words which will be an astonishment to men who now talk of higher education. Then let the church carry a burden for the lambs of the flock in its locality, and see how many can be educated and trained to do service for God.”

“We can not in this day of peril accept teachers because they have been in school two, three, four, or five years.”

“No cheap cast of mind should be placed in our church schools. The very best is required for educating and molding the human mind. . . . The teachers for our schools should be selected from the very best class; they should be experienced Christians, well balanced in mind, men and women who have learned the lesson of self-control.”

“Work as if you were working for your life to save children from being drowned in the polluting, corrupting influences of this life.”

“We may bring hundreds and thousands of children to Christ if we will work for them.”

Here is definite work that the Lord says should be done. If you have the gift of teaching, do you wish a part in saving the children to whom the hearts of the parents will be turned? If the Lord is calling you, take your training now, and enter this grand work.

Churches ought to be sure that some one is preparing to teach their school next year. If you know of a teacher who could take a training for the work, encourage him to attend. If he has no money, heed the instruction of the Lord by helping him financially. “There is a great necessity of making plans that there may be a large number of competent workers, and many should fit themselves up as teachers, that others may be trained and disciplined for the great work of the future. The church should take in the situation, and by their influence and means seek to bring about the much-desired end. Let a fund be created by generous contributions for the establishment of schools for the advancement of educational work.”

Read the notice of the teachers’ course in Battle Creek College Training School, found on this page.

E. A. SUTHERLAND.

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By JNO. I. GIBSON

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REVIEW TESTIMONY MEETING.—NO. 5.

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Names of Adventists Not Taking the Review

WANTED, at once, the name and address of every Seventh-day Adventist in your church who does not take the REVIEW. Address the editors.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MISSIONARY AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.

By J. M. Craig

The regular meeting of the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association for the year 1900, will be held in the Sanitarium chapel, in the city of Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, the 27th day of March, 1900, at 11 A. M., standard time, for the transaction of any business that may properly come before the meeting.

By order of the Board of Trustees. J. M. CRAIG, Sec.

A CALL TO CANVASSERS.

By E. A. Sutherland

If large inducements for money-making could be made, there would be no difficulty in securing canvassers. A few years ago when times were good and books sold readily, many were in the canvassing field. But the Lord finds it necessary at times to test the workers to see if they are working for him or for the money, by removing some temporal blessing. So, when the test came, and times grew hard, a large number left the canvassing work. Those who are in the work for the material blessing will not long remain after the test is applied. Hard times sift out the selfish, indolent, and non-progressive workers, leaving their places to be filled with consecrated men of brains.

There is a keen pleasure in building up a work that has been neglected because it is hard. God now offers to young people an opportunity to test their mettle by following him into fields of arduous work, which are also rich with spiritual blessing.

In 1893 the Lord sent us word that if the proper effort had been made, by means of canvassing, to place “Great Controversy” before the people, the end would have come before this.

“The canvassing work should never languish. Wherever the canvassing work is presented among our people, let both the health books and the religious books be presented together as parts of the united work. The relation of the religious and the health books is presented to me as illustrated by the union of the warp and the woof to form a beautiful pattern and a perfect piece of work.

“In the past, by many, the health books have not been handled with proper interest. It has been regarded as essential that they should go to the world. But what can be better preparation for the coming of the Lord, and for the reception of other truths essential to prepare a people for his coming, than to arouse the people to see the evils of this age, and to stir them to reformation from self-indulgence and unhealthful living? Is not the world in need of being aroused on the subject of health reform? Are not the people in need of the truths presented in the health books? By our canvassers in the field should be entertained a sentiment regarding the health works altogether different from that which has heretofore prevailed.

“Just as much education is necessary for the successful handling of the religious books as for the handling of those treating upon questions of health and temperance. Just as much should be said regarding the work of canvassing for books containing spiritual food, just as much effort should be put forth to encourage and educate workers to circulate books containing the Third Angel’s Message, as is said and done to develop workers for the health books.

“Let each publisher and general agent work as enthusiastically as he can to encourage the agents now in the work, and to hunt up and train new workers. Let each build up and strengthen the work as much as he can without weakening the work of others. Let all be done in brotherly love and without selfishness.”

During the spring term, beginning March 14, Battle Creek College will give special attention to the training of canvassers to handle both our religious and our medical books. Brother E. P. Boggs and Dr. Proum will look after the instruction, the former spending all his time in the school.

Probably there are among us young persons who would be glad to prepare for this work if they could secure the necessary money. If you are one of these, write to us, sending recommendations assuring us that you are a suitable person to engage in God’s work, and we will endeavor to help you in securing money for your expenses.

The time until the opening of the spring term is short. Write at once if you desire to come. E. A. SUTHERLAND.

PUBLICATIONS WANTED.

Let all sending publications for missionary work see that they are properly wrapped. Complaints are made that papers are received almost wholly unfit to distribute on account of not having been properly wrapped. A little careful attention on the part of those sending publications will result in a saving of literature and postage.

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—

Earnest Budd, Eddy, Minn., Instructor.

A. H. Hill, 400 Pleasant St., Leominster, Mass., 1,000 copies of REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, and tracts.

Mrs. C. B. Webb, 1203 Tennessee St., Louisiana, Mo., REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, Instructor, Little Friend, Good Health, Medical Missionary, Apples of Gold Library, Words of Truth Series.

NOTICE

FOR SALE CHEAP.—On long time at low interest, 5-room house with good cellar; store building, 22 x 38 ft., 4 dwelling rooms above; good frame barn; ½-acre lot; plenty of fruit; 3 blocks from S. D. A. church, 2 blocks from village school; healthful, elevated location in Watrousville, Mich. Two large sugar beet refineries within 8 miles. Address I. N. Bartholomew, 43 Hanover St., Battle Creek, Mich.

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By Editor

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Grand Trunk Railway System

By A. S. Parker

Time Card in Effect November 19, 1899.

C. & G. T. Division.

West-Bound from Battle Creek.

LEAVE. No. 9, Mail and Express, to Chicago................. 12.15 P. M. No. 1, Chicago Express, to Chicago................... 9.00 A. M. No. 3, Lehigh Valley Express, to Chicago............. 3.40 P. M. No. 5, Pacific Express, to Chicago, with sleeper...... 1.10 A. M. No. 75, Mixed, to South Bend........................ 8.20 A. M.

Nos. 9 and 75, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 1, 3, and 5, daily.

East-Bound from Battle Creek.

No. 8, Mail & Exp., to Ft. Huron, East, and Detroit.... 3.45 P. M. No. 4, Lehigh Express, to Ft. Huron and East............ 8.27 P. M. No. 6, Atlantic Exp., to Ft. Huron, East, & Detroit..... 2.25 A. M. No. 2, Lehigh Express, to Saginaw, Bay City, Ft. Huron, and East....................................... 6.50 A. M. No. 74, Mixed, to Durand (Starts at Nichols)............ 7.15 A. M.

Nos. 8 and 74, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 4, 6, and 2, daily.

A. S. PARKER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

By O. W. Ruggles; R. N. R. Wheeler

“The Niagara Falls Route.”

Corrected Nov. 19, 1899.

EAST	3	12	6	10	14	20	36
	^*Night Express.	^†Detroit Acom.	Mail & Express.	^*N. Y. & Bos. Sp.	^†Eastern Express.	^†Jackson Ac’m’n.	^*Atlantic Express.
Chicago	pm 9.35		am 6.45	am 10.50	pm 3.00		pm 11.30
Michigan City	11.25		8.43	pm 12.08	4.40		am 1.20
Niles	am 12.40		10.15	1.00	6.37		2.30
Kalamazoo	2.10	am 7.30	pm 12.10	2.08	6.52	6.00	4.10
Battle Creek	3.00	8.10	1.00	2.42	7.28	6.43	5.05
Marshall		8.38	1.30	3.09	7.51	7.10	5.30
Albion	3.50	8.57	1.50	3.30	8.11	7.30	5.52
Jackson	4.40	10.05	2.35	4.05	8.50	8.15	6.10
Ann Arbor	5.55	11.10	3.47	4.58	9.43		7.48
Detroit	7.15	pm 12.25	5.30	6.00	10.45		9.15
Falls View					am 5.02		pm 4.13
Susp. Bridge					5.17		4.33
Niagara Falls					6.30		4.40
Buffalo				am 12.20	6.14		5.30
Rochester				3.13	9.50		8.40
Syracuse				5.15	11.50		10.45
Albany				9.05	4.15		am 2.50
New York				pm 1.30	8.15		7.00
Springfield				12.16	6.19		7.40
Boston				3.00	9.05		10.34

WEST	7	15	3	5	23	13	37
	^*Night Express.	^*N. Y., Bos. & Chi. Sp.	^†Mail & Express.	^*News Express.	^*Western Express.	^†Kalamazoo Acom.	^*Pacific Express.
Boston		am 10.30			pm 3.00		pm 6.00
New York		pm 1.00			6.00		am 12.10
Syracuse		8.10			am 2.00		pm 12.25
Rochester		10.00			4.05		pm 2.25
Buffalo		am 12.05			5.00		pm 3.50
Niagara Falls					6.02		4.32
Falls View					6.34		5.05
Detroit	pm 8.20	am 7.20	am 8.25		pm 12.40		11.25
Ann Arbor	9.43	8.18	9.40		1.38	5.45	am 12.30
Jackson	11.15	9.20	11.05	am 3.30	2.40	7.50	1.35
Battle Creek	am 12.40	10.30	pm 12.25	4.35	3.50	9.08	3.00
Kalamazoo	1.00	11.05	1.30	5.15	4.28	10.00	3.35
Niles	3.15	pm 12.22	2.55		6.05		5.05
Michigan City	4.26	1.20	4.10		7.05		6.01
Chicago	6.30	3.00	6.05		8.55		7.50

Daily. Daily except Sunday.

Trains on Battle Creek Division depart at 8.05 a. m. and 4.10 p. m., and arrive at 12.40 p. m. and 6.10 p. m. daily except Sunday.

O. W. RUGGLES, General Pass. & Ticket Agent, Chicago.

R. N. R. WHEELER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek.

Imperialism and the Independent

By Editor

Of all the innocently verdant journals, the Independent certainly takes the lead. It has steadily advocated the cause and sustained the course of imperialism on the part of the government of the United States. It has reproved those who have opposed that course. And now, all at once, while still favoring the thing in principle, the Independent exclaims: “If the new meaning of expansion is extension of territory subject to our sovereignty, and contraction of the Constitution and possibilities under it, it would be more properly termed imperialism; and imperialism we do not want, and ‘never supposed we were getting’”! But, dear Independent, you were told, over and over, that that was what you were getting. Why should you have never supposed that that was what you were getting?

The Bay View Magazine for February is an especially interesting number. Its leading article, “In Russia’s Asiatic Empire,” is excellently written by one who has passed through Russia. It is beautifully illustrated. Other articles are “Russian Universities,” “Russian Girls and Boys at School,” “How Russia Amuses Itself,” “Rubinstein,” “Chopin,” etc., etc.

Religious Unity and Buddhist Missions

JUSTICE BREWER, of the United States Supreme Court, in a recent Washington lecture on “The Twentieth Century from Another View,” said, among other things: “The present century has been one of denominational rivalry and strife, but the next century will be one of Christian unity. The ancient enemies, Catholicism and Protestantism, are drawing closer together.” Soon they will be so close together as to literally fulfill the prediction made by the Spirit of Prophecy over fifteen years ago, that the time would come “when Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power.”

MISSIONARIES of real Buddhism are at present establishing missions in this country “for the conversion of Americans to the faith of Buddha,” with headquarters in San Francisco. They have already established missions in Hawaii, Malaysia, China, and Corea. In view of all this, the most prominent religious weekly in the country says that “we can not regard Buddhists as merely passive religionists.”

Christ in Song Hymnal

Over two hundred songs and hymns, not in any one, or all, of our books heretofore (so the compiler informs us), are found in “Christ in Song Hymnal.” Besides these, the book contains the cream of all other books that our houses have published in the past. Many have asked whether the book is a collection of old or of new music. This is the answer.

Christianity and Social Reform

SPEAKING of “the good people who attend church and prayer-meeting,” the Outlook very truly says that “it is largely through their neglect and apathy that social evils flourish.” True Christians are “the salt of the earth,”—that which preserves the world socially, as well as every other way; and the power of God, manifested in Christianity, is the only possible means of regenerating society. Had socialism, aided by the ballot, been God’s way for mankind to abolish existing social evils, he would not have prescribed for them Christ and Christianity.

Missionary Review of the World

THE February number of the Missionary Review of the World contains valuable articles on the following interesting subjects: “Dwight L. Moody, the Evangelist,” “Chinese Turkestan and Its Inhabitants,” “The Educational Problem in Japan,” “The Greenland Mission,” “What Can Christianity Do for China?” “Somaliland, the Unknown,” “German Protestant Foreign Missions,” etc. In addition to these will be found, in a separate department, abundant general missionary intelligence from all parts of the world. Price, $2.50 a year. Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York City.

Unbelief in the Bible

UNBELIEF in the Bible, under the names of “higher criticism” and “evolution,” is to be seen on every hand, and is a sign of the times easily to be discerned. The following statements by Dr. Josiah Strong, found in the January number of Social Service, need no comment: “The old carpenter theory of creation has given place to the theory of evolution. In like manner, these carpenter theories of the reconstruction of society must give place to social evolution.”

A 124-Year-Old Father in Scotland

The following interesting item was sent to us by Brother T. D. Wallar: Mrs. M. E. Johnson, of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Joplin, Mo., is now in her eightieth year, and is the youngest of eleven children, all of whom are living. Their father, James P. MacAlhana, is also living, in Aberdeen, Scotland, North Heights, at the age of one hundred and twenty-four years. A short time ago Sister Johnson received a letter from him, in which he told her that he had “done three Scotch miles” the day that he wrote the letter. Sister Johnson has twin sons living who are nearly sixty years old.

Review Mailing List Growth

By Editor

EVERY other week we whittle down the REVIEW mailing list to what it ought to be, by cutting off all unrenewed, expired subscriptions. Accordingly, one week we lose, and the next week we gain, subscriptions. However, though February 13 was the regular cutting-off time, we took in three hundred and fifty-eight, and lost only three hundred and forty-six, subscriptions, thus adding twelve to our list. This has happened a few times before during 1899 and 1900. We are glad to say that our mailing list is larger now than it ever was in all the history of the REVIEW. Let each subscriber send us some more new subscriptions.

Russian Designs on the Afghan Frontier

The London Daily Chronicle, speaking in a recent editorial regarding “the Russian designs on the Afghan frontier,” says: “Both parties in Parliament have repeatedly asseverated that the very next step—that to Herat—means war. There is no doubt that Russia could take Herat to-morrow if she liked. England would need a month to reach the same objective. The only barrier between Russia and her prey is a moral one.”

Academic Training and the Study of Man

THE Interior observes that “the absence of academic training was a positive advantage to Moody. It shut him up to the study of man and the Bible. He understood the meaning of Scripture because he knew intimately the conditions which it was given to meet, and, conversely, he understood man because he saw him in spiritual light, the penetrating rays of which are not obstructed.” Now if only the theological schools would make their academic training to be just this which Moody found, then it would be of some value in the development of Christian workers. The absence of academic training is a positive advantage to any man when it results in shutting him up to the study of man and the Bible, as is here indicated.

Sabbath Sunset Calendar.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Ex. 20:8.

“From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.” Lev. 23:32.

1900	MARCH	1900
Su	Mo	Tu

4	5	6
11	12	13
18	19	20
25	26	27
N. M. 1		F. Q. 8

SUN SETS

	New Orleans, La. (South)	St. Louis, Mo. (Middle)	Ottawa, Can. (North)
FRIDAY, Mar. 2	6.00	5.54	5.50
SABBATH, “ 3	6.00	5.55	5.52
FRIDAY, “ 9	6.05	6.01	5.59
SABBATH, “ 10	6.05	6.02	6.00
FRIDAY, “ 16	6.09	6.08	6.08
SABBATH, “ 17	6.10	6.09	6.09
FRIDAY, “ 23	6.13	6.15	6.16
SABBATH, “ 24	6.14	6.16	6.17
FRIDAY, “ 30	6.17	6.21	6.25
SABBATH, “ 31	6.18	6.22	6.26

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By Editor

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Renew Your March Subscription

By Editor

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