p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 45. (11/9/1911)

Businessman Orders Liberty Copies

A PROMINENT business man of Detroit, Mich., sends his order for one hundred copies of Liberty for the fourth quarter. This same gentleman recently ordered one hundred copies of the Protestant Magazine to distribute among his business friends.

Dr. Thomason to St. Helena Sanitarium

At the recent council of the General Conference Committee in Washington, it was voted to request Dr. George Thomason, secretary of the Medical Department of the General Conference, to connect with the sanitarium at St. Helena, Cal. This move is made necessary by the resignation of Dr. Rand, who has for some years been superintendent of the institution, and who is expecting to connect with another of our sanitariums in Southern California. It is the plan that Dr. Thomason shall remain at St. Helena until permanent arrangements can be made for another physician to take charge of the work. Until further notice, after December 1, all communications for Dr. Thomason should be addressed in care of St. Helena Sanitarium, Sanitarium, Cal.

The Week of Prayer Readings

By General Conference Committee

This week the Readings for the Week of Prayer (December 9-16) are being sent out from the General Conference office. The readings are printed in separate form this year, instead of being issued as a number of the REVIEW. Two copies are being sent to each church elder and conference laborer, and one copy to each isolated Sabbath-keeper in the United States or Canada, whose address is known. Extra copies have been sent to each conference tract society office; so that if within a few days any church elder or conference worker fails to receive the readings, the tract society will be able to supply a copy on request. Let each church make sure that it has the readings for this important season.

GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

Barotseland Mission Becomes Self-Supporting

MISSION work on the industrial plan so highly developed as to be self-supporting has been a problem counted well-nigh impossible. This, however, our mission station in Barotseland, South Africa, has attained. The South African Committee, in sending in its estimates for 1912, gives the cheering word that “Elder W. H. Anderson reports that Barotseland Mission requires £1,100 for operation for 1912, and is able to raise the full amount of its appropriation on the station. All they ask of the Mission Board is their prayers and moral support.” And Brother Porter says, “We have assured them they shall have their request.” This means much, and is a result attained only after long years of hard, patient toil and self-sacrifice, under the blessing of God. It is an answer to that difficult mission problem—keeping up a spiritual standard, and at the same time conducting industrial enterprises to the point of success that they are self-supporting. It has come by way of school work developing the soil. It is one of the remarkable achievements of the third angel’s message, and should be an occasion for thanksgiving to God for his prospering hand and loving guidance.