4 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER
cur Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He
was rich, vet for vour sakes Tle beeame
voor, that ve through This poverty might
be rich,
Is chjoving
doubttal if
The world to-day unpree:
edentoed prosperity, It 1s
there has over been na period of sueh
general prosperity as owe are now wit
nesstng, Inoview oft this, <hould not our
people Saving to those
evervahiere he
whom they have placed th responsthle
positions: ** Now is the time for vou to
place every enterprise of this cause on
vantage-oround aso rar as money will
enable vou to do so?” Tt does seem as
thoueh self-interest, not to mentton oar
love for the truth, would cause us nes
» . .
to strengthen our positions and greatly
advance our outposts, Thise however, en
only he necomplished when the people 0
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God themselves, with their all, are wholly
conscernted to Cod,
leaders Pesos
To onr belongs the
bility of planning for this world-wide
cimpatgn, but to us belongs the prvi
lege of supplving the sinews off war
and the strengthening of their hands hy
substantial encouragement and sympathy,
To fl to do our part ina work of
strange ano
Shall we
ths ehaornceter would he a
Prony experience for Californian,
not, therefore, at once take hold of ths
work with that enereyv and determing
fron brine us speedy sue
ross! With the
Necessary to
memhership and pros
perity af the California Conference,
nothing short of an additional conte
bution of $6.000 should satisfy os,
WoT Knox.
Repoit of the Sabbath-Schocl De-
partment for Year Eading
Dec. 31, 1906
conterence
1O07
noon
| Presented at the
Jose, Feb, 20 to 20,
There are at the present ime about
ninety schools an the California Conter
ence, with a membership of abont 2.500,
The total contributions for the vear 1906
LL O05. 70 of £2. 700.62 has
heen donated to missions, the remainder,
Were whieh
1202.07, having heen used for the exe
pense of the schools, When comparing
these figures wita those of the vear 1905,
we dre sorry to find that the donations
have fallen a htole short of those of ihe
previous vear. Io 1905 the total cone
trhutions were =E029.35. of whieh %2,
GT.09N were donated te missions, Thus
$500.0
1906, and donated
schools raised
that the
1905 than 1n
we find
More in
E200.06 more to missions. There are two
circumstances whieh have contributed to-
wald causing this decrease. One is that
the two schools tn San Francisco were
almost broken np after the disasters in
that city, in April; and during the sume
mer the Sabhath-schoeol donations in Oak:
ind were <evera! times turned out of
then veoular channels in behalf of the
tent ctforts heme made there, However,
there 1s one very encouraging feature
connected with these figures: one hy one,
the schools have heen gaining mm mission:
ary zeal, so that some of them have
adopted the plan of giving all their do
nitions to missions and providing for the
supplies an some other wav, Althongh
thes phn soot recent origin, vet we see
that, while cenly about 65 per cent, of the
contributions was donated to missions in
THOS in 1206 the proportion to missions
Is over GS per cent, of the entire amount,
schools have heen
Sixteen new organ:
zed during the year, with a membership
of about 290,
[tis enconraging to note the nereas
tne interest in the study of the lessons by
the asolated Sabbath Keepers,
The voung people have been doing a
noble work, but as the canvassers seem
to be the only ones who can be induced
coma ke regular, systematic reports, our
records can not odo them Justice, Hows
ever vor will he interested to know that
l
i he voung
¢ reports received show that
beople who sore not regularly enoaged in
the work have done the following mis
stony work, which does not include any
cH the work the voung people
done by
who ave canvassing, or hy the chureh
wchools,
Missionary letters written LL 1.4006
NIssionary letters recotved 00 22
Missionary visits made I
Dible readings oven L000 1.aOT
Subscriptions taken for period
reals aol)
Papers sold 0000000000000 FO215
Pavers arven away or omatled C00 15625
Books sold cnot nelodimg canviss
ers work ooo Zoo
Proeoks Tonned C0000 20
Paces of tracts sold 00000000 S664
Pages of tracts given away oo 166,769
[ons of Chistian help work FONT
Persons helped with food ond
clothine C0000 00 G20
Donations onven fore and nsed an,
home missionary work CRZOBST
Donations for foreign missionary
work Loo 422.92
This work was done by 386 voung peo-
with the
ties whieh have reported, and hy about
ple who are connected SOC1e-
seventeen isolated voung people, none of
whom would probably have been at work
itt had not
the veung people's movement.
Nearly all the
held at least one convention during the
both Sahhbath-school
and voung people's work have been con:
heen for the influence of
Sabbath-sehools have
past vear, in whieh
sidered, with pleasing results to the
sehools,
There can be no question nour minds
Sabbath
theretore we invite all our
as to the importance of the
school work ;
people to rally to this work, making an
carnest effort to bring it up to the place
which it should occupy in the Lord's
work. To this end shall we not unitedly
seek to nerease the membership of the
schools hy bringing every Seventh-day
with this work as a
. af
that is not possible, of the Home Depart
Adventist in toueh
member, either of some school, or
ment? Also shall we not seek to mnerease
the missionary spirit of the schools, by
mereasing the knowledgee of the needs of
the mission fields and, as a result of this,
herease our donations to missions to the
highest figure!
Mors,
possible
Carrie RR. Kn
ur, Neerelary,
Notes
[Slder BL 1 Howe
canmzaticn of
reports the or
a voung people's society
at f.emoore, two weeks ago,
Between erghty and ninety patients are
now at the St. Helena Sanitariam,
Among these are doctors, lTawvers, and
ministers,
There are seventy-three pupils now in
Pacific Union Col-
still
the student's home at
Healdsburg, Others are
leer at
expected,
A new heating plant has recently been
stalled in the building used for college
prorposes at Healdsburg, Itoi giving
goad satisfaction,
Good, big, live, interesting missionary
meetings are among the prominent fea-
tures at Pacific Union College and the
Healdsburg Church this vear. Results
will follow,