VOLUME XVIII. �
DENVER, COLO., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1908. 
NUMBER 6. 
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Echoes from the field. 
Published every two weeks for the 
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GENERAL ARTICLES. 
FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP. 
MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
Christ has purchased us by the price 
of His own blood. He has paid the pur-
chase money for our redemption, and if 
we will lay hold upon the treasure, it is 
ours by the free gift of God. 
"How much owest thou 
HOW MUCH 
unto my Lord?" It is 
OWEST THOU? impossible to tell. All 
that we have is from God. 
He lays His hand upon our possessions, 
saying, "I am the rightful owner of the 
whole universe; these are My goods. 
Consecrate to me the tithes and offerings. 
As you bring in these specified goods as 
a token of your loyalty, and your sub-
mission to My sovereignty, My blessing 
shall increase your substance, and you 
will have abundance." 
God is testing every soul that claims 
to believe in Him. All are entrusted 
with talents. The Lord has given men 
His goods upon which to trade. He has 
made them His stewards, and has placed 
in their possession money, houses, and 
lands. All these are to be treated as the 
Lord's goods, and used to advance His 
work, to build up His kingdom in the 
world. In trading with the Lord's goods, 
we are to seek Him for wisdom that we 
may not use His sacred trust to glorify 
ourselves, to indulge selfish impulses. 
The amount entrusted varies, but those 
who have the smallest gifts must not feel 
that because they are small, they can do 
nothing with them. 
Every Christian is a 
EACH ONE �
steward of God, en- 
GOD'S STEWARD trusted with His goods. 
Remember the words, 
"Moreover, it is required in stewards 
that a man be found faithful." Let us 
A steward identifies 
A STEWARD'S himself with his master. 
TRUST �
He accepts the responsi- 
bilities of a steward, and 
he must act in his master's stead, doing 
as his master would do were he presid-
ing. His master's interests become his. 
The position of a steward is one of 
dignity, because his master trusts him. 
If in any wise he acts selfishly, and turns 
the advantage gained by trading with 
his lord's goods to his own advantage, he 
has perverted the trust reposed to him. 
The Lord has made the proclamation 
of the gospel dependent upon the labors 
and voluntary gifts of all His people. 
The one who proclaims the message of 
mercy to fallen man has another work 
also to set before the people, the duty 
of sustaining the work of God with his 
means. He must teach them that a por-
tion of their income belongs to God, and 
is to be sacredly devoted to His work. 
This lesson he should present both by 
precept and example. And he should 
beware that he does not by his own 
course lessen the force of his teachings. 
That which has been set 
USE OF THE apart according to the 
TITHE �
Scriptures as belonging to 
the Lord constitutes the 
revenue of the gospel, and is no longer 
ours. It is no better than sacrilege for a 
man to take from God's treasury to 
serve himself, or to serve others in their 
secular 'business. Some have been at 
ilault_in diverting from the altar of God 
that which has been especially dedicated 
to Him. All should regard this matter 
in the right light. Let no one, when 
brought Into a strait place, take money 
consecrated to religious purposes, and 
use it for his advantage, soothing his 
conscience by saying that he will repay 
it at some future time. Far better cut 
down the expenses to correspond with 
the income, to restrict the wants, and live 
within the means, than to use the Lord's 
money for secular purposes. This sub-
ject is not regarded as it should be. 
Under no pretext is the money paid into 
the treasury of God to be used for the 
benefit of any one in temporal affairs. 
• God has given special 
TRITE BELONGS directions as to the use 
TO GOD �
of the tithe. He does 
not design that His 
work shall be crippled for want of means. 
That there may be no haphazard work 
and no error, He has made our duty on 
these points very plain. The portion 
that God has reserved for Himself is z-.ot 
to be diverted to any other purpose than 
that which He has specified. Let none 
feel at liberty to retain their tithe, to use 
according to their own judgment. They 
are not to use it for themselves in an 
emergency, nor to apply it as they see 
fit, even in what they may regard as the 
 �
he cute *hat usze are Qat robbing God in 
any jots or tittles; for much is involved 
in this question. All things belong to 
God. Men may ignore His claims. While 
He bountifully bestows His blessings 
upon them, they may use His gifts for 
their own self gratification, but they will 
be called to give an account for their 
stewardship. 
ECHOES FROM. THE FIELD. 
Lord's work. God has shown honor to 
men in taking them into partnership 
with Himself in the great work of re- 
demption. �
The min ister 
MINISTER'S DUTY should, by precept 
REGARDING TITHE and example, teach 
the people to regard 
the tithe as sacred. He should not feel 
that he can retain and apply it, accord-
ing to his own judgment, because he is a 
minister. It is not his. He is not at 
liberty to devote to himself whatever he 
thinks is his due. Let him not give his 
influence to any plans for diverting from 
their legitimate use the tithes and offer-
ings dedicated to God. They are to he 
placed in His treasury and held sacred 
for His service as He has appointed. 
God desires all His stewards to be 
exact in following divine arrangements. 
They are not to offset the Lord's plans 
by performing some deed of charity, or 
giving some gift or some offering, when 
or how they, the human agents, shall see 
fit. It is a very poor policy for men to 
seek to improve on God's plan, and in-
vent a makeshift, averaging up their 
good impulses on this and that occasion, 
and offsetting them against God's re-
quirements. God calls upon all to give 
their influence to His own arrangement. 
He has made :His plan known, and all 
who would co-operate with Him must 
carry out this plan, instead of daring to 
attempt an improvement on it. 
"Thou shalt command the children of 
Israel that they may bring thee pure 
olive oil beaten for light, to cause the 
lamp to burn always." This was to be a 
continual offering, that the House of God 
might be properly supplied with that 
'which was necessary for His service. 
His people today are to remember that 
the house of worship is the Lord's prop-
erty,and that it is to be scrupulously cared 
for. But the funds for this work are not 
to come from the tithe. 
A very plain, definite 
TITHE FOR ONE message has been given 
PURPOSE ALONE to me to give to our 
people. I am hidden 
to tell them that they are making a mis 
take in applying the tithe to various 
objects which, though good in themselves 
are not the object to which the Lord has 
said that the tithe is to be applied. 
Those who make this use of the tithe are 
departing from the Lord's arrangement. 
God will judge for these things. One 
reason that the tithe may be applied to 
school purposes. Still others would rea-
son that canvassers and colporteurs 
should he supported from the tithe. 
But a great mistake is made when the 
tithe is drawn from the object for which 
it is to be used—the support of the minis-
ters. There should be today in the field 
one hundred well qualified laborers 
where now there is but one. 
The tithe is sacred, reserved 
TITHE IS by God for Himself. It is to 
SACRED be brought into His treasury 
to he used to sustain the gos-
pel laborers in their work. For a long 
time the Lord has been robbed because 
there are those who do not realize that 
the tithe is God's reserved portion. 
Some have been dissatisfied, and have 
said, I will no longer pay my tithe, for I 
have no confidence in the way things 
are managed at the heart of the work. 
But will you rob God because you think 
the management of the work is not right? 
Make your complaint, plainly and openly, 
in the right spirit to the proper ones. 
Send in your petitions for things to be 
adjusted and set in order; but do not 
withdraw from the work of God, and 
prove unfaithful because others are not 
doing right. 
Read carefully the third 
LESSON FROM chapter of Malachi, and 
MALACHI �
see what God says ab6ut 
the tithe. If our churches 
will take their stand upon the Lord's 
word, and be faithfhl in paying their 
tithes into His treasury, more laborers 
will be encouraged to take up ministerial 
work. More men would give themselves 
to the ministry were they not told of the 
depleted treasury. There should be an 
abundant supply in the Lord's treasury, 
and there would he if stlfish hearts and 
hands had not withheld tithes, or made 
use of them to support other lines of 
work. 
God's reserved 
PUNISHMENT FOR �
resources are to he 
WITHHOLDING TITHES used in no such 
haphazard way. 
The tithe is the Lord's, and those who 
meddle with it will be punished with the 
loss of their heavenly treasure unless 
they repent. Let the work no longer be 
hedged up because the tithe has been 
diverted into various channels other than 
the one to which the Lord has said it 
should go. Provision is to be made for 
these other lines of work. They are to be 
sustained, but not from the tithe. God 
has not changed; the tithe is still to be 
used for the support of the ministry. 
The opening of new fields requires more 
ministerial efficiency than we now have, 
and there might be means in the 
treasury. 
Those who go 
DUTY OF MINISTERS �
forth as ministers 
TO EDUCATE PEOPLE have a solemn_re- 
sponsibility de-
volving upon .them which is strange-
ly neglected. Some enjoy preach-
ing, but they do not give personal 
labor to the churches. There is -great 
need of instruction concerning the obli-
gations and duties to God, especially in 
regard to paying an honest tithe. Our 
ministers would feel sadly aggrieved if 
they were not promptly paid for their 
labor; but will they consider that there 
must be meat in the treasure-house-of 
God wherewith to sustain the laborers? 
If they fail to do their whole duty in 
educating the people to be faithful in 
paying to God His own, there will be a 
shortage of means in the treasury to 
carry forward the Lord's work. 
'The overseer of the flock af.God should 
faithfully discharge his duty. If he takes 
the position that because this is not 
pleasant to him, he will leave it for some 
one else to do, he is not a faithful 
worker. Let him read in Malachi the 
words of the Lord charging the* people 
with robbery toward God in withholding 
the tithes. The mighty. God declares, 
"ye are cursed with a curse." When the 
one who ministers in word and doctrine, 
sees the people pursuing a course that 
will bring this curse upon them, how can 
he neglect his duty to give them instruc-
tion and warning? Every church. mem-
ber should be taught to be faithful. in 
paying on honest tithe. 
"Bring ye all the tithes 
FINAL EXHOR- into the storehouse, that 
TATION �
there may be meat in 
Mine house, and prove 
Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, 
if I will not open you the windows of 
heaven, and pour you out a blessings 
that .there shall not be room enough to 
receive it." 
Our Coming State Conference. 
This meeting, nothing preventing, will 
be held in the city of Pueblo, August 20-
3o, 1908. Elder Mackintosh and Elder 
Kennedy secured the free use of the 
Fair Grounds with electric light and city 
water. This will be quite a saving to 
the Conference. Also the buildings on 
the ground will save us the erection .of 
many large tents. I believe it is none 
too early for,our brethren and sisters to 
begin to plan, as families, to attend this 
meeting. It is to be hoped that every 
family in this conference will be repre- 
sented at our annual meeting. �
. 
Your attention will be. called to the 
ECHOES' FIJOM THE FIELD., 
Great Stone Face." "There was a great 
stone face on the side of the mountain 
overlooking the place where the young 
man lived. For many years a legand 
had come down concerning it and proph-
esying that some day a true and noble 
man bearing an exact resemblance to 
the great stone face would come to the 
place and be a blessing to all the people. 
- As the years passed by, and day by clay 
he gazed at the great face which seemed 
to look down at him, he wondered if he 
It is not a recent discovered fact that ought not to prepare the way for the 
by beholding an object long and earnest- coming of the good man. So he began 
ly we become like the object of our to labor for the good of the people. 
• interest. In Heb. 9:28 we are told that With helpful words and kindly deeds of 
"Unto them that.look for Him shall He sympathy and love he tried to be what 
appear -the second time without sin unto the great stone face wished him to be. 
salvation." Constant looking and long- At last he grew old and the whitened 
ing fot Him will so transform their lives • locks about his face resembled the mists 
. that when He does appear "they shall be - which hung over the mountain, and lo! 
like Him" in character. �
the people began to say, "The prophesy 
We have, read of a rough sailor who is fulfilled, the man resembling the great 
was persuaded by his aged mother to stone face is with us." So thoroughly 
visit a gallery and look at the picture of - had the thoughtful and oft repeated gaze 
the Crucifixion before starting on a long of admiration and hope transformed his 
voyage. The first glance at that sublime life that he had changed from feature to 
scene revited his attention. In a few feature into "The Great Stone Face." 
moments his cap came off and soon fell And so Paul, certain of the results of 
unheeded to the floor. An hour passed, our applying this great principle in our 
and. then another, and as he sat gazing �
lives said, "We all beholding the glory of 
snhelned and awestrack _as_the great fact -the. Lord are—thanged into the same 
of God's gift penetrated his mind, a mar- image." 
velous transformation was going on �
And this same Paul expressed his de- 
within. Tears. of sympathy, before un- • sire to all in the Hebrew church that 
known, streamed from his eyes. He was they be "followers of them who through 
no longer an infidel, scoffing at the re- �
faith and patience inherit the promises." 
ligion of his 'Mother, but as he passed �
In all the ages God has had men in 
from the room, now sacred to him, he -whom he has developed characteristics 
said to the keeper, "The story of the like His own, and other men looking 
Christ 'must be true, for no man could �
upon their lives have been changed. 
paint a scene like that if it were not �
Unnumbered thousands have gazed long 
true." �
- at Abraham's loyalty, and have become 
Forty days Moses dwelt in the bright loyal. They have seen The outcome of 
presence of God and communed with Moses' choice in esteeming the reproach 
Him. He beheld the majesty and glory of Christ, greater riches than the treas-
. of his Creator, and the change was so ures in Egypt, and they have made a 
great that when he returned to the �
wise choice. They have been thrilled 
people they could not look steadfastly by the bravery of Elijah, and have be-
. upon the reflected glory shining from come brave. They have pondered the 
his countenance. �
purity of Joseph, the courage of Joshua, 
The great principle here illustrated is �
the heroism of Daniel'and his compan- 
especially true in its relation to the for- �
ions, and have become heroes. Look at 
mation of character. All who study men them long 'and earnestly, and you, too, 
are aware of this principle that he who �
will have strength and stability in the 
beholds with patient, persistent gaze any �
fiber of your character. But hi all these 
object, whether material, intellectual or �
it is not the men, but the special charac:- 
spiritual; is changed by that object. �
teriitics that we are bidden to behold 
These exterior objects bear in upon the and imtiate. We are admonished again 
mind until they are indelibly photo- �
that surrounded with this cloud of wit- 
graphed in the brain and become the nesses; and encouraged by their exper- 
life. �
iences, we may run the race with patience 
Hawthorn has beautifully illustrated �
only by "looking unto Jesus." 
this thought in his allegory of "The �
Only once in all time has God placed 
before us a visible form as our perfect 
and sinless and matchless example. 
Him, we must adore, worship and behold 
in all His beauty and mightiest of won-
ders, by beholding we become changed. 
Here, indeed, lies the possibility of char-
acter for us all. For Paul says, "we ALL, 
beholding, are changed. Limited in 
character only by •our willingness to be-
hold. 
It is told of Dounecher that he worked 
eight years upon a marble statue of 
Christ. After laboring two years he 
called into his studio a little girl, and, 
directing her attention to the statue, 
asked her, "who is that?" She answered„ 
"a great man." He saw that he had 
failed and began anew. A few years 
later, he called the child into his studio 
and repeated his question. After look-
ing at: it silently for awhile, she said in 
quiet tones, "Suffer little children to 
come unto Me." He had succeeded. 
He then and afterward believed, because 
of the inspiration from God by which he 
had worked out in these eight years the 
vision of Christ, which had come to him 
in his lonely nights. However this may 
be, we know that the Holy Spirit stands 
ready to work out in every life "the same 
image" to inspire every man to the 
attainment of that life which will reflect 
the character of Jesus fully. But it is 
always by beholding that we are changed. 
We may feel the need of a change of 
life, of disposition, of habits, and may 
pray for the transformation to come, but 
while we • go about our work giving it no 
more thought, we shall be disappointed, 
for it will never come. We must hold 
the object of our longings ever before us, 
whether it be the purity, the humility, 
the patience, the winsomeness, the peace 
or the power of our Christ, if we would 
make it ours. �
MEADE MACGU I RE. 
Offering for the Pc or. 
We are again nearing the time for our 
annual collection for the poor, the aged, 
and the prattling child, who are without 
support only as we by our free will offer-
ings give them a place to sleep, raiment 
to wear, and food to eat. April 4th is 
the time for this annual collection. I 
am sure that heaven has committed to 
us this sacred trust. So with one con-
sent, let us do what we can to relieve 
the suffering these classes may have to 
meet. The great day will soon dawn 
when there will be no poor, no homeless 
ones, but everyone will have a home in 
the kingdom of our father. 
G. F.. WATSON. 
benefits of the annual state meeting in 
the future by different members of the 
conference committee. This is simply a 
statement announcing the time and 
place. 
We have already asked the General 
Conference to furnish us good help. We 
are laying our plans to make this meet- 
ing the best ever held in our state. 
G. F. WATSON. 
The Same Image---2 Cor. 3:18. 
Canvassers' Report for Two Weeks Ending March 7, 1908. 
AGENTS 
HORNS EX. 
ORD. 
VAL. 
DEL. 
VAL. 
NAME OF B 
Effie Hudspeth �
 
31 
47 
4 
$11.25 
$ 5.50 
Great Contro. 
C F Innis �
 
6o 
45 
2.25 
TO 
49.75 
Mrs A M Gartman �
 
30 
56 
9 
22.65 
5 
12.25 Herald 
Fred Payne 
18 
.. 
18 
27.00 
18 
27.00 
Coming King 
L B Schick �
 
16 
3o 
6 
13.30 
Wm H Brown �
 
.. 
34.0o 
.. 
27.50 
Miscellaneous 
Miscellaneous 
 �
29 
45 
to 
72.25 
29 
45.25 
TOTAL �
 
�
 �
184 223 
47 
$182.70 
62 $167.25 
ECHOES FROM THE FIELD. 
NOTES AND ITEMS. 
Quarterlies should be ordered immedi-
ately. 
Dr. Shively, of Boulder, was in Denver 
last week. 
Elder Mackintosh is spending this week 
in Colorado Springs. 
Mrs. N. Ragan, of Leadville, is visiting 
friends in Cheyenne, Wyo. 
On account of scarlet fever the church 
school in Clifton has been closed. 
50,000 copies of the February number 
of Life & Health were sold last month. 
Elder Corbaley is holding meetings 
Sunday evenings in the Arvada church. 
Dr. Diffenbacher and Brother W. D. 
Emery spent Sabbath, March 7, with the 
Greeley church. 
Elder Watson spent last Sabbath in 
Eaton, where Dr. Diffenbacher is hold-
ing a series of meetings. 
At the recent meeting in Keene, Elder 
H. L. Hoover was chosen superintendent 
of the New Mexico field. 
Twenty-six of our Sabbath Schools 
gave all the contributions received last 
quarter to Foreign Missions. 
The Capitol Hill church is enjoying a 
visit from Sister Proudfit, of College 
View, their former librarian. 
Owing to sickness, Elder Spring closed 
his work in Vernon last week, and re-
turned to his home in Canon City. 
The ECHOES list now numbers six 
hundred and ten. This does not include 
Exchanges and free subscriptions. 
Dr. Frank Washburn and family spent 
a few days last week visiting with Elder 
Watson at the Colorado Sanitarium. 
Elders Porter and Hoover have been 
visiting the various churches in • New 
Mexico, and have organized a church Of 
twenty-two members near Kenna. 
The supplement to the pamphlet 
"Outline of our Missions" may be ob-
tained without cost by sending to Ralph 
Emery, R. F. D. No. 2, Boulder. All 
who are taking the Reading Course 
should have a copy at once. 
Brother Ira Young, of Great Falls, 
Montana, and Sister Jennie Enke, of 
Farmington, New Mexico, were married 
in Farmington, February 26th. Brother 
and Sister Young passed through Denver 
on their way to Great Falls where they 
will reside. 
Soul Saving Work. 
"If there is one work more important 
than another, it is that of getting our 
publications befote the public, thus lead-
ing them to search the scriptures." "It 
is often the humblest work that yields 
the greatest results. The more DIRECT 
our labor for our fellowmen, the greater 
good will be accomplished. PER-
SONAL influence is a power. The 
minds of those with whom we are closely 
associated are impressed through unseen 
influences. One cannot speak to a mul-
titude and move them as he could if he 
were brought into closer relationship 
with them. Jesus left heaven, and came 
to our world to save souls. You must 
come close to those for whom you labor, 
that they may not only hear your voice, 
but shake your hand, learn your princi-
ples, feel your sympathy. Take up the 
work anywhere and everywhere. Do 
that which is nearest you, right at your 
own doors, however humble and uncom-
mended it may seem. Work only for 
the glory of God and the good of men. 
Go to your neighbors one by one, and 
come close to them till their hearts are 
warmed by your unselfish interest and 
love. Do not neglect speaking to your 
neighbors, and doing them all the kind-
ness in your power, that you may by all 
means save some. We need to seek for 
the Spirit that constrained the apostle 
Paul to go from house to house, plead-
ing with tears and teaching repentance 
toward God, and faith toward our Lord 
Jesus Christ." See Acts 20:21. Gos. 
Workers, pp. 342, 340, 336, 337. 
We are in the midst of an interesting 
institute at Hygiene with eight in atten-
dance. We believe that by consecra-
tion and hard work, they will be a power 
in the land for good as they go from 
house to house, and come in close touch 
with the people, as the Spirit of God has 
taught us to do in the above quotations 
from Gospel Workers. Who is able to 
come closer to the people than the 
humble canvasser on his mission of 
mercy to them? If you want to taste 
of the joys of God's salvation, we invite 
you to enter the canvassing work and 
stick to it. Many are falling out alto-
together because they are not using the 
precious talents given them in the Lord's 
service. Brethren and sisters, wake up; 
it is time to repent and confess our sins, 
rather than identify ourselves with the 
world in its fashions and frivolities. As 
the winter is almost over, we shall look 
for better reports and longer hours' work 
from our "faithful few." Canvassers, let 
us be faithful to our calling, and others 
will catch the inspiration and come to 
our help. Brother Bellah, our General 
Agent, wrote me that they only had nine 
at the institute in Nebraska, but that • 
they meant business. We mean busi-
ness too, and let us remember that we 
are doing business for the King of Kings. 
What we need is that sticktoitiveness 
that will not be defeated by the great 
enemy. �
J. J. JOBE. 
Report of the Missionary Volunteer 
�
 1,954 �
 4,524 
277 
92 �
 260 
60,540 �
 658 
Persons supplied with food, etc.. �
88 
Total contributions during quarter $164.68 
Offerings for home mission work.. 62.74 
Offerings for foreign mission work. 101.94 
Above;, appears the summary of the 
work done by the young people for the 
last quarter of 1907. Study it carefully. 
Sixteen societies reported work done. 
Let every society, and every isolated 
missionary volunteer report this present 
quarter. We want an increase, notwith-
standing the loss of three societies with 
New Mexico. Go work today for Jesus, 
in His name, and guided by His Spirit. 
R. T. EMERY. 
of the Societies of the Colorado Conference 
for the Quarter ending December 31, 1907. 
Numberof societies, 18. 
Present membership, 37o. 
Members- in State Home Department, To. 
REPORT OF WORK DONE. 
Missionary letters written � 376 
Missionary letters received �
 • �
149 
Missionary visits �
 524 
Bible readings or cottage meetings 163 
Subscriptions taken for periodicals �
70 
Papers sold �
 
Papers mailed or given away 
Books sold �
 
Books loaned �
 
Pages oCtracts sold �
 
Pages of 'tracts given away �
 
Hours of Christian help work