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VOL. II. 
BATTLE 
CREEK, 
MICH., JUNE, 
1890. 
No. 6. 
FOURTH 
SABBATH 
READING. 
MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK. 
SHOULD Seventh-day Adventists be especially inter-
ested in medical missionary work? 
In order that a 
people or a denomination should be especially inter-
ested in a particular line of work, we should expect 
on the part of that people or denomination, first, 
a special duty in relation to the work ; and, secondly, 
a special fitness for it. 
Do such conditions exist as 
regards Seventh-day Adventists? 
I think they do. 
Let us consider some of the reasons for so thinking. 
Let us first consider what responsibilities or obli-
gations rest upon this people as regards medical mis-
sionary work. 
Nearly thirty years ago the Lord 
through special and providential means began in-
structing this people in the principles of health and 
temperance reform. 
The importance of these prin-
ciples, and our obligations as a people respecting 
them, are most impressively presented in the follow-
ing sentences, quoted from the writings of Sister 
White : — 
"The health reform, I was shown, iB a part of the third angel's 
message, and is just as closely connected with it as are the arm 
and hand with the human body. I saw that we as a people must 
make an advance move in this great work. 
Ministers and people 
must act in concert. 
God's people are not prepared for the loud 
cry of the third angel's message. 
" In order to be fitted for translation, the people of God must 
know themselves. 
They must understand in regard to their own 
physical frames. . . . They should ever have the appetite in sub-
jection to the moral and intellectual organs. 
" Some have sneered at this work of reform, and have said it was 
all unnecessary ; that it was an excitement to divert minds from 
present truth. 
They have said that matters were being carried to 
extremes. 
Such do not know what they are talking about. 
" I saw that our heavenly Father has bestowed upon us the great 
blessing of light upon the health reform, that we may obey the 
claims which he has upon us, and glorify him in our bodies and 
spirits which are his, and finally stand without, fault before the 
throne of God. 
Our faith requires US to elevate tfee gtftnclftrd, 
fjfld fake advance i»tep»< 
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•"• '-'-• 
" I saw that it is the duty of those who have received the light 
from Heaven, and have realized the benefit of walking in it, to 
manifest a greater interest for those who are still suffering for 
want of knowledge. 
Sabbath-keepers who are looking for the 
soon . appearing of their Saviour should be the last to manifest 
a lack of interest in this great work of reform. 
Men and women 
must be instructed, and ministers and people should feel that the 
burden of the work rests upon them to agitate the subject, aud 
urge it home upon others." 
It is neither necessary nor appropriate that I 
should undertake to add anything to the above by 
way of comment. 
The Lord has not only given us 
these reformatory truths which relate to the proper 
care of our bodies, but has instructed us respecting 
our obligation to present these precious truths to 
others; and he has also indicated the important 
relation which they bear to the general body of 
truths 
commonly 
designated by us as "present 
truth," or "the third angel's message." 
Let us now consider whether, as a people, we are 
especially fitted to engage in what may, in general 
terms, be called medical missionary work. 
If we are 
not fitted for this line of philanthropic effort, cer-
tainly it is not for want of the opportunity for such 
preparation j for the Lord has graciously given us 
greater light than has shone upon any other people, 
and in some respects has afforded us advantages 
such as no other people have enjoyed. If we have 
received and cherished the light given us, certainly 
after twenty-five years of practical experience we 
ought to be well prepared to teach others, both by 
precept and by example. 
However great may have 
been our neglect of this branch of present truth, it 
must, I think, be admitted that as a people we are in 
advance of any other denomination known, as re-
gards the general adoption of health and temperance 
principles. It is probable that there could be found 
nowhere in the world another people of equal num-
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bers, whose ranks are wholly free from the use of 
alcohol and tobacco. 
It is to be hoped, indeed, that 
there are few among us wbo indulge in those milder 
intoxicants, tea and coffee. 
And there are certainly 
hundreds, perhaps I may say thousands, who have 
made great progress in dietetic and other sanitary 
reforms, and stand far in advance of those who fol-
low the popular customs of the day in eating, drink-
ing, dressing, etc. 
It is evident, then, that the spe-
cial light that we have received as a people, even in 
the half-hearted manner in which we have adopted 
and put into practice this light, has given us a spe-
cial fitness to engage in the work of promoting the 
physical well-being of our fellow-men, through in-
structing them in the principles that govern 
the 
healthy development and proper care of the body. 
The average medical missionary knows very little 
of the principles of hygiene. 
He is educated respect-
ing the use of medicinal agents in the treatment of 
disease, but he has had very little instruction in the 
prevention of disease, or the employment of natural 
agencies in its cure. 
And yet, with their limited 
knowledge, the amount of good medical missionaries 
are able to accomplish in connection with 
foreign 
missionary efforts, is so great that some experienced 
missionary workers have declared that the usefulness 
of a single medical missionary is fully equal to that of 
ten ordinary missionaries. 
What then may be the 
use of a medical missionary equipped with a thorough 
theoretical and practical knowledge of the health 
principles which a kind Providence has placed in our 
hands as a part of the great body of important truths 
which we are to present to our fellow-men as a spe-
cial gospel in the last days of the world's history ? 
Certainly, it would seem that of all people we, as a 
denomination, ought to be most interested and most 
active in medical missionary work. 
What are the opportunities for work of this kind? 
Perhaps we cannot better answer this question than 
by quoting from a letter recently received from Elder 
S. N. Haskell, one of the pioneers of health and tem-
perance reform among us as a people. 
This letter 
from which we quote a few paragraphs was written 
at Bombay, India : — 
"It has been on my mind for some time to write you respecting 
the work which you are so much interested in ; namely, education 
of medical missionaries. 
I write from the stand-]X)int of what I 
find in these foreign countries. 
Tl^e more heathen the country 
and the more firmly fixed the people in their way, the harder it is 
to approach them. 
Every energy of the missionary is bent to get 
at their hearts in some way. 
The missionary is continually seek-
ing out some new method by which this can be accomplished. 
In 
approaching missionaries, if one should come and tell them they 
are all wrong, and that they should begin to teach the people a 
different doctrine on a different basis, he would be likely to create 
great prejudice in their minds at once; especially if coming from 
a 
stranger 
who 
knew 
nothing of 
the 
peculiar 
trials 
which 
missionaries meet. 
This principle the missionaries have them-
selves found true in approaching the heathen. 
It is a principle 
which every one has recognized in relation to all things but re-
ligion. 
And on this point, it seems to me, Seventh-day Adventists 
have as little experience as any people in the world. 
It is a lesson 
which we will have to learn, whether we learn it now or wait a 
few years longer ; and it is as essential as to have any knowledge 
of the truth whatever. 
Foreign missionaries see this principle in 
their dealing with the heathen, and they have found that medical 
missionaries are able to give them more influence than any other 
one means. 
To give a heathen physical relief is to give him con-
fidence in his benefactor, even to a greater extent than among 
civilized people. 
The heathen commonly considers that he is ill 
because his god is offended at him, not knowing that sickness 
comes from the violation of some law of health. 
Consequently he 
looks upon health as coming from the same supernatural source. 
With 
him it is supernatural to be sick and miraculous to be 
healed ; so that a person who contributes to his restoration to 
health is looked upon as almost a divinity, which of 
course 
gives him great influence. 
" In this country, medical missionaries are necessary. 
Persons 
educated as physicians or nurses can easily find positions here in 
medical institutions, where they can pay their way while learning 
the language, becoming acquainted with the people, and learning 
their customs. 
Such persons can open doors of usefulness here for 
the introduction of the truth, which could not he opened by those 
who come to sell books, or to engage in other lines of missionary 
effort. 
There would be ten times more probability of getting the 
President of the United States to attend a tent meeting in America, 
than of getting a certain class here to attend any meeting to hear 
the gospel. 
In fact, unless the Lord should work a special miracle, 
they could not be reached, unless by the medical missionary. 
These ideas have been culminating in toy miud ever since I first went 
to Africa. 
The truth is, we have not as yet taken in the nature of 
the work that is to be accomplished ; neither do I tliiuk we have a 
great while to work ; but I do not believe the Lord will come till 
we have properly appreciated every means of saving souls which 
the Lord has ordained ; and the healing of 
the sick was most 
prominent in the Saviour's life. 
The price he gave for his people 
was his own blood. 
Thi6 is shown from the fact that to say " Thy 
sins be forgiven thee" 
was equivalent to saying "Rise up and 
walk." 
But in both cases it was tne same divine power and tl^ 
same superhuman means that wrought. 
I believe the Lord would 
have us appreciate every method he himself took to reach the in-
dividual soul. 
If the Saviour took the means of doing it through 
healing the sick, then we should do the same; that is, the care of 
the physical health will be as prominent in the eyes of God's peo-
ple in these last days, as any other one method of reaching sin-
ners. 
The truth is, all of these methods are of God, and none of 
them will he permit to be passed over without being noticed. 
But the health and temperance work will fill as important a place 
in the Lord's work when it closes, as it did when it commenced, by 
the example of the founder of Christian religion. 
These princi-
ples I have always believed in, but I have never seen the absolute 
necessity of having the health question employed in this practical 
way, as I have since I have seen the mistake of approaching the 
people with the peculiar features of our faith. 
We need physi-
cians here in India ; we also need them in Africa. 
A still greater 
field opens for nurses. 
Nurses and physicians are needed every-
where. 
All have their place in this work ; and when we as a peo-
ple are united to see the proper estimate the Lord places on each 
of these methods that were exemplified in his life, then we may 
expect to see something done in the way of a miraculous outpour-
ing of his spirit. 
"If we fail properly to appreciate all these means, those of more 
experience in foreign missionary work, who know by experience 
of their utility, seeing that we ignore them, will look upon us as 
narrow and bigoted, and can never be favorably impressed with 
the truth. 
Those who will thus look 
upon us are among the 
most intelligent and most worthy of all the missionaries in for-
eign 
fields. 
I refer especially to the Scotch missionaries who are 
liberal in their sentiments, and not afraid to investigate anything 
that 6eems to have a broad basis. 
When engaged in medical work, 
they believe they are following the example of Christ. 
Said Dr. 
Livingston, the eminent African missionary explorer, ' I sought a 
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119 
medical education that I might be more like the divine Lord and 
Master.' 
I have no doubt that the Lord will work miraculously 
in these heathen countries, as he did with Christ and the apostles, 
and thus show the difference between God, the Creator, and their 
gods. 
I might go on to show why the Lord will manifest his 
power in these Heathen countries in the end; 
but to think he 
will do this while we are neglecting to place a proper estimate on 
his ordained means, would be as consistent as it would be to ask 
the Lord to keep us in health while eating food that would bring 
sickness and death. 
It is in these principles that the Lord will 
perfect his people." 
Certainly no man among UB has had a wider ex-
perience in missionary work, or a wider opportunity 
of judging of the necessity of adding to the work we 
are now carrying forward, that feature of missionary 
work represented by the medical missionary, than 
has Elder Haskell. 
And the forcible words we have 
taken the liberty to publish, although written in a 
private letter, must, we think, arrest the attention of 
all who possess the true missionary spirit. 
A few years ago 1 visited the Yuma Indians of 
New Mexico for the purpose of studying the habits 
of this primitive people. 
I found a Catholic mission-
ary school, which had been established a few months 
before. 
It was not popular among the Indians, most 
of whom declined to allow their children to attend 
the school, although food and Clothing, as well as in 
struction, were furnished to those who came. 
On in-
quiry, I learned that the chief objection urged by the 
Indians was, that as soon as the children become civ-
ilized, they become sick, which is a common observa-
tion. 
One of the first and most notable results of the 
efforts of the missionary to introduce Christian civili-
zation among savages, is a decline of physical health 
on the part of its converts. 
The adoption of the 
habits of Europeans in eating, drinking, dressing, etc., 
invariably brings disease to the converts of heathen-
dom, whose primitive habits in a state of savagery 
are usually much more in harmony with the laws of 
health than are those of the missionary himself. 
The population of the Sandwich Islands was esti-
mated at 400,000, when first discovered ; but since 
the adoption of civilized habits, they have dwindled 
to a mere handful, and will soon be exterminated. 
A 
few years ago those who had been seeking to civilize 
the inhabitants of Tasmania buried the last native 
inhabitant of this once populous island. 
This is not 
the only instance where whole tribes have perished 
under the blighting influence of the perverted civili-
zation brought to them by Christian missionaries. 
Not infrequently the unhygienic habits of the mis-
sionary present an almost insurmountable obstacle 
in the way of approaching the heathen. 
This is 
especially true in India. 
The high caste Hindoo is 
a vegetarian by birth, by education, and by religion. 
He holds the use of flesh foods in such abhorrence 
that even the touch of the 
flesh-eating 
missionary 
is to him so great a defilement that he must go 
straight home, change and wash all bis clothing, 
and take a thorough bath before he can touch any 
article or person without defiling it. 
If he happens 
to touch so much as the garment of the missionary 
in passing him on the street, or through being jostled 
by him in the crowd of the market-place, he must 
immediately resort to ablutions and purifying cere-
monies in order to cleanse himself from the defile-
ment. 
On this account the Hindoos avoid the mis-
sionary as one would evade a person suffering from 
small-pox or some other contagious malady. 
Looking 
upon the very touch of the missionary as pollution, 
the Hindoo is not prepared to listen with any degree 
of respect to his teaching. 
With this fact in mind, 
consider what a great advantage a Seventh-day Ad-
ventist missionary, with habits thoroughly conform-
ing to the health and temperance principles presented 
to us in the writings of Sister White, would enjoy 
over all other missionaries. 
The same principle ap-
plies to many among the higher classes of 
China, 
Japan, and other eastern countries; wherever, in 
fact, Buddhism prevails. 
This article, 1 fear, is already too long, but begging 
forbearance for a few moments longer, I wish merely 
to call attention to the fact that, however much medi-
cal missionaries are needed in foreign countries, an 
equal need for medical missionary work confronts us 
on every hand. 
In our own land there are thousands 
upon thousands, we might even say millions, who 
from a health stand point, are the most benighted of 
heathen, and in their daily life depart far more widely 
from the requirements of nature, as regards the phys-
ical care of the body, than do most people living in 
a state of barbarism. 
In every city, village, and 
town of this great country, there is a field for medi-
cal missionary work, tho beneficent results of which 
can scarcely be estimated 
Various philanthropic 
organizations, including other denominations 
than 
our own, are making some efforts for the relief and 
rescue of those who through ignorance are suffering 
the pangs of disease, and falling into 
premature 
graves. 
By every wayside are those who have fallen 
among thieves (bad habits, patent medicines, insani-
tary conditions, etc.), and have been sorely wounded. 
Let us consider seriously whether we are acting the 
part of the Pharisee or of the good Samaritan. 
The 
Pharisee was doubtless better prepared to afford the 
necessary relief to the poor fellow by the wayside, 
had he been so inclined, than was the good Samaritan. 
But he, perhaps, considered that he had a higher 
mission somewhere else, or that his time was too 
precious to be expended in such a common-place way. 
Is it not possible that some of us are making the same 
mistake that the Pharisee made? 
Let us think seri-
ously of this question, and let us remember that the 
work of contributing to thephysical well bring of our 
fellow men, and of alleviating suffering and affording 
relief from disease, is a work which was made noble 
and glorious by the example of our Saviour 
while 
here on earth. 
Christ's mission was one of physical, 
as well as moral, redemption. 
Why should not ours 
be likewise ? 
And 
finally 
let 
us inquire, 
What 
means could be more successful in winning souls to 
Christ than an effort which, while bringing relief and 
comfort to the pain-racked body, points a chastened 
and broken spirit to the great Physician who can 
heal both soul and body ? 
J. H. 
KELLOGG. 
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MISSIONARY. 
THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, 
WE present on this page a diagram, exhibiting the 
actual and relative population of the earth, classified 
according to religion. 
This diagram is worthy of 
a careful study. 
Each square represents one million 
souls. 
Some of these figures are of course approxi-
mate, and a few changes have taken place since the 
cut from which this diagram is printed was made, 
but they are slight and unimportant, as far as the 
main lesson taught by the diagram is concerned. 
It is difficult to comprehend these 
figures. 
We 
could put Chicago with its suburbs into one of these 
squares, and have room left; while New York City 
and its suburbs would go into two squares. 
We might cut off sixty squares from the bot-
tom of the diagram, and hardly miss them, 
and yet that would take out the entire pop-
ulation of the United States. 
We 
might 
draw 
many 
interesting 
comparisons, 
but 
have not the space in this article. The one 
white square in the center of the black, in-
dicates the entire number of converts from 
heathenism since the missionary work was 
first commenced. 
But during that time the 
heathen and Mohammedan population has 
increased 200,000,000, two hundred times as 
many as the conversions from their ranks 
to Christianity. 
But let us analyze the 415-
000,000 Christians. 
Among them we find 
195,000,000 Boman Catholics, who put the 
church and the pope in the place of Christ, 
prohibit the Bible from the people, and prac-
tice idolatry in the worship of Mary and'the 
saints. 
Shall we 
class them among true 
Christians ? 
We all say, no ! 
Neither can 
we include the Greek and oriental churches 
with their 85,000,000 formal adherents, gov-
erned by political power. 
So we will have 
to come down to the 135,000,000 Protest-
ants, upon whose progress the greatest stress 
is laid by those who are advocating the idea 
of the speedy conversion of the world, and 
the ushering in of the soon coming millen-
ium. 
Where 
are 
they? 
Echo 
answers, 
Where? 
We take 
the entire number 
of 
Baptists, Congregationalists, 
Presbyterians, 
Moravians, Methodists, and other denomin-
ations in the United States, Great Britain, 
and Europe, and we have only 15,19H,193. 
Then 
we take the total population of the 
Church of England, 21,000,000, and 47,451,-
136 Lutherans, and wo have a total of 83,-
647,329. 
Where are the rest to come from ? 
We must take in 34,157,000 of the 
nominal 
Christians of the United States, Great Brit-
ain, Germany, 
Holland, and 
Switzerland, 
who do not belong to any church, and the 
entire 
population 
of 
Australia. Yan 
Die-
men's Land and New Zealand, Canada and 
Madagascar, 7,000,000 more, and still we lack 
over 10,000,000 which must come from somewhere, 
even imagination fails to tell us where, in order to 
make up the 135,000,000 Protestants. 
As an illus-
tration of the consecration of this mass of Protest-
ants to foreign mission work, we find that for home 
and foreign missions combined they only pay $5,500,-
000 per year, or less than five cents each, while the 
amount paid for kid gloves is over $25,000,000. 
How 
long at this rate would it take to convert the world ? 
Brethren and sisters, we need to arouse to a sense of 
the situation. 
What are we as a denomination, who 
claim to be looking for the soon coming of Christ, 
doing towards carrying the gospel to these millions 
who are in darkness? 
Shall we be clear if we fail 
to do our part in preparing them for the judgment ? 
Bead Eze. 3 : 18. 
L. C. C. 
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121 
STUDY THE FIELD. 
IT is very natural for us to have our ideas of the 
work of God limited to the narrow field of our own 
acquaintance or observation. 
I have had the privi-
lege of attending general meetings in several different 
States within the last few weeks, and I find every-
where I go that there is need of more general infor-
mation among our people about the work at large, in 
the great harvest field which is open before us. 
It 
is an easy matter to convince our brethren that the 
work in their own State is a very large and impor-
tant one, and awaken a deep interest in their minds 
to do more for its advancement; but when we come 
to talk with them about foreign mission work, or the 
needs of the field outside of their own immediate ter-
ritory, they have but little knowledge of it, and it is 
difficult to awaken an interest. 
I do not speak of 
this condition of things to criticize, but to try to 
awaken our readers to a sense of the responsibility 
that God places on us as individuals, and to stimulate 
in the minds of some, at least, a desire to study the 
situation more thoroughly. 
Wherever I have been 
and talked about the magnitude of the field and the 
need of laborers and means, I find many who desire 
to know more about the work, and this has prompted 
me to take a page in this number of the HOME MIS-
SIONARY to refer you to some small cheap works 
which you could purchase and study with profit. 
We have called attention in the 
past to 
the 
"Sketches" of our own foreign missions, and pre-
sume nearly all of our people are supplied with 
them. 
But our study of foreign missions is only 
just begun when we have read that book. 
If you 
will study carefully the diagram on page 120 of this 
paper, you will see that there is a field open before 
us which we have never explored or even entered 
yet, except with reading matter. 
As a people, we 
know but little about it. 
Where shall we procure 
the information ? 
First, I will mention a book of 430 pages, which 
contains much valuable information, and which is 
within the reach of all. 
It is the " Missionary Year 
Book" for the years 1889-90, containing historical 
and statistical accounts of the principal Protestant 
missionary societies in America, Great Britain, and 
the continent of Europe. 
It is well bound in cloth, 
with silver title. 
Price $1.25 post-paid. 
There is 
much that I might say in favor of this book, but I 
will simply say that I do not believe any one who 
secures it and studies it, will ever regret the small 
investment made. 
"Light in Lands of Darkness" is another book 
which should be in every home. 
It has 426 pages, 
and contains a record of missionary labor among 
Green landers, Eskimos, Patagonians, Syrians, Arme-
nians, Nestorians, Persians, Egyptians, and Jews. 
It 
is bound in cloth with gilt stamp, illustrated, and a 
valuable book of information. 
Price $2.00, but we 
have made arrangements so that we can furnish them 
at |1.25 post-paid. 
" The Beport of the Missionary Conference in Lon-
don," in two volumes, cloth binding, with 1,184 pages 
in both volumes, contains the report of the Centenary 
Conference on Protestant Missions of the World, held 
in Exeter Hall, London, June 9-19, 1888. 
A vast 
amount of information about foreign mission 
work 
can be secured from these books, and the contents are 
arranged in such a way as to be easily referred to for 
information upon any desired subject. 
Price of the 
two volumes $2.00 post-paid. 
Any or all of the above-mentioned books may be 
ordered of the International Tract Society, Battle 
Creek, Mich., and will be sent promptly on receipt of 
prices mentioned. 
We shall hope to see the orders 
coming in rapidly ; not because we are specially inter-
ested in the sale of the books, but because we desire 
to have our people all over the field adopting some 
systematic method of securing information about the 
present needs of the world, the work that is being 
accomplished 
by other 
denominations, 
and 
that 
might be started and carried forward by Seventh-day 
Adventists, if we only saw the importance of it, and 
began to develop men and women for that class of 
labor. 
1 know that many say " I have not time to read." 
Take time. 
I do not believe many of our people are 
more crowded with work than some,of us who are 
connected with the work of the International So 
ciety, and we are taking two hours every day for a 
systematic course of study upon these questions, and 
find it to be time very profitably spent. 
Secure the 
books, dear fellow-workers, and set apart one hour 
or more each day to study upon this important sub-
ject. 
It would be an excellent idea for each church to 
secure a small library of books on foreign mission 
work, and the lives of some of the prominent per-
sons who have been engaged in it. 
You can make 
up from $10.00 to $25.00 worth as you feel able to 
start with, and if you will correspond with the In-
ternational Tract Society, we will be glad to make 
out special lists of books for you to select from in 
commencing your studies, according to the amount 
you desire to invest. 
L. c. c. 
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Extract? ffon) Corre5poi)der)ce. 
OUR readers will see by referring to our monthly 
reports on the last page of each number of the HOME 
MISSIONARY that 
our 
secretaries are doing a very 
large correspondence. 
This requires a large amount 
of work, and as the result of it we are receiving some 
very encouraging replies. 
We have recently issued 
in form of a circular some extracts from letters re-
ceived and sent out to all ministers and directors, 
asking them to read the extracts to the missionary 
workers in the churches where they visit. 
We have 
also decided to devote one page of the HOME MIS-
SIONARY permanently to short extracts. 
We do this 
in order that our readers may see a very little at 
least of what is being accomplished by our correspond-
ence, and that all may see that the plan of missionary 
correspondence is not a failure. 
From the secretary of the Young Men's Christian 
Association at Bridgetown, Barbados, W. I.: — 
" I have to thank your society very much for for-
warding to our association a package of your pub-
lications, which were much appreciated. 
We shall be 
very much pleased indeed to receive further supplies 
from you for our reading-room." 
From a minister : — 
"I embrace this hurried opportunity of thanking 
you for the very interesting literature sent me from 
time to time, and must acknowledge that not only 
myself but others 
have 
been 
benefited by 
it. 
I 
find that new light has been communicated to me. 
1 shall continue to 
hand 
it 
over 
to 
others 
as 
heretofore, 
and 
trust 
that 
it 
may 
continue 
to 
bring out to us those things which seemed hid to 
our 
spiritual vision. 
Praying 
God's 
blessing 
on 
your work, I remain." 
"P. 
S. 
I inclose 
half a 
dozen 
names of persons who I believe feel inter-
ested, and would like to have some of the same 
literature." 
The American Consul at Ningpo, China, writes a 
very interesting letter about the condition 
of the 
missionary work there, and gives a full account of a 
conference of all the mission workers of different de-
nominations, to consider the question, " Which will 
do the most for the enlightenment of the Chinamen, 
the translation of the Bible into Chinese characters 
or into Roman 
letters?" 
He 
has subscribed 
for 
Good Health for a year, and is very willing to assist 
in our work. 
A gentleman on the island of St, Kitts writes : — 
" Having had the pleasure of reading some of your 
health and temperance and religious publications, I 
cannot refrain from admitting my highest apprecia-
tion of the same, and frankly say that I have been 
greatly 
benefited thereby. 
Feeling 
deeply 
inter-
ested in such literature, I shall be exceedingly glad 
to receive some monthly, for my own personal read-
ing, as well as a few copies for distribution to some 
friends." 
Capt. Fawcett, who has charge of over three hun-
dred men on the island of Sombrero, and with whom 
an interesting correspondence has been 
conducted, 
writes in his last letter : — 
"I 
am very thankful for yours of the 11th, and 
beg 
thankfully to acknowledge 
receipt of 
papers, 
tracts, and pamphlets, and two bound volumes, all of 
which are much appreciated by myself and the men 
under my charge, and am glad to say that the im-
provement in the ways and manners of the people 
is very marked. 
With every best wish that your 
society may be prospered in the good work you are 
endeavoring to accomplish, I am yours sincerely." 
From a gentleman in St. Croix : — 
" I take my pen with the greatest heartfelt feel-
ings, to return you many thanks for your little 
but 
great tracts, and other papers which I have read with 
great satisfaction." 
From the island of Antigua : — 
" Allow me to acknowledge the receipt of your let-
ters and parcels. 
Please accept my thanks for the 
interest you have taken in favoring us with such 
timely information conducive to our moral, social, 
intellectual, 
and 
spiritual interests; 
the 
intrinsic 
value of which is highly appreciated. 
The tracts 
were 
received 
as a thirsty 
land 
receives 
water. 
Our island contains 108 square miles, a population 
of 
nearly 40,000 
inhabitants, 
with 
no 
less 
than 
thirty-six places of worship of different Protestant 
denominations. 
There is much to be regretted in 
the present method of teaching the truths of the 
gospel, judging from the evidence of the moral and 
spiritual life in practice. 
It seems the truth is too 
much 
filtered 
through pecuniary bags, and has be-
come as milk through 
charcoal bags. 
In a great 
many houses there are Bibles, and yet the masses 
are passing from time into eternity totally ignorant 
of Bible doctrines. 
Your benevolence is accepted 
with as much gratitude as when the Master unso-
licitedly healed the sick, fed the hungry, and raised 
the dead. 
The 'Signs of the Times,' 'Is the End 
Near?' ' Present Truth,' in fact the whole selection 
of social, moral, and spiritual 
literature, 
seem 
to 
be well directed. 
God grant success. 
1 am 
now 
engaged in getting as many young ladies as possi-
ble to purchase 'Social Purity' and 'Talks to Girls,' 
and as soon as I learn the expense of them from you, 
will send an order." 
From an editor : — 
" Your esteemed favor is at hand. 
As you suggest, 
the efforts being made by the 
Woman's 
Christian 
Temperance Union, and kindred associations for the 
overthrow of civil and religious liberty in this coun-
try, should be fully exposed. 
We shall be pleased 
to receive as many copies of the American 
Sentinel 
as you may favor us with, and place it on our ex-
change list. 
We shall also second, to the best of our 
humble ability, your efforts to make public the con-
templated subversion of popular rights." 
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123 
Tbe Children Pa^e. 
WE hope that the older ones will do all they can to help make this 
page a profitable one for the children. 
In some schools it may be best 
to have the article read in place of the general exercises of the children's 
division. 
In others it may be better to have it read to the children while 
the fourth-Sabbath reading is being read to the older ones. 
In every 
case the children should be by themselves, even though it may be in one 
corner of the same room. 
Let such ones be chosen to arrange the matter 
as will best adapt themselves to the circumstances. 
• 
DEAR CHILDREN : 
— 
I suppose that you all have a map of the'world in 
your Sabbath-school, and I want you to ask your 
teacher to show 37ou where Africa is, which direc-
tion it is from your home, and how far it is, and 
then you will understand better what I am going to 
say to you. 
This great country, as you will see on 
the map, is almost surrounded by water, and now 
that a canal has been dug through the Isthmus of 
Suez, vessels can 6ail clear around it. 
Those of us who live in the United States, think 
that our country is a very large country, and so it 
is. 
(See map.) 
But Africa has more people in it 
than three countries like ours. 
Then there is an-
other difference. 
Wherever we go in our country, 
we find churches and schools, and in every neigh-
borhood there are some good people who are Chris-
tians, and who are trying to live as our Saviour 
did when he was here upon the earth. 
But it is 
not so in Africa. 
More than three-fourths of all 
the people in Africa are heathen. 
How many of 
you know what a heathen is? 
Well, a heathen is 
a person who does not believe in the true God — 
one who has never learned about God. 
The hea-
then make gods out of wood and stone, and bow 
down 
and worship them as we worship the true 
God. 
Many of the gods which they make are very 
ugly looking. 
This shows that they do not even 
think of God as being kind and loving and merciful, 
as we do, but they picture him as being cruel and 
ugly, and so make for their god an image that looks 
as they imagine God is. 
How thankful we ought to 
be that we have been brought up in a land where we 
have learned about the true God, and have such kind 
teachers to tell us about Jesus and his love for us ! 
Away up in the northeastern pai't of Africa is a 
small country called Egypt. 
Your teacher can show 
you just where it is. 
Then joining Egypt, over in 
the edge of Asia, is the land of Judea. 
About 1,900 
years ago there was a wicked king in Judea named 
Herod. 
While he was king of that land, our Sav-
iour was born in Bethlehem, a little village in Judea. 
He was called Jesus. 
Wicked King Herod 
was 
angry and very much troubled because the people 
sought for Jesus and said he was to be king of the 
Jews, so he itiade up his mind to kill the Saviour. 
How 
do you suppose he undertook to do 
this? 
Some of you know. 
He had every child in Bethle-
hem that was two years old or less, killed, so that he 
would be sure to have Jesus killed. 
But God sent an 
angel to the parents of Jesus, and told them to take 
him and fly into Egypt, and stay there till he should 
send them word to come back. 
They did so, and 
thus the life of Jesus was spared from the anger of 
wicked King Herod. 
Jesus and his parents stayed 
in Egypt till Herod died, and then an angel of God 
appeared to them again, and told them to go back to 
the land of Israel. 
Now, where was it they fled to save tho life of 
Jesus ?—Into Egypt, 
Where is Egypt ?— In Africa. 
What kind of people live in Africa to-day ? — Nearly 
all heathen, who do not know about God or Christ.. 
Ought not we who do know about God, and Christ 
who died for all, to be anxious to do every thing we can 
to tell these poor heathen about them too? 
There 
are many good peoplo of other Christian churches 
who have gone to Africa and given their lives to the 
work of telling the heathen about Christ. 
Let us 
also, old and young, be willing to give our means, or 
our lives if necessary, for this work. 
Is it not strange to think that in the very country 
where the Saviour was taken when he was a little 
child to keep him from being killed by wicked King 
Herod, there are only a very few Christians now ? 
Suppose some one should come to you and tell you 
about some good man who, when he was a little 
child, lived where you do; would you not feol an 
interest in him at once? 
So we can go to these poor 
heathen and tell them about Jesus, and that when 
he was a little child he was in their own country, 
and then tell them how God sent an angel to keep 
him from being killed, and how he grew up to be 
kind and gentle, and how he healed the sick and re-
lieved the suffering, and finally gave his own life so 
that we might all have life at last. 
Let us thank 
God, children, that we all have learned about Jesus, 
and let our hearts go out in sympathy to those poor 
children in Africa and other countries, who are being 
brought up without this knowledge. 
AMELIA 
COOK. 
[ We hope that the teachers will do all they can by use of the 
map of the United States and the world to show the children the 
comparative size of the two countries, and the location of the places 
named in the Bible record where Joseph and Mary took the Sav-
iour on their way into Egypt, etc. — EDITOR.] 
124 
THE HOME 
MISSIONARY. 
FOREIGN 
MISSIONS. 
CONDUCTED BY W. C. WHITE. 
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 
THE Argentine Republic has fourteen 
provinces 
and several territories, with a total area of 1,094,969 
square miles, and a population of a little more 
uhan 
3,000,000. 
In 1515 Juan Diaz de Solis, a Spanish navigator, 
while searching for a passage into the Great South 
Sea, discovered the Rio de la Plata. 
In 1535 a Span-
ish colony was founded at Buenos Ayres. In time, 
other cities were planted, partly by colonists from 
Spain, and partly by adventurers from Peru. The 
country, which at first was regarded as a part of 
Peru, was made a vice-royalty in 1776. It then 
embraced the countries now known as Argentine 
Republic, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay, and bore 
the name of Buenos Ayres. 
In 1810 Buenos Ayres threw off the Spanish yoke, 
and after two years of war secured independence. 
In 1813 an army was sent into Chili to aid in driv-
ing the Spaniards from that province, and Peru was 
also assisted in securing her independence, which 
was accomplished in 1821. 
In 1816 the new republic took the name of " The 
United Provinces of La Plata." 
In 1826 La Plata 
became involved in a war with Brazil, during which a 
revolution broke out, and the confederation was dis-
solved, and in 1827 the provinces returned to a state 
•of isolation. 
In 1831 the Argentine Republic was formed by the 
confederation of the provinces of Buenos Ayres, Cor-
rientes, Entre Rios, and Santa Fe. 
Soon other prov-
inces joined the confederation. 
In 1852 Buenos Ayres withdrew from the union, 
and established an independent government till 1871, 
when its army defeated the forces of the confedera-
tion. 
This was followed by a remodeling of the con-
federation, with Buenos Ayres as the principal State, 
and the adoption of a new constitution. 
"The president and vice president (who must be 
Roman Catholics and of Argentine birth), are elected 
for six years, and there are five secretaries of State ; 
one each for the interior, foreign affairs, finance, war, 
and justice. 
"The provinces are States with separate legis-
latures and elective governors, renewed every three 
years. 
They are almost entirely independent of 
Congress, which confines itself to national affairs. 
The government of the territories is administered 
by the president and his secretaries. 
" The Congress is composed of thirty senators and 
eighty-six deputies. 
The legislature of each province 
elects two senators for nine years, and the capital 
also elects two. 
Each senator must have an income 
of $500, and have been a citizen for six years, and 
be at least thirty years of age. 
The deputies are 
elected by the people for four years. 
Each deputy 
must be at least twenty-one years of age. Th~ 
deputies and senators receive each $5,000 a year, 
the 
president 
$30,000 a year, the 
vice-president 
$15,000 a year. 
, 
" The constitution recognizes the Roman Catholic 
religion as that of the State, but all other creeds 
are tolerated. 
The Roman Catholics are under the 
oversight of one arch-bishop and four suffragan 
bishops. 
" The capital of the republic is Buenos Ayres, with 
a population of over 400,000. 
Other towns are Cor-
dova, with a population of 50,000 ; Rosario, 42,000 ; 
Tucuman, 27,000 ; Mendoza, 19,000 ; Corrientes, 16,-
000. 
The population is greatly increased each year 
by immigration from Europe." 
It is the policy of the Argentine Republic to en-
courage immigration, and each year many thousands 
from Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy go 
there as laborers, and. to find homes, and to establish 
themselves in business. 
In 1887 we saw hundreds of Germans and Swiss 
at Basel, going on board of the special trains, which 
were run weekly by the Transatlantique Steamship 
Company to gather up emigrants. 
Upon inquiry 
we found that fully three-fourths of those we saw 
were going to South America, and a large percentage 
to Argentine Republic. 
The expense and the anxi-
eties of the trip were reduced to a minimum, the 
emigrant paying twenty-five or thirty dollars for his 
passage, including board from the point where he 
takes the train to his landing-place in the new world. 
In most of the cities of Argentine, large numbers 
of German and French speaking people are to be 
found, and there are some large communities of 
Germans along the coast. 
The English and Ameri-
cans are not so numerous, yet much British capital 
is invested in business, and in all the leading towns 
English speaking people are to be found. 
Protestant missionaries in this country labor un-
der many difficulties, from the restrictive laws of 
the government and the opposition of the Catholic 
clergy. 
The South American Missionary Society of 
England, after several heroic but disheartening at-
tempts to plant the cross of Christ in Terra del 
Fuego, have succeeded in establishing a Christian 
church and school; and there is now a life-saving 
station for shipwrecked mariners among the people, 
who before their conversion were known " as among 
the most degraded of all heathen people, and given 
up to every vice and abomination." 
In 1864 this society established a system of chap-
laincies, of which six are now maintained. 
Clergy-
men and lay agents were sent to different points to 
minister principally to their fellow-countrymen. 
" The establishment of these chaplaincies was at 
first very much opposed by the Roman Catholic au-
thorities. 
At Lota a'n attempt was made to burn 
down a room which had been procured to serve as a 
church and school. At Santiago every window in 
THE HOME MISSION A R Y. 
125 
the first Protestant church was broken ; and, gen-
erally speaking, the laws of the State were adverse 
to the work of the society. 
Now, however, through 
the dissemination of juster notions of truth and free-
dom, religious toleration exists in every State in 
South America, with the exception of Peru. 
" The society's chaplains are, however, strictly en-
joined not to be aggressive, or to court controversy, 
but to be open to all inquiries after truth." 
The Methodist Episcopal Church of the United 
States also maintains a mission in Argentine. 
For several years there has been a small company 
of Seventh day Adventists in Argentine, who have 
been pleading that a minister be sent to labor among 
them. 
They are French Swiss, who received their 
views of the Sabbath and the Advent in the follow-
ing singular manner : 
Some years ago a small com-
pany were baptized in Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland ; 
and this unusual occurrence was reported as an item 
of news in a secular paper. 
This item was copied by 
a French Baptist journal, a copy of which, falling 
into the hands of our Swiss friends in Argentine, so 
aroused their curiosity as to what doctrines were 
held by Seventh-day Adventists, that they sent for 
publications, and through reading became convinced 
of the truthfulness of the views advocated. 
There is a broad field for self-supporting missiona-
ries in Argentine. 
In a country where so many 
languages are spoken, there is a large demand for 
private teachers for the English, German, and French 
languages. 
The teacher has an excellent opportu-
nity to be a missionary, and can reach those who 
would never come to a Protestant meeting. 
BRAZIL. 
BRAZIL is the largest and most important State in 
South America. 
Its length from north to south is 
about 2,600 miles, and its breadth is 2,470 miles. 
Its area is 3,287,973 square miles, and its popula-
tion about 13,000,000. 
In 1499 a companion of Columbus sailed along the 
coast from the Amazon to the Orinoco, but no settle-
ment was made till the following year, when Pedro 
Alvarez de Cabral, sent out by Portugal to continue 
the discoveries already begun in the West Indies, 
being driven out of his course by adverse winds, 
discovered the shores of Brazil, and on the 2.5th of 
April anchored in a commodious harbor, which he 
named Porto Seguro. 
He took possession of the 
country in the name of the king of Portugal, and 
sending back a vessel with the news of his discovery, 
continued his voyage to the West Indies. 
Upon learning of Cabral's discovery, the king of 
Portugal sent an expedition under Amerigo "Vespucci 
to oxplore the new country. 
He brought back a 
cargo of dye goods, and reported that there were 
large forests of the same in Brazil. 
A profitable 
trade in those woods sprung up, and other nations 
taking part in the trade, the king in order to check 
this intrusion planted a number of colonies on the 
Brazilian coast. 
These colonies, encouraged by King Joam III., in 
1531 were called Capitanias. 
They were founded by 
Portuguese nobles, to whom the king granted abso-
lute power, oh the condition that they should bear 
the expense of colonization. 
As 
might 
be 
ex-
pected, trouble ensued ; and in 1549 a governor-gen-
eral was appointed, having unlimited power of juris-
diction, both civil and criminal. 
The annexation of Portugal to Spain by Philip II., 
in 1580, resulted in many misfortunes to Brazil; for 
the enemies of Spain, of which it was now a depend-
ency, coveted this rich province, and the settlements 
of Brazil were repeatedly attacked and plundered by 
the French, English, and Dutch. 
In 1640, the independence of Portugal having been 
restored, Brazil was raised to a principality, and the 
heir to the throne of Portugal was called the Prince 
of Brazil. 
From this time the Province prospered 
steadily. 
In 1696 gold was discovered, and not long 
after this, diamonds were found. 
These discoveries 
greatly increased the wealth of the country, which 
was already prosperous through agriculture. 
In 
1807, when Napoleon sent an army against Portu-
gal, the regent, who was afterwards King 
Joam 
VI., fled to Brazil, accompanied by the royal family 
and the court. 
This was a great gain to Brazil, 
which then threw open its ports to all the world, 
and invited trade from all nations. 
When Napoleon was overthrown in 1815, Brazil 
was made a kingdom ; and when in the following 
year Joam YI. came to the throne, he took the title 
of King of Portugal, Algarve, and Brazil, and con-
tinued to reside in Brazil. 
In 1821 he returned to 
Portugal, leaving his son, Prince Pedro, as Regent 
of Brazil. 
Very soon a revolutionary movement be-
gan, and in 1822 Brazil was declared an independent 
empire. 
At the death of Joam VI., in 1826, Dom Pedro be-
came king of Portugal; but he preferred his western 
empire, and gave the crown of Portugal to his 
daughter, Dona Maria da Gloria. 
In 1831 Pedro I., to end a long dispute with the 
Chamber of Deputies, abdicated the throne in favor 
of his son, Pedro II., who was then but six years old. 
A council of regency administered the government 
till 1841, when Pedro II. was declared of age, and 
began the long and peaceful reign which ended so 
suddenly. Nov. 15, 1889. 
During the forty-eight 
years of Dom Pedro's reign, Brazil advanced steadily 
in prosperity and civilization. 
In 1853, the importa-
tion of slaves was stopped, and in 1871 a law was 
passed which provided for the emancipation of all 
the slaves in the empire. 
The children of slave 
parents and all slaves owned by the emperor and 
the State, were to be free from the date of the act. 
The others, numbering more than a million, 
were 
emancipated by a gradual process covering a period 
of seventeen years. 
Dom Pedro 11. was a wise and liberal ruler, al-
ways considering the welfare of his peoplo, and de-
siring to make them happy ; but his daughter, the 
Crown Princess, was of a different disposition. 
She 
was a zealous Catholic, and never lost an opportu-
nity to favor the cause of the Jesuits in their opposi-
tion to the liberal party and to progress. 
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THE HOME 
MISSIONARY. 
The Brazilians are very democratic in character ; 
and becoming alarmed at the increasing power of 
the Crown Princess, the popular leaders determined 
to banish the royal family, and establish a republic. 
So well were their plans laid, and so popular was the 
movement, that the revolution was effected without 
bloodshed. 
On Friday, the 15th of November, a deputation 
informed the emperor that he had been dethroned, 
and that the Republic of the United States of Bra-
zil had been proclaimed. 
He refused to abdicate, 
but was at once put on board a steamship and trans-
ported to Portugal. 
Of his misfortunes a recent 
writer says : — 
"All his efforts, his goodness, his greatness, are 
forgotten, and he and his family are shipped to Por-
tugal with hardly more ceremony than attends the 
transportation of convicts ; and to add to his sorrows, 
his loved wife dies in exile. 
History does not record 
a stronger picture of the vanity of human wishes, of 
the ingratitude of nations, of the emptiness of royal 
pomp." 
The population of Brazil presents a number of dis-
tinct types, and many varieties blended therefrom. 
In the eastern provinces, the Indians have to a great 
extent become amalgamated with the settled popula-
tion ; but in the great forests and plains of the inte-
rior, they are nearly all in a savage condition. 
It is 
estimated that one-third of the total population are 
Europeans, and the others are mulattoes, half-castes, 
negroes, and Indians. 
" The climate of this immense country is naturally 
widely varied. 
In the northern lowlands, between 
the tropics, it is very hot, with but two seasons in 
the year, the dry and the wet. 
In the higher lands 
it is milder, and in the extreme south the four sea-
sons are tolerably well marked. 
The wet season 
lasts from December or January until May or June, 
with occasional intervals of fine weather. 
The other 
half of the year is dry, but not without occasional 
showers. 
The amount of water in the wet season is 
enormous, often producing a rise of forty feet in the 
great rivers, and heavy rains are accompanied with 
abundant lightning and thunder. 
At Maranhao the 
annual rainfall has been as high as two hundred and 
eighty inches, while at Rio Janeiro it is but fifty or 
sixty inches. 
Temperature is remarkably even, par-
ticularly in the Amazon basin." 
To a great extent the immense territory of Brazil 
is Bt.il 1 undeveloped. 
It is estimated that but one out 
of every two hundred acres capable of cultivation is 
now in use. 
The following statistics relative to the progress of 
missions in Brazil are copied from the Evangelical 
Year Book: — 
Presbyterian Synod. — 63 churches, 32 ministers, 
of whom 12 are natives, 3 licentiates, 7 candidates, 
2,966 members, and 13 schools. 
Methodist Episcopal Church.—346 
members, 7 
ordained ministers, 6 candidates for ordination, 3 lo-
cal preachers, 20 preaching places, 2 schools, and 4 
foreign missionary lady-teachers. 
Baptist 
Church. — 5 churches, 241 members, 12 
male and female missionaries, and 3 native preachers. 
Bishop Taylor has four laborers in Pai'a, Pernam-
buco, and Maranhao. 
The churches organized by the 
late Dr. Kalley are three in number, having a mem-
bership of about 250 believers. 
There are five evan 
gelical papers, and two agencies of Bible fcocieties. 
Thirty years ago there were hardly any native Chris-
tians in Brazil. 
These figures are the best answer to 
those who regard missions a failure. 
A LETTER FROM PERNAMBUCO. 
FROM a lengthy and interesting letter to the Mis-
sionary Review, by George B. Nind, a self-supporting 
missionary in Pernambuco, we extract the following, 
which will be read with interest:— 
" However high may be the standard of morals of 
the Roman Church, her practices have so nullified ber 
precepts that in Brazil morality seems to form no 
part of religion. 
Morality separate from religion is 
a frail bark on the swiftly-flowing current of sin, and 
religion without morality is a vehicle for hypocrisy 
to ride in. 
" From this separation of religion and morals arises 
one of the chief difficulties for the gospel to overcome. 
Romanism answers the purpose of those who desire 
to be religious without interfering with their morals ; 
and those who disregard religion are not susceptible 
to appeals for morality through religion. 
Hence it 
is that while there are many people who have prac 
tically renounced Romanism because of its being 
found wanting, and not because of something better 
having been presented to them, it is hard now to 
make them desire religion of any kind ; and since 
they will not see it, we must devise methods to more 
fully carry out Christ's word, ' Go.' 
We hold our 
services in private houses, halls, and small churches. 
Occasionally a passer-by is attracted by the siuging, 
and enters shyly. 
He hears the word of God read 
or proclaimed. 
Perchance his heart is prepared by 
grace to receive the word, and he at length becomes 
a member of the church. 
But oh ! the many who 
never come to hear of Jesus. 
We go in private to 
this one and that; but the masses are not reached. 
Street preaching is prohibited by law. 
The colport-
ers of various Bible societies have planted the word 
in many parts of the country ; but, except in the prin-
cipal cities, no missionary Apollos has entered. 
" There are several things that lead me to advo-
cate 4 self-support' as the most feasible basis for mis-
sionary work in Brazil. 
First, it is possible. 
I con-
sider that the obligation to support me rests no more 
upon the whole church than upon the individual mem 
bers of it, of which I am one, and therefore, it being 
possible for me to support myself and serve my Mas-
ter as a missionary, 1 am compelled to do it. 
To live 
on the charity of others when God puts it within my 
power to provide for myself, would be inconsistent 
and insincere. 
In so saying, I am not accusing any 
one who does not support himself. 
The question 
turns upon the possibility of supporting one's self 
and fulfilling one's obligations as missionary at the 
same time. 
It has been said that if a missionary has 
to take time to earn his own living, he cannot do as 
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127 
much missionary work as if he were free from all care 
as to his income. 
I will not dispute that point in 
this paper ; but it must be granted that whatever 
missionary work is done by a self-supporting mission-
ary in a foreign field is just so much more than would 
be done if he stayed at home for the want of a salary. 
Let the churches in the home lands support as many 
missionaries as they can,— as many as need to be 
supported,— and let as many go forth as are willing 
to support themselves, and yet the laborers will be 
inadequate to the work to be done. 
" A self-supporting missionary in Brazil is bound 
to have the respect of the general public when it 
would not be given to another, for two reasons; 
first, 
because his occupation brings him into con-
stant contact with the people, and lack of respect 
for a missionary is in most cases due to lack 
of 
acquaintance with him; 
and second, because the 
Brazilian looks with suspicion upon anything that 
may be propagandism for the sake of the money 
there is in it. 
Their own experience with priest-
craft and the Jesuits has made it so. 
Only recently 
a gentleman who comes to our meetings told me that 
the vicar of a certain important parish in this city 
had told him that he is a priest because his father 
had educated him for one, and although he does not 
believe in half that Bomanism teaches, he remains 
a priest because it is his occupation. 
Is it at all 
unreasonable that a Protestant missionary, against 
whom Romanists are already prejudiced, and who 
lives in better style than their own priests, should 
be suspected of being what he is for the sake of 
what he is paid? 
" Up to the present, the best resource for self-sup-
port in Brazil seems to be that which arises from the 
demand for private tutorage in various branches of 
learning, and particularly in the English language. 
There are always to be found people of too liberal 
ideas to be governed in matters of business and sec-
ular education by religious prejudices, while many 
most unyielding Romanists do not hesitate to em-
ploy us rather than not receive instruction on a par 
with that of their neighbors. 
In choosing this occu-
pation, we are not obliged to take upon ourselves any 
more work than is necessary for our support, or any 
that interferes with our gospel work. 
We invite our 
pupils to our meetings ; some of them become regular 
attendants, and a few have been converted." 
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN BRAZIL. 
ON Jan. 7, 1890, the Provisional Government of 
Brazil issued the following decree relative to church 
establishment: — 
"ARTICLE 
I. 
" The Federal authorities, as well as the different 
Confederate States, are prohibited from making laws, 
rules, regulations, or any administrative acts estab-
lishing a religion. 
"ARTICLE 
II. 
" To all people is given the privilege of exercising 
their religious cults in accordance with their belief, 
and they are not to be interrupted or disturbed in 
such devotions, either private or public, which belong 
to this privilege. 
"ARTICLE 
III. 
• 
"This liberty not only embraces individuals in 
their individual 
acts, but also churches, associa-
tions, and institutions in which they are employed, 
all having full right to unite themselves and live in 
accordance with 
their creed without interference 
from the public powers. 
"ARTICLE 
IV. 
" Patronage, resources, and prerogatives of all re-
ligious institutions are hereby extinguished. 
"ARTICLE 
V. 
" The right is recognized of all churches and re-
ligious orders to acquire and administer estates under 
limits made by the laws concerning corporations, 
granting to each one the right to ownership in prop-
erty, as well as the use of the building for worship. 
"ARTICLE 
VI. 
" The Federal Government will continue to furnish 
ecclesiastical revenue and support for the actual per-
sonnel of the Catholic Church, and in other institu-
tions will subsidize for one year the professorships 
in the seminaries, it being at the option of each 
State to recognize in the future the ministers of 
this or any other religion where they do not run 
contrary to the preceding articles of this decree. 
"ARTICLE 
VII. 
"All acts to the contrary are hereby revoked." — 
Brazilian 
Missions. 
ARGENTINE AND BRAZIL. 
1. WHAT is the language of Argentine ? 
2. What is the number of its people? 
3. What is the form of its government ? 
4. What is the State religion ? 
5. To what extent are other religions tolerated ? 
6. Tell us something of the missionary work done 
in Argentine. 
7. Name some of the best openings for missionary 
work there. 
8. What was the form of government in Brazil 
until a few months ago ? 
9. What was the character of the late emperor? 
10. Why was he dethroned and banished? 
11. What is the new government called ? 
12. What is its attitude regarding religious free-
dom ? 
13. What is the language of the Brazilians? 
14. How many millions do they number? 
15. Tell us about their composition and character-
istics. 
16. What progress have Protestant missions made 
in Brazil? 
17. What can you say of the self-supporting mis-
sions of Brazil ? 
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MISSIONARY. 
RELIGIOUS 
LIBERTY. 
CONDUCTED BY A. F. BALLENGER. 
PROHIBITION". 
IT is not the object of this article to answer the 
question, " Does prohibition prohibit ?" 
The ques-
tion to be discussed is, Have prohibition laws a basis 
consistent with the principles of civil and religious 
liberty ? 
The fact that many advocates of Prohibi-
tion are tinctured with "National Eeform" ideas, 
and in view of the fact that the National Prohibition 
Party platform contains a Sunday plank, has led some 
to apply the adage," Birds of a feather flock together," 
and to question whether prohibition is not religious 
legislation, or, at least, sumptuary legislation. 
There is a basis for prohibition laws which is nei-
ther religious nor sumptuary, and against which the 
cry of "personal liberty" cannot be consistently 
raised. 
Why is any act prohibited by civil law?—Mani-
festly not because the act is wrong in and of itself, 
but because of its evil effects upon the person or prop-
erty of the citizen. 
There are many things that are 
wrong in themselves which are not prohibited by law, 
and many others which are right, in themselves con-
sidered, which are prohibited. 
It is wrong for a man to waste his time in idleness, 
or ruin his health by dissipation, but the goverment 
does not interfere. 
On the other hand, it is right 
for a man to erect a wooden building, but the law 
prohibits him from doing so within the fire limits of 
a city. A man may tear down his house with pick 
and crowbar, but the law makes it a crime for him to 
burn it intact. 
The result, so far as the destruction 
of the house is concerned, is the same in both cases, 
but in the interest of neighboring 
citizens the 
latter act is prohibited. 
The operating of a bone-
factory, soap-factory, slaughter-house, or powder-
mill, are respectable industries, but it becomes a 
crime to operate them within certain limits. The 
first three are prohibited because of their disagreea-
ble odor, the last because of the constant danger to 
life and adjoining property by explosion. 
The murderer is not hung because the act of mur-
der in itself considered is wrong, but to protect the 
life and property of the citizen. 
If the murderer 
was hung because it is wrong to kill, the government 
would be repeating the wrong. 
These illustrations might be continued indefinitely, 
but those cited are sufficient to prove that the basis 
of prohibition is not the inherent evil of the thing 
itself, but its evil effects upon the life or property of 
the public. 
Having shown that the prohibition of an act rests 
entirely on its evil effects upon the life or property 
of adjacent citizens, and not upon the inherent evil 
of the act itself, we apply the principle to the subject 
in hand, and find it narrowed down to this: Is 
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages 
a menace to the safety and well being of society ? 
The i*eason for prohibiting the erection of a wooden 
building within the fire limits, is based on the fact 
that the building is a standing menace to the vicinity. 
Is the present traffic in intoxicating beverages a 
menace to society? 
A statement of the question 
seems to render an answer unnecessary. 
Both the 
friends and the enemies of the liquor traffic will 
agree that alcoholic liquors are the most fruitful 
cause known of the crime and attendant miseries 
with which society is afflicted. 
And were it not 
intrenched behind millions of capital and a powerful 
political influence, society would arraign it as it does 
the murderer, and deal with it as it does with him. 
The basis, therefore, for prohibition, is not the 
fact that liquor is an injury to the drinker morally, 
physically, and intellectually, but the fact that it pro-
duces drunkenness, in which condition the drinker is 
a menace to the safety and happiness of his fellow-
man. 
Suppose that some chemist should compound and 
sell to the citizens a drink which, though tempting, 
made it necessary that they, on emerging from his 
place of business, should be taken care of by the State 
in order to protect its citizens, and assigned, as occa-
sion required, to the asylum, to the penitentiary, or 
to the gallows. 
How long would the State require 
its officer to stand at the gate fulfilling this duty, 
before entering and laying judicial hands upon the 
cause of all these miseries ? 
This is the attitude of 
our Government toward the manufacture and sale of 
intoxicating liquors. 
The Government licenses the 
saloon, which sends the man crazed with drink out 
upon 
the street, where, having 
committed 
some 
crime, he is arrested by the policeman, placed there 
for that purpose, and after due process of law, as-
signed, as needs be, to the asylum, to the penitenti-
ary, or to the gallows. 
The true basis for prohibition has nothing in com-
mon with what is known as sumptuary legislation. 
Sumptuary laws are intended to protect a man 
against himself by curtailing his extravagance, or 
regulating his habits with a view to protecting his 
health, etc.; but prohibition is for the purpose of 
protecting the citizen's life and property against the 
criminal acts of other people. 
Nor is prohibition an infringement of religious lib-
erties. 
Certainly the manufacturer and dealer in 
alcoholic beverages does not engage in this business 
because driven to it by a solemn sense of religious 
duty. 
The cry of " personal liberty " against this basis 
for prohibition, is equally inconsistent. 
Would the 
argument of " personal liberty," applied in the case of 
the wooden building, the bone-factory, or the powder-
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129 
mill be accepted ? 
In all these cases the personal 
rights of the citizen must be limited for the benefit 
of society. 
The State has no 
antipathy to 
the 
small-pox 
patient or his fellow-passengers, nor a desire to cur-
tail their liberties when it places the ship bearing 
them in quarantine, but a desire to protect the lives 
of the citizens on shore. 
Just so, the government, 
in prohibiting the liquor traffic, does not seek to 
abridge the personal right of the individual to pro-
cure and drink intoxicating liquors, but, in protect-
ing society against the evil results of the liquor 
traffic, the individual drinker, like the 
small-pox 
patient, is incidentally affected. 
It is not the province of prohibition to forbid the 
individual from making and drinking his own liquor, 
but when he engages in the traffic, and offers his 
goods to the public, then his business becomes a 
matter of public concern, and as such is subject to 
law. 
All this goes to show that the government may 
employ precautionary measures, in some cases, antici-
pating the overt act. 
For instance: the constant 
danger of fire in the case of the wooden building 
furnishes the government with ample reason 
for 
prohibiting the erection of that which never has 
and might never cause the destruction of adjacent 
property. 
Again: 
in the case of 
the small-pox 
patient, the government, knowing by observation 
the results of exposure to this disease, quarantines 
the patient before the public life is endangered by 
exposure to infection. 
So with the liquor traffic, the 
State, having witnessed in the past the innumerable 
cases of rapine and murder resulting from it, is jus-
tified in prohibiting the saloon keeper's business be-
fore it has brought upon the community any of the 
miseries incident to its history. 
The standing menace, therefore, of the liquor traffic 
to the safety and good order of society, forms a basis 
for prohibition consistent with the soundest principles 
of civil and religious liberty. 
THE question might be asked, Could not Sunday 
laws be enacted on the same basis as prohibitory liq-
uor laws? 
To this we answer, No, and give as rea-
sons the following differences : — 
The liquor traffic endangers the life and property 
of the citizens of the State. 
Peacefully working on the first day of the week 
endangers no man's life or property. 
The object of prohibition is to protect the citizen. 
The object of Sunday laws is to protect a day. 
QUESTIONS. 
1. ON what ground does civil law prohibit any 
act? 
,2. Give illustrations proving that the law forbids 
an act because of its evil effects upon society, and 
not because of the inherent evil in the thing itself. 
3. Is the liquor traffic a standing menace to so-
ciety ? 
4. Illustrate the attitude of the government to the 
liquor traffic in licensing it. 
5. On what grounds, then, can the government 
prohibit it ? 
6. Show that prohibition is not sumptuary leg-
islation. 
7. Is prohibition an attack on religious liberty ? 
8. What can you say of the cry of " personal 
liberty"? 
9. Show from the case of the wooden building or 
the small-pox patient that the State can take precau-
tionary measures, and on that ground can prohibit 
the liquor traffic. 
10. Show that Sunday laws cannot stand on this 
basis. 
NOTES FROM THE FIELD. 
CAPT. ELDRIDGE, president of the National Relig-
ious Liberty Association, is attending a meeting at 
Des Moines, Iowa, in the interests of the Association. 
J. 0. Corliss, acting field secretary of the Associ-
ation, is lecturing on religious liberty subjects in 
New Hampshire. 
Prof. W. H. Mc Kee, of Washington, D. C., Secre-
tary of the Association, expects to attend the National 
Temperance Convention to be held in New York City, 
June 11, 12. 
It 
is 
expected that the relation of 
Sunday laws to the temperance movement will be 
discussed. 
Isaac Morrison, State secretary of the National 
Religious Liberty Association for Oregon, writes en-
couragingly of his work. 
C. Mc Reynolds, State secretary for Kansas, sends 
us a report of his recent lecture tour in that State. It 
is very encouraging. 
Extracts from speeches made 
by the opposition speak well for the work Seventh-
day Adventists are doing to oppose religious legisla-
tion, as the following will show : 
" There are only 
26,000 Seventh-day Adventists in the United States, 
but judging from the work they are doing, there are 
2,000,000. 
They are pouring out their money like 
water to break down our movement." 
E. W. Webster and G. W. Cady, who have been 
engaged in the school district canvass in Wisconsin, 
send in a very encouraging report, from which we 
copy the following : 
Number days actually can-
vassed, 42 j number school districts visited, 151 ; 
total number 
agents secured, 183; 
total 
number 
pages literature distributed, 57,596 ; expenses aside 
from literature, $14.82. 
From this it will be seen 
that they visited, on an average, four districts per 
day, at a cost of less than ten cents for each district. 
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THE HOME 
MISSIONARY. 
HOME 
MISSIONS. 
CONDUCTED BY L. C. CHADWICK. 
THE OBJECT OF OUR WORK. 
WHENEVER we engage in any worldly 
enterprise, 
we have some well-defined object in view, and all our 
efforts are put forth with a view of securing the de-
sired results. 
The vessel which leaves the harbor 
bound for some distant port, makes everything else 
secondary to the one great object, the reaching of the 
port of destination. 
The contestants in a race are 
unconscious of all the surrounding influences, while 
they strain every nerve to reach the goal for which 
they have started. 
Even the race-horse, with only 
a trained, animal instinct, loses sight of everything 
in his efforts to distance all competitors. One who has 
spent any time in that great whirlpool of speculation, 
the New York stock exchange, will be surprised at 
first to see how men, for the sake of the one object 
of their life, the accumulation of wealth, will endure 
the din and confusion around them, apparently pay-
ing no attention to it all, each one intent on seeing 
the object of his own efforts secured. 
The surgeon 
who enters upon a dangerous operation, keeps but 
one thing in view, the successful performance of the 
task he has undertaken. 
If these things are so important in worldly things, 
how much more so in the things of God. 
Let us ex-
amine, then, in this article, and see what is the ob-
ject of our work as .Christians. 
If we are Christians, 
we are Christ's. If we are Christ's, we will have the 
spirit of Christ. 
If we have the spirit of Christ, we 
will have a burden for the same work that Christ 
came to do. 
Christ says that he came " to seek and 
to save that which was lost" 
(Luke 19 : 10); and 
that he "came not to call the righteous, but sinners 
to repentance " (Mark 2 : 17); and after praying that 
the Father would sanctify his disciples through his 
truth, he says, "As thou hast sent me into the world, 
even so have I also sent them into the world " (John 
17 :18) ; and when he sent them, his commission 
was, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gos-
pel to every creature." 
Mark 16 : 15. 
We are Christ's followers. 
We are his disci-
ples. 
Upon us he has placed the responsibility of do-
ing the work for our time and age, which he himself 
would do if he were here. 
As this is the case, we 
should keep constantly in our minds, as the object of 
our work, that which he said was the object of his 
mission to the earth — " to seek and to save that which 
* 
was lost." 
The object of every effort of every mis-
sionary worker among Seventh-day Adventists, ought 
to be to win souls to Christ. 
Go into the large cities 
of our country, where sin and iniquity are so rapidly 
increasing, and where degradation of the lowest kind 
can be found, and what splendid opportunities we 
can find for establishing genuine missions and mis-
sion schools, and with true philanthropy exert our 
best efforts to aid in bringing the sinful and the 
fallen to Christ and his truth. Are we doing it? Are 
we keeping our minds 
constantly fixed on the ob-
ject of our work, or are we allowing them to be di-
verted to other things ? 
Dear brother or sister, you who live in the country 
or smaller cities and 
towns, how many 
neighbors 
have you who are unconverted ? 
Just stop 
and 
count them. 
You would be surprised to see what a 
lar<re number of friends, neighbors, and acquaintances 
you have who are not Christians. 
How much have 
you been doing by direct effort to win such persons 
to 
Christ? 
How 
much 
has your 
influence done 
towards convincing them that there is something in 
the religion of Jesus that makes you happier, better, 
and more useful than 
they are without it. How 
much have you done to magnify before such ones the 
goodness of God and the love he has for them ? But 
you say, We have something to present to the world 
that is of more importance 
than this. 
We 
must 
teach them that the seventh day is the Sabbath ; that 
man is not by nature immortal, etc. 
We have cer-
tain points of doctrine that are so necessary to be 
argued with those who do not believe as we do, that 
we do not have time to devote to teaching the sim-
ple story of the gospel. 
We leave that for other 
churches to do. 
Ah ! there is just tho trouble. 
We have many of us lost sight of the real object of 
our work. 
Christ's command is, " Go preach the gos- 
. 
pel." 
We are working under that command. 
Paul 
' 
says, " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but 
be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meek-
ness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God 
peradventure will give them repentance to the ac-
knowledging of the truth." 
2 Tim. 2 : 24, 25. If 
we follow this admonition, how much room or time 
will we have for debating or arguing over disputed 
points of doctrine ? —None at all. What we want is 
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131 
to carry more of the spirit of Christ with us in all 
our labors, to work more for the conversion of sin-
ners ; and then we shall have less difficulty in per-
suading people that the doctrines which we hold are 
important and correct. 
There never was a time in the history of the gos-
pel dispensation when the gospel could be proclaimed 
with so much effectiveness as now. 
We are not 
simply confined to the proclaiming Of Jesus as the 
Messiah, who came and suffered and died for us, but 
we have the glorious news of his second coming to 
cheer and encourage the heart of every one who 
learns to love his name through our efforts. 
We can 
point to evidence after evidence that this coming is 
near, and the blessed hope of the gospel may be 
made more dear to those whose conversion we may 
secure, by the blessing of God, by coupling with it 
the three fold message which God has intrusted to 
our hands to carry to the world. 
We need to have 
wider views of our work as a people. 
We need to 
keep 
constantly in 
mind that 
"the field is the 
world." 
We need to study and become interested 
in the work in foreign fields, and give liberally of 
our means to sustain the missionaries who are will-
ing to devote their lives to the work of carrying 
the truth to those who are in darkness, even with 
reference to the true God; but at the same time 
we need constantly to bear in mind that there are 
many golden opportunities for usefulness in the Mas-
ter's vineyard, in our own country, in our own States, 
in our own neighborhoods, and often in our own 
families. 
We need to remember that soon the reap-
ers will come to gather the harvest, and God will 
hold us responsible for the loss of those souls with 
whom he has thrown us in contact, and who for our 
lack of appreciating the true object of our work, 
have been allowed to go down in death, or come up 
to the time of the appearing of our Lord, without a 
hope in Christ. 
We need to recall often the words 
of Christ, " Ye are the light of the world. . . . Let 
your light so shine before men, that they may see 
your good works, and glorify your Father which 
is in heaven." 
Matt. 5 : 14, 16. 
It is our privi-
lege to be channels of light to those who know not 
God. 
We may be a source of encouragement arid 
joy to all, if we maintain a living connection with 
tho True Yine. 
We may have the love of God 
spi inging up in our hearts like a well of water, and 
carry an influence with us that will lead others to 
come and take of the water of life also. 
May God 
help us each to realize the responsibility that rests 
upon us, and to remember the object of our work, 
to win souls to Christ. 
L. c. c. 
[Written for the HOME MISSIONARY.] 
ARISE AND SHINE. 
BY MRS. LAURA L. 
TEFFT. 
TUNE, "We Will Cling to Jesus." 
ARISE, and shine for Jesus, 
Nor let the wondrous light 
That God to you has given, 
Have chance to grow less bright. 
Unto that glorious gift 
Add luster more and more, 
And to the world proclaim 
God's message o'er and o'er. 
CHORUS. 
Arise and shine, 
Ye light-bearers of Jesus, 
Arise, arise ; 
Arise, and shine for Jesus. 
Arise, and work for Jesus, 
Nor let the word cannot, 
E'er pass the Christian's lips, 
Who by God's Book are taught 
To give unto the poor 
A cup of water cold, 
That he may have in heaven 
A rich reward tenfold. 
Arise, and speak for Jesus 
The promises he ga\ e, 
Of love and life eternal, 
To those beyond the grave; 
Who here on earth do strive 
Their sins to overcome, 
The victor's crown to wear, 
In that bright heavenly home. 
Arise in faith for Jesus ; 
Give not a single doubt 
An entrance to the heart, 
From Satan's host without. 
Arise, and walk with Jesus 
The strait and narrow way; 
Cling always to the truth, 
And God's commands obey. 
Logansport, Ind. 
PROGRAM. 
1. Song, Hymns and Tunes, No. 1036. 
2. Prayer. 
3. Bible Reading, subject, " Our Work,' * 10 min-
utes. 
4. Discussion of the Lesson, " The Object of Our 
Work," speeches confined to 
three minutes* 
25 
minutes. 
5. Business, 20 minutes. 
6. Song, "Arise and Shine." 
* See notes on last page. 
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MISSIONARY. 
HEALTH 
AND 
TEMPERANCE. 
CONDUCTED BY MR 
PHYSICAL 
OPPORTUNITIES. 
THAT the Creator intended man to possess certain 
physical, as well as mental, powers, is evident from 
the laws which govern the growth of these powerB. 
Man was, we understand, created with 
mental, 
moral, and physical balance, and only by non-com-
pliance with the laws regulating the maintenance of 
this balance, have mental aberrations, moral apathy, 
and physical degeneration resulted. 
Much has already been said respecting the causes 
of the first condition ; much more may be said to 
counteract the second ; and very much may and 
should be done to stay the tide of present evil which 
is so rapidly causing this last condition. 
In order that we fully honor God the Creator, we 
must learn to honor our bodies, the created, for in 
these we see the combined love and wisdom of him 
who made us upright. 
The human organism, so intricate in arrangement, 
so delicate in structure, so complex in its functions* 
has been given to us to use to the glory of Him who 
made it. 
It is not enough, then, that we dedicate our mental 
powers to his work, and at the same time dishonor 
our physical powers; for it is only in a sound body 
that a sound mind can be sustained. 
It is, therefore, an opportunity as well as a duty 
to attain to the highest possible state physically, as 
well as mentally and morally. 
A balance of these 
powers is once given us by the Creator, and it re-
mains for us to maintain, or if to any degree it is 
lost, to regain, this balance, that we may by both 
strength of mind and strength of body be prepared 
to fulfill the object of our creation. 
This we can do 
only by complying with those laws which regulate 
the physical powers, as it is through the physical 
that the mental and even moral perceptions are 
rendered acute or become blunted. 
This we see 
illustrated by individuals and by nations. 
Students who have endeavored to attain the high-
est intellectual feats, without due regard for their 
physical demands, have failed. 
Nations which have 
made the greatest literary advancement, have been 
those which have encouraged physical training in 
youth by providing national games for all, and have 
regarded a good physique as one of the requisites of 
distinction, honor, and manly worth. 
i. C. E. L. JONES. 
The mind is the seat of moral manifestations ; our 
moral tone is sharpened or blunted by mental clear-
ness or obtuseness, while mental clearness is depend-
ent upon physical perfection. 
We believe these facts 
are very largely lost sight of by many of our earnest 
missionary workers, whose labor demands the high-
est grade of mental activity and moral perception. 
Those who are devoting their whole talents to en-
lighten and ennoble their fellow-men, should use the 
opportunities God has given them to study and know 
nature's laws relating to the physical man, that they 
may better honor him in their bodies, and become 
strengthened to endure the mental strains which so 
often come to those engaged in the work. 
Nature 
demands physical work, that the body may be strong, 
the mind clear, and the moral perceptions sharpened 
to decide between truth and error. 
To strengthen 
the mind, mental work is demanded; so to strengthen 
the body, physical work is demanded. 
Mental work 
breaks down tissue, and this produces waste ma-
terial which must be carried out of the system. 
Physical 
work, while it breaks down a certain 
amount of tissue, accelerates the elimination of this 
broken-down material, and at the same time hastens 
the nutritive processes by which new cells are re-in-
stated, and food is brought to these cells to insure 
their life and proper development. 
In order that we may be able to do the best mental 
work and enjoy the freest thought, every three hours 
of study or mental exertion should be supplemented 
by at least one hour of genuine physical work, so 
that if we are required to tax the mental powers six 
hours in the day, nature demands at least two hours 
of muscular exercise, that she may fully repair the 
loss to the vital organism by this expenditure of 
energy. 
We feel confident that if all in our missions, and 
others employed in mental work, should have regu-
lar hours for physical training with a program so 
arranged that the chest might be broadened and 
deepened, giving more room for the vital organs 
contained therein ; that the arms might be strength-
ened proportionately with the legs ; that the shoul-
ders might be built up so as more properly to repre-
sent a square man both in figure and in fact, the 
physical benefits obtained would well pay for the 
time spent in this way. 
This could be easily done 
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by a little regular work intelligently directed, and 
the results alone would render sufficient reward for 
the effort. 
Solomon says : 
" The glory of young men is their 
strength." 
We wish this could be said truly of every 
young man at the present day, and we see no reason 
why this should not be the glory of every young 
woman, upon 
whom 
rests with equal weight the 
burdens and responsibilities of working for others. 
But we 
need not seek for great 
strength at the 
sacrifice of our other opportunities. 
It is health that should be sought, —health both of 
body and mind. 
Health and strength are not the 
same, though closely allied, and usually are by the 
same 
means 
and in the same manner 
obtained. 
Strength is due to great force possessed by one sys-
tem, usually the muscular, while health is the uni-
form and regular performance of all the functions of 
the body, arising from the harmonious actions of all 
its parts. 
Let us, then, who desire to avail ourselves of all 
of our opportunities to become stronger 
mentally, 
remember, " Man may " as Schrebber says, " indulge 
lofty 
conceptions 
and 
aspirations, 
but 
without 
physical vigor he must ever prove a very imperfect 
being — a tree which 
bears forced 
blossoms 
and 
dwarfed fruit." 
O. G. PLACE, M. D. 
THE body has in it all the wonder and glory of 
creation, and is an epitome of all previous creations. 
Such a thing as this is not to be despised nor treated 
otherwise than sacred. 
We have hardly any more 
imperative work 
than to secure for the body 
its 
highest possible vigor and health. 
How to feed and 
clothe and house it; how to use it; how to keep it 
safe from weakening and poisonous gases ; how to 
secure that rhythmic action of all its functions that 
turn 
physical 
existence into music, — this is the 
immediate question 
before civilization, the discus-
sion of which will drive out much of the vice of 
society, and revolutionize its system of 
education. 
The gospel of the 
body is yet to be heard 
and 
heeded. — Theodore 
T. 
Munyer. 
WE have had encouraging words from the health 
and temperance work in several States this month. 
In Missouri a cooking class was held in Kansas City, 
and an excellent interest awakened in the subject of 
hygienic cooking. 
It is expected that another class 
will be held there soon. 
The president of the Kansas Health and Temper-
ance Association will devote a large part of his time 
to lecturing in the interests of the health and tem-
perance work. 
• 
Reports from Nebraska show that the health and 
temperance clubs are doing good work there. 
In Minnesota active steps are being taken to or-
ganize and develop this line of work. 
EXERCISE. 
1. WHEN man came from the hand of God, what 
was his physical 
condition? 
Ans.—"Man 
came 
from the hand of God perfect in every faculty of 
mind and body ; in perfect soundness, therefore in 
perfect health." — Testimony, 
Vol. IV., 
p. 29. 
See 
also Gen. 1: 31 ; Eccl. 7 : 29. 
2. Was man given any physical labor before the 
fall ? 
Gen. 1 :28 j 2 : 15. 
3. Are all commanded to work ? 
Ex. 20 : 9. 
4. How is labor enjoined in the New Testament ? 
2 Thess. 3 :10-12. 
5. In what way is diligence rewarded even in 
this life ? 
Prov. 22 :29. 
6. What advice is given to the sluggard ? 
Prov. 
6 :6. 
7. How has labor been sanctified ? 
Ans. — God 
himself worked (Gen. 1) ; Christ was a most active 
worker (John 
5 :17) ; Paul worked 
at his trade. 
Acts 18 :1-3. 
8. To what does the labor of the righteous tend ? 
Prov. 10 :16. 
9. How is the sleep of the laboring man con-
trasted with that of the indigent ? 
Eccl. 5:12. 
10. What 
win 
surely 
come upon 
the 
slothful? 
Prov. 6:9-11; 10 : 4, 5. 
11. How will the Lord punish the slothful servant ? 
Matt. 25 :26-30. 
12. Should our work be done without thought or 
care? 
1 Thess. 4 : 11. 
13. With what zeal should 
we perform 
all 
our 
work ? 
Eccl. 9:10; Col. 3 : 23. 
14. What 
will 
be the result if exercise 
of 
the 
body is neglected ? 
Ans. — " Neglecting to exercise 
the entire body, or a portion 
of it, will bring on 
morbid conditions. 
Inaction of any of the organs 
of the body will be followed by a decrease in size 
and sti'ength of the muscles, and will cause the 
blood to flow sluggishly through the blood-vessels." 
— Vol. III., p. 76. 
15. What 
benefits will the student derive from 
combining physical work with mental ? 
Ans. — " If 
physical exercise were combined with mental exer-
tion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, 
the action of the heart would be more perfect, im-
pure matter would be thrown off, and new life and 
vigor would 
be experienced 
in every part of 
the 
body." — Vol. III., 
p. 
490. 
16. Will the righteous 
in 
the future 
life 
have 
physical employment? 
Isa. 65 :17-23. 
w. H. w. 
PROGRAM. 
1. Opening Song. 
2. Prayer. 
3. Bible Reading, 15 minutes. 
4. Essay or address, subject, " Exercise," 15 min-
utes. 
5. Short talks on the subject, 15 minutes. 
6. Business, 20 minutes. 
7. Closing Song. 
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THE HOME 
MISSIONARY. 
CANVASSERS' 
DEPARTMENT. 
CONDUCTED BY C. ELDRIDGE. 
NOT BY MIGHT NOB, BY POWER. 
IT is refreshing to notice how Brother E. M. Mor-
rison is breaking down prejudice and gaining the 
confidence of the people of Australia. 
A quotation 
from his letter of April 15, from North Fitzroy, after 
commenting upon the dishonorable methods employed 
by other canvassers, may contain a lesson for our own 
workers, and be of interest to them. 
He says : " But 
notwithstanding these difficulties, our agents seem to 
be of good courage, and trust in the Lord. 
We are 
seeking to overcome the prejudice against ' book-
hawkers,' as they are called, by having our agents 
work the territory assigned them more than once, 
thus giving them a chance to become acquainted with 
the people, gain their confidence, and build up a 
trade." 
This sounds like honest work, and fair dealing be-
tween man and man. 
This is certainly a good way 
to break down prejudice and establish a reputation. 
c. E. 
CANVASSERS FOR ENGLAND. 
IN response to a call made for laborers to go to 
England, the following-named persons left home and 
friends, sailing out of New York Harbor, May 14, on 
board the steamship Majestic, of the White Star line : 
J. J. Devereaux, wife, and three children, S. A. Man-
sard and wife, W. D. Chapman, Lewis Larsen, Mor-
ris Fitch, G. A. Bates, and the brothers G. F. and E. 
Stevens. 
This is the second company whose members have 
turned their faces seaward to engage in the promul-
gation of the third angel's message in foreign coun-
tries. The first company is meeting with good suc-
cess, which bids us hope that the same good fortune 
will attend those just landed. 
Another company will leave New York June 25, 
on board the steamship Teutonic, of the same line, 
and bound for the same port. 
As to how many will 
sail at this time, we are unable to say. 
We are rea-
sonably sure of six, but expect ten, at least. 
May the work of transporting canvassers to other 
fields go on from year to year until the whole earth 
shall resound to the tramp of the canvassing mission-
ary, and the truths of the last message of mercy 
shall be proclaimed to a perishing world. 
c. E. 
As man is held responsible for all that he does, it 
is very essential that he think, plan, and act for him-
self. 
In no other way can he show his independent 
manhood, or preserve his own individuality. 
With 
no responsibility man becomes a mere machine, ex-
pecting others to do his thinking, and to map out 
his course for him. 
He does his thinking by proxy. 
Now, if his proxy thinker gives good advice, and the 
j 
plans suggested turn out well, the thinker takes all 
the credit, and looks upon the one to whom he gave 
the advice as a mere tool, or instrument to accomplish 
the object in view. 
If, on the other hand, the advice 
given results in disaster, the machine takes all the 
blame. 
So the man who depends upon others to 
think and plan for him, x-eceives no credit for success, 
but censure for failure. 
He will not plan for him-
self, and cannot plan for others. 
The thinking man 
possesses an individuality which distinguishes him 
from bis 
fellows, and creates within him an inde-
pendence 
wholly 
unknown to the one who is 
always seeking advice and counsel from others, and 
which, as a rule, he will not accept unless it coincides 
with what he has been trying to think out himself. 
Self-reliance is born of the successful issues of the 
past. 
Carefully devised plans, which turn out as 
hoped and expected, tend to increase the confidence 
of him who formulated them. 
Any other outcome is 
an evidence to him of a weak spot somewhere in his 
make-up. 
Stubbornness is toe often called independence, and 
tenacity to a fixed purpose may be attributed to in-
dividuality. 
Such independence 
may 
have 
been 
noted in the quadruped with long ears, such individ-
uality in that symbol of obstinacy which parteth the 
hoof yet cheweth not the cud. 
The independence 
and individuality that are most needed to assume re-
sponsibilities, require constant study, hard labor, and 
long, continuous thought. 
The subject under con-
sideration must be viewed and weighed from every 
conceivable stand-point. 
Conclusions must not be 
jumped at, or ideas acted upon until they become 
fixed plans. 
Impressions are often taken for princi-
ples, and are fought for with a desperation worthy a 
far better cause. 
Individuality is needed. 
The great 
want of the cause is for men who both think and act 
for themselves, and study how they may become 
more and more useful. 
A call for workers frequently brings a response 
something as follows : " If 1 knew it was my duty," 
" If the brethren think best," etc., etc. 
They are 
ever waiting for some one to take the responsibility 
of deciding for them, and then they 
reluctantly 
respond, and feel that they have done their duty. 
Something more than this is necessary. 
The wants \ 
of the field should be plainly presented, that each 
' 
might have an opportunity of knowing what is re-
quired, in order that he may feel the responsibility 
of pressing into the gap in the lines to which point 
the enemies of truth are even now pressing. Let 
every one decide for himself, be sure the right decis-
ion has been made, and then allow no obstacle to re-
tard the advance movement. 
c. E. 
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135 
CANVASSING IN CITIES. 
1 WOULD say first, Be a lady. 
I make use of that 
expression and the word lady especially for the pur-
pose of the more forcibly expressing my conviction 
that gentlemen should not, as a rule, canvass in large 
cities. 
So now I'm going to talk to the ladies, and 
the gentlemen can take the medicine only so long as 
their constitution requires it. 
I would say, Begin at 
home. 
1 mean with yourself. 
Whatever book you 
propose to represent, you want first to put it into 
your own heart. 
This done, you can then easily de-
liver the same to any one else. 
I think many book 
agents fail on this very point of not knowing their 
book, and of course fail to present its strength and 
beauty. 
Next thing is helps. 
Much is being said these 
times 
about 
" Helps 
for 
Canvassers." 
The 
best 
"help" I have found (and I can also recommend it 
to you as the best) is " Sunshine." 
Always carry 
"sunshine" with you. 
I mean that kind which is 
the result of the love of Jesus in the heart. 
Let it 
shine out of your eyes. 
Allow your countenance to 
glisten with it. 
Keep a good supply of it on hand, 
it is cheap, and never allow your stock to become so 
low that you can't supply the home demand. 
If 
you do this, the people will be glad to see you, and 
you will find it much more difficult to get away from 
them than it was to get to them. 
Always interest yourself in what the lady is doing. 
Should she be working with her 
flowers, 
interest 
yourself enough to ask questions, and praise her work. 
No matter if you do have to ask questions about some 
flowers of which you have perfect knowledge ; it is 
just as well, for you know most people enjoy telling 
what they know. 
They like to be made to feel that 
they know more than the one asking the questions. 
Perhaps the lady is working with some garment, 
and is confused, or in trouble about it. 
Don't be 
afraid to make 
suggestions, 
and help her out if 
possible. 
She will thank you, and like you for it; 
then after you have helped her, she will feel under 
obligations to you, and you are sure of her order. 
In 
short, be accommodating ; be ready upon every pos-
sible occasion to " lend a hand." 
You have no idea 
of the friends you will make by this course. 
Every 
one who knows you will be your friend. 
On the other hand, never look sour, snappish, dis-
appointed, or impatient. 
People don't like that. 
Don't you know that most people feel, in buying 
a book of you, they are doing you a kindness, a 
very great favor, placing you under obligations to 
them ? 
Hence the importance of being affable and 
patient. 
Impatience is a dreadful enemy. 
This fact 
is recognized by all the holy men whose writings are 
handed down to us in the Bible. 
Some of them place 
great stress upon it; one even said, " In patience 
possess ye your soul." 
Impatience betrays the natu-
ral depravity that is in us, and what we must have 
is grace enough to smother it out. 
You will be 
tested on this very point, and perhaps in about the 
following manner, and the prescription I'm going to 
offer you now, is good I know, for I've tried it. 
You would better copy it (the gentlemen especially). 
Making an early call, before the lady has bad time 
to wash, dress, and properly care for the children, 
and while she is deeply interested in looking at your 
book, a dirty, greasy little urchin of not the most 
amiable disposition in the world, unceremoniously 
appears; 
and before you think about it, he has 
marred a few pages in your prospectus, and per-
haps torn out a leaf or two. 
Well, what's needed 
here? 
We might differ somewhat in our opinion 
as to what is needed, but I would only repeat it, 
Grace, smothering grace — grace enough to enable 
you to say, " Well, what a wide-a-wake, bright little 
fellow." 
Pat him on the cheek and kiss him, and 
say, " He '11 make his mark in the world," 
Do n't you think you would get that lady's order? 
Certainly. 
I never failed yet under these circum-
stances, and neither will you. 
So you will see the 
importance that is attached to patience. 
Now in 
order to appear meek and humble, you need not look 
dreamy, and draw down your face to its utmost 
capacity, but be cheerful, be happy ; to be anything 
else is sin, besides being an impediment in your on-
ward march to success and final victory. 
And then 
it does them so much good. 
You can take sunshine 
enough in the house in twenty minutes to drive out 
the gloom and darkness of a whole week. 
Daily you 
will meet ladies who imagine themselves in deep, 
sore trouble. 
Nobody in the city has ever passed 
through what they have just gone through, or has 
such trouble as they are in ! Poor things. 
Well, you 
know something of how many varieties there are 
of this thing called trouble. 
Now you want to show 
your appreciation of the circumstances, and be reas-
onably free with your sympathies, but never have 
trouble yourself. 
If this course is pursued, ladies will give you their 
orders, and they will invite you to remain a short 
time and visit, often for dinner or tea. 
I would not 
advise you to remain at all. 
Always be in a hurry 
after you get their order, but never before. 
Occa-
sionally five or ten minutes might be spent to good 
advantage, but oftener it will do damage rather than 
good. 
Poor delivering is, I think, largely the result 
of visiting too much, and especially after orders are 
taken. 
But should you remain a few minutes, the 
moment you are through with your canvass, close 
up your book and put it away, and begin at once 
to talk about something else. 
If you can't control 
the conversation and dictate the channel of thought, 
it is well to hurry along. 
Never ask what church 
they attend, and they are not so likely to ask you. 
Your customer will not interrupt you as long as you 
talk with freedom and strength, but as soon as you 
begin to manifest confusion and a lack of words, and 
more especially a weakness in your manner of ex-
pression, 
she is 
likely 
to 
interrupt you at any 
moment. 
I trust you have seen the necessity of 
putting your whole soul and strength into your 
canvass until you have finished ; then present your 
bindings, and ask for the order before any avenue 
is opened to the question-box. 
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THE HOME 
MISSIONARY. 
There are some points about which 1 have said 
nothing, and can say nothing at this time. 
I will 
notice one question, however,— one that is oftener 
asked than any other. 
" How do you get into people's houses ? " 
This 
question is asked as though that was all there was to 
the work. 
And 1 confess 1 believe myself it is about 
one-half of it. 
Once you learn this art, and then you 
will learn a great many other things by experience. 
But you say, " Well, how do you get in ? " 
Well, I '11 
try to tell you. 
The fact is, one-half of the time I 
have to coax my way in. 
Sometimes it is pretty 
hard ; coaxing don't always do the work. 
1 wish I 
could tell you bow to coax, but 1 can't; everybody 
has his own peculiar method of coaxing. 
My method 
is peculiar, 1 know, and I will not attempt to give it 
to you. 
1 will give you a principle — the foundation 
upon which you can build a system or method as suc-
cessful as that of mine or of any one else. 
Instead 
of telling you what to do, I will tell you a few things 
not to do, and then you have it, and must improve it 
by practice. 
1. Don't 
neglect seeking God daily (and 
hourly 
as 
you walk 
from 
house to 
house), for health, 
strength, and wisdom. 
2. Don't 
give 
place to Satan 
by talking about 
your failures, doubts, and discouragements. 
It 
is 
faith and hope that gain the victory. 
3. Don't 
look at the dark side of a cloud. 
Get 
up and hustle around it; the other side is bright. 
Now in this next one you have the whole business 
in a nutshell. 
I want you to write it down, and let 
it be for " a memorial between thine eyes." Ex. 13 : 9. 
Hear it! 
Don't 
deceive yourself. 
You can't 
deceive 
the people if you act lazy. 
They will judge you by 
your actions. 
You know already that the Lord has 
no use for a lazy person, and in the canvassing work 
you will soon learn by experience that the people 
have no use for you, either. 
Thus 1 might go on in-
definitely ; but 1 would emphasize one more " don't." 
Don't give the people, or allow them to gather from 
you in any form, the impression that you are can-
vassing from necessity, that it is your only means of 
support, and that others, orphan children, an aged 
parent, an invalid companion, or any one else, is also 
dependent upon your earnings. 
Even 
could 
you 
truly say all this and more, don't do it. 
You are 
aware that most people like to bestow their gifts and 
favors unsolicited. 
The 
poor 
are not always the 
ones sought out upon whom to display generosity; 
it never makes much showing there. 
So if you ap-
pear independent, or have an air of gentility, carrying 
the impression that you are doing the work because 
it is your business, and there is a pleasure in making 
new acquaintances, you will find much less trouble 
in securing 
an audience with 
many 
city 
people. 
Now this is one way that 1 coax, and another way 
is to get right down to the old-fashioned method. 
In your canvass and conversation, you can show 
how richly the love and 
spirit 
of 
Jesus rule in 
your heart. 
People 
want 
to 
see worth 
in 
you, 
and 
that 
in forming your 
acquaintance they add 
value to their list of acquaintances. 
MRS. L. M. 
DUNLAP. 
THE WORK IN DISTRICT NO. 2. 
IT gives me pleasure to be able to speak a few more 
encouraging words concerning the work in this field, 
and to assure your readers that we know the hand of 
the Lord is leading us. 
While it is true that we meet 
with as many difficulties and trials as in other 
fields, 
we hear little of complaint. 
Each month shows a 
steady increase in the book sales. 
The State agents 
are doing all in their power to advance the work, and 
the Lord is greatly blessing their efforts. 
I long for 
the time to come when I can visit the different States 
in this district, and lend a hand in organizing com-
panies 
and getting 
them 
started. 
While it is a 
very easy matter to organize a company of workers, 
it is not so easy to hold them together. 
A recent report from a company leader assures me 
that while he has had the care of a company, which has 
taken considerable of his time, he has succeeded in 
delivering as many books as any member of his com-
pany. 
Be assured of one thing, brethren, that 
it 
takes a steady pull to accomplish this. 
The com-
pany of which he is leader is doing well, and all the 
members are of good courage, as is natural to suppose 
with such a leader. 
Are there not many in our ranks 
who can succeed as well? 
The question has been asked me quite often, " What 
can we 
do for the individual canvassers, in 
order 
that they may make a living?" etc. 
Brethren, 
we 
must labor with and for them until they can go out, 
feeling a burden for souls and a love for the cause. 
Then they will be able to make a good living, far 
better, doubtless, than the pioneers in this same work 
received. 
If our canvassers would only feel the ne-
cessity of putting in as full time in the field as they 
would feel in duty bound to do upon the farm or in 
the shop ; if they would put in six whole days each 
week, what a power for good that would be ! 
What 
if the Saviour when on earth had put in but half his 
time ? 
Could he have accomplished that for which 
he was sent in three years and a half? would 
he 
have pleased God? do we please him, or carry out 
his designs, when 
we 
devote to his service short 
hours, or parts of days ? Christ is our example. 
He 
has committed a sacred work to our trust. 
Brethren, 
let us push it while it is yet to-day — while we can 
do so without molestation. 
A. F. 
HARRISON, 
Dist. Ag't, Dist. No. 2. 
WILL IT PAY P 
THE question may suggest itself to some, Will the 
circulation of our literature 
accomplish 
what 
we 
expect it to do in spreading the message ? 
Are there 
really many that are brought into the truth by read 
ing our books? 
We reply, that we do not judge the 
value of this work by the number of conversions to 
our faith which we can count. 
Our work is to circu-
late the books, — to place them in the hands of as 
many people all over the world as possible ; what 
they will accomplish, we cannot say till we reach the 
kingdom of glory. 
THE HOME MISSION A R Y. 
137 
It is evident that with our feeble numbers, we 
could do but little towards warning the world by 
preaching. 
At present, the number warned 
each 
year is less than the number born : we are not gain-
ing on the world ; the world is gaining on us. 
But, 
from the light given us, we expect the work to go 
with special power before the end. 
The Lord has 
prepared tbe way for this. 
Thousands of printing-
presses, with skilled operators, are established in 
every civilized country, and many in heathen lands. 
These presses are usually occupied with the leading 
questions of the day. 
When the Sabbath question, 
as we believe, shall become the leading theme, and 
agitate the mind of the world, will not this be one of 
the leading topics of the press ? 
If our books have 
been previously placed in the hands of the people, 
when this agitation comes, they may then become 
powerful in their hands. 
Who knows that this will 
not, in the hand of God, become one of the most 
potent means of raising the loud cry? 
It is in the 
providence of God that books can be rapidly made, 
and thought multiplied with lightning speed. 
It is 
just as surely a part of his plan that these books be 
circulated. 
We now have a time of peace in which 
to sow the seed ; we may see but little fruit till the 
latter rain comes; but let us not weary in sowing ; 
let us press forward, and may many more join the 
noble army of canvassers now in the field. 
H. p. H. 
HINTS ABOUT CANVASSING. — NO. 4. 
THE canvasser should never assume a doubtful aspect 
when — 
DELIVERING BOOKS ; 
But he should go about it with confidence that the people 
will be prepared with 'the money, and that they will be 
anxiously awaiting his arrival, and eager to get the books. 
This will be the case if he created a lasting desire when 
canvassing the people for their orders, and if there has been 
no reverse of circumstances. 
Let your approach be char-
acterized by a firm, business-like tread ; and, with a cheer-
ful air and a cordial greeting, say, " You see I am on hand, 
according to agreement, with your book." 
Remove the 
case, and speak of its beauty and worth, and show them 
how to train it so that they will not break its back. 
While 
doing this, observe whether it is perfect in every respect. 
If tliey hesitate about receiving it, proceed at once to give 
them a canvass with the complete copy to revive their in-
terest, aud kindle anew their desire to have the book. 
A 
deep interest and a strong desire are the secrets of a happy 
delivery. They will overcome all ordinary obstacles. Some-
times another member of the family opposes the subscriber, 
making it unpleasant. 
In this case, seek to canvass the 
opposer, and get him interested also, and thus overcome 
his opposition and prejudice. 
A book delivered because 
the people see its merits and want it, will be likely to be 
read and studied more, and hence it will do more {rood. 
The canvasser should do his work so that there will be 
nothing but pleasant recollections connected with the book 
when the people read it, — nothing to mar their pleasure, 
nor detract from the IjeftUty of its teachings, 
If the 
cuee is given, 
" I HAVE NOT THE MONET," 
The canvasser's face should not take on a doleful expres-
sion, for this would but add to the difficulty. 
This is no 
time to lose courage. 
Be expeditious — somewhat in a 
hurry. 
Brighten up, and ask if they will not have the 
kindness to step into the next house and borrow it. 
It is 
well when delivering, to notice who have money, so that 
you can direct delinquents to a place where they can bor-
row. 
If they hesitate, you can urge that others are taking 
their books, and it would be a great inconvenience for you 
to come again just to deliver theirs. 
Say to them that 
they would not want to put you to so much trouble, when 
they could get the money so easily. 
If they still hesitate, 
make — 
OTHER SUGGESTIONS. 
The canvasser should always be fruitful in resources. 
An order on their employer if they have wages due; an 
order on the store where they have an account; or a written 
request to some friend to advance the money, may serve 
the purpose. 
Another way to succeed is to exchange for 
produce, or goods, or work. 
Think what you can use, and 
ask for it. 
We would emphasize in this connection the 
importance of turning in books for all accommodations, 
such as rooms, meals, and lodgings, and for all supplies. 
x\lways be on the alert for such opportunities, both when 
canvassing and when delivering, where they cannot or will 
not pay cash. 
The great object before us is to sell as many 
books as possible; and this course will greatly increase our 
sales, and will be better for us than to lose the orders. 
Washing, cooking, and sewing may be mentioned as serv-
ices to be secured. 
It is too bad for any of our sisters to 
stop canvassing for weeks at a time to do dress-making or 
sewing of any kind, either for themselves or others, when 
there are so many who would be glad to do this work, and 
take the books as pay, aud who could not secure them in 
any other way. 
There is no recreation for the canvassers 
in sewing, and to get it done as suggested above is much 
cheaper than to do it themselves. 
When anything is taken 
in exchange for books, it should be treated as a mutual 
favor, so that neither party shall be made to appear as 
especially favoring the other. 
Let each preserve his in-
dependence and dignity, and let there be no cause for em-
barrassment. 
A due bill is another good thing to suggest in case none 
of these other plans will work. 
Take your list to the 
banker, or some business man, who will not abuse your 
confidence, a man of honor, and have him go over the list 
with you. 
Get him to indicate which would be responsible 
for a small amount, and then check their names. 
If you 
do not wish to go to others for help of this kind, use your 
own judgment. 
From these reliable persons a paper worded 
about as follows may be taken as payment: — 
LOCK HAVEN, PENN., June 2, 
1890. 
This is to show that for value received, three dollars 
($3.00) are due from me to Charles M. Snow, to be paid on 
or before July 1, 1890. 
ELWIN W. SNYDER. 
These are equivalent to promissory notes, and may be sold 
at a discount to a banker, or some other resident of the 
place. 
A due hill might be taken from others less responsible, 
providing a part of the price of the hook was paid down, 
giving you & least what the book costs you. 
This tfili 
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THE HOME MISSIONARY. 
liberate your capital, and leave the truth with them, and 
there is a possibility at least that you will receive the pay 
on the bill sooner or later. 
Fix the time for the payment 
of all due bills upon the same date; also let all postpone-
ments be placed at the same time, and do not, as a rule, 
postpone more than once, but let it be distinctly understood 
that they must be prepared when you come the second 
time. 
Those who are not prepared then, are usually hope-
less cases, and no more time should be lost in visiting 
them. 
Bach postponement is one step toward the final 
result of losing the order in the end. 
Leaving books at 
some place to be called for is not recommended. 
It proves 
decidedly unsatisfactory. 
LEGAL SUASION. 
We, of course, have the law on our side, but to threaten 
is to show a marked change in our disposition since taking 
the order. 
It seems hardly consistent to manifest such a 
Christian spirit when canvassing, and then turn Caesar 
when we meet with a little opposition in delivering. 
Make 
them see that it would be loss to them not to take the 
book; that it would not be right to leave it on your hands, 
since it was ordered for them ; show them that the honor 
of their word is at stake, and use other arguments more or 
less powerful; but do not threaten or over-urge. 
If there 
has been a decided reverse of circumstances since the order 
was given, such as severe illness or loss of employment, 
which has brought them into straitened circumstances, 
they might be released from their obligation, and supplied 
with reading-matter free of cost to themselves. 
AWAY FROM HOME. 
People will not often be absent if notification slips have 
been sent, and those that must be away usually leave the 
money with a neighbor for you. 
When this is not the 
case, inquire if there is not some friend or relative living 
near who would be willing to take the book, or get any 
neighbor to do so if willing. 
Show them the subscriber's 
signature to convince them that the subscription is gen-
uine. 
USING A HORSE AND CARRIAGE 
— 
Will save time and strength, insure better success, and leave 
a better influence. 
Much less time is required to do the 
work, and much weariness is avoided, so that canvassing 
can be resumed at once with full vigor when the delivering 
is finished. Neither men nor women should unnecessarily 
subject themselves to over exertions, which will draw upon 
their capital stock of vitality and strength. 
Our books are 
extremely heavy, and we enter a special protest against 
ladies' carrying them by hand. 
If they do not understand 
how to drive, they can arrange with some suitable person 
to drive for them. 
Several days are usually required to 
regain wasted energies after a few days' tramp carrying 
books. 
All this time is saved by using a team. 
More books are delivered when a man is not tired. 
Fatigue unfits him to meet emergencies and give them a 
happy turn; and the result is that he loses enough orders 
to pay for the use of a horse. 
Orders may be obtained and 
the use of a team taken as pay, where a cash order cannot 
be secured; and having a team when delivering, makes it 
convenient to bring home other things procured in the same 
way. 
Delivering with a team is conducive to large deliveries, 
and it is much to the advantage of the canvasser to place 
the time ahead as far as circumstances will permit, and 
not to make any scattering deliveries. 
We will conclude 
our remarks on this subject by saying that delivering with 
a good-looking horse and carriage gives character to the 
work, and places it in a favorable light before the people. 
HELPS. 
This is the name applied to small publications and arti-
cles sold by the canvasser to procure accommodations and 
ready money with which to pay expenses. 
But are they 
not falsely so-called ? 
Are they not a hinderance instead 
of a help in the end ? 
It takes time and energy to can-
vass for them, which, if devoted to the book, would result 
in increased sales; and the tendency is to turn aside to 
these " helps" before a sufficient effort has been made with 
the work. 
The result is in many cases a failure to sell 
either; when if the entire effort had been on the book, an 
order might have been taken. 
A pamphlet is sold for a 
dinner or a night's lodging; but, with a little tact, a vol-
ume worth several dollars might have been turned in by 
indorsing the amount on the guarantee slip; or, if the 
order has been taken, the accommodations may be procured 
by giving them a higher-priced binding. 
By using books 
as currency, the necessity of having much ready money is 
obviated, and the little that is needed would better be pro-
cured by borrowing from some friend, or from a fund raised 
for that purpose, thus enabling the canvasser to expend all 
his time and energies where they will count the most for 
the spread of the message. 
PEDDLING. 
Do you want to bring yourself down from the rank of a 
Heaven-sent messenger to the common level of an ordinary 
peddler, and degrade the sacred work of God? 
Then, 
along with your book, offer for sale patent medicines, per-
fumes, pillow-sham holders, household utensils, and any-
thing else that will allure you on in the pursuit of gain ; 
but our advice is to have nothing to do with anything so 
foreign to the true spirit of a missionary canvasser. 
Our 
object is, or should be, to labor unselfishly to elevate man-
kind in the scale of intelligence and spirituality; and this 
should be apparent in all we do. 
The matter of our own 
support or of benefit to ourselves should be held by us of 
secondary importance. 
But how can this be made to ap-
pear when we are selling things for the sole object of mak-
ing money ? 
To divide our time and effort in handling things not in 
any way calculated to promote the cause of truth, is but to 
retard our progress, and cripple us in our legitimate work; 
and we are decidedly of the opinion that it is poor policy, 
even from a financial stand-point. 
It is better to devote 
ourselves fully to the book in hand, and make the most of 
that in every way possible, thinking and planning and pray-
ing and working to this great end ; but what we are plead-
ing for now is that none shall sacrifice the armor of light 
or the true missionary spirit, and appear in the sordid gar-
ments of personal greed. 
" Let not your good be evil 
spoken of." 
E. E. MILES. 
THE HOME MISSION A R Y. 
139 
" EDENDERRY TERRACE, BANBRIDGE, IRELAND, 
"March 13, 1890. 
" Brother Eldridge: 
— 
" Some oue has kindly sent us the HOME MISSONARY. 
We are 
much interested in the Canvassers' Department, and thought you 
\iuld like to hear from Ireland. 
" When we eamc to Banbridge last September, I looked about me 
to see how I could best assist my husband in spreading the third 
angel's message here, and decided that to place a copy of ' Bible 
Readings ' in a home was to place 162 good sermons in their 
reach. 
So in faith I took up the work, never having received an 
hour's training. 
I never canvassed a whole day, at a time, and 
the least number of books I sold, was oue a day, the greatest, ten. 
This town is, I think, a fair sample of Ireland, and I believe that 
well-trained canvassers could find ready sale for our books. 
We 
are praying that some may be sent here soon. 
I have sold a few 
copies of 
1 Thoughts on Daniel, and the Revelation,' but it is too 
expensive a book to sell readily. 
" Yours in the work, 
"MRS. E. J. HUTCHINSON." 
FROM MICHIGAN. 
STATE Secretaries in making out their monthly re-
port for the HOME MISSIONARY will please insert the 
number of canvassers working in their respective 
States. 
BROTHER W. M. CROTHERS, the leader of a 
company 
in Ludington, reports as follows : — 
"This week I have worked four days (thirty-seven 
hours), have canvassed seventy-six persons, and taken 
forty one orders, equal to $103.50. 
Last week 
I 
worked thirty-four hours, giving sixty-seven 
can-
vasses, and taking thirty-five orders, equal to $86.00. 
Last 
week 
Brethren 
Strope and Thomas worked 
forty hours each, taking forty-three orders each. 
Have not heard from them this week. Brother Clark 
and wife are doing fairly well in the city. 
We will 
probably finish Mason County in two weeks more. 
" I think we are doing as well as any of the com-
panies. 
The company took one hundred and thirty 
orders last week, and one hundred and fifty this week. 
Wednesday I canvassed eighteen persons, and took 
fourteen orders. 
Our expences in the field are noth-
ing. 
We are of good courage and faith in the work 
and in God. 
REPORT OF THE CANVASSING WORK FOR JUNE, 1890. 
NAME OF STATE. 
Days. 
Exhib. Ord's. 
Mor. 
Half 
Mor. 
Libr'y. 
Gilt. 
Marb. 
Plain. 
Value of 
Books. 
88 
618 
288 
3 
2 
41 
38 
177 
27 
$651.85 
120 
1487 
465 
49 
42 
60 
210 
100 
4 
1246.25 
Australia and Tasmania 
216 
2017 
840 
100 
3 
128 
609 
3169.35 
California 
320 
27 
71 
32 
110 
42 
38 
872.00 
Colorado 
21 
208 
162 
17 
8 
9 
12 
38 
78 
368.25 
Georgia 
58 
771 
384 
23 
5 
81 
90 
183 
2 
951.25 
Illinois 
234 
1790 
870 
6 
32 
123 
186 
268 
255 
1769.25 
467 
18 
20 
36 
94 
248 
51 
1094.25 
135% 
417 
19 
8 
105 
98 
145 
42 
956.50 
624 
6453 
1721 
198 
42 
269 
296 
859 
57 
4310.50 
Louisiana 
146 
800 
438 
20 
7 
25 
78 
306 
3 
993.50 
96 
31 
4 
16 
14 
31 
290.00 
725 
60 
18 
71 
117 
374 
85 
1602.50 
Michigan 
185 
2512 
1677 
145 
95 
180 
519 
693 
45 
4252.25 
263 
2440 
951 
44 
27 
93 
221 
511 
55 
2289.50 
New England 
476% 
1146 
105 
96 
121 
400 
362 
62 
3059.85 
New York 
146 
405 
17 
25 
27 
127 
178 
31 
945 25 
North Carolina 
50 
339 
150 
11 
5 
22 
23 
89 
374.50 
904.40 
Ohio 
127 
689 
264 
10 
18 
67 
97 
65 
7 
686.00 
506 
29 
25 
63 
153 
232 
4 
1240.25 
Pennsylvania 
285 
1763 
797 
45 
42 
82 
260 
356 
12 
1958.25 
619 
15 
9 
78 
68 
416 
33 
1364.25 
15 
78 
416 
33 
1791.71 
South Dakota 
133% 
343 
10 
11 
43 
46 
125 
108 
775.25 
Tennessee 
20% 
258 
105 
10 
6 
18 
18 
53 
268.50 
Texas 
1074 
95 
25 
588 
79 
147 
140 
2987.25 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
122 
1348 
404 
16 
12 
30 
73 
253 
20 
911.75 
Wisconsin 
157F . 
2847 
591 
12 
9 
60 
151 
272 
87 
1198.10 
Total, 
3608f 
26340 16225 
1135 
667 
2468 
3578 
7132 
1245 
43,282.51 
Misccl. 
Total value. 
$21.10 
81.55 
12.50 
2.86 
38.20 
8.89 
34.60 
223.71 
14.60 
99.75 
51.04 
349.60 
90.19 
19.30 
88.15 
111.75 
1,242.79 
$ 672.95 
1328.30 
3169.35 
872.00 
380.75 
954.11 
1802.45 
1103.14 
991.10 
4534.21 
993.50 
290.00 
1602.50 
4266.85 
2889.25 
3059.85 
996.29 
374.50 
904.40 
686.00 
1240.25 
2307.85 
1364.25 
1791.71 
865.44 
268.50 
3006.55 
999.90 
1309.85 
44,525.80 
•Reports from Norway and Sweden comprise three months' work. 
140 
THE HOME 
MISSIONARY. 
THE HOME MISSIONARY. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE 
INTERNATIONAL 
TRACT 
AND 
MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 
Price, 23 oents per 
year. 
L. C. CnADWicK, I 
T, 
RP 
, 
> 
EDITORS. 
DAN. 1. JONES. 
\ 
BATTLE CREEK, MICH., JUNE, 
1890. 
THE fourth Sabbath reading is longer than usual 
this month; but we feel sure that the reader, after a 
careful perusal of the article, will not object to its 
length or regret that other matter has been left out 
to make place for this. 
WE are glad to see our mailing list gradually in-
creasing. 
There will be an excellent opportunity at 
the coming camp-meetings to Bolicit new subscrip-
tions, and we trust that those in charge of the tract 
society work in various States, will see that suitable 
persons are selected to make a thorough canvass of 
the grounds. 
We will gladly send sample copies for 
this work. 
THOSE who are interested in the Religious Liberty 
Department of the HOME MISSIONARY, will be pained 
to learn that indictments for the violation of the Sun-
day laws are again being found by the Grand Jury 
in Tennessee, this time in Henry County. 
No ar-
rests had been made when the latest reports were 
received. 
It is thought the authorities are awaiting 
the decision of the Supreme Court 
in the case 
of 
R. M. King. 
SOME one should be selected to prepare the Bible 
Reading on " Our Work," mentioned on page 131, in 
the program for the weekly meeting, who will give it 
some study, and use such texts as will show the 
world-wide nature of it. 
Instead of questions upon the lesson in the Home 
Mission 
Department, 
we 
have 
recommended 
in 
the program a twenty-five-minute discussion of the 
subject. 
This will give all who may differ from the 
positions taken in the article a chance to present 
their opinions. 
CORRECTION. 
SINCE the 
May 
number 
of the 
HOME 
MISSIONARY 
went to press, we learn that we had been misin-
formed in regard to two items in the article on page 
95. 
We 
stated that "'Sister Huntley was born in 
Washington, N. H., in 1847." 
It should be Lemp-
ster, N. H., in 1848. 
We 
made the statement on 
what we supposed to be good authority, but are of 
course glad to make the correction. 
A MISTAKE. 
AFTER the page proofs of the Health and Tem-
perance Department 
of 
the May number of 
the 
HOME MISSIONARY had been corrected by the edit-
ors, through some error on the part of the printers, 
the heading " Christ 
the Head 
of 
the 
Church" 
was placed over an extract from a letter about the 
study of hygiene and temperance, which is found on 
page 109 of that paper. 
Our readers could not be 
more surprised than we were to see this heading 
appear in the paper when it came from the press. 
THE WORK AT OUR MAIN OFFICE. 
REPORT of work done 
at the main office of the 
International Tract Society at Battle Creek, Mich., 
for the month ending May 31, 1890. 
RELIGIOUS WORK. 
Pages books and tracts sent to foreign countries 
20,142 
" 
" 
" 
" 
" 
" 
United States 
9,055 
Number periodicals sent to foreign countries 
2,954 
" 
" 
" 
" 
United States 
1,262 
Number letters written to foreign countries 
140 
" 
" 
" 
" 
United States 
57 
S. L. STRONG. 
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE WORK. 
Pages of books and tracts sent to foreign countries 
16,728 
" 
" 
" 
" 
" 
" 
" 
United States 
20,483 
Number of periodicals sent to foreign countries 
74 
" 
" 
" 
"' 
" 
United States 
314 
« 
" 
letters 
« 
« 
" 
" 
300 
CLARA E. L. JONES. 
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WORK. 
Pages of tracts and pamphlets 
227,856 
Sentinels 
80S 
Petitions 
2,122 
Association manuals 
200 
A. HOSKINS. 
FRENCH WORK. 
Pages books and tracts sent 
4,190 
Number periodicals 
86 
Number letters written 
22 
GERMAN WORK. 
Pages books and tracts sent 
674 
Number periodicals 
218 
Number letters written 
16 
MARIE A. ROTH. 
SCANDINAVIAN WORK. 
Pages tracts sent 
5,032 
Number periodicals sent 
368 
Number letters written 
74 
TENA JENSEN. 
CHICAGO OFFICE. 
REPORT of labor for the month of May, 1890. 
Pages denominational and N. R. L. publications sent out 
25,060 
" 
Health and Temperance 
" 
" 
9,142 
No. Signs, Present Truth, and Instructors 
" 
292 
" 
Good, Health and Pacific Health Journals 
" 
32 
" Sentinels 
" 
370 
" letters 
" 
.... 
248 
" 
petitions.,*..... 
" 
6 
"My Reasons for Signing Petitions" 
" 
.... 
38