Vol. 37, No. 8 
Sydney, Monday, February 20, 1933 
Registered at the General Post 
Once, Sydney, for transmission 
by Post as a Newspaper 
Fulfilling Prophecy 
AND it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour 
out My Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and 
your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream 
dreams, your young men shall see visions : and also 
upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those 
days will I pour out My Spirit." Joel 2 : 28, 29. 
At Pentecost Peter was led to claim that the 
prophecy of Joel was fulfilled, and in part it surely was. 
In the days immediately preceding the second advent we 
shall see even greater things than those of Pentecost, 
and the power of God will be revealed through the 
operation of His Spirit among young and old. 
As God in olden times sent messages to men through 
visions and dreams, so today He works in the same 
way. 
Two years ago in Africa a native Christian of 
another denomination was taken ill. While he was 
recovering, he dreamed that he would get well and was 
told that he must work for the salvation of his people. 
Upon recovery he did this work. When visiting on one 
occasion he met a man who said, " If you want to be so 
careful and particular in teaching the people to do 
right, why do you not teach them the observance of the 
seventh-day Sabbath ? " He argued against such teach-
ing, and later was again smitten with illness, and once 
more dreamed. This time he saw the law of God 
written before him, and the fourth commandment stood 
out brightly above the other nine. He was told to arise 
and tell the people concerning the true Sabbath. 
On recovery he went and preached the Sabbath to 
the people, telling them his experience and counselling 
them to obey the Lord. Missionaries who learned of 
his work saw him and endeavoured to check him and 
his teaching, but he kept on. 
Six months passed by and he dreamed the third 
time. In this dream he saw two white men as mission-
aries coming to his town. They erected a tent, gathered 
the people around, and began to preach the seventh day 
as the Sabbath of Jehovah. He went among his people 
and told them of this dream, saying, " Some day those 
men will come as I have seen, and they will preach the 
truth." 
Recently Brother de Beer and an assistant, knowing 
nothing of the dreams, went to this town, pitched a 
tent, and commenced their work. In a little while 150 
folk had come out on the Sabbath question, and the 
whole countryside was stirred with the message of 
Sabbath reform. 
A few weeks ago Brother de Beer pitched his tent in 
a near-by town. One day five men came to him. They 
told him they had walked fifty miles to see him. " We 
have heard of your teaching here. We have heard 
about the Sabbath. We have come to inquire and to 
investigate." 
Brother de Beer said, "How did you learn about the 
Sabbath ? " One man reached for a packet he was 
carrying, and drew out an old worn pamphlet, " The 
Restoration of the Sabbath." It was printed in the 
Xosa (Kaffir) language. It had somehow fallen into 
their hands, and a large company were observing, as well 
as they knew, the Sabbath of the Lord. 
Some years ago in British Guiana among the Indian 
people there was a man named Prega, an Indian who, 
by the Spirit of God, became deeply convicted and 
concerned about God and his personal need of Him. He 
was a pagan man, but was led to pray most earnestly for 
light and guidance. He went to England, having heard 
that there he would find God. He reached London, but 
did not find God. While there he heard of a place 
where he was told the sun never set,—the Arctic circle. 
He felt that in such a place he would find God. He 
went there and to the Netherlands also, .but failed 
to find Him. 
He continued praying most earnestly, and later was 
impressed in a dream to return to his own land and 
there he would find God. He went back to British 
Guiana and God revealed Himself to Prega. He 
dreamed and heard a voice tell him to preach to his 
people that Jesus was coming again, and that the 
seventh day of the week is the Sabbath of Jehovah. He 
obeyed the voice of the dream, and today there are 
hundreds of the people in his territory keeping God's 
law and calling for us to send workers to lead them into 
the fullness digesent truth. 
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In the same country there was a man 
named Ebel. He, ton, became convicted 
of his need of God. He saw a vision and 
told his people that God had shown him 
Jesus in heaven. 
He saw a long table laden with fruits 
that would not spoil, and many other 
things were shown him. He was so im-
pressed with the dream that he reformed 
his life, put away his wives save one, left 
off eating unclean foods, and stopped 
drinking native grog. 
He then commenced to teach the people 
to observe the seventh-day Sabbath, the 
truth concerning the state of the dead, the 
punishment of the wicked, the resurrec-
tion of the righteous, and the imminent 
advent of Christ. He further told his 
people that English missionaries would 
come and tell them other things, and the 
people were told to receive the truth they 
would teach. He said the Sabbath would 
be the sign of the true missionaries. 
A man named Auke went to see Ebel, 
and they agreed on the truth. Auke was 
an old man, and told his people that he 
would not live to see the missionaries, but 
they would come. He especially in-
structed his granddaughter and told her 
that she would live to see them. Brother 
Davis, who worked among the Indians of 
this territory and later died among them, 
visited Auke, who lived some distance 
away, and talked with him, finding him in 
harmony with many features of truth. 
We are now among this people, and on 
August 20, 1932, Brother Corscallen, one 
of our workers, baptised Auke's grand-
daughter and her husband, a faithful 
couple. Others all about are awaiting 
baptism. 
Perhaps the most extraordinary of all 
is the recent experience of a lad in the 
Panama peninsula. 
Among the Weima Indians we have 
commenced work, and Brother Ellis has 
a church of fifty-two baptised members 
in his centre, and a school. Brother 
Lawrence, superintendent of the Panama 
territory, was visiting the field and has 
just returned. He sent a letter by air 
mail to Pastor E. E. Andross, which 
reached him while in attendance at the 
General Conference Council. In it he 
tells this story : 
When he went among the Indians he 
was told of a boy preacher living some 
distance from our mission. So with 
Brother Ellis and Brother Shanon, a 
teacher, and with the elder of the Indian 
church as interpreter, they set out to find 
the boy. After riding on horseback for 
fifteen or sixteen hours they reached 'his 
village, and finally found the lad. They 
photographed him, and I have a copy in 
my possession. He was a lad about nine 
years of age, and was wholly nude. He 
had never seen a missionary until he saw 
our men. He was an absolute heathen, 
and was quite uneducated, never having 
been in touch with any school, and until 
God revealed Himself to this lad he had 
never heard of Him. 
He told Brother Lawrence that he had 
dreamed, and in his dream he saw these 
things. He said, "God is soon going to 
destroy the earth, and we must prepare 
for it by not going to native dances, beer 
feasts, or devil worship. We must not 
fight nor kill, but we must love one 
another. We must obey God and His 
Word. Many diseases and earthquakes 
will come upon the earth, and all the 
wicked will die in one day. Plagues will 
come, and there will be no rice, nor corn, 
nor fruit. If we obey God He will give 
us a crown of gold. God seems to come 
to the earth, but will not touch it. In 
that day there will be no mountains nor 
hills. All will be levelled. The rivers 
will be dried up and emptied. I was told 
to tell these things, and no one will 
stop me. I saw that the devil was sad 
From Porto Rico, West Indies 
EVIDENCES of God's special working 
by His Spirit are seen in Porto Rico, as 
well as in many other parts of our An-
tillian Union. During recent weeks a 
number of groups have been baptised in 
the Porto Rico Mission. Pastor L. J. 
Borrowdale, the mission superintendent, 
reports some very encouraging experi-
ences. One has to do with a promi-
nent business man, a floriculturist, 
who has accepted the message. 
When the matter of the tithing system 
was presented to him, he resolved to be-
gin immediately to pay tithe, not only on 
his earnings but also on his property. He 
plans to pay a certain portion every week 
until he tithes his entire holdings. This 
is a worthy example. 
Being a wholesale florist as well as 
doing a retail business, this man sent out 
a letter to all his customers over the is-
land, which has been the means already 
of calling the attention of many to 
the Sabbath truth. In addition to this 
letter he sent out the same announce-
ment three times by radio over the island. 
Thinking that others would like to read 
this man's good letter, I am passing on a 
translation of it. 
"To My Distinguished Customers and 
Friends: 
"A true Christian should keep all the 
ten commandments of the law of God just 
as they were written by His finger upon 
tables of stone on Mt. Sinai. (Ex. 20: I-
18.).. 
 
"Having read attentively in the Holy 
Scriptures of both the Old and the New 
Testaments, I have discovered a beautiful 
truth that has filled me with joy—the 
truth that God from the beginning of 
creation, consecrated and sanctified a day 
in which He may be worshipped, and 
that day is Saturday. To my great sur-
prise, the observance of the Sabbath (Sat-
urday) is commanded in the fourth com-
mandment of the moral law. 
"Is there any people on earth that is 
keeping that commandment 1—Yes, the 
Seventh-day Adventist denomination. Is 
it teaching the gospel of Christ ?—Yes, 
and for these reasons, I am a Seventh-day 
Adventist. I am fully with them. 
"Therefore : It is my fervent desire to 
because the end of the world is near." 
"In the last days,saith God, . . "your 
young men shall see visions, and your old 
men shall dream dreams." 
What do all these things mean to us ? 
God is working today, leading the heathen 
to prepare. Shall we not link our lives 
with theirs, and know day by day that we 
are free from sin through the Lord Jesus 
and ready to meet Him when He comes ? 
W. G. TURNER. 
make known to my distinguished and se-
lected customers, in my occupation of 
floriculture, that, beginning with Sabbath, 
the ninth of July, 1932, I shall keep the 
Sabbath in obedience to the fourth com-
mandment of the law of God. (Ex. 20: 
8-II.) 
""This day will be considered holy, not 
only by me but by all of my employees, 
so I earnestly beseech all my customers to 
have the kindness not to try to purchase 
from me on that day, not even to inter-
view me in connection with business of 
any kind. I want to consecrate a day to 
God, and that day will be the Sabbath 
(Saturday) since it has been sanctified by 
God Himself. 
" Without distinction of persons, I shall 
not sell on that day to anybody, nor shall 
I transact business of any kind. Do not 
try to make me violate the dictates of my 
conscience. Refrain from it in obedience 
to God and at the same time you will be 
doing me a great favour. My working 
week begins Saturday at sunset and ends 
Friday at sunset. 
"Yours respectfully, 
"Antonio Angueira." 
I had the privilege of meeting this 
man at the last Sabbath service at Rio 
Piedras. 
A. R. OGDEN, 
Supt. Antillian Union. 
ON the front page of one of our 
exchanges, The Advent Survey, published in 
England, as the organ of the Northern 
European Division, there appears a set of 
photographs of the New Model Hospital, 
with four large buildings for employees, 
valued at £25,000, which the Emperor of 
Abyssinia has handed over to the General 
Conference. This he has promised to 
equip and complete, and to enlarge if 
required, and also to make an annual 
contribution towards the work. In mak-
ing this definitely known to our officials, 
the Prime Minister said, " We want to 
assure you that the reason why we are 
doing this is because we have confidence 
in you and your denomination." Thus 
the Lord fulfils to us the promise of Isaiah 
60 : 1o, " The sons of strangers shall build 
up thy walls." 
" NO man can avoid his own company, 
so he had better make it as good as pos-
sible." 
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OUR MISSION FIELD 
Roo, to Whom a Calamity 
Proved a Blessing 
ROO, whose snapshot I am sending you, 
is a young lady of twenty-two years, a child 
of native Seventh-day Adventists from the 
island of Maupiti. Money being scarce 
on Maupiti, the father started out, 
when his family was yet small, in search 
of more of this world's goods. While liv-
ing on the island of Moorea, Roo being a 
small girl, the family came in contact with 
one of our workers, and with others ac-
cepted the truth. After a few years the stone 
began to roll again, and the family landed 
on the phosphate island of Makatea. Here 
the father sold to the native workmen 
many of our books and used Sabbath 
school Picture Rolls. From there after a 
few short years the family, now grown to 
ten children, moved to the coral atoll of 
Tikehau, in the Tuamotu Islands, and built 
large stone fish traps in the passage, and 
made a comfortable living catching fish 
and selling them to the phosphate com-
pany on Makatea. 
But the parents had grown careless in 
spiritual things, and though they rested 
from their fishing on the Sabbath, yet they 
had no Sabbath school, family worship 
was irregular, and it was not unusual for 
the father and boys to remove their fish 
from the traps and prepare them for ship-
ment on the Sabbath afternoon. 
But the Lord, who loves His erring chil-
dren, allowed a calamity to come to draw 
the family back to Himself. A storm 
passed over the island of Tikehau, and 
threw down a tall coconut tree directly 
across the house in which Roo was lying 
at the time. The frail structure collapsed, 
and one of Roo's legs was crushed and 
broken in several places below the knee. 
This Is Roo and Her Child 
There chanced to be a schooner in the 
lagoon awaiting the abatement of the 
storm to sail for Tahiti. Roo was placed 
aboard and brought by her husband and 
her father to the Government hospital here 
in Papeete. They arrived Sunday noon, 
and at two o'clock her leg was amputated 
below the knee. 
When we visited her in the hospital she 
told us of their knowledge of the truth, 
their unfaithfulness, and her own repent-
ance and desire for further spiritual help 
and baptism. Upon her removal from the 
hospital we brought her to the mission, 
where she lived with us, receiving in-
struction with others, the while manifesting 
a real live, joyous Christian experience, in 
spite of the terrible handicap that was to 
be hers henceforth. It was a pleasure to 
baptise her a little later in one of the 
streams not far from Papeete, and then to 
send her back to her home among her 
parents and brothers and sisters on one of 
the coral atolls. Though she went back 
with only one foot, making crutches 
necessary, she was full of Christian enthus-
iasm, and carried a large envelope of 
Sabbath school supplies. We knew that 
henceforth there would be a change in the 
Christian experience of the whole family, 
We were not disappointed. Reports 
have come in. Sabbath school money and 
tithes have come. I have visited them 
twice. The father has taken new courage, 
and acts as leader of their little Sabbath 
school, though Roo is still the unseen 
backbone of the little group. The Sabbath 
is better observed by them. Family wor-
ship is held regularly, and the parents and 
Roo carry a real burden on their hearts 
for the conversion of all the children. We 
anticipate that their example and influence 
will win some of their neighbours to the 
truth. Roo's physical calamity proved a 
spiritual blessing. She is shown in the 
photo with her first baby, three months old 
the tenth of this month. 
GEO. L. STERLING. 
Papeete, Tahiti. 
Dec. 26, 1932. 
Mission Work in the Gizo 
District, Solomon Islands 
SINCE we came to the Gizo district the 
work has been somewhat different from 
that on Malaita, but we have enjoyed it 
very much. When we arrived at Buri the 
mission house had a roof and a floor, but 
was far from finished. After a few days 
we had a room that afforded us a fair 
protection from flies and mosquitoes. 
Gradually we have improved things. Mrs. 
Anderson and the children have worked 
hard in the garden, and for some time our 
table has shown the results. 
We believe that the spirituality of the 
people is growing daily. In June we had 
one baptism, and expect to have another 
ere long. The teachers at both Buri and 
Mondo state that the people are different 
now from what they were some time back. 
They take notice of all that is told them. 
At present all are working on a planta-
tion with the object of securing funds to 
build an iron-roofed church. They have 
already handed me £2 8s. tithe and £21 I2S. 
toward their church, so you can see that 
all are working well together. 
Leaving Buri and going through our 
field, we meet some very fine people. At 
Dovele, Rore is doing a very fine work. 
Today a young couple left here to go as 
missionaries to Malaita. As the men from 
Malaita working on the plantations have 
been causing much trouble lately, some 
became fearful, but this couple when asked 
if they would be ready in about twenty-
two hours to go to Malaita, stated that if 
that was our desire they would be ready. 
Tonight they are on their way. They felt 
it a little, being called out so suddenly and 
not having been to the Batuna Training 
School, but they went as bravely as any 
soldier. 
We have to report the brutal murder of 
one of our baptised boys by two Malaita 
men at Boboe, in the Wana Wana Lagoon. 
It seems that our lads had been gathering 
pearl shell on the east coast of Kolam-
bangra Island. At night they decided to 
sleep on a small island just off the coast. 
During the day they had spoken to some 
Malaita men who were working on the 
near-by plantation. These men promised 
to come over and buy some armlets and 
mats. At nine o'clock at night they came, 
and after what seemed a friendly chat, 
whilst our two boys were not looking, one 
was chopped down with an axe and the 
other one just looked up in time to see the 
weapon coming toward his head. �
He 
dodged, and the blow struck his shoulder. 
Then he dived into the sea and swam to 
the mainland. After two nights and a 
day in the scrub he reached home. 
Soon the police were on the scene and 
arrested the two offenders, who are at 
present at Tulagi, awaiting the results of 
their deeds. The brothers of the murdered 
boy were greatly upset, and stated that it 
was only the mission that restrained them 
from avenging themselves. Our teacher 
there has proved a very reliable lad, spend-
ing hours explaining the Scriptures, until 
he brought the people to see that they 
could leave all with God. 
From just beyond that mission comes 
the call for a teacher. All this time those 
people have held out against the gospel, 
but today a message from them was handed 
to me. I am planning to visit them to-
morrow. But what about a teacher? 
Brother Gray is waiting for twenty 
teachers for Bougainville, Brother Ferris 
eight for Guadalcanar, Brother Arthur 
Parker five for Malaita, and Brother 
McLaren four for New Guinea. Then 
recently from our villages comes a call 
for two. If ever we should pray for 
reapers it is now ! 
J. D. ANDERSON. 
THERE will be a series of events reveal-
ing that God is master of the situation. . . . 
Onward and still onward the work will 
advance, until the whole earth shall have 
been warned; and then shall the end 
come.—" Testimonies," Vol. 9, p. 96. 
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HOME 
WiSsioNs 
" All Agents Welcome—Ring the 
Bell" 
OUR colporteurs are well acquainted 
with such signs as "No Agents Allowed," 
"Peddlers and Solicitors Keep Out," etc. 
In fact, they are so well acquainted with 
them that they pay little or no attention 
to them, as they do not feel that these 
signs are put up to keep out missionary 
workers, which our colporteurs certainly 
are. But one of our colporteur evangelists 
working in one of our large cities some 
time ago noticed a neat little card on the 
inside of a door window which greatly 
interested him, as it was so in contrast to 
the usual signs which are put out to keep 
agents away. It read : " All agents wel-
come—ring the bell." Presently he was 
met at the door by a pleasant little lady, 
who invited him in and offered him a 
chair. After asking her the meaning of 
the unusual sign on the door the colpor-
teur was still more surprised when she ex-
plained: "You see I am crippled, and I 
am also getting well up in years and un-
able to go out and do any missionary 
work as I used to do, and so I thought 
since so many people are so unkind and 
abusive to agents, my home could be an 
oasis to some weary, discouraged one. 
This, you see, affords me an opportunity 
to speak a word of cheer and also to give 
them a tract to read. Some days I have 
quite a number of callers, but this is my 
work and pleasure. Many, both men and 
women, who have called have told me 
that I was the first one who had ever 
spoken to them personally about their 
soul's salvation. Even though I am 
usually unable to buy anything from these 
callers, often they tell me that they were 
so much encouraged because of our short 
visit that they felt as happy as though 
they had made a sale." 
The one sending in this story appropri-
ately remarks : " This sweet little mother 
with hair of silver and gray was not an 
Adventist, but possibly Seventh-day Ad-
ventists who believe that they have a mes-
sage of a soon-coming Saviour can learn 
a lesson from this little lady in making 
opportunities." 
Doubtless there has never been a time 
when so much merchandise was being sold 
from door to door as today. Never be-
fore have there been so many engaged in 
this house-to-house work of soliciting and 
selling. What a door of opportunity this 
opens to even our shut-ins to do mission-
ary work, to sell our literature, and to en-
gage in the Harvest Ingathering cam-
paign. There are those among us who 
are making use of these opportunities. 
Only a day or two ago I received the 
following interesting story from one of 
our sisters: 
"An insurance agent came to the door 
Wednesday. When he left he took a 
copy of ' Home Physician' in the best 
binding, leaving me the cash. This is the 
second order the Lord has helped me to 
take at home." 
Another interesting experience has 
recently reached us of how one of our 
sisters sold a copy of " Patriarchs and 
Prophets" to the ice man who called to 
collect the bill. The result is that the ice 
man, his wife, and mother, are today 
Seventh-day Adventists. I am well ac-
quainted with a sister who, because of 
physical weakness, has been unable to do 
house-to-house soliciting in the Ingather-
ing campaigns, but who has been suc-
cessful in reaching her goal, particularly 
through soliciting from these house-to-
house callers. 
These house-to-house callers are usually 
friendly and approachable individuals. 
They provide the openings for us for mis-
sionary work, for the sale of our litera-
ture, for Ingathering endeavour. May we 
improve these " opportunities which 
knock at our doors." 
C. E. WEAKS, 
Assoc. Sec. Gen. Conf. Publishing Dept 
Allocation of Church School 
Teachers 
PRACTICALLY the only changes made in 
the teaching staffs of the church schools 
were due to teachers leaving for the island 
mission field, or resigning to be married. 
Pastor W. J. Gilson, the Union Conference 
Educational Secretary, has given us a list 
of the church schools and the personnel of 
their present staffs, which will be of 
interest to RECORD readers. The four 
graduates from the A. M. College Normal 
Course last year have all been appointed 
to church schools. 
West Australia.—The Perth school, 
which is doing both primary and high 
school work, continues with the same 
teachers, Brother Charles Lawson and Miss 
Gladys Clark. At Victoria Park, Brother 
Harold O'Hara takes the place of Brother 
Arthur Dyason, who was called to Fiji. 
At Bickley Miss Doris Ashton remains in 
charge, with Miss E. F. Lane as assistant 
instead of Miss V. Zeunert, who is now 
Mrs. Herbert White. 
South Australia.—The Prospect school 
continues in the charge of Sister Vear. 
Tasmania.—Here the three schools have 
the same teachers as before,—Brother 
P. N. Sheppard at Hobart; Miss L. G. 
McMahon at Collinsvale ; and Miss W. 
Niebuhr at Glen Huon. 
Victoria.—The opening of a new school 
at Geelong makes a total of six in Vic-
toria, three of which are doing both primary 
and high school work. The four teachers 
at the Warburton school are Brethren 
Walter Whisker and Lionel H. Turner, 
and Misses J. Mitchell and I. Behrens. 
The Hawthorn central school also has a 
staff of four: Brother E. A. Butler, Miss 
E. Clery, Miss A. A. Hardy, and Brother 
W. Hill. North Fitzroy reopened with 
the same teachers as previously,—Miss 
Hazel Paterson and Miss Joyce Slade. 
Brother S. C. Pennington, a 1932 graduate, 
has gone to Bendigo to take up the work 
laid down by Miss I. Ball, who is now 
Mrs. W. W. Petrie, and is on her way to 
New Guinea. At Moonee Ponds Miss 
Daisy Watts relieves Miss Thelma Smith, 
who has opened the new school at Geelong. 
South New South Wales.—Three of 
the four schools in this conference are 
doing advanced work as well as primary,—
Wahroonga, Auburn, and Marrickville. 
At Wahroonga the teaching staff com-
prises Brother C. H. Millist, Miss M. 
Dawkins, and Miss L. Cleeve. The Auburn 
school has the same teachers as last year, 
—Brother E. J. Felsch, Miss Edith Smith, 
and Miss Gladys Camp. At Marrickville 
Brother Vincent Pascoe takes charge, as-
sisted by Miss Rita Vetter. The Fairfield 
school is being taught by Miss Sybil Pratt, 
a 1932 graduate from the A. M. College. 
North New South Wales.—The Avon-
dale primary school is now in charge of 
Brother G. Currow. Miss D. Lockwood 
and Miss M. Schnepel continue their work, 
with additional help from Miss R. Mitchell, 
a registered teacher from Victoria who is 
taking the Normal Course at the Col-
lege. Brother H. Totenhofer remains at 
Quirindi. The new school opening at 
Hamilton will be taught by Brother Hec-
tor Sampson, a 1932 graduate of the A. M. 
College. 
New Zealand.—In the North Island 
Miss L. Beavis continues her work with 
the Gisborne school; and at Papanui, 
Christchurch, Brother B. H. McMahon is 
in charge of the central school, assisted 
by Miss M. Smart and Mr. William Veitch. 
A Prayer 
Lord, give me true humility, 
That I my pride may kill, 
And daily walk as Thou didst walk, 
And daily do Thy will. 
Lord, give me loving charity, 
The faintest cry to heed, 
And may I always kindness be 
In thought, and word, and deed. 
Lord, give me greater faith to grasp 
Thy promises divine, 
To know my sins are all forgiven, 
To know that I am Thine. 
Lord, set a watch upon my tongue 
That I offend no more; 
That words untrue and words unkind 
Be banished evermore. 
Lord, help me here to worship Thee 
As angels do above; 
With reverence and holy joy 
And overwhelming love. 
O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Thou wondrous Trinity, 
Creator, Saviour, Comforter, 
Grant these great gifts to me. Amen. 
G. W. SOUTHERN. 
OUR object in life should not be so 
much to get through a great deal of 
work, as to give perfect satisfaction to 
Him for whom we are doing the work.—
W. H. Aitkin 
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The Missionary Exercise That 
Thrills 
(Talk Given at a General Meeting of 
Sydney Sabbath School Officers) 
LASTING as eternity may be the results 
of a well rendered missionary exercise. 
The missionary reading should be one of 
the brightest features of the Sabbath 
school. They come to us warm from the 
mission field. They show what the Bible 
is doing in those dark lands. They tell of 
the victory, ,the new nature, that God has 
given to the lowly and most degraded who 
receive His Word into their hearts. They 
increase our love for the Bible, and our 
faith in God, and in His message. They 
cause our members to pray more for our 
missionaries. They make giving a de-
light, and sacrifice a pleasure. 
The reading of the letter from Brother 
David Gray, which you heard in the Sab-
bath school on January 21, caused a sister 
in South Australia to write at once to the 
Union office, sending in £13 for the mis-
sion work on Bougainville. One member 
in another conference, impressed by the 
suggestion of a "Christmas gift for Jesus," 
sent in a gift of £96 last quarter. Some 
offerings may be small, but if given by 
sacrifice, how precious they are in God's 
sight I 
But you will agree that a great deal de-
pends upon the way the missionary exer-
cise is presented. In order to reach the 
heart, the words must come from the 
heart of the reader. He should have a 
week to prepare, in order that he may be 
thoroughly familiar with what he is to 
present. " The missionary exercise that 
thrills" need not always be given as a 
talk,—often the subject matter would be 
better read; but it is necessary that it be 
read clearly, forcibly, and feelingly. 
We heard a missionary story given in 
one place in a way that it would never be 
forgotten ; we also heard the very same 
story read in another school by a good 
brother who was feeling his way through 
the reading for the first time, and the 
school did not even take it in. Had he 
had time to study it and become enthusi-
astic, no doubt he would have given it in 
as clear and interesting a manner as the 
one first mentioned. 
The reading should not be given to one 
who is not able to speak loud enough for 
all to hear. If you give the missionary 
exercise to a child who mumbles through 
it, or call on an adult who has never seen 
it before, you wrong the Sabbath school, 
and do them an injustice. 
If you desire to use your youthful read-
ers sometimes, choose those who are 
interested in missions and who could read 
loudly enough with training, and arrange 
for them to read it aloud beforehand to 
some one sitting at the back of the church. 
Help them with the pronunciation of 
foreign names. Make sure they announce 
at the beginning the name of the writer. 
This will enable them to form right habits 
of reading in public, rather than to con-
firm them in wrong ways. Lead them to 
see that one way they can help the mission 
field is to read the missionary exercise 
well. 
Each of the missionary readings for 
February is a gem. And all the March 
ones were written in Papua especially for 
our Sabbath schools next month. May 
they be a blessing as they are presented 
in your school. 
VIOLA M. ROGERS. 
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SECRETARY 
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Fremantle Sabbath School 
" This our prayer, dear Lord, today, 
As we travel life's pathway, 
May we brighten, guide, enlighten, 
Those we meet along life's way." 
THIS junior prayer-song, sweetly freed 
from six infant lips, broke the hush of the 
commencement hour of the Thirteenth 
Sabbath at the Fremantle Sabbath school. 
After the superintendent's warm wel-
come to all the school's old members, and 
a special welcome to those present for the 
first time, sixty happy hearts enthusi-
astically joined in the Sabbath hymn, and 
from the altar of prayer echoed two earn-
est petitions for divine presence, mingled 
with a note of sincere praise and thanks-
giving for a year of precious blessings. 
Four young people rehearsed in song 
the gospel commission, "Go and tell unto 
all the gospel story," impressing each 
heart with his individual responsibility. 
At the touch of the bell the juniors 
eagerly, but quietly, retired to enjoy the 
happy thrills of their own division. We 
will follow them for a while to ascertain 
the cause of such eagerness. At the word 
from the leader all heads are bowed while 
the opening prayer-song is sung, then all 
are seated. How eager and expectant the 
forty little faces are, for they expect to 
hear by wireless the last report of our 
isl and missionary. The missionary's 
story is short, but his plea is that more 
pennies be given so that more workers can 
be sent out to help him. Now the chil-
dren are given the privilege of helping the 
missionary. One pound for Thirteenth 
Sabbath! It sounds too much for children 
to give. Each Sabbath throughout the 
quarter they have brought pennies given 
them for tram fares and lollies and placed 
them in the Thirteenth Sabbath offering 
bag, and now the special offering is to be 
collected. Eagerly the many pennies are 
counted until the sum total of 20s. is an-
nounced. Buzz-z-z-z. Here is the aero-
plane with the fourteenth missionary to 
be placed on the mission station, while 
little hearts thrill with the satisfaction of 
unselfish efforts rewarded. 
The children are now returning to the 
senior division. What a sight, as forty 
radiant little faces under star-bedecked 
crowns which tell of faithfulness in 
prompt attendance and lesson study, greet 
us I Quietly they take their places before 
us and sweetly sing, " Will there be any 
stars in my crown?" We pray that each 
little child will have a crown in Jesus' 
kingdom. 
Click ! Here comes the aeroplane from 
the children's division ; now it has dropped 
its special freight into the offering basket, 
and continued on its way. 
A chosen member from each of the four 
classes brought their offerings to the 
front, the amount totalling £6 9s.—just 
45. 2d. short of double last quarter's Thir-
teenth Sabbath offering. Some people 
think we are always called upon to give, 
give, give. Let us ponder over the 
thought that God gave His only begotten 
Son, and we shall realise more fully that 
salvation is bound up in giving. "Freely 
ye have received, freely give." 
The Fremantle Sabbath school aims for 
higher ground in study and greater success 
in soul-winning in the new year. 
EVA E. BRADLEY. 
An Experience in Western 
Australia 
How often in the service of God does 
one hear the statement, " We shall never 
know the result of our work on earth un-
til we stand redeemed on the eternal 
shore." Like the sound of sweetest 
music, so is the effect produced when the 
remark is heard. 
While such a thought is radiant with 
hope and tends to buoy one up in the ser-
vice of God, often there come times when 
the reaper longs to see fruit now, and our 
God who well understands the human 
heart, gladly responds by revealing experi-
ences which make glad the heart. 
Some eighteen months ago a stranger 
entered a theatre where a mission was 
conducted, and heard for the first time 
Pastor Roenfel t deliver an address. The 
subject presented, the impression gained, 
created so powerful an influence that the 
listener, a woman, inwardly resolved to 
obey God. Later with a friend she joined 
in a Bible study, and again her confidence 
was confirmed. Subsequent developments 
resulted in the Signs of the Times being 
ordered for twelve months. 
After the visit to the mission the lady 
left the city for a remote country district, 
where as a welcome visitor the Signs came 
each week. Learning from a friend and 
by reading, that God requires His children 
to be faithful stewards this lady, alone in 
her decision for Christ, commenced to lay 
by her tithe for the work of God. 
Recently another effort was launched at 
Victoria Park, and one night at the con-
clusion of the service this lady, much to 
the surprise of our usher, handed him a 
package as her first tithe for the work of 
God. 
That God's Spirit is working upon 
hearts is evidenced on every hand. This 
experience is written simply to inspire 
fresh confidence in our service for God. 
Do you ever grow weary? Do you ever 
wonder whether your labours are re-
warded ? Hope on, weary soul, for while 
it is true that we shall never know the ex-
tent of our work until heaven is reached, 
it is also true that the God whom we serve 
reveals much in this life to make us glad, 
GORDON I. WILSON. 
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ALISTRMLABIAN RECORD �
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VICTORIA 
PRESIDENT : G. G. STEWART 
SECRETARY: L. d. iMRiE 
Victorian Conference and 
Camp Meeting 
AT Glenhuntly, near Melbourne, on 
park lands adjoining the site of the 1932 
camp, delegates and members represent-
ing our thirty-three Victorian churches 
assembled for the forty-fifth annual se.-
sion of the conference from January 10-22, 
1933, when approximately 230 tents were 
erected. 
Eight business meetings were held. 
Progress was indicated by the reports of 
the field workers and the departmental 
secretaries. Workers had been stationed 
in eleven districts, and 175 were baptised 
during the year. The membership of the 
conference at the end of the year was 
1,818, an increase of 104 over the previous 
year's membership. Recently 54 were 
baptised, who had not yet, when the re-
port was prepared, been accepted into 
church membership. Two new churches 
were organised in I932,—Coomealla and 
Glenhuntly. 
The present worth of the conference 
had increased by £1,164, which is only £7 
less than the total increase for the two 
preceding years. The tithe receipts were 
£10,691 ; this amount exceeded expendi-
ture from the tithe fund by £178. Ar-
rangements have been made for an ad-
ditional worker on our field staff. The 
amount of tithes and offerings sent tki 
the Union Conference during the 
twelve months was £8,811 ; this included 
£2,362 Sabbath school offerings, and 
£2,396 Appeal for Missions funds. The 
book and periodical sales for the year 
were £3,904; the loss on the Tract Society 
was Its. 4d. 
Five schools were in operation last 
year, with an enrolment of 195 students. 
Twelve teachers were on the pay roll, in 
addition to 35 evangelical and office 
workers. 
Conference Officers 
PRESIDENT: G. G. Stewart. 
SECRETARY-TREASURER : L. J. Imrie. 
SABBATH SCHOOL SECRETARY: Miss 
M. C. Barlow. 
MISSIONARY VOLUNTEER SECRETARY : 
H. J. Meyers. 
HOME MISSIONS SECRETARY : H. J. 
Meyers. 
ASSISTANT HOME MISSIONS SECRE-
TARY: A. H. Forbes. 
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY SECRETARY: E. 
G. Whittaker. 
EDUCATIONAL SECRETARY: G. G, 
Stewart. 
TRACT SOCIETY SECRETARY: A. H. 
Forbes. 
FIELD MISSIONARY SECRETARY : J. T. 
Young. 
ASSISTANT FIELD MISSIONARY SECRE-
TARY : Mrs. M. Badcock. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: G. G. Stew-
art, E. G. Whittaker, W. 0. Johanson, W. 
A. Bussau, A. E. White, H. H. Rowell, B. 
P. Mills. 
Credentials and Licenses 
MINISTERIAL CREDENTIALS : T. H. 
Craddock, L. Currow, H. A. Hill, L. J. 
Imrie, G. E. Marriott, H. J. Meyers, C. 
P. Michaels, G. G. Stewart, L. F. Were, 
E. G. Whittaker. 
MINISTERIAL LICENSE: C. E. Ashcroft, 
0. K. Anderson, M. A. Connell, E. R. 
Gane, M. Grolimund, G. J. Parker, R. J. 
Paterson. 
MISSIONARY LICENSE: W. A. Beatty, 
Mrs. M. Badcock, M. S. Ball, Miss M. C. 
Barlow, Miss E. Britten, Miss F. G. 
Carver, Mrs. T. H. Craddock, Mrs. L. 
Currow, A. H. Forbes, Miss F. Groli-
mund, Miss A. S. Higgins, Miss C. E. 
Hodgetts, Miss M. McDowell, Mrs. G. E. 
Marriott, Miss A. Preuss, Mrs. K. M. 
Thorpe, Miss A. M. Williams, J. T. 
Young. 
TEACHER'S LICENSE: E. A. Butler, 
Miss E. Clery, Miss A. A. Hardy, Miss J. 
Mitchell, Miss H. Paterson, Miss T. 
Smith, L. H. Turner, W. Whisker, Miss 
D. Watts. 
JUNIOR TEACHER'S LICENSE: Miss I. 
Behrens, W. Hill, Miss J. Slade. 
MEDICAL MISSIONARY LICENSE: D. 
Dunlop, H. J. Franks, Mrs. H. 3. Franks, 
L. T. Giblett, Mrs. L. T. Giblett, R. A. 
Nattrass, Mrs. R. A. Nattrass. 
COLPORTEUR'S CREDENTIALS: Miss R. 
Creelman, Miss D. Lean, 0. Knight, Miss 
E. Sorrell, C. A. Whitehead. 
COLPORTEUR'S LICENSE: M. Anderson, 
Mrs. Aylen, F. Benham, J. Binning, Miss 
E. Clarke, L. S. Cockrane, G. Cresswell, 
Mrs. L. Crooke, H. J. Devlin, Miss C. 
Gallagher, L. Gill, D. E. Grenville, Miss S. 
Reeves, J. E. Ross, H. C. Sharp, A. D. 
Smith, Mrs. M. Scott-Gamble, Mrs. Swin-
don, W. I. Taylor, R. Tudor, Miss D. 
Young. 
Field Work for 1933 
Newport : M. Gt olimund, M. S. Ball. 
Glenhuntly 
L F. Were, G. J. Parker, 
Miss A. Preuss. 
Brighton-Windsor: E. G. Whittaker, 
R. J. Paterson, Mrs. K. M. Thorpe. 
Colac : E R. Gane, 0. K. Anderson, R. 
Tudor, Miss F. Gt elimund. 
Ringwood : Miss F. G. Carver. 
South Melbourne : W. A. Beatty. 
Ballarat : L. Currow. 
Bendigo : C. E. Ashcroft. 
Geelong : C. P. Michaels. 
Metropolitan Area : H. A. Hill, G. E. 
Marriott, T. H. Craddock, M. A. Connell, 
Miss M. McDowell. 
We regret that it is necessary for Miss 
A. S. Higgins, on account of ill health, to 
leave the work for a period of twelve 
months. As associate M.V. Secretary in 
past years Sister Higgins has rendered 
valued and untiring service in this confer-
ence, the results of which will partly be 
seen in the consecrated lives of our Vic-
torian youth. 
The camp Sabbath school offering was 
£112, and the cash offering and pledges 
for missions £833. We rejoice over the 
prosperity given by the Lord, and look in 
confidence to Him, as anew we yield our-
selves for service in His cause. We are 
assured that the work will soon be 
finished and the Saviour come again, 
when God's children will triumphantly 
enter the eternal kingdom. 
L. J. IN1RIE, 
Secretary. 
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Appeal for 
Missions 
4, 
The Appeal for Missions 1933 
THE date set for the opening of the 
1933 Appeal is February 18. Already 
some of our conferences have begun 
work, and soon the believers in the whole 
of the Australasian field will commence 
their usual annual solicitations from door 
to door. The Appeal effort for 1932 was 
crowned with success. With an aim of 
£12,500 the total receipts were £12,764 25. 
8d. We exceeded our aim because our 
people had " a mind to work," and because 
the Lord added His blessing to the faith-
ful service rendered. 
This year the aim set is £12,000, which 
is considerably below our 1932 attainment. 
Therefore we trust that our objective will 
be reached quickly. This can be done if 
all will arouse and do their best to com-
plete the task. We are still in the midst 
of depression, but the general feeling is 
that at least it is not worse than last year. 
Many declare that business generally is 
improving. 
I have just returned from a visit to 
Albury, Cowra, and Grenfell. In each 
place we did several days' work on the 
Appeal and had real good success. The 
receipts were higher than last year. 
" The Night Cometh " 
In my visiting from door to door I felt 
impressed that we have reached the time 
described by the prophet when "darkness 
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness 
the people." Isa. 60 : 2. The men and 
women of this day and generation are 
wandering from God. Refusing to accept 
the light of life, they are walking in the 
sparks of their own kindling, with the re-
sult that many are enshrouded in spiritual 
darkness. This condition constitutes a 
challenge to the church of God. The 
night is coming when no man can work. 
In the midst of this darkness we must 
arise and shine. " It is the darkness of 
misapprehension of God that is enshroud-
ing the world. Men are losing their 
knowledge of His character. It has been 
misunderstood and misinterpreted. At 
this time a message from God is to be 
proclaimed, a message illuminating in its 
influence and saving in its power. His 
character is to be made known. Into the 
darkness of the world is to be shed the 
light of His glory, the light of His good-
ness, mercy, and truth. 
"Those who wait for the Bridegroom's 
coming are to say to the people, 'Behold, 
your God.' The last rays of merciful 
light, the last message of mercy to be 
given to the world, is a revelation of His 
character of love. The children of God 
are to manifest His glory. In their own 
life and character they are to reveal what 
the grace of God has done for them."--
" Christ's Object Lessons," pp. 415, 416. 
In the midst of depression, darkness, and 
gloom, God has committed to us a mes-
sage of "good tidings." Soon the Saviour 
will return and earth's reign of sorrow 
will end, 
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The Appeal work supplies us with a 
point of contact with the people. We 
can tell them the meaning of this great 
missionary movement. As we consecrate 
ourselves to God, He will use ui to bring 
light to those who are in darkness. 
Through us His soon coming will be an-
nounced, and His character made known. 
Angels will " rejoice to use our voices to 
reveal His love." 
How thankful we ought to be that we 
are living in a land where we have abso-
lute freedom to do God's work In many 
countries the liberties of our people are 
greatly restricted. The work has to be 
done in the face of great difficulties. 
The doing of God's work will bring joy 
to our own hearts. We appeal to you to 
"come up to the help of the Lord "at this 
time. 
"My heart is often burdened because so 
many who might work are doing nothing. 
They are the sport of Satan's temptations. 
Every church member who has a knowl-
edge of the truth is expected to work 
while the day lasts : for the night cometh, 
wherein no man can work. Ere long we 
shall understand what that night means. 
The Spirit of God is being grieved away 
from the earth. The nations are angry 
with one another. Widespread prepara-
tions are being made for war. The night 
is at hand. Let the church arouse and go 
forth to do her appointed work. Every 
believer, educated or uneducated, can 
bear the message."—" Testimonies for the 
Church," Vol. 9, p. 26. 
Just now is the time for every believer 
to do His part to finish God's work. Our 
1933 Appeal work will be quickly finished 
if every believer will undertake his share 
of the responsibility. 
While the day lasts, before the night 
cometh wherein no man can work, we ap-
peal to you, dear reader, and to every 
church member, to rally to the standard, 
and speedily finish the work God has 
given us to do. 
W. J. WESTERMAN. 
Knowledge of Divine Truth 
Promised 
AFTER asking the Lord for a knowledge 
of His will, for heavenly wisdom, for the 
light of the Holy Spirit, the petitioner 
will search the Scriptures, and find that 
passages that were dark to his mind have 
suddenly grown clear, and he understands 
his duty as never before. Jesus said: "My 
doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent me. 
If any man will do His will, he shall know 
of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or 
whether I speak of Myself." The knowl-
edge of divine truth is promised to those 
who will render obedience to the light 
and truth that have been given to them. An 
entrance into the strait gate is not depend-
ent upon the possession of learning or 
riches, but it is dependent upon the 
possession of a teachable spirit. He who 
appreciates the first ray of heavenly light, 
and appropriates it, and walks in it, bring-
ing his actions into harmony with that ray, 
and becoming sanctified through it, will re-
ceive yet more light. 
E. G. WHITE. 
" THE tongue was intended for a divine 
organ, but the devil often plays upon it." 
WEDDING BELLS 
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Jacobson-Woodgate.—On January 16 
in the Masonic Hall, Mackay, which was 
tastefully decorated for the occasion, Sis-
ter Norma I. Woodgate was united in 
marriage with Brother Arthur G. Jacob-
son. Both have been in active service, 
Sister Woodgate being music teacher at 
the W. A. Missionary College, while 
Brother Jacobson is one of the evangelists 
labouring in the North Queensland Mis-
sion field. After spending a very happy 
afternoon with their many friends in 
Mackay, Brother and Sister Jacobson left 
by the evening train for Mareeba, the dis-
trict in which Brother Jacobson has 
laboured for the past twelve months. We 
wish them God's blessing as they unitedly 
labour for souls. �T. R. KENT. 
Hefren-Chester.—On January 4, in the 
Stanmore church, and in the presence of a 
large circle of relatives and friends, a very 
pretty wedding was celebrated, the con-
tracting parties being Archibald Lawrence 
Hefren, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Hefren 
of Drummoyne, and Bernie Violet Chester, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester of Five 
Dock, both members of our Drummoyne 
church, where the bride has always taken 
an active part in church work, being also 
one of our highly esteemed office workers 
at the Sanitarium Health Food Depot. 
Brother Hefren is a State school teacher. 
After the ceremony a very enjoyable even-
ing was spent by the many relatives and 
friends who gathered to extend their con-
gratulations to the bridal couple, and wish 
them Godspeed as they face together the 
responsibilities of life. Our prayers follow 
them. �
R. GOVETT. 
Davis.—John Davis, aged seventy-two, 
passed peacefully to rest in the early hours 
of Friday morning, February 3, at his son 
Eddy's home in Earl St., Merrylands, after 
a long and painful illness. On Sabbath 
afternoon, February 4, in the presence of a 
large number of sorrowing relatives and 
friends his remains were interred in the 
Rookwood Cemetery, by the side of his 
son Vincent, the victim of the late sad and 
awful drowning tragedy at Stan well Park 
when the son and his wife and three chil-
dren lost their lives. The scene at the 
graveside was a sad one, wounded hearts 
being reopened. During Brother Davis's 
long years of suffering it was my privilege 
to sit by his bedside and talk to him of 
eternal things. Though some he did not 
grasp entirely, we thank God that before 
he passed away he confessed his faith in 
God and that Jesus had pardoned his every 
sin. So with this comforting confession 
his loved ones sorrow not as others who 
have no hope, but look forward to the 
happy reunion when the Saviour comes. 
Brother Davis leaves a widow, a true 
mother in Israel, who all through her late 
husband's illness nursed him with that love 
and devotion which characterised her rich 
spiritual life at all times. There are also 
three sons, Jack, Eddy, and Clarrie, the 
last named being one of our ordained 
ministers in China; two daughters, Sister 
Hough, of Coot anbong, and Mrs. Kent, and 
one sister, Sister Brien of Mascot, who are 
left to mourn their sad loss. To them all 
we extend our deepest sympathy, with the 
prayer that the God of Israel will apply 
the healing, soothing balm of Gilead to 
their wounded hearts. 
"I look to Thee in every need, 
And never look in vain. 
I see Thy strong and tender love, 
And all is well again. 
The thought of Thee is mightier far 
Than sin and pain and sorrow are. 
R. GOVETT. 
Williams.—Sarah Williams, aged forty-
five, the beloved wife of Brother Vincent 
Williams, passed away after a brief illness 
on the morning of February 1. All that 
medical skill could do was done, but the 
end came with dramatic suddenness. Our 
late sister was a wonderful mother and an 
earnest church worker, and her influence 
among the younger children of the Stan-
more church will never be forgotten. Her 
husband is the senior elder of the Stanmore 
church, and our hearts beat with sympathy 
for him and his four children, two sons 
and two daughters, thus suddenly bereft of 
a wife and mother. In the presence of a 
large number of relatives and friends, we 
laid her to rest in God's charge, Pastor 
J. S. Stewart assisting the writer in the sad 
duty. 
"Weep not that her tasks are over, 
Weep not that her race is run, 
God grant we may rest as calmly 
When our work, like hers, is done. 
Till then we would with gladness 
Give our treasure to God to keep, 
And rejoice in the sweet assurance 
He giveth His loved ones sleep." 
R. E. HARE. 
God's Care for His Individual 
Children 
EVERY redeemed one will understand 
the ministry of angels in his own life. 
The angel who was his guardian from his 
earliest moment; the angel who watched 
his steps, and covered his head in the day 
of peril ; the angel who was with him in 
the valley of the shadow of death, who 
marked his resting place, who was the first 
to greet him in the resurrection morning, 
—what will it be to hold converse with 
him, and to learn the history of divine 
interposition in the individual life, of 
heavenly co-operation in every work for 
humanity ! 
All the perplexities of life's experience 
will then be made plain. Where to us 
have appeared only confusion and disap-
pointment, broken purposes, and thwarted 
plans, will be seen a grand, overruling, 
victorious purpose, a divine harmony.—
" Education," p. 305. 
Important Dates 
Camp Meetings : 
Tasmania: Feb. 14-26. 
South Australia : Feb. 14-26. 
West Australia : March 7-19. 
A. M. College opens: Feb. 15. 
N. Z. Missionary College opens : Feb. 15. 
W. A. Missionary College opens: March 22. 
Appeal or Missions: Feb. 18— 
Week of Prayer: May 27-June 3. 
Union Conference Council: Aug. 29-Sept. 
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MISS EDITH E. CLARKE sailed from 
Sydney on February 4 by the M. V. Man-
unda on her way to Western Australia to 
fill the position of matron of the W. A. 
Missionary College. On her way through, 
Miss Clarke spent a few days with her sis-
ter in Melbourne, Mrs. D. Nicholson. 
WHEN this paper reaches most of our 
readers two camp meetings will be in 
session,—in Tasmania and South Aus-
tralia, the opening date for both being 
February 14. At the Tasmanian meeting 
Pastors W. G. Turner and W. J. Gilson 
will be in attendance from the Union 
Conference ; and at the Adelaide meeting, 
Pastors A. G. Stewart, A. W. Anderson, 
and J. J. Potter. 
A WIRELESS from England brings the 
sad news of the death of our dear Sister 
A. E. Geiss on February 3, at Stanborough 
Park. Sister Buckle, who has been as a 
devoted daughter to her, sent the mes-
sage: "Mother sleeps. Bronchial pneu-
monia. Sent loving messages." Sister 
Geiss will be remembered by many 
RECORD readers throughout the field. 
Since leaving our shores for England a 
little over twenty years ago she has main-
tained a deep interest in the work and 
workers in Australasia, and her warm 
loving disposition and saintly life have 
been an inspiration to all who knew her. 
Although in her eighty-sixth year, her 
death will be felt as a sad loss by a very 
wide circle who have been blessed by her 
example of loyalty and devotion to the 
cause. Further particulars will be given 
later. 
A LETTER filled with faith and cheer 
has come to us from Brother J. Bowen, 
one of the two brethren near Newcastle 
whose homes and everything they pos-
sessed were destroyed by bush fires last 
month, as mentioned in the RECORD of 
January 30. Brother Bowen writes : 
" We are beginning to settle down now 
after that trying experience, and are 
thankful to our kind heavenly Father for 
His love toward us in even helping us 
try to forget it. We have tasted and seen 
that the Lord is good, and know that His 
promises are sure. One of the leading 
thoughts of the lesson that week was in 
Isaiah 43 : 1,2, and that promise was ful-
filled to the letter, for the Lord did bring 
our wives and families through the fire 
and it did not kindle upon them. We are 
all of good courage and trusting in the 
Lord, and day by day endeavouring to be 
submissive to His will, as we know it is 
best. Both Brother and Sister Harrogon 
and ourselves are very grateful for all the 
expressions of sympathy and kindly gifts 
to us. Indeed, the sting has been taken 
out of the trial by the ready manner in 
which the dear brothers and sisters and 
also kind friends have come to our help." 
IN a letter accompanying a report 
which will be published in our next issue, 
Brother A. C. Ball, who is in charge of 
the Batuna Training School, Solomon 
Islands, wrote on January 22: As week 
by week and month by month passes, we 
are gradually finding ourselves better 
acquainted with our work and happier in 
bearing the responsibility that God has 
given us. Soon the school will reopen, 
for even at the present time the boat is 
away picking up the students for the new 
year. If all goes well, we are expecting 
a record year and a blessed time with the 
Lord as the young people sojourn here 
for their training. In two or three days 
from now the Mataram will put in her 
appearance at the Marovo Lagoon, and 
then the interest of unpacking and the 
excitement of news and mail will be with 
us again. So far we have not been 
troubled with any serious sickness, and we 
thank the Lord for His watchcare and 
Protection which have been over us con-
tinually." 
BROTHER A. J. CAMPBELL, who is in 
charge of our Intermediate School for the 
Choiseul district, Solomon Islands, wrote 
on November 21: "Our school is now in 
vacation, having closed its third year a 
few weeks ago. Six young men were 
baptised before returning to their homes. 
Brother Arthur Parker called here a few 
days ago in the Portal, the mission boat 
for Malaita. We were glad to see this 
good boat and its captain. We are ex-
pecting two students from Malaita for our 
school shortly, and four more a little later. 
We hear that recently two Malaita men 
murdered one of our mission boys at 
Wana Wana. A few weeks ago our 
nearest neighbour here at Choiseul was 
stabbed in the back by one of his Malaita 
men. The native was taken off to gaol a 
few days ago. But even among the peo-
ple of Malaita the gospel is winning its 
way. . . . Last night we had a severe 
earth-tremor. It was a very sudden jolt.' 
An Honest Measurement of 
Seventh-day Adventists 
WITH deep concern relative to the 
dangers which exist in certain modern 
cults, some of the constituents of the Inter-
national Federation of Christian Workers 
requested their president, John Edward 
Brown, to review such isms as he con-
sidered a menace to the Christian Church. 
The following extracts are copied from 
his pamphlet, entitled "The Cult King-
dom," published in response to this re-
quest : 
"In a certain city, a very godly man 
came to me with the request that I include 
`Seventh-day Adventism' in this series 
announced for review, and seemed in-
credulous when I told him that the church 
of Christ had no fight to make on Seventh-
day Adventism. 
"There are no fundamental grounds for 
disagreement between the organised 
Church of Jesus Christ and the Seventh-
day Adventists. 
" On all cardinal doctrines of the Bible 
—the miraculous conception, the virgin 
birth, the crucifixion, resurrection, and 
ascension, the deity of Christ, the atone-
ment of Christ, the second coming, the 
personality of the Holy Spirit, and the in-
fallible Bible, the Seventh-day Adventist 
rings as true as steel. 
" He may disagree, profoundly so, on a 
great many different angles of these differ-
ent lines of teaching, but in the essential 
parts, he stands with the organised church 
of Christ. 
" There should be no conflict between 
religious movements, organised or un-
organised, that seek to be outright and 
downright loyal to the great overshadow-
ing facts of our holy religion. 
"When you walk up in the presence of 
Mormonism, Eddyism, and Russellism, 
you walk up in the presence of that which 
has strange theories to present—strange 
doctrines to promulgate—all but literally 
a' new God' to worship. 
"Between such movements as these and 
the organised church of Christ there can 
be no neutral ground." 
G. W. REASER. 
In Review and Herald. 
A University Teacher's State-
ment Regarding the Writings 
of Mrs. E. G. White 
WHEN nursing in Melrose, after we 
were married, I took some University ex-
tension class work conducted in the 
Chauncey Freemont High School, Mel-
rose. One day in the literature class, the 
teacher, Miss E. McMillan, who had just 
returned from an extended trip and study 
of literature in Europe, asked us to come 
next day prepared to give three quota-
tions from our favourite author, and let 
the rest of the class members have a test 
on naming the author by discerning the style 
of language used. 
As it so occurred, I was the first one 
called on, and although there were about 
forty-eight in the class, not another one 
was called upon, and the whole time was 
taken up in the discussion of the author I 
quoted. 
After my quoting a passage from "The 
Desire of Ages" the entire class failed to 
name the author, and to my happy sur-
prise the instructor said : 
" Well, class, those are words from the 
pen of Mrs. E. G. White." She then 
made a long speech, saying she knew 
nothing of religion, but stating, however, 
that she was unblushingly able to declare 
herself an authority on literature, and that 
it was a pity that Mrs. White's writings 
were not better known in the literary 
world. She then said that she was go-
ing to make a bold and strong statement, 
but that she meant every word of it, and 
that was that "of all writings, ancient, 
medieval, or modern, there are no writings 
so full of beauty, so perfect in every way, 
so pure, and yet so simple, outside the 
Bible, as the writings of Mrs. E. G. 
White." 
Needless to say, I was proud to be a 
Seventh-day Adventist. 
HAROLD N. WILLIAMS, 
Operator and Director, 
Radio Station, BBSL. 
106 Freshwater Rd, 
St. John's, 
Newfoundland.