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wish to attend are such at present that it has
been decided to appropriate $2,000 to it.
The Oakwood Training-Scheol
This school near Huntsville, Ala., is to re-
ceive $3,000. Its mission is to educate our
young colored people in the South, and to
train as many of them as possible for gospel
workers. It is the only training-school de-
voted entirely to the colored people that we
have established in this country. It has al-
ready been a great blessing to many of our
youth. It is greatly needed now, and its
efficiency should be largely increased. The
$5,000 set apart for that enterprise will be a
great boon to the managers, and to the stu-
dents also. The school is steadily improving,
and must be made a strong factor in our work
for the colored race in the South. What we
do for that people we must do NOW.
GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
HAN
WHAT ALL THE PEOPLE CAN DO
THE answer to the question as to what all
the people can do may never be fully seen.
Why? — Because there will be many who will
not do all they can. But our subject is what
they can do. First of all, what are they asked
to do? The greatest thing of all is to pre-
pare the world for the coming of the Lord.
That which we are now considering is the
raising of funds to equip institutions that they
may be efficient agents in that great work.
As the Lord has called us to this work, there
is a surety that it can be done; for God never
calls to a work without giving power to do it.
Let us see what all the people have been
able to do when they have taken hold willingly.
The Lord once asked his people to build him
a sanctuary. It was to cost a vast sum of
money, the candlestick alone costing over
twenty-six thousand dollars. This people had
been in bondage for nearly four hundred years.
They were now on a desert march with not a
prospect of raising heavy crops in the near
future. Yet what did they do? or what were
they able to do when all the people took hold
of the work? They not only brought sufficient
to build everything complete, but had to be re-
strained from bringing more.
Again, in later years God's people were called
upon to build a temple that would cost many
times more than all our buildings and institu-
tions in the world. Did they think it a griev-
ous burden? — No. We read in 1 Chron.
29:9 that “the people rejoiced, for that they
offered willingly, because with perfect heart
they offered willingly to the Lord.” Thus the
great work was done,
Thus again, in later years when it became
necessary to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
they were enabled to do it, “for the people
had a mind to work.” Neh. 4:6.
Even so now the Lord represents the work
given to us as a work of repairing and rebuild-
ing the old waste places. This we shall be
able to do if the people are willing to take
hold. Isa. 58:12, 13. ‘There is one promise
that should be claimed by all the people, and
prayer should be offered that the Lord may
help us to receive it. Tt is found in Ps. 110:
THE WATCHMAN
3: “Thy people shall be willing in the day
of thy power” If all will pray for God to
make them willing, then all the people may
casily raise the funds to carry on God's work.
O. O. FARNSWORTH.
FROM THE FIELD
NOTICE
A spIrITUAL school, commonly called a can-
vassers’ institute, will be held at Campobello,
S. C., Feb. 4-24, 1007. The lessons taught
will not only benefit the canvasser, but will
prove a blessing to any one.
We will be glad to have any attend, whether
you expect to canvass or not. Bring bed-
ding. Tuition will be free, and board reason-
able.
Proficient instructors have been secured, and
we expect a real spiritual feast; so come along,
“and we will do thee good.”
As we expect to conduct this institute with-
out cost to the regular canvasser, we solicit
donations, which please send to Mrs. R. T.
Nash, Campobello, S. C. Any one coming
from the north, please try to get here in time
to attend. Will all who are coming please
let me know? For further information, please
write the undersigned.
C. F. Darr,
Chester, S. C. ’
SoS oN
SOUTH CAROLINA
Engr R. T. Nasu, of Spartanburg, S. C,,
says regarding the recent agitation at that
place caused by the presentment of the grand
jury against Seventh-day Adventists for doing
secular work on Sunday :—
“I was in the southern part of the state,
visiting companies and scattered Sabbath-
keepers at the time this occurred. Sister
McHugh (our Spartanburg Bible worker) an-
swered the editorial in the Journal, showing
that Adventists were not deluded, but that the
coming of the Lord was actually near at hand,
and that the Adventists had the same right
‘to obey God rather than man’ that Peter
and John and Daniel and the three Hebrews
had in their day. Following her article was
one by Elder Carey on Religious Liberty. He
set forth the purview of the civil government
and the limit of their rights. On the heels
of this article came a heavy blow in our favor
from a man by the name of Pierce. He told
them that the recommendation of the grand
jury was a step back toward the thumbscrew,
rack, and inquisition. He made a good plea
for liberty to worship God as each one chose.
So really, as far as we can see, what has
been done, although we hear in it the hiss
of the dragon, has only tended to further our
cause and publish the truth in South Carolina.”
Sister Elizabeth McHugh also reports the
following :—
“The Baptist convention was in session
here at the time, and the whole city was stirred
over the matter. The Baptists resolved to
do all in their power for better observance
of Sunday, but not by legislation, setting their
face against that as a convention.
“The Lord used the circumstances to open
the eyes of many to the evils of religious
legislation. We do not think there will he
any indictments at present, as public sentiment
is against it. Many are inquiring into the
truth, and we hope to see some precious souls
take their stand soon.
“The church at this place has subscribed
means to send Liberty for one year to thirty-
seven individuals, in this number are included
judges, lawyers, the grand jury, doctors, den-
tists, college professors, and others.”
J
HAZEL ACADEMY
I't was our privilege to spend a portion of
three days at Christmas with our children in
this school at Hazel, Kentucky. We were
much pleased with the work being done by
both pupils and teachers. For those who have
never been to Hazel we will briefly mention
its surroundings. Located on the Memphis-
Paducah line of the N. C. and St. L. Ry,
Hazel is on the state line between Tennessee
and Kentucky. The post office and also by
far the larger part of the little village are on
the Kentucky side.
Here four or five years ago a school build-
ing was erected, and the work of the academy
begun. It soon proved best to remove the
school to a farm about a mile north of the
village. There were at least two reasons for
this move. First a small farm was purchased
on which to give the students work during
vacations and during their spare time during
school sessions, and it became necessary to lo-
cate there to do this work successfully. Then,
too, a short experience on the part of those in
charge proved that the evil influences of a
small village are in many respects harder to
combat than those in a city.
A new building was erected on the farm,
largely by student labor, the old one being re-
tained by the church in Hazel. The neces-
sary buildings and their meager equipment have
used all the available funds, and the work of
the academy is carried on only as means are
in sight. This is as it should be in one re-
spect. The important principle which, if learned
long ago by other institutions of a like nature
would have saved much anxiety and trouble,
seems to have been well planted and cultivated,
and is now bearing fruit in this place.
We have never seen an institution connected
with our work, either in the home land or in
foreign fields, where so much was being ac-
complished with so little money as in this
modest school. Other places have run heav-
ily in debt, and have then had to put up a cry
for means, and the means came because we, as
a people, hate debts. But here debts have
been avoided, and as the place was out of debt
it has apparently been thought unnecessary to
do anything for it.
t occurs to us that this is exactly the op-
posite course to what should have prevailed.
Let the institutions that have avoided debts
be supported. Let as much be done for them
as for those that have injudiciously contracted
debts that had to be met.
We were prepared to find the school in any-
thing but a wealthy condition, but we were
much surprised to see what was being done