DENVER. COLO., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1903 • ,N-U.MBEU 17. VOLUME XlIf. — In the morri•,ng sow thy seed ohrt7C.N., 7 the evening withhold hot 'chute hana Ecci : v6: • CAMP MEETING. Just where the Arkansas river turns to the eastward, one hundred miles west of Pueblo, the Little Arkansas joins the mainsstraem, and the valley, several miles wide, triangular in shape rises in a series of table lands to the foot of the massive peaks of the mai*. range. Where the waters of the two rivers meet, at the eastern point of the triangle, lies the city of Salida, one -of the most beautiful mountain towns of all the Rockies. Its pretty little homes, with their lawns- and flowers, the tree bordered streets and the run- ning water, makes a very pleasing plc- ture. This is a railroad center and its ve thousand people are made up largel of railroad men and their families. A glance at the map will prove how ad- mirably located it is for a rallying place. The main line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad stretches away.to the north, connecting it with • `Leadville, the valley of the Grand, and Grand Junction; to the east it finds its way through that wonder of nature, the RoyaLGorge, to Pueblo, connecting with all the eastern Part of the .S'ate; • on tire south it crosses Poncha Pass into San Luis valley, and from there to New Mexico and Durango; west- ward it climbs the rugged slope pf Ouray and over Marshall Pass to. Gun- ECHOES FROM THE FIELD. Echoes from the 'f ield. Published every two weeks for the Colorado S. D. A. Conference and Tract Society, At 1112 South Eleventh Street, Denver, Colo. BERTIE L. HERRELL - EDITOR.. SUBSCRIPTION, 25 CTS. PER YEAR. Entered at Denver Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. nison, Montrose and the Delta country. At the western edge of the town, and only about four blocks from its postoffice and stores, is a mesa, ris- ing some thirty feet above the level of the town. Upon the brow of this mesa, overlooking the city and com- manding an unobstructed view of the mountain ranges which surround the valley on every side, we have chosen to pitch our camp for the coming feast of tabernacles. The citizens seem de- sirous of extending every courtesy to us.. The site for the encampment was placed at our disposal through the kindness of the owner, Mr. A. W. Jones. The electric light and the city water are on the grounds and the city has donated the use of the water. The supply is from the Little river and is pure, soft and cold. The cost of living is not excessive. The time set, Au- gust 20-30, promises us the best possi- ble weather. Every pains is being taken to provide for the comfort of those who attend. The critical time in which we are living, makes each gathering of our people more important than the one which preceded it. This is to be the regular Conference meeting and we trust that every church will be repre- sented. Let every soul in Israel make a special effort to be present. Come and study the thoughts of God•as writ- ien in his word and in the wondrous works of his creation. Dr. Willard W. Hills. COLORADO CONFERENCE, The next annual session of the Colo- rado Conference will be held in con- nection with the camp-meeting at Salida, August 20-30, 1903, for the elec- tion of officers and the trnsaction of such other business as may properly come before us. Location-. The camp will be located on the mesa at the western edge of the City, only a few minutes' walk from the depot and post office. With its exten- sive and beautiful view the .location is an inspiring one. Accomodations. A sufficient number of family tents will be on hand at reasonable rates for all who desire to camp on the ground. Lumber for flooring will be supplied as far as possible. Beds and cols will be for rent. Provision. On the camp-ground will be a large dining tent for the accommodation of the public. It will be conducted as hygienically as the limited advantages of a camp-ground will permit. There will also be a provision tent where health foods will be supplied. Literature, While on the ground do not forget to visit the tent in which yill be displayed a well assorted line of denominational literature, pamphlets, books, tracts and periodicals. We will also have a nice assortment of Bibles. Come and see them. Children's and Young People's Meetings. Meetings will be held each day and night during the entire session. The young people and children will receive special attention. Experienced leaders will be in charge. Bring your children and youth to these meetings, that they may learn to know Him who is the "way, the truth, and the life." In addi- tion to these special meetings for the young regular services will be held each day from 10:30-11:30 A. M., at 3:00 P. M. and from 8:00-9:00 in the evening. These services will be made very instructive. Able speakers will present important questions of the day. Laborers. Besides the entire force of laborers in the Colorado Conference, there will be a number of ministers present from abroad, prominent among whom will be, E. T. Russell, president of the Cen- tral Union Conference; J. N. Lough- borough, I. H. Evans, W. A. Spicer, and Prof. L. A. Hoopes, president of Union college. Representatives from the Bat- tle Creek and Boulder sanitariums will also be present. Living Issues of The Day. Subjects of vital importance will re- ceive careful attention. The strange things that have occured all over the world during the last years destruc- world during the last years—destruc- tive floods, tidal waves, wars and rumors of wars, labor troubles, and the increase of lawlessness have caused many to ask, "what do these things mean?" These will be consid- ered from the Word of God. Practical Christianity, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and other supjects will be presented. Do not miss these meet- ings. Come, and bring your Bibles with you. Order. In our camp-meetings in the past, ex- perience has taught us the necessity of maintaining order on the ground. All will, therefore, be exdected to ob- serve proper decorum. At ten o'clock P. M. those who are not camping on the ground will be expected to leave, and silence will prevail throughout the camp. After the ten o'clock bell has rung, no talking will be allowed in the tents, as this would disturb others who wish to sleep. Other have rights as well as we, and as Christians it is our duty to respect them. The Object of the Camp-Meeting. As Christ often went aside, with his disciples, for spiritual recreation, so we believe it is good for Christians to-day to come together for rest, and to study God's Word. We believe, as did our Saviour, that the Word of God is "eternal life," and that a study of the Holy Scriptures can make us wise unto salvation. We therefore extend to all a cordial invitation to come and study with us. Read the program. G. F. Watson. UNCEASING MINISTRY. We all need sympathy, human kind- ness, cheer, fellowship, the thousand little things of human love, as we go along the dusty road of life. These small coins of affection are the bright- ness of every life that is blessed by a rich friendship. It is this unceasing ministry that your heart hungers for as its daily bread, not great gifts and large favors, but a gentle affecticnate- ness in your friend whch shall bring cheer, satisfying inspiration, comfort, uplifting hope and strength to your soul every time you look into his face. J. R. Miller. "Character is what a man is in his inmost thought." ECHOES FROM. THE FIELD. DISAPPOINTMENT. Our yet unfinished story Is tending all to this: To God the greatest glory, To us the greatest bliss. Our plans may be disjointed, But we may calmly rest; What God has once appointed Is better than our best. And when amid our blindness His disappointments fall, We trust his loving-kindness Whose wisdom sends them all. They are the purple fringes That hide his glorious feet; They are the fire-wrought hinges Where truth and mercy meet. No shattered box of ointment We ever need regret, For out of disappointment Flows sweetest odors yet. The discord that involve:h Some startling change of key, The Master's hand resolveth In richest harmony. --Frances Ridley Havergal. THE MESSAGE FOR TO-DAY. The visitations of wrath that have so often come upon portions of the human race, never came as lightnings from a clear sky. Precursors of right- eousness aml_ them. "Surely the turd God will ab nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the prophets." Amos 3:7. This has been true in every age. Before the antediluvians should per- ish, God sent Noah whh a message of righteousness. Gen. 6; 2 Pet. 2:5. Before the destruction of Sodom, God sent Lot to plead with them to turn from iniquity. He also revealed his intention to Abiaham. Before Je- rusalem was overthrown, its people slain and carried into captivity, Christ and his disciples preached the warn-. ing message. • Matt., 23:37, 38. Events of greater moment than those that ever transpired in the past are before us. The Bible declares be- yond the possibility of contradiction that the world shall come to an end Matt. 13:40; chat Christ shall come the second time Chap. 24:30; that the dead shall rise and the judgment be held. John 5:28, 29; Acts, 17:31. Since God ha.s prepared the world with a message at every important crisis in the past, can we conceive that the God of have would bring this world to an end without, proper warn- jag? Impossible. Now, as before, he has his faithful seravnts who give to the people "their portion of meat in due season." Luke 12:42. In all the messages in the past the prevailing sins of the age have been clearly pointed out. So it is in the last call that will ever be given to the world. Before conversion can take place, man must know the need of con- version. Let us briefly glance at the picture drawn by the spirit of inspira- tion concerning the besetting sins of the last generation. The picture is found in the seventeenth and eight- eenth chapters of the Book of Revela- tions. Babylon the Great is there stigmatized as the mother of harlots and abomination of the earth Chap. 17:5. With whom has she committed fornication? With the kings of the earth Chap. 18:3. That means union of Church and State and disunion with Christ. What motive has governed her existence? Self-glorification v. 7. Her life has been a life of decep- tion v. 23. She is responsible for the shedding of the blood of prophets and saints v. 24. She has extended her dominion, not only to human bodies, but to souls v. 13. How far-reaching have the consequences of her fornica- i of the Wine of the wrath of her forni- cation" v. 3. Refusing to heed the call Rev. 2:21, 22, continuing in her rebellion, transgressing the law of the Creator, she has 'become the habi- tation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every un- clean and hateful bird." Rev. 18:2. Spiritually, this is the darkest pic- ture ever drawn. It is a picture of en- mity, of transgression of God's law. "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Rom., 8:7. It is therefore plain that the harlot and her daughters consti- tute a giant conspiracy against God and his government. It is the culmi- nation of that confederacy which from the plain of Shinar erected the tower of Babel, through which they intended to thwart the plans of the Almighty, and storm the very heavens. It is from this Babylon, the great harlot, the con- spiracy against God, that the last mes- sage admonishes us to separate. Here it is: "And I heard ano.ber voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." While Babylon is beyond hope, and there is not a ray of light in it, there are still honest souls within her. Will you listen to the call and come? What does it mean to come out of her? It means to forever cease to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, her false doctrine. It means to separate from her filthiness and abomination; from her sins and transgressions. It means to cease to glory in self, to rebel against God. It means to accept Jesus Christ, who came to suffer and die, "that the right- eousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." Rom. 8:4. The coming out of Babylon means acceptance of Jesus Christ as he is, and thus to become like him. And then we read, "Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." �S. F. Svensson. DO YOU? "Do you know the Scripture better than you did a year ago? You ought to. "Have you any more places in the to her retreat? You ought to. "Are there more precious spots in the Bible than there were once? There ought to be. "Suppose some one had intrusted me with a great matter, and had given me written instruction how to conduct it; and suppose when I felt like it I went and read a sentence, and then after a week, half a dozen sentences; I should have only the most fragment- ary knowledge of the instruction. But how many Christains treat the Bible thus!" The above words from Wayland Hoyt, D. D., contain food for thought for young Christians. Many will con- fess that they do not read the Bible as they should. How many of us have read it through from cover to cover, once? Why not begin now and read the word of God from Genesis to Rev- elation during 1903? This should be undertaken as a privilege, not a task. Each one who does it, will receive a blessing such as he does not antici- pate.—Central Advance. The power of the law can never make vicious men virtuous.—The Out- look. ECHOES FROM THE FIELD. PROGRAM. 5:30 A. M.-Rising Bell 6:30 A. M.-Devotional Meeting 7 : 00 A. M.-Breakfast 8:30 A. M.-Conference Meeting 10:30 A. M.-11:30-Preaching 11:45 A. M. � Kindergarten and Children's Meeting. 1:00P. M.-Dinner 3 : 00 P. M.-Preaching 4:30 P. M.-Conferecne Meeting 6:00 P. M.-Young People's Meet- ing 8:00 to 9 : 00 P. M.-Preaching. A SIGN OF LIFE. Activity is a sign of life. Unbroken repose is the condition of death. There is no one thing the Laodacean Church is warned against so much as luke- warmness. "I would thou wert cold or hot," says the true witness. There is a depth of meaning in that expi es- sion. This state of the Church covers the period of the warning messaga be- fore the Saviour comes. At this time there is a decided call for activity. Luke warmness, or indifference, is de- clared to be a worse condition than positive coldness. When a man is cold and knows it, there is more hope for him than for the unimpressed luke- warm proffessor. This is an age of activity. We have replaced the sail boat with the steamship; the ox team and the stage coach with the lightning express; the dromedary post with the fast mail, the telegraph and the telephone. It takes a morning and evening daily paper, with occasional extra editions to keep abreast of the rapid current of business affairs in our time. We tell the people that the most important business in the world to-day is the Third Angel's Message. How do we show the world that we believe what we profess in this mat- ter? Where our treasures are, says Christ, our• hearts are also. The times demand that our tithes and offerings increase if the world is to be warned and we are counted alive and not luke- warm in the Master's work. There is need that each member of the church do all that he can to enlighten his fel- low men with the message. Every church officer should be a leader in tract and missionary work, and every church a recruiting station for the can- vasssing field. The measure of our activity is the measure of our love for the Master who gave all for us. Will not each church officer take an active interest in increasing the tithes and offerings and the circulating of litera- ture? Should not the off>cers call a missionary meeting and plan to enlist all in the work? I am sure the Lord will bless you in so doing.-R. C. Por- ter, in The Workers' Record. THE SERMON. "Lord, and what shall this man do?" was the text from which Bro. Watson preached to the Denver church last Sabbath. The Lord had given Peter hs work when he said to him three times, "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" and Peter had replied, "Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee." "Feed my sheep," was the sol- emn charge committed to his care. But Peter immediately looked about and saw John, and, fearing lest he might not be properly connected with the Lord's work, asked the question quot- ed above. The Lord, knowing human hearts with all their tendency to dic- tate and control other lives, did not outline John's work to Peter, for had he done so Peter would have at once set about to see that John did that work, and that he did it in a way that met his approval. Listen to the Saviour's reply, for it answers every question that ever has arisen or ever can arise in the mind of any one con- cerning another's duty in any relation to God: "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me." In the home circle, in the church, in the conference we always find those who feel called upon to re:4- ulate the lives and actions of others. They feel that they must criticise and direct according to their ideas. Young men who are inexperienced and unin- formed concerning the real necessities of the work, and who have never even been on an auditing committee, feel called upon to direct in important Mat- ters pertaining to the conference, and to criticise those who have been chosen to hold responsible positoins, whose perplexties and burdens have brought sorrow of heart, anxious thought and gray hairs. "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me." "Joseph forgiving his brethren is greater than Joseph filling the store- houses." TO LOVE THEM MORE. "I don't love people," complained a discouraged young Christain. "You don't do Christian work for them then," replied one who was older. The timid, shrinking soldier rouses with enthusiasm on the field of battle, not before; so the depressed, disheart- ened Christain glows with love for hu- manity as he serves them, and in the measure of his service is determined the depth of his love. A word, even, spoken every day for Christ, to cheer somebody, would bring more joy into many starved, narrowed lives than they imagine possible this side of heaven. We buy the power to love, and through it the happiness of loving, with our service.-Edison Driver, in The Signs of The Times. "God honors no drafts where there are no deposits." "If we lack faith where we are when whether they shall go soon to the field. How will we respond? All mail intended for the Colorado Tract Society or Conference should be addressed to Salida, Colo., from Aug. 15th to the 30th. Wanted-A position for a boy with a cork limb; unable to stand while at work. Address Will Reager, 40th and Race Sts., Denver, Colo. REPORT OF CANVASSING WORK For three weeks ending August 8, 1903. Hrs. � Ord. Home Hand Book, Va]. Helps. W. H. Huffman � 48 � 17 $104.50 $19.20 W. H. Moore � 6 27.00 .17.00 Ladies' Guide, Carrie Rousseau ... • � 86 � 41 134.00 4.00 Desire of Ages G. S. Vreeland...... �15 55.25 6.90 Bible Readings, Win. H. Brown �20 43 50 Clarence Smith � 72 � 10 27.00 1.25 Daniel and Revelation, 10 24.25 2.75 R. M. Dennis � 64 � 16 41.00 1.00 Great Controversy, Grace Dowden ..... � 4 16.25 Patriarchs and Prophets. E. G. Howlett � 70 � 18 62.50 6.50 John E. Lee � 115 � 8 52.00 9.15 Heralds of the Morning. E. J. Moore...... • • . • � 88 � 31 34.00 2.75 N. F. House � 101 � 36 43.25 16 25 Mary J. T,ayton �39 � 20 13.00 3.75 Miscellaneous, G. S. Vreeland. ..... • �23 13.50 2.75 G. �...... � 37 51.75 W. H. Moore � 30 104.10 Chas. Feitli �57 122.85 -- � - $969.70 $93.25 TOTALS � 683 � 399 DELIVERIES. Books. Value. G. Phillips ..... ............ .• 37 $ 51.75 W. H. Moore ..... • • • � •• � •• � • � • � • • � ....... - 17.75 Chas. Feith � 57 122 85 W. E Huffman � 27 163.50 TOTALS.. . � . � ....... . 121 $355.85