Nor Taratitut fltra6rttgrr THERE SHALL BE DELAY NO LONGER" Vol. III � HICKORY, N. C., AUGUST, 1906 � No. 6 can consistently pray God to bless my efforts. I am so glad to hear you thus express yourself. Now, are there not some of your neighbors who should be with you at the meeting? Yes, there is Mr. ----, who has been reading my Review for some time, and has expressed a desire to hear some preaching. I shall invite him to go with me, and to share my tent with me. By the way, will you have tents enough? and what will they cost? Yes, I think we shall have plenty for all, and the cost will be only $2.00 for the entire time. Will that include the flooring? No, the flooring will be in addition to that. I remember that the big tent leaked last year. How about that for this summer? Well, you remember that a collection was taken up for the Tent and Camp- meeting Fund. There was not enough donated to buy a new top; but we bought some parafine and treated the old top, and now it does not leak much except at the seam. Who are the General Conference and Southern Union Conference laborers who will be at the meeting? So far as now known, Elder R. M. Kilgore, Elder K. C. Russell, Prof. J. E. Tenney, and Brother I. A. Ford will be with us. Possibly others from whom we have not yet heard. The dear Lord has promised to be with us, and we know that where he is there is a blessing. I see the MESSENGER tells that there is to be reduced rates to the meeting. Will they sell excursion tickets? No, you must buy standard full fare tickets, and at the same time ask the agent from whom you buy to give a certificate of purchase. Will our agent have blank certificates to give to all who ask? They are supposed to have them, but sometimes they fail to have enough. In order to be sure you had better write to Sister Jessie V. Bosworth, Hickory, N. C., and ask her for as many as you will need. Then if the agent doesn't have them, you can produce yours. It will cost only the postage in writing to her anyway, and it will be a good thing to tell her that you are coming. Should ministers who have clergy credentials give attention to this also? Yes, indeed, every minister should buy a full fare ticket, and take receipt just the same as any one else. This is because the railroads have made a very liberal concession, and we want to swell the list of certificates to at least fifty. But will this not cause some of the ministers to pay more than they would otherwise? Very little if any. They will get the reduction on their return, which will be equivalent to their clergy reduction. What should I bring with me to the camp-meeting? You should provide yourself with plenty of clothing. Not necessarily fine clothes, but those that will be warm, and enough to put on an additional gar- ment in case of a cool or damp time. Al- so bring plenty of bedding. Should I plan to board myself? Every one can do as he chooses about this. The dining tent will be conduct- ed by able workers, who will not spare any pains to make everything pleasant for the campers. The meals they will furnish will not be elaborate, but good and nourishing and amply sufficient. What will be the cost of meal tickets this year? I am not quite certain about this yet, but you may be sure that no more will be charged than is necessary in order that the Conference shall not come out behind. Probably seven tickets will be sold for $1.00. Well, I believe that instead of talk- ing about not being able to afford to go, from this on I shall tell every one TAKE COURAGE "Workmen of God, 0 lose not heart, But learn what God is like; And on the darkest battlefield Thou shalt know where to strike. "Thrice blest is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God is on the field, when he Is most invisible. "Then learn to scorn the praise of men, And learn to lose with God; For Jesus won the world through shame, And beckons thee His road." I CAN'T AFFORD IT What is it you can't afford? Can't afford to go to the camp-meet- ing. Wait a minute. Let us talk about it. If one of your children were sick, could you not afford to call a physician? If one of them were to die, could you not afford a coffin? Why, Brother Jeys, you shock me by speaking thus. Of course I should have to do those things. Well, now, which is the most import- ant, the temporal life or the life which is yet to come? Why, the life to come is the most important, certainly. Well, now, don't you and your chil- dren need the very help in your spirit- ual life that will l?e at the camp-meet- ing for you? Yes, we need the help; but I fear the cotton will just about then be on hand. Who caused the cotton to grow? Don't you think that He who causes all vegetation to flourish can co-operate with you in saving your cotton, and al- so give you time to get what you need at the camp-meeting? Why, yes, Brother Jeys; I had not thought of it in that way. I can be- gin to plan right now to get my work out of the way so that when the time comes I will have it all up in shape. I THE NORTH CAROLINA MESSENGER that I am going, and work up an en- thusiasm among my neighbors and brethren to go too. Very good, my brother! That is the kind of talk I like to hear. Now, in- stead of needing help yourself, you are getting ready to help some one else. Would that many would go and do like- wise. T. H. J. LET US BESTIR OURSELVES "And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself." 2 Sam. 5:24. This was spoken to David when he was at war with the Philistines. To carry out this instruction he must watch and recognize the sound, and then up and doing at the time of the sound of the going; and it is being now recognized in all parts of the world that the Lord has gone out before his laborers. So we are commanded to bestir ourselves. I have seen evidences of this of late. An unconverted man sent to me for some of our literature. I had but a small selection to give him; but as I talked with him afterwards he said, "I want to read and study up on these questions. I see there is something wrong in the way people are teaching. I have read the Bible some myself." This man is well to do, and well educat- ed, and his father is a prosperous man also. I intend to send him more reading matter. There are many others who do not understand these questions. I was talking with a stock man on the ques- tion of religious liberty. He did not seem to understand it at all until I led him along to the principle of love, then light began to break. "It is not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." I have seen men with whom I have labored break down and cry on the street. Do you hear the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, when so many opportunities are being offered to fit laborers to go forth, and a con- tinual call is coming from the canvass- ing field to come and labor before the day passes away? Now we are hear- ing the call to assemble ourselves to- gether in a holy convocation at our camp-meeting. How many will rtcog- nize the call? Remember that we are living in the day of excuses spoken of by our Lord. Matt. 22:1-14. Israel spent about three months of the year at their gatherings. Some may say, "0, it is too far." Could not the Israelites have said the same? They had in many cases to walk, probably a hundred miles or more. In the New Earth some will travel at least from eight to ten thousand miles to the week- ly and monthly gatherings. You may say, "0, that will be in the New Earth." True, but we get our education and practice here before we go there. May the Lord bless us and lead us, so that we may bestir ourselves. W. H. ARMSTRONG. HILDEBRAN ACADEMY It has not seemed necessary to go to the expense of publishing a calendar for our little school. A few state- ments through the MESSENGER will be sufficient. We wish a personal corres- pondence with each student before coming. There is a similarity among indus- dustrial academies in regard to courses of study, home regulations, etc. The primary department will include grades one to six. The tuition will be $1.00 per month. Pupils in these grades will be in charge of parents or guardians when not in school. The academy will include grades seven to ten, and the tuition will be $2.00 par month for stu- dents living outside the home. Students entering the home will pay $7.00 a month and two hours work each day for board, room, light, heat, tuition, and plain washing. Those who work more than two hours a day will receive cred- it for over time. The regulations of the home will be such as would do credit to any well regulated private home. No boisterous or indecent language will be allowed. The use of tobacco, card playing, novel reading, flirtation, in fact all actions not becom- ing to well refined young people, will be strictly forbidden. Habits of thorough- ness and punctuality will be encouraged. Attendance upon worship in the home and school, also upon Sabbath services, classes, and domestic work, will be ex- pected. Excuses will be required for absence or tardiness from any class or service, also from the school grounds. The object for which the school is main- tained is to give students an education which will prepare for usefulness in this life, and for the future immortal life. To this end, careful attention will be giv- en to the spiritual welfare of each pu- pil. The Bible will be made a study in each grade, and its principles woven into the daily lives of teachers and students. School will open Oct. 17, 1906, and continue seven months. WHAT TO BRING � • Good plain clothing with name mark- ed plainly on each •article, one pillow, two pillow cases, one bed tick, two sheets, two quilts, a bed spread, towels, also curtains, rugs, pictures or other articles to make room homelike. MR. AND MRS. J. W. BEACH. RANDLEMAN. Wednesday, July 4, I began a tent. meeting at this place. The attend- ance the first night was about one hundred fifty, and continued the same for a week or more, then gradually fell off. There are a few persons who are interested, but thus far none have stepped out. Brother W. L. Killen joined me in the work July 9. We con- tinued up to and including Sunday night, July 22, at which time we closed the meetings. We expect soon to pitch in High Point, to hold a series of meet- ings there preceding the camp-meet- ing. While we feel sorry not to be able to report some tangible fruit of our labor, we are not discouraged; for we are assured that His word shall not return to Him void. We are not al- ways to look for immediate fruit, but* to sow in hope, to have long patience till we receive the early and latter rain. And this brings me to speak a final word about the camp-meeting. May we not hope that this occasion shall be one long to be remembered, for the very outpouring of the blessed Spirit? Dear brethren, let us seek God earnestly that there may be nothing in our hearts to hinder the showers of bless- ings we so much desire. There are many who are professing godliness who are lacking in the power. 0, let us pray for what we so much need! T. H. J. THE NORTH CAROLINA MESSENGER REDUCED RATES TO THE CAMP- MEETING. Reduced rates have been secured over the different lines of railroad for those attending the Camp-meeting at High Point, on the following condi- tions: Pay full fare going passage. Take receipt, made out in the standard form, from the agent from whom you purchase your ticket. If more than one road is traveled over, get a certifi- cate, or receipt, each time you buy a ticket, and bring these with you to the camp-meeting. Do not fail to heed the above instruction, as these certificates duly signed, will entitle you to return at one-third fare, plus 25 cents. Tick- ets must be bought not earlier than September 4, nor later than Septem- 9. � The reduced rates apply to all poin is in North Carolina, and include Suffolk, Boyk ins, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Danville, Va. We will furnish bank certificates to all who will apply, and in this way all possibility of failing to secure one with your ticket will be avoided. We would be glad to hear from every one who ex- pects to come to the meeting, as we may be able to assist you in making your arrangements. Address JESSIE V. BOSWORTH, Hickory, N. C. Anciently the Lord instructed his pecple to assemble three times a year for his worship. They met to recount God's mercies, to make known his wonderful works, and to offer praise and thanksgiving to his name, and through this association together in • this sacred service, they were bound closer to God and to one another.... If the children of Iseral needed the bene- fit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do we need them in these last days of peril and conflict! And if the people of the world then needed the light which God has com- mitted to his church, how much more do they need it now!- Testimony Vol. 6. "Those who work for God will grow in moral and spiritual power, while those who devote their time and ener- gies to serving themselves, will dwarf, and wither, and die." FROM OUR STATE AGENT Dear Brethren: I have been for some weeks enjoying a visit and rest with my folks in Iowa. I was called home at this time in part by the illness of one of my brothers. He is now, July 29, very low, and it seems can live but a few days. The Lord willing, I with my wife will start for North Carolina August 13. We are both anxious to get back to work. I am glad to be able to report a healthful growth in the canvassing work. There has been a marked im- provement in reporting, and more sys- tematic work, which is very gratifying indeed. Let us all come to the camp- meeting to get better acquainted with) the Lord, the work, and each other. HORACE G. MILLER, Shelby, N. C. FROM THE CANVASSERS --- J. E. LEIGHTON, CHARLOTTE; I will write a few lines to the friends and fellow workers in North Carolina. As some of you know, I came South for my health. In the meantime I have been endeavoring to scatter seeds of truth, and have enjoyed much of God's blessing and the blessed privilege of seeing some fruit, especially in this city. Since returning from Florida, I find the people still eager to listen to the reading of the Word; and I be- lieve the Lord will incline a goodly number to accept the truth in the near future. While I cannot give a flatter- ing report of books sold, because I have not the strength to push the work as I would be glad to do, yet with the Lord's help am able to do something each week. Remember the work and workers in Charlotte in your prayers. E. R. ALLEN, CHARLOTTE: It is some three or four months since I be- gan canvassing in this year, and I have been able with God's help to take a goodly number of orders. I made one delivery in Richmond county with good success. Mrs. Allen has also done some effective work with books and the Earthquake Number of the Signs. She is now planning to work with Life and Health. It seems too bad that so little is being done to give the message of health reform. Can we not do bet ter? The eanvassers for books can carry copies of Life and Health, and sell them in many homes. Although our small books have been sold in this city several times, we meet with fair suc- cess. This is a wide field. If the pub- lishers would print "Great Contro- versy" in a cheaper form, the whole message could be given in much less time than it now takes. I take some orders for this book every week, but it is most too high priced for the common people, and I am not yet proficient enough to present it to the higher classes. I feel that we must constant- ly study and seek dod for greater ability in his service, that we may be workmen who need not be ashamed. CANVASSING REPORT FOR JUNE, 1906 Names � Hours Yal. Ord. � Val. Delia R. T. Underwood � 55 $52.00 Mrs. A. E. Brensinger 68 20.25 $26.00 Lydia Moorehead � 38 � 9.00 H. G. Miller � 53 38.25 � 4.00 W. E. Lanier � 203 95.00 175.50 W. L. Killen � 90 31.75 � 29.75 E. R. Allen � 122 133.75 � 61.75 Augusta Allen � 43 34.00 58.00 Bertha Ingram � 54 25.50 15.25 Emily Ingram � 54 � 14.00 13.00 Oscar Steed � 79 11.00 � 8.00 Total �859 $474.50 $391.25 HORACE G. MILLER, State Agent. TITHE RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1906 Asheville � $ 5.67 Archdale - � 11.54 Eufola � 3.00 Greensboro No. 1 � 5.50 Hickory � 13.28 Hildebran � 44.21 Norwood � 3.10 Newbern � 14.50 Salisbury � 2.55 Wilmington � 7.65 Waynesville � 2.50 Individual � 7.07 Total - • - � $120.57 JESSIE V. BOSWORTH, Treasurer. THE NORTH CAROLINA MESSENGER The North Carolina Messenger Published Monthly by the North Carolina Conference Seventh-Day Adventists. Subscription Price, - 25c. per year T. H. JEYS, JESSIE V. BOSWORTH, � EDITORS. Entered as second-class matter Oct. 12, 1906 at the Postoffice at Hickory, N. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. STATE DIRECTORY President—T. H. Jeys, Spero. Vice-Pres.—D. T. Shireman, Toluca Sec'y and Treas.—Jessie V. Bosworth, Hickory. State Agent—H. G. Miller, Shelby. Executive Committee--T. H. Jeys, D. T. Shireman, W. H. Armstrong, M. H. Johnston, B. A. Rogers, M. G. Creasey, J. W. Beach. Secretary Religious Liberty Depart- ment—T. H. Jeys, Spero. , Secretary Educational and S. S. Depart- ment—Mrs. Emma B. Rogers, Hick- ory. Secretary Medical Missionary Depart- ment—M. H. Johnston, Hildebran. The Southern Educational Co.—Pres., J. 0. Johnston; Vice-Pres., B. A. Rogers; Secretary, S. L. Stafford; Treas., J. 0. Johnson. NEWS AND NOTES State Camp-meeting, High Point, September 7 to 16. Please read carefully the instruction given in regard to the reduced rates to the camp-meeting. We hope very soon to hear from all who expect to attend. We are glad to welcome Sister Alice Bond back to North Carolina. She is now at Hildebran, and expects to work in our Conference as the Lord may di- rect. Sister Nannie Paul writes thus of the last quarterly meeting at Archdale: "We had a good meeting. Brother Jeys preached in the forenoon, and in the afternoon we had the ordinances and a baptismal service. Eight were baptized. We are of good courage in the Lord." Many of our readers have ere this learned of the total destruction by fire of the Pacific Press Pub. Co. plant at Mountain View, Cal., which occurred on the evening of July 20. A full account is given in the Review of August 2. The two periodicals, the Signs of the Times and Our Little Friend will for a time be printed in an sutside office, and prompt measures have been taken to provide the necessary books for our canvassers. Referring to this calamity Brother Jeys in a re- cent Litter says: "Events now remind me of the statement, 'Something de- cisive and startling and that right early.' I resolutely turn `my face from the sug- gestion to try to account for the burn- ing of the Pacific Press. The Lord knows about this. How careful we should be that our own skirts are clear of the blood of all men! My de- sire is to consecrate myself anew to the Lord and the service, —be it short or shorter." Elder C. B. Thompson, writing from the Oakland, Cal., camp-meeting under date of July 26, states that Sister White was encamped upon the ground, and was enjoying her usual good health. She had been able to speak to the peo- ple several times. Mountain View is onl forty miles from Oakland, but Brother Thompson had not yet visited the ruins of the Pacific Press. All those on the camp-ground seemed to be in uncertainty as to what this calam- ity should mean. Brother Thompson said Sister White had said for all to study the book of Job. And this was all the light they had had on the sub- ject. Eight thousand dollars was raised on the camp-ground for them. They expect to rebuild, though smaller. —New York Indicator. Will not those who pledged to the Tent and Camp-meeting Fund redeem these pledges as soon as convenient, in order that there may be sufficient means to provide the necessary equip- ments for the coming camp-meeting? Address Jessie V,Bosworth, Hickory, N. C. A boarding tent will be conducted at the camp-meeting, where good, hy- gienic meals will be served at reason- able rates. Elder H. R. Shelton, having spent some time in the work at Wilmington, also visiting Newbern, is again at home in Winston-Salem. Elder Jeys was called from Randle- man Sabbath, July 21, by the serious illness of his wife. At last reports she was much better, and Elder Jeys hoped soon to be in the field again. Brother Benn Turner has been com- pelled by failing health to leave the employ of the Southern Publishing As- sociation at Nashville. He and his wife are spending a short time at Hildebran, en route for Florida. Brother and Sister George Crawford will assist in the meetings at High Point to be held preceding the caw,- meeting. Brother Crawford made the trip overland, stopping Wednesday night, August 1, with friends at Hick- ory. As will be seen by Brother E. R. Ai. len's report, he and his family are now at Charlotte. They are occupy- ing the rooms at 307 S. Long St., while Brother and Sister Armstrong are tak- ing needed rest and recuperation in the mountains. The latest word from Elder Jeys stated that the large tent was pitched at High Point and nicely seated, and that they would bill the place for meet- ings to begin Friday night, August 3. Shall we not earnestly pray for the work there, that the message may be proclaimed with power, and that city effectively warned. Notice the following partial list of topics composing the August number. Life and Health: Typhoid Fever—Its Nature and Cause; Children and their Care; Diseases Common in Summer; Vegetarianism—Its Relationship to Health; Divine Healing—A Part of the Gospel; Outdoor Life Healthful; Stirr- ing up the Animals—The President's Investigation of Slaughter Houses; Poisoned Meats; Home Food Studies; How to prepare Tomato Soups, Rice Salid, Potato Chowder, etc.; Foolish Parents; Tired Mothers; The Gospel of Happiness: etc. Subscription price, 50 cents per year; Single copy, 5 cents; twenty-five or more to one address, 2} cents. Address North Carolina Con- ference, Hickory, N. C.