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COLLEGE VIEW, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 9, 1911 �
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According to the Constitution of the 
MESSENGER Association the election of 
Board of Managers takes place one week 
before the close of the winter term. The 
date this year will be February 20, so 
the next regular issue of the MESSENGER 
will appear under the management of the 
new staff. 
In laying down our duties, the retiring 
board wishes to express its appreciation 
to those who have shown an interest in 
the work we have been trying to forward. 
We are sure that if you all could but 
realize ho.w glad we are to receive even 
a fresh news item that you would con-
tinue—to extend your loyality—to old 
Union that much. 
We have made mistakes uncountable 
and yet we do not feel that this year's 
work has been in vain, we have learned 
lessons innumerable. For the incoming 
board we would ask your hearty support 
and co-operation. Speaking from ex-
perience, they will need your help for 
the next three months more than at any 
other time. I believe that we all should 
take a deeper interest in our College 
paper and seek to make it what it ought 
to be — our MESSENGER, proclaiming 
what our College stands for, what we are 
doing, and what we are striving to do. 
We all know that the road over which 
the MESSENGER has traveled in coming 
down to us as we have it now has not 
been the smoothest. It has struggled 
hard for existence but I believe that the 
paper can be made to pay. This has 
been practically demonstrated since last 
September. 
Give the new staff your support finan-
cially by a new subscription now and 
then, contribute to its pages a few times 
a year at least, and there should be no 
reason why the MESSENGER will not en-
joy a most prosperous year. 
About one hundred and fifty new 
books have been added to the library 
this year. These well-chosen books will 
go well toward filling the shelves vacated 
by the removal of the books belonging 
to the foreign departments. 
While our library is not a large one, 
—numbering about three thousand two 
hundred volumes—it is well selected and 
is a very readable one, and these addi-
tions from time to time show that it is 
slowly but steadily growing. We are 
all so very busy but by taking only a few 
minutes each day from these busy hours, 
as a recreation, we might become 
acquainted with many good books that 
we scarcely know our library contains. 
Horace Mann has said, "Resolve to do 
a little reading each day, if it is �
a 
single sentence. If you gain fifteen min-
utes a clay, it will make itself felt at the 
end of a year." 
"Let us awaken to the divine privilege 
of sharing the heartaches of our friends ; 
of the meaning of good fellowship ; of 
courage and pride that can endure ad-
versity with dignity, and without fear." 
Anon. 
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ORM Tutumn 
The Eighth Sense �
Responsibility — 
Its Development 
PRESIDENT GRIGGS 
Physiologists speak of seven senses—
namely, sight, smell, hearing, tasting, 
feeling, the weight and temperature 
senses. I want this morning to speak 
of the eighth sense, more important than 
any other sense. 
Everyone of our senses; our sight, 
hearing, feeling, tasting, are capable of 
high development. Humboldt says that 
the Peruvian Indians could smell a man 
when he was a mile away, and not only 
that, but could tell whether he were 
Indian or white. I do not know whether 
that speaks well for the man or not. 
But at any rate Humboldt gives it as an 
illustration of the development of the 
sense of smell of the Indians. He also 
says they could smell smoke thirty miles 
away. Perhaps they burn Illinois coal 
way down in South America. A tea-
taster is able to impart a great deal of 
information with reference to the tea 
which he is tasting, as to its growth, in 
what portion of the country it grew, the 
mode by which it was cured, and other 
items of information regarding it solely 
from the keen sense of taste which he 
has acquired. The skilled musician is 
able to distinguish sounds that are utter-
ly unheard by the untrained ear. A sea-
man can look much farther across the 
water than can a landsman. So there 
is no sense that we have but is capable 
of very much development. 
Now this illustrates our emotions. It 
is possible for us to learn to love things 
that we have been hating, and to hate 
things that we have been loving. It is 
possible for us to have a highly educated 
sense of duty or of responsibility. 
This development comes very largely 
from repetition, and is very closely as-
sociated with habit. Habits are acquired 
partly through repetition. If we put our 
mind upon the subject which we are 
building into a habit, we can acquire 
the habit much more quickly. But, after 
all, constant repetition enters much into 
the work of habit building and of the 
development of any one sense. Pade-
rewski is said to have played a simple 
little air that he made very popular 
thirty-five thousand times before ever 
he once offered it to the public, and it 
was that constant repetition of that se-
lection that made possible his perfection, 
that gave to him that delicate touch and 
gave to him the soul and the spirit of 
what he was playing. 
So it is with the development of the 
sense of responsibility. It comes to us 
by bearing responsibility and discharg-
ing it well. It is a feeling, an emotion 
of "I ought." We must appreciate good 
emotions. None of you can look at 
these flowers here in this vase and 
address your attention closely to them 
for a moment without experiencing cer-
tain waves of emotion, or feeling. You 
can not describe them. You can not de-
fine them, but you are conscious of them. 
This experience is true of most emo-
tions. They are indescribable, indefin-
able, but they are a part of our experi-
ence, and they enter into our concious-
ness. So with this sense of responsi-
bility. You can not tell what this feel-
ing "I ought" is, you can not define it, 
you know that it is present with you. 
There is a little couplet of Wordsworth's, 
I believe, that well illustrates our inabi-
lity to define our emotions. A little girl 
is made to say of Dr. Bell: 
"I do not love thee, Doctor Bell. 
The reason why I cannot tell; 
But this I know and know right well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Bell." 
We, however, must not forget the 
fact that our emotions are under, or 
should be under, the control of our in-
tellect. The individual whose emotions 
are without control, who is not guiding 
them by the intellect, is he who is dan-
gerous to himself and to those with 
whom he has to do. The sense, the 
feeling of responsibility, comes, then, 
from an oft-repeated act, in which the 
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"I ought" is involved. It comes, then, 
as the result of reason, of an action of 
the intellect—we are conscious of the 
fact that there are certain duties that 
are necessary for us to perform if we 
would reach the highest state of our 
existence, or if we would attain any de-
sh ed end. This involves the principle of 
constancy. 
There is an old saying, "Consistency, 
thou art a jewel," which•I think we may 
very properly paraphrase into "Constan-
cy, thou art a jewel." ' It is one thing to 
begin a work. It is another thing to 
complete it. It does not require very 
much ability to obtain a situation, but 
it requires very much ability to main-
tain that situation and to so discharge 
the duties involved in it that we rise 
through it and upon it to higher responsi-
bilities and duties and situations. It is 
one thing to get a job, another to keep 
it. One thing to begin a work, another 
thing to complete that work. One thing 
to mark out for ourselves a line of action, 
another thing to traverse that line of 
action. Aye verily, constancy, thou art 
seven jewels. 
Whenever we enter upon any work 
if we would gain this feeling of respon-
sibility for it, we must throw our whole 
soul into it, and accomplish it in the best 
way possible. A young preacher once 
asked one of his auditors if he thought 
the audience—his congregation— appre-
ciated what he was sayitig; and the 
auditor said he really believed they did, 
for he noticed many of them nodding. 
The young preacher had failed to get at 
the heart of his subject in a way to 
appeal to his audience. Some one once 
came to Beecher and asked him what 
rule he had for keeping an audience 
awake. "Why," he said, "when I first 
began to preach I asked the janitor if 
he saw any of the audience asleep, to 
march straight up to the pulpit and wake 
the preacher up." We are very much 
inclined to attribute our short comings 
to some one else. We feel that because 
we are not reaching the standard, there 
is some one else that is at fault. When 
we do that we are laying the responsibi-
lity upon another when it should be 
upon our own shoulders. We are per-
fectly willing to attribute a nodding 
audience to the janitor. We say he has 
not ventilated the room properly, or he 
has overheated it, or failed in some way 
to do his part. A speaker himself ought 
to be so wide awake, so interested in his 
subject, that he keeps his audience awake 
whether the room is hot or cold, or 
whether they have had any sleep or not. 
That is a pretty difficult thing to do 
sometimes, .but it is a thing that can be 
done. 
Now I am using this as an illustration 
of what seems to me found in every 
work if we would have this sense of 
responsibility developed within us. If 
we would have this spirit of constancy 
with us, then we must do to the very 
best of our ability the duty that is ours 
just now; and as we repeat a work we 
should seek to make it so much the bet-
ter every time. 
Worthiness, or worthlessness,—those 
two words come from the same root 
word, but one is as far from the other 
as the east from the west. Worthiness 
means all that is desirable. Worthless-
ness means all that is abhorrent, and yet 
whether we have worthiness or worth-
lessness depends upon whether this sense 
of "I ought," this feeling of responsibi-
lity is developed within us. 
"One sound always comes to the ear 
that is open ; it is the steady drum-beat 
of duty. No music in it, perhaps, — only 
a dry rub-a-dub. Ah, but that steady 
beat marks the time for the whole or-
chestra of earth and heaven ! It says 
to you : 'Do your work, — do the duty 
nearest you!' Keep step to that drum-
beat, and the dullest march is taking 
you home." �
George S. Merriam. 
"It is only through labor, painful effort, 
by grim energy and resolute courage, 
that we move on to better things," 
Theodore Roosevelt. 
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6rutral 
To The Messenger Family 
PROF. C. C. LEWIS 
I have not forgotten the MESSENGER 
Family, including the teachers and stu-
dents of "old Union," and I have all 
along intended to respond to the kind invi-
tation of the editor to tell you something 
of our experience in California; but like 
all the rest of the boys and girls "I 
didn't have time." Now, however, I 
am going to chat with you a little while; 
and I will begin right here and now, with-
out going back to the time I left Union 
College. Perhaps, however, I will work 
back to that point if I have good luck. 
"Here" is over at our ranch; for I 
must tell you we have a little home all to 
ourselves about a mile from the College 
across the fields and through the woods 
but nearly two miles around the road. 
This little ranch consists of twelve acres, 
nine of which are cleared and the rest 
covered with pine, oak, and manzanita 
trees. The house was originally a square, 
white cottage, twenty by twenty-four 
feet; but we have build a veranda around 
three sides of it eight feet wide and 
eighty-four feet long. It is boarded up 
two and one half feet, and the space be-
tween that and the cornice is filled with 
burlap tacked on from the inside. As 
summer comes on we shall tack wire 
netting on the outside, and roll up or take 
away the burlap. This veranda space 
gives room for dining room, kitchen, 
and sleeping apartments for three beds, 
besides the front veranda. And you 
would be suprised to see how comfort-
able we are, even during the last six 
days of constant rain. Of the four 
rooms of the general house we use one 
for a library, one for a bed room; and 
the remaining two, connected by a double 
door, constitute our living room. 
What times we have had getting 
settled in our new home. As usual I got 
out of the moving; for my "official du-
ties", called me away to visit schools 
during the week of the holiday vacation, 
thus leaving the burden of moving to 
fall upon the "folks". I felt mean all 
the time I was gone; but they insisted 
that I should go, partially because I was 
to visit Fernando, where I would see 
Irma. The moving occured principally 
on December 28. For nearly two weeks 
before that time the carpenters had been 
busy and we had been expecting rain 
that would hinder the work. It was in 
the midst of the rainy season and the 
rain was past due, hence we feared it 
would make it very inconvenient for us 
to move; but for twentynine days during 
December and up to the eighth of January 
we had constant sunshine. This gave 
us opportunity to complete our building, 
to erect a wood shed and fill it with dry 
wood, and to move and get everything 
under shelter before the rains came. 
How thankful we feel now since it has 
been raining constantly for six days, and 
how cozy we are evenings as we gather 
around the large table for study. 
I must try to describe our location. 
Our house faces the county road and 
looks toward the east, so that we catch 
the morning sun an hour earlier than we 
did over at the College, where we were 
located upon the western side of the hill. 
Back of us rises a rounded hill, now 
green with six acres of oats and barley, 
which we have sown to furnish hay for 
our stock, consisting of a horse, a cow, 
six chickens and the Collie dog, Bingo 
South of us upon a gentle slope is a pine 
grove; north of us is an open space 
except for a few shade trees; next comes 
our barn in the edge of a small grove of 
pines, oaks, and manzanitas. Beyond 
this and to the north are about four acres, 
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of which one is sown to wheat, and the 
rest is plowed waiting for corn and gar-
den vegetables next spring. Our house 
nestles at the foot of the hill with the 
grove and grain field for a background. 
We can sometimes hear the wind 
sighing in the tall pine trees; but we 
seldom feel it down where we live. In 
fact, there has been no wind worth 
mentioning until yesterday, when it 
accompanied the rain quite vigorously. 
We are planning to set out our cleared 
land to walnut trees, and apple and other 
fruit trees, as soon as possible. Do you 
not think this is really going back to 
nature? How it reminds us of our early 
days when we both lived upon the farm. 
We may not enjoy it long, however, not 
knowing when or where we may be called; 
but we are ready to obey His call and to 
go where ever He would have us go. 
While it is God's will for us to remain 
here, however, we feel it is also His will 
that we should find a haven of rest in 
this quiet nook of nature. 
Starting from our house I should like 
to take you with us on our walk to the 
College every morning. I begin the walk 
at seven-thirty to reach my first class at 
eight o'clock, Agnes follows about one-
half hour later, and Harold still later, to 
reach their first classes. On Thursday 
morning I start at five-thirty in order to 
reach the Faculty meeting, which is held 
at six o'clock. Returning, Harold goes 
home at the close of the school session 
at one o'clock, while Agnes and I, hav-
ing brought our lunch, work at the Col-
lege until four-thirty. During this time 
I look after the poultry department and 
dictate to Maude Luey such letters as 
may be needed to keep in touch with the 
educational work throughout the Pacific 
Union Conference, of which conference 
I am Educational Secretary. Mean-
while Agnes studies, practices music, or 
attends to her duties as librarian. 
And now it is time to go home. Since 
in thought we are all over at the College, 
I will change our plan and have you ac-
company us from the College to our 
home, especially since Agnes and I will 
be together and your company with us 
will form a crowd. So I hope you will 
enjoy the walk. It is raining hard and 
we shall have to prepare for wet weather. 
Our books must be well protected in our 
satchels; on must go our rain-coats and 
rubbers; and with our umbrellas over 
our heads away we go, down past the 
saw-mill, into the beautiful valley of one 
hundred acres of level land belonging to 
the College. We are near the north end 
of this valley, and a short, walk brings 
us to its head, where is located the 
largest spring on the school estate. 
Here we cross a small stream _over a 
great pine log, which looks as if it might 
have lain there for centuries. Now we 
must climb a steep hill, the only hard 
part of our journey. Half way up we 
stop to regain our breath. We have 
learned a good lesson, however, taught 
us by a mountaineer who has spent 
twenty years in this country. "To 
climb mountains," he says, "you must 
breathe deep and keep your mouth shut." 
I am sure if we can learn these two 
lessons it will not be in vain that we 
came to California. Right here, as we 
stop to rest, let us engage in a little elo-
cutionary practice. Agnes and I some-
times do, and you shall join us in the 
pleasure; for indeed it is a pleasure. 
Here we can shout with all our might, 
using William Tell's apostrophe to his 
native mountains:— 
"Ye crags and peaks, I am with you 
once again. I hold to you the hands 
you first beheld, to show they still are 
free. Methinks I hear a spirit in your 
echoes, answer me and welcome me to 
your arms once more. Oh! mountain 
peaks, how strong ye are! How high 
lift your heads into the sky! How 
proud ye are! How mighty and how free!" 
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Another sharp climb and we are at the 
top. Coming out, to our surprise we are in 
full view of a handsome stone house, the 
home of Mr. Aiken, the editor of the 
Sunset Magazine, whose death in San 
Francisco, by the way, we read of in the 
Woman's National Daily last evening. 
Mr. Aiken has rarely visited his ranch 
lately, and it is now rented to Brother 
O'Neil, from the state of Washington. 
He has located here to send his children 
to the College. From this point our 
route is over a well graded wagon road 
for half a mile to the county road, through 
the forest nearby all the way. As we 
open the gate into the county road, we 
are opposite the gate leading up to our 
well and past a wooded knoll for a build-
ing site near the north side of our ranch. 
We turn southward, passing along the 
county road and beside a stone wall in 
front of our field for twenty or thirty 
rods, until as we turn a corner of the 
woods our little white "Bide-a-wee-Cot-
tage" bursts into view. Here we shall 
invite you to come in and spend a pleas-
ant evening with us, for I am sure you 
will be tired after this long walk. 
Perhaps the next time we shall get 
away from ourselves and tell you more 
about the people, the country, the climate 
and the schools of this beautiful land. 
Minnehaha Falls 
A. C. CHRISTENSEN 
Minnehaha— Laughing Water—Falls, 
which were immortalized by the poet 
Longfellow, are unrivalled for pictur-
esque beauty. Perhaps no other cascade 
has ever been so celebrated in song and 
story, and none claims a surer charm for 
the visitor. The falls are maintained in 
their primeval beauty in the heart of the 
largest and most beautiful park in Min-
neapolis, of one hundred and twenty-four 
acres of hill and dale. The whole region 
about the falls has been made accessible 
by rustic paths and bridges. 
A foot-bridge spans the rippling, mur-
muring creek just before its water goes 
toppling over the ledge of limestone 
which forms the cataract. The water is 
unusually clear, so clear that the bottom 
of the creek can be seen even in the 
deepest places. Large boulders lie in 
the stream, and pebbles and shells are 
strewn along its edges. As soon as the 
water has passed these rocks, it plunges 
over the edge of the precipice to the 
channel sixty feet below, and then 
bounds on with terrific force over the 
rocks that obstruct its way. There are 
wavelets and ripples, each one strug-
gling, seemingly, to overtake the other 
and to win in the mad race down the 
crooked course of the stream. Below 
these pretty falls, which "laugh and leap 
into the valley," the creek flows through 
a deep glen for half a mile to the Missis-
sippi River. 
From the bridge a winding path leads 
to the head of a stairway of stone, which 
extends downward to the rustic bridge 
in front of the falls. From here a splen-
did view is obtained of the sparkling 
cataract. The noise, though not deaf-
ening, is impressive and has something 
sublime about it. There is a constant 
sameness, — a steady roar. But the 
scene is even more impressive than the 
noise. The water, as it begins to fall, 
has its natural color, but as it nears the 
bottom it is transformed into a white 
foam, which, upon striking the bottom, 
sends up a continuous cloud of mist in 
which the rays of the sun harmoniousy 
mingle, forming a minature rainbow with 
all its colors complete. It is truly a 
beautiful sight. 
The more one beholds such scenes, 
the more deeply one must be impressed 
with the wonders and symmetry of na-
ture. The thoughtful observer will look 
beyond the concrete thing itself; he will 
look to the Power that rules all nature, 
and even the universe. 
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What Seventh-day Adventists Are 
Doing for Moslems* 
This title is rather misleading, be-
cause we are doing so little for Moslems. 
It might better read, "What we are not 
doing for Moslems," or, "What we 
should do." 
The mission fields of the world are 
roughly classified as the occupied and 
unoccupied. With but two or three 
exceptions, the unoccupied fields are 
Moslem Africa, and western and central 
Asia. As regards our work, we classify 
countries as entered and unentered, and 
again we find the Moslem countries left 
out. When Christ said, "Go ye into 
all the world and preach the Gospel to 
every creature," did He say, "but west-
ern Asia and northern Africa I have left 
for Mohammed?" 
It is twenty years since Brother Ba-
harian accepted Present Truth in Tur-
key and ever since he has been faithful 
in labors, difficulties and imprisonments. 
But I believe that most of his work has 
been for Armenians and adherents of the 
Greek Catholic church. However some 
work has been done, for we have read in 
the recent Missions number of the Re-
view of one of our colporteurs being ar-
rested by the Turks for distributing the 
tract, "Who is Jesus?" 
In Syria and Palestine our workers 
have reached the Moslems. In response 
to a call from Elder Holser, in 1898, 
Eld. J. S. Krum with several German 
nurses located in Jaffa, the ancient Jop-
pa of Peter's time. In the Reviews of 
1898 is recorded the story of the conver-
sion of a Moslem sheik, Shakker by 
name. He preached the Truth so boldly 
in the vicinity of Jaffa that he was 11'11- 
*Paper read before Foreign Mission Band, Feb. 4, x911 
prisoned by the Moslem authorities. 
He suffered great indignities and pri-
vations. Even the governor of Jaffa, who 
visited him in prison, cursed and abused 
him when he had failed to shake his 
allegiance to Christ and the Sabbath, 
About the end of this experience of 
Shakker I have found no record in the 
Review, but the result of his preaching 
was a company of nearly a dozen who 
kept the Sabbath, and many others who 
attended services at Elder Krum's home. 
At the present time German nurses are 
conducting medical work in Jaffa, Haifa, 
and Jerusalem. 
In Egypt, while other work has been 
done, as far as I can find any record our 
Moslem work has been confined to the 
c irculation of Arabic literature. 
We are on the borders of Persia. 
That country with a population of nine 
millions, has only eighty-five mission-
aries, all told. which is as the proportion 
of one to one hundred-five thousand. 
Two young men from Walla Walla 
College are knocking at the gates of Per-
sia. One of them, Henry Dirksen, vis-
ited Union College two years ago on his 
way to the Washington Seminary before 
sailing. He and his colleague, Frank 
Osler, are engaged in language study 
on the borders of Persia now, but next 
month they expect to make a tour into 
the country seeking an opportunity to 
locate and begin work. 
There are some striking reasons why 
Seventh-day Adventists especially should 
carry the Gospel to Moslems. A mis-
sionary in India may have a large audi-
ence when a Brahman, approaching, 
will say, "Why do you listen to that 
cow-eater?"and the audience will vanish. 
Similarly, the Moslems hate the "hog- 
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eaters." So we with the light of health 
reform are peculiarly called to labor for 
Mohammedans. Then think of the ur-
gency of our message. "Into all the 
world," the Gospel must go before 
Christ comes, and that means the Mos-
lem as well as the heathen world. 
Islam, in the beginning, took much of 
its strength from the weakness of Chris-
tianity. Elder AcMoody, of Syria, has 
said, as reported in the General Confer-
ence Bulletin, "Islam is based on the 
principle, first, that Abraham and his 
seed through Isaac failed of doing the 
work which God desired them to do; 
and second, that Jesus Christ was a true 
prophet and that he came into the world 
and condemned the Jews in his very 
life, and that Christians, under Christ, 
undertook a restoration which in itself 
was an excellent thing, but it failed. 
In 622 A. D. at the time when Moham-
medanism was rising, the papacy had 
already been set up, and Mohammed 
understood very well the apostasy of 
the Christian church; and it is in that 
apostasy that he based strong reasons 
for instituting a purer religion. Mani-
festly, Christianity meets with great 
difficulties in coming to that religion 
In Turkey, as in other fields, we as 
Seventh-day Adventists possess the 
only faith that can reach forth and 
save souls from the Mohammedan faith. 
The other branches of Protestantism 
have, it is true, a few converts; but we 
are the only people who have, in reality, 
anything that will command the respect 
of an intelligent Moslem." 
Then the unspeakable needs of the 
Moslem people should appeal to us. Dr. 
Zwemer in an address at the Rochester 
Convention, on "The Unoccupied Fields 
of Western Asia" made these striking 
statements: "Persia has in its far north 
one entire province, Khorassan, without 
a single missionary, black as midnight. 
In Khorassan it is practically still 
B. C." "There is not a single mission-
ary residence on the coast of Persia, 
nor a Christian school nor a Bible shop." 
"We have better maps of the north Pole 
and of the moon then we have of those 
unoccupied parts of Arabia. You can 
draw across southeastern Arabia a tri-
angle, and Dr. Keltie, of the Royal 
Geographical Society, tells us that this 
triangle with a base 700 miles long and 
500 miles towards the apex is absolutely 
unsurveyed. No European has ever 
crossed it, and the gold medal of the 
Royal Geographical Society awaits the 
man who will 'map the triangle. If for 
no other reason than as a mere matter 
of Christian adventure, and finding the 
farthest north of uncharted humanity, 
there is a challange to any man." "Christ 
said, �
'All power is given to me in 
heaven and on earth; go ye therefore 
and teach all nations.' But there is no 
witness for Christ in those great regions 
of Chinese Turkestan, Russian Tur-
kestan, Thibet, or Afghanistan, places 
that are only names to us here, but are 
populous regions there. There are 
people there. There are hearts that are 
weary. There are men and women there. 
There are children there that have never 
heard of the children's Friend." 
But the great reason why Moslems 
should have the Gospel now is that we 
are expecting the soon-coming of Christ. 
To quote Dr. Zwemer again. "We 
ought to go to the unoccupied fields 
because we are retarding Christ's return 
if we don't go to them. It is easy 
enough to believe in the second coming 
when we don't deal with it practically. 
But it is a practical question when we 
pray for the coming of Christ, because 
you and I believe that He told us that 
the Gospel of the Kingdom must be first. 
preached in all the world as a witness. 
And as long as Afghanistan, to speak of 
no other country, is without a witness 
for Jesus Christ, Christ cannot come." 
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When we face this contrast between what 
we as a people are doing for Moslems 
and what we should do, may we be drawn 
to pray with our hearts and lives this 
prayer for Moslems, "0 God to whom 
the Moslem world bows in homage five 
times daily, have mercy upon its people 
and reveal to them thy Christ." M. M. 
Student Volunteer Convention at 
University Place 
On February 3, 4, 5, was held at 
Wesleyan University a state convention 
of Student Volunteers. Mr. Kendel, 
state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., pre-
sided over the conference at which dele-
gates from many schools in the state 
were present. Philip Swartz, a travelling 
secretary of the Student Volunteer Move-
ment was present, speaking at several 
of the meetings. At the closing meeting, 
Sunday night, President Griggs de-
livered an address on the topic, "Doing 
God's Will." It was a powerful plea 
for more consecrated, Spirit-controlled 
lives full of the love of God. Some fifty 
or more of our students were present, 
while several had been in attendance at 
the earlier meetings of the conference. 
The Foreign Mission Band 
The regular monthly meeting of the 
Foreign Mission Band was held Sabbath 
afternoon, February 4, in the chapel. 
The program was provided by the group 
which is studying the Moslem countries. 
It consisted of four papers:— A Short 
History of Missions to Moslems, by 
Edith Peterson; Biographical Sketch of 
Ion Keith-Falconer, a missionary to 
Arabia, by Edith Johnson; The Present 
Aspect of Islam, by Alfonso Anderson; 
What Seventh-day Adventists Are Doing 
for Moslems, by Mary Moore. 
The work of the Foreign Mission 
Band is carried on this year by groups 
studying special countries. Any one in-
terested in a study of social and political 
conditions in foreign lands may join 
these groups, and visitors are welcome. 
They meet every Sabbath afternoon at 
two-thirty as follows; South American 
group at the home of Dr. Worster; Mos-
lem World, room forty in the college; 
Mexico, room forty-eight; the Southern 
Band, room thirty-four. Mrs. Rowell 
and her mother, Mrs. Peebles, will 
speak to the Mexican Band at its next 
meeting, February xi. 
R. A. Long from Keene, Texas, has 
enrolled for work in the College. 
Carl Thompson has returned with his 
mother from a trip to San Pedro, Mexico. 
George Wilkensen, '08—'o9, is attend-
ing high school at Modesto, Cal., this 
year. 
Misses Lily and Leona Kunkel of 
Harvey, N. Dak., spent several days 
visiting with Anna Neilson while on their 
way to Clinton, Mo. 
A large number of the students who 
are planning on canvassing during the 
coming summer are organizing bands 
for the study of their several books. 
Myrtle Andrews, Ruth Teesdale and 
Nellie Wells spent Sabbath and Sunday, 
January 28 and 29 at Crab Orchard, 
Nebr., visiting Mrs. Bert Hall, 
nee 
Matie Anderson. 
Mr. and Mrs. John Shively passed 
through College View on their way to 
Grand Island, Nebr., where they will 
visit Mrs. Shively's parents. Mrs.Shive-
ly was formerly Nellie Davis. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Emery, announce 
the arrival of a little daughter, Elsa 
Evelyn, January 24, 1911. Both parents 
are former students, Mrs. Emery being 
remembered as Effie Northrup. 
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Alumni 
In The Land of Tomorrow 
JOSEPHINE SCHEE 
I have been gone from the home land 
almost three months, and there has been 
so much to be seen and done that I have 
not taken time for the letter I promised 
to write to you. 
We have had an unusually pleasant 
and interesting time in Mexico especially 
as we have found a home with Elder and 
Mrs. Caviness, and as they have been 
in the country for so many years they 
have been able to direct us in seeing the 
places of most interest to us. 
My first impression of Mexican life 
and manners has been replaced by one 
somewhat more favorable as I have 
grown used to it for which I am very 
glad, for at first the lower class of people 
seemed so dirty and degraded I could 
scarcely believe that they belonged to 
the human race. 
I think that a visit to the city market 
soon after my arrival was accountable 
for making my feelings on the subject 
even stronger. I can't do it justice in 
description; it must be seen, heard, felt, 
and even smelled to be understood. I 
can easily see that it would be an easy 
place in which to be a vegetarian. 
But to talk of more pleasant things, 
we are living in a city of a half million 
inhabitants with many thousands more 
in the suburban towns which are fast 
growing to be a part of the city itself. 
The past month has been an eventful 
one for us in Mexico. No sooner had 
my sister and I returned from our trip 
to the tropics, than the first great event 
took place. On December 2 came the 
inauguration of President Diaz. Many 
feared a demonstration at that time from 
the insurgents in the city, but nothing 
happened to interrupt the ceremonies 
which began with the parade of the 
President and his cabinet, followed by 
the army in fancy dress uniform, from 
the palace through part of the city to 
the house of deputies where he took his 
oath of office. In the evening, the pal-
ace, the great cathedral, and principal 
buildings of the city were ablaze with 
thousands of electric lights. Perhaps 
the prettiest decorative feature was the 
large flag that appeared to be floating 
from the dome of the cathedral, and 
which was made from electric lights 
arranged in bars of the three national 
colors, red, white, and green. 
The next great event took place on 
December 12, when my sister and I and 
a number of friends here wended our 
way at 6 a. m. to the cathedral of Gua-
dalupe along with the pilgrims who were 
going thither to do homage to the patron 
saint of Mexico. This is one of the 
most important days for every good 
Mexican Catholic, so even though we 
reached the place at an early hour we 
found that a large crowd had preceded 
us. Many had spent the night sleeping 
on the ground near by, and all through 
the morning the roads leading to the 
shrine were crowded with people. Some 
time ago some of the people went to the 
holy place on their hands and knees, but 
the government has prohibited this act 
of penance now. 
We have quite a school here, and as 
several have been to Union we often 
keep ourselves from getting lonesome 
by singing "Old Union." Another year 
we hope to have more Union College 
people in Mexico and perhaps a training 
school where workers may be directly 
and specially trained for the work in 
Mexico. 
`To grow, to glow, to go"—'.99. 
Too low they build who build beneath 
the stars.—Young. 
Wk0 ebs Wh 
 
Cotner-Union 
"In friendship's name old Union sends 
Kind greetings to its Cotner friends. 
Inviting them with hearts sincere, 
To honor us with their presence here. 
Hoping that friendship may progress 
In a Cotner-Union congress." 
These were the words of invitation 
extended to a committee of some twenty 
of the students of Cotner University, 
Saturday evening, February, 4. Last 
fall at the opening of school some stu-
dents from Union and a similar number 
from Cotner who were meeting new stu-
dents became acquainted at the depots 
during the several days that brought 
them together, and the desire of becoming 
better acquainted with each other cul-
minated in this social evening. 
Our Cotner friends arrived on the six 
o'clock car and we proceeded to show 
them through East and South Halls. 
Many of the students were kind enough 
to leave their rooms open and the visitors 
gained an idea of our dormitory life. 
Giving them a further idea of how we 
live, at the ringing of the supper bell, 
we assembled at a long table in the west 
end of the dining room where a tastily 
arranged lunch was served. 
The College building was thrown open 
and after supper our guests were taken 
through every departement, not except-
ting Castle street on the fifth floor. 
We then assembled in the chapel where 
a very interesting program was given; 
piano duet, Misses Goude, Simpson; 
address of welcome, President Griggs; 
Cotner's response, Mr. Moomaw; over- 
ture, orchestra; reading, Mr. Turner; 
trombone solo, Mr. Andrews; Indian 
club swining, Miss Henry; reading, Mr. 
Wirth; violin solo, Mr. Engle. 
We were very glad for this opportunity 
of meeting the students of one of our 
neighboring sister institutions and it was 
a pleasure to entertain them and acquairit 
them with old Union and her students. 
"To-day determines to-morrow." 
Announcement comes to us of the 
marriage of Leona Belle Norris to E. 
Harley Wallace, January 25, igi 1, at 
Ladoga, Iowa. Mr. Wallace was a stu-
dent here '05-'07. 
Claude Anderson and Inez Biers were 
married February 4, 1911, at Lincoln, 
Nebr. Mr. Anderson has been attending 
school for the past few months, and the 
wedding comes as a surprise. Mr. and 
Mrs. Anderson will make their home at 
Durham, Okla. 
This evening another MESSENGER 
came, seeming to me to be unusually 
newsy. The mention in it of various 
familiar names, and a half hour spent in 
looking over my book of Union College 
kodak pictures, have really made me 
quite lonesome for the place tonight. 
How I should like to see it, and the 
people thereof, and to sit in chapel once 
more, or at an interesting table in South 
Hall, or in some "committee meeting." 
However, I have not a great deal of time 
to spare for lonesomeness. I am out of 
school this winter for the first time since 
I started as a kindergartner, years ago, 
and am finding that a course in practical 
domestic science, at home with my father 
and mother, is quite as occupying—and 
yes, enjoyable, as a course in translation 
or note-book work could be.—An old 
friend of Union and of the MESSENGER, 
Eva Lynn Seaward. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carpenter have re-
turned to their home at Mannville, Al-
berta, after a short visit with S. A. 
Twing and family. 
Roy Bowles, '07 —'o8, is now in the 
employ of the Iowa Tract Society. He 
is also leader of the Missionary Volun-
teer society in his home town of Nevada, 
Iowa. 
Miss Nettie Hardiman, who has been 
teaching the ninth grade in the Normal 
department, has found it necessary on 
account of ill health to give up her work 
and she has returned to her home at 
Oswego, Kans. Mrs. Irvin Blue has 
taken the place made vacant by Miss 
Hardiman's resignation. 
P. A. Field, class of 'io, who has 
been engaged in evangelistic work in 
South Omaha for some time, is visiting 
friends in College View this week. Mr. 
Field was preceptor in College Hall last 
year. 
Dr. Bates, of Sioux City, Ia., was in 
College View, January 29, visiting his 
son Floyd, who has been ill for some 
time. Mr. Bates went home with his 
father, but he hopes to return to school. 
Married, January 31, 1911, at the 
home of the bride's uncle, Eld. G. B. 
Starr, in Chicago, Ill., Dr. Orville 
Rockwell and Nellie May Sisley. Dr. 
and Mrs. Rockwell will make their home 
at the Nebraska Sanitarum. 
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