THE MINNESOTA WORKER “Whatsoever thy Hand findeth to do, do it with thy Might.” Volume G. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., JULY 3, 1895. Number 34. TifE ^fJjSTJSTESOTiL ¥01)^, ---I8SUED WEEKLY BY THE- MINNESOTA TRACT SOCIETY. Subscription Price, 35 cents a year. Send all Communications and Subscriptions to THE EDITOR, all others a part in this and then let us hear through the Worker of the interest' of the meeting and the amount of the offerings of the church or company that you represent. Dear brethren “HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS, HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS.” May rich blessings be with all who engage in this special service for the advancement of the message in our State. Yours in the work, N. W. Allee. L. B. Losey, - - Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn. Entered nt the post-office at Minneapolis as second class mail matter. A DAY OF PRAYER AND OFFERINGS. Dear Brethren, at our recent Conference and Camp-meeting the Lord came very near and the meeting was a blessing to all who opened the heart to receive of the refreshing. Our privileges and duties were made plain to us, aud the good Spirit encourages us to go forward, as the promise is sure to us “Lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the world.” Eight tent companies are formed and now in the field, and the other laborers have gone out to their places of labor; a good degree of union and harmony prevail,and all seem of good courage. In view of this will not all of our brethren esteem it a privilege to set apart Sabbath,July,6th as a day of special seeking God by prayer and fasting, if you feel so led, that God will greatly bless the laborers in their work this summer. We need to know more of the power of God as manifested through the preaching of his ministers. The message is rapidly closing up and our opportunities are perhaps as good as they will ever be. There was a resolution passed at the Conference and an effort made to raise means to re-endow a bed at the Sanitarium Hospital for the benefit of the worthy sick poor of our Conference. It requires $200 to do this. Some-thing over$100 was raised in cash on the ground, and no doubt there are those of our brethren who will esteem it a privilege to aid in this worthy object that were not at the Camp-meeting; so on this day after seeking the Lord let there be an opportunity given to contribute to this fund. We earnestly hope that all of our churches and scattered brethren will heartily enter upon the exercises of this day with appropriate services, and seek the Lord for an especial blessing upon the work and workers of the Conference, and then make a thank offering for the benefit of our sick poor. Give the children and REPORT OF LABOR. Since the last issue of the Worker the Conference committee has considered some other work and plans. One important measure is that Bro. M. H. Ellis is chosen to take the oversight of the work of increasing the circulation of the Signs of the Times and will employ his entire time in working up this matter among the brethren. Friday, the 21st, I came to Brainerd to meet with the company here. Services were begun the same evening and continued over Sabbath and Sunday; the attendance was good and much interest shown in the word spoken. A church of 14 members was organized, others will soon join, some of whom were kept away on account of sicknes, so there will soon be a good company here in numbers and working force. We are glad to report that they have a good live Sabbath-school and missionary society. They need a place of worship more public, as at present they meet at the home of Eld. Mead. We expect to hear good reports from this new churcji as they seem to have a mind to work, and a very encouraging feature is that the young people seem to have a burden to be useful in the Lord’s cause. Our prayer is that this band of workers will be much blessed of the Lord, and we have the blessed assurance that they will if they continue to walk humbly with the Lord. N. W. A. PILLAGER MINN. JUNE 28, 1895. Prof. Lewis and myself will meet with churches as follows, unless the brethren in some cases, \yish different time ; if so please write to me immediately. /Sauk Centre ...........................July 4-7 Lake City ............................ “ 9-10 i.'Winona ........................... “ 11 ^Pine Island......................... “ 12-15 pleasant Grove....................... “ 16-21 The meeting at Sauk Centre is designed as a general meeting, and the churches of Grove Lake, Vill- THE MINNESOTA WORKER. ard, Alexandria, West Union, Osakis, Round Prairie, Gordon, and Swanville are invited to meet with us especially on Sabbath and Sunday. The meeting at Pine Island is also a general meeting and brethren from £umbro Falls, Rochester, and all others are invited to attend. It is expected that other meetings of the same nature will be held in other places as may be appointed later. I will be glad to correspond, in regard to appointing meetings, with the officers of Austin, Wells, Good Thunder, Garden City, Mankato, Eagle Lake, Kasota, Owatonna, Medford, Dodge Center, Redwood Falls, Worthington, Hutchinson, Dassel, Litchfield, and other churches in arranging for summer work. We cannot hope to give each of these places a meeting but wish to accommodate as many as is consistent. We earnestly hope that special efforts will be made by the brethren in reasonable distance of these meetings to attend them. We wish to meet as many of these as we can personally, become acquainted with you,and acquaint you with the work of our Conference. The state of the work of the message at this time appeals to all who profess it, to be fully alive to the present issues of the Gospel. Please remember Sabbath, July 6th, the day appointed as a day of special prayer that God may greatly bless the work and the workers of our Conference during the summer. Dear brethren, our faith must enlarge with the broadening work of the closing message. N. W. A. i THE SABBATH SCHOOL. * “The far off heathen nation?, Who sit in darkest night, Now stretch their hands imploring And cry to us for light.” CHINA AND THE NEW MISSIONARY BOAT. For the remaining six months of 1895 our Sabbath-school donations are to be given to establish the work in China, and to build a boat for our work in the Carribean Sea. It will take $3,000. of the donations to build the boat, and the remainder of the money raised will go to China. What an interesting country China will be to study and how glad the children will all be to help build another missionary boat. Their missionary gardens will help so much in this too. Last quarter our donations to missions from the schools in this State were $269.76. As our membership is 3203 this shows that we have given only about eight cents apiece for the quarter, less than one cent each Sabbath. If each one had given one cent each Sabbath for the 13 Sabbaths, our donations would have been $416.39, almost twice as much as they were. We have been sorry to see that our donations were decreasing a little each quarter for some time, but we hope that this quarter we shall all make an effort to increase our offerings and help'forward this good work. The Chinese Empire (which comprises the 19 provinces of China Proper, Manchuria, Mongolia, Thibet, Jungaria and East Turkestan) has an area of over four million square miles and a population of over four millions of people. It is estimated that it would take twenty-three years for this number of people to pass in procession, while the converts to Christianity numbering only 50,000 could pass in two hours, and “a million a month in China are dying without God.” China is a very old country. It is said that the history of the people reaches back before the days of Abraham, and when Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan the Chinese had lived a thousand years in China. Let us each draw a map of China and see how much we can learn about the people there before next week. The last six months of 1892 our offerings were given to the work in Mexico and Central America. The new boat is to sail in the Carribean Sea along the coast of Central America and among the Bay Islands. There are about four millions of people here who know very little about the Saviour. Shall we not by our prayers and our means send the gospel to them? QUESTIONS. 1. Point out the Carribean Sea on the map. 2. When were our offerings given to this field? 3. How much will it cost to build a boat to send there? 4. How many people live in Central America and on the islands? 5. How large is the Chinese Empire? 6. What is the population? How many are Christians? 7. How old is the country? 8. How much were our donations last quarter? 9. What was the average per member? 10. Read 2 Cor. 9:6- 10. A. L. L. \ DEPORTMENT IN GOD’S HOUSE. “Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God.”—Eccl.5:l. How many S. D. Adventists have ever considered this admonition, I wonder? Is not all Scripture given by inspiration? We know that it is. Then would it not be well to heed this counsel of the wise man concerning our personal deportment in the Lord’s house? Would it be in harmony with this Scripture to tramp into the place of meeting as noisily as we would go into a place of business, and with about the same general air? Or having gotten in, to begin a loud conversation with our nearest neighbor, interspersed with loud and frequent laughter, and moving noisily about among the assembly, greeting and passing jests as we go, thus occupying the time until called to order by the voice of the ministering brother announcing the opening hymn, then scurrying into a seat, and if there happens to be other empty chairs near, which is often the case, occupying as many of them as possible with arms extended over the backs of at least two, and legs if we happen to have long THE MINNESOTA WORKER ones, thrown lazily over two more ; or, if we confine ourselves to one chair, tilt it against the wall and sit and rock backward and forward with legs and feet, performing sundry gyrations in the air equally detrimental to the furniture and dangerous to the occupant, to say nothing of the feelings of disgust experienced by the refined stranger that the zealous missionary member or Bible worker has succeeded in getting out to meeting for the first time, and wrhose attention is distracted from the words of life from the sacred desk, by the adult members of the congregation in their frequent excursions to and from the water bucket, which is usually located in the extreme rear of the building? Compare for a moment the above conduct with the deportment of our first-day brethren in entering their places of worship. Quiet and order prevails; upon entering the vestibule, all conversation is hushed to a whisper, and the worshipers are in their places even before the pastor enters, and as for attending to their wants, the writer does not call to mind a single instance of such conduct in the many churches, both large and small visited of late, and attended regularly in past years—a reverence for the Lord’s house is shown by them, we think, S. D. Adventists would do well to imitate. Seriously, brethren, is not an immediate reform on this subject imperative?-----From Worker's Record. THEY WERE MEN OF GOD. I have been reading from the volumes of “The Midnight Cry” covering the years 1843 and 1844, and am more than ever deeply convinced that the men engaged in the proclamation of the coming of Christ in those days were moved by the Spirit of God, and were goverened by motives as unselfish and sincere as ever dwelt in the breast of man. In the issue of Oct. 3, 1844, the editor, N. Southard, made the following confession : “Before God, whose swift approaching judgment will bring every secret thing to light, I wish to say that up to this hour my professed consecration to him has not been complete. If this fact makes me a hypocrite, I have been one. I have not been dead to theVorld. If all Christians are dead to the world, I have not been a Christian. But I now say, Let Christ be all, and let me be nothing. He has a balm for every wound, for his blood cleanseth from all sin; and I, even I, can stand complete in him.” And in the same paper he prints the following “Notice.—If any human being has, a just pecuniary claim against me, he is requested to inform me instantly.” As the expected end drew near, the paper was issued daily, on Oct. 10, 11, and 12. Oct. 10, Geo. Storrs wrote, “Farewell, till we meet in the kingdom of God.” In what was expected to be the last paper, dated Oct. 12, is a letter from Wm. Miller written Oct. 6 from his home at Low Hampton, N. Y. I catch a few sentences from different parts of the letter, “I am almost home. Glory! Glory! Glory!!!” “My soul is so full I cannot write.” “My doubts, and fears, and darkness are all gone.” “Oh, how I wish I could shout. But I will shout when the ‘King of kings’ comes.” “The Lord bless and save you all when he comes. Amen and amen. ” The editor says, “Though we have volumes to utter, it is too late to sav more.” Eld. Joshua V. Himes, who still lives and is rector of an Episcopal church at Elk Point S. D., wrote : “We feel that we are now making our last appeal, that we are addressing you through these colums for the last time. In this crisis we must stand alone.” “Here we lay our friends and worldly interests, and trust alone in the merits of Christ’s atoning blood. May we all meet in God’s everlasting kingdom is the prayer of your unworthy servant.” This letter is printed in the first column of the last page. In the last column are the “Receipts for the week ending Oct. 11, and at the bottom of the middle coulumn is the single line—“We believe this to be our LAST paper.” Brethren and sisters, these men were honest; they were sincere. Would God we were as much so. C. C. Lewis. Reports From The Field. 4* AFTER closing- my work with the Brainerd brethren, one service was held with the Crow Wing church, but on account of a rain at the hour of service the attendance was small. Wednesday,June 26th,I came to Pillager and began meetings the same night' and continued over Sabbath and Sunday. This is where Bro. Whitelock labored last winter, and I was pleased to find a little company keeping up Sabbath,prayer, and missionary meetings. A friendly interest is manifested by some of the outsiders, and I trust that some of these may yet receive the message. I have not labored with a company for some time that semed more eager to receive the word than this one, and the time with them seemed too short as it was a real satisfaction to labor for them. A church organization was effected with them, and if they con- THE MINNESOTA WORKER. tinue humble and faithful I trust that others may be gathered into the fold. I next visit Brainerd, Little Falls, and Sauk Centre, before beginning the work in the southern part of the State. N. W. Aeeee. THE BOOK WORK. CANVASSERS’ REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 21st 1895. Book Ord. Hrs. Val. Val. Helps F. A. Detamore B. R. 14 44 $25.25 $3.25 Ralph Campbell n