The North Carolina Messenger 
"THERE SHALL BE DELAY NO LONGER" 
 
Vol.. II. �
EUFOLA, N. C., OCTOBER i9o5 �
No. 8. 
depository clerk, a rousing big 
order for books? Why may not 
several of our brethren sell books 
from now till the holidays? 
Come, brethren, this is the day 
of "surprise parties." Wouldn't 
it be a good surprise on our 
brethren at the publishing office 
for us to send a big order for 
books? And, further, when it 
has once been done we will all 
feel so well over it that we will 
want to keep up the work till 
Jesus comes. 
I am constantly receiving let-
ters frcm people who desire to 
have meetings held at their own 
homes. I have not always asked 
them if they have done what 
they can in the way of giving, 
loaning, and selling literature, 
but this is a question always 
proper to ask. The world is to 
be warned, and it is not to be 
done wholly by preaching from 
the pulpit. Let us be up and 
doing while it is called to-day. 
T. H. JEYS, 
Pres. N. C. Conference. 
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SOMETHING GOOD. 
He is a mean man who, having 
a good thing, will not share it 
with his neighbors, especially 
when the sharing will increase 
his own stock of profit and enjoy-
ment. Is the gospel a good 
thing? Do you love it? Would 
you sell it? Will you not then 
let others share with you the 
benefit you have enjoyed as a 
result of the faithful labors of 
some one else? I am confronted 
ith the idea �
at one of two 
things is many times true,—
either you do not have the thing 
you imagine you have, and never 
have had it; or, having had it, 
you have lost out of your heart 
the love that you once had. Let 
us search carefully our own 
hearts to see if we really have 
what we profess to have. "Re-
pent and do the first works" is 
the divine admonition. Rev. 2:5. 
Let us arouse ourselves, and give 
the blessed truth to some one 
who will love it just as well as 
we. �
T. H. J. 
THE OPENING OF WASHINGTON 
TRAINING SCHOOL. 
Wednesday, September 20, at 
9:30 A. M., the school board and 
about thirty students, also vis-
itors, met in the chapel. Elders 
Daniells, Spicer, Thompson and 
Russell spoke of the importance 
of our work, and the need of con-
secrated men and women, — the 
object of the school at Washing-
ton. All joined in singing "I'll 
go where you want me to go." 
Eld. Daniells asked God's bless-
ing on the school. Prof. Law-
head read a portion of the fourth 
chapter of Proverbs. Eld. Dan-
iells gave an account of his trip 
to Europe, and expressed his 
gratification with the progress of 
SONS OF GOD. 
My God! My God! What hast thou done, 
To give up Thy beloved Son 
To die for such as even me, 
To set a groveling captive free ! 
What wondrous love ! How can I hold 
Myself aloof from such untold, 
Such inexpressible, desire 
To save me from destruction dire ! 
Here, Lord, I am, a worm of earth ; 
Grant, through Thine all celestial birth, 
To flame the smoking flax anew, 
And even me make Thy son too. 
ALBERT CAREY. 
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THE CONFERENCE OFFICE.. 
All will have noted the vote 
taken at the camp-meeting to 
combine the work of our Confer-
ence secretary and that of deposi- 
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tory clerk for the Southern Pub-
lishing Association. In carrying 
this into effect it has been found 
necessary to change our office 
from Eufola to Hickory. The 
change has now been made, and 
all mail intended for either the 
Conference or the depository 
should be sent to Hickory, N. C. 
The Southern Publishing As-
sociation has been at some extra 
expense. to fit up a depository in 
our own State, that we may have 
the advantage of quick returns 
on orders sent in. Now it oc- 
ir �
curs to me that it is not more 
than right that we should in 
some way show our appreciation 
of this favor. How shall we do 
it? What would be better than 
to send in at once to our good 
secretary, who is now also the 
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the work in that part of the fi'ld. 
 
He asked a brother what kind of 
workers were needed in Europe, 
and the answer was : First, 
Christians; second, men filled 
with the message and men of ex-
perience; third, men who have 
studied the Word, history, and 
science. Eld. Spicer told the 
students that they would have 
trials, but the trials would be for 
their good. We all felt the 
spirit of Jehovah present, and 
are ready for work. Class work 
begins to-morrow, September 21. 
This school needs your prayers. 
Victory is ours, because the Lord 
is with us. Our General will 
never fall. 
J. S. KILLEN. 
FROM THE FIELD. 
Another month has sped past, 
and again I greet my dear breth 
ren of the North Carolina Con-
ference. The month has been 
one long to be remembered by 
me as a time of much anxiety, 
with the opportunity of learning 
to walk by faith and not by 
sight. Our children are now, we 
think, on the way to returning 
health. At this writing, Sep-
tember 22, our little girl still has 
some fever, but we think that it 
is gradually subsiding. 
I have earnestly longed to be 
out in the great harvest field that 
is white to the 'harvest. I have 
been trying to do what I could, 
in the way of writing, to keep up 
my connection with the work 
outside ; yet some have felt that 
I have been slow about writing. 
I have been at the meetings at 
Ashboro as frequently as I could. 
Elder Crisler has labored faith- 
fully to present the truth in clear 
lines, and there is some interest 
there to know the truth. If pos-
sible, I will follow up the inter-
est. As noted elsewhere in this 
paper, he now is soon to leave 
the State. I feel sure that our 
brethren have appreciated the 
help that he has been to us. On 
his way,-at my request, h,, will 
visit some of our churches. I am 
glad, for the sake of my brethren, 
that he has consent( d to do this. 
I hope there will be a general at-
tendance at the appointments. 
As now planned, his visits will 
be timed as follows :— 
Valle Cruces, October 6-8 ; 
Cove Creek church (in Watauga 
county) October 13-15 ; Ashe-
ville, October 20-22 ; Waynes-
ville, October 27-29 ; Robbins-
ville, November 3-5. . At each 
place he will hold Sabbath and 
Sunday meetings. 
The time for active work in 
the great missionary campaign is 
now here. Let us be up and 
doing while it is called to-day. 
There will not be many more 
chances to do service for fallen 
humanity; for soon the harvest 
will be past. Have you ordered 
your club of Watchman yet ? It 
is not too late to do so. I hope 
there will be a rising up as of 
one man to do valiant service for 
the Master. �T. H. J. 
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HILDEBRAN AND TOLUCA. 
The work at the Shireman 
chapel has resulted in six Sab-
bath keepers at present, and one 
or two others are much inter-
ested, who we think will take 
their stand later. One promised 
me to obey the Lord. Sabbath, 
September 23, three followed 
their Lord by goirg down into 
the watery grave in baptism. 
They have a nice Sabbath school, 
and a church school of eight or 
ten students has been started, 
with Sister Ward as teacher. 
The work at Toluca is pro-
gressing nicely. The interest to 
hear the Word is good, and gen-
erally the house will not hold 
the people who come. The pros-
pect is that a good work will be 
accomplished theme. On my way 
to Wilmington I expect to meet 
with the church at Winston-
Sal: m Sabbath, September 3o, 
and at Greensboro October 7. 
May the blessing of the Lord at-
tend His work. 
W. H. ARMSTRONG. 
THE CANVASSING WORK. 
Has the Lord been calling you 
into His vineyard ? Have you 
wondered what you could do to 
further the work of the Master? 
I cannot refrain from calling 
your attention once more to the 
work that God himself hath said 
is the highest kind of ministry. 
The world has many people in it 
yet who desire to know the truth. 
Where are they ? In homes near 
and remote. Some are in the 
city and some are in the coun-
try. 
In visiting a lady who had 
been attending my meeting this 
summer, I had what was to me a 
most impressive object lesson on 
the importance of circulating our 
literature. I asked her of her 
Christian experience, and how 
she enjoyed the meetings, and 
whether she had ever heard any 
of our ministers before. She an- 
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AN APPEAL. 
I read in the Testimonies this 
statement : ''The press is a power; 
but if its products fall dead for 
want of men to circulate them 
widely, its power is lost." Dear 
brethren and sisters, do we want 
our good books to be as though 
they were dead ? 
I hardly see how we could have 
a more favorable time to circulate 
these precious books. Cotton and 
corn are both a fair crop. Cotton 
brings a good price. Work in 
both town and country is abun-
dant, and wages are good. Many, 
even of our farming brethren, 
could devote some time to this 
work if they would only plan for 
it. Let your son or daughter 
spend one day at least each week 
among the people with one or two 
of these good books. Eternity 
alone will reveal the amount of 
good that may thus be done. If 
we neglect these opportunities, we 
surely cannot stand clear before 
God. 
Good reports are coming from 
our canvassers each week. One 
brother who hardly thought he 
could sell any "Coming King" at 
all, has now taken over seventy 
orders for this book, besides sell-
ing $14.75 worth of small books. 
I am hearing from others who are 
entering the work or who are 
planning to do so. Let me hear 
from many. Don't forget to keep 
your report on that postal card, 
and send it in every month. Even 
though you have sold but one 
small book, report that. Do not 
fail in this. Faithfulness in little 
things is approved of in the Bible. 
Why should not North Carolina 
be the banner State in the book 
work, thus hastening the Sa-
viour's coming by faithful, prayer-
ful effort ? May God help us to 
be awake, is my prayer. 
H. G. MILLER, State Agent, 
Mooresville, N. C. 
We are authorized to announce 
the publication, about October 
15, of a volume of "Addresses for 
Young People," by President 
Charles C. Lewis, of Union Col-
lege. It will consist of ten ad-
dresses, given on various occa-
sions during the past fifteen years, 
principally before audiences of 
young people. Just the book to 
save young people from skepti-
cism, and inspire them to seek 
an education and lead pure and 
noble lives. The book will con-
tain about 300 pages, and will be 
durably and handsomely bound. 
It will form an appropriate and 
valuable present for any young 
person, and may turn the current 
of his life into broader, deeper, 
and purer channels. Price $1.00 
per copy, postpaid. Orders re-
ceived at once and filled with 
first copies from press. Send for 
descriptive pamphlet, giving sam-
ple pages, and telling how to se-
cure a copy free. Addres corres-
pondence, and make orders pay-
able to Union College Press, Col-
lege View, Nebraska. 
CANVASSING REPORT. 
(For September, 1905.) 
Hs 
140 
142 
88 
Value 
Ord. 
Value 
Del. Helps. 
H. G. Miller �
 
Oscar Steed,. �
 
A. E. Brensinger 
$ 98 00 
47 00 
17 oo 
$ 95o 
14 75 
56 25 
Carrie ,,oke. �
 
33 
600 
16 25 
Edgar Vaughn . 
68 
6 oo 
3 oo 
Howard Brensinger. . lo 
2 25 
Total, . �
 481 $176 25 
99 75 • • �
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H. G. MILLER, State Agent. 
swered that she had never heard 
any preaching, but that she had 
a brother in California who sent 
her the Signs of the Times. 
Thus she had read, and the seed 
lay there ready to be watered by 
the living preacher. You will 
be interested to know that this 
lady is now rc joicing in the truth, 
and attributes her favorable at-
tention, not to our preaching but 
to the papers she read. 
I feel that there has been too 
much of an idea extant that 
some way the work of selling 
books and papers is not a very 
high order of work ; that it will 
do for people who can't do any-
thing else, who can't preach, or 
be teachers or doctors or some-
thing else. 0 brother ! Why 
not �
believe the Lord ? The 
"highest form of ministry," He 
calls it. 
If the Lord will prosper me 
this year with health in my fam-
ily and for myself, I intend to 
spend some time in the canvass-
ing field. No, I don't mean that 
I will sell a book somewhere 
while I am preaching. I mean 
that I am going to apply to 
Brother Miller for territory, and 
canvass it thoroughly for my 
book. This is a good work; and 
I know that I shall get, and be, a 
blessing to some one in this way 
that I cannot in any other. 
Come now brother, "Old Can-
vasser." Will you agree to put 
in as many weeks as I will this 
season? Write to me and let us 
plan for this, and make the heart 
of our State agent rejoice. Nay 
more, let us make the heart of 
angels glad, as we co-operate 
with them in the work for souls. 
Come ! �
T. H. J. 
THE NORTH CAROLINA MESSENGER. 
The North Carolina Messenger, 
Published Monthly by the 
North Carolina Conference 
-OF- 
Seventh-Day Adventists. 
Subscription Price, - - - - 25e. per year. 
JESSIE V. BOSWORTH, 
T. H. jEYS, �
- - Editors. 
Entered as second-class mail matter at Postoffice 
at Eufola, N. C. 
STATE DIRECTORY. 
President—T. H. Jeys, Spero. 
Vice-Pres.—D. T. Shireman, Hildebran. 
Sec'y and Treas.—Jessie V. Bosworth, 
Hickory. 
State Agent—H. G. Miller, 
Executive Committee—T. H. Jeys, D. 
T. Shireman, W. H. Armstrong, M. H. 
Johnston, B. A. Rogers, M. G. Creasey, 
J. W. Beech. 
Secretary Religious Liberty Depart-
ment—T. H. Jeys. 
Secretary Educational and S. S. Depart-
ment—Mrs. Emma B. Rogers, Hickory. 
Secretary Medical Missionary Depart-
ment—M. H. Johnston, Hildebran. 
The Southern Educational Co.—Pres , 
J. 0. Johnston ; Vice-Pres., B. A. Rogers; 
Secretary and Treas., Jessie V. Bosworth. 
NEWS AND NOTES. 
Bro. L. G. Wagner, now of 
Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting at 
Hildebran. 
Bro. B. A. Rogers, of Hilde- 
bran, has been visiting at his old 
home in Michigan. 
All will be glad to hear from 
our former State Agent, Bro. E. 
C. Rogers. He writes from Au-
gusta, Ga. : " Bro. C. W. Wolf 
and I have engaged 4,000 books 
from the S. P. A., so you can see 
that we expect to do some earn-
est work." 
Bro. W. H. Frink and his sis-
ter, Mrs. Alice I. Slawson, of 
New York, arrived at Eufola 
September io. They will make 
this place their home, having 
purchased the property owned 
by Sister Jessie V. Bosworth and 
her mother. 
Eld. D. T. Shireman writes 
thus of the work at Toltica,w1-ere 
his school is lo-ated : "I am 
putting in full time, but it will 
be some time before my house is 
completed. I want to get it en-
closed as soon as possible. We 
seek the Lord at every step, and 
have a mind to work. I hope to 
spend all that I have in this 
closing work." 
Eld. W. H. Armstrong and 
wife spent a few days at Eufola, 
en route for Wilmington, last 
week. The school building is 
much improved iu appearance 
by the completion of the belfry, 
which is one of the results of 
Eld. Armstrong's visit. 
Elder L. H. Christer, of Flor-
ida, who has been laboring in 
North Carolina during the sum-
mer, will soon start for his home. 
His health has been somewhat 
improved by his stay in our 
State. Notice his appointments 
in another column. 
A message of cheer and in-
struction in right living will be 
found in the October number of 
Life and Health. Send in your 
subscription immediately so as 
to secure this valuable number. 
Price so cents. 
The "Convention Number " of 
the Sabbath School Worker is all 
that was promised, and even 
more. It will be especially help-
ful to our small schools. Sub-
scription price 35 cents ; clubs of 
two or more, 25 cents per year. 
Mrs. J. 0. Johnson is enjoying 
a visit from her sister, Mrs. S. M. 
Frei, of Florida. 
An article received tuo late for 
this issue stabs that the school at 
Hildebran, will open November 
13. All who desire to attend 
should correspond with Prof. J. 
W. Beech, Hildebran, N. C. 
George and Earl, the two sons 
of Eld. T. H. Jeys, are now quite 
fully recovered from their severe 
illness. .His little daughter is 
also reported as r ow slowly re-
covering from the fever. 
The special issues of the 
Watchman NI; ill soon be ready. 
The price is 20 cents per set; five 
sets or more, 15 cents] er set; 25 
sets or more, ro cents per set. 
Order of this office. 
Bro. and Sister H. G. Miller 
recently visited at the home of 
H. H. Stillwell. All will be 
pleased to hear that Bro. Still-
well is somewhat improved in 
health. 
The add•ess of the Educational 
Secretary is now Hickory, N. C. 
This department will now be in 
closer touch with the Conference 
office. 
Bro. Burton Church will have 
charge of the mission school at 
Hickory, and expects a full at-
tendance. The date of opening 
has been set as October 9. 
Do not forget the collection to 
be taken Sabbath, October 7, for 
the work among the colored 
people. 
Dear reader, if your time is up 
We hope that you'll renew. 
Just five and twenty cents a year 
Is all that there is due. 
Why should you wait week after week? 
Why do you thus delay? 
Don't you enjoy the little sheet? 
Send in your stamps to-day. 
—Exchange.