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LEANE 
" Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." 
VOL. I �
SOUTH LANCASTER, MASS., APRIL 9, 1902 �
No. 14 
GOD IS GOOD. 
"Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good." 
Ps. 135 : 3. 
GOD is good, the raindrops whisper, 
And the breeze takes up the song, 
While the brooklet bears the message, 
Gladly, as it flows along. 
God is good. In glinting sunshine, 
Rustling leaf, and springing flower, 
Trace the kindness of his purpose, 
And the wonder of his power. 
God is good. The bright-winged singer 
Joyfully the tidings brings, 
As to meet the dawning morning, 
He mounts up on tireless wings. 
Let my soul take up the anthem, 
Heard in sea, in wood and dell ; 
God is love. Oh, never doubt it, 
Hasten the good news to tell. 
CORNELIA SNOW. 
March 29,1902. 
GOD'S CARE FOR THE LOWLY. 
THE heart of Christ was ever 
touched with human woe. It was his 
tenderness of heart that caused him 
to come to earth to bring salvation to 
our world ; it was love that led him 
to step down from his throne, to lay 
aside his royal robe, and clothe his 
divinity with humanity. Every voice 
ought to be proclaiming, " Behold the 
Lamb of God, which taketh away the 
sin of the world." In the highways, 
in the byways, the people of God 
should be proclaiming the message of 
truth. Some will hear and he con-
verted; and some will not. In the 
time of Christ there were many priests 
that believed on him, but they would 
not acknowledge him for fear they 
would be turned out of the syna-
gogues. They feared they would not 
be popular, and that they would be in 
disgrace if they followed in the foot-
steps of Christ. The mission of 
Christ was to seek and to save that 
which was lost, and we thank God 
that there are a few who will take 
their position upon the command-
ments of God, even though it places 
them on the unpopular side. 
It requires moral courage to take a 
position to keep the commandments 
of the Lord. An opposer of the truth 
once said that it was only weak-
minded people, foolish, ignorant per-
sons, who would turn away from the 
churches to keep the seventh-day as 
the Sabbath; but a minister who had 
embraced the truth, replied, " If you 
think it takes weak-minded persons, 
just try it." It takes moral courage, 
firmness, decision, perseverance, and 
very much prayer to step out on the 
unpopular side. We are thankful 
that we can come to Christ as the 
poor suffering ones came to Christ in 
the temple. 
Will the Saviour ever turn away to 
leave you to struggle alone ?—No, 
never. But he never told his disci-
ples that they should have no trials, 
no self-denial to endure, no sacrifices 
to make. 'The Master was a man of 
sorrows, and acquainted with grief. 
" Ye know the grace of our Lord Je-
sus Christ, that, though he was rich, 
yet for your sakes he became poor, 
that ye through his poverty, might be 
rich." We thank God that in your 
poverty, you can call God your Father. 
Poverty is coming upon this world, 
and there will be a time of trouble 
such as never was since there was a 
nation. There will be wars and ru-
mors of wars, and the faces of men 
will gather paleness. You may have 
to suffer distress, you may go hungry 
sometimes; but God will not forsake 
you in your suffering. He will test 
your faith. We are not to live to 
please ourselves. We are here to 
manifest Christ to the world, to rep-
resent him and his power to man-
kind. 
We have been hewn as rough 
stones from the quarry of the world. 
Will he leave us with our rough 
edges, leave us to practice close deal-
ing, and to manifest selfishness ?—
Never. He brings us into his work-
shop to be hewed and squared, pol-
ished and finished, for the heavenly 
building ; for you are to be framed 
into a holy temple unto the Lord. 
When the truth is received, the rough 
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character changes, and worldliness, 
selfishness, and pride are worked out 
of the heart. The office of the Holy 
Spirit is to work the man. It is not 
our place to work the Holy Spirit. 
If we are ignorant when brought into 
the truth, we are not to remain so. 
Was Christ ignorant ? He was the 
greatest teacher the world ever saw. 
He chose the unlearned fishermen to 
be his disciples in order that they 
might learn of him, and become wise 
unto salvation. Why was it he did 
not choose the scribes and the Phari- 
sees? �
It was because he could not 
trust them. He said of them, " In 
vain do they worship me, teaching for 
doctrines the commandments of men." 
Why is it that the Lord does not 
choose the learned and the popular 
to-day, and work with the churches ? 
It is because they follow the same 
course as did the scribes and the 
Pharisees. But the greatest Teacher 
the world ever knew says to you, 
" Conte unto me, all ye that labor and 
are heavy laden, and I [the Son of the 
infinite God] will give you rest." But 
there is something more. He con-
tinues " Take my yoke upon you, and 
learn of me ; for I am meek and 
lowly in heart ; and ye shall find rest 
unto your souls. For my yoke is 
easy, and my burden is light." 
Christ said, " I have kept my 
Father's commandments, and abide in 
his love." Christ is testing us to-day 
to see if we will be obedient to the 
law of God as he was, and be fitted 
up for the society of heavenly angels. 
God wants a loyal people. Rebellion 
originated in heaven ; but it is not to 
be found there again. If we are 
willing to inquire, What is the way 
of the Lord to do justice and judg-
ment, to seek mercy, and to walk 
humbly with our God, we shall hear 
him say, " Child, come up higher." 
He has builded for us a city, and he 
is not ashamed to call us brethren. 
He will gather the strangers and the 
pilgrims to himself. 
MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
SILENCE. 
" Bur the Lord is in his holy tem-
ple ; let all the earth keep silence 
before him." liab. 2 : 20. 
The silence here spoken of evident-
ly does not mean that we sit down 
and keep very quiet as a child who 
must sit still for half an hour because 
it has disobeyed mama. No, not this, 
but we must in this time, when God 
is in his holy temple, willingly walk 
in his ways, doing his will in all 
things, not rising up against him by 
trying to have our own way. We are 
now in the time of the investigative 
judgment, the Lord is in his holy tem-
ple, indeed. 
To rise up against God is to do 
that which is contrary to his will. It 
is God's will that we render unto him 
his own in tithes and offerings. If we 
withhold these, we are not keeping 
silence before him for he must bring 
this against us in judgment, and it is 
not a quiet matter when two parties 
meet in a court of justice to have a 
difference between them settled. 
It is God's will just now that relief 
shall come to our schools by the sale 
of " Christ's Object Lessons," and 
those who do not in some way take 
part in this work, will have an account 
to settle in the judgment. 
It is God's will that all his people 
should be honest and upright in all 
their business transactions, keeping 
their bills paid up, so that they " owe 
no man anything." The man who 
engages himself to a conference to 
sell books on commission and receives 
the same delivers them and retains 
the money which justly belongs to the 
conference, although he may be a min-
ister or licentiate, or whatever he may 
be, will have a serious matter to settle 
in the judgment. He will not always 
be able to keep the matter quiet. God 
will bring it up in judgment unless 
by repentance and restitution it is 
made right. 
The man and the woman whom 
God is calling to some special line of 
his work and they allow personal in-
terests to keep them from this work, 
will also have a case in the heavenly 
court. The sins of neglect—Oh, how 
many of them will meet us in the 
judgment ! 
The sin of self-exaltation will also 
be met in court. Poor mortals who 
have such an exalted idea of their own 
ability as many have in this world, 
will not have a quiet time in the judg-
ment. 
But what more need we say, every 
defect of character will meet us in the 
judgment unless covered by the right-
eousness of Christ. " Not every one 
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall 
enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but 
he that doeth the will of my Father 
which is in heaven." Matt. 7 : 21. 
A profession of the Christian name 
will not avail anything unless the 
character of God appears in the daily 
life. May the Lord help his people 
to so connect with him, and faithfully 
perform every duty, that they may 
have a quiet and peaceful time in the 
judgment when their cases are called. 
" Let all the earth keep silence be- 
fore him." �J. W. WATT. 
THE LIFE IS MORE THAN MEAT. 
PEOPLE often say, " One might as 
well not live at all, as to deprive one's 
self of all the good things of life." 
That is what Eve thought. What was 
the use of living, if she could not have 
the forbidden fruit ? There are not 
many of us who can throw stones at 
our common mother. But those same 
persons are often heard saying, " What 
is the use of living in this misery?" and 
too often they put a summary end to 
their lives. " Is not the life more 
than meat ?" Would it not be far 
better to deny the appetite, and even 
eat food not quite so pleasing to the 
palate, and always be full of life and 
vigor, able to enjoy everything to the 
full, than to have pleasure at the 
table, and misery everywhere else ? 
But this is an extreme statement of 
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the case. The fact is that the man 
who is content with the things that 
God gave to man in Eden, as his bill 
of fare, gets more positive enjoyment 
out of the hours that he spends at the 
table than anybody else in the world 
possibly can. He alone knows the 
meaning of the word " delicious." 
Every morsel of food is a delight to 
him, for he alone has the " good 
things " of life. As he eats he thanks 
God, " who daily loadeth us with ben-
efits." And not by any means the 
least of the enjoyments of a clean 
table is the knowledge that there will 
be no bad taste afterwards. 
E. J. WAGGONER. 
SECOND-HAND FOOD. 
WE naturally shrink from wearing 
second-hand clothing, not so much 
because we consider it beneath our 
dignity to do so, but because we ob-
ject to what is likely to accompany 
such clothing. 
It is passing strange that while. the 
best elements of society refuse to pat-
ronize the second-hand clothing store, 
they seem so perfectly willing to pat-
ronize the butcher shop, which is noth-
ing less than a second-hand food 
store. The contamination that ac-
companies the second-hand clothing 
would affect only the skin, but that 
which is obtained from the second-
hand food store is taken inside the 
body itself ; and just to the extent 
that it contains disease and waste 
products, it will taint and contaminate 
the entire body. 
So long as it is possible for us to 
secure from the lap of nature directly 
clean grain preparations, luscious 
fruits, and nutritious nut products, 
why should we ever for a moment 
entertain the idea that they can be 
improved by first feeding them to an 
ox to assist in building up the tissues 
, �
of that animal ? 
So long as we persist in magnify-
ing the virtues of second-hand food, 
we ought to be equally willing to laud 
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the peculiar advantages and benefits 
to be derived from wearing second-
hand clothes. 
DAVID PAULSON. 
rrhe FIELD 
FROM ONE OF THE ISOLATED ONES. 
SHALL I tell you of some of the 
work that God gives me to do from 
day to day ? A kind word to speak 
to the sad ones, a loving smile and 
kiss for the little ones, a few of the 
old hymns played and sung for the 
lonely ones, and a helping hand to 
those in need. Twice the Master 
has sent me to those who are in the 
habit of using strong drink, and the 
words spoken " in his name " were 
kindly received. Only a little while 
to work for Jesus and so much to do. 
Let us trust him and at length we 
shall see his face. 
MRS. W. L. COFFEE. 
Freeport, Maine. 
NEW YORK CONFERENCE. 
THE conference committee met in 
Syracuse a few days ago, and much 
time was spent in carefully consider-
ing how to best extend the medical 
missionary work in our conference. 
After careful consideration, the follow-
ing recommendations were adopted : 
1. That A. R. Satterlee, M. D., be 
invited to connect with the New York 
Conference as a conference laborer. 
2. That property be rented for the 
establishment of bath and treatment 
rooms in our conference, where the 
providence of God shall indicate, and 
that at least $1,000 be raised for their 
equipment. 
3. That we encourage suitable per-
sons to go to the Battle Creek Sani-
tarium to be educated to conduct 
hygienic restaurants in our large 
cities. 
4. That our young people now at-
tending our academies be encouraged 
to return to our conference and en- 
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gage in canvassing, church-school 
teaching, Bible-reading work, etc. 
5. Whereas, During March we 
have not completed the sale of our 
quota of "Christ's Object Lessons ;" 
therefore,— 
Resolved, That we diligently con-
tinue this work during April, or till it 
is accomplished. 
The work with " Object Lessons " 
is moving nicely in the State. We 
hope to see it continue till our quota 
is sold. Our canvassers' institute is 
just opening, and while it is too early 
to speak of results, we feel sure it will 
be a great help to the work in the 
State. �G. B. THOMI'SON. 
ROCK HALL, MD. 
THE work in this place is still on-
ward, and many encouraging things 
might be said in relation to it. 
The quarterly meeting last Sabbath 
will be a bright spot in the memory 
of this church to look back upon. 
Surely the power of God witnessing 
to the truth, was seen by all present, 
and the hearts of the older members 
were made glad to hear the testimo-
nies of the new ones in praise to God 
for the truth and deliverance from 
sin. 
My experience here has taught me 
that 'a good work may be accom-
plished in all our churches. World-
liness more or less has been creeping 
in, and the spirit of labor has been 
dying out. What is needed most now 
is a revival of the message for our 
time. Let a course of lectures be 
given, taking in all the points of our 
faith, and let our members review 
once more the lines of prophecy, and 
I believe that a spirit of labor would 
come into the hearts of the people, 
and we would soon see a great work 
accomplished. 
There are those who are connected 
with the members of the church, and 
are acquainted more or less with the 
principles of the truth, who need help. 
Just a little labor will bring them into 
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the light. Will not the elders and 
leaders of the churches all along the 
line wake up to duty, and take their 
Bibles and study with their churches 
the lines of prophecy for our time ? 
,If they will do this, the lukewarm 
one will turn into a warm, working 
church, and great things will be ac-
complished. 
F. W. MACE. 
DANVERS, BEVERLY AND BOSTON. 
SABBATH, March 29, Elder Gilbert 
and the writer met with the Danvers 
church in the morning and in the 
afternoon we spoke to the Beverly 
church. These were good meetings 
in spite of the hard rain. In the 
evening we went to Poston, where we 
held a council with Elder Russell, H. C. 
Wilcox, our conference agent, and 
other laborers, Sunday forenoon. 
The work for Boston and vicinity 
seems encouraging. The Lord has 
recently opened the way for the truth 
to go in a remarkable manner. Of 
some of these features Elder Russell 
will doubtless write ere long. 
• I was especially impressed with a 
meeting held at Berkley Hall Sunday 
afternoon. A Mrs. Archer Maloney, 
a teacher of elocution in Boston who 
has recently accepted present truth, 
spoke on the subject of " Religious 
Liberty." �
At least one thousand 
people were present, and the atten-
tion and interest of that large audi-
ence were held for about one and one 
half hours. The meeting was a tell- 
ing victory for the truth. �
Elder 
Russell spoke a few minutes at the 
close. 
These meetings are undenomina-
tional, and are supported by free-will 
contributions. It is proving an ex-
cellent means of helping to advertise 
our meetings at " Russell Hall." In 
the evening I spoke in -the latter- 
named hall. �
Nearly .every seat was 
filled. A large number were present 
from the Berkley Hall audience where 
our meeting was advertised. Elder 
Russell is of good courage. �
The 
work is opening up in other places, 
suburbs of Boston, more rapidly than 
it can be followed up. 
Brother Ruggles is getting a good 
start there with " Object Lessons," 
having sold over one hundred copies 
during the past month, besides help-
ing others in the work, and assisting 
Elder Russell to some extent. Sister 
Downs, who has taken the drill in 
the New York Mission; has now 
joined the work in Boston and vicin-
ity, and the plans are to make the 
coining tent season an important one 
for the work there. 
Let every one who professes to 
love this great and precious truth, 
pray earnestly and talk faith, hope, 
courage now, and from this time on 
more and more. The Lord will meet 
us more than half way. 
A. E. PLACE. 
THERE IS A BLESSING. 
OF all God's promises not one will 
fail. He said if we would start, 
" Courage would come as we put the 
armor on." I find this true as I go 
out with " Christ's Object Lessons," 
and no one could need courage more 
than I do. For the first time I can 
thank God for the privilege of can-
vassing. 
Many opportunities are offered to 
point souls to Jesus, and the few lines 
read from the book are a sermon of 
themselves. One of the brethren 
here has sold a book to the Baptist 
minister, who gave him a fine testi-
monial, and hoped he would sell 
many to his church people. 
In one Catholic family, I sold " Best 
Stories," " Christ Our Saviour," and 
later a copy of " Object Lessons;" in 
another, the lady bought a copy of our 
" Hymns and Tunes." She said she 
had moved into a Protestant neigh-
borhood, and was looking for a book 
to play from on Sunday. I left it with 
a prayer that the words might touch 
her heart. One sister here, sent three 
copies of " Object Lessons " to her 
aunts in England, so the good work 
goes on. 
In one house where I called, an old 
lady sat by the fire, sick ; when I told 
her my errand, she said, " I would 
rather have you tell me how to help 
this cough." I asked her a few ques-
tions, and told her daughter some 
simple treatments she could give, and 
left a copy of " Good Health " which 
illustrated the treatments. �
I was 
pleased to learn on a later call that 
she was improved, People often tell 
me of their pains, and listen eagerly 
to principles of healthful living, and 
simple treatments. In one place I 
took off my wraps and gave the lady 
a sweat, which broke up a severe at-
tack of gripp so she was about the 
house the next day. She had been 
taking quinine till her head was burn-
ing with fever, and then she had 
chills. She was very grateful and 
said she should always remember how 
it was done. How good the Lord is 
to trust us with such knowledge, and 
give us opportunity to share it with 
others. 
Last week I was called to Whitman 
by the serious illness of my brother-
in-law, and while there saw several of 
the Brockton church people. One 
brother had just delivered three cop-
ies of "Object Lessons," and a sister, 
four copies. One of the latter books 
went into the library of the First Con-
gregational church of that city. The 
day the sister called, the lady said, 
" My class had decided to buy a book 
for the library of our Sunday-school, 
and I was just thinking I ought to go 
out to-day to select one ; now this has 
come right to me, and I am so pleased 
with it." The book was delivered 
and paid for right there. 
The same sister sold a copy of the 
book to a teacher in one of the city 
schools, who liked it so well she asked 
her if she had anything for children. 
She wanted a book that her pupils 
would understand, and that she could 
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read to, them instead of the Bible. 
The sister sold her a "Gospel Primer," 
and when she had read that through 
to the children, she came to learn if 
she could get a book a little more ad-
vanced. This time she bought 
" Sketches from Bible Child Life." 
Who can tell what precious seeds 
may thus be scattered in the hearts of 
the children. There is a present 
blessing in going out to the people 
with " Object Lessons." I know for 
He has blessed me. 
JENNIE R. BATES. 
"LET EVERY STROKE TELL." 
SUCH is the admonition given to us 
by the word of the Lord, in regard to 
the work of " Christ's Object Les-
sons," and how true the Lord is to his 
promise to help that every stroke shall 
tell for this work, if we are only will-
ing to yield to him. The past two 
weeks have been rich with experience 
in this branch of the work of God, 
and God has given to us many oppor-
tunities to work for him, and thus en-
abled us to dispose of many of 
" Christ's Object Lessons." 
I felt for some time that I ought to 
come to Haverhill to do something 
with the book, and it was evidently 
the Holy Spirit that made the impres-
sion on my mind. Soon after I 
reached the city one of the ministers 
inquired after me, having heard that I 
once spoke at the laying of the corner-
stone of a synagogue in the city. 
The following evening I attended 
his prayer-meeting, and he invited me 
to speak. After that service was over, 
The people wanted very much to have 
me speak the next Sunday morning, 
and some three or four hundred peo-
ple came to listen to the word of God. 
I was afterwards invited to address 
the Sunday-school, and in the evening 
I spoke in another church in the city 
to a packed house, on Jewish Cus-
toms and Traditions. 
Just before the close of the evening 
service, at our request, the minister 
made a public announcement of the 
book, and called on me to finish what 
he left unsaid. A few days later this 
minister went with me to another min-
ister to deliver a copy of the book, 
and gave me also quite a list of names 
to call upon. As a result in a day 
and a half I took twenty-three orders, 
delivering more than half of them. 
I have spoken at other times in these 
churches since, and the people seem 
quite interested. 
To-night I spoke at a church, and 
sold four copies after meeting. There 
are several more appointments await-
ing me in different towns and cities 
to speak in other churches; and I 
hope with the help of God, as far as 
possible, to do all I can at these meet-
ings with " Christ's Object Lessons." 
It is evident to my mind that as 
soon as we believe what God says, 
and go about our Father's business 
to do the same, the Lord will open 
doors and avenues wonderfully. Oh, 
for the Calebs, the Joshuas, the Dan. 
iels, the Pauls, and God would do a 
mighty work through his people. 
Come, brethren and sisters, let us 
do what God says. The message has 
come back to the East with power. 
It is rising, too. Brother, sister, are 
you rising with it ? Are you in the 
channel of light and blessing where 
God can use you mightily ? Have 
you given yourself wholly to God, so 
that you can be used by him to his 
glory ? We want to finish up this 
work, and have it cut short, so as to 
be ready for the next thing he sends 
us to do. 
May the Lord help and bless us all 
to fully carry out his specified will, that 
the fourfold blessing may be realized 
through each one of us. 
F. C. GILBERT. 
"A CHINESE Christian lady brought 
her jewels one morning to her hus-
band, to build an opium-refuge ; and 
when he expressed surprise, she said, 
' I have taken Christ for my adorn-
ment, and surely that is enough for 
any Christian woman.' " 
TAHITI. 
As "THE field is the world," the 
following extract from a private letter, 
written by one of our workers in the 
South Pacific, may be of interest, 
showing, as it does, under what con-
ditions those labor who go to the dark 
places of the earth to give the " glad 
tidings " of salvation. 
The writer of the letter, Mrs. M. V, 
Jones, is a Scotch lady of education 
and culture, who embraced the truth 
while we were living in London. She 
was a member of our family, and one 
of our Bible workers there for three 
or four years. After marrying, she 
and her husband came to Texas to 
attend the Keene Academy for a 
short time. At the last General Con-
ference, they were invited to go to the 
Society Islands, as their knowledge 
of French would be of value in the 
work there, and his experience in nav-
igation, just what was needed. 
He was mate on a vessel when he 
embraced the truth from reading, and 
when his ship reached London, he 
made his way to the mission and re-
mained with us some months. They 
have both had a very interesting ex-
perience which has well fitted them 
for the work to which they have given 
their lives. 
" It is about five months now since 
we arrived here, but it does not seem 
so long. We are longing for the time 
when we shall know this language 
well enough to go out anywhere and 
meet the people and so help them, for 
there is great work to be done here, 
as elsewhere, and we want to go to 
places where they have never yet 
heard the truth. Mr. Jones is getting 
a good many readings now, but has 
to have an interpreter, and that is 
never the same as when one can talk 
directly to the people. So far we 
have been living in Brother Cady's 
house while they have been on their 
plantation in the island of Raiatea, 
where they are ,building a school-
house and hope to get a school started 
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soon. Just now they are here for a 
few weeks seeing about the building 
of the store and bakery for the sale 
of our health foods, and so forth. 
Mr. Jones has been helping build this, 
and soon they expect to put up a 
church at a place about fifteen miles 
off where there has been a company 
of Sabbath-keepers ever since the 
Pitcairn ' first came. �
There is a 
great deal of prejudice on this island. 
In spite of all this we expect many 
will yet be glad to cast in their lot 
with those who are accounted as the 
scum and offscouring of the earth.' 
" This island (and I understand 
several others), is only inhabited 
around the coast, because all the in-
terior is nothing but high, jagged, in-
accessible mountains. On these grow 
an abundance of oranges, plantains, 
bananas, etc., etc., and whenever the 
weather is good, the natives go where 
they can get and carry down on poles 
over their shoulders loads which they 
dispose of in the market at a high 
price. This is by no means a cheap 
place to live, rent, food and clothing 
being quite expensive. We are fortu-
nate, however, in having some things 
in our own garden, and generally have 
enough bananas to keep us going 
without buying, also mangoes and 
avocas, when in season. I suppose 
you had the latter, as well as bananas 
and mangoes, in India, so I need not 
describe them only to say that we 
think them a splendid substitute for 
butter, and wish we had them all the 
year round. 
" I expect Sister Spicer has been 
home for some time, but we have 
never heard. We read of Miss Bur-
rus' visit to the States and her return-
ing to India with other missionaries. 
I hope they will stand the climate 
and enjoy it there as much as she 
does, so that they can enter into the 
work with heart and soul. We were 
very sorry not to see Brother Spicer 
at the Cleburne camp-meeting, yet we 
felt we could not leave our work just 
then without injuring it. Every mail 
we have encouraging letters from some 
of those at Waco, Texas, where we 
were laboring, which is always refresh-
ing, as you know, and makes one for-
get all the travail of soul and weari-
ness of body undergone on their ac-
count. I think the work generally 
speaking must go easier in the States 
than here �
 
" The people here are very much 
opposed to women taking an active 
part in the work where any men are. 
I suppose they were taught this by 
the first missionaries. It seems very 
hard, too, to get them to give up eat-
ing meat and keeping pigs. But after 
all nothing is impossible with the 
Lord, and we must trust him more 
and ourselves less. They are full of 
disease, most of them being pretty 
nearly covered with sores ; then they 
have a kind of elephantiasis, and 
there are a few lepers. Yet they are 
a strong-built people, tall and stout, 
and look as though they ought to be 
healthy if they lived right. 
" Pray for us and our work here 
that the Lord will guide us in all we 
do, and help us to be a blessing to 
these people who need salvation of 
spirit, soul and body so much." 
MRS. E. D. ROBINSON. 
THOSE who are not fully converted 
to the truth, frequently let their minds 
run freely upon worldly business, and 
although they may rest from physical 
toil upon the Sabbath, their tongues 
speak out what is in their minds; 
hence these words concerning cattle, 
crops, losses, and gains. All this is 
Sabbath-breaking.— 
Gospel Work-
ers." 
— • 
IT is true that the filling of the 
Spirit involves a separation, a giving 
up, a going apart, which is keenly 
bitter to the flesh. The filling of 
Pentecost is a baptism of fire. But 
there is joy amid the flames as the 
bands shrivel, and the limbs are free, 
and the Son of God walks beside.—
F. B. Meyer. 
EDUCATIONAL 
OUR, ACADEMY AND 
CI URCI-I.SCHOOLS 
OUR WORK FOR "CHRIST'S OBJECT 
LESSONS." 
IN two or three previous papers I 
have spoken of the work which the 
school intended to do in getting 
out with " Christ's Object Lessons." 
Last Thursday, April 3, the students 
and teachers entered upon this work 
to which they have been looking for-
ward. We have been preparing for 
it for over a week, and each morning 
in chapel something has been said or 
done in this direction. The book 
has been read from and studied �
spe- 
cial instruction has been given with ref-
erence to canvassing for it. Quite a 
number of public drills were given to 
the students in which the methods of 
presenting the book were shown. 
During two mornings members of the 
board who were present told of their 
experiences in working for the book. 
These men had all had personal ex-
perience in canvassing for the book, 
and their experiences were not simply 
interesting but very profitable as they 
were related to the students. 
Wednesday night at six o'clock the 
students assembled in the dining-
room at the Home and a very inter-
esting meeting was held preparatory 
to the work of Thursday. We have 
among the students a good number who 
have had experience in canvassing. 
General instruction was given. Ques-
tions were asked and answered by 
the students and suggestions made by 
those of experience. It was indeed a 
delightful scene--a large company of 
over one hundred young people with 
their teachers assembled to consider 
a work which the Lord had definitely 
commanded should be done. The 
spirit of energy and cheerfulness . 
which was manifested in the meeting 
was truly inspiring. 
It is a little too early to speak defi-
nitely of the results of the work, as I 
am writing this on Friday, the next 
day after the students have been at 
work, and I have not yet received 
their reports. I will, however, next 
week, tell definitely what has been 
done, and also give some individual 
reports of the work. The desire has 
been expressed by many students 
that they might go again. It means 
a great deal, as one can readily see, 
to change the work and arrange for 
such a clay's campaign for so many 
people. But it is profitable work. 
FREDERICK GRIGGS. 
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP. 
IT has been eight or ten years since 
the Academy was painted, and it is 
greatly in need of repairs in this direc-
tion, not alone because of the looks 
of the building, but from the econom-
ical point of view as well. The.stu-
dents have spoken of this point. We 
have with us this year a number of 
students who have done painting, and 
these have kindly offered to donate 
all or quite a portion of their time to 
the painting of the building, if the 
paint can be purchased. 
This matter was brought to the at-
tention of the board, and they voted 
to do this, and purchase the paint 
from a fund to be raised by donations. 
Already something over fifty dollars 
has been raised on this fund, largely 
from the members of the board and 
faculty. The paint will cost two or 
three times this amount, and our 
friends who are interested in the 
keeping up of the property have the 
opportunity to thus assist in this good 
work. It certainly seems as though 
the kind and liberal offer of these 
young men ought to be responded to. 
So our friends who are pleased to do 
so may send to us at once any amount 
to assist in this matter. The board 
feel that they do not want to make 
these repairs and place the school in 
debt in any way. This is why the 
fund is raised in this way. 
FREDERICK GRIGGS. 
ATLANTIC UNION GLEANER 
BOYS' DORMITORY. 
WE are in distressing need of a 
dormitory for our Academy boys. 
We have long since known that the 
best result could not be achieved 
from our efforts to help the students, 
while they were scattered throughout 
various private homes. It is quite 
apparent to any one who gives the 
matter a moment's consideration, that 
proper discipline can not be main-
tained under such conditions. The 
board of trustees together with the 
faculty have for several years been 
very anxious over the situation. 
However, we, have been powerless to 
change existing conditions unless we 
had been willing to contract another 
debt in the erection of the Home, 
which in conscience we could not do. 
So things have gone on until now 
without the Home. 
The Lord has now put the burden 
of the importance of a home upon the 
people, to the extent that one lady 
has contributed to this enterprise 
$3,500.00. The admonition of the 
Saviour is, that we should, before 
building, sit down and count the cost. 
In so doing we find we should have 
in all, five thousand dollars. Will 
the people of the entire Union Con-
ference rally forces at once, and se-
cure the trifling remnant cash amount 
of $1,500.00? Parents, consider that 
your own child or the child of your 
neighbor is at the Academy, fitting 
himself for service in the Master's 
work, and hence should have every 
possible advantage given him that he 
may succeed. This Home should be 
erected at once, but will not be com-
menced until the money is in hand. 
True faith is exercised beforehand 
rather than behindhand. We want 
one thousand and five hundred dol-
lars more money in cash by May 1, 
1902. Then the Home will be erec-
ted at once. Shall we have it? Are 
there not a goodly number of persons 
who appreciate the situation, who are 
able and would esteem it a privilege 
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to contribute the sum of one hundred 
dollars each to this enterprise in the 
interest of our young people and the 
cause of truth at large? Then there 
are hundreds who can contribute 
smaller amounts. �
The Lord, will 
instruct each one who will ask him 
how much he should give. Reader, 
will you inquire of the Lord in regard 
to duty, and improve the privilege of 
assisting? The whole school is en-
thusiastic over this question, and is 
organized to act faithfully its part in 
soliciting the desired amount. 
Let all contributions be sent by 
bank draft, post-office money order or 
by express order addressed to Geo. W. 
Palmer, A. U. Conference Treasurer, 
South Lancaster, Mass., who will 
send you a receipt for the same. 
H. W. COTTRELL. 
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. 
DURING this past week the Board 
of Trustees of the Academy has been 
holding its annual meeting for the 
election of the faculty and the trans-
action of such business as would nat-
urally pertain to plans and arrange-
ments for the ensuing year. These 
meetings were indeed very harmoni-
ous and pleasant. All the members 
of the present faculty were elected to 
the same work as that which they are 
now doing, for this coining year—no 
changes being made in any way. 
It is planned to enlarge the work 
of the commercial department. There 
is a great dearth of workers in com-
mercial lines among our people. Good 
stenographers and typewriters are very 
scarce, and there are several positions 
open to every competent worker in 
this direction. The same is true of 
accountants, bookkeepers and busi-
ness managers. Too low a standard 
is accepted for this work. This is 
undoubtedly one reason why we have 
financial difficulty and why there are 
heavy incumbrances resting upon our 
institutions and work. The school is 
ordained to prepare workers. The 
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Board of Trustees is expected to see 
the needs of the cause in any direction 
pertaining to educational matters and 
meet its wants, and this is the identi-
cal work it is endeavoring to do in 
this move. We shall endeavor to 
have a thoroughly equipped practise 
school for our commercial students,and 
confidently expect that this move will 
meet with the hearty cooperation and 
support of our people, and believe 
that we shall have a good number of 
young people enter our school next 
fall to take this work. We shall speak 
of it more fully later. 
Altogether the board meetings were, 
as I have indicated, not only pleasant 
but we feel profitable, and believe 
that they will result in the further 
advancement of our work. 
FREDERICK GRIGGS. 
ACADEMY NOTES. 
Miss Amy Tanner, of Camden, 
N. J., has come to the school to enter 
upon its work. 
—Our farm work is opening, and 
this will very soon give a number of 
young men an excellent opportunity 
for work. 
—Elder Peter M. Howe, a worker 
in the Michigan Conference, paid the 
school a very pleasant visit during the 
past week. 
—Prof. Benj. F. Yeoman gave to the 
members of the board and faculty an 
informal recital on Wednesday after-
noon. The pleasant room and the 
music produced upon the new instru-
ment were thoroughly enjoyed by all 
present. 
—The auditor, D. B. Parmelee, is 
still pursuing his work in arranging 
and getting into definite shape state-
ments, showing the financial condition 
of the school. We hope to soon have 
definite and positive reports concern-
ing the financial standing of the 
Academy. 
—From every quarter we are re-
ceiving encouraging testimonies of the 
progress of the " Christ's Object Les- 
sons " work. Also we are receiving 
funds from the sale of these books, 
and those connected with the school 
are looking for the time soon to come 
when the indebtedness of the school 
will be fully removed. 
On Thursday evening, April 3, the 
members of the band gave an enter-
tainment in the Academy chapel. 
They are hardly prepared yet to give 
a musical entertainment, but they ren-
dered very acceptably three or four 
selections. The entertainment was 
largely stereopticon. This entertain-
ment was given to create a fund to 
purchase music and pay for the rent 
of the instruments. There was a 
good attendance and a neat little sum 
was secured to assist the young men 
in this work. �
The entertainment 
passed off very pleasantly and seemed 
to be enjoyed by all present. 
" IT is good for a man that he bear 
the yoke in his youth." 
The PRINTED PAGE 
" and from HOUSE to HOUSE" 
THE BOOK WORK. 
MAINE CONFERENCE. 
THE report from Maine for the week end-
ing March 28, is that one agent, working 
thirty hours with " Bible Readings," secured 
eleven orders, value, $.23.00, and sold helps 
to the amount of $2.25; another agent, 
working seventeen hours with " Ladies' 
Guide," took nine orders, value, $28.50, and 
sold helps to the amount of $1 t.00. 
NEW YORK CONFERENCE. 
WEEK ENDING MAR. 28, 1902. 
Name �
I Place I Ords I Val I Hips 
BIBLE READINGS. 
1 M. A. Vroman, Albany, �
22 �
54.55 31.15 
LADIES' GUIDE. 
2 Mrs.JohnWight,Gouverneur,2 �
6•00 
COMING KING. 
3 Clara M. Coe, Gloversville, 5 �
6.00 2.75 
4 Lilla Caster, Lyons, �
3 �
3.50 
Miscellaneous Orders �33.90 
Totals, �
4 Agents, �
32 $103.95 $33.90 
Corresp'ng w'k, 1901, 2 Ag'ts 12 �
22.50 6.75 
Time.—No. 1, 40 hrs; 2, 1 hr; 4, 7 hrs. Total, 
48 hrs. 
Deliveries.—No. 3, $1.50; 4, $3.50. 
PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE. 
TWO WEEKS ENDING MAR. 28, 1902. 
Name �
I Place �
Ords I Val I Hips 
COMING KING. 
1 C. L. Irons, Erie Co., 
49 
49.00 
.25 
2 Christian Mahr, Sharon, 
61 
61.00 
1.00 
3 Susan Andrews, Easton, 
13 
14.50 
4 Geo. F. B. Unger, Leesport, 2 
2.00 
.50 
5 W.C.Fleischer,McKeesport, 28 
28.00 12.75 
GREAT CONTROVERSY. 
6 W. H. Zeidler, McKeesport, 6 
17.75 21.50 
7 E. D. Champlin, Coryville, 
2.50 
MARVEL OF NATIONS. 
8 Mrs. E. A. Mitcheltree, 
West Middlesex, 
2 
3.00 
1.25 
9 Ivor Lawrence, Elton, 
11 
13.50 24.00 
10 J. G. Saunders, Brockport, 5 
6.25 29.00 
BIBLE READINGS. 
11 0. H. Ward, New Castle, �
21 
43.50 
1.50 
12 W. W. Moore, Bakersville, �
7 
15.50 40.65 
Totals, �
12 Ag'ts, �
205 
254.00 134.90 
Time.—No. 1, 59 hrs; 2, 68 hrs; 3, 24 hrs; 4, 
hrs; 5, 32 hrs; 6, 24 hrs; 8, 15 hrs; 9, 67 hrs; 
10, 16 hrs; 11, 33, hrs; 12, 29 hrs. Total, 375 hrs. 
Deliveries.—No.2 , $49.15; 4, $4.25; 5, $3.50; 6, 
$40.50; 7, $64.00; 8, $2.75; 9, $2.75; 11, $32.25; 12. 
$3.75. 
NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE. 
WEEK ENDING MAR. 28, 1902. 
Name �
I Place I Ords I Val I Hips 
DESIRE OF AGES. 
1 A. G. McBurnie, Fall River, �
3 
10.50 
1.50 
2 R. C. Andrews, Nashua, N.II.,5 
17.00 
6.50 
3 E. W. Stone, Bradford �
1 
2.50 
8.65 
4 H. L. White, Grafton, �
9 
29.50 
5.25 
5 J. E. Leighton, Groveland, �
3 
9.50 
8.50 
6 F. W. Johnston, Haverhill, �
2 
7.00 
9.75 
7 P. Van Duren, Clinton, 
STORY OF REDEMPTION. 
8 Mrs.G.Laycock,Worcester, �
3 
3.25 
.50 
MARVEL OF NATIONS. 
9 Mrs. J. Wilbur, Westerly,R.I. 3 
4.00 
OBJECT LESSONS. 
10 *G. R. Ruggles, Medford, �
32 
40.00 
11 II.C.Hartwell, Dover, N.H., 13 
16.25 
1.00 
1 A. G. McBurnie, Fall River, 3 
3.75 
6 F.W.Johnston, Haverhill, �
2 
2.50 
8 Mrs. G. Laycock, Worcester 1 
1.25 
12 S. A. Whittier, Whitinsville17 
21.25 
4.25 
Totals, �
12 Agents, �
97 $168.25 $45.90 
Time.—No. 1, 24 hrs; 3, 33 hrs; 4, 37 hrs; 5, 33 
hrs; 6,23 hrs; 7, 8 hrs; 8, 11 hrs; 9, 8 hrs ; 11, 16 
hrs; 12, 22 hrs. Total, 215 hrs. 
Deliveries.—No. 3, $5.25; 5, $3.50; 7, $2.25; 1' 
$3.00; 10, $5.00; 12, $2.50; Cora A. Spencer, $4.75 
* Three weeks. 
"HOW DID YOU LIKE IT?" 
I SPENT a portion of Tuesday, 
Wednesday and Thursday, March 
18—'20, in visiting clergymen and 
prominent church workers with the 
book, " Christ's Object Lessons." 
Since then the above question has 
been repeatedly asked me, also the 
following, " Did you have a good 
time ? " and, " What success did you 
have ? " Feeling willing that all my 
brethren should know my answer to 
these questions I write a few lines to 
the GLEANER, with a hope that they 
may be an encouragement to many. 
Did I like it? The saying is, " A 
change is rest." I felt the need of 
rest, and in working with the book 1 
had quite a decided change from the 
routine work which I have followed 
for years, and in it I found both 
change and rest, and of course I liked 
it. In fact from every standpoint I 
can answer the first question only in 
the affirmative. Whether in study 
for my own personal benefit, or in 
preparation to show it to others, or in 
the real work of showing it, I have 
enjoyed every hour spent with the 
book " Christ's Object Lessons." I 
am planning to add to my experience 
and pleasure in this line during the 
month of April. Thus the first two 
questions are answered with a de-
cided, " Yes." I had a much better 
time than I had expected. 
" What success ? " On this point 
I do not feel to boast, and have little 
to boast of except the goodness of the 
Lord. I started out on the principle 
that I was to do faithfully with a humble 
heart what I found to do, and leave 
the matter of results with Him who is 
responsible. I visited in New Bed- 
ford, ten clergymen. �
Three were 
Methodist, one Congregational, one 
Baptist, three Christian, and one 
Episcopalian. Two of the Methodist, 
the Congregational, the Baptist, the 
Presbyterian, and one of the Christian 
ministers took the book. All but the 
Episcopalian spoke again and again 
in praise of the language, the illustra-
tions, and general make up. The 
Congregational minister stopped me 
before I had finished my canvass by 
saying, " Mr. Place, that is an excel-
lent book, and you may bring me a 
copy." One of the Methodist minis-
ters, after I had finished my canvass, 
said (he had spoken several times in 
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praise as we went along), " Mr. Place, 
that is what I call an excellent book. 
It is what I have been looking for 
for several years. The older I grow 
in years (he is well advanced in years) 
and in the service of the Master, the 
more I see and feel the importance of 
fundamental spiritual teaching, such 
as I see is breathed forth in this book 
and I will be glad to have a copy." 
Several of these men gave me lists of 
names of prominent church workers, 
and good testimonials. Nearly all 
were at first quite confident that "they 
did not want any more books," but 
after seeing a few of the many beau-
tiful features, they demonstrated that 
they were " wise men " by changing 
their minds. 
The president of the W. C. T. U., 
a talented lady physician, said, "Y-e-s 
you may show me your book, but I 
feel like saving you the waste of your 
time, for I am through buying books 
for the present." �
My reply was, 
" Doctor, I feel quite confident of 
your order for this book, for so sure 
as you see what it is, you will do 
what others have done, just change 
your mind." I then began my work 
with a prayer of faith. Before we 
had finished our first study through 
the book, she looked up with a smile 
and said, "I thought I knew that I 
would not buy a book to-day, but I 
must have this one. How soon can 
you deliver it ? To-morrow ? " " Yes." 
" Good, I want to use it to-morrow 
afternoon." I could but thank the 
Lord that he knew how to get us 
around at the right time. 
After spending over two hours with 
probably the most popular M. E. cler-
gyman there, though knowing that 
the author of the book was a Seventh-
day Adventist and that it was pub-
lished by Seventh-day Adventists, and 
going through the book the second 
time to discover denominational 
" heresy," his final decision was that 
the book was not denominational, and 
it was an excellent book if it was writ-
ten by a Seventh-day Adventist, and 
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" I can heartily recommend it and say 
Amen ' to every sentence I have seen 
in it." " Would you be willing to 
speak of this book to your people and 
encourage them to get a copy ?" 
" Certainly, and I will." 
Before I left New Bedford, Sister 
Bradford took her team and went with 
me to deliver. We found the people 
ready and willing to receive the book 
and pay for it. We then went to the 
office of the Standard (the prominent 
newspaper), and Sister Bradford 
showed the book to the editor, and the 
testimonials which I had obtained 
from clergymen, and he willingly 
promised to study the book, and write 
us as good a review of the work as 
he knew how, and it would cost us 
nothing. 
My work was greatly hindered by 
finding so many clergymen away from 
home, especially was this true in the 
afternoon. Doubtless several more 
orders would have been obtained had 
this not been true. I turned over my 
list of names to the church to follow 
up the work as they are able. 
My personal conclusion is that there 
are blessings in store for those who 
engage in this work now. 
If you have not carefully studied 
the book, and a good canvass for it, 
do that before you start. Results will 
be found better from that standpoint. 
A. E. PLACE. 
ACTUAL CANVASSING FOR " CHRIST'S 
OBJECT LESSONS." 
I HAVE had eighty copies of the 
precious volume, " Christ's Object 
Lessons," sent to me recently, and I 
am pleased to report that they are 
" melting away." Besides these I 
have ordered and paid for ten copies 
to be sent to another person. This 
week I have devoted a portion of my 
time to visiting ministers and others 
in the interests of the " Christ's Ob-. 
ject Lessons " work, besides doing 
actual house-to-house work with the 
book. I would say to ministers and 
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others who are delaying with a fearful 
heart this Heaven-appointed work, 
" Be strong and of good courage, and 
do some actual house-to-house work, 
and you will find relief from that 
weakened sensation in the knees." 
The following are two testimonials 
from the pastor of the First Methodist 
and Baptist churches in a certain sec-
tion of the city of Boston, that I ob-
tained in my work this week : 
" This certifies that I have exam-
ined with care the book, Christ's 
Object Lessons' by Ellen G. White. 
I believe that to all who desire 
clearer insight into the Master's teach-
ing and will give to this book a care-
ful reading, it will prove exceedingly 
helpful."—Rev. �
, Pastor First 
M. E. Church. 
"I have looked over the book, 
Christ's Object Lessons,' sufficiently 
to satisfy myself that the spirit of the 
writer is excellent, and the presenta-
tion of the parables such as must help 
and instruct the reader. The work 
is clear, and the illustrations, which 
are in the main excellent, will not 
only attract the interest but aid in the 
understanding of the teaching of Je-
sus. The more such books are read 
and studied in the home the better it 
will be for the Christian life, and 
therefore I commend the volume."— 
Rev. �
, Pastor First Baptist 
Church. 
I find that it is not always an easy 
or pleasant task to obtain the testimo-
nials of ministers. The other day I 
visited a minister who had formerly 
been a pastor of a church in Kal-
amazoo, Mich. To say the least his 
estimation of the ability of the author 
of " Christ's Object Lessons " as a 
religious teacher was not of a charac-
ter that would aid in selling the book, 
even had I been able to secure a 
testimonial from him, although he 
frankly admitted that he had never 
read her writings. How true the say-
ing " that a prejudiced person is like 
a corked bottle, you can not get any-
thing in or out." The Lord gave me 
grace to meet this shepherd (?) in the 
spirit of the Master. 
Another minister whom I visited 
with the book asked me if I was a 
" pastor in the city." The honor in 
canvassing for " Christ's Object Les-
sons " should far exceed the humilia-
tion that a minister may' feel because 
he is conscious that some may think 
he is forced to engage in selling a 
one dollar and twenty-five cent book 
to obtain a livelihood, owing to his 
limited salary. 
K. C. RUSSELL. 
PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 
THERE is an acquaintance of mine 
who is a very successful canvasser, and 
I have been studying to discover where-
in lies his success. When he comes 
down the street, he hurries along with 
a firm step. His head is erect, and 
his dress is neat and modest. He 
called at my home the other evening, 
and I had an interesting visit with 
him. Speaking of the canvassing 
work, he said that he thought that 
failure was due a great many times to 
the lack of tact, consecration, and 
cleanliness on the part of the worker. 
He then read the following from 
" Gospel Workers," p. 101 : 
" God requires all who profess to be 
his chosen people, though they are not 
teachers of the truth, to be careful to 
preserve personal cleanliness and 
purity. We are examples to the world, 
living epistles known and read of all 
men. God requires all who profess 
godliness, and especially those who 
teach the truth to others, to abstain 
from all appearance of evil." 
Said this brother, " I never think of 
leaving my home for work without 
giving my face, neck, and ears a good 
washing with soap and water, shining 
my shoes, and seeing that my tie, col-
lar, and cuffs are neat and clean. 
When I first started canvassing, to 
economize I wore a celluloid shirt 
front, collar, and cuffs ; but as the 
weather became warm, and I began to 
perspire, my shirt front was like a 
hot poultice on my breast, and my 
collar became sticky and clammy. I 
have now gone back to the good old 
linen. I feel better, look better, and am 
not afraid to approach the most aristo-
cratic people. There is nothing that 
will uplift a worker in the eyes of the 
people more than a respectable appear: 
ance ; namely, clean linen collar and 
cuffs, neat tie, shoes shined, teeth 
washed morning, noon, and evening 
that the breath may be sweet and in-
offensive, clean finger-nails, clothes 
kept well brushed and pressed, thus 
enabling the worker to present a tidi-
ness about his person that will win for 
him respect and confidence in the 
hearts of the people. This is the best 
economy that a canvasser can practice. 
It will secure for him many opportuni-
ties to sell his book that he could not 
otherwise obtain. The people will be 
more willing to listen to him, for they at 
once recognize in him something supe-
rior to the ordinary agent that comes 
to their door." 
Now, brethren, is it not time that 
we were coming up to the standard of 
the Lord in this respect, as well as in 
other lines ? The Lord has told us 
to go into the highways first (see 
" Christ's Object Lessons," p. 230), 
and to reach this class of people we 
must be neatly dressed. In addition 
to this, remember that every time a 
customer picks up a book or a paper 
left by a canvasser, that person is 
going to judge the truth by the worker 
who brought it. Is it not, therefore, 
doubly important that each one of us 
should rightly represent the grand 
truths which have been given us as a 
people ? �
W. S. Cleveland, in the 
Southern Watchman. 
" BUT if we walk in the light, as he 
is in the light, we have fellowship one 
with another, and the blood of Jesus 
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all 
sin." 
THE evils we see in others will not 
help or save us. 
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ITEMS OF INTEREST 
NEW ENGLAND. 
Elder Place visited South Framing-
ham, Sabbath, April 5, and spoke to 
the new company of Sabbath-keepers. 
He is much pleased with the start 
made in the work there. 
—Sister Scribner, who has been dur-
ing the winter holding Bible readings 
at South Framingham, Mass., has been 
successful in bringing out a company 
of twelve on the platform of the pres-
ent truth. 
—We are glad to report the organi-
zation of a new Sabbath-school at 
South Framingham, Mass., April 5, 
with a membership of twenty-three. 
This is largely due to the faithful work 
of Sister Scribner in Bible work, and 
Sister Austin in the canvassing work. 
Several others have begun keeping 
the Sabbath who were not present at 
the organization of the school, which 
will increase the number to upwards 
of twenty-five. 
—Elder F. C. Gilbert has done an 
excellent work with " Christ's Object 
Lessons " during the past few days. 
From Thursday about three o'clock 
to Friday a little past noon, he sold or 
• took orders for twenty-eight books in 
a house-to-house canvass. Not one 
of these was sold to our people. The 
Lord has opened the way for him in a 
remarkable manner to bring the book 
before entire congregations of people 
not of our faith. 
—During Monday and Tuesday, 
March 31 and April 1, the following 
persons visited South Lancaster and 
our institutions located at that place ; 
viz., Elder R. A. Underwood, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Conference ; 
Elder J. E. Jayne, president of the 
New Jersey Conference ; Elder S. M. 
Cobb, president of the West Virginia 
Conference ; Elder H. C. Basney, 
president of the Maine Conference ; 
Elder J. W. Watt, president of the 
Vermont Conference; Wilbur L. 
Payne, of Charlemont, Mass.; and 
S. N. Curtiss, manager of Pacific 
Press., New York City. Legal and 
regular meetings of the Academy and 
Sanitarium were held. All were 
agreed that the prospects before us 
grow more encouraging. Later in the 
week Dr. Miller, originator of the first 
" gem pans " for making Graham gems, 
a wealthy physician of New York 
City, who for years has been deeply 
interested in our sanitarium work, and 
who of late is manifesting a material 
interest in this line, visited the Sani-
tarium. 
A. E. PLACE. 
THIS IS THE LAST CALL 
To ATTEND the Boston Sabbath-
school and gospel workers' conven-
tion that begins, Sabbath, the 12th 
inst., at 10 A.M., in Deacon Hall, 1651 
Washington Street. 
We trust that those in our neighbor-
ing churches who have been unde-
cided about attending the convention 
will make their decision t6 attend at 
once. Sister Fannie Dickerson will 
give a paper on " Nature Study," and 
Sister Carrie Robie will practically 
demonstrate how to hold the interest 
of the children. All who can possi-
bly do so, should improve the oppor-
tunity of hearing these experienced 
instructors render their important 
recitation, and Sister A. E. Durgin 
will present a paper entitled " How to 
Awaken a Zeal According to Knowl-
edge." Among other interesting fea-
tures, there will be a paper on the 
" Meaning of the Flag," by Sister 
Stella Archer Maloney; and another 
paper by Sister Alice Foster on 
" Week-day Religion." 
Professor Griggs, principal of the 
South Lancaster Academy, will de-
liver an address on " Christian Edu-
cation," and Dr. C. C. Nicola will 
lecture on the subject of " Health-
Reform Principles." 
The music will also form an inter-
esting feature of the program. The 
foregoing will give the reader some-
thing of an idea of at least, a portion 
of the program that will be carried 
out at the convention. Most of all, 
however, we hope and pray that we 
may have the presence of the Holy 
Spirit, for without it the most skil-
fully prepared papers or the most elo-
quent addresses will be unavailing. 
There will be a question box for 
the benefit of those who desire to ask 
questions concerning the Sabbath-
school and church work. 
We have asked Elder. E. E. Miles 
to speak on the question " How to 
Get Along without a Preacher." 
Brother G. R. Ruggles, Brother Geo. 
Woodward and Sister Genevieve 
Hastings will present papers on other 
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Sister Maud Cummins will give a �
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IF our readers find something want-
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Elder Miles, as we understand that 
he has been ill the past week, but is 
now convalescent. 
THE quarterly meeting of the 
South Lancaster church, Sabbath af-
ternoon, April 5, was an occasion of 
more than usual interest. The serv-
ices were conducted by Elders H. W. 
Cottrell and P. M. Howe. The mem-
bers present who live at too great a 
distance to attend church regularly 
were invited to occupy the time be-
fore the resident members, and all 
were pleased to listen to their testimo-
nies of God's goodness to the isolated 
ones. The home members were re-
minded that they had a duty to per-
form in praying for the absent breth-
ren and sisters. 
A good feature of the meeting was 
the reading of letters from those who 
are too far away from the church 
where they have their membership to 
be present even once in three months. 
A larger number of these had been 
received than usual, and they awak-
ened memories of past associations 
which we trust may be renewed from 
one Sabbath to another in a better 
land than this. 
" BLESSED is that man that maketh 
the Lord his trust," 
ROANOKE, VA. 
MRS. MILLER and myself are can-
vassing in Roanoke, and the good 
Lord is giving us success besides 
many rich experiences. During the 
two weeks just passed we worked 
seventy-two hours, and have taken 
orders to the amount of seventy-five 
dollars. This shows an average of 
more than a dollar per hour. We are 
working with " Great Controversy," 
" Ladies' Guide," " Coming King," 
" Steps to Christ," and " Best Stories." 
I am also handling a club of the Signs 
of the Times. 
C. D. MILLER. 
SPECIAL TO OUR CHURCHES. 
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: We 
are nearing the tent season, the most 
important season for our work during 
the year. We want to turn every 
stone that can be turned, and use 
every legitimate effort to make these 
coming months count for the advance-
ment of our work in this conference. 
Brother Bidwell, of Bloomfield, Conn., 
has offered to help us to a new tent 
for field work. As our tent and camp-
meeting fund is behind, this is espe-
cially a source of encouragement to 
us. �
It has given us hope to try to 
arrange for four tent companies. If 
we do this it will be necessary to add 
one or two laborers to our present 
force. This will of course increase 
our pay-roll. I write to ask my breth-
ren and sisters in this conference to 
make an especially earnest and faith-
ful effort to bring all the tithes into 
the storehouse, and do what you can 
in free-will offerings for our local 
work, and this coming season will be 
one long to be remembered on ac-
count of the blessings that will come 
to us. 
Our tithes now are just barely meet-
ing the demands of our present work, 
but we ought to take advantage of 
this summer to enlarge our work, and 
bring in those who will unite with us 
in increasing our financial as well as 
numerical strength. The prospects 
in more than one direction are en-
couraging, and I feel that the Lord 
has gone out before us to open the 
way for a great work if we will only 
have faith and move forward in his 
counsel. Let every one say to his 
neighbor and brother, " Be of good 
courage." Who will help to increase 
the efficiency of this noble confer-
ence? 
A. E. PLACE. 
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 
WE are pleased to announce that a 
date has been arranged for another 
lecture to be delivered in Berkley 
Hall, corner Berkley and Tremont 
streets, for the patriotic society of 
Boston, Mass., at 2:30 P.M., Sunday, 
the 15th inst., by the writer, on " Our 
Nation's Peril." 
This will afford us a most excellent 
opportunity of speaking on the prin-
ciples of patriotism to a large audi-
ence of intelligent listeners. 
Since we have the privilege of 
speaking at this time the lecture can 
come in as a part of our convention 
program. 
Those desiring to attend this lecture 
should come early if they desire seats. 
K. C. RUSSELL. 
HEALTH FOODS. 
Edward W. Coates, 249 W. 15th 
St., New York City, is agent for the 
Sanitas Nut Foods, and Battle Creek 
Sanitarium Health Foods, also New 
York agent for Ko-nut, a pure vege-
table substitute for animal fats, and 
all kinds of Nuts, Dried Vegetables 
and Fruits, also dealer in special 
Health-food Flour, (wholewheat), etc. 
Freight paid a limited distance on 
orders of $5 and upward. 
WANTED.—A young man to care for 
my horse, and do some gardening. 
Mrs. E. J. Hall, 25 Prescott St., So. 
Lancaster, Mass,