I did not know that I should be up here
without papers. I am trying to be patient;
but it is hard to be doing other work when I
so long to give the message of truth, which
I love better than life itself. For it I gave
up my work as a nurse, and I have braved
many hard and trying things to keep going.
Then to think that I have nineteen hundred
papers, all ordered and paid for, stacked up
at Valdez and Fort Giffen! 1 pray and hope
that I shall get some soon.
I have here a wide field, and interested peo-
ple to work for. The country is rich; the
people all have money to buy with, and I have
no papers for them. In the summer they work
such long hours. The days are so long, and
in midsummer the sun shines night and day.
Winter is the time when the people read.
There are no Salvation Army people up
here, or any one else that sells papers this
side of Dawson. And the men are very kind,
and treat me with great respect and considera-
tion. The officers in various towns offer to
help me, and sometimes buy my papers.
I pray for this country. Qur people need
means so much, and here is a great harvest of
both souls and means. I am the only Sab-
bath-keeper within a radius of a thousand
miles, and I miss our people so much. Re-
member me and the work here in your prayers.
Fria I. MALLORY.
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SPECIAL TEMPERANCE NUMBER OF THE
YOUTH’S INSTRUCTOR, MAY 14, 1907
Tug Instructor will issue an especially at-
tractive Temperance Number bearing date of
May 14, 1907. Some idea of the nature of the
contents of this number may be obtained from
the following partial outline of the topics to
be treated :—
True Temperance; Why Condemn the Use
of Alcoholic Drinks? A Scene that Appalled
the Heathen; Crime and Liquor; Legalized
Drunkard-making; Alcoholism and Degrada-
tion; Food or Poison — Which? Cause of Ap-
petite for Alcohol; Our Reasons for Demand-
ing the Close of the Saloons Every Day; Phys-
iological Effects of Alcohol and Tobacco;
Progress of Vegetarian Ideas; Dr. Wylie on
a Vegetarian Diet; Tobacco and Liquor as
Companions; Students and Tobacco Using;
No Christian Should Use Tobacco; Boys and
Tobacco Seen Through Other Eyes; License
Laws; Appeal to Christians; Statistics; News
Notes on the progress of the temperance work
and general temperance information.
This special number of the Instructor will
afford the children and young people a chance
to do some good remunerative missionary work
along a line much needed in every commu-
nity. The Instructor being an educator, the
public mind can be reached and educated
through it better than many other publications.
The youth of this age have an obligation rest-
ing upon them in connection with the temper
ance movement. ‘This Special Temperance
Number of the Instructor will place within
their reach a means by which they may dis-
charge this obligation.
The retail price of the Special Temperance
Number of the Instructor will be 5 cents a
THE WATCHMAN
copy. When 25 or more copies are ordered
at one time, to one address, the rate will be
2 cents a copy; when less than 25 copies are
ordered at one time, the price will be 2 1-2
cents a copy.
Orders for the Special Temperance Number
may be made through the regular channels, or
direct to the publishers.
Your's INSTRUCTOR,
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PREPARING FOR THE CONVENTION
Ar the present time several are engaged in
making the camp at East Lake ready for our
Educational Convention soon to open.
We have now received the positive assur-
ance that Elder and Sister Haskell will be
with us a portion of the time. Arrangements
have been made for other competent help, and
we have every reason to believe that this im-
portant meeting will be all that we have hoped
or expected.
Again we would urge that those who intend
to camp upon the grounds provide themselves
with plenty of bedding and comfortable cloth-
ing suitable for cool weather, should we have
such during the convention.
All mail to those at the convention should
be addressed to East Lake, Tenn.
J. E. TENNEY.
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REDUCED RAILROAD RATES TO THE CONVENTION
ON April 29 and 30, also on May 1, 2, 3,
and 4, and on each Tuesday thereafter until
the close of the Convention at Chattanooga,
Tenn., tickets may be purchased at any station
south of the Ohio River or east of the Mis-
sissippi River on conditions that will allow
you to return home at one third the regular
fare.
The Conditions
When you buy a ticket, whether it be for a
part of the journey or a through ticket to
Chattanooga, obtain from each agent of whom
you purchase the ticket a “ certificate of reg-
ular form.” Bring this certificate with you,
and present it to the transportation agent at
the camp.
When one hundred of these certificates have
been received, any one having one of them
can return home at one third the regular fare
plus twenty-five cents.
C. L. K1corE, Trans. Agt., S. U. Conf.
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PUBLICATIONS WANTED
WANTED, for missionary distribution in con-
nection with tent-meetings, late clean copies
of our periodicals, and suitable tracts. Send,
postpaid, to Elder Milo D. Warfle, Box 195,
Roswell, New Mexico.
Preasg send to address below, postpaid,
copies of the WATCHMAN, Review, Signs, Life
Boat, tracts, and religious liberty literature
to be used in reading rack.
Mgrs. T. A. PorTER,
R. F. D. 5, Box 7, Bowling Green, Ky.
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HIDDEN WORLD-FORCES
Many people look upon foreign missions as
a more or less visionary attempt to change
the religion of the races of the far East.
Few, even of those who support and encour-
age missions, realize how broad and deep are
the results of missionary effort. William Ele-
roy Curtis, in “Modern India,” says, “Sir
Muncherjee Bhownaggree, a Parsee who has
been a member of Parliament, lately asserted
that the American missionaries were doing
more for the industrial development of the
Indian empire than the government itself.
The government recognizes the importance of
their work, and has given liberal grants to
their schools.”
Of course the missionaries do not accom-
plish these things directly. Their message is
first of all a spiritual one, but it is of such
a nature that its effects begin to be seen al-
most immediately in material things.
For example, take the work which has been
accomplished among the Telugus of South
India. The people who have been benefited
by it belong to the very lowest classes. They
are, under Hinduism, ignorant, degraded,
dirty, immoral, embedded in the heathenish
customs of ages. Yet by means of mission
work these people are being marvelously trans-
formed, and it is discovered that underneath
the crust of heathenism there is a manhood
well worth developing. When the dawn of a
better life begins to illumine the hearts of the
Telugu outcasts, it shines even in their faces,
and it is seen that by nature many of them, the
men especially, have decidedly Anglo-Saxon
features. One missionary said not long ago,
“This resemblance is often startling. There
was one white-haired man who was a perfect
likeness of my father, except for the dark
color of his skin.”
The planting of Christian homes and the
growth of a happy family life are some of the
most inspiring results of mission work. A
few years ago a lady who had been for some
time a missionary among the Telugus became
almost worn out by reason of her hard labors
and by the perplexing problems that each day
brings in such service. Farly one evening she
was walking near the mission compound in a
somewhat despondent mood, when suddenly
she began to hear the sounds of singing not
far away. Lights glimmered in the cottages
of the natives, and here and there she could
see the Christian families at their evening
worship. Children gathered round father and
mother, the Bible was opened, and the words
of David were read again in the musical Te-
lugu, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not
want,” and hymns of praise were sung. The
scene restored hope and vigor to the weary
worker. “Surely,” she thought, “this is
worth a thousand times more than all the
labor and sacrifice it has cost.”
All these good influences, too, are constantly
extending their power. From the mission sta-
tions, schools, and seminaries light radiates
in all directions and penetrates the deepest
jungles. Telugu evangelists, trained and led
by missionaries, go out to the villages where
the truth has before been utterly unknown,