62.7 . n the mornkng sow thy sea o. the evevang withhold not thine hand Eccim.6: VOLUME XVII. � DENVER, COLO., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1907. � NUMBER 20. Echoes from the field. Published every two weeks for the Colorado S. D. A. Conference and Tract Society, At 1112 Kalamath St., Denver, Colo. MRS. M. MACGUIRE, �- Editor. SUBSCRIPTION, 25 CTS. PER YEAR. Rntered at Denver Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. GENERAL ARTICLES. To Sow the State Knee-deep with LiteratUre The Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, of national reform fame, superintendent of the In- ternational Reform Bureau, the leading national reformer of the United States, is making a tour of the West in the inter- est of religious laws and temperance re- - form. We believe in temperance reform when it is a straight issue of liquor or no liquor, but we know too well what Sab- bath laws mean. It is nothing but the old image of the Papacy and persecution for conscience sake. Shall we be tame and take it like children, or shall we be men of the hour and fight the wicked thing like Christian soldiers going out in the name of the Lord? Mr. Crafts has succeeded'in organizing The Rocky Mountain District of the Na- tional Reform. Bureau, now called The International Reform Bureau. This takes in Colorado and adjoining Rocky Mountain territory. Two weeks ago he came to Colorado Springs and established here the headquarters of this great Rocky Mountain district, with the Rev. D. Everett Smith as field secretary of this district. The office is at 223 South Nevada Avenue. September 29th, Mr. Crafts made a strong speech in behalf of Sunday laws. In this speeck he said: "We have never had more than twofer cent. of the peo- ple with us, but we have learned that with two i5er cent. persistently at it and making demands by letters and petitions we can get whatever we want." He said, "There is opposition, but" (as he was making a call for money,) "We've got the enemy on the run and., we want this money to buy ammunition to shoot him in the back." Mr. Crafts further said: -"We have es- tablished our headquarters for the � Rocky Mountain district right here in your midst and we are going to sow Colorano knee-deeft with literature." Brethren and Sisters, what is our duty NOW? 1 need not state it. To every true Seventh-day Adventist the answer comes from God to his heart. This is a call to arms, not carnal weap- ons, but spiritual,—the word of truth. NOW, NOW, NOW is our OPPORTU- NITY. The whole state is going to be stirred on the SABBATH question. Many will now consider and hear the truth who would not feel the importance of it be- fore. We can have the honor and privi- lege of placing the truth of this matter before them. Have we not been told that the pages containing the truth should be scattered "like the leaves of autumn?" Now is the greatest•opportu- nity that has ever come to do this in the Rocky Mountain region, and we have not a day to lose. The enemies of Israel have thrown down the gauntlet. Shall we not, as true soldiers of Christ, take it up? Now is the time to cover the land with leaflets, tracts and papers on Reli- gious Liberty and the Sabbath. If we fail of our duty and privilege now, we shall have only ourselves to blame when men crush out freedom in Colorado, and we will have to answer for the souls of those whom we might now enlighten with the truth. What will you do? Shall tve meet this "giant" movement that defies Israel with the sword and spear of proposed civil enactments? Every true-hearted believ- er in truth and liberty answers "Yes, with all my soul. This is the opportunity I have been looking for." We will go forth against this giant saying as David said: "Thou coolest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield, but I come to thee- in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, whom thou Itast- defied. * * * .1 hat all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel."— ' Sam. 17:45-50. H. M. J. Richards. The Salvation of Our Children. The salvation of our children is the one great object of the erection of de- nominational schools among us. It is not necessary to erect these institutions of learning if all we have in mind is the education of our children--I mean by this a knowledge of books to prepare them for the business of this world, but if our children and youth are to he saved from the snares of the wicked one in the times in which we are living they must have a christian education. Such an edu- cation cannot be gained in the public schools of today. Therefore it is abso- lutely necessary to build and maintain schools controlled by our own people. This work, of course, calls not only for consecrated men and women as instruct- ors, but it calls for their support. This support must come from the people who believe that this message is not only to be preached from the pulpits, but to be taught in our day schools. We have undertaken in our conference to erect and • maintain two academies. EC1-101..b' FROM THE FIELD. These buildings are already erected, but they are not yet all paid for and equipped. Shall we withdraw the helping hand at this time, or shall we be true to God, true to his cause, true to our own chil- dren, and by willing sacrifice carry out the object for which these institutions were brought into existence. I believe every loyal Seventh-day Adventist will say, " Let us one and all be true." Your Conference Committee, after much prayer and thought, have decided to ask our churches everywhere throughout the con- ference to take up a collection the first Sabbath in November. The success of this work will depend largely upon the faithfulness of our church elders. Let us begin to prepare now for a good liberal donation, remembering that two-thirds of this collection goes to the school at Cam- pion on the Eastern Slope, while one- third goes to the Western Slope Academy. God will bless the cheerful givers. Geo. F. Watson. The Mexican Work. We have a work in our midst that is just as truly Foreign Missionary work as though it were located a thousand miles from home. The Mexican people have been kept in dense ignorance for centu- ries by the Catholic church, and the rays of light we have penetrate very, slowly this- pall of darkness. The condition of the people in this country is, in some re- spects, very much better than in the old country. Their habits of tliought are different from ours, invariably. Their customs are also very widely different, and the language offers a barrier that few of our people are able, or • care to overcome. Nevertheless we find among them some who are true gold. Many among them are ronging for the true light, and do not hesitate to accept it when they see it. A very large per cent of them cannot- read or write, especially the older ones. The younger generation attend the public schools and learn English, many of them forgetting, or never learning, to read their own tongue. As a result, the language which they speak is a corruption of English and Spanish. The teachers in the public schools, as a rule, do not understand Spanish, and so cannot explain the les- sons to the children in such a way that they grasp the idea; and as a result they linger long years in the primary grades, and seldom get beyond them. As a rule they consider that a child of fourteen years is too old to attend school, and only a very small per cent of them get to school after that age. � • Understanding these difficulties very fully we-saw the need of a school, for the Mexican children, where they could get a training that would advance them more rapidly, and prepare them to meet the exigencies of life more intelligently. Last year we began school with an at- tendance of sixteen children. The num- ber soon increased to twenty-nine. We had children who had been in attendance -at the public schools for five years and yet were unable to take third grade work intelligently. They could read in English a few lines, but were wholly unable to understand what they read. And as for reading in their own language, they never attempted it. After one year's work with our good books these samechildren were able to take a book and read in English and tell immediately in Spanish the meaning, and vice versa. They made good progress in number work and the various branches taken up in the school. We hold our, school in a building alto- gether unsuitable for such work. The ventilation is very poor, and the light wholly unsuitable. There were great spaces in the floor, which rendered it im- possible to keep the room warm. We had to send the children out to get dirt to pile in the cracks so the -wind would not blow in so hard. This year we have planned a .new school house .to be used as a church also. The Mexican brethren have pledged .enough adobe bricks to make the waits, but we need some help. The building that we have planned will cost $350. We have about $100, leaving $250 to be raised. Our foundation is already laid, and we have the adobe bricks already to be laid up in the walls; but before this can be done we should have some of the woodwork to put into place. Now a word about the school and the plan we have adopted. We make a regular charge of $1.00 a month for each pupil. But we cannot always carry out this plan, as we frequently find parents who have several children of school age, who are unable to pay $1.00 a month for each child. Many of them work for the small sum of .$16 a month. These are the problems that we have to contend with, and we invite your attention to them in the hope that you may be able to help us solve them. We have told the parents that if they would pay six dollars in advance they can have a receipt in full for the year's tuition. This year we began the school with an attendance of fifteen. Several new ones have come in and others have promised to come later. The desks are made .of boxes that we get at the grocery store. We nail legs to them to suit the height of the pupil, and then take blocks of wood from the woodpile and make stools for them to sit on. We have three long benches that were used for meetings in, a hall at one time; these we also use for seats. The school is held in a room that is much more unsuitable than the one we had last year, but our last year's school- house was rented, and we could not get it. In the room we have this year there is one door and one window, both on the same side of the room. The hole for the stovepipe is near the door, so it will be very dark when it is so cold as to render it necessary-to close the door. We hope to have sufficient funds to complete the new building before this time. This is just as truly Foreign Missionary work as any work we can do, and it is a great pity that it has been so long ne- glected. -We should have schools estab- lished where we can educate young men and women for the work of spreading this great message to the world, and then send them out from there to countries that speak their own tongue, and avoid the necessity of spending years to learn a foreign language. Let us take hold of this long neglected work with new en- ergy, and push it forward in the strength of the Lord. Any help you may be able to send will be greatly appreciated. J. A. Leland, Albuquerque, N. M. Calcutta, India. It hardly seems true, but nine months have already passed since we left Den- ver for India. They have been months of great profit to me, for I have had a view of the world, its conditions and needs. Also a view of God's plan MY the world, such as I never could have had from home. I have often thought if all our peo- ple could have a real look .at the world we would go back and work in a way which would send this message in a short time, but many must view it by faith. The message in India is going to the people of India with power and the Lord is converting to His message from among the native preachers, several men, who will be able to do a work which no European could do. Heretofore much effort has been spent upon the Europeans who are in this field, but a new spirit has taken hold of the workers, and there is a burden and strong effort to master the languages of India, and the indications seem to be that whatever is done for the native must be done quickly, as there is a pow.er working among these people which brews trouble, and it is only a matter of time till it is bound to break forth. Truly the "spirits of devils" are at work. But the golden opportunity is now. HOw many of India's children will be among the 144,- 000 we do not know? The climate is very hard on the work- ers, nearly everyone who has been here any time breakg down, but in spite of it India takes hold of one's soul. The medical work is gradually gaining ground among the Indian people. They ECHOES FROM THE FIELD. are slow, but when once they are won over they come with their whole soul. You ought to see the crude way some of our nurses must work in the villages. The treatment room is in the open air, with only a piece of thin cloth hung up on one or two sides. Operations are performed on the floor. Children are born without any clothing for either mother or child, to say nothing about a home, and there are millions of these people who live in this way. Remember us to our friends, and tell the young people India is worth all they can in- vest in it. It will yield a good return. Yours in the Master's service, H. C. Menkel. The Western Slope Academy. The Western Slope Academy is located in one of the most pleasant little towns in the west, Palisade, Colorado. This academy opened Wednesday, October 2, 1907, with fifty bright young people and children. And we are glad to announce that the teachers were pleased to see such an enthusiastic, bright class of students, enter the academy at the beginning. The school hoard has done all that is necessary to make the building, seats and surroundings comfortable. And the desire of the teachers .is •to teach and impress the principles of Christian edu- .-c-4-494 upon the minds of the, pupils tnitil the image of God is restored in the soul. We expect to hold up -before our stu- importance of a special train- ing that will qui � y prepare t tem o to p carry this _message to, the world in this _generation. We have made some changes in the books, and we expect to use only the text books that are recommended by the Edu- cational Co.miention. , We are _desirous of having our school on a higher plane year after year. This year we have grades from one to ten, and higher work can he obtained if desired. / We have arranged to have a class in Christian Edutatio-r), and before the,close of the year we will take up Methods, -so any one in the conference who expects to teach next year, or in the. near future, ,will no doubt-find it helpful to come and join us in our:study. Those taking this class will be expected to take practice teaching in the primary. We will be glad -to correspond with Ihose.whodesire to, enter school. .A.' M. Woodall. Fire in College. View. Sunday evening, about 7:30 o'clock, while Elder Andrews was offering prayer at the heginnin" of Indr-r Warren's ban- tismal service in the College View churCh, the college bell rang the alarm of fire. It proved to be in the college power house. In some .unknown way, perhaps from an electric wire, the fire caught in the upper story of the building, and when first seen was bursting out of the ventilator on the very top. Nearly everybody was at church. One man was in the boiler room and another was studying on the first floor, but neither knew of the fire until it was beyond control. So rapid was the progress of the flames that it was seen from the first the building was doomed, especially since there was no adequate provision for fighting fire. In a short time the entire building, including boiler room, laundry, printing plant, bakery, blacksmith shop and carpenter shop, was consumed. A few tools, one printing press, part of the week's laundry, the College Press account books, the' Mes- sene-er list and a few books were all that was saved. The loss is estimated at about $25,000. There was $6,000 insur- ance on the building, nothing on the ma- chinery and printing stock. The actual loss will not be so great as the figures would indicate, since the boilers are thot to he little injured, and a less costly and safer building can be erected. Care will he taken not to bring so many shops to- gether. After the fire a few of the managers assembled in the business office for a season of prayer and consultation as to the best plans for meeting the necessities of the school. In a short time it was ar- - ranged to connect the heating, lighting and water systems of the sanitarium with those of the college. The_ parlors_and vacant -rooms