516 (8) cause of God and a glorious triumph for his faithful servant. Now, dear brethren and sisters, to what time was the book of Daniel sealed, and by what people will it be studied and understood? I hear you say, ©“ The time of the end: and by those who believe in, and are looking for, the coming of Christ.” Then for whose special benefit was this in- struction on the question of diet re- corded ?—For us. In concluding this article I ask for a careful study of the words we here give from the pen of another recognized source of authority. ““ Greater reforms should be seen among the people who claim to be looking for the soon appearing of Christ. Health reform is to do among our people a work which it has not yet done. There are those who ought to be awake to the danger of meat eating, who are still eating the flesh of animals, thus endangering the physical, mental, and spiritual health. Many who are now only half converted on the question of meat eating will go from God’s people to walk no more with them. “ Ministers should be strictly tem- perate in their eating and drinking, lest they make crooked paths for their feet, turning the lame—those weak in the faith—out of the way. If while proclaiming the most solemn and important message God has ever given, men war against the truth by indulging wrong habits of eating and drinking, they take all the force from the message they bear.” —Review and Herald, No. 21, rgo2, Also in Pacific Union Recorder, Vol. 2, No. 5. “ All are now being tested and proved. Many to whom precious light has been given desire to return to the fleshpots of Egypt. Many who are supported by the tithe from God's storehouse are by self-indulgence poisoning the life-giving current flow- ing through their veins. ing the light and warnings that God ‘has given during the past twenty-five Disregard- ATLANTIC UNION GLEANER or thirty years, some continue to grat- ify their desire for flesh-meat. “ We are not to make the use of flesh-meat a test. But we may and should consider the influence that professed believers who use flesh- meat have over other churches. Those who use flesh-meat disregard all the warnings that God has given concerning this question. They have no evidence that they are walking in safe paths. They have not the slight- est excuse for eating the flesh of dead animals. “As God’s messengers, shall we not bear a decided testimony against the indulgence of perverted appetite? Will those who claim to be ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the most solemn truth ever given to mortals, make the stomach a cesspool? God has provided an abundance of fruits and grains which may be healthfully prepared and used in proper quanti- ties. Why, then, do men continue fp choose flesh-meats? Can we possi- bly have confidence in ministers who at tables where flesh is served join with others in. eating it?"—HA. A. Burkholder. “Ir the church is not separate from the world, what need is there for a church?” THE BOOK WORK. Western Pennsylvania Conference, Week Ending October 23, 1903. Name | Place | Book | Days | Hrs | Ords | Value | Helps | Total | Del'd W. J. Heckman, Cambria, DofA 3 12 13.00 13.00 3.25 W. H. Zeidler, Allegheny Co., D& R 3 6 4 15.60 2.50 18,00 9.50 Mrs. L. B. Trowbridge, Pittsb’g, Dof A 5 20 5 18.25 410 22.35 7.60 T. O. Saxton, Grisemore, P&P 1 8 38.16 W. C. Fleisher, Allegheny Co., GC 2 9 3 8.25 87 17.00 7.15 F.Daughenbaugh,Huntingdon,Hof M 1 3 2 3.00 3.00 1.50 C. F. Mahr, Monongahela, CK 4 26 8 8.00 6.00 1400 2350 J. W. and E. A. Mitcheltree, Pulaski, Misc 5.15 57 16.00 Totals, 8 Agents, 19 84 22 PORTS $34.35 § 93.10 $107.85 ————— a —— rae Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, Week Ending October 23, 1903. Name | Place | Book | Days | Hrs | Ords | Value | Helps | Total | Del'd J. A. K. Lichty, Allentown, Dof A 5 29 4 12.75 620 1895 11.60 W. T. Hilgert, Philadelphia, GC 5 14 2 450 412 8.62 1.62 Henry K. High, Reading, Hof M 5 31 1 1.50 800 950 975 S. H. Swingle, Scranton, Hof M 3 13 2 250 626 8.75 50 Elsie M. Swingle, Scranton, Hof M 3 15 T 9.50 3.25 12 *Mary Penwarden, Wyoming, Hof M 11 Kil 1 1.25 2425 25.50 7.25 Mary E. Diener, Allentown, . PH 4 13 13 3.26 200 5.25 *Mary E. Beach, Lycoming Co., PH . 80 30.25 39.25 39.25 Totals, 8 Agents, 36 192 110 $74.50 $54.07 £128.57 $69.97 *Four weeks. Vermont Conference, Week Ending October 23, 1903. Name | Place | Book | Days | Hrs | Ords | Value | Helps | Total | Del'd Rubie Roscoe, Underhill, P&P 1 3 1 2.25 2.25 4.50 C. H. Porter, Coventry, 18.76 Mrs. S. C. Botsford, Sof D 1 1.00 00 1.50 Totals, 3 Agents, 1 3 2 $3.25 $50 $3775 $23.25 #5. 3