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STATISTICS FOR 1889,

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INTRODUCTORY
SKETCH OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AND THEIK WOEK.
SINCE the year 1840, the name " Adventist" has been known
to the world as designating one who believes that the second
advent of the Lord Jesus Christ to this world, is near at hand.
The agitation of this question, though commencing some years
before, began to attract widespread attention at the time above
mentioned, and was soon nicknamed " Millerism," from the chief
leader in the movement, Mr. William Miller, of Low Hampton,
N. Y. Multitudes are still living who have personal recollections
of the movement, and all others of ordinary information have
more or less knowledge of it.
The idea generalty entertained in the world at large, is that
the movement of 1844 proved an utter failure ; and many query
on what ground any one can now call himself an Adventist, and
especially on what ground Seventh-day Adventists, whose work
has now far outgrown in its proportions the original movement,
base their views. *
Previous to 1844, there were no Seventh-day Adventists, although some who have since become, and are now, members of the
denomination, were in the movement with which William Miller
was connected. Seventh-day Adventists are the ones who believe
that the time, as then computed, was correct; and that the 2300
prophetic days of Dan. 8 : 13, 14, ended in 1844 ; but they do
not believe that the 2300 days, or any other known period,
reaches to the coming of Christ. They set no definite time for
the Saviour to appear, yet by the fasWulfilling prophetic word,
they are confident of the nearness of his second advent, and thus
take the name, "Adventists." The first part of the denominational name (officially adopted in 1860) is derived from their custom of observing the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, in
commemoration of God's creative work.
Among the earliest converts to this doctrine, three deserve
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special mention, Captain Joseph Bates, James White, and J. N.

Andrews, all of whom, now deceased, were earnest and efficient
workers in the cause of Sabbath reform. Captain Bates was connected with the work from 1845-72 ; James White, from 1846-81;
J. N. Andrews, 1847-83. The latter was the author of the
* Theological points involved in this inquiry are briefly explained in Sections IX. and
X. of " Fundamental Principles of Seventh-day Adventists." See pages 148,149.
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History of the Sabbath," "The Sanctuary,'' "The Three Messages," and other important works. Eld. James White was the
founder of the Seventh-day Adventist publishing work, and its
principal manager to the time of his decease. He was for many
years president of their five leading organizations ; namely, the
General Conference, the Central Publishing Association (Review
and Herald), the Health lleform Institute (Sanitarium), the General (International) Tract and Missionary Society, and the Educational Society (Battle Creek College).
ORGANIZATION.

Seventh-day Adveutists aim to maintain as simple an organization as possible without falling short of, or going beyond,
what the Scriptures warrant. The growth of denominational
work may be briefly summed up as follows :
The first church or company of Seventh-day Adventists that
had an existence in America, was at Washington. X. H.. in 1844.
when, through the efforts of a Seventh-day Baptist lady who had
accepted the doctrine of the second advent, nearly all the members of a church of Adventists began the observance of the seventh
day. At the present time, there are 891 organized churches,
whose worship is maintained with only occasional pastoral aid,
thus leaving the ministers free to labor among those who have
never heard the doctrine.
The first State Conference (represented by delegates from the
churches) was organized in 1861. The present number of organized Conferences, home and foreign, is thirty-one, having a membership of about 20,000, besides over 5,000 isolated believers in
various parts of the world.
The first General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (represented by delegates from the State Conferences) convened in 1862.
Its twenty-seventh annual session was held at Minneapolis. Minn.,
Oct. 17 to Nov. 4. 1888. An executive committee of seven
is annually elected to carry out the plans of the body, and to
direct the affairs of the denomination in all parts of the world
when the Conference is not in session. In 1887 the General Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists (the financial
arm of the General Conference) was organized and incorporated
by law, for the purpose of holding church, school, publishing,
and other property, in all countries of the world. Valuation of
property now owned by the Association, $60,000.
The first foreign mission was established in Switzerland, by
J. N. Andrews, in 1874, under the direction of the General
Conference. Missions and Conferences outside of the United
States now number ten, embracing England, Australia, New

Zealand and other Pacific Islands, South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland,
Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, etc. Foreign missions
are supported by weekly free-will offerings, Christmas donations,
and other contributions, the amount received for the eight months
ending June 30, 1888, being about $40,000.
The first course of tent lectures was given in 1854, in Battle
Creek, Mich. During the summer of 1888, about one hundred
tents were in use, principally in the United States.
The first camp-meeting was held in 1868, in Michigan. In the
various Conferences, about forty camp-meetings of a quiet, orderly,
and devotional character, are now conducted each year.
The first Vigilant Missionary Society was organized in 1869, at
South Lancaster, Mass., its object being to circulate religious
literature, and do missionary work by correspondence, visiting,
etc. There are now among Seventh-day Adventists about 1,000
of these societies.
The first State Tract and Missionary Society was organized in
New England, in 1870. There are now thirty-three such organizations, home and foreign. Each State or country is divided
into districts, and each district composed of local societies
(referred to above), with a total reporting membership of 15,000.
The first meeting of the General (now International) Tract and
Missionary Society (represented by delegates from the State Societies) convened in 1876. The thirteenth annual session was held
in October, 1888. The organization of the International Society
was designed to systematize and facilitate the circulation of
reading matter in all parts of the world, and to encourage other
missionary effort, such as visiting, correspondence, holding Bible
readings, etc. During 1888, in round numbers, 55,000 letters
were written, 150,000 visits made, 39,000 Bible readings given,
30,000 subscriptions obtained for periodicals, 1,500,000 periodicals distributed free, $90,000 worth of book publications sold,
and 30,500,000 pages given away. Since the organization of the
Society, over $250,000 have been expended in gratuitous work
of this character.
The first public speaker who advocated the Seventh-day Sabbath (Christ, the prophets, apostles, Waldenses, and Seventh-day
Baptists excepted), was T. M. Preble, in 1844. About four
hundred ordained ministers and those licensed to preach, are now
engaged in this work.
The first plan adopted for the support of the ministry was
irregular and often unequal, though bearing the name of '' Systematic Benevolence." For nearly a quarter of a century the exercise
of benevolence was recommended ; but during only the last ten
years has it been really systematic. Each Conference now sup-

ports its laborers from a fund maintained by the tithing system,

a plan of scriptural origin. By this system an opportunity is
given every one to contribute one tenth of his income ; and although
the payment of the tithe is not compulsory, Seventh-day Adventists, with few exceptions, have adopted this method of supporting
the ministry, thereby avoiding the necessity for church festivals,
socials, etc. The amount of tithes paid by the denomination for
the year ending June 30, 1888, was over $160,000.
The first permanent paper, the Advent Review and Sabbath
Herald, which has been edited by Uriah Smith for the last thirtythree years, was started in 1850. Regular periodicals now issued
number twenty-six, fourteen in English, four in Danish, four
in Swedish, two in German, one in French, and one in Dutch, besides occasional issues in other languages.
The first publishing institution, the Central Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, was organized in 1860. Seven
publishing houses are now in operation, three in America, three
in Europe, and one in Australia. besides several partly-equipped
offices for local convenience. Total valuation of publishing property, $600,000. Number of employees, 475. Weight of publications sent out in 1888, over 400 tons.
The first pamphlet (a work on the Sabbath question, by
T. M. Preble), was issued in 1845. The tract and pamphlet list
for 1889, embraces 110 publications in English, and 215 in
foreign languages.
The first doctrinal book, ''Time and Prophecy," by Uriah
Smith, was published in 1853. The present number of bound
books on various subjects is seventy-seven, fifty in English and
twenty-seven in foreign languages.
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The first permanent health and temperance publication, the
/ Health Reformer (now Good Health), was started in 1866.

Two

t monthly health and temperance journals are now issued regularly

\ in English, two in Danish, and two in Swedish. Departments in
\Cther periodicals are also devoted to these questions.
The first meeting of the General (now International) Sabbathschool Association was held in 1878. The number of State
associations at that time was twelve, embracing 177 schools,
with a membership of 5,851. There are now thirty-one active
State and foreign associations, composed of 990 schools, whose
membership numbers 26.510. The school organizations are supported by free-will class offerings, which for the year ending June
30, 1888, amounted to nearly" $17,000. Of this, over $10,000
were donated to foreign missions.
The first meeting of the American Health and Temperance
Association convened in 1879. This organization, of which J. 13..
Kellogg, M. D., is the president, now has subsidiary State societies

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and local clubs in nearly all parts of the United States. Its aim
is to elevate mankind physically, mentally, and morally, by freeing him from intemperate habits, especially the use of alcoholic
drinks and tobacco. Devotees of these twin evils are not f ellowshiped in the church. Prior to the organization of the American
Health and Temperance Association, through the earnest efforts
of Captain Joseph Bates, Mr. and Mrs. White, and others, the principles of prohibition were firmly laid in the foundation on which
the denominational structure has been reared. It is worthy of
mention that Captain Bates, who was afterward a pioneer in the
cause of Sabbath reform, assisted in the organization of the first
j total- abstinence society in the world, at Fairhaven, Mass., in 1826.
The first health institution, the Health Reform Institute (now
Medical and Surgical Sanitarium), was founded in 1866. Under
the medical direction of J. H. Kellogg, M. D., it has become the
largest Sanitarium in the world, having successfully treated over
10,000 patients. Average number of patients and helpers, 500.
There are also two smaller institutions of this character. Total
valuation of Sanitarium property, $325,000.
The first educational institution, The Seventh-day Adventist
Educational Society (Battle Creek College), was incorporated in
1874. Two departments are maintained, Collegiate and Preparatory. The Collegiate embraces four courses of instruction,
Theological, Classical, Scientific, and English. The Preparatory
'comprises a complete graded school. Five branches of Manual
Training are also maintained, besides a regular course of instruction in the Gymnasium. There are now two colleges of this character, and one academy, controlled by the denomination, besides
four preparatory Conference schools in different parts of the
United States. Total number of teachers, sixty-two; students,
1,000. Valuation of school property, $150,000.
The first "Year Book of Seventh-day Adventists," a small
pamphlet of seventy-two pages, was issued in 1883, since which
time the constant growth of denominational work has each year
rendered the publication of a larger work necessary. The present
issue is replete with valuable information, both general and
denominational in character; and special care has been taken to
arrange the matter for convenient reference. While the Year
Book is designed for use principally by Seventh-day Adventists,
it is also desired that copies be placed in the hands of thousands
of other persons who might be interested in the history and work
of the denomination whose only creed is the Bible, and whose
chief peculiarity consists in uniting with the faith of Jesus, the
keeping of the commandments of God, including the fourth, to
which the candid attention of all is respectfully invited.
COMMITTEE.

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CONTENTS.
WORKER'S DIRECTORY.
General List, pp. 11-22; Home
and Foreign Tract Society Secre
taries and Depositories, 22 ; State
Canvassing Agents, 23; Home and
Foreign Conference Secretaries. 23;
City Mission Superintendents. 23.
24; Home and Foreign Sabbath school Association Secretaries, 24;
Health and Temperance Society
Secretaries, 24.
GENERAL ORGANIZATIONS, OF
FICERS, ETC.
General Conference, 25; General
Conference Association, 25; In
ternational Tract Society, 26; In
ternational Sabbath-school Asso
ciation, 26; American Health and
Temperance Association, 26.
CONFERENCES, TRACT SOCIETIES,
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIA
TIONS, HEALTH AND TEM
PERANCE SOCIETIES, OFFI
CERS, AND LABORERS.
AMERICAN. Arkansas, California,
Canada, 27; Colorado, Dakota,
Illinois, 28; Indiana, Iowa, 29;
Kansas, Maine, Michigan, 30; Min
nesota, Missouri, 31; New En
gland, Nebraska, New York, 32:
North Pacific, Ohio, 33; Pennsyl
vania, Tennessee, Texas, 34; Up
per Columbia, Vermont, Virginia,
West Virginia, 35; Wisconsin, 36.
FOREIGN. Australia, Central Eu
rope, Norway, 37; Denmark, Swe
den, 38.
MISSION FIELDS.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ; THEIR LA
BORERS, ETC., 39.
PUBLISHING HOUSES.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ; THEIR OF
FICERS AND EDITORS, 40, 41.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
OFFICERS AND TEACHERS, 4S, 43.

HEALTH INSTITUTIONS.
OFFICERS AND PHYSICIANS, 44.
GENERAL CONFERENCE
CEEDINGS.

PR0-

PRELIMINARY. Delegates, 45; Con

ferences Admitted, 46; Committees
Appointed for the. Session, 46.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. On Cre
dentials of Delegates, 46; On Mis
sionary Ship, 47; On Resolutions,
47-53; On Education of Foreign
Laborers, 53, 54; On City Mis
sions, 54-56; On Finances, 5658; On Bible Study, 5S; On Dis
tribution of Labor, 58-61; On
Nominations, 63; On Credentials
of Ministers, 62.
AMENDMENTS. Constitution of the
General Conference, 62; Constitu
tion of the General Conference
Association, 63.
REPORTS FOR THE YEAR FROM
HOME AXD FOREIGN FIELDS.
General Southern Field, 63; Home
Mission Secretary's City Mission
Statistics, 64-66; General Con
ference Secretary's Statistics of
Home and Foreign Conferences,
67; Treasurer's Financial State
ment of the General Conference,
General Conference Association,
and Missions, 68, 69; Educational
Secretary, 70-72; Foreigu Mis
sion Secretary, 72-78.
INTERNATIONAL TRACT SOCIETY
PROCEEDINGS.
INTRODUCTORY. Delegates, 79; So
cieties Admitted, 83; Committees
Appointed for the Session, 83.
REPORTS FOR THE YEAR.Secre
tary's Annual Summary of Mis
sionary Labor and Statistics, 80,
81; Financial Statement, 82.

COWtHTS.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. On Man
ual for Book-keeping, Pass-Books,
Report Blanks, etc., 83, 84; On
Resolutions and Plans, 84-89; To
Examine New Books, 89-91; On
Nominations, 91.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU
TION, 91.
INTERNATIONAL SABBATHSCHOOL ASSOCIATION PRO
CEEDINGS.
OPENING. Delegates, 92; Associa
tions Admitted, 92; Topics for
Consideration, 93 ; Committees
Appointed for the Session, 93.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. On Res
olutions, 93-95; On Nominations,
95.
REPORTS FOR THE YEAR. Finan
cial Statement of the Association,
96; Statistical Summary, etc., 96,
97.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU
TION, 96.
AMERICAN HEALTH AND TEM
PERANCE ASSOCIATION
PROCEEDINGS.
Annual Summary, 98, 99; Com
mittees Appointed for the Session,
100; Report of Committee on
Resolutions, 100, 101; Report of
Committee on Nominations, 101;
Amendment to the Constitution,
101.
CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PUBLISHING ASSOCIA
TION PROCEEDINGS.
Financial Statement of the Association, 103; Committees Ap
pointed, 104; Report of Com
mittees on Resolutions and Nom
inations, 104; Sketch of the As
sociation, 104, 105; Illustration
of Growth, 103.
PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COM
PANY PROCEEDINGS.
Balance Sheet, 106; Committees
Appointed, 108; Committee on
Resolutions, 108; Committee on
Nominations, 109; Sketch of the
Progress, 109; Illustration of
Growth, 107.

FOREIGN PUBLISHING HOUSES.

Central European and Scandina
vian, 111; Australian and British,
112; Illustration of Each, 113.
BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE PRO
CEEDINGS.
Financial Statement, 114; Com
mittees Appointed, and their Re
ports, 116; Sketch of the College,
116; Illustration of Growth, 115.

HEALDSBURG COLLEGE
CEEDINGS.

PRO

Financial Statement, 117; Report

of Committees and Sketch of Col
lege, 118; Illustration of Growth,
119.
SOUTH LANCASTER ACADEMY.
Committees and their Reports, 120,
122; Sketch and Illustration, 121,
132.
PREPARATORY SCHOOLS.
Milton, Oregon; East Portland,
Oregon; Minneapolis, Minn.; Bat
tle Creek, Mich.; Ottawa, Kan.;
132: Illustration, 123.
HEALTH INSTITUTIONS AND SAN
ITARY REFORM.
Medical and Surgical Sanitarium,
Rural Health Retreat, Mount Vernon Sanitarium, Sketch and Illus
trations, 124-128.
CONSTITUTIONS AND BY-LAWS.
General Conference Association,
129-131; General Conference and
State Conference, 132-135; Inter
national Tract Society and State
Tract Society, 136-139; Interna
tional Sabbath-school Association
and State Sabbath-school Associa
tion, 140-142; American Health
and Temperance Association, 143145; Regulations for Canvassers.
146.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF
SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS.
Embracing Twenty-eight Specifica
tions, 147-151.

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GENERAL INFORMATION.
Beginning and Close of Sabbaths
in 1889, 152; Postal Guide, 153157; Proposed Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States,
158; An " Independent " Cluster,
158; The Blair Religious Amend
ment, 159, 160; The "Blair SundayRest Bill, 161-164; No Discrimi
nation Wanted, 164; "The Pow
ers that Be." 165; Monopoly. 1C6:
Religious of the World, 167; How
to Fill the Churches, 16T; The
Calendar, 168; Those Sunday Pa
pers, 168; Lightning Calculators,
169; Bibles and the Bible, 170:
About Our Company, 171; Chief
Countries of the World, 172; Pop-'
illations of Foreign Cities, 172;
Sunday-Law Manufacturing Co.,
173; Population of Cities in the
United States, 174; Fourth Cent
ury Parallel, 175; Area and Pop
ulation of States and Territories,
176; Sinful and Tyrannical, 176;
"Old-Style Depravity," 177; A
Word from the Workingmen, 177;
Sunday-school Statistics, 178; Sev
en Times in a Day, 178; "Devout
and Honorable," 179; Logic, 179.

GENERAL INFOP>MATION.
Fallible Churches Take Notice,
179; Interest Laws and Rules,
180; Stick to the Text, 180; Se
cret Societies in the United States,
180; The Schools, the Saloons,
and the Voters, 181; A New Gos
pel, 181; Facts Concerning Man
kind, 182; Drinks of all Nations,
182; Uuited States Presidents
and Viee-Presidents, 183;
Not an American Institution, 183;
Senator Riddleberger Opposes the
Sunday-Rest Bill, 183; Generals
of the "United States, 183; Stand
ard and Local Time, 184, Wind and
Weather Signals, 184; Strikes in
1888, .184; The Two Laws, 185;
Battle on the Sabbath Question,
185; Hit 'cm when They Do n't
Know It, 1851 Which of the Two?
186, 187; Other Sensible People,
188, 189; Pennsylvania's "Ship
of [Church and]"State," 190; A
Good Example, 190.
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT.
Review and Herald, 191-200; Pa
cific Press, 201-204; Good Health
Publishing Co., 205, 206; Fireside
Teacher Co., 307, 208.
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WORKERS' DIRECTORY.
THE nature of the work in which each person is principally engaged or authorized
to engage, is indicated thus: (a), State Agent; (d), Director; (e), Editor; (1), Licensed
to preach; (m), Ordained Minister; (51. D.), Physician; (p), Publishing work; (s), Sec
retary ; (t),Teacher. Italics indicate that the address given is not the home of the indi
vidual. The names of those whose addresses could not be ascertained, have been omitted.
Abbott, Prank (d), Fresno, Fresno Co.,
Cal.
Adams, J. W. (d), Atalissa, MnscatineCo.,
Iowa.
Albert, D. W. (d), Plymouth, Marshall Co.,
Ind.
Allee, N. W. (m), Spickardsville, Grundy
Co., Mo.
Amadon, G. W. (p), Review and Herald,
Battle Creek. Mich.
Andrews, E. F. (m), Onarga, Iroqnois Co.,

Baker, W. L. H. (1), Echo Publishing

House, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Au
stralia.
Baker, Josie L. (s), Echo Publishing
House, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Au
stralia.
Baker, Rufus (1), Colony, Anderson Co.,
Kan.
Baker, J. L. (1), Grover, Bradford Co., Pa.
Bagby, J. W. (m), Statesville, Iredell Co.,

Anglebarger, G. W. (m), 818 19th Ave.,

Denver, Colo.
Androsa, E. E. (1), Milton, Umatilla Co.,
Or.
Armstrong, J. A. (1), Garfleld, Whitman
Co., Wash. Ter.
Ashley, Merton (d), New Bedford, Bristol
Co., Mass.
Atwood, A. B., Crystal Springs, St. Helena,
Napa Co., Cal.
Anl, Win. E. A. (t), College, Battle Creek,
Mich.
Ayling, John (d). Bear Lake, Warren Co.,
Pa.
Ayers, S. N. (d), Centerville, Linn Co.,
Kan.
Ayers. Danford Rpvipw npd Herald, Battle
Creek. Mich.

Bates, Jennie R. (s), West Snmner, Oxford

Co., Me.
Babcock, H. W. (m), Royal, Lane Co., Or.
Babcock, D. C. (1), Cambridge, Dorchester
Co., Md.
Baxter, H. A. (1), Box 18, East Portland,
Or.
Ball, D. A. (m), Great Valley, Cattaraugns
Co., N. T.
Bartlett, J. (m), Milton, Umatilla Co., Or.
Barton, A. W. (m), New Haven Mills,
Addison Co., Vt.
Bartbolf, M. J., White Water, Walworth
Co., Wis.
Baird, Wm. M. (1), Valley Crucis, Watanga Co., N. C.
Beard, J. O. (!>, Davton, Columbia Co.,
Wash. Ter.
Beaumont, Alice H. (s), Vilas, Miner Co.,
Dak.
Beckner, J. B. (1), Pleasant Hill, Cass Co.,
Mo.
Beddoe, Mrs. Mary (d), Rolla, Phelps Co.,
Mo.
Benham, R. D. (1), Beaverton, Washing
ton Co., Or.
Belden, F. E. (p). Review and Herald,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Bell, Wm., Echo Publishing House, North
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
Belknap L. J. (M. D.), Sanitarium, Battle
Creek, Mich.
Biser, Mrs. Hattie M. (t), College, Battle
Creek, Mich.
Biter John (d), 411 Waller St., San Fran
cisco, Cal.

Bartlett, A. W. (m), Fresno, Fresno Co.,

Cal.
Banta, Erastus (d), 1621K St., Sacramento,
Cal.
Baber, G. H. (d), Sadorus, Champaign Co.,
Bather, A. W. (in), Jackson, Mich.
Ballenger, J. F. (m), Riverside, Berrien
Co., Mich.
Ballenger, A. F. (1), Sheridan, La Salle
Co., 111.
Barnes, Edwin E. (t), College, Battle
Creek, Mich.
Barnes, A. (1), Hartland, Somerset Co.,
Me.
Barry. A. (1), 9 Hazel St., Battle Creek,
STich.

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Bielhart, Jacob L. (1), Ottawa, Franklin
Co., Kan.
Bicknell, P. F. (a), 409 So. Union St.,
Burlington, Vt.
Bliss, C. H. (m), Austin, Mower Co., Minn.
Care of A. J. Kinsman.
Bollman, C. P. (e), Pacific Press. Oakland,
Cal.
Bowlee, James, Beaman, Grundy Co.,
Iowa.
Bosworth, Jessie T. (s), 603 E. 12th St.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Bourdeau, A. C. (m), So. Stukely, P. Q.
Bonrdean, D. T. (m), Battle Creek, Mich.
Boynton, J. W., Ft. Calhoun, Washington
Co., Neb.
Boynton, W. C. (o), 1505 E St., Lincoln,
Neb.
Boynton, W. J. (1), 321 Tremont St., Bos
ton, Mass.
Boettcher, J. T. (1), 1103 Case Ave., Cleve
land, Ohio.
Boyd, C. L. (m), Wellington. Cape Colony,
South Africa.
Boyd, Mrs. C. L. (s) Wellington, Cape
Colony, South Africa.
Brant, J. N. (a), Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co.,
Mich.
Briggs, E. A. (m), 35 Carr St., Los Angeles,
Cal.

Brock, E. H. (1), Grenola, Elk Co., Kan.

Brown, C. R., South Lancaster, Mass.
Brown, M. H. (m), Adams Center, Jeffer
son Co., N. Y.
Brown, Lucy E. (s), Adams Center, Jeffer
son Co., N. Y.
Bristol, Harry L. (d), S3 Spruce St., Syra
cuse, N. Y.
Breed, A. J. (m), 1029 Jenifer St., Mad
ison, Wis.
Brorten, K. (w), Akersgaden 7h, Christiana,
Norway.

Burgess, E. 0. (d), Bridgewater, Me Cook

Co., Dak.
Burgess, Geo. W. (s). Honolulu, H. I.

Burden, John (s), Pacific Press, Oakland,

Cal.
Butts, Edwin, College, Battle Creek, Mich.
Burnham, M. S. (m), Hillsdale, Hillsdale
Co., Mich.
Bnrrill, A. O. (m), Alma, Gratiot Co., Mich.
Butler, S. M. (1), Sumner, Gratiot Co.,
Mich.
Butler, H. G. (s), Review and Herald, Bat
tle Creek, Mich.

Butler, Geo. I. (m), Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.

Burch, D. C. (m), Dundas, Eice Co., Minn.

Buckley, J. (d), Exeter, Fillmore Co., Neb.
Bunch, J. C. (1), Gravel Ford, Coos Co., Or.
Bunch, Frank S. (t), Milton, Umatilla Co.,
Or.
Bnrkholder, H. H. (m), Bellvillc, Eichland
Co., Ohio.
Burrow, W. R. (d), Trezevant, Carroll
Co., Tcnn.
Burr, O., Sparta, Monroe Co., Wis.
Callahan. Mrs. Mary (s), Curtiss, Frontier
Co., Neb.

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Helena, Napa Co., Cal.
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Co., Iowa.
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Co., Kan.
Watson, Geo. F. (d), Smithland, Woodbnry Co., Iowa.
Waggoner, E. J. (e), Pacific Press, Oak
land, Cal.
Waggoner, Jessie F. (&), 1505 Castro St.,
Oakland, Cal.
Waggoner, J. H. (e), 48 Weiherweg, Basel,
Switzerland.
Wales, W. C. (m), 175 Central Ave., In
dianapolis, Ind.
Warren, Luther (1), Riverside, Berrien
Co., Mich.
Warren, Hattie O. (t), South Lancaster,
Worcester Co., Mass.

Mich.
White, W. C. (p), Pacific Press. Oakland,

Cal.
White, W. B. (m), 609 South Spring Ave.,
Sioux Falls, Dak.
White, J. T. (d), Cross Plains, Robertson
Co., Tenn.
White, R. J. (1), Viola, Richland Co., Wis.
White, Mrs. E. G. (m), Healdsbnrg, Sononia Co., Cal.
White, F. C., NOB. 9 and 11 So. Water St..
Cleveland, Ohio.
Whiteis, Samantha E. (s). 813 19th Ave.,
Denver, Colo.
Whiteis, A. E. (1), Beaver City, Furnas
Co., Neb.
Whitney, E. W. (m), 48 Weiherweg, Basel,
Switzerland.
Whitney, Mrs. E. H. (s), Sanitarium, Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
Whitney, S. B., Bridgewater, McCook Co.,
Dak.
Whitford, Irving (d), Adams Center, Jef
ferson Co., N. Y.
Whncler F. (m). West Monroe, Oswego
Co.,N. Y.
Wheeler, T. T. (d), Brookfleld, Madison
Co., N. Y.
Wiswell, Wm., Springdale, Washington
Co., Ark.
Willoughby, J. M. (m), Smithland, Woodbury Co., Iowa.
Wilson, Gilbert (1), Flemington, Taylor
Co., W. Va.
Willson, J. V. (s), 317 W. Bloomfield St.,
Rome, N. Y.
Willson, W. J. (d), Alma, Harlan Co., Neb.
Williams, Eugene (1), Flint, Genesee Co.,
Mich.
Williams, I. N. (d), Corydon, Warren Co.,
Pa.
Wins ton, Lucius, 521 Lane St., Topeka,
Kan.

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Wilcox, P. P. (d), Ottawa, Franklin Co.,
Kan.
Wilcox, H. H. (m), Gouverneur, St. Law
rence Co., N. Y.
Wileox, M. 0. (m), Pacific Press, Oakland,
Cal.
Wileox, F. M. (1), South Lancaster, Wor
cester Co.. Mass.
Wills, .T.W. (d), Corvallis, BentonCo., Or.
Williamson, J. G., Hunt, Hunt Co., Tex.
Wins, L. A. (in), Blockville, Cliautauqua
Co., N. Y.
Winchell, M. A. (d), Anoka, Anoka Co.,
Minn.
Wick. Miss Eva ^s), Carthage, Jasper Co.,
Mo.
Wolf, C. D. (a'l, Stalesvilie, Iredcll Co.,
N. C.
'
Wood. J. G. (m), Appleton Citj', St. Clair
Co., Mo.
Wood, D. X. 1,1), Diamond. Xewton Co ,
Mo.
Wood, Minard (l),2l> Whiffle!d St., Worces
ter, Mass.

Woods, Jesse (d), Denver, Miami Co., Ind.

Woods, C. V., New Market, Shenandoali
Co., Va.
Woodruff, T, M., Peoria, Hill Co., Tex.
Woodward, C. N. (s), Box 1058, Minneapo]
lis, Miun.
j W right, A. L. (m), 27 Walker St., Charlestown Dist., Boston, Mass.
Wymaii, Chas. A. (s), Box 18, East Portlaud, Or.
|
Tfatce, J. B., Cross Plains, Kobertson Co.,
Tenn.
Yeager, Joel (d), Ligonier, Noble Co., Ind.
Youug, W. A. (1), Crawfordsvillc, Mont
gomery Co., lud.
i Young, E. B. ill, Box 249. Little Rock,
Ark.
i
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Zirklc, Chas. D. (d), New Market, Shenandoah Co., Va.
1 Zirkle, J. P., New Market, Shenandoah
I
Co., Va.

HOME KND FOREIGN TRHCT SOCIETY SECRETARIES

HMD DEPOSITORIES.
Arkansas. W. G. Smith. Lock Box 249.
Little Rock, Ark.
Australia. Josie L. Baker. Echo Publish
ing House, North Fitzroy, Victoria,
Australia.
California. AnnaL. Iiigels, Pacific Press.
"Oakland, Cal.
Canada. Mrs. E. S. Owen, So. Stukely,
P. Q.
Central Europe. Elise Yuilleumicr, 48
Weiherweg, Basel, Switzerland.
China, anil Japan. A. La Eue, Queen's
Road, 219, Hong Koiis, China.
Colorado. S. E. Whiteis, 813 19th Ave.,
Denver, Colo.
Dakota. Alice H. Beaumont, Vilas, Miner
Co.. Dak.
Denmark. Mary Heile^er., Akcrsgadeu
74, Christiana, Norway.
England, W. A. Spiccr, 48 Paternoster
Kow, London, E. C., England.
Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.
Chas. F. Curtis, Cor. South Boulevard
and Bryan Sts., Atlanta. Ga.
Hawaiian Islands. Geo. W. Burgess,
Honolulu, H. 1.
Illinois. Lillie E. Froom, 26 and 28 Col
lege Place, Chicago, 111.
Indiana, J. W, Moore, 175 Central Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Iowa. L. T. Nicola, COS East 12tli Si.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Islands of the Pacific. John I. Tay, A. J.
Cuduey, Pacitie Press, Oakland, Cal.
Louisiana. A. F. Harrison, 638 Western
Ave., Shreveport, La.
Kansas. L. Dyo Chambers, 821 West Bth
St., Topeka, Kan.
Maine. Minnie Russell, 110 State St.,
Bangor, Me,
Michigan. Hattie House. Review and
Herald, Battle Creek. Midi.
Minnesota. C. N. Woodward, Box 1058,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Missouri. James Klostermyer, 606 Ohio
St., Sedalia, Mo.

Mississippi. Oscar Hill. Booneville, Miss.

Nebraska. Mrs. N. H. Druillard, 13115
E St., Lincoln, Neb.
Xew England. Mi's. E. T. Palmer, South
Lancaster, Worcester Co., Mass.
Sew York City and Brooklyn. T. A. Kilgore, 43 Bond St., New York.
yew York Staff. J. V. Willson, 317 N.
Bloomfleld St., Rome. N. Y.
New Zealand. Elizabeth Hare, Turner
St., ofl Upper Queen St., Auckland,
New Zealand.
North Carolina. N. B. England, Newton,
Catawba Co., N. C.
Xorth Pacific. Chas. A. Wyman, Box 18,
East Portland. Or.
Xoricay. Mary Heilesen, Akersgaden 74,
Christiana. Norway.
Ohio.L. T. Dysert, 1103 Case Ave., Cleve
land, Ohio."
Ontario. G. W. Morse, 56 Spadina Ave.,
Toronto, Ontario.
Peiinsiilcania. L. C. Chadwick. Box 2716,
Williainsport. Pa.
South Africa. Carrie Mace, No. 5 Scott
St., Cape Town, South Africa.
Sweden. Mary Heilesen, Akersgaden 74,
Christiana, Norway.
Switzerland. Henry Holser, 48 Weiher
weg, Basel, Switzerland.
Tennessee. J. II. Dortch, Springville,
Henry Co., Tenn.
Texas. T. T. Stevenson, Denton, Denton
Co., Texas.
Upper Columbia. Mrs. L. A. Fero, Box
623, Walla Walla, Wash. Tcr.
Vancouver's Island. Bernard Eobh, 14
Third St., Victoria, B. C.
Vermont. Lizzie A. Stone, 409 So. Union
St., Burlington, Vt.
Virginia. Amy A. Neff, Quicksbnrg,
Shenandoah Co.. Va.
West Virginia. Mrs. Nelia M. Stone,
Clarksburg, Harrison Co., W. Va.
Wisconsin. S. D. Hartwell, 1029 Jenifer
St., Madison, Wis.

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STHTE CHNiZHSSING SCENTS.
Arkansas. W. Q. Smith, Lock box 249,
Little Bock^ Ark.
Alabama and Mississippi.~D&nie\ Graber,
725 22d St., South Birmingham, Ala.
Colorado. G. W. Green, Box 204, Boul
der, Colo.
Dakota. J. J. Devereaux, Yilas, Miner
Co., Dak,
Delaware and Maryland. M. W. Lewis,
706 Eayner Ave., Baltimore, Md.
Georgia.Chas. P. Curtis, Cor. So. Boule
vard and Bryan Sts., Atlanta, Ga.
Illinois. John M. Craig, 20 and 28 College
Place, Chicago, 111.
Indiana. B. B. Craig, 175 Central Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Iowa. W. K. Smith, Knoxville, Iowa.
Kansas. N. P. Dixon, 821 West 5th St.,
Topeka, Kan.
Louisiana. A. F, Harrison, 633 Western
Ave., Shreveport, La.
Maine. T. S. Emery, Cornville, Somerset
Co., Me.
Michigan. 3. N. Brant, Hillsdale, Mich.
Minnesota. F. L. Mead, Box 1058, Min
neapolis, Minn.

Missouri. H. L. Hoover, Gun City, Mo.

Nebraska.^l. C. Boynton, 1505 E St.,
Lincoln, Neb.
New England. E. B. Miles, 155 Mouroe
St., Springfield, Mass.
New York.}. V. Willson,317 W. Bloomfleld St.. Eome, N. Y.
Norm Carolina. C. D. Wolf, Statesville,
Iredell Co.. N. C.
OMo. H. M. kitchen, Clyde, Ohio.
Ontario. G. Vf. Morse, 56 Spadina Ave.,
Toronto, Ontario.
Pennsylvania. E. W. Snyder, Box 2716,
Williamsport, Pa.
Province of Quebec. E. S. Owen, South
Stukely, P. Q.
Tennessee. J. H. Dortch, Springville,
Henry Co., Tenn.
Vermont. P. F. Bicknell, 409 So. Union
St., Burlington, Vt.
Virginia. E. D. Hottel, New Market,
Shenandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia. S. F. Eeader, Fellsburg,
Edwards Co., Kan.
Wisconsin. C. W. Olds, Box 400, White
Water, Wis.

HOME HND FOREIGN CONFERENCE SECRETARIES.

Arkansas. S. B. Young, Box 249, Little
Eock, Ark.
Australia. S. McCnllagh, Parade, Nor
wood, South Australfa.
California. E. A. Chapman, Pacific Press,
Oakland, Cal.
Canada. H. E. Eickard, Fitch Bay, P. Q.
Central Europe. Joseph Curdy, 48 Weiherweg, Basel, Switzerland.
Colorado. 3. W. Horner, 7D3 South 12th
St., Denver, Colo.
Dakota. Geo. II. Smith, Madison, Lake
Co., Dak.
Denmark.3. C. Ottesen, Nansensgade
24, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Illinois. Geo. B. Starr, 26 and 28 College
Place. Chicago, III,
Indiana. W. A. Young, Crawfordsville,
Montgomery Co., Ind.
Iowa. C. W. Smouse, Mt. Pleasant, Henry
Co., Iowa.
Kansas. L. J. Eousseau, Ottawa, Frank
lin Co . Kan.
Maine. T. S. Emery, Cornville, Somerset
Co., Me.
Michigan. II. Q. Butler, Review and
Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.
Minnesota. D. P. Curtis, Hutchiuson,
McLeod Co., Minn.
Missouri. H. D. Clark, Beverly, Macon
Co., Mo.

Nebraska. Mrs. Mary Callahan, Curtiss,

Frontier Co., Neb.
New Enaland. E. E. Miles, 155 Monroe
St., Springfield, Mass.
New Fort. Frank M. Wilcox, South
Lancaster, Worcester Co., Mass.
North Pacific. H. W. Eeed, Box 18, East
Portland, Or.
Norway. N. Clausen, Akersgaden 74,
Christiana, Norway.
OMo.'L. T. Dysert, 1103 Case Ave.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Pennsylvania. M. D. Mattson, Blockville, Chautanqua Co., Pa.
Sweden. K. Sandberg, Tunnelgatan 12,
Stockholm, Sweden.
Tennessee. EttaMarvin, Trezevant, Car
rol Co., Tenn.
Texas. A.. A. Gregory, Savoy, Fannin
Co., Texas.
Upper Columbia.3. W. Scolee, Pacific
Press, Oakland, Cal.
Vermont. A. W. Barton, New Haven
Mills, Addison Co., Vt.
Virginia. E. D. Hottel, New Market,
Shenandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia. J). N. Meredith, Berea,
Eitchie Co., W. Va.
Wisconsin. M. P. Cady, Poy Sippi, Wanshara Co., Wis.

CITY MISSION SUPERINTENDENTS.

California :

Oakland.N. C. McClure, 1591 Tele

graph Ave., Oakland, Cal.
Los Angeles.G. K. Owen, 35 Carr St.,
Los Angeles, Cal.
San Francisco.F. R. Shafler, 192S Jes
sie St., San Francisco, Cal.
District of Columbia.W. H. Saxby, 817
5th St., S. E., Washington, D. C.

England:

Liverpool.Geo. E. Drew, 12 The Wood

lands, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.
London.D. A. Eobinson, The Chaloners, Anson Eoad, Tnfnell Park, Lon
don, N., England.
Illinois.Geo. B. Starr, 26 and 28 College
Place, Chicago, 111,

IiuliaiK(.P. D. Starr, 175 Central Avc.,

Aeffi York. A. T,. Wright, 213 Grand Ave..

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ohio ;
Grand Rapids.L. Q. Moore, 345 Cres
Cleveland.J. E. Swift, 1103 Case Ave ,
cent Ave., Grand Rapids, Mieb.
Cleveland, Ohio.
East Snginaw.K. Van Dcusen, 924 Ger
Columbus.-H. W. Cottrcll, 237 North
man St., East Saginaw, Mich.
18th St.. Columbus, Ohio.
Minnesota :
I'lim.it/lua/tta :
Minneapolis.A. D. Olsen, 33(3 Lake SL,
Philadelphia.,7.
If. Kutz, 1617 Swain
Minneapolis, Minn.
St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Missouri:
Pittsburg.G.
W.
Peabody. 41 FranksKansas City.D. T. Sllireman, 2000 East
town Ave., E. E.. PittsburL', Pa.
St., Kansas City, Mo.
St. Louis.Wm. Evans, 2841 Clark St.. I
Williamsport.G. \V. Kuapp, 309 5th
~ Louis.
T
'
C1 '.., Williarnsiiorf, Pa.
St..
St.
Mo.
Vermont.Y. S. Porter, 409 So. I'nion St.,
Nebraska. L. A. Iloopes, 1505 E St.. Lin
Burlington, Vt.
coln, Net).
Indianapolis, Ind.
Michigan:

SHBBHTH-SCHOOL HSSOCIHTION SECRETHRIES.

California.Libbie Saunders, 1505 Brush

St., Oakland, Cal.
Canada.Mrs. Emma Dhumaii. South
Bolton, P. Q.
Central Europe.Mrs. E. H. Wliiltiey, San
itarium. Battle Creek, Mieh.
Colorado.Mm. Ida Gates, 812 19th Ave.,
Denver, C'olo.
Dakota.Geo. II. Smith, Madison, Dak.
Denmark.~G. O. Meliu, Akersgadcn 74,
Christiana, Norway.
Georgia, Florida. South Carolina. Mi'?.
C. F. Curtis, Cor. So. Boulevard and
Bryan Sts., Atlanta, Ga.
Illinois. Agnes B. Tail, Springfield, 111.
Indiana.Allie Lewis, Noblcsville, Ind.
Iowa.. Mrs. L. T. Nicola, 603 East 12th
St., Des Moines, Towa.
Kansas.Lucy M. Olds, 821 West 5th St..
Topcka, Kan.
Maine.Ida Grant, Hartland, Somerset
Co., Me.
Michigan.NTS. Vesta M. Hawkins, 1KB
Case Ave.. Cleveland, Ohio.
Minnesota.Mrs. Rosie C. Mead, Box 1058,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Missouri.Vita Morrow, Salisbury, Chariton Co., Mo.

.\~ibradir.Xr*. Delia l-'itcli, 1023 N. 27th

St.. Omaha, Neb.
Sen.' j::ii{/lamJ.Ellii M. Graham, South
Lancaster, Worcester Co.. 'Mass.
.Vti'J York Mrs. Mary W. Keim, 24 Kirnblc St., Uticu. N. Y.
Norway.G. O. Melin. Akersgadcn 74.
Christiana, Norway.'
North Carolina. Aunor B. England,
Newton, Catawba Co., N. C.
Xorlh Pari/ic.-Mrs. Luella II. Ward, Box
18, East Portland, Or.
Ohio. Mrs. Carrie A. Lucas, 1103 Case
Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Pennsylmma.Mary E. Simkin, Box 2716,
Williamsport, Pa.
Sweden. G. 0. Melin, Akersgaden 74,
Christiana, Norway.
Tennessee. J. D. Ivivett, Leach, Carrol
Co., TenD.
Texas. Mrs. Mamie Crnzan, Sulphur
Springs. Hopkins Co., Tex.
Upper Col'jmbia. Mattie A. Kerr, Milton,
Umatilla Co., Or.
Vermont. Mrs. S. F. Porter, 400 So.
Union St., Burlington. Vt.
Yii'(Jinia. Katie M. Netf, Quicksbnrg,
Siienandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia. M. L. Meredith. P>crca-,
liitchie Co.. W. Va.
Tnsco/.S!'ffl. Mrs. Mary T. Westphal, 204
18th St.. Milwaukee. Wis.

HEHLTH HMD TEMPERHNCE SOCIETY SECRETHRIES,

California. John Burden, Pacific FixOakland, Cal.
per Co., Mo.
Colorado. Mrs. Mattie. Stearns. Idaho
Xeic Tort;. Miss Lucy E. Brown, Adams
Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colo.
Center, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
Dakota. L. C. Nelson, Bridgewater; j Ohio. Mrs. J. S. Maxson, Mt. Veruon.
Knox Co., Ohio.
Me Cook Co., Dak.
nsyh'ania. Miss Millie M. Smith,
Illinois.Hie. Agnes B. Tait, Springfield,
Corry. Erie Co., Pa.
ID.
Indiana. N. W. Kaublc, Patricksbnrg, | Texas. Miss Jessie Gorrell, Savoy, FanOwen Co., Ind.
uin Co.. Tvx.
Upper Columbia. Com Peabody, Milton,
Towa. Mrs. S. N. Hodges, Sandyville,
Umatilla Co.. Or.
Warren Co.. Iowa,
Kansas. Mcttie Sharp, 821 West 5th St.,
Vermont. A. W. Barton, New Haven
Topeka, Kan.
Mills. Addison Co., Vt.
)Y?st Vtrijiida. Mrs. M. M. Rceder, KanMaine. Wm. J. Dunscomb, No. 1 Ciuhman Court, Portland, Me.
awba Station, Wood Co.. W. Va.
Michigan. Mrs. Clara Butle.r, Review
insi'o/isiii. Mrs. Mary T. Westphal, 264
and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.
18th St., Milwaukee, Wis.

GENERHL ORGHNIZTTTIONS.
[All known addresses will be funnel in the preceding Workers' Directory.

GENERHL, CONFERENCE.
[See pages 45, 133.]

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. O. A. Olsen, S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, R. A.

Underwood, R. M. Kilgore, E. W. Farnsworth, Dan. T. Jones.
OFFICEKS. Pres., 0. A. Olsen; Sec. Sec., Dan. T. Jones; Cor. Sec., W. H.
Edwards; Home Mission Sec., Gen. B. Starr; Foreign Mission Sec., W. G. White;
Educational Sec., W. W. Prescott; Treas., Harmon Lindsay.

BOOK COMMITTEE. Pres., W. C. White; Sec., F. E. Belden; U. Smith;

R. M. Kilgore; W. W. Prescott; A. T. Jones; E. J. Waggoner; C. Eldridge;
J. H. Kellogg; E. W. Farnsworth; J. G. Matteson; A. T. Robinson; C. H.
Jones.
LABOR BUEEAU. A. R. Henry, C. Eldridge, H. W, Kellogg.
SPECIAL COUNSELOKS. Southern Field, R. M. Kilgore; Eastern Field, R. A.
Underwood; Western and Northwestern Field, E. W. Farnsworth; Pacific Coast,
Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, W. C. White.

MINISTERS. America, Geo. I. Butler, S. N. Haskell, U. Smith, 0. A. Olsen,

W. C. White, R. M. Kilgore, R. A. Underwood, E. W. Farnsworth, Dan. T.
Jones, Mrs. E. G. White, A. T. Jones, Geo. B. Starr, J. G. Matteson, H. Shultz,
D. T. Bourdeau, W. H. Saxby, J. E. Robinson, D. E. Lindsey, N. Orcutt, J. W.
Bagby, M. G. Huffman, I. E. Kimball, L. II. Crisler, Oscar Hill, B. F. Purdham, S. H. Kime; Gnat Britain, D. A. Robinson, A. A. John, E. W. Whituey;
Scandinavia, Lewis Johnson, J. F. Hansen, E. G. Oisen, J. M. Erickson; Central
Europe, L. R. Conradi, H. P. Holser, J. S. Shrock, J. C. Laubhan; South Africa,
C- T,. Tioyd. Ira J. HanMns; Australia, Geo. C. Teimey, M. C. Israel, Will D.
Curtis; New Zealand, A. G. Daniells, Robert Hare; Pacific Islands, A. J. Cudney.
LICENTIATES. America, W. W. Prescott, C. Eldridge, Wm. M. Baird, N. B.
England, Mrs. Rule Hill, Arthur Hunt, D. C. Babcock; Great Britain, Geo. R.
Drew, A. Smith; China and Japan, A. La Rue; Pacific Islands, J. I. Tay.

GENERHL. CONFERENCE HSSOCIKTION.

[See pages 68, 129.}
TRUSTEES. 0. A. Olsen, U. Smith, A. R. Henry, J. Fargo, Harmon Lindsay.
OFFICEKS. Pres., A. R. Henry; Sec., U. Smith; Asst. Sec., W. H. Edwards;
Treas., Harmon Liudsay.
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INT6RNKTIONHL. TRKCT SOCI6TV.
[See payes 7.9, 1,'ili.}

EXECUTIVE BOARD. S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, L. K. Conradi, D. A. Rob

inson, O. A. Olsen, \V. C. Sisley, A. J. Breed, C. Eldridge, Geo. B. Starr.
OFFICERS. Pros., S. N. Haskell; Vice-Pres., W. G. White; Cor. Sec., M. L.
Huntley; liec. Sec., T. A. Kilgore; Asst. Secretaries, Anna L. Ingels, Mrs. F. II.
Sisley, W. A. Spicer, H. P. Holser, Josie L. Baker, Elizabeth Hare, Mary Heiiesen, Mrs. C. L. Boyd, Mrs. Eliza T. Palmer; Treas., Rcyiew and Herald.
HOME AGENTS. Arkansas Tract Society, W. G. Smith; Colorado Tract
Society, S. E. Whiteis; Dakota, Tract Society, A. H. Beaumont; District of
Columbia, W. H. Saxby; Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, Charles F.
Curtis; Illinois Tract Society, Lillie E. Froom; Indiana Tract Society, J. W,
Moore; Iowa Tract Society, Leroy T. Nicola; Kansas Tract Society, L. Dyo
Chambers; Maine Tract Society, Winnie Russell; Delaware and Maryland, D.
E. Lindsey; Michigan Trad Satiety, llaltie House: Miiuasola Tract Society, C. N.
Woodward; Missouri Tract Society, Mrs. Clara Jones; Nebraska Tract Society,
Mrs. N. H. Druillard; yew England Tract Society, Mrs, E. T. Palmer; New
York City and Brooklyn, T. A. Kilgore; JVi-w York Tract Society, J. V.
Willson; North Carolina, N. B. England; North Pacijic Tract Society, Charles
A. Wyman; Ohio Tract Society, L. T. Dyst-rt; Pennsylvania Tract Society, L.
C. Chadwick; Tennessee Tract Society, J. H. Dorteh; Texas Tract Society, T.
T. Stevenson; Upper Columbia Tract Society, Mrs. L. A. Fero; Vermont Tract
Society, Lizzie A. Stone; Virginia Tract Society, Amy A. Neff; West Virginia
Tract Society, Mrs. Nelia M. Stone; Wisconsin Tract Society, S. D. Harbvell.

FOREIGN AGENTS. Australia, Josie L. Baker; Canaan Tract Society, Mrs.

R. S. Owen; China and Japan, A. La Rue; Enylaiid, W. A. Spicer; Hawaiian
Islands, Geo. W. Burgess; Islands of the I'acijic, John I. Tay, A. J. Cudney;
New Zealand, Elizabeth Hare; Norway, Mary Heileseu; South Africa, Carrie
Mace; Switzerland, Henry Holser; Vancouver's Island, Bernard Robb.
INTERNHTIONHL SHBBHTH-SCHOGL HSSOCIHTION.
I See pages 92, 140.]

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. C. H. Jones, W. C. White, E. J. Waggoner. A. T.

Robiuson, F. E. Beldeu, E. W. Farnsworth, Roderick S. Owen.
OFFICERS. Pres., G. II. Jones; Vice-I'res., W. C. White; Sec., Mrs. C. Jf.
Jones; Cor. Sec., Mrs. Jessie F. Waggoner; Treas., Pacific Press Publishing- Co.
KMERICHN HEHLTH HMD TEMPERANCE HSSOCIHTION.
[>ta pr,yes SS, W.]

OPFICEKS. Pres., J. H. Ke'losg, M. D,; Vice-Prep., D. A. Robinson; Sec.

and Treas., Mrs. E. E. Kellogg.

HMERICHN CONFERENCES.
HRKKNSHS.
MINISTER. J. P. Henderson.
LICENTIATES. W. J. Kerr, E. B. Young.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., J. P. Henderson; Sec., E. B. Young; Treats.,
Wm. Martin; Ex. Com., 3. P. Henderson, P. M. Ownbey, Win. Martin, Alien
Meeks, W. J. Kerr; Camp-meeting Com., J. B. McConnell, W. G. Smith, W. L.
Tunnan, G. W. Lollar, J. L. Shockey, Wm. Wiswell, E. W. Crawford.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., J. P. Heuderson; Vtce-Pres., J. M. Pool;
Sec., Trcas., and State Agent, W. G. Smith; Directors: Dist. No. 1, J. M. Pool;
No. 2, A. B. Me Alexander; No. 3, John L. Shockey; No. 4, J, P. Henderson.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Board: E. B. Young, Pres.;
J. B. McConnell, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. E. D. Lamberson, Sec.; G. H. Morgan; W. S.
Gentry.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., J. P. Henderson;
Sec., Mrs. Ida M. Ford.
CHLIFORNIH.
MINISTERS. J. N. Loughborough, W. C. White, Wm. Hcaley, E. J. Wag
goner, Roderick S. Owen, N. C. Me Clure, Wm. Ings, E. R. Jones, J. H. Cook,
G. K. Owen, A. W. Bartlett, H. A. St. John, E. A. Briggs, John Fulton, Sanford
Rogers, E. P. Daniels, M. C. Wilcox, J. W. Scoles.
LICENTIATES. Geo. Hollister, L. A. Scott, Thomas Coolidge, Arthur Hickox,
Frank Hope, Frank Lamb, S. Thurston, Mrs. G. K. Owen, H. S. Guilford, James
Guilford.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., J. N. Loughborough; Sec., E. A. Chapman;
Treas., Pacific Press Publishing Co.; Ex. Com., J. N. Loughborough, W. C.
White, N. C. Me Clure, Wm. Healey, J. H. Cook.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pm., W. C. White; I'ice-Pres., Wm. Ings; Sec.,
Anna L. Ingels; Asst. Sec., Marion Kleiber; Directors: Dist. No. 1, Wm. Ings,
Asst., H. F. Courter; No 2, Erastus Banta; No. 3, C. L. Taylor, Asst., W. N.
Glenn; No. 4, John Biter, Anst., C. C. Gardner; No. 5, H. P. Gray, Asst., Frank
Abbott; No. 6, G. K. Owen, Asst., S. Thurston; No. 7, S. K. Shannau; No. 8,
G. H. Gibson.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., Roderick S. Owen; VicePres., N. C. McClure; Sec. and Treas., Libbie Saunders; Asst. Sec., W. V. Sample;
Ex. Board, Roderick S. Owen, Libbie Saunders, E. J. Waggoner, C. P. Bollroan,
G. W. Rine.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., J. N. Loughbor
ough; Sec. and Treas., John Burden.
CHNHDH.
[Confined to the Province of Quebec.]
MINISTERS. R. S. Owen, A. C. Bourdcau.
LICENTIATE.H. E. Rickard.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., R. S. Owen; Sec. and Treas., H. E. Rickard;
Ex. Com., R. S. Owen, A. C. Bourdeau, J. L. Martin; Camp-meeting Com., J. L.
Martin. Curtis Frost, Chas. Scott.
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TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. 7'm.-.. A. C. Bourdeau; I'ice-Pres., II. E. Rickard; Sec., Mrs. E. S. Owen; Asst. Sec., S. Edith Pierce; State Agent, E. S.
Owen; Director*: Dist. No. 1, Darwin Dingman; No. 2, J. N. Luther.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFPICEKS. Fres., J. L. Martin; Vice-Pres.,
-Miss Florence P. Terrill; tiec. and Treas., Mrs. Emma Dingman.
HF.ALTH AND TEMPEUANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., Darwin Dingman;
Sec., .
COLORHDO.
[luclmUny the Territory of Wijorniny.^

MINISTERS. E. H. Gates, G. W. Anglebarger, J. D. Pegg, Geo. 0. States,

A. J. Stover.
CONFKP.ENCE OFFICERS. Pra., K. II. Gates; Sec., J. W. Horner; Treas.,
Saiuantha E. Whitcis; F.-r.. f'om., E. II, Gates, G. W. Auglebarger, Elbridge
Green.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. /';., E. H. Gates; Vice-Pro'., G. W. Augle
barger; Sec. K/ut Ti-fax., Saruantha E. Whiteis; Stale Agent, G. W. Green;
Directors: Dist. Xo. 1, El bridge Green; No. 2, D. H. Soggs; No. 3, Joseph
Stover; No. 4, Samuel Gulick; No. 5, G. W. Anglebarger; No. G, G. 0. States.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Fres., G. W'. Green; Vice-Pres.,
G. W. Angleburger; tiec. and Treas., Mrs. Ida Gates.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., Harold Stearns,
M. D.; Sec. and Treas., Mrs. Mattie Stearns.
DHKOTK.
MINISTERS. W. B. White, G. H. Smith, L. H. Ells.
LICENTIATES. C. P. Fredcrickscn, Marcus Streaman, Valentine Leer, N. P.
Nelson.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., W. B. White; Sec., Geo. H. Smith; Treas.,
Alice H. Beaumont; Ex. Com., W. B. White, N. P. Nelson, J. A. Childs.
TKACT SOCIETY OFFICKUS. Pres., W. B. White; Vice-Pres., N. P. Nelson;
Sec. and Treas.. Alice H. Beaumont: Asst. Sec., Lillie E. Ham; State Agent, J. J.
Devereaux; IJircrtors ; Dist. No. 1, N. P. Nelson; Nos. 2, 3, E. 0. Burgess;
Nos. -t, 5. J. W. Neweombe; Nos. (,, 7, W. B. White.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard: W. B. White, Pres.;
S. B. Whitney, Vice-Pres.; Geo. II. Smith, Sec. and Treas.; Peter Danielson;
Frank Robinson.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pros., J. J. Devereaux;
Sec., L. C. Nelson.
ILLINOIS.
MINISTERS. E. M. Kilgore. Geo. B. Starr, 0. t'. Godsmark, John Sisley,
A. 0. Tail, E. 0. Hammond, L. D. Sautee.
LICENTIATES. Einil Johnson, E. A. Merrel), A. F. Ballenger.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., R. M. Kilgore; Sec., Geo. B. Starr; Asst.
Sec., Lillie E. Froom; Treas., A. Craw; Ex. Com., K. M. Kilgore, A. 0. Tait, R.
Yickery, A Craw, A. Hobbs; Camp-meeting Com., Alfred Foreman, Wm. Hibben,
A. Ciisli, Edwin Butts, R. Vickery.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., R. M. Kilgore; Vice-Pres., G. B. Starr;
Sec. and Treas., Lillie E. Froom; Slate Ayeut, John M. Craig; Directors: Dist.
No. 1, Wm. T. Hibben; Nos. 2, 11, Wm. McKibben; No. 3, Gilbert H. Par-

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mele; No. 4, Philip Marsh; Nos. 6, 8, Wm. Herald; No. 7, Geo. B. Thompson;
No. 9, H. V. Weaver; No. 10, G. H. Baber.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard: A. O. Tait, Pres.;
G. H. Baber, Vice-f'res. ; Mrs. Agnes B. Tait, Sei: and Treas. ; Q. B. Starr; C. E.
Sturdevant.
HEALTH AND TEMPEKANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., A. 0. Tait; Sec.
and Treas., Mrs. Agnes B. Tait.

INDIKNK.
MINISTERS. F. D. Starr, Dr. Wm. Hill, D. H. Oberholtzer, Victor Thomp
son, R. F. Andrews, N. W. Kauble, W. C. Wales, J. M. Rees.
LICENTIATES. F. M. Roberts, C. F. Jenkins, C. M. Shortridge, Luzerne
Thompson, W. A. Young, I. S. Lloyd, P. G. Stanley.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., F. D. Starr; Sec., W. A. Young; Treas.,
Dr. Wm. Hill; Ex. Com., F. D. Starr, D. H. Oberholtzer, N. W. Kauble, Victor
Thompson, W. R. Carpenter.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., F. D. Starr; Vice-Pres., D. H. Oberholt
zer; Sec., J. W. Moore; State Agent, R. B. Craig; Directors: Dist. No. 1, Joel
Yeager; No. 2, D. W. Albert; No. 3, C. F. Jenkins; No. 4, H. M. Stewart;
No. 5, Jesse Woods; No. 6, E. Hayes; No. 7, J. H. Miller; No. 8, R. B. Craig;
No. 9, ; No. 10, I. S. Lloyd; No. 11, J. W. Johnston; No. 13, Jasper
King; No. 13, John M. Vallilee.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard: B. F. Purdbam,
Pres.; Joel Yeager, Vice-Pres.; Allie Lewis, Sec. and Treas.; Emma Green; Wm.
P. Gray.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., N. W. Kauble; Sec.,

IQJflZH.
MINISTERS. J. H. Morrison, H. Nicola, J. S. Hart, C. A. Washburn, J. T.
Mitchell, R. C. Porter, A. P. Heacock, L. T. Nicola, J. M. Willoughby,
C. F. Stevens.
LICENTIATES. J. S. Washburn, J. J. Ellyson, Matthew Larson, W. H.
Wakeham, Elmer Gardner.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., J. H. Morrison; Sec., C. W. Smouse; Treas.,
C. F. Stevens; Ex. Com., J. H. Morrisou, H. Nicola, H. R. Johnson; Campmeetiitg Com., S. M. Jacobs, Jacob Shively, James BowleS; L, P, Jae.ohaou. Zalmon
Nicola.
TBACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., J. H. Morrison; Vice-Pres., R. C. Porter;
Sec. and Treas., L. T. Nicola; Asst. Sec., Jessie V. Bosworth; State Agent, W. R.
Smith; Directors.' Dist. No. 1, E. W. Chapman; No. 2, J. T. Mitchell; No. 3,
J. W. Adams; No. 4, C. A. Washburn; No. 5, C. F. Stevens; No. 6, C. W.
Neal; No. 7, A. J. Stiffler; No, 8. L. P. Jacobson: No. 9. W. B. Everhart; No.
10, S. M. Holly; No. 11, George E. Watson; No. 12, James Johnson; No. 13,
Wm. Cleary.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Board: W. H. Wakeham,
Pres.; Mrs. L. T. Nicola, Sec. and Treas.; J. H. Morrison; R. C. Porter.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., W. H. Wakeham; Sec. and Treas., Mrs. S. N. Hodges.

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KHNSHS.
[Including New Mexico, and as far as the canvassing work is concerned,
Indian Territory flfco.]

MINISTEKS.John Gibbs, S. S. Shroek, Joseph La Mont, Smith Sharp, C. C.

Me Reynolds, W. W. Stebbius, L. J. Rousseau, M. II. Gregory, C, P. Haskell.
LICENTIATES.G. A. Hall, R. H. Brock, James A. Morrow, O. S. Ferren.
J. H. Rogers, J. H. Coffman, G. Mathieson, N. P. Dixou, N. W. Vincent, S. F!
Reader, Jacob L. Bielhart, Rufus Baker, E. L. Fovtner, Edward Loeppke, C. B.
Hughes, R. Dobbins, C. W. Olson.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres.,C. A. Hali; Sec.. L. J. Rousseau; Treas.,
Lucius Winston; Ex. Com., C. A. Hall, A. G. Miller,'C. C. Me Reynolds, S. S.
Shroek, John Heligass.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Prrs., C. A. Hull; Ylc,--Prfs., C. W. Flaiz; .SV..
L. Dyo Chambers: State Agent, N, 1'. Dixon; 'jjirectors: Disf. No. 1, T. P.
Finch; No. 2, C. W. Olsou; No. 3, T. H. Wakcmaii; No. 4. J. D. Hockey; No.
5, P. P. Wilcox; No. 6, E. M. Gwiii: No. T, A. Me Cully; No. 8, J. M. Jones;
No. 9, T. B. De Wini>-; No. 10, E. W. Riec; No. 11, S. N. Avers; No. 12, T. M.
Thorn; No. 13, J. H. Rogers; No. 14, G. Haffiner.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., L. J. Rousseau; VicePresidents, C. H. Parsons, C. C. Me Reynolds; See. 6ml Trcas., Lucy M. Olds.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., R. Dobbins; ViccPres., G. W. Flaiz; Sec., Mettie Sharp.
MHINE.
[Including the Provinces of Jfem Brunswick and Nova Scotia.]

MINISTERS. J. B. Goodrich, R. S. Webber, S. J. Hcrsum, P. B. Osborne,

T. M. Steward.
LICENTIATES. Henry C. Giles, G. W. Howard, S. H. Linseott, A. Barnes.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., J. B. Goodrich; Sec., T. S. Emery; Treas.,
I. C. Choat; Ex. Com., 3. B. Goodrich, T. S. Emery, E. C. Taylor.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., J. B. Goodrich; Vicc-Pres., B. F. Davis;
Sec. and Treas., Minnie Russell; Asst. Sec., Jennie R. Bates; State Agent, T. S.
Emery; Directors: Dist. No. 1,1. G. Choat; No. 2, T. S. Emery; No. 3, Wm. J.
Dunscomb; No. 4, Henry Davis; No. 5, W. J. Keniston; No. 6, E. A. Sheaboom;
No. 7, B. F. Bavin.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., S. J. Hcrsum; Sec. and
Treas., Ida Grant; Ex. Hoard, S. J. Ilersum, R. S. Webber, G. W. Howard.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres.. R. S. Webber; Sec..
W. J. Duuscomb.
MICHIGHN.
[Including the Province of Ontario.]

MINISTERS. Geo. I. Butler, U. Smith, J. Fargo, J. 0. Corliss, G. G. Rupert,

Wm. Ostrander, M. B. Miller, I. D. Van Horn, H. W. Miller, R. J. Lawrence,
H. M. Kenyon, E. Van Deusen, J. L. Edgar, E. H. Root, M. S. Burnharn, D. H.
Lamsou, T. S. Parmelee, A. 0. Burrill, A. W. Bather, Dr. H. S. Lay, R. C. Horton, J. F. Ballenger, I. H. Evans, A. Weeks, J. H. Durland, J. W. Covert, L.
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LICENTIATES. W. W. Prescott, Eugene Leland, Frank Carr, L. G. Moore,
G. H. Randall, S. M. Butler, John D. Gowell, Jasper C. Harris, W. A. Colcord,
L. N. Lane, G. W. Morse, John Kolvoord, F. I. Richardson, A. Barry, J. D.
Morton, C. Eldridge, C. Stoddard, E. S. Griggs, David Malta, Geo. O. Wellman,
Mrs. E. S. Lane, Eugene Williams, D. H. Cress, W. H. Falconer, Homer Day,
Luther Warren, A. J. Haysmer, O. F. Campbell.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., I. D. Van Horn; Sec., H. G. Butler; Treas.,
A. R. Henry; Ex. Com., I. D. Van Horn, J. Fargo, G. G. Rupert, H. W. Miller,
Harmou Lindsay ; Trustee of Educational Fund, W. W. Prescott.
TBACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., H. W. Miller; Vice-Pres., G. G. Rupert;
Sec. and Treas., Hattie House; Slate Agent, J. N. Brant; Directors: Dist. No. 1,
Eugene Leland; No. 2, M. B. Miller; No. S, H. C. Goodrich; No. 4, E. H. Root;
No. 5, J. F. Carman; No. 6, Wm. Ostrander; No. 7, David Malin; No. 8, Willard
Fay; No. 9, II. B. Cyphers; No. 10, John D. Gowell; No. 11, Dr. H. S. Lay;
No. 13, .
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Board : M. B. Miller, Pres.;
G. W. Morse, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. Vesta M. Hawkins, Sec. and Treas.; G. G. Rupert;
E. B. Miller.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., Mrs. E. B. Lane;
Sec., Mrs. Clara K. Butler.
JHIINNESOTK.
MINISTERS. A. D. Olsen, H. Grant, M. M. Olsen, W. B. Hill, D. P. Curtis,
D. C. Burch, J. I. Collins, H. W. Babcock, C. Norlin, E. A. Curtis, C. W. Flaiz,
C. H. Bliss.
LICENTIATES. Byron Tripp, F. L. Mead, Alien Moon, Rasmus Peterson, C.
M. Chaffcc, E. Hilliard.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., A. D. Olseu; Sec., D. P. Curtis; Treas.,
C. N. Woodward; Ex. Com., A. D. Olsen, H. Grant, J. J. Graf, Alien Moon,
F. L. Mead.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., A. D. Olsen; Vice-Pres., H. Grant;
Sec. and Treas., C. N. Woodward; State Agent, F. L. Mead; Directors: Dist. No.
1, Alien Moon; No. 2, F. A. Lashier; No. 3, C. D. Chapman; No. 4, D. P. Cur
tis ; No. 5, D. W. Emmcrson ; No. 6, M. A. Winchel! ; No. 7, .
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard : A. D. Olsen, Pres.;
M. A. Winchell, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. Rosie C. Mead, Sec. and Treas.; F. L. Mead;
Byron Tripp.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., Alien Moon; Sec.,
H. F. Phelps.
MINISTERS. Dan. T. Jones, R. S. Donnell, N. W. Allee, C. H. Chafiee, J. W.
Watt, J. G. Wood, Wm. Evans.
LICENTIATES. James Klostermyer, Clarence Santee, J. B. Beckner, D. N.
Wood.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., Dan. T. Jones; Sec., H. D. Clark; Treas.,
Wm. Evans; Ex. Com., Dan. T. Jones, N. W. Allee, J. F. Klostermyer, C. H.
Chaffee, R. S. Doimell.
TKACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Fres., Dan. T. Jones; Vice-Pres., H. D. Clark;
Sec. and Treas., James Klostermyer; State Agent, H. L. Hoover; Directors:
Dist. No. 1, Julius S. Hall; No. 2, C. J. Dasher; No. 3, Rufus Low; No. 4, J. F.
Klostermyer; No. 5, Clarence Santee; No. 6, Mrs. Mary Beddoe; No. 7, C. H.
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SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., James Klostcrmyer; Hec.
and Treas., Vita Morrow; Ex. Board, 3. Klostermyer, J. B. Bcckucr. N. W. Alice.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. /'res., H. D. Clark; tiec.
and Treas., Miss Eva Wick.
NEJnf ENGLHND.
[Embracing Sew Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
Jersey, Long Island, and Xeu: York City.}
MINISTERS.S. N. Haskell, A. T. Robinson. G. Vi'. Caviness, E. E. Miles,
0. 0. Farnsworth, A. L. Wright, G. E. Fifield.
LICENTIATES. F. W. Mace, C. L. KeHo!-. II. J. Farmau, Wr. J. Boynton,
Minard Wood, W. L. Payne.
CoNFKRKNCE OFFICERS. Pres., A. T. Rolunson; fjcc., E. E. Miles; Treas.,
Mrs. E. T. Palmer; Ex. Com.. A. T. Rnhinson, G. W, Cavinc^s, A. L. Wright,
K. V. Farnswovtb, W. L. Payne: Cantp-mcetmi/ Com., II. P. Wakefield, C. E.
Palmer, C. K. Brown, W. L. Payne, Wm. Howard.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICER?. I'n-.i., A. T. Tiobins-on; \~ice-Prea., A. L. Wright;
Sec. and Treas., E. T. Palmer; Mate 'Agent. E. E. Miles; Directors: Dist. N"o. 1,
James A. Teftt; No. 3, W. E. Stillma'n; No. 3, Merton Ashley; No. 4, S. A.
Farnsworth; No. 5, F. B. Keetl; No. B, W. L. Payne; No. 7, F. W. Mace; No.
8. Jay W. Rambo.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION- OFFICERS. Pres., 0. 0. Farnsworth; VicePres., G. W. Caviness; Sec. and Treas., Ella M. Graham; Ex. Hoard, 0. 0.
Farnsworth, G. W. Caviness, Ella M. Graham. G, E. Fifield, G. Frank Fiske.
NEBRHSKK.
MINISTERS.J. P. Gardiner, L. A Hoopes, D. Nettleton, Frederick Jorg,
J. E. Laugdon, T. H. Gibb?, 0. A. Johnson.
LICENTIATES. Charles Harr, J. E. Jayne, J. D. Strong, A. E. Whiteis, Jacob
Kline, Erik Pilquist.
CONFEKENCB OtTiCERs. Pres., J. P. Gardiner ; Sec., Mrs. Mary Callahau ;
Treas., N. II. Dmillard ; Ex. Com., J. P. Gardiner, L. A. Hoopes, John Morrison,
A. Dmillard, J. W. Boynton.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pros., J. P. Gardiner ; Vice-Pros., L. A. Hoopes ;
tiec. and Treas., N. H. Dmillard ; State Ayent, W. C. Boynton ; Directors: Dist.
No. 1, Win. He.nnig ; No. 2, J. Buckley ; No. 3, Alma Druillard ; No. 4, W. J.
Willson ; No. 5, John Clark ; No. 6, A". A. Me Kay ; No. ~, M. N. Jenkins.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., W. N. Hyatt ; Vke-Pres.,
W. D. Chapman ; tiec. and Treas, Mrs. Delia Fitch ; Ex. Board, W. N. Hyatt,
J. P. Gardiner, L. A. Hoopes.
NEtal YORK.
[A'oi including Chautanqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Sleuben, or Chemung
counties, J\~ew York City, or Long Island.^
MINISTERS. R. F. Cottrell, F. Wheeler, C. O. Taylor, H. H. Wilcox : M..II.
Brown, H. E. Robinson, A. E. Place, S. H. Lane.
LICENTIATES.F. M. Wileox, J. V. Willson, P. Z. Kinne, Benjamin Holmes,
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., M. H. Brown; Sec., Frank M. Wilcox ;

Treas., Wm. E. Lewis ; Ex. Com., M. H. Brown, H. E. Robinson, A. E. Place,
P. Z. Kinne, N. S. Washbond ; Camp-meeting Com., Wm. Hubbard, E. C. Hoxie,
N. S. Washbond, O. M. Ross, Cbas. H. Coe.
TKACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., H. E. Robinson ; Vice-Pres., M. H. Brown;
Sec., Treas., and State Agent, 3. V. Willson ; Directors: Dist. No. 1, Benjamin
Ho'raes ; No. 2, F. Wheeler ; No. 3, Irving Whitford ; No. 4, Edmund Holcomb ; No. 5, I. N. Russell; No. 6, David Carr ; No. 7, T. T. Wheeler ; No. 8,
N. S. Washbond ; No. 9, Harry L. Bristol ; No. 10, 3. E. Rose.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Fres., A. E. Place; Sec. and
Treas., Mrs. Mary W. Keim.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, OFFICERS. Pres., M. H. Brown ; Sec.,
Miss Lucy E. Brown.
NORTH PHCIFIC.
[Embracing all that portion of Oregon and Washington Territory
west of the Cascade Mountains.]
MINISTERS.Samuel Fulton, Wm. Potter, H. W. Reed, W. C. Ward.
LICENTIATES. J. M. Cole, Isaac Morrison, G. W. Davis, R. D. Benham,
Cbas. Scheiper, H. A. Baxter, T. H. Starbuck, .J. E. Bunch.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., Samuel Fulton; Sec., H. W. Reed; Treas.,
0. Dickinson ; Ex. Com., Samuel Fulton, T. H. Starbuck, 3. E. Graham.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., S. Fulton ; Vice-Pres., Wm. Potter ; Sec.
and Treas., Chas. A. Wyman ; Directors: Dist. No. 1, 3. C. Bunch ; No. 2, J. W.
Wills ; No. 3, E. D. Hurlburt ; No. 4, G. W. Davis.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., R. D. Benham ; Vice-Pres.,
J. M. Cole ; Sec., Mrs. Luella H. Ward .
OHIO.
MINISTERS.R. A. Underwood, 0. F. Guiltord, 3. S. lies, 0. 3. Mason,
H. W. Cottrell, J. E. Swift, E. T. Russell, H. H. Burkholder.
LICENTIATES. E. 3. Van Horn, V. H. Lucas, 3. T. Boettcher, H. M. Mitchell.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., R. A. Underwood; Sec., L. T. Dysert;
.Treas., Geo. A. Irwin ; Ex. Com., R. A, Underwood, i. E. Swift, H. M. Mitchell.
TKACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., R. A. Underwood; Vice-Pres., 3. E.
Swift ; Sec. and Treas., L. T. Dysert ; State Agent, H. M. Mitchell ; Directors :
Dist. No. 1, H. W. Cottrell ; No. 2, Geo. A. Irwiii ; No. 3, A. 3. Vaughu ; No. 4,
E. A. Merriam ; No. 5, Geo. Klopfenstein ; No. 6, E. 3. Van Horn ; No. 7,
; No. 8, E. T. Russell.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard: Volney H. Lucas,
Pres.; Oliver J. Mason, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. Carrie A. Lucas, Sec. and Treas.; Ella
Talinage, Asst. Sec. ; E. P. Hawkins.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., 3. S. Maxson, M. D.;
Vux-Prix.,3. "R. Swift ; Sec. and Treas., Mrs. 3. S. Maxson.
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PENNSYLUHNIH.
[Including Jive adjoining comities tit. Southwestern New ybr&.J
MINISTERS. J. W. Raymond, 3. G. Saunders, J. E. Robinson, F. Pcabody,
L. A. Wing, Edgar Russell, D. A. Ball.
LICENTIATES. J. L. Baker, L. C. Chailwick, K. C. Russell, E. J. Ilibbard,
J. D. Mnlhollen, J. B. Stowe. J. P. Haywarcl.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pi-en., J. W. Raymond; \' ice-Pros., L. C. Chadwick; dec., M. 1). Mattson; Treats.., L. C. Chailwick; Ex. Com., J. W. Raymond,
L. C. Chaciwk'k, I. X. Williams.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. I'm*., J. W. Raymond; \'ice-Pres., J. G. Saunders; Sec. and Treax., L. C. Chadivick; Slate Ayent, E. W. Snyder; Directors:
Dis,. No, 1, J. S. Shroek; No. 2, J. Loughhead; No. 3. J. Wr. Raymond; No. 4,
Win. Siinkin: No. 3. A. Givonmun: NO>J, I. N. Williams; No. t. : No.
8, John Ayling; No. 0. G. W. Peabody; No. 10. (,. W. Fyork.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. E.t. Board: J. S. Shroek, fres.:
F. Peabodv. Vice-Prey.; liar,' E. Siinkin, ,SV.c. (OK/ Tnas.: J. G. Sauuders: L. A.
Wing.
HEALTH AXD TEMPEHAXCE SOCIETY OFFICKHS. J"/T.. K. C. Russell; VicePrex., E. J. Hibbard: Sec. and Tre^s.. Miss Millie M. Smith.

TENNESSEE.
[lucliifliiiy the Stale of Kentucky. \
MI>JISTEKS. Win. Covert. E. E. Marvin, Harry Lowe, S. Osborne, R. G.
Garrett.
COXFEREXCE OFFICEKS. Pres., Win. Covert; Sec., Etta Jlumn; Treas.,
J. B. Yates; Ex. Com., Win. Covert, E. E. Marvin, J. Q. Finch.
THA.CT SOCIETY OFEICEKS. Pres., Wm. Covert; Vice-Pres., J. Q. Finch:
Sec., Treas., and State Agent. J. H. Dorteh; Directors: Dist. No. 1, W. R. Bur
row ; No. 2, J. T. White!
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS.- Pren., E. E. Marvin; Vice-Pres.,
W. D. Dorteh; Sec. and Treas., J. D. Kivett; />. I!o<ti-<l. E. E. Marvin, E. R.
Gillett, W. R. Burrow.
TEXHS.
MINISTERS. W. S. Hyatt, W. S. Greer.
LICENTIATES. J. M. lluguley. W. A. Me Cute-hen, W. T. Johnstou. W. T.
Drummond, W. S. Cruzan. A. A. Gregory.
CONFERENCE OFFICEKS. Pres.. WT . S. Hyatt; Sec.. A. A. Gregory; Treas.,
T. T. Stevenson; E&. Com., W. S. Greer, J. W. Gage, J. J. Spikes, W." T. Johuston; Camp-meeting Com., T. M. Woodruff, J. M. Haggard, D. N. McNeely,
J. G. Williaroson, R. K. Huffstetter.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., W. S. Hyatt; Vice-Pres., J. W. Gage; Sec.
and Treas., T. T. Stevenson; Directors: Dist. No. 1, W. T. Drummond; No. 2,
H. C. Chrisman ; No. 3, A. A. Gregory.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres.,Vf. S. Cruzan; Sec. and
Treas., Mrs. Mamie Cruzan; Ex. Board, W. S. Cruzan, Mamie Cruzan, W. A.
McCutchen, W. T. Drummond, A. A. Gregory.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFTCKH*. Prat., W. S. Cruzan; tin:.
and Treas., Miss Jessie Gorrell.

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UPPER COLUMBIH.
[Embracing all that portion of Oregon and Washington Territory east of Ihe
Cascade Mountains; also the Territories of Montana and Idaho.]
MINISTERS. H. W. Decker, D. T. Fero, G. W. Colcord, J. Bartlett, G. H.
Rogers.
LICENTIATES. W. W. Steward, E. L. Stewart, E. E. Andross, F. S. Hafford,
H. "W. Carr, J. A. Armstrong, M. E. Stewart, J. O. Beard.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., H. W. Decker; Sec., J. W. Scoles; Treas.,
Mrs. L. A. Fero; Ex. Com., H. W. Decker, D. T. Fero, Win. Kerr.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., H. W. Decker; Vice-Pres., D. T. Fero;
Sec. and Treas., Mrs. L. A. Fero; Directors: Idaho, L. D. Cargill; Oregon, T. L.
Kagsdale; Washington Ter., J. W. Scoles; Montana, .
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., D. T. Fero; Vice-Pres.,
F. S. Haflord; Sec. and Treas., Mattie A. Kerr; Ex. Board, D. T. Fero, Elmer
Andross, Homer Carr.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., D. T. Fero; Sec.
and Treas., Cora Peabody.
VERMONT.
MINISTERS. T. H. Purdon, H. W. Pierce, Albert Stone, A. S. Hutchins,
P. F. Bicknell.
LICENTIATES. F. S. Porter, W. C. Walston.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres.. T. H. Purdon; Sec., A. W. Barton; Treas.,
A. S. Hutchins; Ex. Com., T. H. Purdon, H. W. Pierce, P. F. Bicknell; Campmeeting Com., John Clayton, Joel Cady, B. F. Colby, Danford Ayers, H. A. Celley.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., P. F. Bicknell ; Vice-Pres., H. W. Pierce;
Sec. and Treas., Lizzie A. Stone; State Agent, P. F. Bicknell; Directors: Dists.
Nos. 1, 3, A. S. Hutching; No. 2, B. F. Colby; No. 4, A. W. Barton; No. S,
W. C. Walston ; No. 6, John A. Clayton.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., F. S. Porter; Vice-Pres.,
W. C. Walston; Sec. and Treas., Mrs. F. S. Porter; Ex. Board, F. S. Porter,
E. R. Palmer, John Clayton.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., H. W. Pierce; Sec.,
A. W. Barton.
iZIRGINIH.
MINISTERS. A. C. Neff, R. D. Hottel, P. F. Bickuell.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., A. C. Neft; Sec., R. D. Hottel; Treas.,
Chas. D. Zirkle; Ex. Com., A. C. Ne2, J. P. Zirkle, P.. D. Hottel.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres-., R. D. Hottel; Vice-Pres., M. G. Huffman ;
Sec. and Treas., Amy A. NefE; State Agent, R. D. Hottel; Directors: Dist. No.
1, R. T. Fultz; No. 2, T. H. Painter; No. 3, C. D. Zirkle.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Pres., T. H. Painter; Vice-Pres.,
M. G. Huffman; Sec. and Treas., Katie M. Neffl; Ex. Board, T. H. Painter, M. G.
Huffman, C. V. Woods.
DtfEST iflRGINIH.
MINISTER. W. J. Stone.
LICENTIATE. Gilbert Wilson.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., W. J. Stone; Sec., D. N. Meredith; Treas.,
B. B. Johnson ; Ex. Com., W. J. Stone, John A. Stuart, J. B. Ramsey.

TIUCT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., AV. J. Stone; VicePres., E. B. Hofl; Sec.

and Treats., Nelia M. Stone; State Agent, S. F. Reader; Directors: Dist. No. 1,
John A. Stuart; So. 2, C. B. Rule; No. 3, James Conoly; No. 4, A. A. Mere
dith; No. 5, D. X. Meredith; No. 0, I). Haddix; No. 7, E. W. Metcalf.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard: D. N. Meredith,
Pres.; A. A. Mircclith, Vice-Pres.; M. L. Meredith, Sec. and Treas.; J. F. Meade;
E. B. Hoffi.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., W. J. Stone; Sec.,
Mrs. M. M. Reeder.

WISCONSIN.
MINISTERS. - A. J. Breed, P. H. Cady, AV. W. Sharp, I. Sanl.orn, F. H..
Westphal, H. E. Johnson, S. S. Smith, J, C." Mikkclsen, C. W. Olds, T. B. Snow.
LICENTIATES. ,1. W. "Wertphal, ]-!. J. Cady. A. CurU-tianscn, Cha. A, Smith,
E. W. Webster, 11 J. \Vhit-, Paul E. (iros.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. J'/v-s.. A. J. Breed: ,S>,'., M. P. Cady; Treas.,
M. J. Bartholf; Ef. Corn., A. J. Breed. P. It. Cady, AV. AV. Sharp, H. R". Johnson.
Alex. Paton; Camp-meeting Com., Alex. Paton, T. B. Snow, Win. Sanders, 0.
Burr, H. II. Fisher.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. J'res., A. J. Breed; f'icc-Pres., P. H. Cady; Sec.
and Treas., S. D. Hart well; State Agent, C. AV. Olds; Directors: Dist. No. 1, J. C.
Mikkelsen; No. 2, J. AV. Westphal; No. 3, AV. S. Hyatt: No. 4, G. AV. Sheldon;
No. 5, H. H. Fisher; No. 6, Win. Sanders; No. 7, B. J. Cady; No. 9, E. J. Rice;
No. 10, Andrew Christiansen.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Hoard: AV. AV. Sharp, Pres.;
B. M. Shull, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. Mary T. Westphal, Sec. and Treas.; AV. II. Thurston;
B. J. Cady.
HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., AV. AV. Sharp; Sec.
and Treax., Mary T. Westphal.

FOREIGN CONFERENCES.
HUSTRKLIH.
MINISTERS. G. C. Tenney, M. C. Israel, Will D. Curtis.
LICENTIATES. W. L. E. Baker, A. Stewart, G. Foster, D. Steed, S.
* McCullagh.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pro,., G. C. Tenney; Sec., S. McCullagh; Treas.,
Echo Publishing House ; Ex. Com., M. C. Israel, Will D. Curtis, G. Foster,
Wm. Bell.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICEBS. : Pres., M. C. Israel; Vice-Pres., G. C. Teuney;
Sec., Josie L. Baker; Directors: Dist. No. 1, J. H. StocUton; No. 2, C. Davey;
No. 8, D. Steed; No. 4, Whoever takes charge of the Sidney Mission.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Board: W. L. H. Baker,
Pres.; Henry Scott, Vice-Pres.; D. Lacey, Sec.; C. Davey; C. Foster.
CENTRHL. EUROPE.
[Umbraoing Russia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, France,
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Servia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.]

MINISTERS. L. R. Conradi, H. P. Holser, Albert Vuilleumier, J. D. Comte,

James Erzenberger, Conrad Laubhan, J. H. Waggoner, J. S. Shrock.
LICENTIATE. August Kunz.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., H. P. Holser; Sec., Joseph Curdy; Treas.,
3. E. Dietschy; Ex. Com., H. P. Holser, L. R. Conradi, James Erzenberger,
Pierre Schild, J. D. Comte.
TKACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., L. R. Conradi; Vice-Pres., Oscar Roth;
See. and Treas., Elise Vuilleumier; Ayst. Secretaries, French, Jules Robert; Ger
man, Emil Frauchiger; Directors: Germany, L. R. Conradi; Switzerland, James
Erzenberger; France, J. D. Comte; Italy, J. D. Geymet; Russia, Courad
T.anbban.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Board: E. W. Whitney,
Pres.; J. Vuilleumier, Vice-Pres.; E. H. Whitney, See. and Treas.; Joseph
Curdy, Asst. Sec., French; Emil Frauchiger, Asst. Sec., German, L. R. Conradi;
James Erzenberger.
NORMHY.
MINISTERS. N. Clausen, K. Brorsen, Lewis Johnson.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., L. Johnson; See., N. Clausen; Treas.,
Mary Heilesen; Ex. Com., L. Johnson, H. Steen, C. J. Syvertsen.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., L. Johnson; Sec. and Treas., Mary
Heilesen; IKreetor, H. Steen.
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SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Fx. Board: L. Johnson, Pres.;
G. O. Melin, Sec. and Treas.; H. Steen; C. C. Hansen; O. Johnson.
DENMHRK.
MINISTERS.E. G. Olsen, J. F. Hausen, J. P. Hansen, K. Kristensen.
LICENTIATES.C. C. Harisen, J. C. Otteseu.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS. Pres., O. A. Olscu; Sec., J. C. Ottesen; Treas.,
C. C. Hansen; Ex. Cam., O. A. Olsen, K. Brorsen, C. C. Hansen.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., O. A. Olsen; Sec. and Treas., Mary
Heilesen; Director, C. C. Hausen.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS.c. L'unni: O. A. 01-en, Pres.;
G. O. Meliu, Sec. and Trftx.; II. Steen; C. C. Hansen; O. Johnson.
SlsiEDEN.
MINISTERS.J. M. Erickson, O. Johnson.
CONFERENCE OFFICERS:Pres., 0. A. Olsen; Sec. and Treas., K. Sandberg;
Ex. Com., O. A. Olseu, 0. Johnson, J. M. Erickson, K. Fernstrom, E. G. Larsen.
TRACT SOCIETY OFFICERS. Pres., 0. A. Olsen; Sec. and Treas., Mary
Heilesen; Director, O. Johnson.
SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. Ex. Board : O. A. Olsen, Pres.;
G. O. Melin, Sec. and Treas.; H. Steen; C. C. Hansen; O. Johnson.

MISSION FIELDS.

H3VTERICHN.

FOREIGN.

ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.

GREAT BRITAIN.

MINISTER. Oscar Hill.

LICENTIATE. Mrs. Ruie Hill.
STATE AGENT. Daniel Graber.

MINISTERS. S. N. Haskell, D. A.
Robinson, E. W. Whitney, A. A. John.
LICENTIATES. A. Smith, Geo. R.
Drew.
MISSION BOARD. S. N. Haskell, D.
A. Robinson, J. H. Durland.

DEL AWAKE AND MARYLAND.

MINISTER. D. E. Lindsey.
LICENTJATE. D. C. Babcock.
STATE AGENT, M, W, Lewis.

CHINA AXD

JAPAN.

LICENTIATE. A. La Rue.
DISTRICT

OF COLUMBIA.

MINISTER. W. H. Saxby.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA.

MINISTERS. N. Orcutt, I. E. Kimball, L. H. Crisler, M. G. Huffman.

LICENTIATE. Arthur Hunt.
STATE AGENT. Chas. P. Curtis.

LOUISIANA.
MINISTER. B. F. Purdham.
STATE AGENT. A. F. Harrison.
NORTH

NEW ZEALAND.

MINISTERS. A. G. Daniells, Robert

Hare.
MISSION BOARD. A. G. Daniells;
other members to be elected by the
churches at Auckland and Kaeo.
PACIFIC ISLANDS.
MINISTER.A. J. Cudney.
LICENTIATE. John 1. Tay.
MISSIONARY SHIP.John I. Tay,
Treas. and Financial Manager.

CAROLINA.

MINISTERS. J. W. Bagby, 8. H.
Kime.
LINCBNTIATES. Vfm. M. Baird, N.
B. England.
STATE AGENT. C. D. Wolf.

SOUTH AFRICA.

MINISTERS. C. L. Boyd, Ira J.

Hankins.
MISSION BOARD.C. L. Boyd, I. J.
Hankins, P. W. B. Wessels.
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PUBLISHING HOUSeS.
CGNTRKL S. D. H. PUBLISHING KSSOCIHTION.
(REMieitf HND H6RHLD.)
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.; 20,28 COLLEGE PI,AOK. CHICAGO, ILL.; TORONTO. OXT.
[Sir iw/es 10'J-lOo.]
TRUSTEES. Geo. I. Butler. V. Smith, A. 1!. lk-.:n. Mansion Lindsay, C. Eldridge, II. W. Kellogg, F. E. Beldeu.
OFFICERS. Pres., Geo. I. Butler; Yicc-Pres. and Gen. Jl'utayer, C. Eldridsrc;
Sec., F. E. Beldeu; Treas., A. E. Henry; Auditor, H. W. Kellogg.
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. G. I. Butler. U. Smith, F. E. Belden.
EDITORS. Editor Rn-ievi and Herithl, U. Smith; Assistant Editor, L. A.
Smith; Editorial Contributors, G. I. Butler. S. N. Haskcll, G. C. Tenney. Editors
Youth?f Instructor. Mrs. M. J. Chapman, Miss Wiunie E. Loughhorough. Editor
Tiilentle (Danish), J. G. Mattesou; Editorial Contributors, O. A. O'.sen, L. John
son, N. Clausen. Editor Hanlden (Swedish). A. Swcdberg; Assistant Editor,
Emil Johnson; Editorial Contributors, J. G. Matteson, 0. A. Olsen. Editors
K'undhedsvennen (Danish Health Journal) and Helsovdntien (Swedish Health
Journal), J. H. Kellogg, J. G. Matteson. Editor Harold der Wahrheil (German),
J. II. Waggoner; Assistant'EGitors (for America), T. Valentiuer; (lor Europe),
A. Kunz; Editorial Contributors, L. R. Conradi, J. Erzenberger, U. Smith.
Editorial Committee Bijbel Le-.er (Dutch), John Kolvoord, G. W. Ama<n.ou,
M. J. Van der Sehuur.

PHCIFIC PR6SS PUBLISHING COOTPKNV,

OAKLAND, CAL. ; 18 POST ST., SAX FRANCISCO, CAL. ; 43 BOXD ST., NEW YORK.
[See jxvjfn 106-110.]
DIKECTOKS. S. N. Haskell, C. H. Jones, J. N. Loughborough, Wm. Sauuders, W. C. White, Joseph Leininger, M. J. Church.
OFFICERS. Frcs., C. H. Jones; Tia-Pres., Wm. Saund.Ts; Sec., S. C.
Stickney; Treas., E. A. Chapman; Auditor, Geo. H. Heald.

PUBLISHING COMMITTEE.E. J. Waggoner, W. C. White. C. H. Jones.

EDITORS.Editors Kupts of tJu> Times, E. J. Waggoner, A. T. Jones; Corre
sponding Editors, S. N. Haskell, J. H. Waggoner, M. C. Wilcox, G. C. Tenney.
Editors American Sentinel, E. J. Waggoner, A. T. Jones; Corresponding Editors,
J. H. Waggoner, E. W. Farnsworth, Dan. T. Jones. Editors Pacific Health Jour
nal, 3. N. Loughborough, J. E. Caldwell, M. D., C. P. Bollman. Chairman of
Editorial Committee for tie Sabbath-School Worker, C. H. Jones.
[401

ViOVJStS.
CENTRHL EUROPEAN PUBLISHING HOUSE,
BASEL, SWITZERLAND.
[See pages 111-113.]
MANAGING BOARD. H. P. Holser, J. H. Waggoner, E. W. Whitney, L. R.
Conradi, J. Erzenberger.
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. J. H. Waggoner, H. P. Holser, L. R. Conradi,
A. Kunz, J. Vuilleumier.
SCHNDINHinHN PUBLISHING HOUSE.
CHRISTIANA, NORWAY.
[See pages 111-113.]
MANAGING BOARD. 0. A. Olsen, N. Clausen, E. G. Olsen, H. Steen, 0. J.
Olsen, Jacob Hansen, J. Syvertsen.
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. O. A. Olsen, Lewis Johnson, N. Clausen, C.
Melin, J. M. Erickson.
BRITISH PUBLISHING HOUSE,
LONDON, ENGLAND.
[See pages 111-113.']
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. S. N. Ha ell, D. A. Robinson, A. Smith.
SUSTRHLIKN PUBLISHING HOUSE,
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.
[See pages 111-113.]
PUBLISHING BOARD. G. C. Tenney, M. C. Israel, W. D. Curtis.
reported; new organization being effected. )

(As last

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
SEMENTH-DHY HDJZENTIST EDUCHTIONHL SOCIETY.
(BHTTLJE CREEK COLLEGE.)
BATTLE CREEK, Mien.
[See pages 114-116.]
DIBECTOKS. Geo. I. Butler, 1). Smith, W W. Prescott. W. C. Sislcy, A. R,
Henry, J. H. Kellogg, C. Eldridge.
OFFICERS. I'res., Geo. I. Butler; Vice-Pres., U. Smith; Sec., W. W. Pres
cott; Treats., A. R. Henry; Auditor, C. Eldridge.
FACULTY. Pres., "William W. Prescott; Uriah Smith, Biblical Exegesis
and Ecclesiastical History ; Eli B. Miller, Biblical History and Literature; Joseph
H. Haughey, Mathematics; Alb?rt W. Kelley, Natural Sciences; Emory D.
Kirby, Greek and Latin Languages; William II. McKee, English Language and
Literature; James W. Loughhead, Geography and History; Mrs. Sarah F. Pres
cott, German; Mrs. A. Kirby, Draining and Elocution; Mrs. E. B. Miller, Assistant
in English Language; August Swedberg, Swedish Language; Edwin E. Barnes,
Vocal and Instrumental Music; Ida E. Rankin, Preceptress ; Effie M. Rankin,
Matron of Students' Home. Industrial Department : Benjamin H. Welch, Print
ing ; Burton O. Carr, Carpentry ; William Kennedy, Tent-making ; H. Belle
Prescott, Cooking.
HEHLDSBURG COLLEGE.
HEALDSBURG, CAL.
[See pages 117-119.]
TRUSTEES. W. C. White, J. N. Loughboroiigh, John Morrison, W. C.
Grainger, Joseph Leininger, N. C. Me Clure, E. J. Waggoner.
OFFICERS. fres., WT. C. White; Sec., W. C. Grainger; Treas., Joseph
Leininger.
FACULTY. Pres., W. C. Grainger, Mental Science and Logic ; E. J. Waggoner,
Biblical Exegesis ; Geo. W. Rine, English Literature and Latin ; Henry F. Courter,
Mathematics and Vocal Music; John E. Caldwell, Natural Science and Greek;
Roderick S. Owen, Bible History ; E. R. James, Geography and History ; Mrs.
E. J. Hutchinson, Elocution; N. C. Me Clure, Bible Heading and Home Missionary
Work; Anna L. Ingels, Correspondence and Tract Society Work; Mrs. Lizzie
W. Grainger, Primary Department ; Mrs. E. R. James, Instrumental Music ; Mrs.
M. A. Comstock, Drawing and Painting; Mrs. Mary A. Thorp, Mrs. Man- A.
Clement, Matrons of Students' Home; '/,. Thorp, Steward.
SOUTH LHNCKST6R
SOUTH LANCASTER, MASS.
[See pages l:>0-122.]
TRUSTEES. S. N. Haskell, W. W. Preseott, G. W. Caviness, A. T. Robinsou, C. W. Comings, E. P. Farnsworth, W. B. Mason.

FACULTY. Principal, Geo. W. Caviuess, Greek, Latin, and Bible Doctrines;

Charles B. Clark, Ancient and Biblical History; Preceptress, Mrs. Sara J. Hall,
English and German Languages ; Ella Evans, Natural Science and Didactics; Mrs.
G. W. Caviness, Mathematics; Ella M. Graham, V. S. History, and Assistant in
English Language; Carrie F. Ramsey, Geography, and Assistant in Mathematics;
Hattie 0. Warren, Primary Department; Mrs. C. B. Clark, Matron of Students'
Home.

PREPHRHTORY SCHOOLS.
[See pages 122,123.]

EAST PORTLAND, OREGON. Principal, Thomas H. Starbuck ; Assistants,

Carrie E. Mills, Frank S. Bunch.
MILTON, OREGON. Principal, G. W. Coleord; Assistants, Mrs. G. W. Colcord, F. S Hafford, I. A. Dunlap, Cora Peabody.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Principal, -Charles C. Lewis; Assistants, Sarah E.
Peck, Elsie M. Westphal, Myrtle G. Griffis.
BATTLE CREEK, Mien. Principal, William E. A. Aul ; Assistants, Fred A.
Howe, Mrs. Hattie M. Biser, Ella King.
OTTAWA, KAN.Principal, L. J. Rousseau; Assixtant, Mrs. L. J. Rousseau.

HEHLTH INSTITUTIONS.
KND SURGICHL SHNITHRIUM,
BATTLE CREEK, MICII.
[See /.</ m-12K.]
DIRECTORS. J. II. Kellogg, J. Fargo, W. II. Hal), G. H. Murphy, A. R,
Henry, I. D. Van Horn, Mrs. L. M. HalL
OFFICERS. Prcs., J. H. Kcllosg; Vice-Pres., J. Fargo; Sec., W. H. Hall;
Treas., G. H. Murphy; Auditor, A. R. Henry; Matron, Mrs. L. M. Hal).
MEDICAL FACULTY. Surgeon and Physician in Chief, J. H. Kellotrg, M. D.;
0. G. Place, M. D.; W. H. Rdey, M. IX; H. D. Dunlap, M. D.; Kate M. Lindsay, M. D.; Anna H. Stewart, M. D.; L. J. Belkuap, M. D.
SANITARIUM IMPROVEMENT

COMPANY.

DIRECTORS. fres., J. Fargo; Vicc-Pm., J. H. Kellogg; Sec., G. H.

Murphy; Treas., W. II. Hall; Auditor, A. R. Henry.
RURKL HEHLTH RETREHT,
ST. HELEXA, CAL.
[Nee pages i'14-127.]
TKTJSTEES.J. N. Loughborough, W. C. White, John Fulton, \V. A. Pratt,
A. B. Atwood, Wm. Saundc-rs, M. J. Church.
OFFICERS. I'm., J. N. Loughborough; Sec. and Supt., John Fulton;
Treas., W. A. Pratt; Matron, Mrs. A. M. Loughborough; Housekeeper, Mrs.
John Fulton.
MEDICAL FACULTY.J. S. Gihhs, M. D.; M. G. Kellogg, M. D.
MOUNT VERNON SKNITKRIUM,
MOUNT \7EKNON, OHIO.
[Sec pfiges 124-128.]
DIRECTORS. R. A. Underwood, W. II. Gilmore, G. A. Irwin, H. M. Mitchell,
B. B. Francis, J. S. Maxson, J. E. Swift, J. D. Rice, G. A. Hare, S. Lafferty,
A. L. Carey.
OFFICERS. Pros,, R. A. Underwood; Vice-Pres., G. A. Hare; Sec., Geo. A.
Irwin; Treas. and Business Manager, W. H. Gilmore; Matron, Mrs. M. A.
Burt.
MEDICAL FACULTY. Supt., G. A. Hare, M. D.; J. S. Maxsou, M. D.; Mrs.
Jessie D. Hare, M. D.
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GENERHL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION.
HELD

AT

MINNEAPOLIS, MIXX., OCT. 17 TO XOV. 4, AXI> AT BATTLE

CREEK, MICE., XOV. 8, 1888.*

fi. If. Haskell, Presiding Officer; U. Smith, Sa-retunj.

THE President, Geo. I. Butler, being absent ou account of illness, the Secretary,
U. Smith, called the meeting to order, and S. N. Haskell was chosen as presiding
officer for the session. After appropriate introductory remarks by the Chair,
with reference to the loss sustained by the Conference through the absence of the
President, prayer was offered by the Secretary, followed bv the presentation of
credentials from the
DELEGATES.
California, W. C. White, S. N. Has
kell, A. T. Jones, C. II. Jones,
E. J. AVaggoner.
Colorado. E. II. Gates, C. P. Haskell.
Dakota. W. B. White. N. P. Nelson,
Valentine Leer.
Illinois. Geo. B. Starr, A. 0. Tait.
Indiana. Win. Covert, Victor Thomp
son, B. F. Purdham, R. B. Craig.
Iowa. J. H. Morrison, C. A. Washburn, H. Nicola, W. E. Smith,
II. K. Johnson, W. H. Wakeham.
Kansas. C. A. Hall, J. W. Bagby,
L. J. Rousseau, C'. C. Me Reynolds,
N. P. Dixon, S. S. Shrock," C. H.
Parsons.
Kentucky. C. W. Flaiz.
Maine. J. B. Goodrich.
Michigan. I. D. Van Horn, J. Fargo,
G. G. Rupert, H. \V. Miller, Harmon Lindsay, M. B. Miller, J. N.
Brant, C. Eldridge, H. S. Lay,
Wm. Ostrander, F. D. Starr, W.
W. Prescott, W. H. Hall.
Minnesota. A. D. Olsen, L. Johnson,
H. Grant, C. C. Lewis, Alien
Moon, F. L. Mead.
Mumouri. D. T. Jones, J. W. Watt, J.
B. Becker.
Nebraska,.3. P. Gardiner, W. C.
Boynton, W. N. Hyatt.

^Yew Enyland. A. T. Robinson, E.

E. Miles.
S~eu> York. M. H. Brown, M. C.
Wileox.
Xorih raaiit. 'f. H. Starbuck, J. E.

Graham.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. ~ J.

G. Matteson.
Tennessee. J. M. Rees.
Texas. T. T. Stevenson.
Upjier Columbia. H. W. Decker.
Vermont. T. II. Pardon.
Virginia.'R. D. Hottel.
West Virginia. W. J. Stone.
Wisconsin. A. J. Breed, W. W. Sharp,
W. S. Hyatt, B. M. Shall, P. H.
Cady, F. H. Westphal.
Central, Eai'ojie. -L. R. Conradi.
Great Jir/ia'ui. S. N. Iliiskell.
Louisiana and Central America. T.
II. Gibbs.
Nouth America. G. G. Rupert.
General Conference Laborers. A. R.
Henry. R. M. Kilgore, U. Smith,
J. F. Hansen. D. E. Lindscy,
E. W. Farnsworth, D. T. Bourdeau, W. H. Edwards, F. E.
Belden, S. H. Lane, 0. C. Godsmark, C. W. Olds.

*For convenient reference, the business of the session has been classified, instead of
preserving the daily order. Generally, however, the date of adoption follows each item.
All motions, resolutions, and reports appear in the form in which they were finally
adopted, amended passages being either explained in brackets or indicated by italics.
So "dead" business appears anywhere in this book. Adopted items which did not
originate with the committee in whose report they appear, are placed there for the sake
of classification. The origin of such is given, if known,
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CONFERENCES ADMITTED.
ARKANSAS.

Organized May 21, 1888. Ten churches, 226 members.

given by Dan. T. Jones and J. P. Henderson. [Oct. 17.]

Historical sketch

AUSTRALIA.

Organized September, 1888. Five churches. 260 members.

correspondence. [Oct. 17.]
SPECIAL COMMITTEE,
TO ADVISE RELATIVE TO APPOINTMENT OF

Reported by

ADDITIONAL DELEGATES.

W. C. White, A. T. "Robinson, and Dan. T. Jones constituted tins committee,

who subsequently reported as follows :
Your committee find by examination of the General Conference Constitution,
that " the Conference shall be composed of delegates from the State Conferences,
of the officers of the Conference, and of such ministers as shall have been in the
employ of the General Conference during any part of the year.'' Also that
'such delegates may be selected by the [State] Conference, or appointed by its ex
ecutive committee.'' And we find no provision in the Constitution for the recep
tion of delegates not holding' credentials.
] We therefore rejtort that it is the opinion of yonr committee that the
Conference cannot legally receive delegates not authorized by the Constitution.
And wJiereas, persons properly chosen to represent Conferences and mission
fields, sometimes come to the Conference without credentials in regular form,
g. We therefore recommend that a committee be appointed at the beginning
of each Conference, to whom all such cases shall be referred. It shall be the duty
of this committee to examine the claims of all such applicants, and recommend
for seats in the Conference all such as in its judgment are entitled to the same.
3. We further recommend that this committee shall select from the delegates
at large, persons specially to represent those fields that are not represented by
delegates of their own election. [Oct. IS.]
The General Conference Committee subsequently adopted the following
rule :
4. Resolved, That the General Conference Committee shall issue credentials
at least one month before the opening of the General Conference, to such laborers
in the general field as, in their judgment, should attend the General Conference,
to represent their respective fields at the expense of the General Conference, and
that those coming without credentials shall come at their own expense. [Nov. 24.]
COMMITTEES FOR THE SESSION.
(Appointed &?/ the Chair.)
ON CREDENTIALS OF DELEGATES. I. D. Van Horn, H. Grant, P. H. Cady.
ON NOMINATIONS. J. Fargo, Dan. T. Jones, J. B. Goodrich.
ON RESOLUTIONS. R. A. Underwood, A. T. Robinson, L. R. Conradi, E. J.
Waggoner, E. H. Gates.
ON CREDENTIALS OF MINISTERS. R. M. Kilgore, I. D. Van Horn, H. Nicola.
ON DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR. To act with the General Conference Com
mittee, E. W. Farnsworth, A. J. Breed, Lewis Johnson, G. G. Rupert,
C. H. Jones.
ON AUDITING. To act with the General Conference Committee, A. R. Henry.
C. Eldridge, J. W. Raymond, J. Fargo, H. W. Miller, A. T. Robinson.
ON FINANCES. To act with the presidents of Conferences who are present, C.
H. Jones, Harmon Lindsay, A. R. Henry, C. Eldridge, A. T. Jones.
ON ORDER OF EXERCISES. R. M. Kilgore. R. A. Underwood, J. B. Goodrich.

COUrtrVLUCt PROCttOWGS.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
MISSIONARY-SHIP COMMITTEE TOR 1888.

Members of committee: C. Eldridge, C. H. Jones, J. N. Loughborough,

W. C. Sisley, A. T. Robinson, who reported as follows :
Your committee appointed to take into consideration the matter of securing a
ship to be used for missionary purposes, after thorough investigation on the
Atlantic coast, find that a vessel of 100 tons, Government measurement, built of
white oak, with a cabin to accommodate sixteen passengers, thoroughly equipped
and ready for sea, will cost between $8,000 and $9,000. Second-hand vessels of
from 40 to 100 tons, and from three to five years old, could be purchased at from
$2,000 to $6,000. We find that on the Pacific coast a vessel of 75 tons, Govern
ment measurement, built of Oregon pine, fully equipped and ready for service,
will cost about $8,000. With steam auxiliary, the vessel will cost about $15,000.
The cabin of this ship would accommodate fifteen persons.
Further than this, your committee learn that Eld. A. J. Cudney, who was in
structed by the General Conference Committee to proceed with Bro. J. I. Tay to
Pitcairn Island as soon as possible, after seeking in vain to secure passage direct
from San Francisco, sailed to Honolulu, from whence, after laboring a short time
with the church in that place, he expected to sail to Tahiti, there to meet Bro.
Tay, who was to sail direct from San Francisco, at the first opportunity, from
whence they hoped to find passage to Pitcairn Island. On reaching Honolulu,
and finding no means of transport, Eld. C'udncy accepted the offer of Bro. N. F.
Burgess, who proposed to purchase a schooner, then offered at forced sale, if Eld.
Cudney would fit it up, man it, and use it in the missionary work, among the
islands of the Pacific. This schooner is 45 tons' burden, capable of accommo
dating ten persons besides the crew, and costs only $1,100. Bro. Burgess makes
no charge for the use of the vessel on this trip, and if desired, will sell it to the
Conference for what it cost him. The cost of fitting up this schooner was about
$900, which is to be returned to the Conference, if the vessel is sold to other
parties.
Eld. Cudney secured a crew, consisting of a captain, a mate, two sailors, and
a steward, and July 31 started for Pitcairn, intending to proceed first to Tahiti,
to take on board Bro. Tay, who sailed from San Francisco, July 5. We hope
soon to hear of their safe arrival at Pitcairu Island. In view of these facts,
] . We recommend that, if this vessel, after thorough examination, is found
to be sound, and well adapted to our needs, it be purchased, according to the
liberal offer of Bro. Burgess, and used till the work demands a larger one.
[Oct. 19.]
2. Jtesolved, That the General Conference express its appreciation of the
generous act of Bro. N. F. Burgess, of Honolulu, in providing the missionary
ship for E]d. Cudney to go to the islands of the Pacific ; and we pray the
blessing of God upon him and his, and upon the ship and her crew, and that she
may have a prosperous voyage throughout. [A. T. Jones, Oct. 31.]
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
This committee, consisting of R. A. Underwood, A. T. Robinson, L. R.
Conradi, E. J. Waggoner, and E. H. Gates, reported during the session as
follows :
INTRODUCTORY.

Gratitude to God for Prosperity.

Whereas, The Lord in his mercy has gone before us during the past year, di
recting and aiding in the establishment of new missions in distant parts of the
world, and also blessing and advancing the work in those already established;
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1. Resolved, That we herewith express anew our gratitude for God's goodness,
and our confidence and faith in the third angel's message, and that we pledge
ourselves to support and further its dissemination in whatever way Providence
directs, whether it be in the starting of new missions, or the advancing of the
work in those missions already established. [Oct. 23. J
-,...'..
Ayymialion and Sympathy.
Whereas, Our much esteemed brother, Kid. Geo. I. Butler, who has occupied
the position of President of the General Conference for many vears, and borne
other heavy burdens in connection with the cause, now feels compelled, on ac
count of failing health, to lay off these heavy responsibilities; therefore.
2. Resolved, That we express our appreciation of his faithful labors in the
past, and our heart-felt sympathy with him in his present affliction, and hope and
pray that he may lie raised up To his former health, and Vie spared to the cause which
needs his counsel, gained by valuable experience. [After adoption by the dele
gates, this resolution was unanimously indorsed by a rising vote of the congrega
tion. Oct. 31.]
(Ill K< II WORK.

Instruction Xwded lj Ministers and People.

Whereas. There has been a lack of instruction to church officers, and a conse
quent failure in our churches on the point of proper discipline, and a lowering of
the standard of membership ; therefore,
S. Resolved, That we urge the officers of the various State Conferences to
provide at camp-ineetings and all general meetings, instruction on what the
Bible teaches as to church discipline', and on the duties of church officers and
members; that all young ministers may be fully instructed on these subjects bcfore being 'sent out to teach; and thnt it be considered the duty of ministers to
give to companies abo"ut to be organized, thorough instruction on the duties
which, according to the Scriptures, the members owe to one another. [Motion
to refer back was lost.]
"
'
Monthly Counsel Meetitujs.
Whereas, Many souls are lost to the cause of God for lack of proper encour
agement, exhortation, or reproof from those whose duty it is to look after the
flock ; therefore,
4. Resolved, That we strenuously urge the officers of every church, and of the
Sabbath-school, and the missionary society connected therewith, to meet to
gether for prayer and counsel, as often as once a month; and that proper steps
be taken by the officers to ascertain the standing, both spiritual and temporal, of
every member, so that assistance may be rendered when necessary. [Oct. 33.]
HEALTH AND TEMPEKANCK.

Prohibition.
Whereat, We recognize .temperance as one of the Christian graces; therefore,
"
5. Resolved, That we heartily indorse the principles of the American Health
and Temperance Association, in protesting against the manufacture and sale of
all spirituous and malt liquors, and in discarding the use of tea, coffee, opium,
and tobacco, and that we urge upon all people the importance of these principles.
[Motion to add the words as beverages, after the word liquors, was lost.]
Without Jieliyious Legislation.
6. Resolved, That while we pledge ourselves to labor earnestly and zealously
for the prohibition of the liquor traffic, we hereby utter an earnest protest against
connecting with the temperance movement any legislation which discriminates

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in favor of any religious class or institution, or which tends to the infringement

of anybody's religious liberty; and that we cannot sustain or encourage any tem
perance party or any other organization which indorses or favors such legislation.
[Oct. 23.]
Missionary Nurses.
Whereas, Kind nursing and the alleviation of pain by the wise use of simple
remedies, is one of the surest ways of reaching the hearts of people; therefore,
7. Resolved, That we recognize the fact that a wide and promising missionary
field is open before trained nurses who have a knowledge of Bible truth, together
with tact and consecration; and further,
Sanitarium, Training-School for Nurses.
8. Resolved, That, recognizing the good work which the Medical and Surgical
Sanitarium is doing in its training-school for nurses, we recommend that the offi
cers of the various Conferences seek out suitable young persons, and encourage
them to attend the Sanitarium Training-school, in order to fit themselves for this
branch of missionary work. [Oct. 28.]
Study Recommended.
Whereas, The principles of health and temperance reform are an important
and essential part of the third angel's message; and,
Whereas, The Health and Temperance Association is engaged in active efforts
to promulgate these principles; therefore,
9. Resolved, That we hereby urge upon all our people the duty of becoming
intelligent upon these subjects, by the careful reading of the "Testimonies " and
other literature, and of putting into practice the principles taught: and,
Co-operation Desired.
10. Resolved, That we encourage the organization of health and temperance
societies, and urge our people to join them and to co-operate with the efforts
made to advance this branch of present truth. [Oct. 31.]
NATIONAL REFORM.

Circulate the American Sentinel.

Whereas, We see in the fast-increasing strength and influence of the National
Reform Party, a menace to le-igious freedom in this country, and also a proof of
the correctness of our positions; and,
Whereas, Many .ire not aware of the results which will follow when this party
stall secure its aims; therefore,
11 > Resolved, That we will awake to the importance of this question, and will
put forth greater exertion to scatter ihe light 01 Bible truth upon it, by circulat
ing the American- Sentinel, and other literature of a similar nature; further,
Huty to Become Informed.
12. Resolved, That we believe it to be the solemn duty of our ministers and
laborers to qualify themselves to present the correct views of the relationship be
tween religion and the State, in their labors everywhere. [Oct. 24,]
A New Book on Religion and the State.
Whereas, Many have not the books of reference necessary to obtain full
information on the subject of National Reform; and,
Whereas, We deem the instruction given on this subject by Eld. A. T. Jones
very iir portant; therefore,

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13* Resolved, That we request that the same, or the principal part of it, be
furnished in pamphlet form.*' [Oct. 24.]
I'liluu of Church and State.

The substance of the following preamble and resolution (14) was introduced
by E. J. Waggoner in behalf of the California delegation; said resolution having
been adopted at the last session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, together with a request to the General Conference that the committee
referred to in Resolution ] 5 be appointed.
Whereas, The Blair Amendment to the National Constitution, dated May 25,
1888, and entitled. "A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Consti
tution of the United States, respecting establishments of religion and free public
schools; " and also the accompanying national Sunday bill, dated May '21, 1.888,
and entitled, " A bill to secure to the people the enjoyment of the first day of the
week, commonly known as the Lord's day, as a day of rest, and to promote its
observance as a day of religious worship,'' arc opposed to the common interests
of humanity, and the freedom of religious worship intended to be guaranteed to
the citizens of this great republic by its founders and defenders; therefore,
11. Resolved, That the adoption of said bills would mark a broad and distinct
advancement toward the union of church and state.
Ijdetjalion to Senate Committee.

15. Resolved, That this Conference appoint a delegation of three, of which

A. T. Jones shall be one, to appear before the Senate Committee on Education
and Labor, at the next session of Congress, and in the interests of religious liberty,
to use every reasonable effort to secure the defeat of the Blair bill. [Oct. 31.]
S. N. Haskell and E. W. Farnsworth were subsequently appointed by the Gen
eral Conference Committee, as the two remaining members of the delegation
called for in the resolution.}
Work for Qualified Speakers,

The General Conference Committee subsequently took the following action on

this question:
16. Resolved, That we recommend the Conference Committee of the different
States to select from among their ministers those best suited for the work, and
encourage them to become thoroughly informed regarding the true principles of
civil government as relating to the church, and the principles of the National Re
form movement now coming so prominently before the public; and that such
men be encouraged to go from city to city, and from town to town, exposing the
principles of the National Reform Association, and preaching the third angel's
message. [Nov. 30.]
THE PUBLISHING WORK.

American tranches.

Whereas, We believe that the work of the third angel's message should ever
be progressive, reaching out to and filling unoccupied fields; therefore,
IT. Resolved, That we heartily approve the action of the Pacific Press Pub
lishing Co., in establishing a branch office in New York, and also the proposal of
the Review and Herald Office to establish branch offices in Chicago, Toronto,
and other points. [Oct. 31.]
* This valuable work of 176 pages, entitled " Civil Government and Religion," has
just been issued. Price, So cents. Sold by all tract societies. See page 22.
t A full and interesting report of the argument, questions, and answers pertaining to
the hearing before the Senate Committee, will soon be issued in pamphlet form, entitled
" The National Sunday Law." Price, 25 cents.

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London Branch.
Whereas, Books and tracts published in America, besides being more expensive,
do not meet with the favor in England and the British colonies that the same pub
lications would if they were published in England; and,
Whereas, The British Mission is not prepared to assume the burden of gen
eral publishing; therefore,
18. Resolved, That we recommend the immediate establishment by the Re
view and Herald Office of a branch office in London, in order to relieve the
British Mission of the burden of publishing books and tracts, and to facilitate
their general circulation.* [Oct. 31.]
French and German Periodicals.
Whereas, The experience of the past year has demonstrated that our pub
lications can successfully be sold in the Central European field; and,
Whereas, We find that the present subscription price for our French and
German periodicals is above the reach of many of the common people in Central
Europe; and,
Whereas, The circulation depends greatly on the tract societies; therefore,
19. Resolved, That these papers be only eight-page semi-monthlies, and the
price be lowered accordingly, thus securing a larger circulation, and giving more
time for the preparation of books and tracts.f [Nov. 1.]
General Conference Daily Bulletin.
Whereas, A daily Bulletin of the proceedings of the General Conference is now
felt by the delegates to be a necessity; and,
Whereas, There are thousands of our people who cannot attend General Con
ference, who anxiously desire to know what is done from day to day, and who
desire more full accounts than a secretary's report of the business transactions;
therefore,
20. Resolved, That it is the sense of this body that the General Conference
Daily Bulletin should be published at every session of the Conference; that it
should be of a size sufficient to admit the insertion not only of a full account of
all the business meetings, but also of an outline of the principal sermons preached,
and the general instruction given; and that early in each year the General Con
ference Committee choose an editor, and make all other necessary arrangements
for the Bidktin, so that the price may be published, and a subscription list
secured in advance. [Oct. 31.]
THE CANVASSING WORK.

21. Resolved, That we express our gratitude .to God for the success of the
canvassing work during the past year. [Oct. 81.]
Life-long Canvassers.
Whereas, We believe that the seeds of present truth must be sown beside all
waters; and,
Whereas, The canvassing work is one of the best means by which this may be
accomplished; therefore,
*The Review and Herald Board subsequently requested the Pacific Press Publishing
Co. to establish and conduct the publishing work in London, which they have decided
to do.
t The yearly subscription price for Les Signes des Temps and for the European edi
tion of Herald der Wahrheit is Fr. 3.50 (70 cents). The German paper for America has
also been reduced to eight pages, and the price established at 75 cents.

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22. Resolved, That we recommend our ministers everywhere to encourage

suitable persons to devote their lives to this branch of the Lord's work; and
further,
Knowledge of Canvassing Valuable to all Classes of Workers.
23* Resolved, That we recommend, as far as reasonable, a practical experience
in the canvassing field before persons are encouraged to enter the Bible work or
the ministry. [F. E. Bclden, Nov. 1.]
FOREIGN FIELDS.

To Be Visited Once in livery Two Years.

Whereas, The prosperity of our foreign missions depends very largely upon
the perfect understanding tvhieli our people have of their workings, as well as of
the understanding which the missionaries have of the plans that are devised for
them; therefore,
24. Resolved, That we deem it an actual necessity that some member of the
General Conference Board visit all the missions at least as often as once hi two
years; and further,
25. Resolved. That we request Eld. Geo. I. Butler to visit I he missions the
coming year, if it is agreeable to his wishes, and his health will permit; and
that if for any reason Eld. Butler cannot go, another member of the Committee
be chosen. [Nov. 2.]
Hamburg City Illusion.
Whereas, Hamburg is the most important sea-port on the continent of Europe,
the chief commercial city of the German empire, and one of the principal ports
of emigration; therefore,
26. Resolved, That it is the sense of this Conference that a ship and city
mission should be established there as soon as possible. [Oct. 31.]
Commute on Organization of Foreign Mission Board.
27. Resolved, That the Chair be authorized to appoint a committee to make
suggestions at the nest General Conference, respecting a better organization of
the Foreign Mission Board.
The following persons were named: S. N. Haskell, E. "\V. Famsworth, A. T.
Robinson, R. M. Kilgore, A. T. Jones, W. C. White, S. H. Lane. [Nov. 4.]
The following recommendations ('23-30) were made by the General Confer
ence Committee after the Conference adjourned:
Jurisdiction of the Central European Conference.
2S. That the Central European Conference embrace Russia, Austria, Germany,
Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Franco, Spain, Portugal, Italy. Servia, Bulgaria,
Turkey, and Greece, and we advise that all Seventh-day Adventist churches
raised up in these countries, be encouraged to unite with the Central European
Conference until such time as the prosperity of the cause warrants the organiza
tion of other Conferences. [Nov. 15.]
Foreign Conferences and Missions to Audit Accounts of their Laborers.
29. That the Conference Committee or Mission Board of each foreign field
audit all accounts of the laborers in their respective fields, fixing the time and
expense of all laborers, and setting the wages of all subordinate laborers, and sug
gesting the proper wages for the others; and that a complete abstract of their
work be forwarded 1o the General Conference Auditing Committee for examina
tion and approval, and to fix the wages of the principal laborers.
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SO. That "W. C. White, Dan. T. Jones, and W. H. Edwards present such a
plan for reporting as will enable the Committee to obtain a clear understanding
of what is being done in the various fields. [Nov. 24.]
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF FOREIGN LABORERS.
L. R. Couradi, C. Eldridge, J. F. Hansen, H. Shultz, and D. T. Bourdeau
constituted this committee, who reported as follows :
Yearly Institutes in America.
Your committee appointed to consider the educating of persons of foreign
nationalities for missionary work, find a great need in this direction, and would
recommend the following :
Whereas, The laborers for the Old Country, where the work is but just begun,
are principally supplied from the United States ; and,
Whereas, Laborers raised up in Europe are often obliged to leave their native
land on account of the military service ; and,
Whereas, Many fields in America have never been entered, and we are doing
but little for the multitudes that are continually streaming into our country;
and,
Whereas, The lack of missionary instruction in foreign languages has caused
many of the young people of different nationalities in this country to be educated
In the American mission for work among the Americans, whereby much talent is
lost to the foreign work; therefore,
1. Resolved, That institutes for the instruction of laborers in the foreign
languages be held from year to year in this country, those for he~c5mEg year
to be located as follows :
One for the Scandinavians in Chicago ; one for the Germans in Milwaukee ;
also that a French department be connected with the American mission in St.
Louis, as soon as suitable help can be secured.
it, Instruction, etc.
2. Resolved, That these institutes shall be under the supervision of the Gen
eral Conference Committee, and that the direct management of each should be
in the hands of a committee of five, of whom the president of the Conference in
which the institute is held, and the principal teacher, sent by the General Con
ference Committee, shall be members.
3. Resolved, That all persons applying for admission shall be recommended
by their respective Conference committees.
4. Besolved, That the following branches shall be taught: the Bible, mis
sionary work in general, canvassing, reading, grammar, and book-keeping.
5. Resolved, That the students pay for their board and lodging, and be per
mitted to have the profits from their canvassing; and,
61 We further recommend, That similar institutes be held in the different
missions of Europe.
Mission Schools in Europe.
7. We recommend, That whenever it is deemed necessary by the Mission
Board and the General Conference Committee to establish permanent schools in such
places as Christiana, London, and Basel, appropriations be made by the Committee,
from the mission funds, as may be necessary, to assist in securing rooms for
these schools, and teachers for those departments organized especially to educate
and train laborers for the various branches of mission work.

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Encourage Home Missionary Work among Foreigners.

Whereas, There are, in all parts of: our country, families and individuals capa
ble of doing missionary work for those speaking foreign languages, but who, ou
account of their isolation from others of their tongue, are doing little or nothing;
therefore,
Besolwd, That we recommend that an earnest effort be made by our minis
ters, Conference officers, and tract society officers, to search out all such, and put
them in communication with the Corresponding Secretary of the International
Tract Society, who shall, through her assistants and members of her class of for
eign secretaries, encourage them to engage in some branch of missionary work.
[Nov. 1.]
FUNDS FOR THE EDUCATION" OP FOKEJGN LA.BOKER3.

The committee appointed to consider this subject, L.- R. Conradi, T. H.

Gibbs, Geo. B. Starr, Lewis Johnson, D. T. Joues, presented the following
report:
Trained Workers Needed.
Your co. '-.Tiittee appointed to consider the matter of raising funds for the
education of pt; - ,^ns of foreign tongues, would respectfully submit the following
report:
Whereas, There is a great need for native workers in the various languages,
who can be depended upon to translate correctly, and carry forward properly the
work in their own tongue; and,
Whereas, The evidences are multiplying that God is raising up such persons,
who with proper training could supply these wants; and,
Whereas, Means expended in these directions in the past have brought most
gratifying results; and,
Whereas, At the present time hut limited provision is made among us for the
assistance and education of such persons; therefore,
A Fund to Be liaised.
9. Resolved, That our people raise a liberal fund for this purpose, and that a
committee of five be appointed annually by the General Conference Committee to
take charge of the raising and disbursement of the same. [Nov. 2.]
COMMITTEE ON CITY MISSIONS.
The persons appointed on this committee were R. A. Underwood, E. "W.
Farnsworth, W. C. White, C. Eldridge, and G. G. Rupert. Their report was re
ferred to a committee consisting of H. W. Miller, Geo. B. Starr, E. W. Farusworth, S. H. Lane, and F. E. Belden, whose report was an indorsement of the
following resolutions, one to nine Inclusive, adopted at the 1887 session of the
General Conference, with the exception of an amendment to Resolution 5, indi
cated by italics:
Instruction in our Colleges.
Whereas, The growth and importance of the city mission and general Bible
work demand that broader and more careful plans be laid for carrying it forward;
therefore your committee recommend
1. That the managers of our educational institutions located at Battle Creek,
Healdsburg, and South Lancaster, secure in the Biblical and Missionary depart
ments more thorough instruction in the manner of preparing, and in methods of
giving, Bible readings.

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2. That the teachers in said departments spend a portion of each year at one
of our principal city missions, to gain a practical experience in and knowledge of
Bible work.
Preparation Necessary for Bible Work.

3. That as far as possible, all who would enter city missions, should first at
tend one or more terms of preparatory instruction in one of our educational in
stitutions.
4. That each of the following Conferences conduct a city mission trainingschool, so as to accommodate workers from other Conferences that may be se
lected to receive a thorough preparation in all branches of this work; namely,
New England, Michigan, Illinois, and California; and that these schools begin
courses of instruction, and receive students, Jan, 1, April 1, July 1, and Oct.
1, of each year, unless in exceptional cases, where other arrangements are deemed
advisable.
Applicants to be Becommended, and Pass Examination.

5. That only such persons be sent to these schools as the various State Con
ference Committees shall recommend after consultation with the mission director,
and that they shall pass a satisfactory examination before an examining board of
three, or on blanks furnished by them, two to be appointed by the General Confer
ence Committee to act with the mission director.
Support of Persons at Training-Schools.

6. That the Conferences from which these individuals are sent become re
sponsible for their support pro rata, not covered by profits on publications sold by
them while at the school, until such time as the director and State Conference
Committee shall deem it advisable to remove them for whatever cause, or make
other arrangement for their support, in case they remain at the mission.
Consultation before Establishing Training-Schools.

7. That mission training-schools should not be started without competent per

sons to manage them, and that in all cases the General Conference Committee
should be consulted as to the establishment of new training-schools, or the con
tinuance of those already started.
Special Three-Month Institutes.

8. That in Conferences where it seems advisable, training-schools or in

stitutes be conducted during three months of the year, the Home Mission Secre
tary to arrange the program for such institutes, and provide the necessary help
by advice of the General Conference Committee.
Caution in Starting City Missions.

9. As experienced managers and thorough workers are few, and as missions

are a financial burden, and, if not properly conducted, may result in injury to the
cause; therefore, caution should be exercised in establishing city missions.
A Fund Necessary.

10. Besolved, That we urge upon all our Conferences the necessity of raising
a city-mission fund sufficient for the education of workers, and for carrying for
ward mission work, as recommended in the foregoing resolutions.

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The Central Bible 'fraiiiiny-kiehool.

11. Ilesolved, That we indorse the action of the Illinois Conference iu the
erection of the new building in Chicago, suitable for a central training-school for
city and foreign missionaries, in harmony with the advice of the General Confer
ence Committee.
12. Resolved, That we recommend the States adjacent to Illinois, that, have
not already been advised by the General Conference to establish general trainingschools, to give their encouragement and support to the Chicago Mission Train
ing-school, by sending suitable persons there to be educated for labor in different
fields. [Nov. 1.]
COMMITTEE OX FINANCES.
C. H. Jones, Harmon Lindsay, A. R. Henry, 0. Eldridge, and A. 'I'. Jones,
with such State Conference presidents as were present, constituted this committee.
The following is their report of Oct. 24, 25:
Tour committee appointed to take into consideration the financial ivaats of
the eaxise, find that it requires not less than $50,000 a year to carry 0:1 the mis
sions already established in different parts of the world. Thc-e missions have
been established in the providence of God, and must be supported by free-will
offerings from our people; and as we are permitted to carry the light of the
third angel's message to the world, and sustain this important work by our
means and our prayers, we offer the following suggestions :
Christmas Program.

1. That a committee be appointed to make out a program of Christmas ex

ercises to be sent to all our churches.
F. E. Bclden, C. C. Lewis, and Jessie F. Waggoner were subsequently ap
pointed.
Christmas Offerinys.

2. That on Monday evening, Dec. 24, or on Christmas Day, our people every
where assemble in their respective places of worship, prepared to manifest their
love for God and interest in his work, by making liberal donations to foreign
missions.
First-Day Offerings.

Whereas, From all parts of the world, calls for work and laborers multiply,
and missions in operation arc suffering at present from lack of means and help;
therefore, we recommend,
3. That we herewith anew call the attention of our people everywhere to the
provision made in the word of God in 1 Cor. 16: 2; also to the resolution passed
at our last General Conference [number 4 of this report], and most heartily rec
ommend its execution.
Channel for First-Day Offering*.

A resolution concerning the channel through which the first-day offerings

should reach the treasurer of the General Conference, having been referred to the
Finance Committee, their report sustained the following recommendation,
adopted at the session of 1887, the point in question being in italics:
4. That our people everywhere literally carry out the advice of the apostle
Paul in 1 Cor. 16: 2: " Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by
him in store, as God has prospered him." As a weekly free-will offering in behalf
of the foreign mission work, this is to be laid aside each week at h >rne, and at
the end of each quarter to be paid to the tract society officers, [not to the church
treasurer] to be sent to the general treasury. [Nov. 27, 1887; Nov. 4, 1888.]

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WEEK OF PKAYEK.

Whereas, The plan adopted for the last two years, of having a week of prayer
in December, with important instructions to be read each day to our people, has
proved a great spiritual blessing to all our churches which have carried out the
plans suggested; therefore we recommend,
5. That Dec. 15-32. 1888, be set apart by all our churches as a week of
prayer.
Days of fasting and Prayer.

Whereas, We recognize that the harvest is great and consecrated laborers are
few, and the cause is languishing for devoted persons to fill responsible positions
in all branches of the work; therefore we recommend,
6. That "Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 19, 20, be set apart as days of
humiliation, fasting, and prayer, that God may raise up faithful laborers, and sus
tain those already in the field. [Substitute for a resolution recommending that
Dec. 15 be a day of fasting and prayer.]
Day of Praise and Thanlisgiving.

7. That Sabbath, Dec. 22', be observed as a day of thanksgiving and praise

to God for blessings aud mercies received during the past year; and that praise
services be held in all our churches. [Substitute for a resolution recommending
that Dec. 22 be a day of fasting and prayer.]
Readings for Week of Prayer.

8. That appropriate articles or Bible readings be prepared to be read in all

our churches, setting forth more definitely the wants of the foreign missions, and
the dangers and duties of the present time.
R. A. Underwood, R. M. Kilgore, and E. \V. Farnsworth were afterward ap
pointed as a committee to secure readings.
9. That a council of church, Sabbath-school, and T. aud M. officers be held
on Sabbath, Dec. 8, prayerfully to consider this matter, and to lay definite plans
to carry out the same successfully.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two Series of Sabbath-School Lessons Recommended.
10. We further recommend that the Executive Committee of the International
Sabbath-school Association be requested to furnish a series of Sabbath-school
lessons, to continue one quarter, or more, bearing upon the principles of love
and sacrifice as exemplified by the life of Christ, and those whom God has
made prominent in past ages in the work of saving men; also a series setting
forth the Bible plan of supporting the ministry. And we further urge that
these lessons appear as soon as consistent with arrangements already made.
Laborers to Become Better Informed.

11. That we urge upon all our ministers and Conference laborers the impor
tance of becoming familiar with the work being carried on in foreign fields, in
order to be able to set the matter before our people in the proper light.
12. That they take a special interest in the Sabbath-school, and tract and
missionary work, becoming familiar with all the details, so as to give practical in
struction on these important matters.
Expense Attending this Conference Session.

Whereas, The expenses attending this Conference have been unusually heavy
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13. Kesolved, That we recommend that each Conference donate what it shall
feel disposed to, toward the Minnesota school, at Minneapolis, Minn. [R. A. Under
wood and C. C. Lewis, Oct. 31.]
11. Sesolved, That the Chair appoint a committee of three, to whom all money
donated by the delegates or visitors, to the Minnesota Conference School, shall be
paid, to be presented by said committee to the Minnesota Conference Committee.
[L. C. Chadwicfc, Nov. 1.]
S. II. Lane, M. B. Miller, and E. H. Gates were appointed as the committee.
Transportation Committee for the Year.
15. Resolved, That this Conference appoint a committee of five to act as our
agents in the matter of railroad and steam-boat transportation, to represent ns
as a people before these companies, and negotiate with them in reference to such
courtesies as they may be disposed to grant. [Nov. 4.]
A. R. Henry. W. C. Gage, C. H. Jones. A. T. Robinson, and T. A. Kilgore
were appointed as said committee.
COMMITTEE ON BIBLE STUDY.
Members of committee: Gco. B. Starr, D. T. Jones, L. C. Chadwick, G.
Eldridge, and L. R. Conradi. They reported Nov. 4, as follows:
Tour committee appointed to devise a plan for a wider range of Bible study,
would respectfully submit the following:
Whereas, In view of the light given us by the Spirit of God, calling on us to
lay plans for a more thorough investigation of the Scriptures, and to give such
instruction as will qualify our laborers to do more efficient work in every depart
ment of the cause; therefore,
Yearly Institute in Each Stale.
1. We recommend, That each State Conference hold an institute, or normal
school, at least once a year, for a more thorough study of the truths of the third
angel's message, and to give instruction in church, tract society, Sabbath-school,
health and temperance, and canvassing work; to be conducted under the man
agement of the Conference Committee.
Special, General Institutes.
2. We recommend, That the General Conference hold similar institutes, at such
times and places as the General Conference Committee may decide.
How New Theories Khali lie Presented.
3. We recommend, That persons holding views different from those commonly
taught by us as a denomination, present them to the Conference Committee of
their respective States; and if thought proper, the Conference Committee present
them to the State Institute; and if considered of sufficient importance by the
State Institute, it shall recommend them for consideration at the General Confer
ence Institute, a report of all such cases to be sent at the close of the State In
stitute to the General Conference Committee.
COMMITTEE ON DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR.*
This committee consisted of the General Conference Committee, and E. W.
Farnsworth, A. J. Breed, Lewis Johnson, G. G. Rupert, and C. H. Jones. Their
report during the session embraced the following recommendations:
*This report includes such additions and changes as were afterward found necessary
by the General Conference Committee. AH recommendations made by them since the
Conference adjourned, are followed by a etar (*).

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1. That J. W. Bagby, of Kansas, go to North Carolina, and make that his

field of labor.
2. That T. H. Gibbs, of Louisiana, labor in the Nebraska Conference.
3. That J. M. Rees, of Tennessee, make Indiana his field of labor.
4. That Wm. Covert, of Indiana, go to Tennessee to take the place made
vacant by Bro. Rees, and to take the oversight of the work in Kentucky.
5. That S. H. Lane, of Georgia, go to New York and labor in that Con
ference.
6. That M. G. Huffman, of Virginia', occupy the field made vacant by Bro.
Lane.
7. That B. F. Purdham, of Indiana, make Louisiana his field of labor.
8. That G. H. Rogers, of Illinois, labor in the Upper Columbia Conference.
9. That F. D. Starr go to Indiana and take the presidency of the Conference
and tract society.
10. That W. A. Colcord, of Iowa, go to Battle Creek to connect with the
Review and Herald Office.
11. That H. R. Johnson, of Iowa, return to Wisconsin, and make that
State his field of labor.
12. That O. A. Johnson, of Nebraska, attend Eld. Matteson's training-school
in Chicago, and then make Iowa his field, and labor exclusively in the Scandi
navian language.
1 S. That John Covert, of Indiana, connect with the Michigan Conference, and
labor in that field.
11. That C. 0. Flaiz, of Kentucky, make Minnesota his field of labor.
15. That in harmony with the request of J. H. Durland, now laboring in En
gland, we recommend him to return to this country, and labor in Ontario, under
the direction of the Michigan Conference.
16. That E. W. Whitney, now in Basel, make Great Britian his field of labor,
as soon as he can be spared from his work in Basel.
17. That J. D. Coiute fill the vacancy in the Central European Conference
caused by the death of B. L. Whitney.*
18. That J. S. Shrock, of Pennsylvania, go to Germany to labor in that
country.
19. That L. R. Conradi spend several months in this country, holding insti
tutes for the instruction of German canvassers and workers.
20. That Nova Scotia be placed under the direction of the Maine Conference
Committee."
21. That John Gibson, of California, go to London as book-keeper, and to
assist in the management of the office there.
22. That R. F. Andrews, of Illinois, labor in Indiana.
23. That T. M. Steward labor under the direction of the Maine Conference
Committee.*
24. That W. S. Hyatt, of Wisconsin, go to Texas to take the presidency of
the Conference and T. and M. Society there.
25. That 0. C. Godsmark, of Georgia, make Illinois his field of labor.
26. That C. P. Haskell, of Colorado, labor in the Kansas Conference.
27. That E. P. Auger, of Central Europe, return to this country to labor In
the French canvassing field.

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28. That D. T. Bourdeau go to Canada, to labor among the French in that

country.
29. That the General Conference give the Kansas Conference a new 45 or 50
foot tent, provided that Conference will send a man with it to open up the work
in New Mexico.*
30. That A. T. Jones, if the way opens, visit Boston, Chicago, and other
points where local Conferences can secure suitable places to reach the masses of
the people, and present the subject of religious liberty.
31. That S. N. Haskell and E. W. Farnsworth be the remaining members of
the committee to represent us before the Senate Committee oil Education and
Labor, at Washington.*
32. That B. M. Shull, of Wisconsin, engage in the Scandinavian work, under
the direction of the General Conference, and that, if possible, he go to Norway
within six months, to labor in the publishing house there.
33. That Rasmus Pcterson. of Minnesota, spend a season at the Review and
Heral.l Office, with a view, after the benefit of such experience, to connect him
self with the printing-house in Christiana, Norway.
31. That M. C. Wilcox, of New York, go to the Pacific Press Office, to assist
in editing the Signs of the Times.
35. That J. W. Scoles, of Idaho, go to Oakland, Cal., to connect with the
Pacific Press Office.
36. That May Taylor, of Central Europe, go to England, to labor in the
Bible work.
37. That Eld. J. F. Hanseu attend the training-school in Chicago, and then
go to Denmark to labor in the great Scandinavian field.
38. That the canvassing company in Iowa, consisting of M. W. Lewis and
wife, Arthur Hur, N. P. Long, Willis Adams, Lewis Starr, and Laura Farris,
make Maryland and Delaware their field of labor during the coming year, begin
ning work in the city of Baltimore; and that M. W. Lewis act as State agent.
39. That S. F. Reader and E. Robb, with their wives, move from Kansas to
West Virginia, there to engage in the canvassing work, S. F. Reader to act as
State agent.
40. That C. D. Wolf and wife, and J. E. Frazee, of Kansas, remove to North
Carolina to engage in the canvassing work; C. D. Wolf to act as State agent.
41. That A. F. Harrison and wife, J. B. Thayer, Thomas Stewart, George
Winn, and Moses Edwards remove from Kansas to Louisiana, there to engage in
the canvassing work; A. F. Harrison to act as leader of the company. And we
further recommend that I. Q. Reynolds and wife, of New Orleans, connect with
this company.
42. That Chas. F. Curtis devote his entire time to the canvassing work, acting
as State agent for Georgia, Florida, and tSouth Carolina ; and that Chas. E. Giles
and Wm. Fenner, of Michigan, and Luther Harmon, of Indiana, make Georgia,
Florida, and South Carolina their Held of labor.
43. That J. H. Dortch devote his entire time to the interests of the canvass
ing work in Tennessee.
44. That Indian Territory be given to Kansas, as a canvassing field.
45. That Wm. Arnold return to Great Britain in the early spring.
46. That D. T. Jones, of Missouri, go to Battle Creek to assist the acting
President of the General Conference in Ms correspondence and in his labors in the
interests of the cause at large.

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47. That E. A. Merriil, of. Minnesota, go to Illinois to labor in that Confer

ence.
48. That C. H. Bliss, of Illinois, make Minnesota Ms field of labor.
49. That M. H. Gregory, of Minnesota, go to Kansas to labor.
50. That J. O. Beard, of Iowa, go to the Upper .Columbia Conference, and
make that his field of labor.
51. That John I. Tay act as treasurer and financial manager of the Mission
ary ship.*
52. That Nellie Webber and Florence Westphal go to the Washington Mis
sion.*
53. That Ella A. Carman, Hattie Annes, and H. May Stanton work in the
Indianapolis Mission.
54. That W. C. Wales and wife, of Michigan, go to Indiana, to labor princi
pally in the Indianapolis Mission.
55. That Gilbert Wilson, of Michigan, labor in the West Virginia Conference.
56. That Bernard Robb, of Victoria, attend Battle Creek College, to fit him
self to labor among the people of Holland.
57. That A. G. Daniells be elected as the first member of the New Zealand
Mission Board, and that the Auckland and Kaeo churches each be requested to
elect two members of said Mission Board.*
58. That C. L. Boyd, I. J. Hankins, and Peter Wessels constitute a Mission
Board for the South African Mission.*
5P. That Lewis Johnson, of Illinois, go to Scandinavia to take the place of
Eld. 0. A. Olsen.
60. That H. R. Johnson occupy the place on the Wisconsin Conference Commtitee made vacant by the removal of W. S. Hyatt.
61. That Alex. Paton occupy the place on the Wisconsin Conference Com
mittee made vacant by the removal of B. M. Shull.
62. That Robert Vickery occupy the place on the Illinois Conference Com
mittee made vacant by the removal of Lewis Johnson.
63. That C. W. Olds labor in Wisconsin.
64. That J. J. Graft occupy the place on the Minnesota Conference Committee
made vacant by the removal of Lewis Johnson.
65.. That Paul E. Gros labor at present among the French in Wisconsin.
66. That Prof. W. H. Me Kee give his time to the work of reporting at our
general meetings, and the education of other reporters, in connection with our
educational institutions, and elsewhere.
6T. That John P. Zirkle take the place made vacant on the Virginia Confer
ence Committee by the removal of M. G. Huffman.
68. That H. P. Holser, J. H. Waggoner, E. W. Whitney, L. E. Conradi, and
J. Erzenberger constitute a board of Managers for the Central European Pub
lishing House, the publishing committee to consist of J. H. Waggoner, H. P.
Holser, L. R. Conradi, A. Kuuz, and J. Vuilleumier.*
69. That 0. A. Olsen, Lewis Johnson, N. Clause:!, C. Melin, and J. M. ErickBon be the Publishing Committee for the Scandinavian Publishing House.*
70. That S. N. Haskell, D. A. Robinson, and J. H. Durland constitute a
Managing Board for the British Mission, and that S. N. Haskell, D. A. Robinson,
and A. Smith act as a publishing committee.*
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COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.

Members of committee: J. Fargo, Dan. T. Jones, J. B. Goodrich. Their

report as amended [Oct. 31 to Nov. 8.] stands as follows, the names substituted
for those originally presented being set in italics:
SENEGAL CONFEKENCE.

Executive Committee. 0. A. Olsen, S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, It. A. Under

wood, R. M. Kilgore, E. W. Farusworth, Dan. T. Jones.
Officers. fres., O. A. Olseu; Bee. See., Van. T. Jones; Cor. Sec., W. II. Ed
wards; ffome Jlisaion See., Geo. B. Starr; foreign Mission, Sec., W. C. White;
Educational Sec., W. W. Prescott; Treas., llarrnon Lindsny.
GENERAL CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION.

Trustees. O. A. Olseu, U. Smith, A. R. Henry, J. Fargo. Harmon Lindsay.

BOOK COMMITTEE.

fres., W. C. White; See., F. E. Belden; U. Smith; R. M. Kilgore; W. W.

Prescott; A. T. Jones; E. J. Waggoner; C. Eldridge; J. H. Kellogg; E. W.
Farnsworth; J. G. Mattesou; A. T. Robinson; C. H. Jones.
LABOR BUREAU.

A. R. Henry, C. Eldridge, II. W. Kellogg.

COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS OF MINISTERS.
The report of this committee, consisting of R. M. Kilgore, I. D. Van Horn,
and H. Nicola, stands amended [Nov. 1, 2] us follows:
FOR CREDENTIALS.

Geo. I. Butler, S. N. Haskell, U. Smith, O. A. Olsen, W. C. White, B. M.

Kilgore, B,. A. Underwood, E. W. Farnsworth, San. T. Jones, Mrs. E. G. White,
A. T. Jottes, Geo. B. Starr, J. G. Matteson, H. Shultz, D. T. Bourdeau, W. H.
Saxby, J. E. Robinson, D. E. Lindsey, N. Orcutt, J. W. Bagby, M. G. Huffman,
I. E. Kimball, L. H. Crisler, Oscar Hill, B. F. Purdham, S. H. Kimc, D. A. Rob
inson, A. A. John, E. W. Whitncy, Lewis Johnson, J. F. Hansen, E. G. Olsen,
J. M. Ericksou, L. R. Conradi, H. P. Holser, J. S. Shrock, J. C. Laubhan, C. L.
Boyd, Ira J. Hanldns, A. G. Danlells, Boberi Hare, A. J. Cudney.
FOR LICENSE.

W. W. Prescott, C. Eldridge, Wm. M. Baird, N. B. England, Mrs. Ruie Hill,

Arthur Hunt, D. C. Babcock, Geo. R. Drew, A. Smith, A. La Rue, J. I. Tay.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
General Conference Comtitution.
1. Article II., Section 2, of the General Conference Constitution, was amended
(see page'132) to read:
"And to appoint, in connection with the president and secretary of the In
ternational Tract Society, a general canvassing agent." [Substituted (Nov. 2)
in place of a motion by B. W. Farnsworth, to the effect that the general canvass
ing agent be one of the officers of the General Conference.]
C. Eldridge was appointed as said agent, Nov. 15.

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General Conference Association Constitution.

2. Article VII. of the Articles of the Association of the General Conference
Association was amended (see page 130 ) to read :
" NAME : General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists, which is an un
incorporated body.
"DENOMINATION: Seventh-day Adventist." [E.J.Waggoner, Nov. 8.]
CLOSING.
1. Voted, That we extend to the church in Minneapolis a vote of thanks for
their generous entertainment of the delegates of this Conference. [Nov. 4.]
2. Voted, That the appointment of the place at which the next annual session
of the General Conference shall be held, be left with the General Conference
Committee. [Nov. 4.]
REPORTS FROM HOWCE HND FOREIGN FIELDS.
GENERAL SOUTHERN FIELD.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
S. II. LANE gave an interesting and encouraging account of his work in these
new fields, stating that while as a general thing the people were poor, they were
generous and hospitable. A church has been organized in Atlanta during the
year, and an effort is being made to support the mission there by the sale of pub
lications. A State tract society and Sabbath-school association have also been
organized. Though the work in Florida has been greatly hindered this year by
yellow fever, there are enough believers in that State and Georgia for a Confer
ence organization; but on account of the fluctuating character of the popula
tion in Florida, it would be best not to organize it at present. The tithe paid by
both States was about $700 for the year.
NORTH CAROLINA.

The progress of the work in this State since it was entered as a mission field
three years ago, was briefly outlined by J. M. Rees. who stated that there were
now about eighty believers, mostly in the western part of the State. A State
tract society and Sabbath-school association have been organized, and a good
camp-meeting held during the year.
T. H. Gibbs reported for Central America and Louisiana, C. W. Olds for Ala
bama, aiiu others in behalf of the Southern field in general, numerous questions
being asked and answered relative to the customs of the people, methods of labor
among them, etc.
SOUTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES.

G. G. Rupert spoke concerning his experience In these fields, especially in

British Guiana, where the people are mostly connected with the Church of En
gland. At Georgetown, one quarter of the people are whites, of all nationalities.
Nine tenths of those who attended the meetings in the city, were colored. He
baptized thirty there, and organized them into a church. George King, who ac
companied him, sold eight hundred dollars' worth of books in four months. It
is a good place for missionary work. The West Indies, he thought, would
compare favorably with Australia, as a canvassing field.

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Washington, D. C..

d Sacramento. Cal. .
/Sanl'randKco. Cal
/San Diego, Cal....
Saginaw, ]\!ieli. ....
St Louis. IMo ......

/Philadelphia, Pa..

/Los Angeles, Cal. .

Minneapolis, jMinn.

Grand KapidOlich

e Cedar Iiapids, la. .

Atlanta, On.... ....

/Brooklyn. N.Y...
Burlington, Yt. ..

MISSIONS.

8
4

3,285

MS
3.5)1
533
7.1194
2,420

1,8(14

41
4.050
'271
2,555
S.473

l.luO

17,458

l!:
7
1
7

131

33,280

(ISO

717

]
(.

1.081
i;213

882
777

5,436

V.oro'

sac,

292
503
303

902

3,328

904

|-i

ft
E B

$.
J4

088

Hour
study.s

<,

11
:-i
ft
Ci

Xumbe
wojrker?r.

43,021

1.651
1.617
2,800
2,531
300
3,111)2

s.nir
?m
)>>

708
11,185
8,508
447
1,081
2,945
SOO
1,288
1,189
1,07::

1,210
1,413

made.
Visits

10,353

2
500
598
559
2,283
80
247

1,488

529

150
125
C89
03
473
1,879

(129

viNew
fasmitielid.es

aat
Tott endanael
rall
eading--

12,037

10,399

725
240
200
68
110
750
C57
1.310
2,150
255
800
405
794
1,250
616
413
212
9G7
579
1,077
124
1,781 '
330
1,419
070
102
156
107
50
420
441
1,148
2,808
522
1,519
138
1,010
1,979

giReadiven.ngs

391
45

288
150
142
52
2S9
272

"

aMet enedtiendg.s

712 1,517

2(11
43

228
12
111
18

19

'tended.

1rOtateadihnerg*

4(11

3
15

c!34

2,359

on

18IJ

130

83
1

2
69

105

590

l.liH-l
12

CO

1o

SS
45

33
045
123

'VrnV
1

'J8
150

t-.'

44
KM
30
3.133
175
10
5

Yearlv.

562 4,473

411

27

110

57

a (in
lil)
42
25
135

prSeremached.ons

Nuiuhrisnbscrip! ion-:.

4,430

4,490

Loaned.

1,195,544

239,819

8.506
1,200
17,028
2,008
2,015
4,878
(1,828
12,986
10,420
84,500
5,520
01,629
5,811
1,488
1,438
484
3,816
4,930
3,880
8,831
4,467
11,671 116.857
18,195
6^39
88,894
17,415

320,774
6,894
92,354
2,807
1,886

10.308
5:;;l.l25
11J082

</J

'o

T3

81
SCO

41(1

2(i
8
)

3
^

712
1,529
867
6,305
1,703
130
313
33
55
877
868
5,247
685
1,29S
360
113
62!
519
179
216
100
1,048

i
3

Number
periodicals.

124,748 1,840 22,897

13,888

3.369
16,884
7.982
'392
11,024
1.808
2,609
2,704

1,58,1
4,990
2,890
30.589
1.910
840
7
118
1.518
4672
8,919

l';iLri> Viooks and Irat-ts.

REPORT OF E. W. FARSSWORTH, HOME MISSION SECRETARY, FOR NINE MONTHS ENDING Jrxv; ,10, 188S.

CITY MISSIONS.

258

a
l>
c
it

* Includes tithei and donations paid by workers

and converts.
Canvassers' and children's meetings.
A school of instruction from January to July.
Includes books and periodicals.
Six montbs.
[65j

686

35

35

Totals. ............................

8
14
12
21

IS

12
55

go

40

2
30

30
8
8

5
11
1

months.
nine

i3

02
40

31
/clOO

No.
cpast
in
onverts

U23
Philadelphia...........................
87
24

MISSIONS.

No.
siconvencerts Mistasrtieod.n

/
a
ft
i
J

270.07

335.02

$4,997.20

$466.56
$369.83

264.33

270.66

400.00

m 253.25
260.00

758.85
300.00

g $201.50
11.70
415.91
1,092.00

Receivde.d
boar
for

$4,454.47 $8,779.20 $3,687.71

285.91

211.16
791.46
286.00

309.94

409.50
62.30

$ 102.54
B20S.3S
117.00

provisions.
of
Cost

$7,121.82

j 756.00

( 275. 00
i282.00

192.51

700.00
17.28

28.20
294.30

i 798.85
< 700.00
338.98

$ 116.1(5
3321.89
115.68
i 1,941.47
285.00
18.00

Mis ion.

Rnnniexpensegs
of

k More than one hundred.

I Includes all the missions in California.
m Did not state which mission in California re
ceived this amount.
n The sum paid in three and one-half years.

$1,855.25

305.30
637.51

35.97
8.00

225.00
450.00

7.10

300.W

158.50
330.00
300.00
108.00

207.66

1.60
4.00

75.51

$1.023.93

house.

$ 152.00
h 489.97
211.00
860.00
375.00
18.00

MiRent
fors ion

78.05

24.25

28.00

17.50

$ 42.75
g 40.90
91.00
1,076.45

otntehrperrises.*
eOn

47.25

22.75

1.00
j 23.00

2.00

1.05
20.74

$ 66.31
0 8.41
187.84
1,198.48

Tithe.*

73 44
3.00
41.55
208.31
11.10
31.50 n 1,503.27
6.23

70.81

20.85
5.60
180.00

$ 5.45
80.62
1.85

fare.
Car

69.06

$ 2.10
2.00
4.20

Provisions.

Three and one-half months.

Labor covers one year.
Nine months.
Ten months.
Includes board of workers.
Includes cash and provisions.

$7.674.40

4.2S
841.00
60.40
32.70
36.43
Srt 45
941. IS

j 44.64
1.25

199.90
C1.97
150.00
367.45
275.08
j 100.00
21.88

$ 17.5S
38.37
3.03
405.51
387.46
1.35
9.05
.50

,q

$ 122.98
2,715.48
55.83
569.59
552.94
20.14
247.35
883.76

of
salAmountes.

Donations for
Missions.

66
CITY MISSION SUMMARY.
According to the preceding tabular report, there are 131 workers engaged In
Bible work, or have been some time during the year. They have made 43,021
visits, with 10,353 families. London and Liverpool were included in the report
last year, but this year are included in the report of foreign missions. Sixteen
of the missions report 526 converts since they were started, and almost one half,
258, during the last nine months, the time covered by this report.
There have been held 12,037 Bible readings, with 16,399 persons. During the
nine months past, the canvassers have obtained 4,475 yearly subscriptions for
our periodicals, and 644 for less than a year, making 5,119 in all. They have
sold 2,359 subscription books, and sold, loaned, and given away 1,5(50,111 pages
of books and tracts, and in different ways have distributed 24,227 periodicals.
The amount of sales on books, $7,674.40; paid for rent, $4,453.47; for other
expenses, not including board of workers, $7,121.32; the amount of tithes paid
by the missions, including mission workers and those who have embraced the
truth through them, $4,997.20. The amount of donations to other enterprises
is $1,855.25, making $6,852.45, in all. Fully 1,000 persons have been converted
since these missions began their work.
THE CENTRAL BIBLE TRAINING-SCHOOL.

It has been about four years since this school was opened in Chicago. Over
one hundred laborers who have received more or less instruction therein, are now
working in eighteen different States and in six countries.
Over one hundred persons have through this means accepted the truths
taught by Seventh-day Adventists, and a large number are now interested. The
church in Chicago numbers ninety-two members.
The mission has donated to foreign mission work, $1,263.96; to home work
Chicago building fund, etc. $1,224.65; and has paid about $1,200 tithe.
During the last year, there were 1,500 subscriptions taken for Good Health.
The present plans arc to receive as Bible workers principally ladies, and men
and their wives. These persons must have a good experience at home first.
They must be converted, give evidence of devotion, ana show some ability to
teach. The mission is not a place to send unconverted youth to get them under
a good influence. The workers must not be burdened with this kind of work.
Systematic visiting of the sick and poor has been connected with the Bible
work. There are four weekly tract societies in the city, and one at Pullman.
Home and foreign missionary work is attended to through correspondence, also
outside missionary work of every kind.
Regular instruction will be given by competent nurses from the Sanitarium,
in the treatment of common diseases, also a series of lessons in physiology ami
hygiene, public and private Bible readings, practical religion, morning talks, and
readings on the subjects of repentance, conversion, and faith.
A new building has just been erected at Nos. 26 and 28 College Place. It
contains about thirty rooms, one a chapel. 28 x 40 feet, capable of seating about
300 people. The building is heated by steam, with passenger elevator. The
water for the entire house and elevator is furnished free by the city. There will
be no State or city tax upon the property.
Sixteen, or about one fifth of the whole number of converts, are devoting
their entire time, and three a portion of their time, to some branch of the work.
[Oct. 28.]

-"6T
STATISTICS OF HOME AND FOREIGN CONFERENCES AND MISSIONS.
(^Report of V. Smith, Recording /Secretary of the Geiwral Conference.)
In the columns for Ministers and Licentiates is given the actual number expected to labor in each Conference
during the coming year, according to the recommendations of the General Conference, and not the number
receiving credentials or licenses from each Conference. Otherwise the report is for eight-months only, ending
June 30, 1888.

HOME AND FOR

EIGN
CONFERENCES.

DATES or
ORGANIZATION'.

1. Arkansas ..... May 21, 1888 . .

Sept., 1888 ....
3. California ..... Feb. 15, 1873 . .
Aug. 16, 1880 . .
5. Central Europe May 26, 1884 . .
6. Colorado ..... Sept. 26, 1883 . .
7. Dakota ...... Sept. 16, 1880. .
May 30, 1880
9. Illinois ....... June 9, 1871. . .
10. Indiana ...... Sept. 20, 1872. .
Sept. 20, 1863 . .
Sept. 10, 1875. .
13. Kentucky .... May 20, 1876 . .

(Now under Tennessee.)

Nov. 1, 1867. ..
15. Michigan ..... Oct. 5, 1861.. ..
16. Minnesota .... Oct. 4, 1862. . . .
June 2, 1876. . .
18. Nebraska.. .... Sept. 25, 1878. .
19. New England. . Aug. 24, 1871 . .
20. New York. .... Oct. 25, 1862 . .
31. North Pacific . . Oct. 25, 1877. . .
22. Norway ...... June 10, 1887. .
23. Ohio. ........ Feb. 22, 1863 . .
24. Pennsylvania .. Sept. 17, 1879..
March 12, 1882.
1 OCA
26. Tennessee ....
27. Texas ........ Nov. IS, 1878. .
28. Upper Colum . .
29. Vermont... . . . June 12. 1863 . .
30. Virginia ...... Aug. 5, 1884 . . .
31. West Virginia. Sept. 15, 1887. .
32. Wisconsin .... June 22, 1871. .
MISSIONS.
British ..........
General Southern . .
New Zealand. .....
Other Pacific Isl'ds .

Total. ... ...

NUMERICAL STANDINGS.
i . Licenti ates.

as
%~
i
3
18
2
8
5
3
4
7
8
10
9

5
27
12

2
5
10
1
1
4
2
3
7
5
17
4
28
6
4
6
6
5
8

TITHES
PAID. IN.

a
o

S-S

10
5
31
3
25
9
22
10
26
47
69
57

226
266
2,000
143
716
300
632
.244
805
1,135
1,594
1,883
436
4,355
1,754
677
670
766
803
542
197
1,062
843
325.
158
366
457
121
106
1,766

1,244.37
20,310.26
12,471.95
2,827.16
7,837.78
5,426.00
3,546.26
6,962.31
373.21
6,460.69
4,868.48
674.81
627.59
1,878.40
2,998.08
1^ ggg ua
'56L61
456.70
6,882.94

119.30
3,426.34
25,350.06
298.47
2,461.75
3,587.97
5,455.71
537.29
4,836.05
6,000.00
13,731.57
4,095.16
186.00

3
1
10

1
7

20
119
67
24
34
24
29
21
4
47
41
10
8
13
13
18
5
5
59

207

158

875

25,378

$158,383.25

3
8
>
1

2
4

6
18
2

152
400
130

700.00
1,000.00
852.06

27
25

2,193.92

26,112

$163,129.23

7
7
8
4
3
8
7
>
5
o
6

4
7
6
7
'2

Total ............

ao E

232

168

901

68
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE.
(Report of A. J{. Henry, Treasurer of the General Conference, for Eight Jfonths,
Ending June 30, 1888.)
Cash on hand Nov. 1, 1887. .....................
$ 1,250.61
Rcc'd to June 30, 1888. .........................
25,383.97
Total ..............................................
Paid to ministers ..............................
Paid to sundries ...............................

$36,634.58

$17.514.00
1 ,602.73

Total ..............................................

$19,110.79

Balance on hand June 30, 18S8 ........................

$7,517.79

Tithe for 1888 (8 months)...................................

Tithe for 18S7 (12 months)..................................

$25,383.97
15,923.50

Increase.............................................

$9,460.47

FINANCIAL STATEM'T OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION.

(Iteporl of A. H. Henry, Treasurer of the General Conference Association,
for Eight Months, eucliny June 30, 1SS8.)
Due from missions .............................
Due from Pacific Press..........................
Due on notes (bills receivable)...................
Due on personal accounts .......................
Real estate (mission and other property)....... ...

$28,271.98
5,119.78
100.00
9,589.23
60,031.35

Total ..............................................
Due to funds..................................
Due to Review and Herald ......................
Due on notes (bills payable).....................
Due on personal accounts .......................
Present worth .................................

Total. ..............................................

FINANCIAL

STATEMENT OP

$103,112.33

$12,585.74
9,386.66
19,453.46
1,655.12
60,081.35
$103,112.33

ECHO PUBLISHING HOUSE, AUSTBALIA,

JUNE, 1888.

Publishing house plant .........................

Inventory (publications, personal accounts, etc.)....
Bank deposits and cash .........................

$ 5,4t7.8215,584.10
2,033.67

Total...............................................
Personal accounts..............................
Net worth above all indebtedness. ................

$23,635.59

$10,456.68
13,178.91

Total ..............................................

$23,635.59

69
FINANCIAL STATEMENT

OF

THE

CENTRAL EUROPEAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, BASEL,

SWITZERLAND, JUNE, 1888.

Real estate ....................................

Inventory (machinery, publications, stock, furniture,
etc.) .....................................

$32,756.50
25,663.69

Total...............................................
Notes payable ..................................
Mortgages ....................................
Overdraft at bank. .............................
Personal accounts. .............................
Net worth above all indebtedness.................

$58,420.19

$ 2,942.31
3,723.27
12,714.37
7,312.32
31,727.92

Total...............................................

$58,420.19

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SCANDINAVIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE,

CHRISTIANA, NORWAY, APRIL, 1888.

Real estate.........'...........................
Inventory (machinery, publications, etc.)..........

$26,881.72
34,418.92

Total ..............................................
Bills payable..................................
Mortgages....................................
Personal accounts. .............................
Net worth above all indebtedness.................

$61,300.64

$ 1,961.52
13,978.48
34,586.12
10,774.52

Total ..............................................

$61,300.64

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE ENGLISH MISSION,

APRIL, 1888.

Due on personal accounts ...................................

Inventory (machinery, fixtures, furniture, publica
tions, etc.) ...............................
$5,967.12
Due from personal accounts .....................
5,583.36
Present indebtedness ...........................
2,828.53

$14,379.01

Total ..............................................

$14,379.01

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MISSION,

JUNE, 1888.

Expense of starting mission, sending tents, publications, etc.......

Donations paid in to date on this fund........................

$6,963.30
6,155.84

Present indebtedness .............'....................

$807.46

At the date of this report, the International Sabbath-school Association haJ

in its possession several thousand dollars belonging to the mission. This money
was not paid over iu time to appear in the June report.

70

GtUtf^Y. CONttRtUCt
EDUCATIONAL \VOKK.
(Report of W. W. PrescoU, Educational Secretary, fur the year 1S83.)

...AT the session of the General Conference held in 1887, the Constitution of
that body was so amended as to provide for an Educational Secretary, and the
present incumbent was elected to fill the office thus created. The objects sought
in this step were that there might be a greater unity of purpose and action in the
educational work among Seventh-day Adveutists. It is hoped that some progress
has been made in this direction, though the Secretary has been able to give but
little time exclusively to the duties of his new office, owing to the fact that his
other duties were in no way lightened.
In May, 1888, he spent about ten days at the South Lancaster Academy,
South Lancaster, Mass. This was rather a critical time in the history of that
institution, as influences had been at work for some time tending to draw the
school away from the special purpose for which it was founded. Several ad
dresses upon educational topics, and especially upon the relation of religion to
education, were delivered, and much time was spent in council with the Board of
Trustees as to the future of the school. Subsequent developments seem to justify
the wisdom of the course taken and the suggestions made at that time.
After the meeting at South Lancaster, the Secretary visited Gen. Armstrong's
school for colored students and Indians, at Hampton, Va. At this institution,
as much as at any other in the United States, and perhaps more, labor and study
are combined; and it was to see the practical working of this plan, and to be
come familiar with its details, that this visit was made. A cordial reception and
hospitable entertainment were given, and the occasion was rich in new ideas and
suggestions which it is hoped have been of benefit to our general work.
In the latter part of May, and during the mouth of June, the Secretary at
tended camp-meetings in Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, speaking
several times in English upon educational topics, and also, through an interpre
ter, to the Scandinavians, making especially prominent the position which relig
ious instruction should occupy in the plan of character development. Later in
the season, he also attended camp-meetings in Ohio and in Michigan, laboring in
much the same line. The general results of these efforts seemed to be to arouse
a stronger interest on the part of old and young in the topics presented, and to
settle in the minds of many the necessity of establishing and maintaining our
own denominational schools wherever practicable. At the annual meeting of the
Minnesota Conference, held in connection with the camp-meeting in that State, it
was voted to open a Conference school as soon as possible, and the President of
the Conference, Eld. A. D. Olsen, at once made application to the Secretary for a
principal and two assistant teachers. This demand was met by sending Prof.
C. C. Lewis, who was released by the Trustees of Battle Creek College from his
engagement in that institution for that express purpose, and Miss Sarah E. Peck
and Miss Elsie M. Westphal, who graduated at Battle Creek College in June,
1888. , The Secretary attended the General Conference l>eld at Minneapolis,
Minn., in November, 1888, spoke once upon the subject of education, and had
opportunity to counsel with the school committee of the Minnesota Conference
with reference to the opening of their school, and also to advise with the Kansas
Conference Committee, who had in the mean time decided to open an English
school in their Conference, a German school having been in session one year.
At the suggestion of members of the General Conference Committee, it was
determined to hold at Battle Creek, Mich., a general Teachers' Institute at the
close of the school year in June, 1888. The following report of that gathering,
prepared by the Secretary of the Institute, Prof. C. C. Lewis, will give an outline
of the work done :

71
A Seventh-day Adventist Teachers' Institute was held at Battle Creek, Mich., June
21-26, 1888, conducted by the Educational Secretary, W. W. Prescott. There were about
thirty teachers in attendance, including representatives from Battle Creek and Healdsburg colleges, South Lancaster Academy, and the Oregon and Upper Columbia Confer
ence schools. Eld. Butler was present at nearly all the meetings, taking an active part
in the exercises; and Elds. Smith and Kilgore attended some of the sessions and joined
in the discussions. Two sessions, of three hours each, were held each day, besides one
evening meeting. The following were the principal topics considered:
1. Relation of our educational wor!c to the third angel's message.
2. What object should guide us in the education of our young people?
3. Church schools their necessity, establishment, management, grade, and sup
port.
4. Relation of primary schools to our higher educational institutions.
5. What provision should be made, if any, for a more special theological training,
for the benefit of those who desire to labor publicly?
6. To what extent should students be encouraged to take long courses of study, and
to graduate from our institutions ?
7. What position shall we take with reference to the granting of degrees ?
8. To what extent can religious instruction be given consistently and profitably in
connection with the school work?
9. In what way can instruction in methods of labor in our cause be best given to
those who desire it?
10. What proportion of teachers to the number of students can be employed, in har
mony with reasonable economy and the best interests of our schools?
11. Is it advisable to establish a course of reading and study for the intellectual and
spiritual improvement of our people, to be conducted somewhat after the plan of the
Chautauqua reading circle ?
12. What should be the general plan of discipline ? and on what principles should it
rest?
13. By what means can we best promote the spiritual interests of our schools ?
14. What is the best plan for teachiug the English Bible ?
15. How shall manual training be beet carried on in connection with our schools ?
16. How can our Students' Homes be so managed as to secure the best results so
cially and morally ?
17. What is the best plan for the management of domestic labor in connection with
our Student's Homes ?
It will be seen from a perusal of the foregoing topics, that the matters usually con
sidered at Teachers' Institutes, such as methods of teaching, etc., were not taken up.
It was designed at this Institute to dwell only upon those points concerning which our
teachers would not be likely to gain information elsewhere, questions connected with
the educational problem in our own denomination. The objects .of the Institute, as
stated by the President in his opening address, were to discuss questions of interest
arising in our educational work, to lay plans for carrying it on, to unify the work, and to
become more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of our special work, the proclamation
of the third angel's message.
Concerning church schools, it was the unanimous opinion that schools should not be
established until teachers are well prepared to take charge of them, and the people are
ready to support them, both with their sympathies and with their means. The burden
of the responsibility of church schools should be assumed by the Conference under a gen
eral supervision, and should not be left to private responsibility and management.
With reference to long courses of study, it was thought best not to 'Encourage persons
well advanced in years to take them ; but it was thought that we need a more extensive
course for those whose mcntnl capacity would warrant it. and who could finish such a
course at from twenty-two to twenty-five years of age. Men of thorough education are
greatly needed. Men who are loyal to the truth, and who have a thorough knowledge of
Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, and other languages, to make original research in libra
ries of those languages, with the view of gaining historical evidence bearing upon the
different points of our faith ; nor ought we to bc'bbliged to fall back upon worldry insti
tutions for the preparation of teachers to give instruction in these languages.
The subject of a course of reading brought out a very interesting discussion, which
resulted in the passing of the following resolution:
fiesolved. That it is the opinion of this Institution that a course of general reading
and study, to meet the wants of Seventh-day Adventists, ought to be adopted, and that
the General Conference be requested to take the matter under consideration at its next
session.
These are but a few of the conclusions reached by the Institute, but they will serve to
give some idea of the nature of the work done. All felt that the Institute had beeL a
orofiWblc one.

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GtHtRfvV.

Seventh-day Adventists believe in education. Tlieir belief that the second

coming of Christ is near has not been pleaded as an excuse on their part that
they should not make the most of all the time which was granted them, in order to
secure the proper development of their own powers and those of their children.
Indeed, the very consideration of the shortness of time has been an incentive to
them to redeem the time in this as well as in other respects. Believing, as they
do, that religious instruction should have a prominent place in the education of
youth, and recognizing the fact that this could not properly be expected of the
public schools, and that even i it could, the kind of religious instruction would
not accord with what they regard as the true teaching of the Bible, they began
as early as 1872 to agitate the question of denominational schools. In 1874,
Battle Creek College was opened to students, and since that time the number of
such schools has increased until there are eight now maintained in this country,
besides special schools of short duration, which might more properly be termed
institutes. Time has amply proved the wisdom of this course, and the Educa
tional Secretary would recommend that Conference and church schools be es
tablished as rapidly as suitable persons can be found to take charge of them.
The developments of the past year emphasize the need of such schools. What
ever may be their excellencies in other directions, when the religion of the ma
jority is taught by law in the public schools, Seventh-day Adventists will feel the
need of other facilities for the education of their children. It is the part of wis
dom to provide beforehand for emergencies whose coming can be plainly observed.
FOREIGN CONFERENCES AND MISSIONS.
(Report of W. C. White, Foreign Mission Secretary.)
THE work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in other countries than the
United States and Canada, has employed, during the year 1888, twenty-six min
isters of the gospel, seven lay preachers (licentiates), ten editors, one hundred
colporters, fifteen Bible-readers, five teachers and business managers, and not less
than seventy-five translators, printers, and binders. Forty of these laborers have
been sent to these fields from the United States, twenty-eight of whom have been
wholly supported by the American churches. Of the one hundred colporters,
there are about seventy-five who are wholly self-supporting, and twenty-five who
receive some aid from the society. Twelve of the American laborers, and fifteen
of the twenty-five native preachers, translators, and Bible-readers, are wholly sup
ported by contributions from the churches where they labor; while the remaining
ten are supported partly by American, and partly by native, contributions.
During the past year, a large part of the time of those of most experience in
mission work, has been devoted to the education and training of younger laborers,
and to the writing, or revision and translation, of books indispensable to the
colporters, and necessary to the success of the work.
SCANDINAVIA.

Sweden. The past year has witnessed some increase in the number of Sab
bath-keepers in Sweden. A tent-meeting has been held by J. M. Erickson,
which was largely attended, and some eighteen or twenty have commenced to
keep the Sabbath. Two churches have been organized during the year, one at
West Boda, with sixteen members, and one at Gcffle, with fourteen members.
The, whole number baptized during the year was forty-seven. A good degree of
interest to hear the truth is manifested in many places. Since the close of the
mission school, twenty-eight colporters have been at work, and have had a good
degree of success, so that with a little assistance tiiej have paid their own way.
The aggregate amount of book sales up to Sept. 1, amounts to $5,410.09.
Sweden seems to be a good field for labor, but we lack both men and means to
push the work as would lie desirable.

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Denmark. Here also an increase of interest is manifest. A tent-meeting

has been held at Holbek the past summer, with a good degree of interest. Quite
a number have commenced to obey the truth. One new church was added to
the Conference. The whole number baptized was forty. Since the close of the
mission school, fourteen colporters have been at work. The book sales amounted
to about $558. In Denmark we find many calls for labor, and a rising interest
in a number of places. The obstacles in the way of the canvassing work are
very great, as the laws of the land are unfavorable to our plan of selling books.
Norway. Since the close of the Conference, K. Brorsen has labored in the
northern part of the kingdom, where he has met with very encouraging success.
On different islands there, he has found people very anxious to hear. In one
place eighteen had commenced the observance of the Sabbath at his last writing.
There are also Sabbath-keepers at other places. In Southern Norway, also, we
find an interest is being awakened at different places. Much could be done if
wo only had the needed laborers, and means with which to carry the work for
ward. We have in Norway seven active colporters. Since the close of our
mission school, their book sales have amounted to about $1,461.21. All of
them are of good courage, and some of them are meeting with excellent success
for this country.
Summary. There are now in Scandinavia twenty-four churches against
twenty-one last year, with a membership of 766, showing an increase of fifty-three
members since last report. Scattered Sabbath-keepers, not yet organized into
churches, number 365, making a total of 1,031 believers. Tithes and donations,
$1,585.31, against $593.38 last year. The number of ministers is eight; eolporters, forty-nine. Book sales for the year, $8,063. Books printed during the
year: "Life of Christ," in the Swedish language, 4,000; in the Danish, 4,000;
besides 4,000 Home Hand Books in each of these languages. Number of tracts
and pamphlets in both languages, and of all sizes, from a four-page tract to the
largest pamphlet, 135,000 copies. Periodicals printed: Tidende (Danish Relig
ious Journal), 24,000; Harolden (Swedish Religious Journal), 24,000; Danish
Health Journal, 90,000; Swedish Health Journal, 50,000; w-ith about 4,000 sub
scribers to each.
CENTRAL EUROPE.

In Central Europe we have witnessed the development of some very encour

aging features during the past year. Obstacles have presented themselves on
every hand, and have seemed to hedge up the progress of the work in every di
rection; but the providence of God has opened the way, amidst all the difficulties,
for the work to advance and gain strength. A goodly number of believers have
been added to our churches, especially in Switzerland and Russia.
The greatest opposition is met in Russia, yet the work advances more rapidly
there than in any other field under the care of this Conference. There are now
in the Crimea, the Caucassus, on the Volga, and in Southern Russia, 255 Sabbathkeepers in all. The only laborer in that field is C. Laubhan. The Russian laws
are growing more oppressive to Protestants, so that at present a Protestant min
ister is not allowed to enter Russia, or even pass through her territory.
Some interest has been awakened in Austria; but the papacy has such complete
control there that none of the later Protestant sects, sueh as the Methodists, can
hold public meetings in the empire, and in ease they meet with private families,
only such are allowed to attend as get permission to do so from government
officials. At present but little can be done in this field, except with reading
matter.
The most encouraging feature of the work in Central Europe during the past
year, is the success of the colporters. Until our first subscription book adapted
to the European field, the ""Life of Christ," appeared in the German and French
languages, about a year ago, the colporters had not been able to make their work

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self-supporting, ami could only be kept in the field at :i constant expense; but
during the past year, the work has been made self-supporting in Germany and
Switzerland, and a goodly number of workers have been kept in the field. At
present there are sir; companies in the field, numbering thirty-two canvassers.
These have sold during the year ending Oct. 1, 1888, about 7,000,000 pages of
reading matter, at a retail price of $17,000. Aside from the time spent on the
journals and a few tracts, our presses have been crowded, and about thirty-five
printers and binders have been kept busy to supply the demand for books. The
larger companies have regular hours for study each day, when the leader gives
instruction in the work, and on Bible topics. Much interest has been manifested
in Bible readings. As soon as means can be provided for it, doubtless much can
be done by city mission labor.
Another feature which is of special encouragement, is the success of the first
camp-meeting held in Central Europe. Much prejudice existed against such
meetings, many preferring to travel in the beaten track of centuries rather than
tabs a new and unpopular way. But notwithstanding, the meeting was appointed
to be held at Tramelan, Switzerland, Aug. 17-27, and the Lord signally blessed
the effort. The meeting was attended by more than two hundred of our people
from France, Germany, and Switzerland. The best of order prevailed, and be
sides being a great blessing to those present, the meeting had a wide-spread
influence abroad for the good of the cause. This was the largest gathering of
Sabbath-keepers ever held in Europe by our people.
Our publishing house in Basel is increasing in facilities, and enjoys a good
reputation and credit in business circles. During the past year, more than ten
million pages of reading matter were printed, as compared with a little more than
three millions of pages issued the preceding year. As our workers extend the
circulation of reading matter, the attention of the nations about us is called more
and more to our work.
During the past season, the mission has also witnessed the establishment of
its first school. All children in this country are compelled to attend school until
the age of fourteen; and so far, all efforts have failed to secure their exemption
from attending school on the Sabbath. The only way to accomplish this is to
have schools of our own. As a private enterprise, some of our brethren have
erected a dwelling, with the first story fitted for school purposes. In these rooms,
a primary school has been opened, where our children can enjoy the benefits of
an education without attending school on the Sabbath. As soon as facilities can
be provided, it is hoped to extend the school, that our people may receive a
higher education in the various branches of the work.
The Sabbath-keepers in this field now number not less than 314 in Switzer
land, 55 in France, 53 in Germany, 15 in Holland, 26 in Italy, 255 in Russia, 3
in Koumania, and 5 in Corsica, making a total of 726.
On the whole, we have reason for deep gratitude to God for what has been
accomplished in this field during the past year, and we trust that his guiding
hand will be over the work in the future.

For centuries England has been the battle ground of Protestantism and
Catholicism, conformists and non-comformists, truth and error. It is an old
country, and the customs of its people are stereotyped, notwithstanding its being
filled with controversies. Though the Episcopal Church is the established relig
ion, other denominations are at liberty to present their views i they choose.
A person is just as free in England as in America, to pitch a tent and hold
meetings for the purpose of teaching any religious views he may desire; but
notwithstanding this freedom, England is a very hard field of labor, owing to the
castes in society. Many of those who would be benefited by attending meetings,
will not come. This caste makes London the hardest field of labor in all En-

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gland. Yet it is advantageous iu one respect; namely, when a family become

interested iu the truth, the light extends to their friends in different parts of the
city, so there is no limit to the field, or the demand for laborers.
It is estimated that the average annual increase of houses in London, is over
fifteen thousand. Iu 1SS3 there were added 22,110 new houses to the vast
aggregate of dwellings, forming 368 new streets and one new square, and
extending a distance of sixty-six miles. It has an average of forty miles of
street opened yearly. It has four hundred daily and weekly newspapers. It is
estimated that one thousand ships and ten thousand sailors are in its ports every
day.
Such is the city in which our work is centered. The printing-ofllce, in which
Present Truth is published semi-monthly in an edition of five thousand copies,
was removed from Grimsby to 45 Holloway Road, London, in September, 1887;
and a business office was opened at 48 Paternoster Row iu April, 1888. A
training-school was also opened at the Chaloners, Auson Road, Tufnell Park,
London, N., in charge of Eld. D. A. Robinson and wife, just returned from
Africa.
The opening of the work in Paternoster Row is a move which has contributed
largely to the interest of the work in London. The church now numbers thirtythree, with a usual attendance on the Sabbath of fifty or sixty. The Sabbathschool has about fifty members. During the past summer a tract society has
been organized, and is meeting with much encouragement in sending out pub
lications. Not a few letters are received from different parts of the kingdom,
expressing a deep interest in the reading matter received, and, as a result, a few
have accepted the truths which we teach.
In June, 1888, Bro. Wm. Arnold arrived from Australia, and spent a few
weeks canvassing for "Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation." His efforts
were attended with marked success. The willingness to read on the subjects
pi cscnted in the Bible readings which have been held, is continually increasing,
and many families have become interested in different parts of the city. Several
soldiers at the barracks at Southampton have embraced the truth principally by
reading.
Small companies of Sabbath-keepers and isolated believers are scattered all
over Great Britain. There are a few in Ireland, a few in Scotland, and a few in
Wales. In 1888, one meeting-house was built at Ulceby, capable of seating
about two hundred. Believers in England are conscientious about paying their
tithe, and are ready to co-operate in any advance move among our people.
AUSTRALIA.
Prosperity has attended the work in this field the past year. Three laborers
have been employed, two of whom have labored largely in Tasmania. A com
pany of thirty embraced the truth in Hobart, the capital of that colony, and
about seventy iu other parts of Australia. Two canvassers have been in that
field, who have sold a great many books. Three hundred copies of " Thoughts
on Daniel and the Revelation " were sold in one town alone.
The printing work had grown so that the quarters first occupied became too
small, and as a building suitable for such work could not be rented, ground was
bought and a building erected, 33 x 65 feet, with press room 22 x 36 feet. The
main building is three stories high, the upper one of which is, for the present,- to
be occupied as a meeting room for the Melbourne church. The cost of the prop
erty will be not far from $13,000. Nearly one half of this amount has been sub
scribed in stock, and fifty per cent of the subscriptions paid.
The Bible Echo is now regularly on file in many of the libraries of the colonies,
and already the reading of that paper is bearing some fruit. Until January of the
present year, this paper was a monthly, but is now issued semi-monthly. Through
missionary efforts, a few are now keeping the Sabbath in Sydney, the capital of

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New South Wales, and that city is being worked by our canvassers. During a
portion of the past year, the great Melbourne Exposition has been in progress,
which has given a favorable opportunity to distribute reading matter. Space was
secured in which to exhibit our publications, and in this way the .Bible fJcho was
quite freely distributed. The work done at the Exposition has been somewhat
expensive, but we think it will pay in the end.
Since the organization of the Australian Conference the latter part of last year,
the demands for laborers in that field have been increasing, and we pray tiiat
God will raise up more workers to carry on the work to its final consummation.
NEW ZEALAND.

This colony, though a field by itself, is nevertheless much like that of Au

stralia, as far as our work is concerned. As in Australia, the truth has prospered
in this field during the past year. In Auckland, the largest city of the North
Island, a meeting-house has been built, and the church there placel on a perma
nent footing. In Napier, where the last tent effort was made, a deep interest
was manifested, and a good company identified themselves with the work of the
third angel's message. There are now three churches in the North Island.
In numerous localities an interest has been created through the reading of the
Bible Echo, and by the distribution of tracts. An excellent opportunity is af
forded in Auckland for doing missionary work on ships and steamers, as many
leave that port for the principal islands of the Pacific, as well as the ports of
Europe and America. Two ministers are laboring in this colony, besides quite a
number of experienced Bible workers. We have reason to be greatly encouraged
by what has been done in New Zealand since the work was opened there.
SOUTH AFRICA.
The work for the past year in South Africa has many encouraging features.
Through the efforts of those sent from America, aided by two native laborers,
about sixty have commenced the observance of the Sabbath, making the whole
number of believers about one hundred persons. In one place a church has been
organized with a membership of thirty-six, and a missionary society numbering
forty-five. The tithe for the past year amounted to $1,472.50, making a larger
average per member than any other church in the denomination.
The reports show that the brethren in South Africa are heartily interested in
evangelical work. They have given 407 Bible readings, made 2,380 visits, and
written 390 letters. Of books, pamphlets, and tracts, 1,466,452 pages have been
distributed by colporters, and 577,484 pages by members of the tract society.
The number of periodicals given away has amounted to 8,598, and 513 sub
scriptions have been obtained. The sale of publications has amounted to
$1,682.66.
Two libraries have been furnished with bound books, twenty reading-rooms
have been supplied with religious journals, and three with health and temperance
literature.
Tent meetings have been held in several places, and in some instances the
churches have been opened for the use of our ministers. Especially has this been
the case when the subjects of health, temperance, and practical religion have been
the chief topics presented. The curse of drink has had a blighting influence
upon Africa, and the need and value of temperance work are keenly felt by those
who have the genuine well-being of society at heart.
The canvassing work has been especially prosperous, and hundreds of our
books are now in the hands of earnest searchers for truth.

Of VORSAGH M\SS\OH
SUPPORT OF FOREIGN WORK.

The amount received for foreign missions by the treasurer of the General
Conference Association for the year ending June 30, 1888, was as follows:
Christmas Offerings.

SH a; ^

Christmas Offerings.

1888.
30,

CONFERENCES.

CONFERENCES.

$378.93

98.15

68.79
42.50

41 15

2 019 84
1 000 60
1 2r3 76

10.00

49.58

Ohio. ............ ....

788.48
585.29
600.41
663.17
513.13
OOQ (\A

Jlaine .........

ending
Mar.
OfWeeklfery ings,
Quarter

.....

233.70

44 55
21
34 29

34.86
12.25

6.59

NOT ORGANIZED INTO

CONFERENCES.

64 76
56.00
54.75
1.60
Total ................ 825.589.81

$1.231.48

Special gifts and payment of pledges amounted to $11,891.48, making a total

of $38,712.75. Other amounts, such as the Sabbath-school contribution to mis
sions, and the weekly offerings for the second quarter, which were not reported
in time to appear in this report, would show the total amount raised during the
year in America for our missions, to be $45,000. This, divided by 25,000, the
probable membership of the Seventh-day Adventist churches in America, shows
an average of $1.80 per member.
The amount received up to June 30, nearly $39,000, was appropriated to the
several missions as follows:
Central European......... ..................... ........ .$14,000
Scandinavian .......................................... 12,000
British................................................ 10,000
Australian and Pacific........................ .......... 3,000
But these amounts have not been sufficient to carry forward the work, and to
furnish an ample stock of books for the colporters; therefore the Treasurer has
borrowed such sums as seemed absolutely necessary to carry forward the work.
From a study of these figures, and of the work laid out for the present year,
we conclude that something more than $60,000 will need to be raised in America
for our foreign missions. This amount will probably be furnished as follows:
Christmas donations .................................... $28,000
Sabbath-school contributions ............................. 12,000
Weekly (first-day) offerings .............................. 20,000
This will leave the large gifts and the payments on pledges, to meet the debt
incurred during the past four or five years of building and stocking our mission
printing-houses.

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The question sometimes arises as to how far the work in these foreign coun
tries may become self-supporting. In Switzerland, aside from the publishing
house, the work has been self-supporting for nearly three years. In New Zea
land, all the expenses of the work are met by home contributions, except the
transportation of laborers from America. In South Africa, the friends of the
mission propose to meet its expenses from this time forward. In Victoria, Au
stralia, the tithes from the churches meet the expenses of all employed in that
colony. But in close proximity to each of these, with perhaps the exception of
New Zealand, there are extensive mission fields, calling loudly for help. Vic
toria is hut one of the tive Australian colonies, and we cannot expect the
churches of that colony to bear the burden of sending the message to New South
Wales, to South Australia, to West Australia, and to Queensland. This illus
trates the situation in Central Europe and other foreign countries. Our churches
in other lands are fully as faithful and self-sacrificing, in the support of the gos
pel, as the churches in America, and are as liberal, according to their ability, in
contributing to missionary enterprises. But we cannot wait for these churches
to gaiu strength to carry the message to the wide mission fields beyond. It is
evidently our duty largelv to increase the number of trained laborers, and the
Volume of contributions from the United States.
The question of our mission printing-houses' becoming self-sustaining, must
receive a similar answer. The subscriptions to the journals fall short, about
one fourth, of meeting the expense of their publications. The larger books,
which are sold by the trained colporters, meet the expense < >f publication, and are
a source of small profit. Some of the smaller works, while quite necessary, have
not sufficient sale to meet the expense of their publication. Should we continue
the publishing work as it is, without enlargement, it would nearly pay its way.
But this we cannot do.
There is now an urgent call for tracts and pamphlets in Russian, Polish, Hun
garian, Armenian, Finnish. Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Indian, Hawaiian,
and the native languages of the Pacific Islands. Besides the considerable expense
of translating and publishing a few small works in each of these languages, the
greater part of which must be distributed gratuitously, larger works are de
manded in the French, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. To trans
late and publish such a work as ' The Life of Christ,' 1 the "History of the Sab
bath," or "Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation," in four languages, requires
the investment of live to eight thousand dollars, to bring the books to comple
tion, and as long as the sale of any work is active, considerable capital must be
employed in printing it.
A considerable part of the money expended in our foreign work for the last
four years, has been devoted to building and equipping the printing-houses, and
in furnishing supplies of booksfor the eolporters. The present value of our mis
sion printing-houses and book depositories, above all indebtedness, is not far from
$65,000. As our foreign work enters new fields, new books will lie demanded,
and as the publication of each new work calls for capital, we shall need each year
to set apart a liberal sum for this [iurpo.se.
We earnestly hope that the friends of this work will carefully consider the
facts and figures given above, and thereby discern how small our efforts have
been, compared with the magnitude of the work, with the efforts of older and
stronger societies, and with what we may do, if each member of the church will
take hold of the work in earnest.

INTERNATIONAL TRACT SOCIETY

PROCEEDINGS.
TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION.
HELD AT MINNEAPOLIS, MIXN., OCTOBER 19 TO NOVEMBER 4, 1888.
S. If. Has/cell, Presiding Officer, Miss M. L. ffuntlfy, Secretary.
THE first meeting of this session was called Oct. 19, 1888, at 2:30 p. M.
After the opening exercises, it was ascertained that 107 members and delegates
were present, the representation of the different societies being as follows:
DELEGATES.
Arkansas, 1; California, 3; Colorad 1; Dakota, 8; Iowa, 15; Illinois, 5;

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Were made by the President relative to the object of the society, outlining
briefly the work thus far accomplished, and opening a vast field for future effort,
both in America and in foreign countries. He referred particularly to New York
City, which, with the adjoining population, constitutes the second city in size on
the globe; to its fifty-three lines of steamships which sail regularly to other
ports; to its 116 lines sending out steamships irregularly; and to its 199 local
river and coast lines; all of which afford excellent opportunities for the trans
mission of reading matter. Kansas City, through which 4,000,000 people pass
annually, averaging about 11,000 each day, and other central cities in America,
were referred to.
He also spoke of some of the large cities of Great Britain, London, with a
population of 5,000,000; Glasgow, with over 600,000; Liverpool, with 550,000;
Manchester and Birmingham, with 500,000 each; Dublin and Leeds, over 300,000
each; Sheffield, Edinburgh, New Castle, Belfast, Salford, aud Bristol, over 200,000
apiece, making an aggregate of nearly 10,000,000 people; while in the United
States, twenty-one of the largest cities contain less than 7,000,000 people. En
gland has 25,000,000 people, or 490 to the square mile. The most thickly popu
lated of the United States is Rhode Island, in which the average number of people
to the square mile is only 220. In Massachusetts, which ranks next to Rhode
Island in this respect, the average is 214 to the square mile. The State of New
York has only about 1,700 square miles less than England, and yet England con
tains only about 5,000,000 less people than half the number found in the whole
United States. London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Clifton have some of the oldest
and most noted scientific, religious, and missionary schools in the world.
Outlining the work to be accomplished in foreign countries where our views
have never been presented, except by publications, the President gave many in
teresting statistics respecting the wonderful progress made within fifty years by
the missionary societies ill these various countries. He spoke in particular of
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KNNUKL SUMMHRY OF MISSIONFUR THE YEAR ENDING

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c=
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meNo.
SOCIETIES.
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to
03

O
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'io
14

Ga. and Fla.... SO

/Illinois. ...... 38
28
04

Michigan ...... 44
New England.. 25
New York ..... 10
Nebraska ...... 17
Ohio ........... 49
Pennsylvania . .
Texas ......... 10
Tennessee ..... 10
TJpperColumbia 'is
Virginia .... . .
"West Virginia . 3
Wisconsin ..... 41

1,333
214
500
60
954
342
519
1,144
3.680
1,100
247
268
435
485
442
275
581
596

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A
'74
f81
56
c^ 4
44
;49
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^

Letters
written.

No. subs,
Visits made. Bible read obtained for
ings held. periodicals.
j

mem.

....

20
.'41
17
(-80
21
e23
e45

be
**

103
10.544
423
40
4 2.348
'166
129
263 1,620
792
651
150 1.101
511 2,539

Z
tc

5,090
1,77'0
713
5,492
1.618
8! 169
8,000
871

t-.

253
7,853 5,096
116
2,050
173
3,451
698
433
4.640 1.084
'920
4,544
928
96
5,394

450
2,042
459 2,488 8,013 7,007
610 1.158 1.140
140
108 9,384 4,735 2,983
1.128
750
21 1.599
260 2,383
1,649
5,838

214 57 21
78 e54 e!7
194 53
319 74 26
33
917

31
54

17
25

Totals ..... 401

13,988

55

24

Australia.... ..
Central Europe
Great Britain . . 10
New Zealand . .
Scandinavia - . .
South. Africa. .
4

126
249
56
73
70
45

Totals ..... 418

14,557

55
190
-77-

55

24

018
871
96
230
150
1,023
710
797 2,854 5,184
82
571
833
1,912 1,062 a,426

3,211 51,841 60,408 88,067

8
....

7,690
2.820

[80]

QO

37

48

858

271

81
10
93 1,240

17

93
30

370,591
76,498
221,369
1,682,000
8,275
99,380

257

69
516

177.264
213,237

13,815 22,618 13,261 14,027 13,250,967

287
32-2

179

17
g9Q
96
118 1.95!)
407

10
111
49
80S

1,466,452

15,324 14,950

15,136,688

93,651 14,818 23,993

a Includes canvassers and others employed by Conferences,

c Per cent of Conference members reporting.
e Church membership last year.
/ Nine months.
g One quarter.

152 1,526 2,457,921

586
024

321 1.027
499
828
188 '341
108
84
2,389
368
378 1,896
S3'-*
30
2 312
711
2,086
1,915

804
362
1,207
2,118
958
214 3,133
354
407
137
49
432
390
2,380 .....

3,219 55,111 63,541

Ill
647
8U4 8,840,225
4,877
101,570
330
563
88
21)
340,959
891
533
16,725
08
275
87
15
680
87.124
870
436,458
155
1.197 3,012
1,011 1,503.471
1,858
397 2,717,900
183 5,818

9,966 10,657 2,225 2,420

10,935
3,155
25

369

57
t-38
61
(il
65
'74
59
e76

26
35
e!2
31
31
M6
C44
18
55

tfi

62 e!8

o-J

Otmem.her
!~

iag'stributeds.
Pages
publicationsdby
of

419,169

HRY LHBOR HMD STATISTICS.

JUNE 30, 1888.
1
No. periodicals Publications sold.
distributed.

publicationsby
of
Pages
otdistrhiberuted

rTotof
Soci
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1
~a

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of

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fuety
nds.

pledges.

Secretary.

'11

aj
Sj

59.790
1,760,938
200,621
786,714
78,159
898,861
544,918
501,156
270,112

1,233 $ ....... $ ....... 8 ...... $ ...... i 482.93 $ ....... $ . ... 8 482.93

73,140 347,581
1,940.95 351.02 6,514.87 4,332.85
8,820.48
33
100.00
5,005.54'
3,595 28 1,826.67
597.80
4,529 2,345.39
78.30
628 19,568 2,063.30
134.86
50.54
3,069.96
6.161.40
6,819.50
5,725.09
279.14
1,884
9.77
82.55
1,219.00
40.50
30.00
1,520.83
2,144
943.75
15.20
2,034 39,087 4,773.70
546.93 10,441.36 7,289.49 21,500.00 21,041.57
11,076 16,775 5,373.88
15,764.61
105.93 "IMS' 6,207.83 2,976.65
45,744 .'i'maj'
6,207.83
381.19
8,777.42 3,379.85
230,109
10,199.55

1,310,206
2,120,000
179,624
204,605
1,000,089
187,761
649,481
888,000
503,207
1,205,S70

2,518 161,465
48,675
7.4T8
9;928
17,855 54,496
23,997 11,089
28,884 66,128
28,000
32.516
84J817

200,846
40,000
145,183
264.920
89,888
878,999

4,566.67 1,390.75
6,075.18 4,050.12
312.57
1,376.64
250.00
3.904.14
237.09
1,'687.29
6.87
7,326.00 2,312.42
2,000.00
2,93L83
300.00
8,641.36
446.23

2,947

6,296 3,686.02
900.00
1,000
325.92
9,399
15,328
203.41

451

597
49,940 1,727.71

403

39.84
67.64
924.14
839.26
16.00

'mis'

36.60
377.97

10.00

101.76

71.85

17,479,295 160,450 12,33,863 $63,273.46 $11,942.39 $4,810.01

214,488
46,239
101,780
32,420
843
577,484
18,452,549

30,818

9.590
7^118
4,923
6,200
8,282
8,598

6,500.66 '"iisi'
1,579.50
4,457.58
1,383.68

48.64

m64'

191,268 1,278,568 $77,194.16 $12,285.77 $4,853.65

- 13,474.37 8,871.00
396.50 13,336.96 12,507 98
854.35
19.27
801.24
2,642.89 5,093.35 8,633.86
52.00 9,758.97 2,447.88
5.52
3.987.69 2,082.74
1,784.88 6^94.98 6,392.84

12.506.00

3,000.00
2.823.00
3:955.00
4,869.70
6,000.00 3,500.00 2,000.00
5,419.67
10,591.80
68.46' 10,925.17 5,052.33 1,200.00

17,333.72
17,637.99
854.85
5,963.81
13,658.43
6,488.11
15,683.00
9,754.03
14,160.65

3,188.84
759.04 2,389.80
1,277.97
179.99
872.10
2,320.65 1,309.65 1,080.00
1,698.06
551.28 7,614.70

3,568.84
1,355.47
2,804.75
3,671.81

431.99
84.27
5,189.69 2,200.65 15,648.50

431.99
9,054.97

$414.26 $126,753.36 $69,682.16 $96,441.20

$196,120.35

97.77
80.05
83.66
92.96

180.89
306.03

742.07
258.27
iwiso'
1,656.17
16.37
358.48
1,815.9B '1,665.61

550.66

$900.58 $131,593.68 $71,385.27 886,991.23

" " 353.37

1,724.56
" " 358.48
$198,456.66

6 Per cent of Conference members belonging to the Tract and Missionary Society.
d Probably more than half of the labor performed by "agents" during the year is included in
the report of " other members "in this summary. Where the report of agents is not given separately,
it is included with that of other members.

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India, which contains over 256,000,000 inhabitants, of whom nearly 3,000,000 are
claimed as Christians; of China, where it is said that 26,000 embraced Chris
tianity last year, and in which the Christian population is estimated at 50,000;
of Japan, having over 200 organized churches, with nearly 20,000 members, of
whom over 4,000 were added during the past year; of Africa, which embraces
the Congo Mission, with over 1,000 converts; of the West Indies, Greenland,
and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Many of the missions in these countries
have a direct connection with London, by means of training-schools and other
institutions for their support in that city. In all these countries, there are many
English-speaking people, besides a large number of natives who have embraced
Christianity.
The necessity of issuing publications in the Russian, Polish, and other lan
guages was also mentioned.
SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S WORK.
This was presented by the Secretary of the society, as follows:
In proportion to the time covered, it little differs from the report of last year.
It represents the labor performed by about one fourth of the church members, or
a little more than one half of the tract society members. In Pennsylvania, over
one half of the church members report labor performed. In Dakota, eighty-one
per cent of the church members are members of the tract society. The increase
iu tract society membership is 1,254, over one half of which has been added in
four States, Minnesota, Ohio, California, and Michigan. The highest average
of book sales per church member was iu Nebraska, $13. T6. In Pennsylvania,
the average was $10.77. The average iu ten societies was less than $5.00.
The whole number of cities entered by canvassers, Bible workers, etc., in this
country, is 106; within the territory of foreign societies, forty. The number of
cities within the limits of the State societies, containing 20,000 or more inhabit
ants, not yet entered, is fifty-eight, of which twenty-four are in the New En
gland Conference; within the limits of foreign societies the number reported is 232,
of which 114 are in Germany, and 109 in Great Britain. In this country, 318
libraries contain our bound books; in foreign countries, 123. One hundred .and
thirty-four reading-rooms are supplied with religious periodicals in this country,
and eighty-seven with health and temperance periodicals. Australia supplies 250
reading-rooms with religious periodicals; the British Society, 108. The British
Society also supplies 240 reading-rooms with health and temperance periodicals,
also the same to fifty-six ships.
The work of the International Society in the distribution of publications dur
ing the year, has extended to China, South Africa, Holland, the West Indies,
Pitcairn, and various other islands in the Pacific Ocean, through persons now labor
ing in these countries. It has sent publications to these several localities and
others too numerous to mention, by mail and otherwise. Several sets of bound
books have also been placed in large and influential colored schools in the South
ern States. [Oct. 19.]
FIXAXCIAJ. ItEPOKT.

Cash on hand at beginning of year. ...................

Receipts during the year...........................

$7,061.97
7,414.28

Total ................................................ $14,476.25

Expenditures........... ..........................
Balance on hand...................................

$5,192.04
9,284.21

Total................................................ $14,470.25

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SOCIETIES ADMITTED.
ARKANSAS, AUSTRALIA, NORTH CAROLINA.

These newly-organized societies were received by the International Society,

and interesting incidents given by S. H. Lane, J. P. Henderson, and J. M. Kees,
from the Southern field, showing that the publications sent there during the
last few years have won many warm friends among the best citizens. [Oct. 22,
24.]
COMMITTEES FOR THE SESSION,
(Appointed by the Chair.)
ON NOMINATIONS. I. D. Van Horn, Wm. Ostrauder, G-eo. B. Starr.
ON RESOLUTIONS AND PLANS FOR FUTURE WORK. "W. C. White. L. R.
Conradi, A. T. Robinson, C. Eldridge, G. G. Rupert.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
COMMITTEE ON MANUAL FOR BOOK-KEEPING, PASS-BOOKS,
REPORT BLANKS, 6tC.

This committee, consisting of L. C. Chadwick, H. P. Holser, and C. Eldridge,

reported verbally through the last-named member, stating
1 . That the duties assigned to them had been performed, and presenting the
printed books, blanks, etc., which they had been recommended to prepare; also
calling attention to certain defects therein.
2. Voted, That the Chair appoint a committee of three to examine the blanks
in the members' pass-books, also the librarians' and district and State secretaries'
report-blanks, and to suggest such changes as will make all such blanks corre
spond. [Oct. 24.]
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON BLANKS, ETC.

L. C. Chadwick, E. W. Farnsworth, and R. M. Kilgore were appointed as

this committee. They reported as follows :
Your committee appointed to examine the blank reports in the members'
pass-books, and those for the use of librarians and district and State secretaries,
and to suggest such changes as will make all such blanks correspond, would
respectfully submit the following :
We find by a careful examination of these blanks, that (1.) the reports in the
members' pass-books contain a few items that are not in the other blanks; (2.)
all these blanks have been prepared with a place for reporting the amount of
first-day offerings paid to the librarians by the members; (3.) this item was
inserted in these reports to assist in carrying out the fourth recommendation of the
Committee on Finance, found on page 45 of the Year Book for 1888 [page 56
of this Year Book], said recommendation having been adopted by the General Con
ference at its last session. We find further, that (4.) after the last General Con
ference closed, a recommendation was made through the Jiemew, that the firstday offerings be paid to church treasurers, instead of librarians, although we
cannot find that any reason was given for the change. We find by consulting
with several State secretaries, that (5.) this change has caused a great deal of
confusion, and necessitated a great many explanations of the blanks; therefore
in view of these facts,

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First-Day Offerings to Be Paid to Librarians.
1. We recommend, That the Committee on Resolutions, either in the Interna
tional Tract Society or General Conference, or both, present a resolution at this
session of these bodies, indorsing the recommendation adopted last year, above
referred to, and advising our people everywhere to pay their first-day offerings to
librarians, with their quarterly reports. [Oct. 28. See Resolution \, page 56.]
Blanks to Be Bevtsed.
2, Resolved, That we request our publishing houses to print a revised blank
for the use of librarians and district aud State secretaries, at once; and we urge
our State secretaries to order the new blanks in time to supply the district and
State secretaries before the close of this quarter. [Committee ou Resolutions,
Nov. 2.]
3. Resolved, That the Chair be empowered to appoint a committee of three
to prepare copy for the revised blanks, which shall be made to correspond in
every particular writh the blanks in the members' pass-books; said copy to be
furnished to the representative of the publishing houses at this meeting, so that
there need be no delay in issuing the blanks. [Committee ou Resolutions,
Nov. 2,]
L. C. Chadwick, Geo. B. Starr, and M. L. Huntley were appointed.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS AND PLAN'S.
Members of committee: W. C. White, L. R. Conradi, A. T. Robinson, C.
Eldridge, G. G. Rupert, whose amended report stands as follows:
As we consider the wide range of usefulness, and the many lines of mission
ary effort provided for in the Constitution of the International Tract Society, \ve
are led to inquire to what extent the operations of the society may be made to
correspond with the provisions of the Constitution.
As this is not the foreign missionary society of the denomination, and as con
fusion often occurs from our common use of the term "missionary society," we
recommend the term " International Tract Society," as a convenient title for gen
eral use, aud a pleasant substitute for the abbreviation, ' T. and Jl. Society."
Art. II., Sec. 3, gives as one of the objects of the society, "to secure an exten
sive and systematic distribution of our publications in foreign countries, and in
those portions of our own land not included in State organizations."
Art. IV. reads, " It is the duty of the Executive Board to carry out the decis
ions of the society; to furnish publications and employ agents as they may see
fit; to audit all accounts; aud to fill any vacancies that may occur in their num
ber by death, resignation, or otherwise."
By a careful examination of the resolutions and decisions made by the society
at its last meeting, we see that eighteen of them related to the work of the State
societies, and three, wholly or in part, to the great Held outside of these organi
zations. AVhatever has been done by the society in the execution of these sug
gestions, is due to the faithfulness of the Secretary, for the Executive Board was
so scattered, that during the year it has been impossible for more than three of
its members to assemble for consultation, and therefore it has not really per
formed the duties of an Executive Board.
We would respectfully suggest that while the society should have secretaries
and business agents in every land, we believe that its Executive Board should be
composed of members, a majority of whom can assemble as often as once in three
months for executive council.
When we consider the immensity of the foreign mission field, and are re
minded over and over again that there are scores of countries in which we are
not at present prepared to locate missionaries; and when we consider the fact

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85

often demonstrated by experience, that the most successful and iuexpcusive way
to introduce the gospel into these lands, is by means of publications, we must
conclude that the International Tract Society could do a most glorious work, and
be a most important auxiliary in the foreign missionary operations of our people,
by the early publication and wide circulation, by correspondence and through
agents, of religious tracts and pamphlets in those languages, and among those
people, not provided for as yet by any of the publishing houses of the denomina
tion.
There arc at present urgent calls for publications in the Russian, Spanish, Por
tuguese, Armenian, Greek, Chinese, Indian, Polish, Bohemian, Finnish, and Ha
waiian languages, and in the native tongues of the Pacific islanders. In most of
the above, there are persons coming to the light who feel a deep interest for their
countrymen, and are anxious to engage as soon as possible in the work of circu
lating the publications among them. In several cases their anxiety is so great
that they have begun, upon their own responsibility, the translation of some of
our smaller books into their native languages. There is already quite a stir
among some of our people, because we are so slow in the matter of printing in
these tongues.
Why should not the International Tract Society enter upon this important
work immediately? It ought not to interfere with the work of any of our pub
lishing houses, nor should it assume burdens that they are willing to carry. But
there is a great and important work outside and beyond the range of their oper
ations, which no one seems to be planning for, and which is very important and
urgent. And wbo would be expected to feel the burden of this work, if not the
officers ol the International Tract Society?
There is another branch of international work which promises a rich harvest,
the placing of our publications within the reach of the tens of thousands of
summer tourists from every nation, tongue, and people who visit Switzerland,
Southern Germany, and parts of France, during the summer season. It is by far
the surest and quickest way to get the truth before these people. The tourists
are usually from the most influential classes of the nations that they represent.
They are the most inquiring, intelligent, and wealthy, and are just the ones to
carry the third angel's message to the ends of the earth.
This field is a wide one, and it is ripe for the harvest. The efforts of Eld.
Wm. Ings have demonstrated the fact that the best hotels entertaining tourists,
will gratefully accept flies of our religious journals, in the English, German,
French, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish languages. Why should not the Interna
tional Tract Society take hold of this great work?
We might depend upon the missions in whose territory the work was done, to
bear one half of the expense of the distribution, and in those fields where we
have co missions, the International Society could bear the entire expense.
Another line of work which is of the greatest importance, might be set in
operation on a much broader scale than at present, by the holding of a three
months' school, or institute, for the training of foreign missionary correspondents,
and secretaries for the foreign branches of the International Tract Society. Per
haps two or three such institutes might be held during the coming year, under
the leadership of the Secretary of the society. While the class is in progress, as
well as afterward, its members should labor by correspondence, to secure the in
troduction of religious reading matter into all the colonies and to all the nations
where as yet we have no living missionaries.
Each of these lines of work will require for its successful accomplishment the
careful planning and active co-operation of a wise and energetic committee.
Should there not be at this meeting a definite apportionment of the surplus
funds of the society to these most important enterprises, and the appointment of
a committee to take charge of each appropriation? For example, ought we not to
appropriate $1,000 in cash, to meet the expense of the distribution of such read
ing matter as shall be donated to the society by the printing-houses of the denom-

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ination? also $500 or $1,000 to furnish publication x, stationery, and postage for
the use of the Secretary and her classes of missionary correspondents? also
$2,000, to begin the work of translation and publication of tracts into those lan
guages whose people have not as yet heard the third angel's message?
We believe that a liberal fund might be raised for this latter work. Some of
our brethren would gi ve freely to it.
If it i thought that a tnree mouths' course at the proposed institutes for the
instruction of international correspondents and secretaries, is sufficient, it would
appear that there ought to be three such institutes held the coming year; one in
Battle Creek, one in Chicago, and one in the Eastern States.
Your committee would respectfully submit the following resolutions:
FOREIGN" WORK.

fund for Translating Publications.

1. Resolved, That $2,000 of the surplus fund of the International Tract

Society be appropriated to the translation and publication of such tracts in
foreign languages as our publishing houses have not published, and are not
prepared to publish. [Oct. 80.]
In harmony with this action, the following resolutions (2 and 3) were
adopted by the Executive Board:
Tracts in Various Languages.

2. Resolved, That leaflets of four pages each be issued on the subjects of the
Second Advent, the Sabbath, and the Suffering of Christ, in the Russian, Polish,
Bohemian, Finnish, Armenian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Maori lan
guages, and that an illustrated work on the last-named subject be prepared as a
pioneer publication, acceptable to both Catholics and Protestants. [Nov. 14.]
I!. Resolved, That the International Society secure the translation of these
publications, furnish the plates and paper, and request each of our publishing
houses to print free of charge such editions as are needed in adjacent territory.
[Nov. 14.]
Fund for Distributing Publications.

4. Resolved, That $1.000 of the surplus fund be appropriated to meet the

expenses of distributing in foreign lands such reading matter as may be donated
by our publishing houses. [Oct. 30.]
The Executive Board appointed S. N. Haskell, L. R. Conradi, and D. A.
Robinson, a committee to take charge of this fund. [Nov. 11.]
Committee to Supply Shifts with Sending Matter.

5. liesulved, That S. N. Haskell, M. L. Huntley, and C. Eldridge be a com

mittee to supply ships with reading matter during the year, the expenditure not
to exceed $2,000. [Executive Board, Nov. 17.]
Contributions /Solicited.

(i. Kesolved, That we invite liberal contributions to the International Tract

Society, to increase its funds, that the objects for which it was designed may be
advanced. [Oct. 30.]
I'nstilutes to Develop Secretaries, etc.

T. Resolved, That institutes be established for the training of young people

of different nationalities to act as secretaries and correspondents with their re
spective people. [Oct. 30.]
In .harmony with No. 7, the following resolutions (8-10) were adopted by the
Executive Board:

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87

8. Resolved, That we make arrangements for such an institute to be held in

Chicago, in March or April. [Nov. 17.]
Foreign Missionary Societies in Our /Schools.
9. Resolved, That we request the Battle Creek College to encourage the or
ganization of a foreign missionary society among the students, the object of
which shall be to enable them to become better informed concerning foreign
countries, people, methods of work, etc. [Nov. 17.]
Missionary Library.
10. Resolved, That whenever such a society is established by the College, the
International Society will meet half of the expense (not to exceed $50) of provid
ing missionary periodicals and books for a special library ; and that the same
offer be extended to other schools. [Nov. 17.]
HOW LOCAL SOCIETIES MAY BECOME ACTIVE.

All Church Members Should He Workers.

Whereas, Our spiritual growth depends upon our laboring for others ; there
fore,
11. Resolved, That we urge upon all Seventh-day Adventists the duty of be
coming members of and workers in the tract and missionary society. [Oct. 30.]
Weekly Meetings in Each Church.
Whereas, Our interest in the work depends largely upon the time and thought
we devote to it ; therefore,
12. Resolved, That we recommend the holding of weekly meetings, even by
small churches and companies ; and further,
13. Resolved, That we indorse the plan of uniting the missionary meeting and
the prayer meeting, where it is not thought practicable to devote an entire even
ing to each. [Oct. 30.]
Canvassing and Bible Work not the only Missionary Work.
Whereas, The efficiency of the tract society depends upon the activity of its
entire individual membership, and the working of all its branches ; therefore,
14. Resolved, That the introducing of new and efficient methods of labor,
such as canvassing and Bible work, does not lessen the importance of other
branches of our work, such as personal labor by visiting, and the loaning of books
and tracts, also the mailing of tracts and periodicals, and missionary letters; and
it is our conviction that souls may be brought to the knowledge of the truth in
these ways, that would be reached in no other. [Oct. 30.]
Correspondence between Societies.
15. Resolved, That we encourage an interchange of correspondence between
local tract societies, through the State officers; and that the officers of State so
cieties correspond freely with each other. [Oct. 30.]
The following originated with the Executive Board :
16. Resolved, That the President be requested to write an appeal to Confer
ence Committees and State tract societies, setting forth the necessity of employ
ing secretaries or assistant secretaries to carry on the work of corresponding with
local societies, scattered members, etc., thereby maintaining a healthful interest
and activity in missionary work, said appeal to appear in the Review or Review Ex
tra. [Nov. 17.]
The appeal was written, and the recommendation is being adopted generally.

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THE CANVASSIXIr WOKK.

Canvassers Removing from One State to Another.

17. Resolved, That no canvasser remove or be removed from any State to work
in another, without permission from the State agents of both sueh States, or from
the State secretaries, in case there are no State agents. [Oct. 31.]
Conformity, or No Books.

18. Resolved, That we are opposed to our publishing houses' furnishing books
to agents who do not conform to the rules adopted by this society, whether in
territory controlled by the publishing houses, or in the territory of any State
society." [Oct. 31.]
Cn.ih, or Its Equivalent.

Whereas, The tendency of the credit system is to burden our canvassers and
tract societies with debt; therefore,
19. Resolved, That we recommend the State societies to adhere to the rule
adopted at the 1886 session of this society, which reads as follows: "Our tract
societies shall do a cash business witli agents,' 1 recommending that acceptable
security be given, or the C. O. D. plan adopted, where cash cannot be paid in ad
vance. [Oct. 31.]
Canvassimj Companies and Leaders.

20. Itemized, That we recommend the State agent to organize his canvassers
into companies wrherever it is practicable to do so, and appoint a leader for each
company ; said leaders to direct the movements of their companies in harmony
with the plans of the State agent, and to canvass on commission when not en
gaged in assisting agents. [Nov. 2.]
MISCELLANEOUS.

The State District and Its Members.

21. Resolved, That we recommend that the names of canvassers, Bible work
ers, and all who are employed by the Conference and tract societies, be trans
ferred from the register of the local societies and districts, and placed upon a
State list, called the State district; and that they be recommended to obtain
their supplies from the State society, and make their contributions and reports
to the same. [Oct. 81.]
22. Resolved, That the Secretary of the International Tract Society be re
quested to send a circular letter to each of the State secretaries, giving full
explanations of the intent of the above resolution (21), and suggesting the best
methods for carrying it into effect. [L. 0. Chadwick, Oct. 31.]
A Series of Lessons on Missionary Work.

23. Resolved, That the international officers, with competent assistants, be

requested to furnish a complete series of lessons, giving thorough instruction in
various branches of the missionary work. [Oct. 31.]
Home Missio>t.tinj Journal and FourtJi >S(ibbath Readings.

Resolutions concerning a monthly missionary journal and the fourth Sabbath

reading (referred to the Executive Board and the General Conference Com
mittee) , were disposed of as follows :
24. Resolved, That the International Society publish a monthly paper to be
called the Home Missionary, to contain the fourth Sabbath readings, and such
other matter respecting home and foreign missions as the committee may think

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profitable to be read on the Sabbath, the price, to be ten cents a year [now
being issued regularly]; and that E. W. Farnsworth, D. T. Jones, W. C. Sisley,
A. T. Jones, and Miss M. L. Huntley be a committee to provide tor the fourth
Sabbath readings during the year. [Nov. 17.]
Missionary Department in the " Review."
25. Resolved, That we request of the Central Publishing Association a
missionary department in the Review (also a supplement, when thought advis
able), to be conducted by such persons as the Trustees may appoint.
J. 0. Corliss aud Miss M. L. Huntley were chosen Nov. 17 to take charge of
this department, which is now being conducted.
Committee to Examine New Hooks, etc.
26. Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed by the Chair to examine
the new works issued during the year by our several publishing houses, in this
and other countries, and to make suggestions as to the field of usefulness of
each. [Oct. 31.]
COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE NEW BOOKS.
This committee consisted of L. C. Chadwick, E. E. Miles, C. A. Hall, D. T.
Jones, L. R. Conradi, J. F. Hansen, and D. T. Bourdean. They reported Nov. 2,
as follows:
Your committee appointed to examine the new works issued during the year
by our several publishing houses, in this and other countries, and to make
suggestions as to the field of usefulness of each, would respectfully submit the
following report:
"Bible Readings for the Home Circle."
1. We find the new book, "Bible.Readings for the Home Circle," greatly
improved in its appearance and arrangement over the old collection of readings,
and believe it to be worthy of a wide circulation. We recommend that our
State agents make a thorough effort to enlist those who have had some expe
rience in Bible work, and such others as in their judgment should engage In Its
sale, and that our Bible workers use it as a help in conducting Bible readings.
" Great Controversy."
2. We find that the "Great Controversy," in its revised and enlarged form,
is much improved, and its selling qualities greatly increased. It presents in a
clear and concise manner the reasons for the views which it advocates, thus be
ing better adapted to the general reader than the former edition, which was more
especially intended for our own people; and we heartily recommend it as one of
the most important of our subscription books.
"Prophetic Lights."
3. It is the opinion of the committee that " Prophetic Lights " is well
adapted for use as a premium book with our periodicals, to awaken an in
terest in the study of the prophecies, and create a demand for " Thoughts on
Daniel and the Revelation," and other publications on the same subject. We
regard it as worthy of a wide circulation, and recommend that a vigorous effort be
made to secure subscriptions for the Signs of the Times, using the paper-covered
book as a companion volume; and also that the book in cloth binding be placed
on sale for those who do not wish to avail themselves of the combination offer.

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" leathers oj' the f'atholic Chitrcli.''
4. We believe the "Fathers of the Catholic Church" to be a valuable book
for all students of the Bible, and especially adapted to such as do not have in
their libraries more exhaustive works on the history of the church. We would
especially recommend it to ministers, Bible workers, church officers, missionary
workers, and others who wish to prepare themselves to maintain the claims of
the Bible Sabbath against those who would attempt to overthrow it or weaken
its cliiiuis, by referring to the example and teachings of the early Fathers.
_Y<'ft> Pamphlets in French.
5. We hail with pleasure the appearance, in French, of three new pamphlets;
viz., "Exposition of Matthew 24," revved; "Truth Found; " and "Immortality,
or Christ Our Life;'' and we invite our people, especially our French brethren,
to give them a wide circulation, using the first-named pamphlet largely as a
means to open the way for the introduction of other works.

6. The publishing house in Basel, feeling the necessity of preparing our pub
lications in such a way as to meet the wants of the German field, has revised and
prepared a number of pamphlets with this in view, by adding or using valuable
testimony from standard German authors. Though but recently printed, some
of these have already attained a large circulation, and have proved a great help
in the canvassing work in Europe. Your committee would therefore also rec
ommend these publications for extended use here; namely, "Matthew 24," an
illustrated pamphlet, to be used by the canvassers and the tract societies in gen
eral, to awaken a desire for other reading matter pertaining to present truth; the
"Ministration of Angels," which, especially the second part, has been rewritten
and revised; the pamphlet, "Truth Found," which is well adapted to be used
by our missionary workers, to give their German neighbors n short, comprehen
sive reason for the observance of the Sabbath.
" The Prophecies of Jesus."
7. This is a \vork of about 350 pages, now published in the Danish and Swed
ish languages, written by Eld. J. G. Matteson. It is divided into four parts: (1.)
The prophecies of Christ in Matthew 24, concerning wars, famine, pestilence, and
earthquakes, love waxing cold, and the gospel being preached to all nations;
the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, fate of the Jews, great tribulation of the
elect, signs in the sun, moon, and stars, and the coming of Christ; the fulfill
ment of prophecy, as proved by interesting extracts from history. (2.) Prophe
cies of the apostles concerning the last days, such as 1 Tuess. 5; 2 Thcss. 2;
1 Tim. 4; 3 Tim. 3; 2 Peter 3; and Acts 2: 19, 20. (3.) Prophecies of Daniel
a brief exposition of Dan. 2 ; 7 ; 8; 11; 12. (4.) Prophecies of John briefexposition of Kev. 12; 13; 14; 15; 19; 21. The whole is a summary of the lect
ures given by Eld. Matteson to the Scandinavian people on these subjects, pre
sented in a brief and very simple manner. The book contains thirty illustrations.
Bound in cloth, price, $1.00.
" The Seign of the Saints with Christ a Thousand Years, aiul the
Gathering of Israel to Their Land."
8. This pamphlet, 144 pages, eight illustrations, is in Danish and Swedish,
by the same author. It presents the doctrines of the Scriptures on the points
mentioned. These questions are at present much agitated among the Scandina
vians, as well as other nations. Paper cover, price, 25 cents.

" The New Earih."

9. Tills is an old work by the same author, revised and improved la appear
ance, and accompanied with eight illustrations. It shows how the saints will
inherit the earth when it is made new, and paradise is restored, after the second
coming of Christ. It is a hook that is read with interest by the Scandinavian
people everywhere. Paper cover, price, 25 cents.
" Sundhedsvenn&ti " and " Helsov&nnen."
10. These are the names of health journals published in Danish and Swed
ish, edited by J. H. Kellogg, M. D., and Eld. 3. G. Matteson. It goes out in the
spirit and after the manner of Good Health, 12 pages, monthly, illustrated, price,
eighty cents per year. Of this journal, L. J. Damm, M. D., professor of chemis
try in the Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons, says: " After perus
ing the first number of Helsovilnnen, I think it is an excellent paper, and if it
gets its merited circulation, it will do a great deal of good in the families of our
countrymen." Your committee would recommend that the Scandinavian mem
bers in our various State societies make a vigorous effort to circulate the abovementioned book, pamphlets, and journals among all the Scandinavians who can
possibly be reached with them.
The "Abiding Sabbath and the Lord's Day."
11. This is a pamphlet of about 175 pages, in the English language, by Eld.
A. T. Jones, being a review of the $500 and $1,000 prize essays. We believe it to
be worthy of a more extended circulation than is usually given to our pamphlets of
the same size. To secure this, we recommend that the publishers make a special
discount to the tract societies, on this pamphlet, if they can consistently do so,
and that the tract societies take steps to secure for it not only a large sale, but
where it is practicable, that the State societies, through the agency of the local
societies, try to have it placed in the hands of editors and prominent men every
where.
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
Members of committee: I. D. Van Horn, Win. Ostrauder, Geo. B. Starr,
whose recommendation that the following-named persons act as officers for
the coming year, was adopted Oct. 31, without amendment:
EXECUTIVE BOAKD. S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, L. R. Conradi, D. A.
Robinson, 0. A. Olsen, W. C. Sisley, A. J. Breed, C. Eldridge, Geo. B. Starr.
OFFICERS. Pres., S. N. Haskell; Vice-Fres., W. C. White; Sec. Sec.,
T. A. Kilgore; Cor. Sec., M. L. Huntley; Treas., Review and Herald Office; Assl.
Secretaries, Anna .L. Ingels, Mrs. F. H. Sisley, W. A. Spicer, H. Y. Holser, Josie
L. Baker, Elizabeth Hare, Mary Heilesen, Mrs. C. L. Boyd, Mrs. Eliza Palmer.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
The following were offered by W. C. White, and adopted Oct. 28:
1. Resolved, (a.) That Article II., Section 2, be stricken out; (b.) that Section
3 be numbered 2; (c.) that Section 3 shall be: "To publish, and to secure
the publication of, tracts and pamphlets in those languages wherein there is a
call for reading matter that cannot be readily obtained from any of the Seventhday Adventist publishing houses;" (d.) to add the following, which shall be
called Section 6: "To place religious books and periodicals in public libraries
and reading-rooms in all parts of the world."
2. Hesolved, That Article III. be so amended as to read: " The officers of
this society shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, a Record
ing Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and as many assistant secretaries as
may from year to year be deemed necessary, and an Executive Board of nine, of
which the President and Vice-President shall be members."

INTERNHTIONHL SHBBHTH-SCHOOL
HSSOCIHTION PROCEEDINGS.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION,
HELD AT

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. OCTOBER 18

TO NOVEMBER 3, 1888.

C. H. Jones, Presiding Officer; Mrs. Jessie /*. Waggoner, Necrelai-ij.

THE session was opened with the usual exercises, after which (the Secretary,
Mrs. E. II. AVhitney. beinir absent) Mrs. Jessie 1'. U'ajjsfuner was chosen Sec
retary pro tern.
THE DELEGATES,
According to Article II. of the Constitution, consisted of all accredited minis
ters, and all members aud workers from any Sabbath-school association, who
were present.
INTKODUCTOKY REMARKS.
The President gave an interesting sketch of the Sabbath-school work, com
paring the number of schools, members, amount of contributions, etc., for 188S,
with those of 1887 and previous years, each item showing a marked increase.
The extension of the work in foreign fields England, Norway, Sweden, Den
mark, Switzerland, Russia, Africa, South America, the islands of the Pacific,
etc., was referred to as a source of great encouragement and an unmistakable
evidence of Divine favor, demanding, in return, gratitude of heart, and more
earnest labor in the future.
ASSOCIATIONS ADMITTED.
On report of S. II. Lane, J. P. Hendersou, and J. M. Rees, who gave an in
teresting historical outline of organization and present standing, the following
associations were welcomed into the International Association:
AVSTHALIA,

Embracing six schools, with 350 members.

ARKANSAS,

Consisting of fourteen schools, with a membership of 350.

NORTH CAROLINA,-

With four schools, and seventy-five members.

GEOKBIA, FLORIDA, SOUTH CAROLINA,

Combined as one association, comprising seventeen schools, with 165 members.

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TOPICS FOR CONSIDERATION.

The attention of the Association was called by the President to the following
subjects to be considered during the session: (1.) The Senior Lessons for 1890;
(2.) Articles in the Signs and Review upon the subjects of these lessons; (3.) Chil
dren's meetings at the camp-meetings; (4.) The Sabbath-school Worker; (5.) The
Sabbath-school Manual; (6.) Contributions for the coming year.
The President also appointed Miss LUlie Afiolter to read an essay upon
"Object Teaching for the Little Ones; " E. J. Waggoner, to give an address on
"The Sabbath-school and the Home,Their Proper Relation;" and Jessie F.
Waggoner, to present " Our Present Needs."
COMMITTEES FOR THE SESSION.
(Appointed by the Chair.}
ON
ON
Miller,
ON

NOMINATIONS. R. M. Kilgore, A. T. Robinson, A. J. Breed.

RESOLUTIONS. E. J. Waggoner, C. C. Lewis, M. C. Wilcox, M. B.
W. W. Sharp.
AUDITING. F. E. Belden, M. H. Brown, A. D. Olsea.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.

Members of committee: E. J. Waggoner, C. C. Lewis, M. C. Wilcox, M. B.

Miller, and W. W. Sharp, who reported Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2, as follows:
Gratitude to God for Prosperity.
1. Resolved, That we recognize the blessing of God in the prosperity that
has attended the Sabbath-school work during the past year, both in the line of
the organization of new schools and associations, and in the increased interest
on the part of those previously engaged in the work; further,
2. Resolved, That this blessing shall be received by us only as an incentive
and an encouragement to greater consecration to the work.
Converted Teachers Necessary.
Whereas, The sole object of the Sabbath-school should be to lead souls to
Christ, and no one can lead another in a way which he himself does not know;
therefore,
3. Resolved, That we again recognize and emphasize the necessity of having
converted teachers in the Sabbath-school.
Knowledge of Sabbath-School Work Recommended to All.
Whereas, The formation of new schools rests largely in the hands of the min
isters, and the instruction given at the time when the school is organized has
much to do in shaping its future course; therefore,
I. Resolved, That we urge all who labor in the field to become thoroughly
and practically familiar with all branches of Sabbath-school work; and further,
5. Resolved, That we request the officers of the various Conferences to insist
that such knowledge shall be a necessary qualification of those whom they send
out to labor in the ministry.

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Correspondence JVot to Me Neglected,

Whereas, The experience of the past has shown that our Sabbath-schools
have made the most progress when a systematic correspondence has been kept
up with them by the officers of the Association; therefore,
6. Resolved, That while we would most earnestly encourage personal work
by the officers to as great an extent as possible, we express it as our belief that
nothing can take the place of regular correspondence, and that we urge the State
secretaries to keep in constant communication with all the schools in their re
spective associations, so that they may know the exact standing of each, and be
enabled to give the instruction that is needed; and further,
7. Unsolved, That it is the sense of this Association, that when a State as
sociation has secured a competent secretary, she should be encouraged to devote
her entire time to this work.
CAMP-MEETIXG

SCHOOLS.

Instruction to He Given at each Greeting.

8. Resolved, That the International Association send a representative to each

State camp-meeting, to direct and aid in giving instruction to officers and teach
ers, and to counsel with the State officers concerning the best means to advance
the Sabbath-school work in the State.
Children's Meetings.

Whereas, Good results have followed the holding of children's meetings in

connection with our camp-meetings, and the lessons and suggestions sent out in
pamphlet form have contributed much to this success; therefore,
9 Resolved, That still greater attention be given to this branch of the work,
and that we request that a few additional lessons and suggestions be prepared to
be used in connection with those already in use, and that the subject of temper
ance be included in the list.
Camp-meeting Supplies.

10. Resolved, That each State Sabbath-school associatiou order its camp-meet
ing supplies from the General Association, and pay for them from their State fund.
SABBATH-SCHOOL

PUBLICATIONS, LESSONS,

ETC.

The " Sabbath-school Worker."

Whereas, The officers of the Association need a medium of communication

whereby they may give instruction to the officers and teachers of the Sabbathschools throughout the world; and,
Whereas, This medium needs to be in a form convenient for reference, and
separate from matter that is designed for general circulation ; therefore,
tl. Sesolved, That the Executive Committee be authorized to revive the
Sabbath-school Worker, as a quarterly, in such a form as they think best.
[Twenty pages, 25 cents a year. First number issued.]
The " Youth's Instructor. "

Whereas, There is an urgent call from all parts of the field for a paper de
voted wholly to the Interests of the children; therefore,
12. Resolved, That we request the Review and Herald to adapt their excellent
paper, the Youth's Instructor, to meet this want. [Being adapted.]

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Children's Lessons in the "Instructor."

13. Resolved, That we request the Executive Committee to furnish, and the
Review and Herald Office to publish in the Instructor, a continued series of
children's lessons in place of the lessons for the senior division. [Two new series
will probably begin in July.]
Form of Lesson Pamphlet.
14. Resolved, That we request the Executive Committee to issue the Senior
Lesson Pamphlet in such form that it may be conveniently carried in the pocket.
[Issued.]
Lessons on Liberality.
15. Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested to have a series of
lessons prepared upon tha subject of tithes and offerings, to begin in July, 1889.
[Written.]
-,
Health and Temperance Lessons.
I
16. Resolved, That we request the preparation of lessons upon health and !
temperance, to be used as soon as practicable.
:
Object Lessons for Little Ones.
IT. Resolved, That we request the Executive Committee to secure the pub
lication in pamphlet or book form of a series of object lessons for little ones
from three to six years of age, on the life of Christ, to be accompanied with
illustrations, instructions for teaching, and appropriate songs. [Being prepared.]
Tent-meeting Lessons.
18. Resolved, That we request the Executive Committee to prepare at once a
series of lessons for adults, suitable for use in connection with tent-meetings.
Use of Contributions for 1889, etc.
Whereas, The General Conference has voted to buy and use for missionary
purposes, if found to be suitable, the ship in which Eld. Cudney sailed for Pitcairn Island; and,
Whereas, The work which has been begun in Russia, and which has prospered
in the face of the greatest difficulties, is much crippled for lack of means; there
fore,
19. Resolved, That we recommend that all our Sabbath-schools throughout
the world devote their missionary contributions for the first quarter of 1889 to
the purchase of the above-mentioned ship; that the contributions for the second
quarter be given to the Russian Mission; and that the contributions for the re
maining half of the year be devoted to the establishment of a city mission in
Hamburg, Germany; and further,
20. Resolved, That we request the Executive Committee to prepare, as soon
as possible, a statement containing as much information as can be secured con
cerning the Missionary Ship, and also interesting items relating to the situation
and work in Russia and Hamburg, which shall be sent to all the schools, in order to
make more real to the pupils the objects for which they contribute.
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
This committee consisted of R. M. Kilgore, A. T. Robinson, and A. J. Breed.
Their report as amended (Oct. 23) is as follows:
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.C. II. Jbnes, W. C. White, E. J. Waggoner, A. T.
SMnson, F. E. Belden, E. W. Farnsworth, Roderick S. Owen.
OFFICERS.Pres., C. H. Jones; Vice-Pres., W. C. White; Sec., Mrs. C. H,
Jones; Cor. Sec., Jessie F. Waggoner; Treas., Pacific Press.

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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE III.

1. Section 1 was so amended that the office of Treasurer is now separate

from that of the Secretary, also that the Secretary need not he on the Executive
Board, as follows: "The officers of this Association shall consist of a President,
a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Corresponding Secretary, and an
Executive Board of seven, of which the President and Vice-President shall be
members. These officers shall be elected annually." [W. C. White. Oct. 23.]
ARTICLE V.

2. Section 2, as far as it pertained to the treasurer, was struck out, and a

third section added, as follows: " The duties of the Treasurer of this Association
shall be to receive and hold all moneys belonging to the Association, giving re
ceipts therefor, and paying out the same as the Association or the Executive
Board may direct, through the written order of the President.'' [E. J. Waggoner,
Oct. 29.]'
MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS.
FIXAXCML STATEMENT OF

THE

I.VfEHXATIOXAL SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.

YEAH EXDIXG OCT. 10, 1888.

Receipts.

Balance on hand, Oct. 31,1887, on International Sabbathschool Association funds ...................... $ 499.29
Balance on hand on African Mission donations, Oct. 81,
1887.........................................
536.96
Received on tithes, donations, and sales............... * 664.39
Received on account African Mission..................
4,131.65
Credit account African Mission, by overcharge on map
27.21
Received on London Mission.........................
3,934.28
Credited on Sabbath-school lessons...................
135.00
Credited by overcharge on supplies...................
2.25
Total ............................... ................

$9,931.03

Expend'itnres.

Paid for lessons, camp-meeting supplies, etc... ..........

Paid for map of Africa out of mission funds............
Paid for postage and stationery. .....................
Paid to lesson writers ..............................
Paid to African Mission ............................
Paid to London Mission ............................

$ 447.19
237.05
23.67
156.00
4,458.77
3,934.28

Total ................................................

$9,256.96

Balance on hand, Oct. 16, 1888 ...........................

$674.07

STATISTICAL SUMMARY.

The President read the following report for the year ending June 30,
1888:
Number of schools June 30, 1888..... ...........................
Increase over last year.......................................
New members enrolled........................................
Members dropped from record.................................

955
40
25,294
17,978

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Gain in membership. ............................. . . .......
8,172
Present membership. ............... ...... ..................
25,560
Present attendance. ...................... ...................
18,743
Number of scholars who are church members ....................
11,849
Number of classes. ..........................................
3,583
Number of members in senior division ..........................
12,361
Number in primary and intermediate divisions ....................
9,913
Number of Instructors taken. ..................................
11,170
Contributions received by schools (1887). . ...................... $11,010.64
Contributions received by schools (1888) ........................ 16,944.56
Donations to missions to June 30, 1887. ........................
2,233.07
Donations to missions to June 30, 1888 ........................ 10,076.01
Donations to State associations, June 30, 1887 ..................
994.22
Donations to State associations, June 30, 1888 ...................
1,346.70
Donations to International Association to June 30, 1887. .........
141.30
Donations to International Association to June 30, 1888. ...........
217.07
BEPORTS FROM STATE ASSOCIATIONS.

Short verbal reports were given of the Sabbath-school work in California,

Dakota, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York,
and Nebraska. Most of these reports were of a very encouraging nature, show
ing that not only the number of schools and amount of contributions are increas
ing, but that the interest in the work is greater than ever before. In some places
there has been a very marked improvement. Plans are being laid in every State
to facilitate the work in the future, and there is every reason to believe that there
will be a grand forward march in all the associations during 1889.

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KSSOCIHTION PROCEEDINGS.
TENTH ANNUAL SESSION,
HELP AT MINNEAPOLIS.

MINK.,

OCT.

36-31,

1888.

J. ff. Kdiorjf/, M. D., rrcsidimj Ojficer ; L. ,T. Rousseau, Secretary.

ANNUAL SUMMARY :
Three new State societies have been organized during the year Arkansas,
Georgia and 'Florida, and Upper Columbia (eastern part of Oregon and Washing
ton Territory). The State organizations which have been actively engaged in
the work, offer universal testimony thut the interest of members is good, and
that there is an appreciable improvement in public sentiment in favor of health
and temperance. Most of the State societies have held interesting and wellattended meetings in connection with the carnp-meetiugs, resulting in an increase
of membership and much good generally.
Special iustructiou in health and temperance and social pnritv topics was
given in connection with the special course at Battle Creek College, and al
connection with several of the State camp-meetings.
MICHIGAN.
Four new clubs have been organized during the year, and 167 new names added
to the membership, one of whom was a moderate drinker, and three, tobacco
users. Seven others were tea and coffee devotees. Twenty-two meetings have
been held, some of which were of great interest. Children's meetings were also
conducted in connection with the camp-meetings, resulting in much profit.
MAINE
Sends a report of considerable literature distributed.
ILLINOIS.
Three new clubs have been organized, with forty-eight new members.
ifleetings have been held, and the interest in the work is good.

Six

The health a,nd temperance work in this State received a new impetus at the
recent camp-meeting and meetings held just previous. Excellent work was done
at the camp-meeting, and thirty new members added.
COLORADO.
A large number of lectures have been given, followed by a good interest.
Three clubs have been started,, arid more than fifty new members added. The
President has been greatly hindered in his work by illness.
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MINNESOTA.

Six new clubs have been organized, and 274 persons have become members,
the majority of whom signed the teetotal pledge. Of these, seventy-five were
tea and coffee users, six, tobacco devotees, and three, moderate drinkers. There
have been distributed 150,000 pages of health and temperance literature, and
over 200 meetings have been held.
WISCONSIN.
The work in this State was wholly re-organized one year ago, since which
time the interest has been increasing. Four clubs have been organized, and
167 full members and ninety-four pledge members added during the year.

This State, which previously had a large membership, has added sixty-nine
full members and 174 pledge members during the year. Two new clubs have
been formed.
Lectures have been given and other efforts made in the line of health and
temperance work.
NEW YORK.
Interest in the work is increasing. Temperance meetings which have
resulted in much good have been held in various parts of the State. Fifty-two
additional members have been received during the year, and 112,360 pages of
health aucl temperance publications distributed.
PENNSYLVANIA.

Meetings of the State society were held in connection with the camp-meet
ings, and considerable interest awakened. Eighteen additional members are
reported.
KANSAS.
The work in this State has been wholly re-organized within a short time.
The interest is good. Two clubs have been formi d, and 250 members added.
Some of the States where work has been done, have sent in no report.
AN OPENING ADDRESS
Was delivered hv the President, in which he compared the past and present
of the health and temperance work in America, esp ciall.- among Seventh-day
Adventists, demonstrating, 1 y interesting inci> ents and experiences of travel in
other countries, in America, and among our own people, the necessity for more
thorough acquaintance with the principles of sanitary reform.
Short and entertaining reports were then given by different persons whose
time had been wholly or in j art devoted to the advancement of the health and
temperance work during the year. 8. N. Haskell spoke o i th question of " Health
Reform in the Old World," and showed the aJva .cement that had been maJe in
the last lew years. The efforts therj seem to ba more energetic than here, and,
consequently, there is a den and for temperance literature. The Good JImtih has
a hearty reception in England. la Lo don alone there or over 100 "vegetarian
restaurants,-' where this journal is now read eagerly by thousands. An interest
ing report was also received from J. N. Loughborough, one of the editors of the
Pacific Health Journal.

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COMMITTEES FOR THE SESSION.

Ox NOMINATIONS. D. T. Jones, E. H. Gates, H. L. Phelps.

ON RESOLUTIONS. W. H. Wakeham, M. H. Brown, L. C. Cliadwick.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
Introductory.
Whereas, Reports from different parts of the field indicate a general advance
in the health and temperance work, and a desire on the part of our people to
understand its principles; therefore,
1. Resolved, That we express our gratitude to God for these favorable indi
cations, and hereby pledge ourselves anew to the advancement of this important
branch of the third angel's message.
A Request to State Conferences.

2. Resolved, That in accordance with the recommendation of the General

Conference at its session of 1886, each of oar State Conferences be requested to
appoint one or more persons to devote themselves especially to the health and
temperance work, and that these persons be encouraged and assisted to prepare
themselves for this branch of the work.
INSTRUCTION

KECOMMENDED TO BE GIVEN

In the Churches.

3. Resolved, That we earnestly recommend our ministers, church elders, and

leaders to qualify themselves to give instruction iu the principles of true health
reform.
In the Sabbath-Schools.

Whereas, We recognize in the Sabbath-schools one of the most potent agencies

in the education of our people; therefore,
4. Resolved, That we recommend the Executive Committee of the Interna
tional Sabbath-school Association to secure the preparation of a series of health
and temperance lessons, to be used at the earliest opportunity. [E. J. Waggoner,
C. C. Lewis, and W. H. Wakeham were appointed to confer with said committee.]
5. Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association that the teaching of
health and temperance principles should be combined, as far as practicable, with
the Sabbath-school work, and that we earnestly request the officers of our State
Sabbath-school associations to give due attention to this work.
v. At Health and Temperance Club Meetings, etc.

Whereas, The plan of sending out monthly readings has proved a great bene
fit to the local tract societies; and,
Whereas, We believe a similar plan carried out in our health and temperance
clubs, would result in much good; therefore,
6t Resolved, That we request the officers of this Association to secure the
preparation of monthly readings on the subject of health and temperance, to be
sent to the secretaries of the State societies for distribution to the local clubs,
and to the officers of such churches as have no temperance clubs.
At Camp-meetings.

7t Resolved, That we request the State Conferences at each of their annual

camp-meetings to give time equivalent to one hour a day to the health and tem
perance work.

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At Some, by Consistent Example.

8. Resolved, That we endorse the teachings of the " Testimonies " on this
question, and recommend our people everywhere to study carefully and put in
practice the principles therein brought to view.
Whereas^ The experience of individuals and the concurrent testimony of physi
cians, conclusively prove that much disease and deformity result from improper
dress ; therefore,
9. Resolved, That we recommend the adoption of such wearing apparel as
will permit the free action and healthful development of all the muscles and or
gans of the body ; and,

Circulating Health and Temperance Literature.

10. Resolved, That we urge upon all our people the importance of increasing
the circulation of our health journals, and distributing such other literature as
will advance the interests of the health and temperance work.
IT. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the C_iir, to devise
plans during the coming year, for carrying on a system of missionary work with
health and temperance literature. [W. H. Wakeham was appointed chairman.]
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
The report of this committee, consisting of D. T. Jones. E. H. Gates, and H.
L. Phelps, was adopted as follows :
Pres., 3. H. Kellogg, M. D.; Vice-Pres., D. A. Robinson; Sec. and Treas., Mrs.
E. E. Kellogg.
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Article III. was amended to include the presidents of all State associations
as members of the Executive Committee.

CENTRHL SEMENTH-DHY HDMENTIST

PUBLISHING HSSOCIHTION PROCEEDINGS.
TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION,
HELD AT MINNEAPOLIS, MISS., OCT. 25, 26; AND AT BATTLE CREEK,

Mien., NOV. 7, 1888.

The President, Geo. I. Butler, being absent on account of sickness, the first
meeting was called to order by the Secretary, W. H. Edwards, and opened by
prayer, as usual, after which U. Smith was elected chairman pro tern. The min
utes of the last annual meeting were then read and accepted, followed by the re
port of the Treasurer, A. R. Henry, which stands as follows:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL S. D. A. PUBLISHING

ASSOCIATION,
For Eleven Months, ending Oct. 1, 1888.
RESOURCES.

Real estate. ..................................... $ 54,200.00

Accounts receivable ............................... 103,050.64
. Notes receivable..................................
12,377.19
Due from banks .................................
11,666.72
Cash on hand ....................................
2,701.94
Office donations .................................
1,632.22
Inventory:
Material .......................... $31,506.04
Unfinished work ................... 16.747.49
Books on hand..................... 68,595.77
Type .............................
8,360.37
Cuts and engravings................
7,381.00
Machinery, etc ..................... 45,296.68
Plates and molds ...................
9,379.92
Fuel..... .........................
1,000.00 188,267.27
Total.... .................................. ......... .$373,895.9
LIABILITIES.

Notes payable ....................................$ 101,152.30

Demand notes..................................... 25,752.32
Capital stock...................................... 4S,790.00
Accounts payable.................................. 69,615.79
Donations and legacies ............................. 14,532.33
Surplus .......................................... 116,401.75
Net gain for year ending Oct. 1, 1888.................
3,651.49
Total................................................. $373,895.98
The Auditor certifies that the accounts have been correctly kept.
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COMMITTEES.
The following were appointed by the Chair at the legal meeting held at Battle
Creek :
ON NOMINATIONS. I. D. Van Horn, B. M. Kilgore, D. E. Lindsey.
ON RESOLUTIONS. C. Eldrldge, E. W. Farnsworth, Dan. T. Jones.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions originated with the committee appointed at Minneapolis.
whose report was indorsed by the committee appointed at the legal meeting, as
follows :
1. Resolved, That we express our gratitude to God for the prosperity which
has attended the Association during tbe past year.
2. Hesolved, That we express our sincere sorrow for, and sympathy with.
Eld. Geo. I. Butler, President of this Association, in his sickness, which prevents
his being present at our annual meeting, and assure Mm of an Merest in our
prayers.
3. Hesolved, That we approve of the action of the Trustees, in providing for
the establishment of branch offices in Chicago, Toronto, and some point in the
South.
4i fiesolvecl, That we request the Trustees to take immediate steps to establish
a branch office in London, England, if in their judgment it is deemed advisable.
[The Trustees subsequently requested the Pacific Press to establish this branch.
Arrangements are being made to do so.]
5> Voted, That the Board of Trustees be authorized to take the necessary
steps for the reorganization of the Association, as far as in their judgment seems
advisable.
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
The following is th3 adopted report of the committee appointed to nominate
the Trustees of the Association for the year:
TRUSTEES. Geo. I. Butler, A. K. Henry, U. Smith, C. Eldridge, H. W.
Kellogg, Harmon Liudsay, F. E. Beldeu.
The Board was subsequently organized as follows :
OFFICERS. Pres., Geo. I. Butler; Vice-Pres. and General Manager, C. Eldridgfe; Kec., F. E. Belden; Treat., A. R, Henry; Auditor, H. W. Kellogg.
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. Geo. I. Butler, U. Smith, F. E. Belden.
SKSTCH OF THE CENTRHL. PUBLISHING
HSSOCIHTION.
THIS Association (commonly known as Review and Herald) was organized at
Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. The building then occupied is shown in the
upper left-hand corner of the illustration ; the other buildings, with their accom
panying dates, represent the principal stages of growth since that time.
The main structure, averaging three stories high, now has a street-frontage
of 120 x 185 ft., is supplied with two steam elevators, and equipped for doing
first-class book and job printing, book-binding, and stereotyping and eleetrotyping,
on an extensive scale, having twelve steam presses of various sizes (including a
large $6,000 stop-cylinder, just purchased), several hand presses, steam and lever

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105

paper cutters, machines for folding, stitching, embossing, and ruling, besides a
full equipment of machinery in the foundry, an electric dynamo, etc., etc., ail of
which are operated by an engine of 100 horse-power.
The building on the opposite side of Washington St. is 50 x 100 ft., two and
a half stories high, with an addition recently built, capable of holding $60,000
worth of finished books. This building is devoted to the general business offices,
sales-room, packing and shipping departments, etc., and is connected with the
main building by a telephone system and speaking tubes. Both buildings are
heated by steam, and lighted by electricity, and have a combined aggregate floor
space of 50,000 sq. ft., more than an acre.
The number of pages o denominational books, pamphlets, tracts, periodicals,
etc., issued during eleven months of the year ending Sept. 30, 1888, is as fol
lows :
COPIES.
PAGES.
Review and Herald ....................... 416,000
6,656,000
Youth's Instructor. ........ .............. 534,000
2.413,333
Gospel Sickle............................. 162,500
1,300,000
Tidende (Danish)........................ 61,600
985,600
Harolden (Swedish)...................... 53,300
853,800
Herald der Wahrheit (German) ............. 58,700
939,200
Bijbel Lezer (Dutch) ...................... 22,700
363,200
Total ........................... 1,308,800
Books, pamphlets, tracts ...... ...................

23,017,014

Grand total pages..........................

36,528,146
Total number of pages issued since the organization of the Association,
518,246,893.
Weight of books shipped out during the eleven months referred to, 125 tons;
periodicals, fifty-four tons. Book sales (wholesale rates), $69,693.53.
Besides the publishing of denominational literature, the manufacturing de
partment has turned out during the year other work to the amount of $88,176.76.
Over 200 persons are employed in the institution at the present time; average
number of employees, 175.

PHCIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPHNY

PROCEEDINGS.
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION,
HELD AT OAKLAND,

CALIFORNIA, APKIL 23, 1888.

IN the absence of the President, S. N. Haskell, Vice-President C. H.

Jones presided. After the opening exercises, interesting remarks were madr by
the Chair, in which he called attention to the new building erected during the
year, the new machinery purchased, the book sales, and the circulation of period
icals, giving a general summary of the work done. He reported the financial
credit of the institution as excellent.
The revenue account and balance sheet for the year ending March 30, 1888,
were then read by the Secretary. These showed the net profit for the year to be
$9,159.36, and the surplus capital, $26,006.30.
-

PACIFIC PEESS PUBLISHING COMPANY BALANCE SHEET.

APKIL 1, 1887, TO
MAKCH 31, 1888.

BALANCE op AC
COUNTS.
Dr.

Cal. Pub. Fund (don.)

Certificates of deposit
$18,669.56
' Job Printing Dep't. . . 44,754.16
Book Binding Dep't. . 8,763.94
Sub. and trade book. 33,409.96
Signs of the Times. .. 3,187.41
American Sentinel . . .
Boarding House ...... 2,591.59

Or.

LOSMB.

954.11

2,431.49

860.50
855.04
73,268.62

Gains.

Resources.

Liabilities.

$38,510.00

13,379.10

$16,846.94
$60,206.93
9,074.49
35,009.96

67,500.00

Accounts payable ....

u
receivable . . 57,605.72

REVENUE STATE FINANCIAL STATE

MENT.
MENT.

$38,510.00
13,379.10
16,846.94
81,828.65
70.248.86

Machinery plant ..... 40,457.59

Office f urni ture ...... 2,794.92
Office fixtures. ....... 2,000.00
Miscellaneous prop . . 2,096.47
997.60
Editorial library .....
Sundry expenses ..... 12,648.45
Prov. for Accrued Int
" Doubtful Debts

Inventory.

$3,137.41

2,426.36
165.23
72,550.00
40,094.00 '"863.59
2,768.25
26.67
2,000.00
2,024.70
71.77
898.60
99.00
70.00 2,361.49
12,648.45
1,750.00
300.00

15,452.77
5,310.55
1,600.00
954.11
5,050.00

$18,669.55
60,206.98
9,074.49
85,009.96

81,828.65
70,248.86

2,426.36
72,550.00
40,094.00
2,768.25
2,000.00
2,024.70
898.60
70.00
1,750.00
300.00

860.50
855.04

73,268.63
1,892.97

1,892.97

$296,751.82 $296,751.82
$227,128.29

16,846.94
Net Gain to March 31 IBS'7
Net Gain from ApTil 1, 1887, to March SI, 1888. . 9,159.36

$46,929.91 $46,929.91

26,006.30
$305,291.53 $305,291.53

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PACIFIC PRESS PUBU&HINC COMPANY.

arv-:-^ ' -.'.rJf,V!i..y9 lM?. ornce

los
COMMITTEES.
Ox NOMINATION'S. N. C. Me Clure, Wm. Healey, John Morrison.
ON RESOLUTIONS. E. J. Waggoner, W. C. White, A. T. Jones
,

STOCK

REPRESENTED.

There were 1,178 shares represented by stockholders present, 1,126 by proxy.

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The following were presented and adopted, interspersed with interesting re
marks by Mrs. E" G. White, C. H. Jones, W. C. White, E. J. Waggoner, G. C'.
Tenney, and others :
Whereas, The blessing of God has been upon the work in a marked measure
during the past year. (1) in enabling us to make such extensive improvements
in building and machinery: (2) in protecting the workers from any serious aecident during the progress of the work; (3) ID aiding the managers to establish
the office upon a solid financial basis; (4) in giving us the confidence of the
better portion of the people, not only of this vicinity, but of the State; and (5i
in prompting all to work together so harmoniously ; therefore,
1. JKesolved, That we have abundant reason to be grateful to Him, and that
we will show our gratitude by more humbly and faithfully doing the work that
He has given us to do.
J. Resolved, That with gratitude we note the enlargement of our denomina
tional work in the Pacific Press, in the publication of books in the foreign lan
guages, and in the increase for the year just past of more than 5,000,000 pages
over the work of last year.
Whereas, Eld. S. N. Haskell, who during his seven years' presidency has done
much to build up this institution to its present position, has now been called to a
foreign field ; therefore,
3. Resolved, That our thanks are due to him for the interest that he still
feels in the work here, an evidence of which is seen in the letter of advice, coun
sel, and encouragement that he has sent us, and that we hereby assure him that he
is not forgotten, but that we sympathize with him in his arduous labors in trying
to establish the work in London, that our prayers ascend to Heaven in his behalf,
and that we will aid him in that work by every consistent means.
4. Besolved, That we approve the action of the Trustees in changing the
name of the corporation from "Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Associa
tion," to "Pacific Press Publishing Company," as a step which will simplify
business transactions, and prevent much misunderstanding.
Whereas, At our annual meeting one year ago it was voted to recommend the
immediate erection of such a building as would enable the office to meet pressingwants ; and,
Whereas, With the smallest possible outlay, a building has been erected, and
is now in use, which for economy of space and facility in transacting business, is
acknowledged by all competent judges to be a model of its kind ; therefore,
5t Resolved, That we heartily approve of the improvements that have been
made, believing, the wisdom of the action has already been demonstrated ; and
further,
<i, Resolved, That it is but just that we express our appreciation of the un
tiring energy and able management of Bro. C. H. Jones, to which, under the
blessing of God, is largely due the present prosperity of the institution.

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109

Whereas, There is a large number of young men and women employed at the
Pacific Press, many of whom have not completed even a common school educa
tion ; and,
Whereas, These young people are capable of becoming much better workmen
and better members of society if they will but carry forward a regular line of
study while learning and practicing their trades; therefore,
1. Resolved, That we recommend the managers of the office to establish
an evening school for book-keeping, arithmetic, language, and the science of the
printing business.
8. Resolved, That we approve the proposition of the Board to establish a
branch office in New York City, and the stationing of an agent there to purchase
material, keep a stock o our publications, and work up a wider sale of our sub
scription books in the Eastern States.
9. Resolved, That we heartily adopt the resolution passed at the last annual
meeting of the Central Publishing Association, recommending the calling into the
office of young men and women of talent and Christian character, who shall be
given an opportunity to gain a general knowledge of the publishing work, while
thoroughly learning one of its branches; and further,
10. Mesolved, That the recent agitation by the Labor Union has demonstrated
the wisdom of manning the office with those whose interests are identified with
our special work.
11. Voted, That the Chair appoint a committee of three to prepare a tele
graphic cipher, and circular explaining the same, to be used between this office
and the Bible Echo office in Australia. [The Chair appointed as this committee,
G. C. Tenney, W. C. White, and E. M. Morrison.]
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
This committee submitted the names of the following persons, who were
elected for the year:
DIRECTORS. S. N. Haskell, C. H. Jones, J. N. Loughborough, Wm. Saunders, W. C. White, Joseph Leininger, M. J. Church.
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. E. J. Waggoner, W. C. White, C. H. Jones.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held April 25, 1888, the following or
ganization was effected:
OFFICERS. Pres., C. H. Jones; Vice-Pres., Wm. Saunders; Sec., S. C.
Stickney; Treas., E. A. Chapman; Auditor, Geo. H. Heald.

SKETCH OF THE PHCIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING

COMPHNY.
THIS Association (under the name " Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing
Association " ) was incorporated April 1, 1875, with a capital stock of $28,000.
In the following year the first building was erected, since which time, as shown
by the illustration, the constant growth of business has required a corresponding
increase of buildings and equipments, until now this establishment is the largest
and most complete printing and publishing house west of the Rocky Mountains.
The main building, corner Central Ave. and Castro St., is 68 x 100 ft., four
stories high, including basement. Nine cylinder and three job presses are kept
in constant operation, and about 175 hands are employed in the various depart
ments. The entire investment in real estate and stock amounts to over $225,000.
The manufacturing depai tments are located in the new building, and occupy

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large, spacious rooms. The first story is occupied by the job printing depart
ment, job stock-room, with counting-room and business offices in front. Above
this, on the second floor, is located the main composing-room, with editorial
rooms in front, while the bindery occupies the entire third floor. The book and
stationery department requires the larger portion of the building first erected,
facing Castro St., and the electrotype and stereotype foundry is located in the
boiWing jtist in the rear of this, the whole aggregating a floor space of 50,000
sq. ft.
There are two steam elevators, one in the new building and one in the old,
with street entrances, and landings on each floor. The new building is heated
entirely by steam, and all the departments are connected by a system of speakingtubes.
This Company, like the Review and Herald, has two branch offices. One is
in San Francisco, and one in New York.
The following statement shows the number of pages of periodicals, books,
pamphlets, etc., printed at this office for the year ending: March 31, 1888:
COPIES.
PAGES.
Kigjia of the Times........... .......... G94.4.00
11,110.400
American Sentinel. ...................... 253,000
2,034,000
Pacific Health Journal....... ............ 26,000
832,000
Pages books, pamphlets, and tracts printed
18,700.800
Grand total pages........................
32,6(57,200
The total business done during the year amounted to $163,935.42. Tons
of books shipped out for year ending Sept. 30, 1888, seventy; periodicals, fifty.

FOREIGN PUBLISHING HOUSES.

CENTRHL, EUROPEHN.
THE office of publication in Central Europe was established in 1884, at Basel,
Switzerland. The building is a stone structure, 64 x76 ft., four stories high, and
is well equipped with type, presses, engine, binders, machinery, etc., representing
a total Investment of nearly $60,000. Thirty-nine persons are employed in the
institution.
Its management is in the bands of a board of seven appointed annually by the
General Conference Committee, and for the yi;ar 1889 consisting of H. P. Holser,
J. H. Waggoner, E. W. Whitney, L. R. Conradi, and J. Erzenberger. A publish
ing committee is also appointed, the members at the present time being J. H.
Waggoner, H. P. Holser, L. R. Conradi, A. Kunz, and J. Vuilleumier.
The total number of pages printed at this office for the year ending Sept. 30,
1888, is as follows:
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND TRACTS.

In the French language..............................

In the German language..............................
In the Dutch language..............................

4,773,600
5,388,000
214,000

Total pages..................................

10,374,600

PERIODICALS.
Les Signes des Temps (French)...........................
Educatmr Missionaire
"
...........................
Harold der Wahrheit (German)..........................
Missions ArMter
"
...........................
Ultimo Messaggio (Italian)...............................

45,550
2,000
41,350
2,000
2,000

Total pages......................................

92,900

Grand total of pages of books, pamphlets, tracts, and periodicals printed dur
ing the year, 10,467,500, against 3,894,500 issued the year previous.^
Total amount of reading matter sold, 7,125,000 pages. Wholesale price of
books sold, $10,276.
SCHNDINHVIHN.
THE work of publishing in Christiana, Norway, was commenced in 1880, and
gradually enlarged until the building shown in the engraving was required in
1885. It is 46x69 ft., two stories and basement, well arranged and equipped
for carrying forward the work of printing, stereotyping, etc. Cost of real estate,
machinery, and furnishings, $60,000.
The managing board for the present year consists of 0. A. Olsen, N. Clausen,
E. G. Olsen, H. Steen, O. J. Olsen, Jacob Hanseu, and J. Syvertsen. Publishing
committee, O. A. Olsen, Lewis Johnson, N. Clausen, C. Melin, J. M. Erickson.
Books printed during the year: "Life of Christ," iu the Swedish language,
4,000 copies; in the Danish, 4,000; besides 4,000 copies of " Home Hand-Book of
Domestic Hygiene," in each of these languages. About thirty-five hands are
constantly employed.
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Tracts and pamphlets printed in both languages, and of all sizes, from a fourpage tract to the largest pamphlet, 135,000 copies.
Periodicals printed: Tidende (Danish religious journal), 24,000; Harolden
(Swedish religious journal), 24,000; Danish Health Journal, 90,000; Swedish
Health Journal, 50,000.
HUSTRHLIHN.
IN 1886, the year following the opening of mission work in Australia, a sixteenpage monthly (now semi-monthly) paper was started, entitled Bible Echo and
Sigiis of the Times, which for nearly three years was printed in the building shown
in the engraving. Recently a lot has been bought, and a building erected, 33 x
65 ft. at a cost of about $ 13,000, which, with the necessary machinery and fix
tures for carrying forward the printing and publishing work, makes the total valua
tion about $25,000.
An illustrated monthly paper, entitled Our Australian Youth and Sabbathschool Guide is also issued at this office, and a variety of such other publications
as are needed in that field.
The institution is under the management of a mission board appointed by
the General Conference Committee, or elected by the Australian Conference.
BRITISH.
THE publishing work in England was commenced in the spring of 1884, at
Great Grimsby, being confined to the issuance of a sixteen-page semi-monthly jour
nal called Present Truth. In September, 1887, it was removed to 451 Holloway
Road, London, N., with its business office in Paternoster Chambers, 48 Paternoster
Row, London, E. C., the entrance to which is shown in the accompanying sketch.
The Present Truth now has a circulation of about 5,000 copies.
The equipment of this office is not yet complete, only about $5,000 having
been invested in machinery, fixtures, etc.; but the demand for publications in the
British field led the General Conference at its last annual session to recommend
the establishment of the work in London on a broader basis, and the Pacific Press
Publishing Company has decided to undertake the work, thus relieving the Gen
eral Conference of the care and expense required to make the publishing house
in London what it should be.
At present, 8. N. Haskell, D. A. Robinson, and J. H. Durland constitute the
Managing Board for the British Mission, and S. N. Haskell, D. A. Robinson, and,
A. Smith, the publishing committee.

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SE1ENTH<-DHY HDMENTIST EDUCHTIONHL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION"
HELD AT BATTLE C'UEKK. Midi..

NOV. 7.

18SS.

AT the request of Geo. I. Butler, President of tlie Board ot Trustees, U.

Smith acted as chairman. After the usual opening exercises, it was ascertained
that 463 shares of stock were represented in person and by proxy.
The Auditor, C. Eldridge, stated that he had examined the books and accounts
for the past year, and found them correctly kept. The Treasurer. A. K. Henry,
then reported as follows:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SEVENTH-DAT AUVKNTIST EDU
CATIONAL SOCIETY, FOK YEAR ENDING .TUNE :!0. 1SS8.
RESOURCES.

Real estate .............................. .... . $93,975.47

Carpenter department .......... .................
567.97
Book-stand..................... .... .........
1.088.43
Philosophical apparatus ......... ...... . . .....
1,092.10
Library ................ . ..... ..............
1,440.21
Museum ............ ..... ... ....... ..... . .
505.95
Personal property. ...............................
693.00
Bills receivable............. .............. ....
786.74
Ice ...........................
... .......
40.00
Provisions..... .............. ........ ......
106.90
Furnishing ............. .... .................
6,075.61
Laundry ............ ..........................
50.70
West College Hall, fuel .......... ..... .........
122.50
Dress-making department. .........
............
43.90
Printing department .... ............ ..........
3,301.77
Teut department ................ ........ ......
1,629.78
Personal accounts ..........
. . . ............
668.50
Cash on hand.................. ......... ......
43.37
Total .................. ...........................

$112,231 SO

LIABILITIES.

Bills payable (notes bearing interest)................ $19,118.03

S. D. A. Pub. Soc. ............................... 24,586.85
Personal accounts ...............................
252.60
"Net worth. ..................................... 68,274.42
Total ..............................................
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$112,231.90

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S. 0. N. tOUCM\QHf\\_ SOCALIN
COMMITTEES.

ON NOMINATIONS. R. W. Miller, B. A. Underwood, A. J. Bread.

ON RESOLUTIONS. A. T. Robinson, E. W. Farnsworth, I. D. Van Horn.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
Tie following were adopted, 1^3 originating with the committee:
1. Resolved, That we express our deep gratitude to God for the prosperity
which has attended Battle Creek College during the past year, and that we ex
press our full confidence in its present management.
2. J&solved, That we express ourselves as in full sympathy with the sug
gestions of the General Conference Committee tending to unity in our educational
work.
3. llesolved, That the stockholders of this society approve of the action of
the Board of Trustees in sending teachers to help in other schools, and recommend
that such a policy be pursued in the future, so far as it can be done without
crippling the work at the College.
(. Resolved, That the question of reorganizing the society be left with the
Board of Trustees, with the request that they take such stepa as are necessary to
place the organization on a proper basis.
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
This committee submitted the following report, and the persons named were
duly elected for the year:
TRUSTEES. Geo. I. Butler, W. W. Prescott, J. H. Kellogg, U. Smith, A. R.
Henry, W. C. Sisley, C. Eldridge.
The Board was afterward organized as follows:
OFFICERS. Pres., Geo. I. Butler; Vice-Pres., U. Smith; Sec., W. W. Pres
cott; Treas., A. R. Henry; Auditor, C. Eldridge.

SKETCH OF BKTTLE CREEK COLLEGE.

THB Seventh-day Adventist Educational Society was chartered in 1874, the
object, as set forth in the By-laws, being " the establishment and management of
a college for the purpose of giving instruction to persons of both sexes in the
sciences, languages, and the Holy Scriptures, to qualify them for usefulness in
life, and to benefit others." A substantial brick building was erected at Battle
Creek, Mich., the same year, and the institution was opened to students. Addi
tions have been made from time to time to the facilities for caring for students,
until the present equipment consists of the original college building, en
larged to nearly double its first capacity, a dormitory for ladies, a dormitory for
gentlemen (the two having accommodations for rooming and dining 225 stu
dents), and four cottages for the use of members of the faculty.
The course of study is substantially the same as at other institutions of like
character, the most marked exception, perhaps, being that a continuous study of
the Bible, with daily recitation for two years, is a required part of every course.
This is largely historical and practical, provision being made in other ways for
doctrinal instruction. One-half hour each day is devoted to physical culture in
the gymnasium, under the direction of an instructor. An industrial department
is maintained, with the following branches: printing, carpentry, sewing, cooking,
and drawing. The preparatory department comprises a regular graded school of
eight grades. The present attendance in both departments is about 425.
For further particulars, address the president, or send for catalogue.

HEHLDSBURG COLLEGE PROCEEDINGS.

SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION,
HELD AT HEALDSBURG, CAL., APRIL 16, 1888.

THE President of the Board, W. C. White, being absent, the Secretary, W. C.

Grainger, called the meeting to order, and J. N. Loughborough was elected.chair
man.
Shares of stock represented in person were 618, and 941 by proxy, making a
total of 1,559 shares, which was more than a majority of the stock that had been
issued.
COMMITTEES.
ON NOMINATIONS. E. J. Waggoner, Geo. W. Mills, James Creamer.
ON RESOLUTIONS. A. T. Jones, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. Grainger.
The Treasurer's report was then read and accepted, a summary of which Is as
follows:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE HEALDSBURG COLLEGE,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1888.
RESOURCES.

Accounts receivable.............................. $ 5,032.02

Notes receivable.................................
2,399.43
Cash on hand...................................
255.74
Real estate..................................... 31,318.63
Personal property................................ 14,732.18
Total......................... .......... ...........

$53,738.00

LIABILITIES.

Accounts payable...............................
Notes payable..................................

$ 4,363.18
26,775.00

Total liabilities. ........................................

31,138.18

Present worth.........................................

$22,599.82

COMPARISON".

Present worth, April 1, 1888....................

$22,599.82
Present worth, April 1, 1887....................
19,008.95
Increase during the year...............................
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$3,590.87

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COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were presented, discussed, and unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, We have abundant evidence that God's hand has led in the work
of the College, from its inception; therefore,
1. Resolved, That we express to him our gratitude for the blessings and pros
perity that have attended our College through its history, and especially during
the past year.
3. Resolved, That we express our thanks to the General Conference Commit
tee for the interest they have shown in our success by sending sister M. L. Huntley to take charge of the Missionary Department of our College, and also our ap
preciation of the faithful services which sister Huntley has rendered in this im
portant branch of our work.
Whereas, There is a great and increasing demand for first-class, consecrated
teachers in the work of tne third angel's message, and a corresponding scarcity
of such teachers; therefore,
3. Resolved, That we approve the action of the Board of Trustees in establish
ing a Normal Department in connection with the College, and that \ve will do
what we tan to encourage suitable persons to prepare themselves for the work
of teaching.
4. Resolved, That we express our appreciation of the services of the teach
ers of the College, who have labored untiringly for its success, and of the efforts
of the students in their faithful co-operation with the teachers in their work.
5. Resolved, That we heartily approve the action of the Board of Trustees,
and congratulate the institution in securing the excellent improvements which
have been made during the past year, in both the sanitary and heating arrange
ments of the Students' Home.
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
The adopted report of this committee stands as follows:
TRUSTEES. W. C. White, J. N. Loughborough, W. C. Grainger, John Morrisou, Joseph Leininger, N. C. Me Clure, E. J. Waggoner.
The Board was subsequently organized with the following
OFFICERS. Pres., W. C. White; fiec.. W. C. Grainger; Treas., Joseph
Leininger.
SKETCH OF HEHLDSBURG COLLEGE.
IN 1882 this, the second educational institution among Seventh-day Adventists, was opened at Healdsburg, Cal., having been chartered under the name of
Healdsburg College. There are two buildings, South College Hall for recitations,
and the Student's Home, with a capacity for about 100 persons. A cottage, re
cently built, and also five rooms in the rear extension of an adjoining church build
ing, are in use by the College. The grounds consist of eleven acres, ten of which
are under cultivation. The general plan of the school is substantially the same
as that adopted by the Battle Creek College, the object being to provide in
struction under the most favorable influences, and by such methods as will se
cure the most careful intellectual, moral, and physical training in the elementary
branches, the sciences, the languages, and in the precepts of morality and
religion. The attendance for the present year is about 175.
Catalogue furnished on application.

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SOUTH LHNCHSTER HCHDEMY

PROCEEDINGS.
FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION,
HELD AT SOUTH LAN'CJ.VSTEK, MASS., JAN. 11-15, 1889.

IN the temporary absence of the President, S. N. Haskell, the lirst meeting

was called to order by the Secretary. G. W. Cavines.? acting as chairman. The
President, who preside! at the second and thir.l meeting's, was authorized to ap
point the usual

COMMITTEES"
Ox NOMINATIONS. F. B. Heed, F. W. Mace, J. C. Tucker.
ON KESOLDTIO.N-S. W. C. White, G. W. Cayincss, A. T. Robinson.
The shares represented by members present, were 219, and by proxy, fortyeight. At a subsequent meeting, the amount of stock represented was iucrea-ed
to 324 shares.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
This committee reported Jan. 14, as follows, the various resolutions calling
out interesting and forcible remarks from S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, Mrs.
E. G. White, G. W. Caviness, and others:
Whereas, The warning message of Revelation 14 must be carried to all classes
of people, and those who bear it will need, more and more, a special fitting up
for the work; and,
Whereas, The spiritual growth of those who have heard the truth, and
especially of the young, depends upon activity in the cause of God; there
fore,
1. Resolved, That we will press our educational work with increasing energy
and with a zeal corresponding to the demands of the times.
Whereas. The established rates of board and tuition at the Academy are -o
low that we cannot expect the school to pay its running expenses, and a large
interest account in addition thereto; therefore,
2. Resolved, That we request the friends of the Academy who can do so, to
loan it money without interest; and further,
:{. Resolved, That we manifest our interest i.i the Academy, and in the
cause of education which it represents, by taking more stock ourselves, ami by
encouraging others to do the same, that its indebtedness may be lessened. [Storktaken by persons present amounted to ,$945.]
I. Resolved, That we note with pleasure the fact that during the past year
some twenty-five persons who have been connected with the Academy, have
labored with a good degree of success in the canvassing and other branches of
the home missionary work.
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SCHOOLS.
5. J-'exohed, That we heartily approve of the present economical management,
anil would recommend that, as far as possible, the financial cares of the school
be lessened by renting the farm, the printing-office, and the wood-yard to
responsible persons who will manage them on their own account.
This resolution was referred to a committee of thirteen, who reported the fol
lowing recommendations: (1.) That the management of the printing-office be re
ferred to a joint meeting of the Board of Directors and the tract society officers;
(2.) That a suitable person be employed to devote his entire time to running the
farm; (3.) That the wood-yard be disconnected from the running of the school,
either by selling or renting it.
6. Besolved, That we extend an urgent invitation to Eld. A. T. Jones to at
tend our special course at the close of the school year.
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
Their report, submitted Jan. 15, stands adopted as follows, the persons named
constituting the Board for the year 1889:
TRUSTEES. S. N. Haskell. \\~. W. Preseott, G. AV. Caviness, A. T. Robinson,
C. W. Comings, E. P. Farnsworth. W. B. Mason.

SKETCH OF SOUTH LHNCHSTER HCHDE7TY.

IN 1883 the third educatioual institution among Seventh-day Adventists, the
South Lancaster Academy, South Lancaster. Mass., was incorporated. The fol
lowing year an academy building \vas erected, and also a Students' Ho.ne, the
latter having a capacity for about seventy-five. Another dormitory building is
also owned by the institution, capable of accommodating thirty-five; making the
entire lodging capacity nearly 125. Three other buildings belong to the school,
besides a farm of twenty-six acres.
A good academical course of instruction is imiintaine 1, including special Bible
study, and an industrial depa'. tmeut; and although a denominational institution,
this, like other schools controlled by Seventh-day Advoutists, is open to all stu
dents of good moral character. The present attendance at the Academy is about
seventy-five.

PREPHRHTORY SCHOOLS.
Ix addition to the three educational institutions mentioned, there are four
preparatory schools in successful operation, besides the one connected with Bat
tle Creek College. The first of these was established at Milton. Oregon, in 1886.
A good school building and a Students' Home, erected during the last season,
constitute the equipment of the institution. A similar school has been main
tained for about the same length of time at East Portland, Oregon. The annual
enrollment at each of these schools has been nearly one hundred. The third
preparatory school was established at Minneapolis, Minn., in Nov., 1888. The
attendance during the past year has been about seventy. The fourth prepara
tory school was opened at Ottawa, Kan., about the same time. For two years
past a. German school has been maintained at Lehigh, Kan., with an attendance
of about fifty students. The work is carried on entirely in the German lan
guage.
It is designed to maintain in all preparatory schools a thorough course in
the common school studies up to and including a good grammar grade, in addi
tion to which prominence is given to the study of the Bible and the doctrines
held by Seventh-day Adventists.
A list of the instructors in these institutions will be found in its appropriate
place in another part of this Year Book.

HEHLTH INSTITUTIONS HND SHNITKRY

REFORM.
EARLY in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, the work of
sanitary reform was recognized as a matter eminently fitted to be associated
with the great work of moral reform in which Seventh-day Adventists were so
earnestly engaged. Eld. Joseph Bates, one of the pioneers in the denomination,
was the first to adopt a strictly hygienic regimen, and to demonstrate practically
the benefits to be secured by subsisting upon a plain and simple dietary. As
early as the year 1803, Eld. James White and Mrs. E. G. White, seeing the im
portance of a reform in the dietetic habits then prevalent, commenced a work in
connection with their religious labors, which has developed proportions probably
far beyond their most sanguine hopes. Like all other work of a reformatory
character, this work began small. Its literature was for some years limited to a
few tracts, pamphlets, and newspaper and magazine articles from the pens of
E1<1. White, Mrs. White. Elds. Joseph Bates, J. N. Loughborough, J. N. Andrews,
R. F. Cottrell, and a few others.
In August, 1866, the site now occupied by the Battle Creek Medical and Sur
gical Sanitarium, was purchased, and an institution known as the Health Reform
Institute was opened for the reception and care of invalids. Financially speaking,
that institution was not a marked success for the first ten years of its existence,
yet it stood during those years as a finger-board pointing the way to health, and
affording a quiet resting-place to many a weary and distressed pilgrim who, hav
ing fallen into the hands of disease, sought its aid.v,, In 1876, a change took
place in the management of the affairs of the institution, its medical work passing
in that year into the hands of its present management. Under the new adminis
tration, surgery was introduced as one of the leading features of the work. The
old name, " Health Reform Institute," uas dropped, and the name "Medical and
Surgical Sanitarium. 7 ' adopted. Sinca 1876, the Sanitarium has progressed in a
wonderful manner, until it is at the present time one of the largest and best
equipped institutions of the kind in the world.
As this reform movement came to be regarded as a part of the great work
engaged in by Seventh-day Adventists, it was but natural that it should develop
in various parts of the country in connection with other institutions under the
fostering care of that denomination. In 1877 was founded the Rural Health
Retreat, located two and one-half miles from St. Helena, Napa Co., Cal.
Little progress was made during the first seven years of its history; but during
the last four years, it has been largely patronized, and has been the means of
restoring health to many who have passed years in affliction, and has accom
plished great good in this direction.
In 1888, the Health Home, or Mount Vernon Sanitarium, as it is now called,
located at Mount Vernon, Ohio, was opened for the treatment of the sick. This
institution is but recently organized, but it is destined to do a good work for the
suffering, and in the cause of sanitary reform.
Each of these institutions is incorporated under the laws of the State in
which it is located. Each is managed by conscientious, God-fearing men, whose
aim it is to benefit suffering humanity, and to teach the importance of living in
accordance with the laws of life and health in order to insure health of body,
soundness of mind, and keen moral sensibilities. No dividends have ever been
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V\t[\UV\ \USl\l\yT\Ons.

or ever will be declared by any of these institutions, the profits all being ex
pended in inereasing the facilities for caring for the sick, and in the treatment
of the poor.
The literature of sanitary reform has made equal progress with other branches
of the work. In 1887, it was limited to a few small tracts and pamphlets, and
a monthly periodical published by the Health Reform Institute, known as the
Health Reformer. In 1873, a small work bearing the title of " The Hygienic
Family Physician," was written, and an edition of 8.000 copies published. " The
entire editiou was exhausted in a fe\v months, but the work \fas not republished.
In 1875, the name Health llefonner was exchanged for Goad Health.
This journal has been enlarged and improved from time to time, and its circu
lation lias kept pace with the increasing interest in the subject, until it now has
a larger patronage than any other similar Journal published in the United States.
Several other important health works have been published, among which may
be enumerated, " Plain Facts about Sexual Life." " Home Hand-Book of Domes
tic Hygiene and Ha tional Medicine," "Ladies' Guide," and "Man, the blasterpiece." These four books are large ami exhaustive works on the subjects
upon which they treat, aggregating more than 3.600 pages, and have had
a circulation up to the present time varying from 80,000 to 130,000 copies of
each. "Sunbeams of Health and Temperance," ''Social Purity." and other
small works, have had a circulation of more than 100.000 copies. Several million
tracts have also been prepared and circulated.
In 1885 a monthly journal called the 1'adfic Health Journal, was started
in connection with the Eural Health Retreat, in California. This journal is an
able exponent of the principles of reform, and is having a wide circulation.
With the increase of information oa health topics, there has been a corre
sponding increase in the demand for nurses skilled in caring for the sick, and
possessed of an intelligent comprehension of the hygienic requirements of the
sick-room. To meet this demand, a training-school for nurses was established at
the Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1884. This school has more than met the expec
tations of its founders, and is now eagerly sought by a numerous class of intelli
gent young ladies and gentlemen, who wish to fit themselves for the profession of
nursing. The training-class numbers, the present year, nearly one hundred
students.
A_school of domestic economy is also connected with the Battle Creek Sani
tarium, in which students are instructed in every branch of domestic work, spe
cial instruction being given in the art of hygienic cookery. A full description of
these various Sanitariums and schools can be obtained by addressing them.
The accompanying cuts will give the reader some idea of the buildings erected
in the interest of this work.

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MOUNT VERNON SANITARIUM,

GENERAL CONFERENCE HSSOCITTTION

CONSTITUTION.
(Article VII. of Constitution Amended.

See page 63,)

ARTICLE I. NAME.

THE name of this Corporation is "GENERAL CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION OP

THE SEVENTH-DAT ADVENTISTS."
ARTICLE II.LOCATION OF OFFICE.
The place where its principal office is located is the city of Battle Creek,
county of Calhoun, and State of Michigan.
ARTICLE III. OBJECT.

The object of this Corporation is to diffuse moral and religious knowledge and
instruction, by means of publishing houses for such purpose, publications there
from, and the further means of missionaries, missionary agencies, and all other
instrumentalities and methods appropriate and available for and tending to the
advancement of the ends and aims above specified.
ARTICLE IV. LIMIT OF REAL ESTATE.

This Corporation may own real estate not exceeding in value five hundred thou
sand dollars ($500,000).
ARTICLE V. LIMIT OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.

This Corporation may own personal property not exceeding in value Jive hun
dred thousand dollars ($500,000).
This Corporation may receive and apply to the ends, aims, and objects here
inbefore specified, all such loans, gifts, and advances, and accept and execute all
such trusts in aid thereof, as may be offered for that purpose: Provided, that the
value of the property at any time owned by the Corporation shall not exceed the
limits in real and personal property hereinbefore specified.
This Corporation expressly takes to itself the power under said Act conferred
by Section 4; to wit, that it, said Corporation, for the uses and purposes con
templated by said Act and specified in these Articles, may acquire, possess, hold,
and convey real and personal property in any foreign State or country, to an
amount not forbidden by the Constitution or laws of such foreign State or
country.
* Dec. 15, 1887, the Board of Trustees of the General Conference Association met
and re-incorporated under "Act number Three Hundred and Ten, of the Public Acts of
1887" (State of Michigan). Said Act, in full, may be found in the Year Book for 1888,
pp. 147-149, and reasons for its reorganization on pp. 49-51. Persons desiring more explicit
information, should address the General Conference Association, Battle Creek, Mien.
Legal counsel has been employed to examine titles and furnish advice to parties wishing
to do business with the Association; and all documents pertaining to the transfer of
property, should be submitted to one or more of its officers for examination, in order that
the same may comply with the requirements of the law in every particular.
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ARTICLE VI. NUMBER OF TRUSTEES.

The number of Trustees of this Corporation is five (5), who hold their offices
until the next annual meeting of the religious body named in the next section,
and until their successors are duly elected and appear to enter upon their duties.
ARTICLE VII. DENOMINATION.

The name and denomination of the religious body with which the Trustees who
sign these Articles are connected, are as follows:
NAME : General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists, which is an unin
corporated body.
DENOMINATION: Seventh-day Adventist.
ARTICLE VIII. DURATION.

The duration of this Corporation is until the eighteenth day of January, A. D.

1916.
AKTICLE IX. DUTIES OF TRUSTEES.

SECTION 1. The Trustees of this Corporation shall have full and exclusive
power and authority to enact all of the By-laws of the Corporation.
SEC. 2. The Trustees sball have full power to appoint such officers, ministers,
missionaries, delegates, agents, and servants as they shall think proper, and pre
scribe their powers, duties, and obligations, and fix their compensation, and
make regulations for their change and removal.
SEC. 3. The Trustees shall have the ordering and conduct of the affairs of
the Corporation, the management and disposal of its property, and the execution
of all trusts confided to it.
SEC. 4. In the case of a vacancy occurring in the Board of Trustees for any
year, the remaining Trustees shall immediately fill it by appointment under their
hands, and such appointee shall hold during the remainder of the term, and until
the election of a successor and his appearance to assume office.
SEC. 5. The purposes and essence of this Corporation being purely benevolent,
charitable, and philanthropic, it is hereby expressly declared that this is a corpo
ration not for gain, and that no dividends shall be paid on any funds, but that
all of its property, real and personal, may be used and expended in carrying into
effect the legitimate ends and aims of its being.
BY-LHMS.
ARTICLE I. TBUSTEES.

SECTION 1. The Trustees shall elect annually, from their numbers, a President,
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor, who shall hold their respective
offices one year, and until others are chosen in their stead and appear to enter
upon their duties.
SEC. 2. The duties of said officers shall be such as usually pertain to said
offices.
SBC. 3. The President and Treasurer (or the Secretary in lieu of either
absentee) shall sign all instruments and obligations of the Corporation; Provided,
however, that the majority of all the Trustees, duly convened, may authorize a
named agent to sign the name of the Corporation, and bind it to a named obliga
tion or class ol obligations.

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131

SEC. 4. The compensation of all officers shall be fixed by the Board of Trus
tees, by the vote of any three of said Trustees duly convened.
SEC. 5. At each annual meeting of the General Conference of the Seventhday Adventists, the Board of Trustees shall make to said Conference or a duly
appointed Committee thereof, a complete statement of the affairs and business of
this Corporation.
SEC. 6. The Board of Trustees shall meet on Thursday, the 15th day of
December, A. D. 1887, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the office of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association in the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun County,
Michigan, and said Board shall always be in session, and any business of this
Corporation may be done in case three of said Trustees are actually convened:
Provided, however, that the concurrence of three Trustees shall be necessary to
pass any measure coming before said Board.
ABTICLE II. SEAL.

The Board of Trustees shall provide a seal of the ordinary size, inscribed as
follows:
" General Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists." (The same
to form an outer circle, inclosing the word " seal.")
ARTICLE III. AMENDMENTS.

These By-laws may be added to, amended, or repealed, by the vote of any
three Trustees actually convened.

GENERHL CONFERENCE
CONSTITUTION.
(Article II. Section 2 Amended.

See page 62.)

ARTICLE I. NAME.

THIS Conference shall be called the General Conference of Seventh-day

Adventists.
ARTICLE II. OFFICERS.

SECTION 1. The officers of this Conference shall be a President, a Recording

Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Home Mission Secretary, a Foreign
Mission Secretary, and an Educational Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive
Committee of seven, of whom the President shall be one.
SEC. 3. The Executive Committee shall have power to Mil any vacancies that
may occur in their number by death, resignation, or otherwise, and to appoint,
in connection with the President and Secretary of the International Tract
Society, a general canvassing agent.
SEC. 3. The officers shall be elected at the regular meetings of the Confer
ence, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, or until their successors
are chosen.
ARTICLE III.MEMBERS.

This Conference shall be composed of delegates from the State Conferences,

of the officers of the Conference, and of such ministers as shall have been in the
employ of the General Conference during any part of the year. And the Exec
utive Committee are authorized to issue credentials to such ministers as are
delegates to the Conference.
ARTICLE IV.PRESIDENT AND SECRETARIES.

The duties of the President and Secretaries shall be such as usually pertain to
those offices.
ARTICLE V. TREASURER.

It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive and disburse means under the
direction of the Executive Committee, and to keep an account of the same, and
make a full report thereof to the regular meetings of the Conference.
ARTCLE VI.COMMITTEE.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to take the gen
eral supervision of all ministerial labor, and see that the same is properly dis
tributed; and they shall take the special supervision of all missionary labor,
and as a missionary Board shall have the power to decide where such labor is
Heeded, and who shall go as missionaries to perform the same.
SEC. 3. When any State Conference desires ministerial labor from a minister
not a resident within the bounds of such Conference, its request shall be made to
the General Conference Executive Committee, and ministers sent by said Com-

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133

mittee shall be considered under the jurisdiction of the Conference committee of

such State: Provided, 1. That if such minister consider the State committee
inefficient, or their action so far wrong as to render his labor ineffectual, he may
appeal to the General Conference Executive Committee: Provided, 2. That if
such State committee consider such minister inefficient, they may appeal to the
General Conference Committee, who shall decide on the matter of complaint,
and take such action as they may think proper.
SEC. 3. The General Conference Executive Committee shall have power
during the intervals between the yearly meetings to license ministers who may
be raised up in mission fields.
ARTICLE VII.FUNDS.

SECTION 1. For means to carry on its work, the General Conference shall
receive the tithes of the State Conferences.
SEC. 2. In addition to the tithes, the Executive Committee is authorized to
call for donations from State Conferences, churches, or individuals, as the wants
of the cause may, in their judgment, demand.

ARTICLE vm. MINISTERS' REPORTS.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the ministers and others in the employ of
the General Conference, to make a written report to each annual meeting
thereof of each week's occupation during the Conference year, or such portion
of the year as they may have been in the employ of the Conference.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Conference to select a committee of six
delegates who have not been in the employ of the Conference the preceding year,
who, with the Executive Committee, shall audit and settle all accounts with
ministers and others who have been in the employ of the Conference.
ARTICLE IX. DELEGATES.

Each State Conference shall be entitled to one delegate in the General Con
ference, without regard to numbers, and one additional delegate for every three
hundred church members in the Conference. Such delegates may be elected by
the Conference, or appointed by its Executive Committee.
ARTICLE X. MEETINGS.

SECTION 1. The regular meetings of the Conference shall be held annually,

and the time and place of holding the same shall be determined by the Execu
tive Committee, by whom due notice thereof shall be given through the Review.
SEC. 2. Special meetings may be called at the option of the Committee.
ARTICLE XI. AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may be altered or amended by a three-fourths' vote of the

members present at any meeting.

INTERNATIONAL TRACT SOCIETY

CONSTITUTION.
(Articles II. and 111. Amended.

,S< piige 91.)

AKTICLE I. SAME.

THIS Society shall be known as the International Tract and Missionary

Society.
AKTICLE II. OBJECT.

The objects of this Society are, (1.) To take an oversight of the various
State tract societies, and to suggest such plans as will secure uniformity of
action; (3.) To secure an extensive and systematic distribution of our publica
tions in foreign countries and in those portions of our own land not included in
State organizations; (3.) To publish, and to secure the publication of, tracts
and pamphlets in those languages wherein there is a call for reading matter that
cannot be readily obtained from any of the Seventh-day Adventist publishing
houses; (4.) To place upon steamers and vessels sailing to different portions of
the world, such reading matter as is thought to be best adapted to promote the
interests of present truth; (5.) To send packages of our publications to the
different ports visited by ships; (6.) To place religious books and periodicals
in public libraries and reading-rooms in a:l parts of the world. In short, the
object of this Society is to seek out and make use of every possible means by
which the light of present truth can be carried to all portions of the world.
ARTICLE III. OFFICERS.

The officers of this Society shall consist of a President, a Vicc-President, a

Treasurer, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and as many
assistant secretaries as may from year to year be deemed necessary, and an
Executive Board of nine, of which the President and Vice-President shall be
members.
ARTICLE IV. EXECUTIVE BOARD.

It is the duty of the Executive Board to carry out the decisions of the
Society; to furnish publications and employ agents as they may see fit; to audit
all accounts, and to fill any vacancies that may occur in their number by death,
resignation, or otherwise.
ARTICLE V. MEMBERSHIP.

All persons paying the sum of ten dollars, shall become life-members of this
Society, and shall receive certificates of life-membership.* They shall also be
entitled to all the privileges of members of State societies.
*Besolved, That Article V. of the Constitution give? the members of this Society no
privileges in any local society, above those of the local members. They may draw pub
lications at the discretion of the local officers, to be used while in that locality, and are
expected to make donations toward meeting the expenses of the local society, according
to their abilitv, the same as other members.
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ARTICLE YI. REPRESENTATION.

SECTION' 1. This Society shall be represented by delegates and life-members.

SEC. 2. The State officers of any tract and missionary society present shall
be considered delegates. In the absence of State officers, the deficiency may be
supplied by persons from the same society who may be present.
SEC. 3. Any company of Seventh-day Adventists organized according to the
plan adopted by our State societies, not included in any Conference tract orgauization, shall be entitled to one or more delegates, according to the number of
districts in the organization.
ARTICLE VII. FUNDS.

The funds of this Society shall consist of receipts for life-membership, and
donations from societies and individuals.
ARTICLE VIII. MEETINGS.

SECTION 1. This Society shall convene annually for the election of officers
and the transaction of necessary business, at such time and place as the Presi
dent may appoint.
SEC. 2. Special meetings may be called by a majority of the Executive
Board, at such times and places as they shall deem necessary for the interests of
the organization.
ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds' vote at any annual

meeting.

INTERNATIONAL SABBATH-SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
CONSTITUTION.
(Articles Iff. and V. Amended.

See pnye ltd.)

ARTICLE I. NAME.

THIS Society shall be known a? the International Sabbath-school Association

o Seventh-day Adventists, and shall be composed of all the Sabbath-school asso
ciations and Sabbath-schools outside of these associations, that shall report
quarterly to this body.
ARTICLE II. REPRESENTATION.

This Association shall be represented by all accredited ministers and licen

tiates, and by all members and workers from any Sabbath-school association
present at any regular meeting of this Association.
ARTICLE III. OFFICERS.

SECTION 1. The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, a VicePresident, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Corresponding Secretary, and an Executive
Board of seven, of which the President and Vice-President shall be members.
These officers shall be elected annually.
SEC. 2. The secretaries of all associations outside of the United States shall
be considered Corresponding Secretaries of this Association.
SEC. 3. The presidents of all associations outside of the United States shall
be considered as honorary Vice-Presidents of this Association, and entitled to
take part in the deliberations of the Executive Board, whenever present at its
meetings.
ARTICLE IV. DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT.

The duties of the President shall be to take the general oversight of the work
of the Association, to preside at all meetings of the Association and of the
Executive Board, and to call special meetings thereof.
The Vice-President, in the absence of the President, shall perform the duties
of that office.
AKTICLE V.DUTIES OF THE SECRETAKY AND TREASURER.

SECTION* 1. The duties of the Secretary shall be, (1.) To record the proceed
ings of the Association, and to present a yearly summary of the same at the
annual meeting; (3.) To present snch other summary reports as may from time
to time be ordered; (3.) To make reports at such other times as may be ordered.
SEC. 2. The duties of the Corresponding Secretary shall be to advance by
correspondence the interests of the Sabbath-school Association in all parts of the
world, and to give isolated schools and associations snch instruction as shall
enable them to act in harmony with the body.
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SEC 3. The duties of the Treasurer of this Association shall be to receive
and hold all moneys belonging to the Association, giving receipts therefor, and
paying out the same as the Association or Executive Board may direct, through
the written order of the President.
ARTICLE VI.DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD.

The functions of the Executive Board shall be, (1.) To represent this Asso
ciation when not in session assembled, to execute all its recommendations and
orders, and to fill all vacancies which may occur from death or otherwise; (2.)
To assist, either personally or by authorized agents, ia organizing and conduct
ing Sabbath-schools, Sabbath-school associations, and Sabbath-school conventions;
(3.) To induce those possessing the requisite ability and having a heart in the
work, to write in the interest ol Bible study and proper Sabbath-school instruc
tion, and to secure the publication and distribution of needed Sabbath-school
literature, and to provide suitable lessons for all divisions of the Sabbath-school;
(4.) To make all necessary provisions for rendering the sessions of this Associa
tion interesting and profitable, and, in general, to labor to make our Sabbathschools efficient in preparing their members to be fruitful workers in the grand
mission of the third angel's message.
ARTICLE VII.FUNDS.

The funds for defraying the expenses of this Association shall be obtained by
the tithes from the State Associations, and by contributions and donations.
ARTICLE VIII.AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may be altered or amended by a two-thirds' vote of the

members present at any regular meeting.

STHTE SKBBHTH-SCHOOL HSSOCIHTION

CONSTITUTION.

AKTICLK I. NAME.

THIS Society shall be known ? the Sabbath-school Association of

Seventh-day Adventists.
AHTICLK II.MEMBERSHIP.

This Association shall be composed of all the members of such Sabbathschools as shall report quarterly to the Secretary, and also of all accredited
ministers and licentiates \vithiu its bounds.
ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATION.

This Association shall be represented by all members of the Association who

may be present at any regular meeting'.
ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS.

The officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Sec

retary, and an Executive Board o live. of. which the President. Vice-president,
and Secretary shall be members. These officers shall be elected at the annual
meeting of the Association.
ARTICLE V.DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT.

The duties ot the President shall be to take the general oversight of the
work of the Association, to preside at all the meeting's of the Association and
of the Executive Board, and to call special meetings thereof.
ARTICLE VI. DUTIES Ol' TIIF. SECRETARY.

SECTION 1. As Secretary, (1.) lie shall keep a record of the proceedings of

the Association, and present a yearly summary of its workings at the annual
session; (2.) He shall execute all correspondence ordered by the Association
and the Executive Board.
SEC. 3. As Treasurer, lie shall receive and hold all moneys belonging to the
Association, giving receipts therefor, and paying out the same as the Associa
tion or the Executive Board may direct.
ARTICLE Vll. DITTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD.

The functions of the Executive Board shall be, (t.) To represent this Associa
tion when not in session assembled, and to execute all its recommendations and
orders', (2.) To co-operate with all accredited ministers laboring in the limits of
the Association, iu furthering the interests of the Sabbath-school work; (3.) To
assist, either personally or by authorized agents, iu organizing and eonduciir.i;
Sabbath-school conventions and Sabbath-schools and Sunday-schools in tlso-c
places where au attendance ean be secured and where the truths of the Bible
can be plainly taught; (4.) To make nil necessary provisions for rendering the
sessions of the Association interesting and profitable; end in general, to labor
to make our Sabbath-schools efficient, iu pr.-pariug their members to "be fruitful
workers in the graud mission of the third angel's message.
ARTICLE VIII. TTXDS.

The funds for defraying the expenses ot the Association shall he obtained by
tithes from the Sal'bath-schools iu the State, and by donations.
ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may be' altered or amended by a two-thirds' vote of the

members present at any yeeular meeting.
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HSSOCIHTION
CONSTITUTION.
(Article III, of the Constitution Amended.

See page 101.}

AKTICLE I. NAME.

THIS organization shall be known as the American Health and Temperance

Association.
ARTICLE II. OBJECTS.

1. To promote the health of those who become members of it.

2. To advance the cause of temperance in its truest and broadest sense, by
the circulation of health and temperance literature, by securing popular lectures
upon these subjects in various parts of the country, and by the wide circulation
of suitable pledges, and by earnest efforts to secure numerous signers.
ARTICLE III. OITICEKS.

SECTION 1. The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, VicePresident, Secretary, who shall also act as Treasurer, and an Executive Board,
consisting of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and the Presidents of all
State associations. The President, Vice-President, aatl Secretary shall bn elected
by vote of a majority of those present at any regular annual meeting.
ARTICLE IV. MEMBERSHIP.

SECTION 1. Any person of good moral character may become a full member of
this Association by paying an initiation fee of twenty-five cents, and signing the
Constitution and one of the three pledges.
SEC. 2. Any person may become a pledge member of this Association by
signing one of the three pledges.
SEC. 3. Two grades of membership shall be recognized, as designated in
Sections 1 and 2 of this article.
SEC. 4. PLEDGES. Teetotal Pledge. I do hereby solemnly affirm that with
the help of God I will wholly abstain from the voluntary use as a beverage, or in
any equivalent manner, of alcohol, tea and coffee, and from the use of tobacco,
opium, and all other narcotics and stimulants.*
Auti-Jlum and Tobacco Pledge. I do hereby solemnly affirm that with the
help of God I will wholly abstain from the voluntary use of alcohol in any form,
as a beverage, or in any equivalent manner, and from smoking, chewing, or
snuffing tobacco, or using it in any other form, and from in any way encouraging
the use of these poisons.
Anil- Whisky Pledge. I do hereby solemnly affirm that with the help of
God I will totally abstain from the voluntary use as a beverage, or in any equiv
alent manner, of all liquids or substances containing alcohol.
*By the term stimulants is meant what are commonly known as such. Salt and
other condiments are not included

Purity Pltdgeft.tr Mw<,. I hereby solemnly promise by the help of God,

(1.) To obey the law of purity in thought and act; ('3.) To refrain from, and to
discountenance in others, vulgarity of speech, and indecent jests and allusions;
(3.) To avoid all books, amusements, and associations calculated to excite impure
thoughts; (4,) To uphold the same standard of purity for men and women; (5.)
To oppose all laws and customs which tend to the degradation of women, and to
labor for their reform; (6.) To endeavor to spread the, knowledge of these princi
ples, and to aid others in obeying them. [Signed.]
Purity Pledge for Wumcu. I hereby solemnlv promise by the help of
God, (1.) To obey the law of purity in thought and act; (2.) To refrain from,
and to discountenance in others, all conversation upon impure subjects, and to
avoid all books, amusements, and associations which tend in the direction of
impurity; (3.) To be modest in language, behavior, and dress; (4.) To uphold
the same standard of purity for men and women; (n.) To oppose all laws and
customs which tend to the degradation of women, and to labor for their reform;
(6.) To endeavor to spread the knowledge of these principles, and to aid others
in obeying them. [Signed.]
ARTICLE

V. AXXUAL T)UI'>.

Each full member of this Association shall annually pay into the treasurv the
sum of ten cents, to defray tin: incidental expenses of the Association, and such
other sums, not to exceed twenty-five cents annually, as may be assessed by the
Executive Board when authorized by a two-thirds1 vote of the members present
at any annual meeting.
ARTICLE VI.

This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds' vote of the fnll members

present at any of the annual meetings of the Association.
BY-LHifliS.
ARTICLE I.DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

SECTION 1. The President shall preside over the meetings of this Association,
shall issue certificates of membership, and shall perform such other duties as are
usually required of such an officer in similar societies.
SEC. 2. The Vice-Presklent shall perform the duties ot the President in his
absence.
SEC. 3. The Secretary shall keep a faithful record of a'.l the business trans
acted by the Association, and shall keep a roll of membership, and attend to
such other duties as usually devolve upon such an officer.
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board to devise ways and means
for the carrying out of the purposes of the Association; to appoint special agents,
and prepare plans for the organization of State and local societies of a similar
character in various parts of the country; to direct the appropriation of funds;
to settle questions of discipline which may be brought before them; and to attend
to other matters pertaining to the general management of the Association.
ARTICLE II. DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of each member of this Association to keep

most religiously the pledge which he signed upon becoming a member of the
Association; to exert himself to the utmost of his ability, as far as consistent
with other duties, for the advancement of the interests of this Association, in
the promulgation of correct ideas of health and temperance, by the circulation
of health and temperance literature, by the circulation of pledges, and by
all other proper means.

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SEC. 2, Members who have paid the initiation fee will receive a certificate of
membership, and will be entitled to all the rights and privileges of members.
SEC. 3. None except those who sign the teetotal pledge will be eligible to
office.
SEC. 4. Those who sign the pledge but do not pay the initiation fee, will be
considered as " pledge members," and will not be entitled to hold office, or to
take part, as members, in the proceedings of the Association. They can become
full members at any time by paying the initiation fee.
SEC. 5. All full members in good standing present at any annual meeting of
the Association, shall be entitled to participate in the proceedings of the meeting.
ARTICLE III. MEETINGS.

An annual meeting of this Association shall be held at such time and place
as shall be appointed by the Executive Board.
ARTICLE IV. TISE OP FUNDS.

Whatever moneys shall accrue from the collection of initiation fees, annual
dues, and assessments, shall be used in meeting incidental expenses, any surplus
being expended for health and temperance literature for gratuitous distribution.
ARTICLE V. DISCIPLINE.

SECTION 1. The Executive Board, with three additional persons who shall be
annually appointed by the President, shall constitute a Committee of Discipline.
SEC. 3. When a person has committed a breach of discipline, by violation of
his pledge or otherwise, his case shall be referred to the Committee of Discipline,
who shall consider the case, and shall report upon it to the Association. If the
decision of the committee is in favor of dismissal, the member may be dismissed
from the Association by a two-thirds' vote of the members present at any regular
meeting.
SEC. 3. Persons who have been dismissed from this Association for violation
of the pledge, may be taken back on trial, on recommendation of the Committee
of Discipline, and a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular
meeting.
. ARTICLE VI.

These By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds' vote of the members present

at any regular meeting.

REGULATIONS FOR CKNMHSSERS.

1. THE subscription-book departments of the several Publishing Houses in the de
nomination shall be recognized as the heads of the subscription-book work in all terri
tory occupied by them; and all who take agencies shall act in harmony with plans
suggested by the subscription-book department of the publishing house whose territory
they occupy; said plans having bee a first approved by the Board of Trustees, and the
International Tract Society at its annual sessions.
2. The tract societies in the several States shall act as the sole agents of the said offices
of publication for all their religious subscription books, provided that an efficient man
is kept in the territory occupied by them, who shall superintend the work of qualifying,
appointing, and working local sub-agents in accordance with principles of order and
thoroughness; said tract societies to report to the publishing houses each week the
number of orders taken for each subscription book. Provided always, that the publish
ing houses furnish no books to agents who do not conform to the rules adopted by the In
ternational Society, whether in territory controlled by the publishing houses, or in the
territory of any State society.
3. Wherever it is practicable to do so. the State agent shall organize his canvassers
into companies, and appoint (with the approval of the leading Conference and tract so
ciety officers) a leader for each company, who shall direct its movements in harmony
with the plans of the State-agent; said leader to canvass on commission when not actually
engaged in assisting inexperienced members of his company.
4. No person shall be appointed on religious subscription books who is not properly
recommended to the State agent, or by him known to be a suitable person,
5. No canvasser shall remove or be removed from any State to work in another,
without permission from the State agents of both such States, or from the State secreta
ries, in case there are no State agents.
6. The tract societies shall do a cash business with agents; security to be given or
the C. O. D. plan adopted when cash cannot be paid in advance.
7. No agent in the employ of any of the tract societies shall be allowed to solicit
orders for more than one subscription book at a time, except by the consent of the State
agent.
8. Every State society shall furnish its local agents with subscription books at one
half the retail prices; the transportation charges being paid by the agent, unless books
are ordered in lots of 100 Ibs. or more, and in time so that they can be sent by freight
direct from the office of publication, in which case the office pays freight.
9. No agent or other person shall be permitted to canvass for any subscription book
who hereafter knowingly violates the important rule of one price, except as herein
provided:
(a.) That a book may be given away, or damaged copies may be sold below the
regular price.
(b.) That Seventh-day Adventist ministers, colporters, Bible workers, and all others
who devote their entire time to any branch of the missionary work, may purchase sub
scription books of the State secretary, and for their own private use exclusively, at fifty
per cent discount from the retail prices. If an agent furnishes them, the cost of postage,
express, or freight must be added.
(c.) That twenty per cent discount be allowed ministers of all other denominations.
10. Agents shall take no orders outside the territory that has been assigned them, on
penalty of forfeiting the profits on all such orders. They are required, however, to work
both sides of the road on their north and east boundary lines (whether one or more town
ships or counties), and to leave both sides of the road unworked on, the south and west,
except in cases where territory is not hounded by roads. All exceptions and variations
must be reported to the State agent,
11. Agents working alone shall, at the end of each week, report to the State secretary
the number of orders taken during the week, giving the styles of bindings desired, and
the time set for delivery; also ordering in time the total number of books necessary for
any given delivery, and reporting the number delivered when the work is completed.
J2. Agents working with a company shall report weekly to the leader, who in turn
shall make a full company weekly report to both the State agent and State secretary, also
ordering of the latter the books requiredfor the deliveries of the entire company, and re
porting the number of each book delivered by the company.
13. The agent's regular commission on all subscription books sold by ministers, colporters, or others, not working under a regular contract, shall constitute a canvassers 1 re
serve fund, under the control of each State society; and this regular percentage on books
thus sold prior to or while an appointed agent is canvassing the territory, shall be paid
to such agent on the completion of his work, if in the judgment of the secretary and the
State agent such work has been faithfully performed. Otherwise the amount shall revert
to the society.
14. Whenever and wherever our city missions are established, they shall be protected
by the society in whose territory they are located, as sole agents for all religious subscrip
tion books, provided they work in harmony with the plans of the State agent; and the
agent's usual commission on books sold by mission workers who do not obtain their
support by canvassing, shall be used for the support of the mission with which they are
connected.

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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF SEVENTHDAY HDMENTISTS.

As elsewhere stated, Seventh-day Adventists have no creed but
the Bible; but they hold to certain well-defined points of faith,
for which they feel prepared to give a reason '' to every man that
asketh" them. The following propositions may be taken as a
summary of the principal features of their religious faith, upon
which there is, so far as we know, entire unanimity throughout
the body. They believe,
I. That there is one God, a personal, spiritual being, the creator of all
things, omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal ; infinite in wisdom, holiness, justice,
goodness, truth, and mercy; unchangeable, and everywhere present by his
representative, the Holy Spirit. Ps. 139:7.
II. That there is one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, the
one by whom he created all things, and by whom they do consist; that he took
on him the nature of the seed of Abraham for the redemption of our fallen
race; that he dwelt among men, full of grace and truth, lived our example,
died our sacrifice, was raised for our justification, ascended on high to be
our only mediator in the sanctuary in heaven, where, through the merits of his
shed blood, he secures the pardon and forgiveness of the sins of all those who
penitently come to him; and as the closing portion of his work as priest, before
he takes his throne as king, he will make the great atonement for the sins of
all such, and their sins will then be blotted out (Acts 8:19) and borne away
from the sanctuary, as shown in the service of the Levitical priesthood, which
foreshadowed and prefigured the ministry of our Lord in heaven. See Lev. 16;
Heb. 8: 4, 5; 9: 6, 7; etc.*
*TSOTE. Some thoughtless persons accuse us of rejecting the atonement of Christ
entirely, because we dissent from the view that the atonement was made upon the cross,
as is generally held. But we do nothing of the kind; we only take issue as to the time
when the atonement is to be made. We object to the view that the atonement was made
upon the cross, because it is utterly contrary to the type, which placed the atonement at
the end of the yearly sanctuary service, not at the beginning (see scriptures last referred to),
and because it inevitably leads to one of two great errors. Thus, Christ on the cross bore
the sins of all the world. John said, " Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away [margin,
bearetfi] the sin of the world!" John 1:29. Peter tells us when he thus bore the sins
of the world: " Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree." 1 Peter 2:24.
Paul says that "lie died for all" 2 Cor. 5:14, 15. That which Christ did upon the cross,
therefore, was done indiscriminately and unconditionally for all the world; and if this
was the atonement, then the sins of all the world have been atoned for, and all will be saved.
This is Cniversalism in full blossom. But all men will not be saved; hence the sins of
all were not atoned for upon the cross; and if Christ1 s work there was the atonement, then
Ms work was partial, not universal, as the scriptures above quoted assert, and he atoned for
only a favored few who were elected to be saved, and passed by all others who were predes
tined to damnation. This would establish the doctrine of election and predestination iuits
most ultra form, an error equally unscrintural and objectionable with the former. We
avoid both these errors, and find ourselves in harmony with the Mosaic type, and with all
the declarations of the Scriptures, when we take the position that what Christ did upon the
cross was to" provide a divine sacrifice for the world, sufficient to save all, and offered it to
everyone who will accept of it; that he then, through the merits of his offering, acts as
mediator with the Father till time shall end, securing_the forgiveness of sins for all who
seek him for it; and that, as the last service of his priesthood, be will blot out the sins of
all who have repented and been converted (Acts 3:19), the atonement not being completed
till this work of blotting out sin is done. Thus Christ atones, not for the sins of the whole
world, to save all, not for a favored few only, elected from all eternity to be saved, but for
those who, as free moral agents, have voluntarily sought from him the forgiveness of sin.
and everlasting life. And all for whom the atonement is made, will be forever saved in his
kingdom. This view inuo way detracts from the merit of Christ's offering, nor from the
value and glory of his atoniug work for men. White on this line, we are not driven into
Unlversaliam on the one hand, nor into election and reprobation on the other.
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fUUOM^UtlVL Pr\\UC\?\.tS Ot S.

III. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by
inspiration of God, contain a full revelation of his will to man, and are the only
infallible rule of faith and practice.
IV. That baptism is an ordinance of the Christian church, to follow faith and
repentance, an ordinance by which we commemorate the resurrection of Christ,
as by this act we show onr faith in his burial and resurrection, and through
that, in the resurrection of all the saints at the last day ; and that no other mode
more fitly represents these facts than that which the Scriptures prescribe, namely,
immersion. Rom. 6: 3-5; Col. 2: 12.
V. That the new birth comprises the entire change necessary to fit us for the
kingdom of God, and consists of two parts; First, a moral change wrought by
conversion and a Christian life (John 3:3, 5 ) ; second, a physical change at
the second coming of Christ, whereby, if dead, we are raised incorruptible, and if
living, are changed to immortality in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Luke
20: 36; 1 Cor. 15: 51, 52.
VI. That prophecy is a part of God's revelation to man; that it is included
in that Scripture which is profitable for instruction (3 Tim. 3 : 16) ; that it is
designed for us and our children (Deut. 29 : 29) ; that so far from being en
shrouded in impenetrable mystery, it is that which especially constitutes the
word of God a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Ps. 119: 105 ; 2 Peter 1 :
19) ; that a blessing is pronounced upon those who study it (Rev. 1 : 1-3) ; and
that, consequently, it is to be understood by the people of God sufficiently to
show them their position in the world's history and the special duties required at
their hands.
VII. That the world's history from specified dates in the past, the rise
and fall of empires, and the chronological succession of events down to the set
ting up of God's everlasting kingdom, are outlined in numerous great chains of
prophecy; and that these prophecies are now all fulfilled except the closing
scenes.
VIII. That the doctrine of the world's conversion and a temporal millennium
is a fable of these last days, calculated to lull men into a state of carnal security,
and cause them to be overtaken by the great day of the Lord as by a thief in
the night (1 Thess. 5:3); that the second coming of Christ is to precede, not
follow, the millennium ; for until the Lord appears, the papal power, with all its
abominations, is to continue (2 Thess. 2:8), the wheat and tares grow together
(Matt. 13 : 29, 30, 39) , and evil men and seducers wax worse and worse, as the
word of God declares. 3 Tim. 3 : 1, 13.
I.. That the mistake of Adventists in 1844 pertained to the nature of the
event then to transpire, not to the time; that no prophetic period is given to
reach to the second advent, but that the longest one, the two thousand and three
hundred days of Dan. 8 : 14, terminated in 1844, and brought us to an event
called the cleansing of the sanctuary.*
*The Adventists of 1844 expected that the end of the world would come in that year,
because they held that certain prophecies would then transpire, which they believed
reached to the coming of the Lord. Chief among these was the prophecy of Dan. 8, 13,
14, which says that at the end of the prophetic period of 2300 days (years) the sanctuary
should be cleansed. They believed that the earth was the sanctuary then to he cleansed,
and that its cleansing was to be accomplished with fire, which would accompany the
manifestation of the Lord from heaven. From these premises, the conclusion seemed
inevitable that when the 2800 years ended, in 1844, the Lord would come.
But the day passed by, and no Saviour appeared. Suspended between hope and
fear, and waiting until every plausible allowance for possible inaccuracies of reckoning
and variations of time, was exhausted, it became at length apparent that a great mistake
had been made, and that the mistake nmtst be on one or both of the following joints:
either, first, the period of the 2300 days did not end at that time, and they hac. made a
mistake in supposing that they would terminate in that year ; or, secondly, tht deans
ing of the sanctuary was not to be the burning of the earth at the second coming of
Christ, and hence they had made a mistake in expecting such an event at that time.
While there was a possibility that they had made a mistake on both these points, it was
certain that they had made a mistake on one of them ; and either one would be sufficient
to account for the fact that the Lord did not then appear.

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X. That the sanctuary of the new covenant is the tabernacle of God In

heaven, of which Panl speaks in Hebrews 8 and onward, and of which our Lord,
as great high priest, is minister; that this sanctuary is the antitype of the
Mosaic tabernacle, and that the priestly work of our Lord, connected therewith,
is the antitype of the work of the Jewish priests of the former dispensation (Heb.
8 : 1-5, etc.) ; that this, and not the earth, is the sanctuary to be cleansed at
the end of the two thousand and three hundred days, what is termed its cleanstag being in this case, as in the type, simply the entrance of the high priest
Into the most holy place, to finish the round of service connected therewith,
by making the atonement and removing from the sanctuary the sins which had
been transferred to it by means of the ministration in the first apartment (Ley.
16 ; Heb. 9 : 22, 23) ; and that this work in the antitype, beginning in 1844, con
sists in actually blotting out the sins of believers (Acts 3:19), and occupies a
brief but indefinite space of time, at the conclusion of which the work of
mercy for the world will be finished, and the second advent of Christ will take
place.
XI. That God's moral requirements are the same upon all men in all dis
pensations ; that these are summarily contained in the commandments spoken by
Jehovah from Sinai, engraven on the tables of stone, and deposited in the ark,
which was in consequence called the "ark of the covenant," or testament
(Num. 10 : 33 ; Heb. 9 : 4, etc.) ; that this law is immutable and perpetual, being
a transcript of the tables deposited in the ark in the true sanctuary on high,
which is also, for the same reason, called the ark of God's testament; for under
the sounding of the seventh trumpet we are told that " the temple of God was
opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament."
Eev. 11 : 19.
XII. That the fourth commandment of this law requires that we devote the
seventh day of each week, commonly called Saturday, to abstinence from our
own labor, and to the performance of sacred and religious duties ; that this Is
the oaly weekly Sabbath known to the Bible, being the day that was set apart
before Paradise was lost (Gen. 2: 2, 3), and which will be observed in Paradise
restored (Isa. 66 : 22, 23) ; that the facts upon which the Sabbath institution
A movement which had enlisted the whole interest of thousands upou thousands, and
thrilled their hearts with enthusiastic hope, was not to be abandoned, especially by its more
conservative and sincere adherents, without earnest thought and reflection. The whole
field of evidence was therefore carefully re-surveyed. It soon became apparent that two
methods were being adopted to account for the fact that the Lord did not come when he
was expected, and to explain the consequent disappointment.
One class at one rash bound, reached the conclusion that they had made a mistake in
the time, and that the prophetic periods had not expired. This was, of course, to aban
don the whole previous movement, with all its accompanying manifestations of divine
power ; for if the time was wrong, everything was wrong.
Another class, impressed with the fact that God had given too much evidence of his
connection with the movement to allow them to abandon it, carefully reviewed the evi
dence on every point. The result with them was a clearer conviction of the strength and
harmony of the argument on chronology. They saw no ground to change their views
upon the reckoning of the time, but felt more convinced than ever that the 2300 days were
correctly applied, and that they terminated at the time appointed in 1844. Thus they
became satisfied th,at the error lay in their previous views of the subject of the sanctuary
and its cleansing, and that they had made a mistake in supposing that the earth would be
burned at the end of the 2300 days, because the prophecy said that then the '* sanctuary "
should " be cleansed." This brings us to note the difference between Seventh-day Adyentists and those called First-day Adyentists, as respects chronology. The latter, believ
ing that the prophetic, periods were given to make known the time of Christ's coming,
and that they have not yet ended, are held to one of two conclusions: either that all that
is said in the Bible about these periods is so much of revelation nnrevealed, or else that
the time of Christ's coming is to be known. The first conclusion, as consistent believers
in the Bible, they cannot adopt, and hence their continual efforts to re-adjust the pro
phetic periods, and fix upon some new time for Christ to come. From this has arisen, in
these later years, all the fantastic time-setting which has very naturally disgusted the
world, and worse than this, has brought a stigma of reproach upon all prophetical
study. On the other band, Seventh-day Adventists set no time. While they believe that
- the prophetic periods are to he understood, they believe also that these periods have been
correctly interpreted, and have all terminated; so that now there is no data from which
to reason respecting a definite time for the Lord to come.

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is based confine it to the seventh day, as they are not true of any other day;
and that the terms Jewish tiabbath, as applied to the seventh day, and Christian Sab
bath, as applied to the flrst day of the week, ure names of human invention,
unscriptural in fact, and false in meaning.
XIII. That as the man of sin, the papacy, has thought to change times
and laws (the law of God, Dan. 7: 25), and has misled almost all Christendom
iu regard to the fourth commandment, we find a prophecy of a reform in
this respect to be wrought among believers just before the corning of Christ.
Isa. 56 :1, 2; 1 Peter 1: 5; Rev. 14:12, etc.
XIV. That the followers of Christ should be a peculiar people, not follow
ing the maxims, nor conforming to the ways, of the world; not loving its
pleasures nor countenancing its follies; inasmuch as the apostle says that
"whosoever therefore will be" in this sense, " a friend of the world, is the
enemy of God" (James 4:4); and Christ says that we cannot have two mas
ters, or, at the same time, serve God and mammon. Matt. 6: 24.
XV. That the Scriptures insist upon plainness and modesty of attire as a
prominent mark of discipleship in those who profess to be the followers of Him
who was."meek and lowly in heart," that the wearing of gold, pearls, and costly
array, or anything designed merely to adorn the person and foster the pride of
the natural heart, is to be discarded, according to such scriptures as 1 Tim.
2:9, 10; 1 Peter 3:3, 4.
XVI. That means for the support of evangelical work among men should be
contributed from love to God and love of souls, not raised by church lotteries, or
occasions designed to contribute to the fun-loving, appetite-indulging propensi
ties of the sinner, such as fairs, festivals, oyster suppers, tea, broom, donkey, and
crazy socials, etc., which are a disgrace to the professed church of Christ; that
the proportion of one's income required in former dispensations can be no less
under the gospel; that it is the same as Abraham (whose children we are, if we
are Christ's, Gal. 3: 29) paid to Melchiscdec (type of Christ) when he gave him
a tenth of all (Heb. 7: 1--4); the tithe is the Lord's (Lev. 27:30); and this
tenth of one's income is also to be supplemented by offerings from those who are
able, for the support of the gospel. 2 Cor. 9:6; Mal. 3: 8, 10.
XVII. That as the natural or carnal heart is at enmity with God and his law,
this enmity can be subdued only by a radical transformation of the affections,
the exchange of unholy for holy principles; that this transformation follows
repentance and faith, is the special work of the Holy Spirit, and constitutes re
generation, or conversion.
XVIII. That as all have violated the law of God, and cannot of themselves
render obedience to his just requirements, we are dependent on Christ, flrst, for
justification from our past offenses, and, secondly, for grace whereby to render
acceptable obedience to his holy law in time to come.
XIX. That the Spirit of God was promised to manifest itself in the church
through certain gifts, enumerated especially in 1 Cor. 12 and Eph. 4; that
these gifts are not designed to supersede, or take the place of, the Bible, which
is sufficient to make us wise unto salvation, any more than the Bible can take
the place of the Holy Spirit; that, in specifying the various channels of its
operation, that Spirit has simply made provision for its own existence and pres
ence with the people of God to the end of time, to lead to un understanding of
that word which it had inspired, to convince of sin, and to work a transformation
in the heart and life; and that those who deny to the Spirit its place and opera
tion, do plainly deny that part of the Bible which assigns to it this work and
position.
XX. That God, in accordance with his uniform dealings with the race, sends
forth a proclamation of the approach of the second advent of Christ; and that
this work is symbolized by the three messages of Revelation 14, the last one
bringing to view the work of reform ou the law of God, that his people may
acquire a complete readiness for that event.

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XXI. That the 1 ime of the cleansing of the sanctuary (See proposition X.),
synchronizing with the time of the proclamation of the third message (Rev.
14: 9, 10), is a time of investigative judgment, first, with reference to the dead,
and secondly, at the close of probation, with reference to the living, to de
termine who of the myriads now sleeping in the dust of the earth are worthy
of a part in the first resurrection, and who of its living multitudes are worthy
of translation, points which must be determined before the Lord appears.
XXII. That the grave, whither we all tend, expressed by the Hebrew word
sTieol and the Greek word hades, is a place, or condition, in which there is no
work, device, wisdom, nor knowledge. Eccl. 9: 10.
XXIII. That the state to which we are reduced by death is one of silence,
inactivity, and entire unconsciousness. Ps. 146:4; Eccl. 9:5, 6; Dan. 12:2.
XXIV. That out of this prison-house of the grave, mankind are to be
brought by a bodily resurrection; the righteous having part in the first res
urrection, which takes place at the second coming of Christ; the wicked, in
the second resurrection, which takes place in a thousand years thereafter.
Rev. 20: 4-6.
XXV. That at the last trump, the living righteous are to be changed in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and with the risen righteous are
to-be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, so forever to be with the Lord.
1 Thess. 4: 16, 17; 1 Cor. 15: 51, 52.
XXVI. That these immortalized ones are then taken to heaven, to the
New Jerusalem, the Father's house, in which there are many mansions (John
14: 1-3), where they reign with Christ a thousand years, judging the world
and fallen angels, that Is, apportioning the punishment to be executed upon
them at the close of the one thousand years (Rev. 20: 4; 1 Cor. 6 : 2, 3); that
during this time the earth lies in a desolate and chaotic condition (Jer. 4: 23
27), described, as in the beginning, by the Greek term abussos (aflvaoof) "bot
tomless pit" (Septuagiut of Gen. 1:2); ami that here Satan is confined during
the thousand years (Rev. 20:1, 2), and here finally destroyed (Rev. 20:10;
Mal. 4:1); the theater of the ruin he has wrought in the universe being
appropriately made, for a time, his gloomy prison-house, and then the place of
his final execution.
XXVII. That at the end of the thousand years the Lord descends with
his people and the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2), the wicked dead are raised,
arid come up on the surface of the yet unrenewed earth, and gather about
the city, the camp of the saints (Rev. 20: 9), and fire comes down from God
out of heaven and devours them. They are then consumed, root and branch
(Mal. 4:1), becoming as though they had not been. Obad. 15, 16. In this
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord (2 Thess. 1: 9), the wicked
meet the " everlasting punishment" ,threatened against them (Matt. 25: 46),
which is everlasting death. Rom. 6: 23; Rev. 20: 14, 15. This is the perdition
of ungodly men, the fire which consumes them being the fire for which "the
heavens and the earth, which are now, . . . are kept in store," which shall melt
even the elements with its intensity, and purge the earth from the deepest
stains of the curse of sin. 2 Peter 3: 7-13.
XXVIII. That new heavens and a new earth shall spring by the power of
God from the ashes of the old, and this renewed earth, with the New Jerusalem
for its metropolis and capital, shall be the eternal inheritance of the saints, the
place where the righteous shall evermore dwell. 2 Peter 3: 13; Ps. 37: 11, 29;
Matt. 5: 5.
NOTE. In the catalogue of publications issued by the Review and Herald, Battle
Creek, Mich., and the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., will be found works treating at length
upon the principal themes mentioned in the preceding propositions. Catalogue of publi
cations in English or in foreign languages, sent free.

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MONTH.

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Latitude of
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4
11
18
25
1
8
15
22
1
8
15
22
29
5
12
19
26
3
10
17
24
31
7
14
21
28
5
12
19
26
2
9
16
23
30
(i
13
20
27
4
11
18
25
1
8
15
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29
6
13
20
27

5
12
19
26
2
9
Hi
23
2
9
16
23
30
6
13
20
27
4
11
18
25
June.
1
8
15
22
29
6
13
20
87
3
10
17
24
31
7
14
21
28
5
12
19
26
2
9
16
23
30
7
14
21
28

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Pittstrarg.
SUN SETS.

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New Orleans.
SUN SETS.

4
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
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6
6
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7
7
7
7

42
49
57
06
15
24
33
42
51
59
07
15
23
31
39
47
54
02
10
17
24

4
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
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7
7
7
7

43
50
59
07
17
26
35
43
52
00
08
16
24
38
40
48
55
03
11
18
25

4
4
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5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
6
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6
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6
7
7
7

46
53
01
09
19
27
35
44
51
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07
14
22
29
36
43
50
57
04
11
17

4
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
0
6
7
7
7

47
55
08
11
20
28
37
45
52
01
08
16
23
30
37
44
51
58
05
13
18

5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
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6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

15
20
26
32
38
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50
55
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04
09
13
17
21
26
30
34
39
43
48
52

5 15
5 21
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5 33
5 39
5 45
5 50
5 56
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6 05
6 09
6 14
6 18
6 22
6 26
6 31
6 35
6 39
6 44
6 48
6 53

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

30
34
38
40
40
39
36
82
25
18
09
59
48
37
24
12
00
48
30
24
13
02
52
45
38
33
29
28
28
31
35

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
B
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

30
35
38
40
40
39
36
31
24
16
07
57
46
35
23
11
58
46
34
22
11
01
52
44
37
38
29
28
29
31
36

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
C
5
B
5
S
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

23
87
31
33
34
33
30
26
21
13
06
56
46
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24
12
01
49
37
26
16
05
57
49
42
38
34
33
84
36
40

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
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5
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4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

23
28
31
33
34
32
30
25
20
12
04
55
44
34
22
11
59
47
36
25
14
04
56
48
41
37
34
33
34
36
40

6 56
6 59
7 02
7 04
7 05
7 05
7 03
7 00
6 57
6 58
6 46
0 39
6 82
6 34
6 16
6 07
5 59
6 50
5 41
B 33
5 26
5 19
5 13
5 08
B 04
5 01
S 00
5 01
5 02
5 OB
5 09

6 56
7 00
7 08
7 04
7 05
7 04
7 03
7 00
6 56
6 51
6 45
6 38
6 31
6 83
6 14
6 06
5 57
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5 40
B 82
5 25
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5 18
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5 04
5 01
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u Remember the Sabbath day. to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all
thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ebalt not
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-serv
ant, nor thy cattle, uor thy stranger that Is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20:8-11.
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Mail matter of the third class includes printed books, pamphlets, engravings,
circulars (in print or by the hectograph, electric pen, or similar process), and other
matter wholly in print, proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets, and manuscript copy
accompanying the same.
The rate on matter of this class is one cent for each two ounces or frac
tion thereof*
Manuscript, unaccompanied by proof-sheets, must pay letter rates.
Third-class matter must admit of easy inspection, otherwise it will he charged letter
rates on delivery. It must be fully prepaid, or it will not be forwarded. Its wrapper
must bear no writing or printing except the name and address of the sender, and a return
request.
The limit of weight is four pounds, except single hooks in separate packages, on
which the weight is not limited.
The name and address of the sender, preceded by the word /rom, may he written
upon the package, and a simple manuscript dedication may appear in a book or upon
the article inclosed.
FOURTH-CLASS MATTER.

Fourth-class matter is ail mailable matter not included In the three preceding
classes, which is so prepared for mailing as to be easily withdrawn from the wrapper
and examined. It embraces merchandise and samples of every description, and coin or
specie.
Kate of postage, one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof (except
seeds, roots, bulbs, cuttings, cions, and plants, the rate on which is one cent for each
two ounces or fraction thereof). This matter must be fully prepaid, or it will not be
forwarded.
Articles of this class that are liable to injure or deface the mails, such as glass,
sugar, needles, nails, pens, etc., must be first wrapped in a bag, box, or open envelope,
and then secured in another outside tube or box, made of metal or hard wood, without
sharp corners or edges, and having a sliding clasp or screw lid, thus securing the
articles in a double package. The public should bear in mind that the first object of
the department is to transport the mails safely, and every other interest is made sub
ordinate.
Such articles as poisons, explosives, or inflammable articles, live animals, insects, or
substances exhaling a bad odor, will not be forwarded in any case.
The regulations respecting the mailing of liquids are. as follows: Liquids, not
ardent, vinous, spirituous, or malt, and not liable to explosion, spontaneous combustion,
or ignition by shock or jar, and not inflammable (such as kerosene, naphtha, or turpen
tine), may he admitted to the mails for transportation within the United States. "When
contained in glass bottles or vials, such bottles or vials must be strong enough to stand
the shock of handling in the mails, and must be inclosed in a wooden, or papier -mache
block or tube not less than three sixteenths of an inch thick in the thinnest part, strong
enough to support the weight of mails piled in bags, and to resist rough handling; and
there must be provided, between the bottle and its wooden case, a cushion of corkcrumbs, cotton, felt, asbestos, or some other absorbent, sufficient to protect the glass
from shock in handling, the block or tube to be closed by a tightly-fitting screw lid of
wood or metal, with a rubber or other pad so adjusted as to make the block or tuhe
water-tight, and to prevent the leakage of the contents, in case of breaking of the glass.

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When inclosed in a tin cylinder, metal case, or tube, such cylinder, case, or tube should
have a screw lid with a rubber or cork cushion inside in order to make the same water
tight, and should be securely fastened in a wooden or papier-mache block (open only at
one end), and not less in thickness and strength than above prescribed. It would be
well always to consult the postmaster in reference to the proposed mailing of liquids.
The limit of admissible liquids and oils is four ounces, liquid measure.
Limit of weight of fourth-class matter (excepting liquids), four pounds.
The name and address of the Bender, preceded by the word from*, also the names
and number (quantity) of the articles inclosed, 7nay be written on the wrapper of fourthclass matter without additional postage. A request to the delivering postmaster may
also be written, asking him to return the package if not delivered.
REGISTRATION.

All kinds of postal matter, except, second-class matter, can he registered at the rate of
ten cents for each package in addition to the regular rates of postage, to be fully prepaid
by stamps. Each package must bear the name and address of the sender, and a receipt
will be returned from the person to whom addressed.
The Post-Office Department or its revenue is not by law liable for the loss of any
registered mail matter.
MONEY-ORDERS.

Domestic money-orders are issued by money-order post-offices for any amount up to

$100, at the following rates:
For sums not exceeding $6, five cents; for $5 to $10, eight cents; for $10 to $15, ten
cents; for $15 to $30, fifteen cents: for $30 to $40, twenty cents; for $40 to $50, twentyfive cents; for $50 to $60, thirty cents; for $60 to $70, thirty-five cents; for $70 to $80,
forty cents; for $80 to $100, forty-five cents.
When more than $100 is required, additional orders must he obtained, but not more
than three orders will be issued in one day to the same payee, payable at the same office.
POSTAL NOTES.

These will he issued for sums less than $5, for a fee of three cents, and are payable
to any person presenting them, either at the office designated on the note, or at the office
of issue within three months of date of issue.
LETTER-SHEET ENVELOPES.

The Post-Office Department now issues a combined letter sheet and envelope of the
denomination of two cents. The prices are as follows: one, three cents; two, five cents;
five, twelve cents; ten, twenty-three cents; one hundred, $2.30; one thousand, $23.
STAMPED EKVELOPES.

Embossed, stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers of several denomination a,

sizes, and colors are kept on sale at post-offices, singly or in quantities, at a small
advance on the postage rate.
FREE DELIVERY.

The free delivery of mail matter at the residences of the people desiring it, is required
by law in every city of 50,000 or more population, and may be established at every
place containing not less than 20,000 inhabitants.
The franking privilege was abolished July 1, 1873, but the following mail matter
may be sent free by legislative saving clauses; viz:
1. All public documents printed by order of Congress, the Congressional Record,
and speeches contained therein franked by members of Congress or the Secretary of the
Senate, or Clerk of the House.
2. Seeds transmitted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, or by any Member of Con
gress, procured from that department.
3. All periodicals sent to subscribers within the county where printed.
4. Letters and packages relating exclusively to the business of the Government of
the United States, mailed only by officers of the same, publications required to be mailed
to the Librarian of Congress by the copyright law, and letters and parcels mailed by the
Smithsonian Institution. All these must be covered by specially printed *' penalty " en
velopes or labels.
All communications to Government officers, and to or from Members of Congress,
are required to be prepaid by stamps.

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GtUtRNV. \WORVMVUON.
SUGGESTIONS TO THE PUBLIC.

{From the United States Official Postal Guide.}

Mail all letters, etc., as early as practicable, especially when sent in large numbers,
as is frequently the case "with newspapers and circulars. The trouble of the post-office is
much diminished if letters, when mailed in large numbers, are tied in bundles, with the
addresses all in one direction.
Make the address legible and complete, giving the name of the post-office, county,
and State. The name of the street and number of the house should also be given on
letters addressed to cities where letter-carriers are employed; while the letter will event
ually reach its destination without a number, the omission is often a cause of hesitation
and delay. In the case of letters for places in foreign countries, and especially in Can
ada, in which country there are many post-offices having the same name as post-offices in
the United States and in England, the name of the country as well as the post-office
should be given in full. Letters addressed, for instance, merely to "London," without
adding "England," are frequently sent to London, Canada, and vice versa, thereby
causing delay, and often serious ioss. Letters addressed to Burlington, N. S. (Nova
Scotia), often go to Burlington, New York, on account of the resemblance between and
Y when carelessly writteu. It would "be better to write out names of States in full.
Avoid, as much as possible, using envelopes made of thin paper, especially where
more than one sheet of paper, or any other article than paper, is inclosed. Being often
handled, and even in the mail-bags subject to pressure, smcli envelopes not unfrequently
split open, giving cause of complaint against officials who are entirely innocent in the
matter.
Never send money or any other article of value through the mail, except by means
of a money-order, or in a registered letter. Any person who sends money or jewelry in
an unregistered letter not only runs the risk of losing his property, but exposes to temp
tation every one through whose hands his letter passes, and may be the means of ulti
mately bringing some clerk or letter-carrier to ruin.
See that every letter contains the full name and poet-office address of the writer,
with county and State, in order to secure the return of the letter, if the person to whom
it is directed cannot be found. A muth larger portion of the undelivered letters could
be returned if the names and addresses of the senders were always fully and plainly
written or printed inside or on the envelopes. Persons who have large correspondence
find it most convenient to use 4t special request envelopes;" but those who mail only an
occasional letter, can avoid much trouble by writing a request to ''return if not de
livered," etc., on the envelope.
When dropping a letter, newspaper, etc., into a street mailing box or the receptacle
at a post-office, always*see that the packet falls into the box, and does not stick in its
passage; observe, also, particularly, whether the postage stamps remain securely in their
places.
Postage stamps should be placed on the upper right-hand corner of the address side
of all mail matter.
Postmasters are not obliged to accept in payment for postage stamps or stamped
envelopes, wrappers, etc,, any currency which may be so mutilated as to be uncurrent,
or the genuineness of which cannot be clearly ascertained. They are not obliged to re
ceive more than twenty-five cents in copper or nickle coins. They are not obliged to
affix stamps to letters, nor are they obliged to make change, except as a matter of court
esy. They must not give credit for postage.
Letters cannot be carried out of the mail except In postage-stamped envelopes.
Even if a person is not acting as a common carrier, there is no objection to his carrying a
sealed letter, whether in a stamped envelope or not; but to continue the practice, or re
ceive money for so doing, would subject the party to a penalty of one hundred and fifty
dollars. Newspapers, magazines, and periodicals may be carried out of the mail for sale
or distribution to subscribers, but if they are put into a post-office for delivery, the post
age must be paid thereon.
It is forbidden by the regulations of the Post-Office Department for postmasters to
give to any person information concerning the mail matter of another, or to disclose the
name of a box-holder at a post-office.
Mail matter deposited in any receptacle erected by the Post-Office Department,
such as street mailing-boxes for the reception of mail matter to be collected by lettercarriers, or boxes in railroad depots for the reception of matter to be collected by em
ployees of the railway mail service, cannot be reclaimed by any one under any circum
stances. If letters intended for city delivery are deposited in boxes in railroad depots,
it is at the risk of the person doing so. Such mail cannot be reclaimed, except through
the Dead Letter Office.
Letters addressed to persons temporarily sojourning in a city where the Free De
livery System is in operation, should be marked " Transient "or u General Delivery," if
not addressed to a street and number, or some other designated place of delivery.
All matter concerning lotteries, gift concerts, or schemes devised to defraud the
public, or for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretenses, is denied transmis
sion in ihe United States mails.

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RHTES OF POSTKGE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
CANADA.

LETTERS, per ounce, prepayment compulsory, 2 cents; postal cards, each, 1 cent;
newspapers, per 4 ounces, 1 cent; samples of merchandise, not exceeding 8 ounces, 10
cents.
Any article of correspondence may be registered for ten cents. Patterns and samples
are construed to be bonajlde specimens of goods on hand and for sale, having no intrinsic
value aside from their use as patterns and samples. The weight of each package is lim
ited to eight ounces, and the postage charge is ten cents per package, prepayment com
pulsory- They are subject to the regulations of either country to prevent violation of
the revenue laws; must not be closed against inspection, and must he so wrapped and
inclosed as to be easily examined.
MEXICO.
Letters, newspapers, printed matter, and samples are now carried between the United
States and Mexico at the same rates as in the United States.
COUNTRIES OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
To the following countries and colonies, which, with the United States and Canada,
comprise the Universal Postal Union, the rates of postage are as follows:
Letters, per 15 grams (Yz ounce), prepayment optional.......................... Scents.
Postal cards, each ............................................................. 2 cents.
Newspapers and other printed matter, per 2 ounces......................... ... 1 cent.
( Packets not in excess of 10 ounces.... ........... ..... 5 cents.
Commercial papers. < Packets in excess of 10 ounces, for each 2 ounces, or
j fraction thereof ........... .......................... 1 cent.
( Packets not in excess of 4 ounces ................... 2 cents.
Samples of merchandise. -{ Packets in excess of 4 ounces, for each 2 ounces or
( fraction thereof................................... 1 cent.
Registration fee on letters or other articles ..................................... 10 cents.
All correspondence other than letters must be prepaid, at least partially.
Argentine Republic.
[Luxemburg.
FKBKCH COLONIES.
A u stria- Hungary.
1. In Asia; French estab Montenegro.
Bahamas.
lishments in India
Netherlands.
Barbadoes,
Cochin China. 2. InAJ-\ NETHSBLAND COLONIES.
Belgium.
rica: Senegal and depend-! 1. In Asia: Borneo. Sn
Bermudas.
encies, Reunion, Mada ' tra, Java, Celebes. ..
Bolivia.
gascar. 3. In America: In Oceanica: New-Gui
Brazil.
French Guiana, Guade-l nea. 3. In America ;
British Colonies on West! loupe, Martinique. St.| Surinam, Curacoa, St.
Coast of Africa.
Bartholomew, St. Pierre. Eustatius.
British Colonies in Westj 4. /n,Oceonica:New Cal- (Newfoundland.
Indies.
endonia, Tahiti, Marque Nicaragua.
British Guiana.
sas Islands, Gambier.
Norway.
British Honduras.
Germany.
Nubia, Soodan.
British India.
Great Britain and Ireland. Paraguay.
Bulgaria.
Gibraltar and Cypress.
Patagonia, Eastern part.
Ceylon.
Greece.
Persia.
Chili.
Greenland.
Peru.
Colombia, U. S. of.
Guatemala.
Portugal, including Madei
Costa Rica.
Hayti.
ra and the Azores.
Congo, State of.
Hawaii.
PoHTUGr/BSE COLONIES.
Denmark.
Honduras.
1. fn Asia. 2. In Africa:
Hong Kong.
Dominica.
Cape Verde, Mozambique.
Ecuador.
Italy.
Roumania.
Egypt.
Iceland.
Russia, including Finland,
Prance, including Algeria,! Jamaica.
Salvador.
Monaco, Tunis, Tangier, Japan and Jinsen (Corea). .__ Marino.
Cambodia, Tonquiii.
Liberia.
Servia.

Siam.
Spain, including the Canary
Islands, the Spanish pos
session a on the north coast
of Africa, the Republic of
Andorra,and the postal es
tablishments of Spain on
the west coast of Morocco.
SPANISH COLONIES.
1. In Africa: Fernando Po.
2. In America: Cuba and.
Porto Rico. 8. In Ocean
ica : Ladrone and the
Caroline Islands. 4. In
Asia: The Philippine
Archipelago.
Straits Settlements (Singa
pore, Penang, and Ma
lacca).
St. Thomas, W. I.
Sweden.
Switzerland.
Trinidad, W. I.
Turkey, European and Asi
atic.
Uruguay.
Venezuela.

COUNTRIES NOT OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.

COUNTRIES.

News
Letters, papers,
per yzoz per 2 oz

Au8tralia;* N. S. Wales,
ria (Melbourne mail.) . ..

COUNTRIES.
Madagascar (except French

12

19

2
4

15

Morocco(except Span, pos.)

Natal ......................

News-Letters, papers,
per %oz per 2 oz
28

15
15

15
21

S
2
4
4
4
5

Prepayment compulsory, except to places marked *. Registration allowed on letters

to Australia and New Zealand, 10 cents; on all mail matter to South African Colonies
and States, 10 cents.

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PROPOSED KMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STHTES.
BE WAKE OF THE FIRST TWO.

RELIGION TO BE TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by Senator Blair, of New Hamp

shire: lt Each State in this Union shall establish and maintain a system of free public
schools adequate for the education of all the children living therein, between the ages of
six and sixteen years inclusive, in the common branches of knowledge, and in virtue,
morality, and the principles of the Christian religion. .... The United States shall
guaranty to every State, and to the United States, ibe support and maintenance; of suc-h
a system of free public schools as is herein provided. .... Congress shall enforce this
Article by legislation when necessary."
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE, by Senator Blair, of Xew Hampshire: "The right of citizens
of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of sex."
/ ''
LIQUOR PROHIBITION, by Senator Blair, of New Hampshire: "The manufacture, im*iortatiou, exportation, transportation, and sale of all alcoholic liquors as a beverage shall
ie, and hereby is, forever prohibited in the United States and in every place subject to
their jurisdiction."
THE EXECUTIVE VETO, by Mr. Stewart. of Vermont: The proposed ameiidmejit
substitutes a majority vote of both Houses for a two-third*' vote to repass a bill over the
President's veto.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO BE REPRESENTED IN CONGRESS, by Senator Blair, of Xew
Hampshire: "The District of Columbia shall be entitled to representation in the Con
gress of the United States by one senator, and by one or more representatives, according
to the rule of apportionment established by Article XIV. of the Constitution. Said dis
trict shall also be entitled to as many electors for President and Vice-Presideiit of the
United States as it has members of Congress."
A SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT, by Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina: Provides for the elec
tion of a second Vice-President by* the people.
LIMITING HOURS OF LABOR, by Senator Davis, of Minnesota: "Congress shall have
power, by appropriate legislation, to limit the time during which persons may be daily
employed in manufactories of textile fabrics, and other industries.' 1
To MAKE THE PRESIDENTIAL TERM EIGHT YEARS, by Mr. Hudd, of Wisconsin:
To amend Art. II., first paragraph in Sec, 1, so as to make the presidential term "eight
years, 1 ' and that the President "shall be inelegible for re-election to a second or other
term of office as President of the United States of America."
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE, by Mr. Herman, of Oregon : " The Senate
of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the
people thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote."
POLYGAMY AND BIGAMY PROHIBITED, by Senator Cullom, of Illinois: "The only
institution or contract of marriage within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction, shall be that of the union in marriage of one man with one woman; and
bigamy or polygamy is forever prohibited, any law, custom, form, or ceremony, civil or
religious, to the contrary notwithstanding."

KN "INDEPENDENT*' CLUSTER.
THE Constitution itself requires no amendment; but what is required is the removal
from it of the patches impairing its symmetry, its comprehensiveness, its elasticity, its
durability, which have been imposed on it by the judiciary. Frances Wharton,, L. L. I).,
in New York t( Independent" Jan. 10, 1889.
I have your letter asking what changes had better be made in the Constitution. I
know of none; if any change is needed, it is in ourselves, that we may more and more respect
that body of primal law. George Bancroft, in New York " Independent," Jan. 10, 1889.
I think it is a most happy arrangement that sudden whiles and gusts of popular feel
ing are not always able to execute and carry put the rash purposes with which they are
inspired. Justice Bradley, Judge of the United States Supreme Court, in, a letter to the
New York "Independent," Jan. 10, 1889.
I am BO old-fashioned as to think that the Constitution, administered according to its
letter and spirit, is well enough as it is. And I am of the opinion of the late Governor
Andrew, that it is not desirable to Mexicanize our Government by proposing Constitu
tional amendments as often as there is supposed to lie a disturbance in its practical
working. Justice Gray, of the V, S. Supreme Court, itt, the " Independent,*"1 of Jan. 10, 1SSH,
I am satisfied with the Constitution as it is. It cannot be bettered. Constitution
tinkers are in a poor business. If there are ills, it is better to bear them than fly to others
that we know not of. Justice Blatchford* s letter to the " Independent." Jan. 10, 1%89.
National Reformers: "What can be done to induce such men to keep still?' 1 Seelzeb-ub; "Corrupt their morals."

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THE BLHIR RELIGIOUS
As the United States Constitution now stands, there is a total separation between
religion and the State; but when the proposed Blair Amendment, or any amendment of
like character, shall have been adopted, there will be a nnion. The amendment to
which we refer is sometimes called the "Blair Educational Amendment," but it wonld
more properly be called the "Chnrch and State Amendment," or the " Blair Religious
Amendment" to the Constitution of the United States, because that is what it really is.
The amendment is as follows:
"ARTICLE.
"SECTION 1. No State shall ever make or maintain any law respecting an establish
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
"SEC. 2. Each State in this Union shall establish and maintain a system of free
public schools adequate for the education of all the children living therein, between the
ages of six and sixteen years inclusive, in the common branches of knowledge, and in
virtue, morality, and the principles of the Christian religion. But no money raised by
taxation imposed by law, or any money, or other property, or credit belonging to any
municipal organization, or to any State, or to the United States, shall ever be appro
priated, applied, or given to the use or purposes of any school, institution, corporation,
or person, whereby instruction or training shall be given in the doctrines, tenets, belief,
ceremonials, or observances peculiar to any sect, denomination, organization, or society,
being, or claiming to be, religious in its character; nor shall such peculiar doctrines,
tenets, belief, ceremonials, or observances be taught or inculcated in the free public
schools.
"SEC. 8. To the end that each State, the United States, and all the people thereof,
may have and preserve governments republican in form and in substance, the United
States shall guaranty to every State, and to the United States, the support and main
tenance of such a system of free public schools as is herein provided.
"SEC. 4. That Congress shall enforce this Article by legislation when necessary."
This amendment to the national Constitution lias been presented by Senator Blair,
and is now pending in Congress. It is a singular sort of document, though hardly any
more so than was to be expected in the promotion of the purpose which underlies it;
. ., the establishment of a national religion. The proposed amendment is just about
as flatly self-contradictory as any proposition could be. Section 1 reads:
" No State shall ever make or maintain any law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
The first sentence of Section 2 reads:
"Each State in the Union shall establish and maintain a system of free public
schools adequate for the education of all the children living therein, between the ages
of six and sixteen years inclusive, in the common branches of knowledge, and in virtue,
morality, and the principles of the Christian religion."
That is to say, no State shall ever make or maintain a law respecting an establish
ment of religion; but every State in this Union shall make and maintain laws estab
lishing the principles of the Christian religion. And to make assurance doubly sure,
Section 3 declares that
"The United States shall guaranty to every State, and to the people of every State
and of the United States, the support and maintenance of such a system of free public
schools as is herein provided."
And that is to say, the United States Government pledges itself that every State
shall establish and maintain the principles of the Christian religion. This proposed
amendment, therefore, at one stroke, establishes Christianity as the national religion,
because it declares that every State shall maintain the principles of the Christian relig
ion in the public schools, and the nation is pledged to see that this is done. Therefore
there must be a national decision of some kind declaring just what are the principles of
the Christian religion. Then when that decision shall have been made, every State will
have to receive from the nation just those principles of religion which the nation shall
have declared to be the principles of the Christian religion, and which the nation will
have pledged itself shall be taught in the public schools of every State. In other words,
the people of the United States will then have to receive their religion, from the Gov
ernment of the United States, and no longer from the Bible, as their own conscience,

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enlightened by the Spirit of God, may dictate. Therefore, if Senator Blair's proposed
amendment to the national Constitution does not provide for the establishment and
maintenance of a national religion, then no religion "was ever established or maintained
in this world.
But Low shall this national decision be made as to what are the principles of the
Christian religion ? It would seem that the second sentence of Section 2 makes pro
vision for this, It declares that no "instruction or training shall be given in the
doctrines, tenets, belief, ceremonials, or observances peculiar to any sect, denomina
tion, organization, or society, being, or claiming to be, religious in its character; nor
shall such peculiar doctrines, tenets, belief, ceremonials, or observances be taught or
inculcated in the free public schools. 11
As therefore no religious tenets, doctrines, or belief can be taught in the schools,
except such as are common to all denominations of the Christian religion, it will follow
inevitably that there shall be officially called a national council of the churches to decide
what are the principles common to all, and to establish a national creed which shall be
enforced and inculcated by national power in all the public schools in the United States.
And that will be the establishment of a national religion. And that is exactly what
Senator Blair's Constitutional Amendment assures, so surely as it or anything similar
to it shall ever be adopted.
Another important consideration is this: Under this amendment, the teachers in
the public schools will have to inculcate the principles of the Christian religion. Who
are to compose the examining board that shall pass upon the qualifications and ortho
doxy of the teachers ? Assuredly none but the leading theologians in the churches.
This will require that such a board shall be statedly convened to deal out what shall
have been decided by each successive council to be the principles of the Christian
religion.
It was in this way precisely that the thing was worked in the fourth century and
onward. Constantine made Christianity the recognized religion of the Roman empire.
Then it hecame at once necessary that there should be an imperial decision as to what
form of Christianity should be the imperial religion. To effect this, an imperial council
was necessary to formulate that phase of Christianity which was common to all. The
Council of Nice was convened by imperial command, and an imperial creed was estab
lished, which was enforced by imperial power. That establishment of an imperial
religion ended only in the imperious despotism of the papacy.
As surely as the complete establishment of the papacy followed and grew out of
that imperial recognition of Christianity in the fourth century, just so surely will the
complete establishment of a religions despotism after the living likeness of the papacy,
follow and grow out of this national recognition of Christianity provided for in the
Constitutional amendment proposed by Senator Blair, aud which is now pending in
Congress.
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ACCOKDINQ to the Year Book of the Y. M. C. A. for 1888, there are 1,240 associations
in America, and 8,804 in the world. The American associations have a membership of
175,000; they own buildings valued at $5,609,265; and have a total net property of
$7,261,658. Last year they expended $1,181,388 in local work, and $104,949 in general
work. Some 752 men are devoting their entire time to local, State, and international
work as -secretaries and assistants. Seventy -seven associations are engaged especially
in work among railroad men; ten work among German-speaking young men; 373 in
colleges ; twenty -nine are colored, and eighteen Indian.
SOME people seem to think that the reason why the Boman Catholic Church is dan
gerous, is because of its false doctrines, and that its advances politically should be re
pelled on this ground. A greater mistake could not be made. The only danger from
Catholicism is in its having political power at all. It was this that made it Catholic in
the first place, and corrupted its doctrines. Let the great churches of this country
"come together harmoniously and issue their edict,11 to be obeyed by the legislative
powers, as Mr. Sam Small desires, aud we should have a condition of things as bad as
when papal Eome ruled Europe. Their doctrines and professions might be as pure as
those of the apostles, but that would not lessen the ill effects of their combining to di
rect legislation. Their doctrines would soon be corrupt enough to suit the enemy of all
righteousness, and we should have an American Catholic Church. Let it be understood
and remembered that a church exercising civil power is what constitutes the papacy, no
matter what nor where the church is. American Sentinel.

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THE BLJSIR SUNDHY REST BILL.
FIRST, AS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED; SECOND, WITH CHANGES DESIRED.

THE proposed Blair Kcligious Amendment to the Constitution was made necessary
by a bill that had been offered in the United States Senatefive days before, establishing a
national Sunday law, sometimes called a Sabbath law. It was introduced May 21, 1888,
and provides for religious legislation. It is a religious bill entirely, it could be noth
ing else and be a Sunday bill, or a Sabbath bill either.
THE BILL AS PRESENTED.

In the Senate of the United States, May 21, 1888, Mr. Blair introduced the following
bill, which was read twice, and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor:
"50th
Q lfl**f00oo
1st CONGRESS,
SESSION. \} *'
"A Bill to secure to the people the enjoyment of the first day of the week, commonly
known &s the Lord's day, as a day of rest, and to promote its observance as a day of relig
ious worship.
" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That no person or corporation, or the agent, servant, or
employee of any person or corporation, shall perform or authorize to be performed any
secular work, labor, or business to the disturbance of others, works of necessity, mercy,
and humanity excepted; nor ehall any person engage in any play, game, or amusement,
or recreation, to the disturbance of others, on the first day of the week, commonly known
as the Lord's day, or during any part thereof, in any Territory, district, vessel, or place
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; nor shall it be lawful for any
person or corporation to receive pay for labor or service performed or rendered in viola
tion of this Section.
"SECTION 2. That no mails or mail matter shall hereafter be transported in time
of peace over any land postal-route, nor shall any mail matter be collected, assorted,
handled, or delivered during any part of the first day of the week: Provided. That when
ever any letter shall relate to work of necessity or mercy, or shall concern the health,
life, or decease of any person, and the fact shall be plainly stated upon the face of the
envelope containing the same, the postmaster-general shall provide for the transportation
of such lettefor letters in packages separate from other mail matter, and shall make reg
ulations for the delivery thereof, the same having been received at its place of destination
before the saidfirst day of the week, during suctilimited portions of the day as shall best
suit the public convenience, and least interfere with the due observance of the day as one
of worship and rest: And provided further, That when there shall have been an interrup
tion in the due and regular transmission of the mails, it shall be lawful to so far examine
the same when delivered as to ascertain if there be such matter therein for lawful delivery
on the first day of the week.
"SEC. 3. That the prosecution of commerce between the States and with the Indian
tribes, the same not being Work of necessity, mercy, or humanity, by the transportation
of persons or property by land or water in such way as to interfere with or disturb the
people in the enjoyment of the first day of the week, or any portion thereof, as a day of
rest from labor, the same not being labor of necessity, mercy, or humanity, or its observ
ance as a day of religious worship, is hereby prohibited, and any person or corporation, or
the agent, servant, or employee of any person or corporation, who shall willfully violate
this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one thousand
dollars, and no service performed in the prosecution of such prohibited commerce shall be
lawful, nor shall any compensation be recoverable or be paid for the same.
14 SEC. 4. That all military and naval drills, musters, and parades, not in time of
active service or immediate preparation therefor, of soldiers, sailors, marines, or cadets
of the United States, on the first day of the week, except assemblies for the due and
orderly observance of religious worship, are hereby prohibited, nor shall any unnecessary
labor be performed or permitted in the military or naval service of the United States, on
the Lord's day.
"SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful to pay or to receive payment or wages in any
manner for service rendered, or for labor performed, or for the transportation of persons
or of property in violation of the provisions of this act, nor shall any action lie for the
recovery thereof, and when so paid, whether in advance or otherwise, the same may be
recovered back by whoever shall first sue for the same.
"SEC. 6. That labor or service performed and rendered on the first day of the week
in consequence of accident, disaster, or unavoidable delays in making the regular con
nections upon postal-routes and routes of travel and transportation, the preservation of
perishable and exposed property, and the regular and necessary transportation and
delivery of articles of food in condition for healthy use, and such transportation for
ehort distances from one State, district, or Territory into another State, district, or Ter
ritory, as by local laws shall be declared to be necessary for the public good, shall not be
deemed violations of this act, but the same shall be construed, so far as possible, to
secure to the whole people rest from toil during the first day of the week, their mental
and moral culture, and the religious observance of the Sabbath day."

If Congress should pass this bill, it would not immediately affect citizens under the
laws of any State, such not being subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United
States. It would refer to the army, navy, the custom house, the District of Columbia,
and the Territories, they being under the control of the national Government. But the
effect in a short time would he extended to the States; for if the nation should pledge
itself to such a system of legislation as is herein provided, it would open the way for the
same system to be carried out in all the States.
Section 5 provides that if any person works for any other person on Sunday, and
receives payment for it at any time, theti any one, except the parties concerned, can enter
suit, and recover the money so paid. If you work for me on Sunday, and 1 pay you for
it, then the first man that finds it out can sue you and get the money. The bill says that
when wages are paid for Sunday work, whether in advance or otherwise, the same may
he recovered back by whoever shall first sue for the same. "Whoever.* 1 is a universal
term. Therefore this bill deliberately proposes that when any man who is subject to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, receives payment for work done on Sunday,
except of necessity or mercy, he may be sued for that money by whoever first learns that
he has received it. and that person shall get the money.
To think that any such legislation as is embodied in this section should ever be
thought of by any sane person, is sufficiently strange; but that it. should not only have
been thought of, but should have been embodied in a bill, and introduced into the United
States Senate by a United States Senator, and favored by millions of citizens, is simply
astonishing.
The game spirit is in the first section. It is unreasonable; it is subversive of liberty;
and it savors of tyranny. One phase in this section says: "No work shall be done to
the disturbance of others, nor shall any person engage in any play, game, or amusement,
or recreation to the disturbance of others on the Lord's day, or during any part thereof. 1 '
This leaves it entirely with the other man to say whether what you do disturbs him
or not. If it does, he ean have you arrested and brought before the courts and tried.
Then whether the judge or the jury will confirm his decision, is the question. If the
decision is confirmed, the fine is anywhere from $10 to $1,000. Judge Sullivan, of
California, in a recent decision relative to a law involving the question of what consti
tuted disturbance of an individual (not regarding Sunday, however), said:
" Any condition of the law which allows the test of criminality to depend on the
whim or caprice of judge or jurors, savors of tyranny."
The principles of the ordinance denounced by Judge Sullivan, are identical with the
principles in the first section of the Blair Sunday bill. If it was a Seventh-day Sabbath
bill, the principle would be the same, and ought to be opposed. The Blair bill embodies
a dangerous doctrine, is uncertain and unreasonable, subversive of liberty, savors of
tyranny, and is anti-Christian.
THE EtLL, WITH CHANGES UE SIRED BY THE AMERICAN SABBATH UNION.

The " Special Committee " that made this report, consisted of Col. Elliot P. Shepard,
Bishop Hurst, Dr. Sunderland, Dr. Kuskin, Dr. Kuowles, Dr. Elliott, and others, with
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster as legal adviser. Changes are indicated by bold-faced letters and
stars. As changed, the bill was unanimously adopted Dec. 12, 1888.
li A Bill to secure to the people the enjoyment of the Lord's day, commonly known
as Sunday, as a day of rest, and to protect its observance as a day of religious worship.
tk Be it enacted by the Senate and House of fffpresentations of W* United State* of
America in Congress assembled. That on Sunday, no person or corporation, or the agent,
servant, or employee of any person or corporation, shall perform, or authorize to be
performed, any secular work, labor, or business, * * * works of necessity, mercy, and
humanity excepted; nor shall any person engage in any play, game, show, exhibition,
or amusement * * * open to the public, or of a public character, in any Territory,
district, vessel, or place subject to the exclusive juriediction of the United States; nor
shall it he lawful for any person or corporation, to receive pay for labor or service per
formed or rendered in violation of this section.
" SECTION 2. That no mails or mail matter shall hereafter be transported in time of
peace over any land postal-route, nor shall any mail matter be collected, assorted,
Handled, or delivered during any part of Sunday.
11 SEC. 3. That the prosecution of commerce between the States and with the Indian
tribes, * * * by the transportation of persons or property hy land or water * * * on the
first day of the week * * * is hereby prohibited, and any person or corporation, or the
agent, servant, or employee of any person or corporation, who shall * * * violate this

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section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than teii nor more than one thousand
dollars, and no service performed in the prosecution of such, prohibited commerce shall
be lawful, nor shall any compensation be recoverable or be paid for the same. 1 '
"SEC. 6. That labor or service performed and rendered on Sunday * n consequence
of accident or disaster, or unavoidable delays in making the regular connections upon
postal-routes and routes of travel and transportation, the * * * transportation and deliv
ery of milk before 5 A. M. and after 10 P. M. * * * shall not be deemed violations of
this act, but the same shall be construed, so far as possible, to secure to the whole peo
ple rest from toil during Sunday, their mental and moral culture, and the protection
Of the religious observance of the * day.
The reasons for the changes asked are, in part, as follows:
For religious purposes we prefer the name Lord's day or Christian Sabbath, but as
Sunday is already used in national laws, we think it better to use that uniformly in this
bill, with the one exception of the double name in the title.
The word promote iu the title goes beyond what many, even your Christian cit
izens, believe to be the proper function of government with reference to "religious
worship," while the word protect (see also last line) expresses a duty which govern
ment owes to all legitimate institutions of the people.
Experience in the courts has shown that the words show and exhibition, should be
added to the list of prohibited Sunday amusements, and the words in public, in place
of to the disturbance of others, as the latter clause has been construed as requiring
that persons living in the neighborhood of a Sunday game or show must testify that they
have been disturbed, in order to a conviction, which cannot be done in some cases with
out personal peril.
In Section 2, we believe that the exceptions for letters relating to sickness, etc., are
unnecessary in this age of the telegraph: and that they would be used by unscrupulous
men in business correspondence, and that this would destroy most of the benefits of the
law in its bearing on Sunday mails.
In Section 3, we believe the exceptions made would greatly interfere with the ad
ministration of the law. The exception for work of mercy and necessity is made, once
for all, in the first section. The reference to " the disturbance of others " is objectionable
for reasons already given, and the word willfully is an old offender in Sabbath legisla
tion, and requires evidence very bard to get in regard to one's motive and knowledge of
the law. In other laws it is assumed that one knows the law, and the law-making power
should see that the laws are well published, and leave no room for one to escape by ag
nosticism.
In Section 5 (as in Section 1 also), we would omit Lord^s day, and in Section 6,
Sabbath, in order to preserve uniformity in using the less religious term, Sunday.
In Section 6, we think refrigerator cars make Sunday work in transportation of per
ishable food, except milk, unnecessary, and the new stock cars, with provision for food
and water, do the same for stock trains. So many of the State Sunday laws have proved
almost useless in protecting the rights of the people to Sunday rest and undisturbed
worship, by the smallness of their penalties and the largeness of their exceptions, that
we covet from Congress a law that shall make itself effective by small exceptions and
large penalties.
With a little care in comparison, the reader can readily see what changes have been
made in the bill. We have omitted Sections 4 and 5 from the revised bill, because they
are the same as the corresponding sections in the original bill, with the single exception
of Sunday being substituted for Lord's day, in the last line of Section 4. Any one
can see that the changes are in the line of greater stringency. We note only the most
prominent points:
1. The change from Lord's day to Sunday, although a proper one, is in reality no
change at all, since the term Lord^s day is still used at the beginning, and it is ex
pressly stated that Sunday is used only as a matter of custom. It is understood that
it is as a religious day, indicated by the term Lord's day, that they want the observ
ance of the first day of the week enforced; but if the term Sunday is quite generally
used, it will no doubt '* take " better.
2. In asking for the ''protection of the religious observance of the day," instead of
the "promotion of its observance as a day of religious worship," the committee meant to
hit those who are 4i on the fence" in regard to religious legislation. As it stands, it
amounts to nothing; for there is not a State or Territory in the Union where any
religious service held on Sunday would not be protected.
3. The most important change of all, however, is the substitution of the words "in
public" instead of "to the disturbance of others," in Section 1. This will certainly
make the law more effective. It is obvious that if a man were to engage in work a mile
from a dwelling-house, it would be quite a task for the owner of the house to convince
even an ordinary jury that such labor disturbed him; but by the terms of the amended
bill, the man may be convicted if he is working in a public place, provided anybody can
get near enough to him to see him.

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GLUtRIXV.

4. Notice the radical change made in Section 2, As amended, it is most sweeping.

allowing of no exception. The mail is not to bo carried at all on Sunday, even in case of
sickness and death, lest some ;i unscrupulous" person should mention business on that
day. If the mail is not carried, of course that will make him a good man ! It is no con
cern of ours how they propose to carry out this law, but we can't help wondering what
they will do when Sunday conies, and a train carrying the mail is on the way, say from
Chicago to New Orleans. The train is owned by a corporation, and is not in a part of
the country 'Subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States," and therefore
could not be forced to lie over. The only way out of the difficulty, under the provision
of this bill, would be to dump all the mail out at the nearest station, and let it lie there
till Sunday was past.
This, however, would not be done. "What would be done would be the passing of
laws by the several States, forbidding all labor within their jurisdiction, and it is this
for which these zealous people are scheming. This United States law is designed as a
precedent, and as a lever with which to secure the relkrious observance of Sunday by all
the people in the United States, whether or not they are religious.
The Rev. Wilbur F. Crafis, speaking in Baltimore before the preachers of that city,
urged them to use all the means in their power to have the present bill before Congress
pass, and become a law. lie said that the bill aims to get the general Government to
stop the carriage of mails, and the running of interstate trains on Sunday. Having done
this, a good example would be set, "which would be followed, and result in the better
observance of Sunday, and the enforcement of the now-existing Sunday laws [in the vari
ous States]."
This is the secret of the whole movement. They ask now for that which seems easy
to reach, and which would create but little prejudice in the popular mind. If Congress
grants that, a precedent will have been established iu the nation for legislating on relig
ious questions, which would remove objections to further legislation in the same direc
tion. Having gained this point, it will be easy to amend existing laws, to make the re
strictions cover more ground; and in this way time will bring to these National llcformers just what they now want, but what they dare not ask for at first. Let the Govern
ment once legislate on such matters, and there will be no end to that kind of work.
Should objections afterward be raised against meddling in those things, the established
precedent of the first act in that direction, at the instance of millions of petitioners, would
be cited as authority enough for further action.
5. Special attention is called to the last sentence to the "reason for the changes
asked." It says: "So many of the State Sunday laws have proved almost useless in
protecting the rights of the people to Sunday rest and undisturbed worship, by the
smallness of their penalties and the largeness of their exceptions, that we covet from
Congress a law that shall make itself effective Iry small exceptions and large-penalties."
There the real spirit of the dragon exhibits itself. In that simple statement is com
pressed a world of bigotry and animosity. History has abundantly shown that the bit
terness and bate which bigoted men feel toward those who differ with them in religious
opinion, are the worst of all. It is very natural for a bigoted man to imagine that when
his views are not respected, it is a direct insult to the Lord, and that he is the divinelyappointed agent to punish all such offenses. But we believe that there are many thou
sands of people in the United States who are not willing to forge chains with which to
bind themselves, nor lend themselves to the work of binding others, No scheme more
iniquitous, nor more opposed to the spirit of the gospel of Christ, was ever set on foot in
this country.

NO DISCRIMINKTION iAiHNTGD.
THE National Prohibition party, in their platform in a convention held at Indian
apolis, declare ''for the preservation and defense of the Sabbath as a civil institution,
without oppressing any who observe the same or any other day than the first day of the
week." But we should like to know by what right they would oppress a man who does
not observe any day of the week. Notice this says: "Without oppressing any who
religiously observe any other day than the first day," which clearly implies that they are
willing to oppress the man who does not religiously observe any day of the week. But
notice another statement in this, '* For the defense and preservation of the Sabbath as a
civil institution." To be sure! Remember the Sabbath day to keep it civilly. Is not
that what the commandment eaye ? No; it says, " Remember the Sabbath day to keep>
it holy, 11 and holiness is not an attribute of civil government.

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THE POltfERS THKT BE.
" THEN went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his
talk. . . . We know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth. . . . Tell
as, therefore, what thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute nnto Caesar, or not? But
Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me
the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them,
Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he
unto them, Render therefore unto Cassar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the
things that are God's." Matt. 22:15-21.
In these words Christ has established a clear distinction between Cassar and God;
that is, between the civil and the religious powers, and between what we owe to the civil
power and what we owe to the religious power. That which is Caesar's is to be rendered
to Caesar alone, that which is God's is to be rendered to God alone. To say that we are
to render to Caesar that which is God's, or that we are to render to God by Caesar that
which is God's, is to pervert the words of Christ, and make them meaningless.
Webster defines religion as "the recognition of God as an object of worship, love,
and obedience," and another definition is, " a man's relation of faith and obedience to
God." It is evident, therefore, that religion and religious duties pertain solely to God,
and that which is God's is to be rendered to him, and not to Caesar. It follows inevit
ably that civil government can never of right have anything to do with religionwith a
man's personal relation of faith and obedience to God.
In support of the doctrine that civil government has the right to act in things per
taining to God, the text of Scripture is quoted which says, " The powers that be are or
dained of God."
This passage is found in Rom. 13:1. The first nine verses of that chapter are de
voted to the subject, showing that the powers that be are ordained of God, and enjoining
upon Christians, upon every soul, in fact, the duty of respectful subjection to civil gov
ernment.
By those who advocate a religious amendment to the Constitution, it is argued that
because the powers that be are ordained of God, it must have something to do with men's
relations to God. Is it a sound argument to say that because a thing is ordained of God,
it is ordained to every purpose and work under the sun? A minister of the gospel is or
dained of God, but for what? To preach the gospel; and not, as too many ministers
now-a-days seem to think, as ministers of the law or politics. No minister of the gospel
was ever .ordained as a minister of the law, either moral or civil; and when a minister
nters on any such work as that, he is doing a work that Christ never sent him to do.
In Jer. 27 :1-8 is clearly shown that the power of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
was ordained of God; nor to him alone; but to his son, and his son's son, which is to
say, that the power of the Babylonian empire, as an imperial power, was ordained of
God; but when that power overstepped the authority delegated to it, and commanded all
men to worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up, the three Hebrews
said firmly, "We are not careful to answer thee in this matter. . . . We will not serve
thy gods, nor worship the golden image which tbou hast set up." Dan. 3:16, 18.
After they had been cast into the fiery furnace, the king exclaimed, " Lo 1 I see four
men loose, walking in the midst of the flre, and they have no hurt; and the form of the
fourth is like the Son of God." By this it is demonstrated that the power of the king
dom of Babylon, although ordained of God, was not ordained in things pertaining to
men's consciences. And it was written for the instruction of future ages, and for our
admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.
The power of Media and Persia was also ordained of God, as proved in Dan, 11:1.
Darius made Daniel prime minister of the empire, but a number of the presidents and
princes, envious of his position, sought to unseat him. After earnest attempts to find
occasion against him, they were forced to confess that there was neither error nor fault
in his conduct. " Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this
Daniel, except we flnd it against him concerning tlie law of his God." Dan. 6 :5. They
therefore assembled together to the king, and told him that all the presidents of the
kingdom, and the governors, and the princes, and the captains, had consulted together
to.sstablish a royal statute, and to make a decree that whoever should ask a petition of
any God or man except the king, for thirty days, should be cast into the den of lions.
Darius, never dreaming of what they were after, signed the decree. Daniel knew that
the decree had been made, and that it had been signed by the king, but he went into his
house, and, bis windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he knelt three
times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before God, as be did aforetime. He paid no
attention to the decree that had been made, although the decree forbade his doing as he
did, under the penalty of being thrown to the lions. He knew that although the power
of Media and Persia was ordained of God, it was not ordained nnto any such purpose
as that to which it was here employed.
Daniel staid in the den of lions all night; but in the morning, when the king called
to him, he said, "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths." Thus
again it is manifest that although the powers that be are ordained of God, they are not
ordained in things that pertain to men's relation toward God. Christ's words are a pos
itive declaration to that effect, and Rom. 18:1-9 is a further exposition of the principle.
The first eection,of the Blair Sunday bill provides for legislation in regard to the

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ment is obeyed.
To enforce upon men the laws of Christian morality is nothing else than an attempt
onipel them to he Christians, and does, in fact, compel them to^be hypocrites.
to conip

MONOPOLY.
IF the Lord should taky away from Satan all opportunity to do wrong, would not
he, on this ground, be a Christian ? If he had no chance, ho could do no wrong, and so
he "would be compelled to do right; and if one docs right, is he not good? Take away
from Satan his power to do wrong, and he will be Satan still. No man was ever made a
saint by religious legislation.
To show that National Reformers will not be easily satisfied, we give an extract from
a speech before the IT, S. Senate Committee on Labor and Education, by Dr. "Wilbur "jT.
Crafts, for national Sunday legislation. Speaking in regard to closing the post-office on
Sunday, he says:
l - A law forbidding the opening between ten and twelve, "would accomplish this, and
would be better than nothing; but we want more." Again: "A law forbidding-any
handling of Sunday mail at such hours as would interfere with church attendance on the
part of the employees, would be better than nothing; we want more than this.'''' Again:
"Local.option in deciding whether a local post-office shall he open at all on Sunday, we
should welcome as better than nothing; , . . but we desire more than this.'1 ' And again:
" A law forbidding all carrier delivery of mail on Sunday, would be better than nothing;
but -we want more than this,''''
"When is he going to have enough? il The Horse-leech hath three daughters, crying,
'give, give, 1 " this one has four crying, ''more, more." They cannot be satisfied with the
first etep; for the first step logically involves the last. If church members do not like
to go to church now, they will not like to go when they are compelled to go; if they carry
out their theory, they must act as they did in the fourth century; and if they do n't. then
human nature is not what it was then.
In the fourth century they wanted control of the civil power, that they might
make the theocratical theory effective. The Bishops sent up their petitions in favor of
Sunday legislation for this purpose, And here they frame petitions, and send them to
Congress with precisely the same object in view. At that time, Sunday laws were the
means, and so it is to-day. A theocratical theory involved the papacy then, and a theo
cratical theory will involve an image of the papacy now. In other words, two things
which are so much alike in the making, will be alike when they are made. They have
an amendment to the United States Constitution before the national legislature asking
the establishment of a Christian religion. They have a petition asking for a national
Sunday law. What is it all for? For the church. Dr. Crafts says that the post-office is
the competitor of the churches, and that the Sunday newspaper is the competitor of the
preacher. That is it. The church cannot withstand the competition. It wants a mo
nopoly. That is the fourth century over again. As Neander tells us, in the competition
between the church and the theater, the church got beaten, and as she could not endure
that, she sought for a monopoly. And she got it, too. You may talk, about the evils of
monopolies, and trusts, and political intrigues, grasping for money and power in the
Government, but the most dangerous of all monopolies is a religious monopoly. Give
the church or any party a civil monopoly of religion, and you will have a religious
despotism.

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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.
THE inhabitants of the globe, estimated in even millions, according to religions
creed are as follows: Christians, 888,000,000; Buddhists, 840,000,000; Mohammedans,
210,000,000: devotees of Brahma, 175,000,000; of Confncins, 80,000,000; of Shintoism,
14,000,000; Jews, 7,000,000.
In Europe there are 147,300,000 Eoman Catholics, 71,500,000 Protestants, and 69,300,000
in the Greek Church and other Eastern churches; in Asia are 4,900,000 Catholics, 1,800,000
Protestants, and 8,500,000 Greek Catholics, etc.; In Africa are 1,100,000 Catholics, 1,200,000 Protestants, and 8,200,000 connected with the Eastern churches; in America are
47,300,000 Roman Catholics, and 80,000,000 Protestants; in Australia and Polynesia are
400,000 Catholics, and 1,500,000 Protestants; totals, 201,000,000 Catholics, 106,000,000 Prot
estants, and 81,000,000 in the Greek Church and other Eastern churches.
Denominations in the
United States.

91
583
798
30,522
Anti-mission..
900
1 542
650
4,586
Christians, N. .
1,662
Christians, S . .
75
Church of God
500
94
350
1G

Adventiets, Second .....

Adventists, Seventh-day
Baptists,
Baptists,
Baptists,
Baptists,

Chur. Members.

Episcopalians, Prot. ....

Friends, Orthodox ......
Fr'ds, Non-affll. Orth...
German Evangelical ....
Lutherans, Gen. Synod .
Lutherans, Unit. Syn. S.
Lutherans, Syn. Conf. ..
Methodists, Epis., S. . . . .
Methodists, Epis., Af. ..

11,100
63,500
23,817
2,732,570
40,000
82,823
31 lid
582,'800
122,000
18,000
45,000
8,720
60,000
1,450
120,000
4,277
436,879
4,434
418,581
90
12,000
600
70,000
100
12,000
23,000
675
125,000
1,449
188,988
360
29,683
1,835
258 408
2,006
297,631
1,923
206,120
550
100,000
20,263 1,990,377
10,951 1,056,028
2,800
500,000

Denominations in the
United States.

Chnr.

Method. Epis., Unit. B..

Methodists, Epis. Col...

* 2,200
4,832
2,016

Methodists, Evang^As'n
Methodists, Independ. ..
Methodists, Primitive...
Methodists, U. Am. Col.

1 7<W

1,808
495
70
358
35
125
50
83
6,281
o *no

Presbyterians, United. . .
Presb., Welsh Calvinistic
Presb., Asso. Reform, S.
Reformed (late Dutch) . .
Reformed (late German)
Roman Catholics ........
Unitarians ......

....

Members.
314,000
185,103
165,000
133,514
182,508
.17,727
14 1^f\

12,314
5,000
8,887
3,500
10,686

RM fiftQ

143,743
2,546
138,564
500
18,000
881
91,086
121
10,856
175
9,568
112
7,015
54
6,800
536
83,037
1,468
176,937
10,191 7,000,000
90
5,015
365
* 20, 000
695
35,550

Total ..... ......... 135,716 19,018,977

*Estimated.

HOM TO FILL THE CHURCHES.

AT the last meeting of the Monday Congregational Club, In San Francisco, one of
the ministers read a paper entitled, " Why the Masses Do Not Attend the Churches."
Among the principal reasons, he cited " the unfortunate circumstance of our having no
Sunday law." "People," said he, "go to saloons, and engage in gambling and lottery
schemes, instead of going to church."
The gentleman doubtless revealed more than he intended to. He showed clearly the
one real object of all Sunday legislation, namely, to fill up the empty churches. Men
may talk as much as they please about Sunday laws' being mere "police regulations,"
intended for the physical good of the people; but we well know, what they cannot
always keep concealed, that such laws are for no other purpose than to compel people to
listen to preaching which has lost its power to draw them. They assure us that they
have 110 idea of compelling anybody to keep Sunday, or to attend church against his will;
but their assertion is not in harmony with reason. Does anybody need to be told that
when they have passed a Sunday law in order to fill up their empty churches, they will
enforce not only the letter but the spirit of that law, and compel attendance on church
service, when it is not done voluntarily? We trow not.
This matter of Sunday laws is now a live issue. In many State legislatures, as well
as in Congress, organized and persistent efforts will be made this winter to secure the
passage of such laws; and the friends of religions freedom should be on the alert.
American Sentinel.

108

G^HtrVEXV. \HvOr\VI\f=a\OU.
THE CKLENDKR.

IT is probable that the reckoning of time began with the lunar month of twenty-nine
or thirty days, and that the year was suggested by the round of the seasons. But an
even number of lunar months does not make a solar year, or a complete revolution of the
earth around the Bun. The Egyptians, accordingly, had a year of twelve thirty-day
months, adding five days at the end to make 305. The Jews used the lunar month also,
alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days, but at intervals added a short thirteenth
month; and Solon ordained alike arrangement at Athens. The early Roman year was
of ten months; but the kings adopted the older system, which was reformed by Julius
Csesar. He established 365 days as tbo calendar year, with a day added to 1'cbruary
every fourth year. The days gained during the confusion of more than four centuries,
were dropped, so that the year 4G B. c. had but 445 days. Thus began the Julian
Calendar. Under it, however, there is one day too many in about 128 years, as tbe solar
year is not quite 365% days; and in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII. decreed the suppression of
ten days from that year, and that the final year of a century should not bo a leap year,
unless evenly divisible by 400. The Gregorian Calendar was soon adopted by most Cath
olic nations, but not in England till 1752, when eleven days were dropped, and the day
after September 2 became September 14. George Washington was born February 11, O. S.,
" old style," which is retained in Russia and Greece, with an error now of twelve days.
The Christian chronology, dating forward and backward from the birth of Christ,
was proposed by Dionysiue, a monk, 527 A. D., but with an error of four or five years, as
is now pretty well proved. The year 1889 is probably 1893 or 1894 after the Incarnation.
About thirty other eras are known to history, the more famous of them being the Olympi
ads, 776 B. c. to 440 A. rx, in periods of four years ; the Roman, dating from the founding of
the city (A. u. n.) 753 B. c. ; and the Mohammedan, from the Hegira, or flight of Moham
med to Medina, July 16, 622 A. D. Tbe year of the world (A. M.) is given by adding 4004
B. c., the year of creation in the Usshcr chronology, to the given year A. D., as 5893 for
1889. Over 200 calculations of the creative year, however, vary from 3102 to 6984 B. c.
The Romans gave the months the names we have, with slight changes in form; and
Caesar directed their allotments of days. September to December, however, were origi
nally the seventh to tenth months, as their names indicate. The Roman and Greek year
began in March, and in many parts of Europe the year opened with March 25. Annuncia
tion or Lady Day. The later Romans adopted January 1 for the first day ; but France
received it so late as 1563; Scotland, 1600; England, 1752. Dates between January 1 and
March 24 were often expressed thus: Jan. 30, 1048-49, time of King Charles's execution,
1648 in England, 1049 iu Scotland. Washington's birthday appears in the family Bible
as occurring Feb. 11, 173314. Christmas or Easter in some lands began the year.
Our day names come from the old superstition that a heavenly body in order, the
sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn presides over the first hour of
each day. The last five names became Germanized, and in time took their present form.
The ecclesiastical day was from sunset to sunset, and many persons still keep their
Sabbath accordingly. The international date-line, at which navigators westward drop
one day, and eastward add one, is a very irregular line in the Pacific Ocean, between 117
east and 168 west longitude, with a general north and south direction.

THOSE SUNDRY PHPERS.

WHEN the subject of annihilating Sunday papers was under discussion by the
preachers day before yesterday, various remedies were proposed. One of them was that
the ministers should not print the notices of their services in the Sunday papers boy
cott them, in short. That is an old story,
" Said Aaron to Moses,
Let's bite off our noses."
Somehow they always get in. Some deacon or elder, more interested in the business
than in the spiritual welfare of the church, and who knows that advertising is the life of
all enterprises, comes around, and, explaining that the minister is a little high-strung
and old-fashioned in his notions, asks for an insertion of the notice.
Another remedy was that the papers be shown that their financial interests would be
promoted by stopping the obnoxious issue.. That was tried once in this city.. During
the early part of 1886 there was a three weeks'' revival meeting in the Methodist Church
block. The evils of Sunday papers were dwelt on. Efforts were made to convert the
offenders. It was stated that if any publisher would reform, he could be sure of tbe
solid and profitable backing of a great share of the community. One paper tried it. Its
sole reward was a large assortment of resolutions, thanks, and prayers. It lost a num
ber of the subscribers it bad. and gained no new ones to speak of. It was a victim of
what the worldly would call u a confidence game." After trying it awhile, it resumed its
Sunday issue, and intends to continue its publication indefinitely. Chicago Tribune,
November 23, 1888.

169
LIGHTNING CHLCULHTORS.
THE following letter shows what Cardinal Gibbons thinks of the present effort to
sanctify the day which Rome has called holy ever since she set it apart as a day of rest,
in place of the Bible Sabbath:
" CARDINAL'S RESIDENCE,
1
408 N. CHABLES STREET, BALTIMORE,
JDec. 4, 1888. )
"REV. W. F. CRAFTS Stev, Dear Sir: I have to acknowledge your esteemed favor
of the 1st Just., in reference to the proposed passage of a law by Congress ' against Sun
day work in the Government's mail and military service,' etc.
" I am most happy to add my name to those of the millions of others who are laudably
contending against ttte violation of tbe Christian Sabbath by unnecessary labor, and who
are endeavoring to promote its decent and proper observance by legitimate legislation.
As the late Plenary Council of Baltimore has declared, the due observance of the Lord1 :*
day contributes immeasurably to the restriction of vice and immorality, and to the pro
motion of peace, religion, and social order, and cannot fail to draw upon the nation the
blessing and protection of an overruling Providence. If benevolence to the beasts of
burden directed one day's rest in every week under the old law, surely humanity to man.
ought to dictate the same measure of rest under the new law.
"Your obedient servant in Christ,
t; JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS,

" Archbishop of Baltimore.'1 '

When the National Convention of the American Sunday Union met in the Foundry
M. E. Church, Washington, I). C., Dec, 11-13, tbe auditorium was draped with
long strips of red cotton, on which were pasted the petitions of over six millions of
Protestants, in behalf of a National Sunday law. But when Mrs. Bateham (Superin
tendent of the department of Sabbath observance, of the W. C. T. U.) pointed to the
festoons of petitions, and said she was reminded of the scripture which says we are
"compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses," she announced that there were
fourteen millions of these witnesses in the petitions hanging upon the pillars of the
building. The question wras how the number could have grown so much larger so sud
denly. This was explained by the fact that Cardinal Gibbons had written a letter (the
one above quoted) indorsing the Blair bill, and solely upon the strength of his name
seven million two hundred thousand Catholics were counted as petitioners.
Was there any authority in that letter for doubling the number of signatures to the
Sunday-law petition? There is not the slightest hint in it that tbe Cardinal thought he
was acting officially. He said, "I am happy to add my name,'1 '1 etc. He did not say that
he added, or that lie wished to add, seven million two hundred thousand others with his
name, or in his name. But the over-weening anxiety of these Christian Protestant (?)
Sunday-law workers for petitions was so great that, without a twinge, they could and
did multiply one Catholic name into seven million two hundred thousand and one. Yet
this was not so much to be wondered at, because the same principle had been acted upon
before throughout, the country, and when five hundred petitioners could be made out of
one hundred, and two hundred, and forty thousand out of two hundred and forty, it was
perfectly easy and entirely consistent to make seven million two hundred thousand and
one out of one.
This thing was perfectly consistent also with the principle in another point. The
petition read, "We, tbe undersigned, adult residents of tbe United States, twenty-one
years of age or more, hereby petition," etc. In counting these seven million two hun
dred thousand petitioners in behalf of the Sunday law, they thereby certified that all
these were Catholics " twenty-one years of age or more." But there was not a man in
that convention, and there is not a woman in the W. C. T. U., who does not know that
there are not that many Catholics in the United States "twenty-one years of age or
more." They virtually certified that all the Catholics in the United States are " twentyone years of age or more; " for they distinctly announced that "all the Roman Catholics 1 '
were petitioning for the Sunday law. But when they had virtually certified the same
thing of the Protestant churches throughout the country, why should they not go on
and swing in "all the Roman Catholics " in the same way ? They could do tbe one just
as honestly as they could do the other. When men and women professing themselves
to be Protestant Christians will do such things as that to carry the Catholic Church with
them, it is time they ceased to call themselves Protestants. And when they will do such
things for any purpose, it is time they should cease to call themselves Christians. Christianity means honesty.

170
BIBLES HND THE BIBLE.
THE seven bibles, or sacred books of the world, are the Koran of the Mohammedans,
the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Tripataka of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the
Chinese, the three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scriptures of the Jews
and Christians the Old Testament for the former, and both the Old and New Testa
ments for the latter. The Koran is the most recent of these, and is not older than the
seventh century of our era. It is largely a compound of quotations from the Old and
New Testaments, the Talmud, and the Gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of the Scan
dinavians were first published in the f qnrteenth centnry. The Tripataka of the Buddhists
contain sublime morals and pure aspirations. Their author lived and died in the sixth
centnry before Christ. There is nothing of high excellence in these books, which ie not
also found in our Bible. The sacred writings of the Chinese are called the Five Kings,
king meaning web or cloth, or the warp that keeps the threads in their place. They con
tain the best sayings of the ancient Chinese sages on the etbico-political duties of life.
These sayings cannot be traced to a period earlier than the eleventh century B. c. The
three Vedas are the most ancient books of the Hindoos, and it is the opinion of Max
Miiller, Wilson, Johnson, and WMtney that they are not older than eleven centuries B. c.
The Zendavesta of the Persians is said to be the grandest of all sacred books, next to our
Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains, was born in the twelfth century E. c.
Moses lived and wrote bis Pentateuch fifteen centuries E. c., and therefore his writings
are 300 years older than the most ancient of all other so-called sacred writings.
In the fifth century A. D., the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures received the collective
title Biblia, the Bible-tne book above all others, sometimes called by eminence the
Book of books. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, except small parts of Ezra
and Daniel, which were in Chaldee. The New Testament was written altogether in
Greek, though many think the Gospel of Matthew, prepared primarily for Jewish
readers, was first published in the Aramaic dialect of Hebrew. The Jews have also in
Hebrew great books of commentaries and interpretations, called the Gemaras and the
Mishna, which combined constitute the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. The Targums are older than these, are written in Chaldee or Aramaic, and furnish explanatory
paraphrases and elaborations of the Scripture text, after the following fashion:
" And the earth was waste and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the abyss;
and a wind from the Lord breathed over the face of the waters."
"But the earth was confusion and emptiness, destitute of the sons of men and bare
of all cattle; and darkness was upon the face of the abyss, and the spirit of mercies from
before the Lord breathed over the surface of the water."
14 And the Lord created man in his own likeness; in the image of the Lord created
he him, with 248 members and 365 sinews, and clothed him with a skin, and filled him with
flesh and blood; male and female in their body created he them."
The entire Bible consists of sixty-six books and 1189 chapters. Its middle chapter,
the smallest in the book, is Psalm 117; the middle verse, Psalm 118: 8. Ezra 7: 21 in the
English Bible, has all the letters of our alphabet, except j; 2 Kings 19, and Isaiah 37, are
chapters almost exactly alike.
The Old Testament contains thirty-nine books, believed to have been written in thefollowingorder: Job (probably in the sixteenth century before Christ), Genesis, Exodus, Le
viticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (these constitute the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses),
Joshna, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, Psalms, Songs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes,
Proverbs, Joel, Jonah. Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, 1 Kings and 2 Kings, Nahnm, Zcphaniah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Habakkuk, Daniel, Ezekicl, Obadiah, Haggai, Zachariah,
1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Esther, Neaemiaa. Malnchi. In modern arrange
ment, dating for both Testaments from the latter half of the sixteenth century, the
thirty-nine Books are divided into 929 chapters and 23,214 verses.
The New Testament comprises twenty-seven books, by eight authors. The probable
order of composition is as follows: 1 Theesalouians and 2 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians
and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Romans, Matthew, Luke, Mark, Acts, Philemon and Colossians, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, Titus, 3 Timothy, James, 1 Peter and 2 Peter, Jude,
Hebrews, Revelation, John's Gospel, 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John. The books have 200
chapters and 7,959 verses.
The Old Testament Apocrypha is received by the Catholic churches as canonical,
but not by the Protestants, although the Church of England permits it to be read "for
example of life and instruction of manners.1 ' It is often bound in with the canonical
Scriptures, between the Old and New Testaments, and includes fourteen books: 1 Esdras and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, The Rest of Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclcsiasticus,
or the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, Barnch and the Epistles of Jeremiah, The
Song of the Three Children, The History of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of
Manasses [Manasseh], 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees. These are divided into 183 chap
ters, and 6,081 verses. There is also a New Testament Apocrypha, nowhere of canonical
authority, and included in none of our Bibles. It has no less than twenty-two Gospels,
ten In Greek, and twelve in Latin, thirteen Acts of the Apostles, all originally in Greek,
and seven Apocalypses, or books of Revelation. Some of them are of slight historical
or critical value.
The perusal of the whole Bible may be compassed in a year, by reading three chap
ters each week-day and five on Sabbath. Some of the chapters of peculiar interest and
profit are the "bottomless" chapter, Ephesians 3; the "character" chapter, Job 39;

167
RELIGIONS OF THE MORLD.
THE inhabitants of the globe, estimated in even millions, according to religions
creed are as follows: Christians, 388,000,000; Buddhists, 340,000,000; Mohammedans,
210,000,000: devotees of Brahma, 175,000,000; of Confucius, 80,000,000; of Shintoism,
14,000,000; Jews, 7,000,000.
In Europe there are 147,300,000 Roman Catholics, 71,500,000 Protestants, and 69,300,000
in the Greek Church and other Eastern churches; in Asia are 4,900,000 Catholics, 1,800,000
Protestants, and 8,600,000 Greek Catholics, etc.; in Africa are 1,100,000 Catholics, 1,200,000 Protestants, and 3,200,000 connected with the Eastern churches; in America are
47,300,000 Roman Catholics, and 30,000,000 Protestants; in Australia and Polynesia are
400,000 Catholics, and 1,5UU,000 Protestants; totals, 201,000,000 Catholics, 108,000,000 Prot
estants, and 81,000,000 in the Greek Church and other Eastern churches.
Denominations in the
United States.
Adventists, Second .....
Adventists, Seventh-day
Baptists, Anti-mission..
Baptists, Christians, N. .
Baptists, Christians, S . .
Baptists, Church of God

Chnr. Members.
91
683
798
30,522

900
1 542
650
4.536
1,662
75
500
94
OKA

Episcopalians, Prot. ....

Friends. Orthodox ......
Fr'ds, Non-affi]. Orth...
Friends, " Hicksite ". . . .
German Evangelical ....
Lutherans, Gen. Synod .
Lutherans, Unit. Syn. S.
Lutherans, Syn. Conf...

16
1,500
4,277
4,484
90
600
100
'"675
1,449
360
1,835
2,006
1,923

KCfl

Methodists, Epis., S. . . . .
Methodists, Epis., Af. ..

20,263
10,951
3,800

Denominations in the
United States.

Chnr. Members.

* 2,300
11,100
314,000
63,500 Method. Epis., Unit. B.. 4,332
185,108
23,817 Methodists, Epis. Col... 2,016
165,000
1 700
2,732,570
138,514
40,000 Methodists, Evang. As'n 1,808
182,508
on ooo
495
.17,727
34 144
70
18,750
583,800
358
12,814
122,000 Methodists, Independ. ..
35
5,000
18,000 Methodists, Primitive...
125
8,837
45,000 Methodists, U. Am. Col.
50
3,500
8,720
83
10,686
CA1 QCtQ
60,000
6,281
n 1(1Q
1,450
148,748
120,000
2,546
138,564
436,379
500
13,000
418,531 Presbyterians, United. . .
881
91,086
12,000
121
10,856
70.000 Presb., Welsh Calvinistie
175
9,568
12,000 Presb., Asso. Reform, S.
112
7,015
23,000 Presb., Ref. Gen. Syn. ..
54
6,800
125,000 Reformed (late Dutch) . .
536
83,037
138,988 Reformed (late German) 1,468
176,987
29,683 Roman Catholics ......... 10,191 *7,000,000
258,408
90
5,015
297,631 Unitarians ......
....
365
* 20,000
206,120
695
35,550
100,000
1,990,377
135,716 19,018,977
1,056,028
*Estimated.
500,000

HOW TO FILL THE CHURCHES.

AT the last meeting of the Monday Congregational Club, to San Francisco, one of
the ministers read a paper entitled, " Why the Masses Do Not Attend the Churches."
Among the principal reasons, he cited " the unfortunate circumstance of our having no
Sunday law." "People," said he, "go to saloons, and engage in gambling and lottery
schemes, instead of going to church."
The gentleman doubtless revealed more than he intended to. He showed clearly the
one real object of all Sunday legislation, namely, to fill up the empty churches. Men
may talk as much as they please about Sunday laws' being mere " police regulations,"
intended for the physical good of the people; hut we well know, what they cannot
always keep concealed, that such laws are for no other purpose than to compel people to
listen to preaching which has lost its power to draw them. They assure us that they
have no idea of compelling anybody to keep Sunday, or to attend church against his will;
but their assertion is not in harmony with reason. Does anybody need to be told that
when they have passed a Sunday law in order to fill up their empty churches, they will
enforce not only the letter but the spirit of that law, and compel attendance on church
service, when it is not done voluntarily? We trow not.
This matter of Sunday laws is now a live issue. In many State legislatures, as well
as in Congress, organized and persistent efforts will be made this winter to secure the
passage of such laws; and the friends of religions freedom should be on the alert.
American Sentinel.

THE CKLENDHR.
IT is probable that the reckoning of time began with the lunar month of twenty-nine
or thirty days, and that the year was suggested by the round of the seasons. But an
even number of lunar mouths does not make a solar year, or a complete revolution of the
earth around the sun. The Egyptians, accordingly, had a year of twelve thirty-day
months, adding five days at the end to make 365. The Jews used the lunar month also,
alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days, but at intervals added a short thirteenth
month; and Solon ordained n like arrangement at Athens. The early Roman year was
of ten months; but the kings adopted the older system, which was reformed by Julius
Caesar. He established 305 days as the calendar year, with a day added to February
every fourth year. The days gained during the confusion of more than four centuries,
were dropped, BO that the year 46 E. c. had but 445 days. Thus began the Julian
Calendar. Under it, however, there is one day too many in about 128 years, as the solar
year is not quite 365J4 days; and in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII. decreed the suppression of
ten days from that year, and that the final year of a century should not bo a leap year,
unless evenly divisible by 400. The Gregorian Calendar was soon adopted by most Cath
olic nations, but not in England till 1752, when eleven days were dropped, and the day
after September 2 became September 14. George Washington was born February 11, O. 8.,
"old style," which is retained in Kussia and Greece, with an error now of twelve days.
The Christian chronology, dating forward and backward from the birth of Christ,
was proposed by Dionysius, a monk, 527 A. p., but with an error of four or five years, as
is now pretty well proved. The year 3889 is probably 1893 or 1894 after the Incarnation.
About thirty other eras are known to history, the more famous of them being the Olympi
ads, 770 B. c. to 440 A. D., in periods of four years; the Roman, dating from the founding of
the city (A, u. n.) 753 E. c.; and the Mohammedan, from the Hegira, or flight of Moham
med to Medina, July 16, 623 A. r>. The year of the world (A. M.) is given by adding 4004
B. c., the year of creation in the Us&hcr chronology, to the given year A. rx, as 5893 for
1889. Over 200 calculations of the creative year, however, vary from 3102 to 0984 B. c.
The Romans gave the months the names we have, with slight changes in form; and
Csesar directed their allotments of days. September to December, however, were origi
nally the seventh to tenth mouths, as their names indicate. The Roman and Greek year
began in March, and in many parts of Europe the year opened with March 25. Annuncia
tion or Lady Pay. The later Romans adopted January 1 for the first day; but France
received it so late as 1563; Scotland, 1600; England, 1752. Bates between January 1 and
March 24 were often expressed thus: Jan. 30, 1648-49, time of King Charles's execution,
1648 in England, 1C49 in Scotland. Washington's birthday appears in the family Bible
as occurring Feb. 11, 1733%. Christmas or Easter in some lands began the year.
Our day names come from the old superstition that a heavenly body in order, the
sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn presides over the first hour of
each day. The last five names became Germanized, and in time took their present form.
The ecclesiastical day was from sunset to sunset, and many persons still keep their
Sabbath accordingly. The international date-line, at which navigators westward drop
one day, and eastward add one, is a very irregular line in the Pacific Ocean, between 117
east and 108 west longitude, with a general north and south direction.
THOSE SUNDHY PHPERS.
WHEN the subject of annihilating Sunday papers was under discussion by the
preachers day before yesterday, various remedies were proposed. One of them was that
the ministers should not print the notices of their services in the Sunday papersboy
cott them, in short. That is an old story,
" Said Aaron to Moses,
Let's bite off our noses."
Somehow they always get in. Some deacon or elder, more interested in the business
than in the spiritual welfare of the church, and who knows that advertising is the life of
all enterprises, comes around, and, explaining that the minister is a little high-strung
and old-fashioned in his notions, asks for an insertion of the notice.
Another remedy was that the papers be shown that their financial interests would be
promoted by stopping the obnoxious issue. That was tried once in this city. During
the early part of 1836 there was a three weeks' revival meeting in the Methodist Church
block. The evils of Sunday papers were dwelt on. Elforts were made to convert the
offenders. It was stated that if any publisher would reform, he could be sure of the
solid and profitable backing of a great share of the community. One paper tried it. Its
sole reward was a large assortment of resolutions, thanks, and prayers. It lost a num
ber of the subscribers it had, and gained no new ones to speak of. It was a victim of
what the worldly would call'" a confidence game." After trying it awhile, it resumed its
Sunday issue, and intends to continue its publication indefinitely. Chicago Tribune,
tfovembfr 23,1588,

\UVOWM\T\OU.

'

169

LIGHTNING CKLCUL.HTORS.
THE following letter shows what Cardinal Gibbons thinks of the present effort to
sanctify the day which Rome has called holy ever since she set it apart as a day of rest,
in place of the Bible Sabbath:
"CARDINAL'S RESIDENCE,
res,
1
408 N. CHARLES STREET, BALTIMO
;MORE,
V
Dec.
(C. 4, 1888. )
"REV, W. F. CKAFTS Sev. Dear Sir: I have to acknowledge yonr esteemed favor
of the 1st hist., in reference to the proposed passage of a law by Congress ' against Sun
day work in the Government's mail and military service/ etc.
" I am most happy to add my name to those of the millions of others who are laudably
contending against th.e violation of the Christian Sabbath by unnecessary labor, and who
are endeavoring to promote its decent and proper observance by legitimate legislation.
As the late Plenary Council of Baltimore has declared, the due observance of the Lord's
day contributes immeasurably to the restriction of vice and immorality, and to the pro
motion of peace, religion, and social order, and cannot fail to draw upon the nation the
blessing and protection of au overruling Providence. If benevolence to the beasts of
burden directed one day's rest In every week under the old law, surely humanity to man*
ought to dictate the same measure of rest under the new law.
" Your obedient servant in Christ,
'JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS,
" Archbishop of Baltimore.'1 '
When the National Convention of the American Sunday Union met in the Foundry
M. E, Church, Washington, 1). C., Dec. 11-13, the auditorium was draped with
long strips of red cotton, on which were pasted the petitions of over six millions of
Protestants, in behalf of a National Sunday law. But when Mrs. Bateham (Superin
tendent of the department of Sabbath observance, of tbe W. C. T. U.) pointed to the
festoons of petitions, and said she was reminded of the scripture which says we are
"compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses," she announced that there were
^fourteen millions of these witnesses in the petitions hanging upon the pillars of the
building. The question was how the number could have grown so much larger so sud
denly. This was explained by the fact that Cardinal Gibbons had written a letter (the
one above quoted) indorsing the Blair bill, and solely upon the strength of his name
seven million two hundred thousand Catholics were counted as petitioners.
Was there any authority in that letter for doubling the number of signatures to the
Sunday-law petition? There is not the slightest hint in it that the Cardinal thought he
was acting officially. He said, ;t l am happy to add my name,'1 ' etc. He did not say that
he added, or that he wished to add, seven million two hundred thousand others with his
name, or in his name. But the over-weening anxiety of these Christian Protestant (?)
Sunday-law workers for petitions was so great that, without a twinge, they could and
did multiply one Catholic name into seven million two hundred thousand and one. Yet
this was not so much to be wondered at, because tbe same principle had been acted upon
before throughout the country, and when five hundred petitioners could be made out of
one hundred, and two hundred.and forty thousand out of two hundred and forty, it was
perfectly easy and entirely consistent to make seven million two hundred thousand and
one out of one.
This thing was perfectly consistent also with the principle in another point. The
petition read, "We, the undersigned, adult residents of the United States, twenty-one
years of aye or more, hereby petition," etc. In counting these seven million two hun
dred thousand petitioners iu behalf of the Sunday law, they thereby certified that all
these were Catholics " twenty-one years of age or more." But there was not a man in
that convention, and there is not a woman in the W. C. T. U., who does not know that
there are not that many Catholics in the United States "twenty-one years of age or
more." They virtually certified that all the Catholics in the United States are " twentyone years of age or more; " for they distinctly announced that'' all the Roman Catholics "
were petitioning for the Sunday law. But when they had virtually certified the same
thing of the Protestant churches throughout the country, why should they not go on
and swing in "all the Roman Catholics " in the same way ? They could do the one just
as honestly as they could do the other. When men and women professing themselves
to be Protestant Christians will do such things aw that to carry the Catholic Church with
them, it is time they ceased to call themselves Protestants. And when they will do such
things for any purpose^ it is time they should cease to call themselves Christians. Chris
tianity means honesty.

BIBLES KND THE BIBLE.

THE seven bibles, or sacred books of the world, are the Koran of the Mohammedans,
the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Tripataka of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the
Chinese, the three Vedaa of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scriptures of the Jews
and Christians the Old Testament for the former, and both the Old and New Testa
ments for the latter. The Koran is the most recent of these, and is not older than the
seventh century of our era. It is largely a compound of quotations from the Old and
New Testaments, the Talmud, and the Gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of the Scan
dinavians were first published in the fourteenth century. The Tripataka of the Buddhists
contain sublime morals and pure aspirations. Their author lived and died in the sixth
century before Christ. There is nothing of high excellence in these books, which is not
also found in our Bible. The sacred writings of the Chinese are called the Five Kings,
king meaning web or cloth, or the warp that keeps the threads in their place. They con
tain the best sayings of the ancient Chinese sages on the ethico-political duties of life.
These sayings cannot be traced to a period earlier than the eleventh century B. c. The
three Vedas arc the most ancient books of the Hindoos, and it is the opinion of Max
Mtiller, Wileon, Johnson, and WMtney that they are not older than eleven centuries B. c.
The Zendavesta of the Persians is said to be the grandest of all sacred books, next to our
Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains, was born in the twelfth century B. c.
Moses lived and wrote his Pentateuch fifteen centuries B. c., and therefore his writings
are 300 years older than the most ancient of all other so-called sacred writings.
In the fifth century A. D., the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures received the collective
title Billia, the Bible the book above all others, sometimes called by eminence the
Book of books. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, except small parts of Ezra
and Daniel, which were in Chaldee. The New Testament was written altogether in
Greek, though many think the Gospel of Matthew, prepared primarily for Jewish
readers, was first published in the Aramaic dialect of Hebrew. The Jews havo also in
Hebrew great books of commentaries and interpretations, called the Gemaras and the
Mishna, which combined constitute the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. The Targums are older than these, are written in Chaldee or Aramaic, and furnish explanatory
paraphrases and elaborations of the Scripture text, after the following fashion:
" And the earth was waste and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the abyss;
and a wind from the Lord breathed over the face of the waters."
u But the earth was confusion and emptiness, destitute of the sons of men and bare
of all cattle; and darkness was upon the face of the abyss, and the spirit of mercies from
before the Lord breathed over the surface of the water."
il And the Lord created man in his own likeness; in the image of the Lord created
be him, with 248 members and 365 sinews, and clothed him with a skin, and filled him with
flesh and blood; male and female in their body created he them."
The entire Bible consists of sixty-six books and 1189 chapters. Its middle chapter,
the smallest in the book, is Psalm 117; the middle verse, Psalm 118: 8. Ezra 7: 21 in the
English Bible, has all the letters of our alphabet, except j; 2 Kings 19, and Isaiah 37, are
chapters almost exactly alike.
The Old Testament contains thirty-nine books, believed to have been written in the followingorder: Job (probably in the sixteenth century before Christ), Genesis, Exodus, Le
viticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (these constitute the Pentateuch, ovilvo books of Moses),
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, Psalms, Songs of Solomon, Ecclcsiastes,
Proverbs, Joel, Jonah. Amos, Hosea. Isaiah, Micah, 1 Kings and 2 Kings, Nshum, Zcphaniah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Habakkuk, Daniel, Ezekicl, Obadiah, Haggai, Zachariah,
1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Esther, Nehemiah, MulacUi. In modern arrange
ment, dating for both Testaments from the latter half of the sixteenth century, the
thirty-nine books are divided into 929 chapters and 23,214 verses.
The New Testament comprises twenty-seven books, by eight authors. The probable
order of composition is as follows: 1 Thessalouiaus and 2 Thcssaloniaus, 1 Corinthians
and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Romans, Matthew, Luke, Mark, Acts, Philemon and Colossians, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, Titus, 2 Timothy, James, 1 Peter and 2 Peter, Jude,
Hebrews, Revelation, Johtt's Gospel, 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John. The books have 200
chapters and 7,939 verses.
The Old Testament Apocrypha is received by the Catholic churches as canonical,
but not by the Protestants, although the Church of England permits it to be read "for
example of life and instruction of manners." It is often bound in with the canonical
Scriptures, between the Old and New Testaments, and includes fourteen books: 1 Esdras and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, The Rest of Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus,
or the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, Baruch and the Epistles of Jeremiah, The
Song of the Three Children, The History of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of
Manasses [Manasseh], 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees. These are divided into 183 chap
ters, and 6,081 verses. There is also a New Testament Apocrypha, nowhere of canonical
authority, and included in none of our Bibles. It has no less than twenty-two Gospels,
ten in Greek, and twelve in Latin, thirteen Acts of the Apostles, all originally in Greek,
and seven Apocalypses, or books of Revelation. Some of them are of slight historical
or critical value.
The perusal of the whole Bible may be compassed in a year, by reading three chap
ters each week-day and five on Sabbath. Some of the chapters of peculiar interest and
profit are the "bottomless" chapter, Ephesians 3; the "character" chapter, Job 29;

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the 'wisdom 1 ' chapter, Job 28; the "rest" chapter, Hebrews 4; the "resurrection"
chapter, 1 Corinthians 15; and "victory" is well described in Romans 8. For "duty,"
read Ezekiel 83, and for "work," James 2. "Courage" is in Joshua 1, which, with the
convert's chapter, Isaiah 12, forms a harmonious duet. Psalm 121 is for the traveler,
fast acceptably until they have read Isaiah 58, nor can promises be found that reach
higher up, or go farther down, than in John 14. The " blessing " chapter is Deuteronomy
28, and where is heaven spoken of so beautifully as in Eevelation 21 ? When one feels
his feet slipping, he should go to the "rock" chapter, Deuteronomy 32. Hypocrites
should read their chapter, Matthew 22. "Come" is the keyword of Isaiah 55, and
" gifts " is the subject of 1 Corinthians 12. Special studies may also be made of the
seven blessings in Revelation, the five precious things in Peter's letters, the seven walks
in Ephesians, the seven "togethers" in Galatians, and the seven in John's Gospel that
were saved.

HBOUT OUR COMPHNY.

IT is sometimes said that a man is known by the company he keeps ; and that is true.
But, like every other good rule, this one has its exceptions. A religious man should not
be condemned because he associates with an infldel in circulating a subscription paper
for the benefit of an unfortunate neighbor, or because he unites his efforts with those of
an infldel in repelling the attack of a foreign invader, or the plottings of a conspirator
against the government that protects them both. An infldel and a Christian standing on
tlie bank of a river in which a man is drowning, will unite their efforts to save the
drowning man, and discuss their religious differences afterward. So when one sees the
life or liberty of an individual, or of the nation, in danger, it is his duty to use every
means in his power to avert the calamity, and to call to bis aid any one who is willing to
assist, regardless of hia political views or his religious profession, leaving a discussion
of those questions till the danger is past.
Not long since, a newspaper made the statement that no one was doing anything to
oppose the passage of Sunday laws except Seventh-day Adventists and infidels ; and then
the question was sarcastically asked, "How do you like the company?"
The thought at once suggests itself, What are the rest of the Christian world doing,
that tbey should leave to Seventh-day Adventists alone, with only the help of infldels,
the work of defending the Constitution of the best government that God ever permitted
to exist, against tne attacks of bigoted, intolerant conspirators, under the name of " Na
tional Reformers"? But perhaps that is where the trouble lies. These good Christian
people are ashamed to engage in a work with which an infldel has anything to do. Were
they ashamed to stand by the side of an infidel in suppressing the late rebellion? Who
is the greater traitor: the one who openly and boldly proclaims his disloyalty, and
takes up arms against his country, or the one who, under the guise of loyalty, seeks to
subvert the government, and trample on the rights of free citizens by passing laws which
will subject them to religious tests?
We ask again, What are the Christian people doing to hinder this work of legislating
on religious questions? So far from doing anything to hinder the work, they are using
their utmost endeavor to help it along. And how are they doing it? By circulating pe
titions for adult residents of the United States twenty-one years of age or more, to sign,
and then accepting the signatures of children ; by securing the signatures of one Cath
olic, and counting 7,200,000 Catholic signers, when they know there are not that number
of Catholics in the United States twenty-one years of age or more, and when we know
that the signatures of a goodly number of Catholics have been secured to a remonstrance ;
by resorting to schemes to further their designs, which, if exposed, wonld cause the
cheek of an infidel to crimson with shame, to think that he is obliged to live in a com
munity where such things are practiced.
And this is the class of people who, when the proffered assistance of an infidel is ac
cepted to resist a common enemy, will ask, with cool effrontery, "How do you like your
company?"
The Lutheran Observer, in an enthusiastic report of the Sunday Convention held in
Washington, says: "The church in which the convention was held was festooned with
petitions from probably ten millions of people, representing Protestant and papal
churches, labor unions, saints, and sinners." Talk about company! If any saints
were there, it was because they were blindfolded.
ANOTHEH evidence, or rather admission, that ail Sunday legislation is religious legis
lation, is found in the remarks of Dr. Goodwin, of Chicago, in presenting to the minis
ters' meeting the resolutions prepared by Dr. Herrick Johnson in regard to Sunday
newspapers and Sunday observance. The Doctor said that " to strike at the Christian
Sabbath is to strike at the very corner-stone of all our Christian institutions." There
fore a law in favor of Sunday, the so-called Christian Sabbath, is a law in favor of the
Christian religion ; and since no open law-breaker can hope to be elected to public
oflBce, it follows that the enactment of Sunday laws is squarely opposed to that part of
the Constitution of the United States which says that no religious test shall ever be re
quired as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. Ameri
can Sentinel,

CHIEF COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.

Population. Sq.Miles.

C'OrNTHIES.

British Empire .....

Russian Empire ....
France and Colonies
United States .......
German Empire ....
Austro-Hungary . . .
Holland and CoVni's
Turkish Empire ....
Italy.... .......... .
Spain and Colonies .
Corea .... .. .......
Brazil ........ .....
Mexico. ............
Congo Free State ...
Persia ..... . ......
Portugal and Corn's
Sweden and Norway
Belgium .............
Ronmania .... ......
Colombia. .... ......
Afghanistan. ........
Argentine Republic.
Madagascar .... ...

Venezuela. ... ......

382,000,000
320,676,000
1:13,970,000
03,072,048
63,000.000
46.852,450
39:206.052
36.700,118
33.042,388
32.000.000
29,609,785
24,873.621
12.60(1,000
10.319.000
10,300.000
10.007:000
8.000,000
7.653.600
7,249:050
6.806,381
61554.448
5,853,278
5.700,000
5.376.000
4.000,000
4,000.000

3,020:000

3,000,000
3.000.000
21972.805
8,970.000
2,906.752
2.325.000
2,130:000
2.121:988

4,179,559
9,079,711
8.644.100
970,477
3,f>02,990
212,028
261.591
147.669
V7H.187
1,731 :2rS>
111,410
361.953
17KOOO
91.430
3.-219J100
"it'll.. 17?
036.000
240.691
194.000
295,714
314.000
11.373
280^550
46.314
831J420
279.000
609.386
228,570
129,000
5,789
405,040
15,981
481.600
92:300
368.159

CorXTlIlES,

Chili.... ............
Bulgaria ............
"WilrtemburL'. .......
Servia.... ...........
Guatemala ....... . .
Ecuador ............
Transvaal...... ....
Honduras .... ......
llomir-k-ian Rep'bl'c

Population. S<1. Miles.

"115 '^40
2.045.179
2,007.919
1,979,453
1,971,118
1.820.000
1.278:311
1 '146/100
KUO.OOO
520,586
476 000
45S.OO!)
300,000
66,097

307,525
14,842
24,700
24,977
7.531
18.757
46.774
248:370
110.193
72,112
92,000
42.658
20.596
6,587

Of these, the Unit ed States of America,

the United States >f Colombia , France,
.Switzerland. Mexico the Argenti ne Republie, Guatemala. Peru Bolivia, EC nador, Uruguay, Paraguay, londuras, }sicaragua,
Salvador, Costa Ric a, Hayti. t ae Orange
Free State, the Triii isvaul, and theDomintcian Republic, are republics ; C reat Britain, Germany, Aus tro-IIungary Holland,
Spain. Italy, Portugal 3, Sweden an d Norway
(together),' Denmark , Belgium, S asony and
Wiirtemburg ('both i i the Germai i empire),
Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Sen ia, Brazil,
arid Hawaii, are lim ted monarc 4ies; Kuseia, Turkey, Egypt, absolute m jnarchies ;
and China, Corea, So ioto, Persia, Morocco,
Siam, Afghanistan, Bokhara, -Vhyssinia,
and Madagascar, abs olute despot sm's. Kussia, Anstrb-Hungary Germany, C hina, Japan, and Brazil are ru ed by empei ors.

POPULATIONS OF FOREIGN CITIES.

CITIES.

Year. Populat'n
188G
est

Berlin....................
Vienna ..... . ..... ...... 1880
1884
1884
1881
1881

4 149 533
2,344,550
1,600,000
1,103,K57
' 939.100
902.837

CITIES.

Year. Populat'n
353,970
345 380

Sheffield ............
Hamburg........ ........

1886
1885

295,543

285.700
284,779

773,196

278.268

1881
1886
1881
Birmingham .......... ... 1886
1886
1882

4fi'"J 17"*
434,381
4^ ~)~)7
41') t5i)
40tt|fil

1886
1877
Manchester .... .... ...... 1886
1884
1886

401,980
397,816

1885
1881

357,332

376,895
376,143
378,328

310,976
305,690

248,943

Dresden..... . .. ..

..

1885

Bristol.. ............ .....; 1886

Bradford, England. .....

1886

245.512

221.805
219,412
215,688

211.241

208,755

MKNUFHCTURING CO.
WHEN the Sunday-law petitions were being presented to the Senate, Jan. 16, Mr.
Blair arose and made the following presentation, which we copy from the Congressional
Record of Jan. 17:
" Mr. Blair: I present petitions of several "bodies, praying for the passage of a Sun
day-rest law. Of the petitions, the following analysis is submitted by those who desire
their presentation :
"PETITIONS FROM NATIONAL BODIES.
u CONTENTS :

'1. Individual signatures.... .............................. ..................

407
"2. Representative signatures by indorsements of bodies and meetings...... 14,174,337
" Total ..............................................................

14,174,744

"Analysis of the latter:

" First indorsement is that of the American Sabbath Union, which was officially con
stituted by official action of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
the Home Missionary Society of the Baptist Church, the General Assemblies of the Pres
byterian Church (North and South), and the Synod of the Reformed Church, five denom
inations whose membership together is 5,977,693. Of the membership of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, the indorsement of whose international convention,
stands second, at least 20,000 citizens of the United States. Of the Knights of Labor,
the indorsement of who<*e international convention stands third, at least 219,000 citizens
of the United States. The Presbyterian General Assembly (North), whose action stands
next, had at tbe time of the indorsement 722,071 members. The convention of Christian
Workers, whose indorsement is next, had 450 present when the unanimous vote of in
dorsement was taken. The Woman's Christian Temperance "Union, which comes next,
had 185,521 members at the time of the vote. The Roman Catholics, for whom Cardinal
Gibbons speaks, number 7,200,000."
From this official analysis it appears that of the alleged 14,174,337 signatures to the
Sunday-law petitions, only 407 were actual signatures. This being too insignificant a
portion to be noted, the whole number was secured by vote.
Now let us look a little closely at the votes by which this number of alleged signa
tures was obtained. Take the Knights of Labor Assembly. That assembly, it is true,
was a representative body. But the members of that body were elected to represent the
organization in all questions pertaining to the government and policy of the organiza
tion, and not to represent the personal opinions of all the individual members, on mat
ters foreign to the workings of the organization. They were not elected for the purpose
of acting on any such question as the enactment of a Sunday law. Therefore, when they
voted on the petition which Mr. Crafts submitted to them, they did so only as individ
uals. If we knew how many men there were present at that meeting of the General As
sembly of the Knights of Labor, and how many of them voted, we could tell just how
many Knights of Labor have indorsed the Sunday-law petition.
We know that there are thousands of Workingmen and Knights of Labor who are
opposed to a Sunday law of any kind; yet they are, against their will, paraded as favor
ing one. The action of that assembly could no more be taken as showing how the great
body of Knights of Labor stand on the Sunday question, than similar action concerning
religion or politics could have shown to what church or political party all the members
adhere.
The same may be said of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and also of the
various religious organizations that are paraded. We say this advisedly, for we know
that very many members of each of the churches mentioned have, with their oivn hands,
signed counter-petitions. These are facts, and people who have a love for truth and justice,
should see that they are set before the law-makers in their proper light, to undo, as far
as possible, the false impression that has been made as to the strength of Sunday-law
sentiment.
The way in which these petitions have been handled, stamps the whole thing as unAmerican. The leaders in this affair have deprived the people of a fair representation.
Their action is more adapted to an aristocracy or a despotism, than a republic. If they
do not know that their whole procedure was fraudulent, it shows that they have so far
imbibed the spirit of papal Rome that they can no longer appreciate the genius of Amer
ican liberty. Certain it is that an abominable fraud has been perpetrated in order to
boom the Sunday-law bill; and we intend to cry aloud, and spare not.American Sentinel.

\WOHUM\OU.
POPULATION OF CITIES IN THE UNITED STHTES.
PLACES.
Allegheny City . . .
Baltimore .... ....
Bay City...... ....
Bloomington, 111 . .
Boston . .....
Bridgeport ...
Brooklyn..........
Burlington, la. ...
Cambridge, Mass .
Camden, N. J. . . . .
Charleston ........
Chelsca. Mass.....
Chicago
.......
Cincinnati ..... .
Cohoes, N. Y. ....
Council BlnfEs...
Dallas, Texas. ....
Davenport, la. ....
Dayton, O . . . . ...
Detroit . . ........
Dubnque - . . ....
East Saginaw. ....
Elizabeth, N. J...
Elmira, N. J......
Evansville, Ind. ..
Fall Eiver, Mass . .
Fort Wayne ......
Galveston. .... ....
Grand Rapids . . .
Harrisburg .......
Hartford ... . ....
Haverhill, Mass. . .
Hoboken.... ....
Holyoke, Mass . . .
Jackson, Mich. ...
Kingston, N. Y. . . .
Lancaster, Pa.
Lawrence, Mass . .
Leavenworth. Kan.
Lewistou, Me. . ...
Lexington, Ky ....
Lowcll.... ........

Manchester, N. H.

1888.*
98,000
100,000
30,000
65,000
450,000
34,000
25,377
450,000
44,000
805,000
242,000
27,000
05,000
05,000
01,000
28,500
800,000
330,000
250,000
23,000
95.000

3s;ioo

40,000
30,000
00,000
100,000
50,000
833,000
30,000
37,000
33,000
30,000
40,000
48,000
65,000
40,000
38,500
22,000
75,000
40,000
50,000
25,000
50,000
32,000
120,000
24,500
171,000
175,000
25,000
32,000
42,000
85.000
23,000
30.000
200;)0
80,000
50.000
40,000
75,000

1880.

1870.

87,584 76,216
78,472 53,180
19,978 10,610
45,000 21,789
330,000 267,354
20,038 7,064
17,700 14,590
363,938 250,526
29,153 18,969
550.930 396,099
140,500 117,714
19,000 14,930
52,680 89,634
41,757 20,045
49,027 48,956
21,780 18,547
503,298 298,977
255,809 216,239
159,504 92.029
19,550 IE'357
51,850 81,274
18,400 10,020
33,480
21,812 20,038
88,751 30,473
35,718 4,759
22,900 12,035
115,007 79,577
12,276 18,434
19,065 11,350
28,143 20,832
20,046 15.863
28,346 19,646
29,866 21,830
48,909 26,766
26,048 17,718
22,308 13,818
19,288 15,889
32,037 16,507
30,728 23,104
42,500 37,180
18,478 13,092
80,942 20,297
24,920 10,733
76,200 48,244
10,105
122,207 82^546
56,764 32,200
18,387 16,429
28,840 20,283
39.008 28.921
18.000 17;S73
lfl,0fcj 13.200
10,084 141801
120.500 100.763
59.840 40,928
88.876 28.233
32,458 23,536
35,000 40,026

PLAGES.

1888.*

1880.

1870.

Milwaukee ....

210,000 115,712 71.440

223,000 48,323 13,066
Mobile ............ 40,000 31,295 32,034
28.000 16,790 10,588
80!000 43,543 25,865
Newark, N. J. ....
137,162 105,059
Newburg, N. Y.. . . 25,000 18.076 17.014
New Bedford ..... 37,000 26,926 21.320
New Brunswick. . 20.000 17,180 15,058
83,500 02,861 50,840
New Orleans ..... 250.000 215,239 191,418
16,994 12,825
Newton, Mass .... 21.121
New York ...... 1011,092 1209,561 942,292
Norwich, Conn .... 25,000 21,145 16,653
Oakland, Cal. ..... 00,000 84,700 10,500
Omaha. ... .... ... 110.000 30,042 16,083
24,000 21,102 20,910
Paterson ....... . . 75,000 50,850 33,579
Pawtucket, R. I. . . 24.500 10,530 6,619
45,000 31,780 22.849
Peoria 111
Petersburg, Va . . . 25,000 21,652 18,950
1050,000 847,452 764,022
200,000 153,883 86,070
Portland, Me.. ... 40,000 33,824 31.413
45,000 21,000 8.293
125.000 104,760 08,904
60,000 43,230 33,930
83,000 63.243 51,038
120.000 87,057 62,386
Sacramento . . ... 40,000 23,000 16,828
St. Joseph, Mo. . . . 00.000 35,000 19,565
450,000 375,000 310,864
100,000 41.039 20.080
28,500 27,347 24,117
48,000 20,594 12,256
San Francisco .... 320.000 283,066 149,478
Savannah. ... ..... 52,000 32,916 28,235
Scran ton, Pa. ..... 85,000 45,925 35,092
Somerville. Mass . 35,000 24.904 14,685
26,000 19,500 17.864
Springfield, 111 ...
Springfield, Mass. 42,000 33,149 26,703
85,000
20,727 12,652
Springfield, O ....
Syracuse .... ..... 83,540 52,158 43,051
Taunton, Mass. . . . 27.000 21.252 18.629
35,000 26,512 16,103
Toledo........ .... 90,000 53,635 31,584
55,000 29,938 22,874
Troy.............. 65,000 57,000 46,465
44,700 33,927 28,804
Washington . ... 180,500 161,111 109,199
Watcrbury, Coirn . 29,000 20,319 10.826
36.000 31,186 19,280
23,340 10,174
Wilkcsbavre ......
Williarnsport, Pa . 30,000 18,902 16,030
Wilmiugton .... 55,000 42,000 30,841
Worcester. . ...... 80.000 58,040 41,105

i7o;ooo

40:000

*From estimates certified to be "just

and fair" by the mayor or a leading editor

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175

FOURTH CENTURY PHRHJLLEL.

THE steps which led to a union of church and state in the fourth century, were
these:
The people were so engaged that they did not attend public worship on Sunday, so
a law was made compelling the mechanics and other towns-people to cease work on that
day. But this opened the way for theater and circus going, and as the people preferred
to go to the shows rather than to the church, they took the second step, demanding that
these places be closed. The Bishops wanted a congregation, so finding that the people
would not go to the church, even after the theaters and circuses were closed, there was
one step further to be taken, and that was to compel them. The Bishops were equal to
the occasion, and supplied the demand in its logical connection. Augustine is the man
who did this. This is what he taught:
" It is indeed better that men should be brought to serve God by instruction than by
fear of punishment or by pain. But because the former meaus are better, the latter
must not therefore be neglected. . . . Many must often be brought back to their Lord,
like wicked servants, by the rod of temporal suffering, before they attain to the highest
grade of religious development." Schaf's Church, History, vol. 2, sec. 27.
That is it. If a man will not be persuaded to serve God, and cannot be brought by
Instruction to the highest stage of religious development, then lay upon him the rod of
temporal suffering, and punish him until he reaches the highest stage. All the papacy
baa ever done from beginning to end, in the iniquity of the Inquisition, was nothing but
the carrying out of this theory of Augustine's. The Inquisition was intended always to
compel men to act contrary to their convictions of right and wrong. It did not want
them dwelling in heresy, so it would torment them until they would recant, or confess,
and then when the pope absolved them, they would frequently be put to death to pre
vent their committing the same crime again. Neander says:
" It was by Augustine, then, that a theory was proposed and founded, which . . ,
contained the germ of that whole system of spiritual despotism, of intolerance and
persecution, which ended in the tribunals of the Inquisition."" Nednder^ Ibicl^p. 217.
Then it is a fact that through Sunday laws, as shown in history, the church gained
control of the civil power for the furtherance of her own ends. And the first step log
ically and inevitably led to the last one. Thus was formed the papacy. The Inquisition
is the logic of the premises upon which Sunday laws were made at that time; and the
Inquisition is the logic of the premises upon which Sunday laws are called for in the
United States to-day.
A little over a year ago there was a Sunday law convention held in Elgin, 111. It
was '* called by the members of the Elgin Association of Congregational Ministers and
Churches, to consider the prevalent desecration of the Sabbath, and its remedy." Many
leading evangelists were present. The following resolutions are among those passed by
that convention:
" Resolved, That we recognize tbe Sabbath as an institution of God, revealed in nat
ure and the Bible, and of perpetual obligation on all men; and also as a civil and Amer
ican institution, bound up in. vital and historical connection with the origin and founda
tion of our Government, the growth of our polity, and necessary to be maintained in or
der for the preservation and integrity of our national system, and therefore as having a
sacred claim on all patriotic American citizens."
u Resolved, That we look with shame and sorrow on the non-observance of the Sab
bath by many Christian, people, in that the custom prevails with them of purchasing Sab
bath newspapers, engaging in and patronizing Sabbath, business and travel, and in many
instances giving themselves to pleasure and self-indulgence, setting aside by neglect and
indifference the great duties and privileges which God's day brings them."
But what do they do to rectify the matter? Do they resolve to preach the gospel
better; to be more faithful themselves in bringing up the consciences of the people by
showing them their duty in regard to these things?
" Resolved, That we give our votes and support to those candidates or political offi
cers who will pledge themselves to vote for the enactment and enforcing of statutes in
favor of the civil Sabbath."
They are ashamed and sorry that Christians will not act like Christians, morally and
religiously, so they will compel them to act thus, by enforcing upon them a civil Sab
bath 1 If men will not obey the commandment of God without being compelled to do it
by the civil law, then when they obey the civil law, are they obeying God? Is not the
civil law then put in the place of the law of God, and the civil government in the place
of God? The National Reformers are doing precisely what was done in the fourth
century.

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\\VfOWAPOi\OH.

HREH HND POPULATION OF STHTES HND TERRITORIES.

XAMES.
Alabama. ....
Ari/.oim .....
Arkansas ....
California . ..
Colorado . ..
Connecticut. .
jJakota ......
Delaware . .
DiBt. Colum. .
Florida .....
Georgia. .....
Illinois. ......
Indiana ......
Indian Tor. . .
Iowa .........
Kansas ....
Kentucky . .
Louisiana ....
Maine .......
Maryland . . .
Mass ........
Michigan ....
Minnesota . . .
Mississippi . .
Missouri .....

Land Acreage PopnlaSurf 'ce. iuiprov'd.

'ion 1880.
Sq.mil's
51.540 6,375,706 1,262,595
112,920
40,440
56,071
802,525
58,045 3,595,603
155,980 10,669,698
864,694
IttJ.Mj
194.327
616.169
4.845 1.642,188
622,700
147.700 1,130,418
133,177
1.96!)
146,608
746.958
60
12,632
117,624
51.240
269,493
947,640
58.980 8,304,720 1,542,180
32,610
197,407
56,000 26,115,154 3.077,871
35 910 13,933,738 1,978,301
64.090
55.475 19,806,541 1,624.615
996.096
81.700 10,739,566
40.000 10,731,683 1,648,690
45^400 2,739.972
939,746
29,895 3,484,908
648.936
9,860 8,342.700
934,943
B.040 2,128,311 1,783.085
57,430 8,296,862 1,636,937
79,205 7,240.693
780,773
4fi,3-40 5,216,937 1,131,597
68,735 16,745,031 2,168.380

Xi-wv
-lAjinft.

Land Acreage Popula

SnrfVe. improv'd.
tion 1880.
Sq. mil's

Montana ..... 145,310

Nebraska.. .. 76,185
N. Hamp .....
New Jersey . .
New Mexico .
New York . . .
N. Carolina .
Ohio....... .
Pennsylvania
Bhode Island
S. Carolina. . .
Tennessee . . .
Texas ........
Utah.........
Vermont ....
Virginia .....
Washington .
W. Virginia.
Wisconsin . . .
Wyoming.. ..
Unorganized.

39,159
262,611
452,402
5,504,702
62,266
109,740
344.423
346,991
9.005 2.308,112
7,455 2,096,297 1.131,116
'119,565
237,392
122,460
47,(iSO 17.717,862 15,082,871
48,580 6,481,191 1,399,750
40,760 18,081,091 8,198,062
174,768
94,560 2,198,645
44,985 13,428,007 4,282,891
276,531
298,486
995.377
30470 4,132,050
41,750 8.496,556 1.542! 359
262.290 12,650,314 1.591.749
148,968
82^190
416,105
332,286
9,135 3,286,461
40,125 8,510.113 1,512.565
75,116
66,880
484,346
618,457
24,645 8,792,307
64,450 9,162,528 1,815,497
20.789
97,575
83,122
5,740

Total ...... 2,970,000 284,771,042 50,155,783

SINFUL HND TYRHNNICHL.

IN the year 1783. Thomas Je^orson said : " To compel a man to furnish contributions
of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical."
The Blair Educational bill proposes to do this very thing. Section 2 provides that each
State "shall establish and maintain" free public schools, in which, along with "the
common branches of knowledge," shall be taught "the principles of the Christian re
ligion." Section 4 declares, "That Congress shall enforce thia Article by legislation
when necessary." That is to say, should any State, or all the States, decide not to es
tablish and maintain such schools, the national Government can compel them to. Or,
in other words, the Jew and the freethinker can be forced to furnish contributions of
money for the propagation of opinions which they canuot indorse. On the same princi
ple, a man could be taxed to support Sunday-schools, as their work is to teach " the
principles of the Christian religion." According to the Jeffersonian doctrine, this would
be "sinful and tyrannical."
The proposed measure is a high-handed outrage upon American citizens, and the
proposition ought to be treated with the contempt it so richly deserves. Should there
come before Congress a proposal to establish free public schools, in which should he
taught the principles of Paine and Ingersoll, what a howl of indignation would go up
from Senator Blair and his friends all over the land, and with what zeal would they pro
test ; and tills would be right. Civil government has no right to legislate upon the people
atheism or infidelity, Judaism or Christianity. The "powers that be" may not rec
ognize a man as an athiest, or a deist, or a Mohammedan, or a Jew. or a Christian, but
as a citizen. Congress cannot legislate in favor of religion or irreligion, heathenism or
Christianity, It has nothing to do with such subjects. It cannot legislate against the
Jew and the infidel, nor in, favor of the Christian and his religion, and vice versa. Civil
government has to do with civil affairs, not religious. American Sentinel.
A HIBEBXIAN policeman, having taken in a refractory prisoner, whom he had
pounded until he was out of breath, attempted to reason with him as follows: " It is
not because I hates you that I bates you, but because I have the authority to do so."
The above is commended to the attention of those who call themselves National
Reformers, who profess that if they only get the power, they will not harm a single indi
vidual who conscientiously dillers with them. "No doubt they are sincere in their assever
ations; at least we are willing to give them credit for being sincere. Butthey seem to have
as little knowledge of human nature as they have of the gospel. The Irishman "clothed
with a little brief authority," was a different man from the Irishman with no power at all.
We prefer to keep the club out of the hands of the National Reformers, both because we
know how power affects even those with the best of intentions, and because, from the
spirit that many of them have already shown toward "dissenters," we feel sn re that
they could not say, with the Irishman, " It is not because I hates you that I bates you."

IT-7
"OLD-STYLE DEPRHJJITY."
THE definition given by Senator Blair to the term " principles of the Christian relig
ion," as used by him in bis proposed Constitntional amendment, is found in his letter
to the New York Mail and Express. After making a thrust at common sense, he defines
his foolishness thus:
44 There is a great deal of old-style depravity in the alleged apprehension that our lib
erties will be endangered by informing the otherwise heathen Anglo-Saxon child of the
contents of the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and even teaching him
to recite the Golden Rule "
Suppose, for instance, the teacher be a Methodist. He will give the pupils under his
charge such a knowledge of the ten commandments as is in accordance with the faith of
the Methodist Church. Among the latter, there will be, not unlikely, one or more chil
dren of Catholics, or of Jews, or Sabbatarians, or antinomians, or possibly atheists.
Following the line of belief adhered to by the Methodist faith, the teacher instructs all
these that the ten commandments, as given in Ex. 20:3-17, constitute God's moral law,
which, is unchangeable, and binding upon all. Result: The Roman Catholic parent
raises an objection on the ground that the ten commandments have been changed by the
church, the second having been dropped and the tenth divided,and he does not wish
his children taught otherwise; the Jew and the Sabbatarian object on the ground that
the fourth commandment makes it binding upon all to keep Saturday as the Sabbath,
and do not wish their children (aught that Sunday is the Sabbath, or that the command
ment does not refer to a particular day of the week; the antinomian believes that the
ten commandments have been abolished, and hence does -not wish his children taught
that they are yet binding; and the infidel of course objects in toto to any teaching, in
school or out, of a distinctly religious character. How long could that teacher proceed
in his new task of expounding the " principles of the Christian religion" 1 "Old-style
depravity" claims that he would stop short, "never to go again." New-style depravity
thinks such trifling objections would only serve to oil the machinery. It would oil the
machinery of the Inquisition.

K SIZORD FROM: THE MORKINGT^EN.

Ideas of Be/orm, is a paper published at Broken Bow, Neb., and devoted to the in
terests of the workingman. It is in every sense of the word a Labor Reform paper, and is
as outspoken against monopolies of every description, and the oppression of the laboring
man by soulless capital, as any labor paper we have ever seen. We state these points,
so that full weight may be given to the following, "Which we take from one of its editori
als of Jan. I, 1889.
" Fourteen million people have petitioned Congress, asking for the enforcement of a
Sunday law. Tbis is evidently preliminary to an attempt to unite the church and state.
A halt should be called at once. Religion, by faith in God, is good, and no Christian,
under our Constitution, is deprived of the privilege of observing Sunday as strictly as he
desires. Religion, by law. by force, -without conversion, is bad, and contrary to the prin
ciples of good government. ,. . . The United States Coustitution says: 'Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.' Our petitioners would in substance say: *Do away with the Constitution, and
give us a law that we may imprison or flue every one whom we have been unable to con
cert to our faith, and who does not give tribute to our support.' Now, if this clamor for
a Sunday law, coupled with the Blair Educational bill which advocates the teaching of
th0 Christian religion in public schools is not an attempt to unite the church and state,
neither was the act of Constantine in making Christianity the recognized religion of the
Roman empire. It is hardly time to allow 54,000,000 people to dictate bow 60,000.000 peo
ple shall worship, in a free country like ours."
Did somebody say that the National Reform Association was working for a law that
would compel such an editor to keep still ? There is evidently a misunderstanding be
tween the National Reformers and the Workingmen.
THEKE is a very great difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration is a
concession which may be withdrawn; it implies a preference for the ruling form of faith
and worship, and a practical disapproval of all other forms. It may be coupled with
many restrictions and disabilities. We tolerate what we dislike, but cannot alter; we
tolerate even a nuisance, if we must. Acts of toleration are wrung from a government
by. the force of circumstances, and the power of a minority too strong to be disregarded.
Z>n fhUlp Schaff.
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SUNDRY-SCHOOL STHTISTICS.
OF ALL COUNTRIES.

COUNTRY.

Schools Members.

NOBTH AMERICA
British Am. Provinces
Central America, Mex
ico, and West Indies
EUROPE Eng. & Wales

99,762
6,322

9,141,648
489,206

850

38,250
5,794,212
614,375
326,794
13,410
97,893
49,000
263,000
145,440
70,600
216,700
126,370
8,400
2,100
2,510
3,139
1,230
11,556
10,500
5,316
105,000
7,019
7,600
32,000
2,649
167,100
153,000
451,340
16,800
26,500

Italy ... ..............

200
1,591

Holland...............

2,851
1,291
1,197
100
30
57
92
80

Not enumerated above

India ......... .......

107
150
60
62

OcsiHici Australasia

OF THE UNITED STATES.

350

18,400,157

Alabama, 3,048 schools and 177,427 mem

bers; Alaska, 8 and 1,577; Arizona, 32 and
1,591; Arkansas, 1,368 and 78,912; California,
725 and 67,272; Colorado, 278 and 28,385;
Connecticut, 1,083 and 160,351; Dakota, 801
and 36,471; Delaware, 217 and 25,619; Dist.
Columbia, 177 and 38,810; Florida, 670 and
40,695; Georgia, 5,291 and 314,311; Idaho, 43
and 3,619; Hlinois, 6,477 and 603,978; Indian
Territory, 222 and 9,679; Indiana, 4,491 and
418,582; Iowa, 4,500 and 333,000; Kansas,
3,544 and 246,554; Kentucky, 2,647 and 257,407; Louisiana, 522 and 36,748; Maine, 1,825
and 104,375; Maryland, 2,241 and 879,969;
Massachusetts, 1,628 and 255,854; Michigan,
3,373 and 300,000; Minnesota, 1,752 and 107,957; Mississippi, I,6l4 and 96,444; Missouri,
3,260 and 259,471; Montana, 80 and 4,650;
Nebraska, 2,150 and 137,975; Nevada, 31 and
3,591; New Hampshire, 524 and 54,686; New
Jersey, 1,977 and 266,099; New Mexico, 45
and 1,570; New York, 6,584 and 1,028,938;
North Carolina, 4,197 and 231,513; Ohio,
6,751 and 706,163; Oregon, 290 and 23,280;
Pennsylvania, 8,776 and 1,078,649; Ehode
Island, 371 and 46,565; South Carolina, 1,667
and 116,369; Tennessee, 3,840 and 284,160;
Texas, 3,097 and 213,786; Utah, 81 and 6,182;
Vermont, 631 and 61,188; Virginia, 3,652 and
320,459; Washington, 129 and 7,871; West
Virginia, 1,888 and 140,023; Wisconsin, 1,610
and 180,080; Wyoming, 54 and 2,698; total,
99,762 and 9,141,648.
The first Sabbath-school (not Sundayschool) among Seventh-day Adventtsts, was
held less than thirty years ago. The work
has steadily grown until now there are
nearly 1,000 schools, with a membership
of over 25,000.

SEVEN TIMES IN K DHY.

THE California Prohibition platform recognizes the Lord as supreme ruler, " to whose
laws all human laws should conform." And the National W. C. T. U. of 1888 resolved
that " Christ and his gospel, as nniversal king and code, should be sovereign in our gov
ernment and political affairs." Well, let us try it. There is the code, the law. It is the
duty of every court to act in accordance with that code. There is a statute in that code
which says, " If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive
him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day
turn again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shall forgive him." Remember, they have
resolved that this shall be the code in our government. Suppose, then, a man steals a
horse. He is arrested, tried, and found guilty. He says, "I repent." Thou shalt for
give him, says the code, and the government must conform to its code. He is released,
and repeats the act; is again arrested, and found guilty. He says, "1 repent." "Thou
shall forgive him." And if he does it seven times in a day, and seven times in a day
turns to the court, saying, I repent, the government must forgive him; for so says that
which the Union has resolved should he the governmental code.
All can see in an instant that such a system would be destructive to civil gov
ernment. This isjiot saying anything against the^Bibte, nor against its^ principles. ^ It
establish a sy
But he has made no such provision for civil government, and no such provision can be
made. No such provision can be made and civil government be maintained. The Bible
reveals God's method of saving sinners against his moral government ; civil govern
ment is man's method of preserving order, and has nothing to do with sin, nor the sal
vation of sinners. Civil government arrests a man, and niida him guilty of murder.
Before the penalty is executed, he repents, and God forgives him ; but the government
executes the penalty, and it ought to.

"DEVOUT HND HONORHBLE "

MEMBEKS AND ALLIES OF THE NATIONAL KEFOKM ASSOCIATION.

TBK question may be asked whether an association in this enlightened age that ad
vocates such principles, can have any influence, or be counted worthy of recogni
tion or the fellowship of respectable people ? Let ns see. Joseph Cook, the Boston Mon
day lecturer, is a vice-president of that Association. President Seeley, of Amherst Col
lege, is also one of the vice-presidents. Bishop Hnntington, of New York, is another.
Thepresidentof theW. C. T. U. is another; and BO is Mrs. J. C. Bateham, of the National
Union; Mrs. Wopdbridge, of the same organization, is another. Miss Mary A. West,
editor of the Union Signal; Mrs. Hoffman, president of the Missouri Union; Mrs. Lathrpp, president of the Michigan Union; Mrs. Sibley, of the Georgia Union,all these
are upon the printed list of vice-presidents of that Association for the present year, and
all these are eminently respectable people. They are people of influence.
The influences in favor of the National Sunday law reported in the Illinois Sunday
Convention, held in Chicago, Nov. 20, 81,1888, are the following:
1. More than 50,000 blank petitions have been sent out to be signed.
8. The Society of Friends of lowa^ numbering 10,500 people, has indorsed the peti
tions and the work.
8. The Society of Friends in Indiana, numbering 30,000 members, has done the same.
4. Ministers and churches in forty States and Territories have indorsed the petitions.
6. May 21, Senator Blair introduced a bill into the United States Senate, providing a
national Sunday law.
6. Petitions were fcent to Canada, and Sir John Macdouald replied that they had
introduced the matter into the Canadian Parliament.
7. The Methodist General Conference, two Presbyterian General Assemblies, and
one Baptist Association, have all appointed committees for the organization of a national
Sunday Union.
8. Oct. 18 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, "with much enthusiasm and
with great applause," indorsed the petition in favor of the Blair Sunday bill.
9. Nov. 16 the Knights of Labor general Convention also indorsed it.
Nor is this all. The Third-party Prohibition party is another confederate in this
attack upon the Constitution. Geo. W. Baine is a vice-president of the Association.
When it is seen that this legislation is the first step toward the establishment of a
religious despotism modeled upon the principles of the Dark Ages, and when this legis
lation is supported by such men as Joseph Cook, President Seeley, Bishop Huntington,
and the others named, and by the W. C. T. IT. and the Third-party Prohibition party,
is it not time that somebody was saying something in behalf of our Constitution as it is,
and of the rights of men under it?

LOGIC.
" LIBERTY of rest for each demands a law of rest for all.' 1 This is a favorite propo
sition among Sunday-law advocates. They tell ns it is impossible for a part of the
people to keep Sunday properly while the rest are pursuing their regular avocations, or
indulging in pleasures and amusements.
That is to say, the Almighty has fixed things in such a way that it is impossible for
one person to be a true Christian unless everybody else will be Christians at the same
time. And, as there has never been a time when all the people were Christians, and
nev^r will be in this world, it is therefore certain that there never were, and never will
be, any Christians, and hence nobody can be saved.

This in the logic of religious legislation. But is it true that God has so arranged
matters that one man's virtue or piety depends upon that of some other man, so that he
cannot serve God acceptably unless the other man does the same? Those who are clam
oring for Sundiy laws say. "Yes;" the apostle Paul says, "Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come, nor bight, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate ns from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
It is wonderful how great authorities will differ. Let National Befonners explain
the cause. American Sentinel.

FKLLIBLE CHURCHES THKE NOTICE,

" A KEETINQ of all denominations in Ohio is called to be held at Columbus, Feb. 20,
21, to consider the advisability of a thorough organization ' in the interest of a better
observance of the Christian Sabbath.' We Catholics are always in favor of that day's
being kept sacredly and strictly, though without the gloomy countenance or the ashes
of woe; yet the first thing the members of this convention ought to do, would seem to
ns to be to show any soriptnral command whatsoever to observe the ' Christian Sab
bath,' There is authority for the change from the Sabbath to Sundayample authority; <
but it if the authority of the Catholic Church, the only one reaching back to the time of
Christ. Fallible churches could make no such change."Catholic Columbian, Columbia,

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INTEREST LSWS HND RULES.
THE legal rate of interest is five per cent in Louisiana; six per cent in Arkansas,
Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jer
iu jimuiuua, r lonua, uregou. ana Texas; ten per cent in Arizona, Colora
Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Washington; and twelve per cent in Wyoming.
The rate, of interest allowed by contract is six par cent iu Delaware, Maryland, New

Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin; twelve per cent in Arizona, Kansas,
New Mexico, and Texas; eighteen per cent in Idaho, and any rate in other States and Ter
ritories, except Connecticut and West Virginia, where only six per cent can be collected
by law, but a higher rate is not accounted usury.
HAKDY IKTEREST RULES. The answer in each case being in cents, separate the
two right-hand figures of the answer to express in dollars and cents.
Four per cent. Multiply the principal by the number of days to run, separate righthand figure from the product, and divide by nine.
Five per cent. Multiply by number of days, and divide by seventy-two.
Six per cent. Multiply by nnmbevof days, separate right-hand figure, divide by six:.
Eight per cent. Multiply by number of days, and divide by forty-five.
Nine per cent.Multiply by number of days, separate right-hand figure, divide by four.
Ten per cent. Multiply by number of days, and divide by thirtv-five.
Twelve per cent. Multiply by number of days, separate right-hand figure, and
divide by three.

STICK TO THE TEXT.

THE Iowa Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to its everlasting honor, has
severed all connection with the political workings of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and has given to the National Union the name of "The National
Woman's
Political
We heartily
approve the action of the
Union,
'
.- Temperance
. ..
- Union."
.,.,_,..
Iowa
Christii
perance UnionTis brought to the point i
work in a Christian way, and not in a political way.
Not one tenth of the great body of W. C. T. U. has any idea of what this alliance with
the National Reform Association amounts to. There are multitudes of women in the
Union who have no sympathy with the political workings of the leadership of the Union,
and many have separated from it on account of its alliance with the National Reform
Association. We respect the W. C. T. U. in the line of its legitimate work, and in such
work not only bid it God-speed, but unite with it. We are in favor of temperance union,
of Christian temperance union, and of woman's Christian temperance union, but not in
favor of any kind of political Christian temperance union, nor of theocratical temperance
union. The Iowa Union Has done itself credit; and all the rest of the W. C. T. U. would
do well to protest against the political workings of its present leadership, and especially
to protest against the union's any longer being made a tool of the National Reform Asso
ciation. By means of the W. C. T. U., the National Reform Association is having a thou
sand times as much influence as it could have if left to itself to make its own way and
secure a hearing.

SECRET SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED STHTES.

THERE are now between two and three hundred secret societies of all kinds in this
country, including only those whose members take a solemn oath or obligation, and
maintain secret sessions. The membership in this country of the principal organiza
tions of this kind was reported a few months ago by the author of "The Cyclopedia of
Secret Societies," Mr. Win. M. Butler, of Rochester, N. V., to be as follows": Free and
Accepted Masons, 6M,000; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 630,800; Knights of
Labor, 500,000; Grand Army of the Republic, 380,000; Knights of Pythias, 810,000; Inde
pendent Order of Good Templars, 300,902; Ancient Order of United Workmen, 191,876;
Knights of Honor, 124,7515; the Royal Arcanum, 80,000; Improved Order of Red Men.
64,000; American Legion of Honor, 61,664; Knights and Ladies of Honor, 49.200; Sons of
Veterans, 47,000; Ancient Order of Foresters, 38.589; Daughters of Rebekah, 88,958.':
Knights of the Golden Eagle, 30,000; Order of Chosen Friends, 29.871; Independent
Order of B'nai Brith, 34,490; Order of United Friends, 20,000; Ancient Order of Druids,
15,000; Knights of the Maccabees, 14,000; United Order of the Golden Cross, 11,000;
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, 6,500. The total membership of Free Masons
throughout the world was reported at three to five millions; of Good Templars, 483,103:
and of the Druids, 67,000. The figures of the Daughters of Rebekah do not include
about 40,000 Odd Fellows (men) who have taken this degree.
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THE SCHOOLS, THE SKLOONS, HMD THE VOTERS.
THE New York Voice has made a compara
tive tabular view of the expenditure per
-capita of population for the schools and
saloons in twenty-two of the States, which,
furnishes an instructive lesson rather
twenty-two' lessons. It is as follows :

per cent, are returned as unable to read, and

5,239,958, or 17 per cent, as unable to write.
The following States show over 40 per cent
of their population as nnable to write : Ala
bama, 60; Florida, 43; Georgia, 50; Louisi
ana, 49; Mississippi, 50; New Mexico, 65;
North Carolina, 48; South Carolina, 55;
and Virginia, 41 ; and the following States
Schools. Saloons. with less than 6 per cent nnable to read:
.' ; ; ;' Status.
Connecticut, 4 ; Dakota, 8; Illinois, 4; Indi
ana, 5; Iowa, 2; Kansas, 4; Maine, 4; Mich
igan, 4; Minnesota, 4; Montana, 5; Ne
$ 2.74
Alabama...... ........ $ .55
braska, 2%; New Hampshire, 4; New Jer
2.56
.92
sey, 6; New York, 4; Ohio, 4; Oregon, 4;
4.89
.42
Pennsylvania, 5; Utah, 5; Virginia, 5; and
7.64
.89
Wisconsin, 4.
18.09
.44
8.48
.67
.44
4.38
COMPABATIYE TAXATION.
.39
8.06
4.00
.61
Taxation
COUNTRIES.
Population. Per
5.54
.87
Head.
California ............
3.50
40.16
2.67
15.88
12.41
3.09
35,241,482
$12.10
10.54
2.53
87,672,048
18.00
14.74
8.68
45,234,091
3.65
11.41
2.26
5,784,958
10.75
2.12
18.03
Italy ................ 28,459,628
10.78
21.47
1.89
82,980,861
28.50
New York ............
2.49
28.78
16,958,178
10.00
17.81
2.78
4,824,810
S4.80
2.12
14.78
489,938
86.00
14.47
2.33
973,403
30.00
New South Wales...
821,268
41.00
58,420,000
5.76
In 1880, it was shown by the census returns and the internal revenue reports, that
the ratio of saloons to voters, in all the
In Wyoming Territory, woman's suffrage
States east of the Mississippi, was one to prevails on the same terms with men's. For
107.7; in the States and Territories between several years it prevailed similarly in
the Mississippi and the Eocky Mountains, Washington Territory arid Utah, but was
one to 112.5; but in the eleven mountain set aside in the former last summer by de
States and Territories, the astounding ratio cision of the Supreme Court, and in the lat
of one to 43. That is just the figure for ter by the Edmunds law, passed by the
' Wyoming*, naughty Utah had but one to XLIXth Congress. In Kansas, women have
84; Washington, one to 68; Oregon, one to full suffrage in municipalities, and in Ar
58; California and Colorado, one to 37; Ida- kansas and Mississippi, they vote on license
'ho, one to35; Nevada, one to 32; Montana, to liquor sellers, in the form of petition to
, one to 28; New Mexico, one to 26; and Ari the granting power. They vote at school
zona, One to 25. Dakota had but 6ne to 95; meetings and elections, with various re
Nebraska,'one to ]83; Texas, one to 188; strictions, in Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, In
and Kansas, one to 224. These ratios must diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
have greatly improved since then, at least Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
in some cases.
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Oregon, Vermont, Washington Territory,
*- A'HE tenth or last census enumerates and Wisconsin. Woman's suffrage bills
36,761,607 persons of ten years of age and were defeated in the legislatures of 1887 in
upwards. Of this number, 4,928,451, or 13.4 Michigan and Massachusetts.

H New: GOSP6L.
" WHAT can be done to stem the tide of rampant immorality, which is rising all
around us?" wag the subject of discussion at a recent meeting of ministers. This is
a question which is attracting much attention of late, and the usual solution is an appeal
to civil law. It is strange that none of them ever think of following the rule laid down
by the apostle Pan! for use in such cases. He wrote to Timothy of a time when people
would not only be immoral, but would choose teachers who would wink at, if not pander
to,- their lasts, and his injunction was, "Preach the Word I" That old pioneer of
Christianity knew of no other way to combat immorality. He said that the weapons of
' his .warfare were "not carnal." But now the appeal is constantly to the civil law.
What has caused the change ? Is it that men are so differently constituted now that the
gospel cannot affect them r or is it because the ministers have not the same gospel that
Paul preached ? American Sentinel.

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FHCTS CONC6RNING MHNKIND.
DISPERSED over the entire globe, on land and sea, the human family is estimated now
to number about 1,450,000,000. Yet every one of them could find standing-room in a field
100 miles square; and in one 200 miles square that is, four times as large the total
number of human beings could be comfortably seated, with a little margin for movement.
In Asia, the so-called "cradle of civilization," there are about 800,000,000 people,
averaging ISO to the square mile; in Europe there are 820,000,000, or 100 to the square
mile; in Africa, 210,000,000; in America, North and South, 110,000,000, relatively thinly
scattered and recent; in the islands, large and small, are probably 10,000,000. The
extremes of the white and black races are as five to three, the remaining 700,000,00p being
intermediate brown and tawny. Of the entire human race, 500,000,000 are fully clothed,
that is, wear garments of some kind, and live in houses partly furnished with the
appointments of civilization; 700,000,000 are semi-clothed, living in huts and caves with
little or no furnishing; 250,000,000 are practically naked, having nothing that can be
called a home, and are barbarous and savage. Tbe range is from the topmost round
the Anglo-Saxon civilization, the highest known down to naked savagery. The portion
of the race lying below the line of civilized conditions is, at the very least, three fifths of
the whole, or 900,000,000.
In England the population doubles in fifty years; in the United States, Canada, and
Australia, in twenty-five years; in Germany, in 105 years; in France and the wrenchspeaking countries, in 140 years.
DENSITY OF POPULATION.

From the compiled work of the two great German statisticians, Behm and Wagner,
it is learned that the average density of population throughout the world is twenty-eight
persons to each square mile of land area. In Europe the people are so crowded that
about 100 of them live on each square mile, or more than ten on each acre; while in
Australia and Polynesia, if the land were equally divided, every man, woman, and child
would have almost a square mile; and upon some of the reservations of North American
Indians, the population is almost as sparse. In Asia there are about 180 persons to each
square mile; in Africa, seventeen and one half; and in America, North and South together,
five and one half. Were the whole earth as densely populated as Europe is now, the de
scendants of Adam and Eve would number 4,809,945,600 souls.
The population per square mile of the different countries is: Belgium, 451; England
and Wales, 389; Holland, 291; Italy, 237; Japan, 209; Germany, 193; Switzerland, 175;
Ireland, Anstro-Hungary, 158; France, 150; Denmark, China, 110; Scotland, 109; Portu
gal, 108; Spain, 90; Sweden and Norway, 21; Turkey, 20; United States, 11; Russia, 10;
Mexico, 9; Greece, 7; Brazil, 3.
The earth is 24,899 miles around at the equator; diameter there, 7,925 miles; at the
poles, 7,899; mean diameter, 7,916; land surface, 54,500,000 square miles; water, 142,000,000; total, 196,900,000; weight, 6,000 billion billion tons.

DRINKS OF KLL NHTIONS.

THE following table exhibits at a glance
the beverages of all nations:

COUNTRIES.

Great Britain...

Italy..... ........
Holland ..........
Denmark . ....
Norway and Swed
British Colonies .
United States ....
Total..........

Lager beer is commonly known as a Ger

man beverage, but in three countries of the
world there is more beer drunk per capita
than in Germany. The number of gallons
"S3
Millions of
drunk annually per person is: United
Dollars.
On- States, 33; Belgium, 82; Great Britain 22;
Germany, 12; Denmark, 10J4; Holland, 9;
Austria, 7Yz ; France, 4% ; and Russia, %.
3
Belgium
is the greatest brewing country in
e
53<D
'S,
the world, producing annually 1,050,000,000
t
gallons; Great Britain, 900,000,000; Den
mark, 513,192,120; Germany, 30,000,000; and
15 1,007
87
1.92 the United States, 18,000,000.
760
190
2.65
76
The usual percentage of alcohol, by vol
120
880
60
1.60 ume, in the various drinks is about as fol
30
63
145
1.05 lows : Beer, 4; porter, 4.5; ale, 7.4; cider, 8,6;
300
245
80
1.45 perry, 8.8. Wines.Elder, 9.3; Moselle, 9.6;
480
20
10
1.76 Tokay, 10.2; Rhine, 11; orange, 11.2; Bor
220
1.48 deaux, 11.5; hock, 11.6; gooseberry, 11.8;
3
60
1
1
1.55 champagne, 12.2; claret, 13.8; Burgundy,
2.05 13.6; California, 14.5; Malaga, 17.3; Canary,
3
35
12
1
25
2.60 18.8; sherry and Vermouth, 19; Malmsey,
8
4 170
10
2.07 19.7; Marsala, 20.2; Madeira, 21; port, 23.2;
2
35
2.27 Curacoa, 27; Anise-eeed 33; Maraschino, 34;
27
108
81
20
1.80 Chartreuse. 43; gin, 51.6; brandy, 53.4;
30 440
1.31 rum,53.7. Whisky.Irish, 53.9; Bourbon,
76
54; rye, 54; Scotch, 54.3. "Proof-spirit"
2,133 3,194
473
1.70 contains 49.24 per cent of absolute alcohol
by weight, or 57.06 in volume.

jl!

188
UNITED STKTBS PRESIDENTS HND VICE-PRESIDENTS.
PRESIDENT.

of
VICK-PBBBIP'T. Term
Office.
1789-1797
1797-1801

Jefferson ...... Burr.... ..... 1801-1805

1805-1809
Madison..... ..
1809-1813
Madison........ Gerry......... 181S-1817

1817-1825
1825-1839
1829-1833
1833-1837
1837-1841
18411m
1841-1845
~3y llm
Polk............ Dallas ... .... 1845-1849
Taylor ......... Fillmore...... '49-ly4m

PBBSIDBHT.

of
VICB-PBESID'T. Term
Office.

1850-1853
Pierce .......... King.......... 185S-1857
1857-1861
1861-1865
1865- 1m
1865-1869
3y llm
Cottar.. ...... 1869-1873
1878-1877
1877-1881
1881-6Jm
lOQf

1CCK

3y 5im
Harrigon. ....... Morton... .... 1889-

1BftK_1QQQ

The total popnlar vote for President at the several elections since 1830 was as fol
lows: 1824, 852,062; 1828, 1,156,388; 1832, 1,217,691; 1836. 1,498,205; 1840,2,410,772; 1844,
2,698.608; 1848, 2,872,806; 1858, 3,142,877; 1856,4,053,967; 1860,4,676,858; 18W, 4,034,792; 1868,
5,724824; 1873, 6,431,149; 1876, 8,426,073; 1880, 9,218,550; 1884, 10,067,610; 1888, 11,805,562.

NOT HN HTOERICHN INSTITUTION.

THE National Reformers have a great deal to say about American institutions, the
American Sunday, etc.; but the fact is, the movement is wholly un-American. In a
speech the other day, the editor of free Thought made the following point, which we
think is exceedingly well taken:
" Constantine, the Koman emperor, who lived over three hundred years after Christ,
first instituted the observance of Sunday as the sacred day the Sabbath; and we of the
nineteenth century are compelled to adjourn the celebration of our national anniversary,
the fourth of July, when it comes upon a Sunday, in recognition of Constantine's Sab
bath; and every time we do so, our flag is trailed in the dust before the Roman emperor.
We want our rights respected."
The whole National Reform movement is but an effort to Romanize America. There
is only one error in the above, and that is that Constantine instituted the observance of
Sunday as a sacred day. Although he issued the first law that ever existed in regard to
Sunday, its observance as a sacred day was unknown till long after Constantine's time.
His law was like the one which the National Reformers want; it was not designed to
make men very religious, only to make some of them appear so outwardly.American
Sentinel.
_______
JANUARY 17 was petition day in the United States Senate. On that day petitions
from citizens of twenty -one States, two Territories, and the District of Columbia, were
presented by various Senators. In fact, the whole number of signaturesprofessedly
about 14,000,000were presented, and the petitions were referred to the Committee on
Education and Labor. Of course- the fact that the Senators presented the petitions from
their respective States, proves nothing whatever as to their standing on the matter. But
there was one man who did not propose to be, by any remote construction, identified
with the thing desired by the petitioners. That was Senator Riddlcberger, of Virginia.
Said he:
"I present a petition of citi/.cns of Virginia, containing 1,851 individual signatures,
in favor of a National Sunday rest law. I take it for granted it is the same as the other
Senators here have presented, because of the red covering; and I present it, recognising
the right of petition; but in presenting it I want to state wliat other Senators have not
done, my im<[ualiticcl opposition to any such legislation."
11 is refreshing to know that some arc not prevented by weak scntimcntalism from
speaking out their honest convictions. It is an encouraging fact, also, that Senator
Riddleberger is one of the Committee on Education aud Labor, to which these petitions
are referred. American Sentinel.
_______
THE Generals commanding the United States Army have been: George Washington,
1775-1783; Henry Knox, 1783-1784; Josiah Harmer, 178&-1791: Arthur St. Clair, 17911790: James Wilkinson. 1790-1708; George Washington, 379&-1799; James Wilkinson,
1800-1812: Henry Dearborn, 1812-1815; Jacob Brown, 1815-1828; Alexander Macomb,
1828-1841; Wiulield Scott, 184I-18C1; George B. McClclIan, 1861-1862; Uoury W. Halleck,
1862-1804; Ulysses S. Grant, 1864-1869; William T. Sherman, 1869-1883; Philip H. Sheri
dan, 1883-1888; James M. Schofleld, 1888-.

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STKNDHRD HND LOCKL TIMES.
FIVE years ago, the numerous and confusing standards of time In the running ar
rangements of American railway?, demanded a reform. Oct. 11, 1883, a Railway Time
Convention met in Chicago, and adopted a uniform and admirable system that went into
general use Nov. 18, of the game year. Its basis is the difference of one hour's
time for every fifteen degrees of longitude, since the sun (apparently) compasses the
globe (360) in 24 hours. A series of standard meridians was adopted, 60, 75, 90, 105,
and 130 west from Greenwich, each of "which was made the center of a belt of 15
width, the boundary -lines of which, as 87 80',- 82 -SO*, etc., should approximately limit
the use of standard times. The solar times on these meridians give the standard times,
which are of course half an hour fast on the western limit, and as much slow on the
eastern. The standard meridian for Atlantic, or Intercolonial time (60), passes between
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia ; that for Eastern time, near Ogdensburg, N. T. ; Cen
tral, through New Orleans and St Louis ; Mountain, near Denver, Colo. ; and Pacific,
about 2 30' east of San Francisco. Eastern standard time reaches from the further
boundary of Maine to the Detroit and St. Clair rivers, although none of these are exactly
on the bounding meridians. Passengers crossing eastward set their watches an hour
ahead ; westward, an hour behind. Central standard time prevails from Detroit and
Port Huron to Mand'an,Dak., North Platte, Neb., Bodge City, Kan., and elsewhere on the
transcontinental lines. Some State laws require its use in elections, courts, banks, and
public offices, and many towns and cities substitute it for the local time, but some of
them have returned to the latter, as Detroit, where the difference is 2% minutes.
Local time in Detroit is 37 minutes slower than in New York ; Chicago, 56 ; St.
Louis, 1 hour and 6 minutes ; Kansas City, 1 :24 ; Omaha, 1 :29 ; Denver, 2 :05 ; Salt
Lake City, 2 ;32 ; San Francisco, Gal., and Portland, Or., 3 .15 ; City of Mexico, 1:40 ;
Honolulu, 5 :36 ; Yokohama, 10:45 ; Hong Kong, 11 :27. Local time in Boston is 12
minutes faster than in New York ; Portland, Me.. 15 ; Bangor, 21 ; St. John, N. B., 32;
Halifax, 51 : Dublin, 4 :31; London. 4 -.56 ; Paris, 5 :02 ; Berlin, 5 :50 ; St. Petersburg,
6 :57 ; Calcutta, 10 :50.

JnilND KND JtfEHTHER SIGNKLS.

THE new system of the United States Signal Service, going into operation March 1,
1887, is as follows : Flag No. 1, white square, indicates clear or fair weather ; No. 2, blue
square, rain or enow ; No. 3. black triangle, temperature flag ; No, 4, white square,
black in the center, cold wave, usually ordered up at least twenty-four hours in .ad
vance. "When it is up, No. 3 is not shown. When neither appears, stationary tempera
ture is expected, or a variation rot exceeding 5 from the same hour of the previous day.
When No. Sis placed below No. 1, the indications are fair weather, colder ; below No, 2,
colder, afterrain or snow ; above No. 2, warmer, with rain or snow ; above both Nos. 1 and
2, warmer, fair weather, rain or gnow following ; No. 4, below No. 1, indicates fair weather,
cold wave. Nos. 4, 2, 1, 3, shown together in this order, prophesy cold wave, followed
by rain or enow., this by fair weather, colder; Nos. 3,1,2. warmer, fair, then, rain or snow.
If the flags are displayed horizontally, a small streamer shows from which end- they are
to be read.
The danger or storm signal is a red. square flag, "with black center. Yellow, with
white center, is the cautionary signal, but promises winds that well-appointed and sea
worthy vessels may encounter safely. The red pennant, a rather long triangle, indicates
winds easterly, from northeast to south inclusive, with storm center approaching ; the
white pennant indicates westerly winds, from north to southwest inclusive, and in gen
eral that the storm-center has passed. The former above,the cautionary or storm signal
prophesies probable winds from the northeast quadrant ; below, v winds from the south
east. The latter similarly indicates probabilities of wind from the northwest and south
west. The night storm signals are a red light for easterly winds, and a red and .white
light for westerly winds.
Many railway trains carry weather signals on the sides of baggage cars.

STRIKES IN 1885.
BradstreeVs report of labor-troubles during 1888 shows that last year was marked by
what that journal calls a " receding wave of strikes." There were 079 strikes reported
for 1888, in which 211,016 strikers participated, against 872 strikes in 1887, with 345,073
strikers. The proportion of successful strikes, however, was considerably larger, num
bering last year 225, or nearly 2.9 per cent, against 368, or 2.4 per cent, in 1887. The de
crease was mainly in the coal-mining and building industries, in which 52,672 men were
concerned last year, against 115,035 in 1887. On the other hand, the iron and steel work
ers largely increased the strike record, 1888 numbering 60 strikes, with 69,833 men, while
in 1887 the total was 81 strikes, with 32,987 strikers. The low prices for iron and steel
enabled manufactures to meet these movements with "lock-outs," so that only 18 out of
the 60 strikes of 1888 succeeded, while in the previous year 44 obtained their demands.
Tbe record of days of labor lost by strikes is the strongest comment that could be made
upon the policy of striking on any occasion except that of severest emergency. Last
year 7,562,480 days'labor was lost; in 1887 the loss was 10,253,921 days. As usual, the
unsuccessful strikes bore thd largest part of this loss, numbering 5,589,578 days' labor in
1888, and 8,418,181 in 3887. New Yor?: Commercial Advertiser.

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THE TWO LHWS.
WILL it be permitted those who religiously differ with the Sunday law, when it is
enacted, to construe ite wording: "The Lord's day, the Christian Sabbath," and "the
first-day of the week," to mean one day in seven and no definite day in particular; a law
enacted simply to secure a weekly rest one day in seven, each week? Will the courts,
the ministers, and the churches allow of such construction of the wording of their Sab
bath law? andif not, whynot? This argument is used by the two latter classes to those
who Insist on the literal rendering of the Sabbath law, given by Jehovah himself from
Sinai, which reads, "the seventh dayiathe Sabbath." "But," they say, "that expres
sion, the seventh, day, does not mean the definite seventh day, but one day in seven. So
you are at liberty to rest on Sunday or any other day. Now if this argument is valid
when reasoning in reference to the law of God, why would it not be when discussing the
laws of men?
But they tell us: "The definite day prescribed in the law must be insisted upon, or
the whole law will be subverted, and general confusion will result. So say we of the
law of God. And thus it appears that they and we agree perfectly upon the reading and
application of the laws, and that the whole point of difference arises between us in ref
erence to which law we are loyal to, just as it reads the law of God, or the law of man.
And so the real point of conflict, they themselves being the judges, and their line of ar
gument the will, is between the two laws.American Sentinel.

"BHTTLE ON THE SHBBHTH QUESTION."

THE Virginia correspondent of the New York Examiner (Baptist) writes as follow
to the issue of that paper dated Jan. 24:
"It looks now as if the Christian people of Virginia are marshaling their forces for
making battle on the Sabbath question. Richmond has its local evangelical alliance, and
several of its meetings have been devoted to a discussion of this grave and perplexing
problem. Christian people of all names seem to agree that we have fallen upon perilous
times; that the old reverence for the Sabbath has fallen into decay, and that business
and"pleasure, as well as vice, seem bent on blotting the Sabbath from our calendar, or, at
any rate, on diverting it from its sacred and economic uses. The indications at present
point to the holding of a State Sabbath convention, and if this is done, it will be with a
view of putting Virginia in line with the National Sabbath Union."
So the ball keeps rolling. We ask all who read the above to take particular notice
to see if they can find anything in it about temperance or the workingmen. Does it say
that the battle is to be waged for temperance or labor ? No! They are " marshaling
their forces for making battle on the Sabbath question."

"HIT'EM WHEN THEY DON'T KNOW IT."

THE Interior, of Jan. 24, has an article entitled, "Fortify the Weak Point," which
strikes.a blow at our public school system, thus:
" Let us outflank the enemy, and take his fortified position by tapping the public
schools low down, and turning the current into Christian intermediate schools, thence
into our colleges and seminaries. In that way we will be more likely, at last, to capture
' the powers that be' for religion."
And then, woe to the heretic who dares to oppose those "Christian" powers. It is
Rome number two. The people have been led to think that the Catholic Church is the
only foe of the public School system; but this is not so. Degenerate Protestantism is
anxious to emulate her example.
THE Catholic Mirror announces that " His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, has been in
vited to address the convention of the National Teachers' Association at Nashville.
Tenn." How fitting that the representatives of the public schools of America should be
addressed by the representative of that power which is doing its utmost to overthrow
them!

SECULAR power has proved a Satanic gift to the church, and ecclesiastical power has
proved an engine of tyranny in the hands of the State. Dr. Schaf, in Church and State
in the U. S.,p. 11.
THE time was, when toleration was craved by dissenters as a boon; it is now de
manded as a right; but a time will come when it will be spurned as an insult. Lord
Stanhope, 1827.
THERE are many who do not seem to be sensible that all violence in religion is irre
ligious, and that, whoever is wrong, the persecutor cannot be right. Thomas Clarke.
" HUMAN tribunals for the consciences of men, are impious encroachments upon the
' prerogatives of God."
IT fs not toleration which is established in our system, but religious equality.
Judge Cooley.

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MHICH OF THE TM0 ?
PETITIONS calculated to facilitate the passage of the Blair Sunday bill, and calling
for religions legislation in regard to the proper observance of the Lord's day, are being
widely circulated. The fact that an amendment to the Constitution should not only be
called for, hut that petitions indorsing the establishment of a Sunday law should be sub
scribed to by churches, unions, and parties, as entire bodies, is cause sufficient to justify
every American citizen in his best efforts to help circulate the following petition, drawn
on the original ideas of religious liberty as evinced by the founders and supporters of
our Constitution, as well as on the principles laid down by Christ:
"We, the undersigned, adult residents of the TJnited States, twenty-one years of age
or more, hereby respectfully but earnestly petition your Honorable Body not to pass
any bill in regard to the observance of the Sabbath, or Lord's day, or any other religious
or ecclesiastical institution or rite; nor to favor in any way the adoption of any resolu
tion for the amendment of the national Constitution that would in any way give prefer
ence to the principles of any one religion above another, or that will in any way sanction
legislation upon the subject of religion; but that the total separation between religion
arid the State, assured by our national Constitution as it now is, may forever remain as
our fathers established it." *
That our Constitution should be preserved as it is, and that the above petition is in
tended to preserve our Constitution, so far as religion or religious tests are concerned;
and that it is in defense of the true principle of religions liberty and rights of conscience,
is manifest from the following quotations in the left-hand column, compared with which
those on the right hand are about as worthless and treacherous as smooth language can
make them.
TTBAKNT.

"Every man who conducts himself as a

good citizen, is accountable alone to God
for his religious faith, and should be pro
tected in worshiping God according to the
dictates of his own conscience." George
Washington.
"Religion is not In the purview of hu
man government. Religion is essentially
distinct from government, and exempt
from its cognizance. A connection be
tween them is injurious to both."James
Madison.
"Almighty God hath created the mind
free; all attempts to influence it by tem
poral punishments or burdens, or by civil
incapacitations, tend only to beget habits
of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a de
parture from the plan of the holy Author
of our religion, who, being Lord both of
body and mind, yet chose not to propaate it by coercion on either, as was in
is almighty power to do. To compel
a man to furnish contributions of money
for the propagation of opinions which he
disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical. Be
it therefore enacted by the General Assem
bly, that no man shall be compelled to fre
quent or support any religious worship,
place, or ministry, whatsoever; nor.shall
be enforced, restrained, molested, or bur
dened, in his body or goods, nor shall oth
erwise suffer, on account of his religious
opinions or belief; but that all men shall
be free to profess, and by argument to
maintain, their opinions in matters of religion l and that the same shall in no wise
diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil ca
pacities.

"It is indeed better that men should be

brought to serve God by instruction than
by fear of punishment or by pain. But
because the former means are better, the
latter must not therefore be neglected.
. , . Many must often be brought back to
their Lord, like wicked servants, by the
rod of temporal suffering, before they at
tain to the highest grade of religious de
velopment," St. Augustine, whose doc
trine resulted in the tribunals of the Inqui
sition.
"All Catholics should do all in their
power to cause the Constitutions of the
States and legislation to be modeled on
the principles of the true church." En
cyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII.
" To compel men to do wrong, of course
is wrong; but to compel them to do right,
is right.' 1Pope Pelagius^ A. />., 556.
" Whenever they [the Roman Catholics]
are willing to co-operate in resisting the
progress of political atheism, we will

ladly join hands with them." Christian

tatesman (organ of the National Reform
ters),
issue of Dec. 11, 1884.

"Give all men to understand that this

is a Christian nation, and that, believing
that without Christianity we perish, we
must maintain by all means our Christian
character. Inscribe this character on our
Constitution. Enforce upon all who come
among us the laws of Christian morality."
Christian Statesman, Oct. 2,1884.

* Several hundred thousand signatures have thus far been secured to this petition, copies of
which may be obtained by addressing the American Sentinel, 28 College Place, Chicago, 111;
or 48 Bond St. New York.

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" We are free to declare that the rights
hereby asserted are the natural rights of
mankind; and that if any act shall be here
after passed to repeal the present, or nar
row its operation, such act will be an in
fringement of natural right." Thai. Jef
ferson, in General Assembly of Virginia,
1785.
"The only proper objects of civil gov
ernment are the happiness and protection
of men in the present state of existence;
the security of the life, liberty, and prop
erty of the citizen; and to restrain and en
courage the virtuous by wholesome laws
equally extended to every individual. But
the duty that we owe to our Creator, and
the manner of discharging it, can only be
directed by reason and conviction, and is
nowhere cognizable but at the tribunal of
the. universal Judge. To judge for our
selves, and to engage in the exercise of re
ligion agreeably to the dictates of our own
conscience, is an inalienable right, which,
upon the principles on which the gospel
was first propagated, and the reformation
from popery carried on, can never be trans
ferred to another."Presbytery of Han
over, Ta., me.
"It is not the legitimate province of the
legislature to determine what religion is
true or what false. Our government is a
civil, andnota religious, institution. Our
Constitution recognizes in every person
the right to choose his own religion, and
to enjoy It freely, without molestation.
The proper object of government is to pro
tect all persons in the enjoyment of their
civil as well as their religious rights, and
not to determine for any whether they
shall esteem one day above (mother, or es
teem all days alike holy. What other na
tions call religious toleration, we call re
ligious rights. They are not exercised in
virtue of governmental indulgence, but as
rights, of which government cannot deprive
any portion of citizens, however small.
Despotic power may invade those rights,
but justice still confirms them." U. S.
Senate, 1929.
"Leave the matter of religion to the
family altar, the church, and the private
school, supported entirely by private con
tribution. Keep the state and the church
forever separate." V. S. Grant.
" Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof."U. S. Constitu
tion.
"The American Constitution, in har
mony with the people of the several States,
withheld from the Federal government the
power to invade the home of reason, the
citadel of conscience, the sanctuary of the
soul; and not from indifference, but that
the infinite spirit of eternal truth might
move in its freedom, and purity, and
power."George Bancroft.
11 MY KINGDOM 18 NOT OP THIS WOULD."
"BENDER THEREFORE UNTO CAESAR THE
THINGS WHICH AHB C-ESAR'S; AND UNTO
GOD THB THINGS THAT ABE GOD'S."
Jesus Christ.

"We want State and religion and we

are going to have it. It shall be that so
far as the affairs of State require religion,
it shall be religion, the religion of Jesus
Christ. The Christian oath and Christian
morality shall have in this land " an un
deniable legal basis." We use the word
religion in it$ proper sense, as meaning a
man's personal relation of faith and obe
dience to God." Jonathan Edwards, JO,
D. (a Vice-President of the National Re
form Association), in a speech in New York
City, Feb. 27, 1873.
" Our remedy for all these malefic influ
ences is to have the Government simply
set up the moral law, and recognize God's
authority behind it, and lay its hand on
any religion that does not conform to it."
Bee. M. A. Gault, one of the District Sec
retaries of the National Reform Associa
tion.
"The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, local, State, national, and world
wide, has one vital, organic thought, one
all-absorbing purpose, one undying en
thusiasm, and that is that Christ shall be
this world's king. Tea, verily, this world's
king in its realm of cause and effect, king
of its courts, its camp, its commerce, king
of its colleges and cloisters, king of its
customs and Constitutions. . . . The king
dom of Christ must enter the realm of law
through the gateway of politics." Na
tional W. C. T. V. Convention, 1887.
"I want to see the day come when the
church shall be the arbiter of all legisla
tion, State, national, and municipal; when
the great churches of the country can
come together harmoniously and issue
their edict, and the legislative powers
will respect it, and enact it into laws."
Sam Small, Secretary of the National
Prohibition Convention.
"It is expedient for us that one man
should die for the people, and that the
whole nation perish not." Murderers of
Christ.
"It is better that a few should suffer
than that the nation should lose its Sab
bath." Dr. Me Allister, 1888.
" Sesohed, That we give our votes and
support to those candidates or political
officers who will pledge themselves to
vote for the enactment and enforcing of
statues in favor of the civil Sabbath."
Slgin, HI., Congregational Sunday Conven
tion, 18S7.
" Resolved, That civil government should
recognize Christ as the moral Governor,
and hia law as the standard of legisla
tion." Eighth District, W. C. T. U. Con
vention, Oct., 1888.
"I believe that a text-book of instruc
tion in the principles of virtue, morality,
and of the Christian religion, can be pre
pared for use in the public schools by the
joint effort of those who represent every
branch of the Christian church, both Prot
estant and Catholic." Senator Slair.

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OTHER SENSIBLE PEOPLE.
THE first section of the Sunday-reform bill enforces the observance of the first day
of the week upon all, irrespective of religious belief. Differing sects have no rights.
They must take the day the State declares sacred, and must obey the State in preference
to tbeir God, should their religion differ. No work, business, amusement, or recreation
shall be engaged in, that shall disturb others. There is nothing whatever that you
could do or say that would be safe from disturbing others. This provision is one of the most
outrageous attacks on liberty ever planned. And this, too, in this vaunted age of enlight
enment. You may work, play, or amuse yourself, or even gamble, drink, and swear, if-so
inclined, from .Monday morning until Saturday night, yet still be a good citizen; but
the moment the first day is ushered in, even a little recreation is more highly criminal
than some of the foulest crimes. But the fact is obvious to any candid mind, that they
care nothing for the crimes, debauchery, or sins of the people, only so far as they prevent
an attendance at church and a full contribution-box on Sunday. Chicago News, Jan. 22,

WE are told that Senator Blair is supported in his advocacy of bis amendment by
petitions already aggregating about one quarter of our entire population. I challenge
the churchman and the statesman to beware of the danger to which they expose the insti
tutions bequeathed us by our fathers. I exhort you, my people, " Take heed that no man
deceive you!" To provide liberally and intelligently "for the education and culture of
our children is the Constitutional prerogative and duty of our Government, but to " ed
ucate our children in the principles of the Christian religion,'' is the right and duty re
served by the divine Law-giver, and assigned solely to the church of Jesus Christ. It
was while pursuing the great object of his ambition through the dark and bloody paths
of war and policy, that Constantine is said to have beheld the pign of a cross in the
heavens inscribed, "By this conquer" and henceforth be assumed the relation of
terrestrial father to Christianity that " daughter of the skies." Having acquired political
dominion over the States of Europe, lie conceived the idea of forming an alliance between
the civil and religious organizations in the empire. From this unholy alliance, consum
mated in the fourth century, has issued a progeny of evil which during many centuries has
afflicted both church and state. Rev. E. H, Sawyer ^ pastor of ffte Calvary Baptist church,
Denver^ Colorado, in a discourse in opposition to the Blair Educational Amendment Bill
published in the "Rocky Mountain News," Jan. 25, 1889.
PETITIONS remonstrating against the passage of the infamous Blair bill have been cir

BROTHER BLAIR, of New Hampshire, to the front again ! This time he bas a bill
to force all creation to submit to his notions concerning Sunday. Why not a bill com
pelling Brother Blair to go to synagogue on Saturday ; and to Quaker meeting on Thurs
day ; and to duly regard those days as sacred? St. Louis Globe- Democrat,, Dec. 30, 1888.
THE proper object of government is to protect all persons in the enjoyment of their
religious as well as civil rights, and not to determine for any whether they shall esteem
one day above another, or esteem all days alike holy. Hon. Richard M, Johnson, 1873.

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189

WE herewith call the attention of all our societies to two measures, introduced in
the United States Senate; to wit: First, the so-called National Sunday bill, and second,
the concurrent resolution, proposing an amendment to the Federal Constitution, the
object of which seems to be the establishment of the Christian religion as a national re
ligion. We consider these propositions as an infringement of liberty of conscience,
and a violation of the spirit of our Constitution. . . . Taking it all in all, this bill is the
boldest assault upon political liberty of the people, yet attempted. . . . The majority of
citizens know what endless complications the sacrifice of those provisions of our Consti
tution which guarantee liberty of conscience and religion to our citizens, would lead
to, and we therefore deem it our duty to protest against such reactionary assaults upon
our institutions. WTe call upon our societies to submit this remonstrance to the mem
bers of Congress of their respective districts immediately, with the request to oppose
Mr. Blair's measures by every means within their power. Action taken by the u Turn
Verm," of Peoria, III., in response to lahich a meeting was held in, Aurora, III., Fib. 3, 1889.
IT is right and a duty to give thanks to God and to worship him ; bodies of people
may properly agree on a day or days to be set apart for that purpose, and they have a
right to be secure from interruption therein. But one body of people has no juet right
to insist on compliance with their ideas in this matter by other bodies of people. One
has no right to say to another, " This shall be your day of thanksgiving and worship; "
nor, indeed, has any person or association of persons any right to say to another person
or persons that he or they shall have or observe a day of worship in any particular man
ner, or go on Sunday to hear any set of dogmas expounded. Here is the domain of con
science, and in it each man is answerable for himself. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec.
9, 1888,
ROGER WILLIAMS, banished for his Baptist principles, said: "The public or the
magistrates may decide what is due from men to men; but when they attempt to pre
scribe a man's duty to God, they are out of place, and there can be no safety." All of
this we respectfully commend to Senator Blair and his friends. Would that our words
could be transformed into trumpet tones, that the people of this nation might be aroused
to the danger germinant in these bills. This hateful, meddling spirit bears with it the
saine old ear-marks that attached to ecclesiastical despotism all along the way from Constantine the Great down to aud through the twelve centuries of popish domination, and
from Star-chamber times and Salem-witchcraft courts on to the end of the chapter. We
protest and repeat, There is danger in the Blair measures, although they are of Protest
ant birth, and under the tutorage of Protestant ecclesiastics !
"Friends of civil and religious liberty everywhere, PROTEST ! PROTEST ! ! PROTEST ! ! !
We arc not alarmed over a small matter. Every despotism that ever cursed the world
began in an innocent way, but the beginning was not the end. Evening Expositor,
(I'res no, Cal.), Jan. 37, 1889.
IF, therefore, the attempt could be made, by whatever majority of Christian citizens,
to compel the rest, who have not religious faith in the Biblical Sabbath, to revere and
observe the day as though they had, every Christian of real intelligence should resist
the attempt, by all the manly means in his power And this he should do for three rea
sons: In the first place, he should recognize his neighbors' religious rights, and honor
them, because they are rights. And in so doing he should be sure, in the second place,
that be would be acting in the true interest of religion, since nothing can make religion
more offensive to free "men than to find it fastened about their necks by other men's
hands. And, furthermore, a wise self-interest would bind any Christian to this course;
for he should ask himself, " If my religious conscience, when I am with the majority,
can compel other people, why may not other people's religious consciences, when I am
in the minority, have the right to compel me?" Such considerations, it would seem,
ought to convince every right-minded American Christian that his view of the religious
duty of Sabbath-keepine, while it ought to be very authoritative with him and his house
hold, ought, by no means, to be incorporated into American civil law. Ben. Hervey D.
Ganse, in the Interior, of Oct. 4, 1888.
AFTER forty years of gratuitous and earnest labor in this blessed cause, I am sol
emnly convinced that if it was left to the tender mercies of partisan politicians, it would
be: assassinated ! God never ordained that conflicts with gigantic siiis should be waged
with carnal weapons alone, or under the command of Caesar ! I am also convinced that
if all the time, money, and effort that have been expended on political movements, had
been expended in direct moral efforts to check the drinking usages, and educate the con
science "and conduct, and teach to the young lessons of abstinence, aud make public
sentiment against the diabolical and deadly drink-traffic, then our reform would be a
hundred-fold stronger to-day. Dr. T. L. Cwyler.
WHAT other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not
exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government can
not deprive any portion of citizens, however small. Despotic power may invade those
rights, but justice still confirms them. Report of Senate Committee on Post-offices and
Post-roads, isss.

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PENNSYLMHNIK'S "SHIP OF [CHURCH 75ND] STHTE."
" SHE STARTS."

"IF any person shall do or perform any worldly employment or business whatso
ever on the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday (works of necessity arid charity only
excepted), shall use or practice any unlawful game, hunting, shooting, sport, or diver
sion whatsoever, on the same day, and be convicted thereof, every such person so offend
ing shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay four dollars, to be levied by distress;
or ia ease be or she shall refuse or neglect to pay the said sum, or goods or chattels can
not be found whereof to levy the same by distress, he or she shall suffer six days1 im
prisonment in the house of correction of the proper county ;
" Provided always^ That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the
dressing of victuals in private families, bake-houses, lodging-houses, inns, and other
houses of entertainment for the use of sojourned, travelers, or strangers, or to hinder
watermen from landing their passengers, or ferrymen from carrying over the water
travelers, or persons removing with their families on the Lord's day, commonly called
Sunday, nor the delivery of milk, or the necessaries of life, before nine of the clock in
the forenoon, nor after five of the clock in the afternoon of the same day ;
" Provided always, That every such prosecution shall be commenced within seventytwo hours after the offense shall be committed." Pennsylvania Sunday Law, enacted
April 22, 1794.
"" SHE MOVES. 11

u Members
sect, wo
who conscenousy
conscientiously oerve
observe an
and keep
ers of
o a society
soce or sec,
eep thee seventh
seven
day of the week as the Christian Sabbath, are, upon conviction for violating the first day
of the week,
k, or Sunday,
unda by working
workin or performing
rorm
any
n worldly
worldl employment,
emlomen amenable
aenable to
t
the penaltie
ies inflicted by the act of the Assembly." "Pennsylvania /State Jteports," by
Barr, p. 313.
3.
u SHE SEEMS TO FEEL THE THRILL, OF LIFE ALONG HER KEEL."

"The undersigned, citizens of Pennsylvania, respectfully represent that great ad

vantages have accrued to the public and private interests of the people of this State,
from the operation of the laws upon our statute-books in relation to the observance of the
first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and they therefore pray your honorable
body that no act be passed that will in any way impair the efficiency of the laws which now
secure to the tailor his needed weekly rest." Petition to the Pennsylvania Legislature,
now being widely circulated by the Philadetyhia " Sabbath Association, 1" andkindr'ed organ
izations.
This, though the oldest and rottenest, is not the only pirate craft that under cover
of theological fog is sneaking up to bore holes in the bottom of the grand old Ship of
State which for a century has floated on the broad waters of American liberty.
This Pennsylvania "tub," with all others of like character, is ballasted with bones
from the Inquisition, however closely its fog-horn imitates that of the good old Ship
Zion, or its bunting resembles the stars and stripes of the Ship of State.

H GOOD EXHMPLE,
THE following memorial was introduced into the Colorado Assembly on the last day
of January, and was referred to a committee which is said to favor it :

" To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in
Congress assembled
sembled :

41 Your memorial,
memorialists, the General Assembly of the State of Colorado,, would respect
fully represent;
" Whereas., We heartily indorse the total separation of religion and state, esta
tablished
by our fathers and guaranteed by our National Constitution as it now is; and,
" Whereas^ In our estimation, the Blair Sunday-rest bill and the Blair Educational
Amendment are subversive of religious liberty, and tend toward a union of religion and
state,
" Therefore, Your memorialists respectfully pray your honorable bodies not to pass
any bill in regard to the observance of the Sabbath, or Lord's day, or any other religious
or ecclesiastical institution or rite ; nor to favor in any way the adoption of any resolution
for the amendment of the national Constitution that would in any way give preference to
the principles of any one religion above another, or that will in any way sanction legis
lation upon the subject of religion ; but that the total separation between religion and the
state, assured by our Constitution as it now is, may forever remain as our fathers estab
lished it."

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