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Life Sketch .of Arthur Grosvenor Daniells
BY PERCY T. MAGAN, M. D.
President, College of Medical Evangelists
WE are gathered today under the
shadow of a great sorrow. Here and
now it is our privilege and duty to bid
farewell to a mighty leader. It is for
us, at this time and in this place, with
bowed heads and reverent hearts, to pay
fond and grateful tribute to one of the
finest spirits with whom the remnant
ranks have ever been blest.
Arthur Grosvenor Daniells was born
in West Union, Iowa, September 28,
1858; and yielded up his life at the Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, California,
March 22, 1935, aged seventy-six years,
five months, and twenty-five days. He
was the eldest son of Thomas Grosvenor
Daniells and Mary Jane McQuillainDaniells. The father died in 1863 at the
age of fifty-eight. He had served as an
officer in the Northern Army during the
Civil War. He was a physician and
surgeon, having been graduated from the
University of Vermont. Arthur Daniells
was a lad of only five years when he was
bereaved of his father's care. The mother
lived to the ripe old age of eighty-six,
passing to her rest in November, 1921.
Besides Arthur there were two other children, twins: Charles, who died in 1924,
and Dr. Jessie Daniells-Hare, wife of
Dr. George A. Hare, now living in Fresno,
California.
On November 30, 1876, Arthur Danjells was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Ellen Hoyt, also of West Union, Iowa,
who for fifty-nine years has been a faithful and devoted companion. Sister Daniels survives her husband in full and
radiant hope of meeting him again when
the voice of the Son of God shall burst
the fetters of the tomb. A son, Dr.
Arthur Grosvenor Daniells, Jr., an his
wife,Mrs. Grace paniells, and their
ter, Marylyn Lee, reside in Huntdauh
ington Park, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Besides these survivors are two half
brothers, Llewelyn Daniells, of Coldwater,
Michigan, and Truman Lippincott, of
Fresno, California; one half sister, Mrs.
Amy Raihley, of Santa Cruz, California;
three nephews, Dr. Herold P. Hare, of
Los Angeles, and Gail and Donald e,
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of Fresno ; and two nieces, Helen Hare,
of Fresno, and Mrs. Marian Hare-Beem,
of Loma Linda, California.
At the tender age of ten Arthur was
converted to Christ and His service. In
the year 1875 he entered Battle Creek
College as a student. He remained, however, on account of ill health, only one
year.
Arthur and Mary Daniells now took up
the work of teaching in the public schools.
They had been thus engaged for one year
when the call to the ministry began to
appeal to our brother. At first he repelled it, reasoning within himself that
he was too timid, too unlearned, and too
hesitant. His wife kept urging him to
pray more fervently concerning the matter. On a certain day, with this purpose
in view, he resorted to a large strawstack
in a near-by field, and for shelter crept
into an aperture which had been burrowed out by the cattle. There he poured
forth his soul to God, and in the end surrendered to His will. What this was to
mean to the church and to the world the
sequel has abundantly revealed.
Next an apprenticeship as ministerial sanitarium and college soon arose on the
licentiate under the tutelage of Elder banks of the Sligo. Established in WashRobert M. Kilgore was begun in Texas ington, Elder Daniells again pressed the
in 1878. Following this Elder Daniels battle in the world-wide field. .
If ever an apostle went to and fro in
became a helper to Elder James and
Sister Ellen G. White, acting as their the earth and journeyed up and down in
secretary for a year. Then came a period it, that man was the one whose loss we
of evangelistic work in various towns in mourn today. He valued greatly a firstnorthern Iowa. His next charge seems hand knowledge of the fields. Without
to have been as leader of a training mis- attempting to list his travels in chronosion for Bible workers in the city of Des logical order, or to enumerate details,
Moines. There ten young women were suffice it to relate that his missionary exgathered together to learn the sacred art peditions carried him to almost every
of explaining the word of God to little land and clime on earth. At one time or
groups of people, Elder Daniells being another he visited the South Sea Islands,
Africa, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Rumatheir teacher.
The year 1886 was destined to be an nia, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Portugal,
epochal one in our brother's life. It was France, Switzerland, Germany, Scandithen that be received a commission to navia, Great Britain, India, China, Japan,
proceed to New Zealand as a pioneer and South America. Not even did the
missionary. Thither he journeyed with World War halt this gospel campaign to I
his young wife. They remained in the the remote corners of the earth.
In 1922, at a session of the General
antipodes for fourteen years, part of the
time being spent in New Zealand and Conference held in San Francisco, Elder
part in Australia. From 1889 to 1891 Daniels' long tenure of office drew to its
he was president of the New Zealand close. He was then elected secretary of
Conference, and from 1892 to 1896 he the General Conference, which office he
served as president of the Australian held for four years. But his restless
Conference. It was during these days spirit was not to be limited to an office
that the writer of this sketch was first desk. Erelong he set out again for his
privileged to meet the one whose loss we beloved Australia and New Zealand. He
now mourn. I shall never forget the first longed once more to strengthen the
occasion upon which I heard him preach. churches and the hands of his brethren
It was to the workers in the Echo Pub- in the land of his early labors. Returnlishing House, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, ing from Australasia, another trip, the
Australia. This was in August, 1890. I last of the long, long journeys, was undercan still hear the sound of his voice read- taken to the South American countries.
ing the text he had chosen from Jere- The days of great travel were now at
miah: "If thou bast run with the foot- an end.
men, and they have wearied thee, then
Upon Elder Daniells there now rested
how canst thou contend with horses'? and a burden to spiritualize the ministry.
if in the land of pea6e, wherein thou The Ministerial Association was formed
trustedst, they wearied thee, then how and the magazine Ministry founded and
wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan ?" published.
He followed with a fervent exhortation
Despite the pressure under which his
to his hearers to do faithfully their part. life was lived, he found time during the
Under his administration the member- World Conflict to write two books, one
ship of the faith in Australia continued entitled "The World War," and another
to grow. In 1897 a forward step was bearing the inscription, "A World in
taken, and the Australasian Union Con- Perplexity." These had an immense cirference was organized, which included all culation both in English and in foreign
the 'organizations in Australia, New Zea- languages, many thousand copies being
land, Fiji, and other South Sea Islands. sold. Later he turned his mind and pen
He was elected its first president, holding to the authorship of another book, the
this office until he returned to America. one he personally loved the best. It was
Toward the close of 1900 the long so- entitled, "Christ Our Righteousness."
journ overseas came to an end. Elder
Four years ago he became president of
Daniells returned to the United States, the board of trustees of the College of
nothing doubting that he would soon go Medical Evangelists, the denominational
back to the land he loved. But God .' medical school at Loma Linda and Los
willed otherwise. Now, when only forty- Angeles, California. Under his direction
three years of age, he was destined to be- the spiritual side of the work blossomed
come president of the Seventh-day Ad- forth as with the touch of a new life.
ventist General Conference. He was Together with the author of this sketch
elected to this office at the General Con- he labored to secure for the institution the
ferenee of 1901.
David Paulson Hall. Long before it was
Many perplexities confronted the in- finished he held his first service within its
coming president. Following instructions walls. How fitting that from its portals
from the messenger of the Lord, the head- he should go forth to his last resting
quarters of our work was moved to its place.
Toward the close of January he began
Eastern location. Under the guiding
hand of God, the leader and those asso- to realize that something more than ordiciated with him pressed forward. They nary was wrong with his physical being
had little means with which to do. Con- and with the iron constitution which had
troversy and opposition faced them on done him such yeoman service for so long.
every hand; nevertheless the work pros- On the twenty-seventh of that month his
pered. The General Conference offices faithful physicians informed him that
were established in Takoma Park, and one of the most baffling and fatal of all
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Comfort in Sorrow*
BY C. H. WATSON
President of the General Conference
MY DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDS :
This is a sorrowful occasion for a
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great many people. Our much beloved Brother Daniells is asleep. He
to whom we have so long looked as
friend and brother and leader is at
rest. We sorrow because we shall
see him no more in this life, and our
hearts are heavy with the grief of
parting. But I feel that he to whose
life and memory we have come to
pay our sincerest tribute, would have
desired that we sorrow not as those
who have no hope.
Our dear brother sleeps, but his
sleep is in Jesus. He is not in the
grasp of an enemy, but is resting in
the Lord. He fell asleep confidently
expecting soon to hear the call of the
Life-giver, and then to enter forever
into glorious immortality. His hope
was not in this life, but in the life
that is to come, "when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on immortality." With him it is well.
Death
has for a little moment closed
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his eyes, but he shall come again
with life unending, and till then angels will watch his resting place.
Truly, "blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord from henceforth:
Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labors; and their
works do follow them." For him it
will be but a little moment, and then
the morning. But to the ends of the
earth among the Adventist people it
is known that "there is a prince and
a great man fallen this day in Israel."
This people were but few and small
when the truth for this time entered
the heart of Arthur Grosvenor Daniells while he was living in his country home and attending his country
church in Iowa. War had taken from
him his soldier father, but his young
life was molded in the truth of the
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Los Angeles, Calif., March 27, 1925.
gospel by the influence of a godly
Adventist mother, and his boyish
heart was won for God by the interest and effort of the true-hearted
elder of that country church.
Often have I heard him relate with
what respectful regard he met, in
his boyhood, such of the pioneers of
this great advent movement as came
to his neighborhood, and with what
earnestness he sought to do what he
could for God among his home people.
In his boyhood he was upright, true,
sincere, and kindly disposed. Even
then he was a prince among his fellows, and though more than sixty
years have gone by, he is still remembered by some who were boys with
him for the qualities of mind and
heart and life that even then distinguished him. As a boy he was a
bravehearted burden bearer, a comfort to his mother, and an earnest,
humble Christian lad in his home
community. There, in that home and
church atmosphere, was laid a sure
and dependable basis for the life of
great service that he gave so ungrudgingly to the cause of present
truth.
In his youth he heard the call to
service, and went to the old Battle
Creek College to receive a preparation
for the work. It was soon evident
that he was a young man of serious
purpose. Fellow students at the college tell of him as one who, • having
no question of heart as to his call to
the work, and believing that the
King's business required haste, applied himself with intense earnestness
in his student life.
With college days ended, he entered
the work of the ministry with the
firm purpose to give his whole life to
preaching the message for this time.
Throughout his long life that purpose
never yielded. Quickly it became evident that God had indeed called him
to soul-winning service, for his min-
istry was fruitful, and his brethren
recognized that he possessed the qualities of the pioneer.
About this time the work was being
started in Australasia. Elder S. N.
Haskell and others had begun to
preach the message in New Zealand.
A call was made by them for young
people of good evangelistic experience. In response to that call, Elder
and Mrs. Daniells were sent to New
Zealand, and thus began the great
work which has resulted in that faraway field. Often have our congregations in this land heard Elder Daniells relate those first overseas experiences. They seemed always to remain
fresh in his memory. Victory in his
early efforts there, was obtained
through prayer. As the testing truths
were presented, there seemed to be
no move for decision. "Then it was,"
he said, "that the workers took themselves to unceasing prayer. Light and
help came to us, and a real change
came over the congregation." God's
power came into the meeting and
melted the hearts of the people, and
fifty-four souls took their stand to
obey the commandments of God. The
church that was there raised up still
stands, and never even for an hour
has it failed this cause in its adherence to the principles of truth upon
which, by the preaching of our dear
Brother Daniells, it was first established.
For more than fourteen years
Brother and Sister Daniels continued
to labor in New Zealand and Australia,. It was there that he began
to work as an administrator.
Under his leadership the present
organization of the field began to
take shape. It was there that the
union conference feature of our work
was originated, and with it the departmental features were developed.
There, too, in laying the foundations
of the educational, medical, publish-
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PRESIDENTS OF THE GENERAL
CONFERENCE
April 18, 1935
Top Row: John Byington, James White,
J. N. Andrews, George I. Butler.
Second Row: Ole A. Olsen, George A. Irwin,
Arthur G. Daniells, Wm. A. Spicer.
Of these nine great leaders, seven have
virtually sacrificed their Jives to the gospel I
work and movement to which they dedicated
every energy of mind and body. One expresident, W. A. Spicer, and the present
incumbent, C. H. Watson, are still active in
the Master's service.
ing, Missionary Volunteer, and other
distinctive lines of institutional and
departmental service, our dear
brother acquired an experience and
keen insight into the problems of administration that were of great value
to the world-wide movement that he
so long led in afteryears.
Returning to America in 1901,
Elder Daniells was, in that year,
elected president of the General Conference. He came to that office just
when the conviction was taking hold
of our people that stronger efforts
must be made to enter all the fields of
the world. The general work then
was inadequately organized to do
greater things in world evangelism.
It was necessary that the work at the
old home base be built up, and the
leading factors of the work be more
closely knit together.
With •all of his fine spiritual vigor
and strong confidence in the message,
Brother Daniells gave himself without reserve to that need. It is the
unqualified testimony of those who
worked closely with him in those days
that he was frequently helped by
power and guidance from above, to
gifts, and strengthens for service all
the powers yielded to Him."
During his long term of office as
General Conference president, our
dear brother made many visits to
fields abroad. His able counsel with 4,1
leading men in all parts of the earth
was a powerful factor in giving organic form and strong evangelical
impetus to the movement in all lands.
Under his inspiring leadership the
work was advanced from country to
countrj , till its lines were extended
to every shore. His faith caught a
vision of increasing forces of trained
workers in every division of the world
field, and he gave himself unselfishly
to the training of men for every position and every task. Long as time
shall last and memory shall remain
with this remnant people, it shall be
said of Elder Daniells, as it was of
Abraham long ago, "Thou art a is
mighty prince among us." In boyhood, in youth, in college, in manhood, and in the field of service, he
lived and labored with and for this
people. He won our confidence, and
was given our hearts' whole trust.
He led us long, but never once did
Charles H. Watson
do work that was far beyond his own
strength. They bear witness, too, to
the unswerving constancy and the unyielding consecration of his life and
purpose during that period. It has
been said of him that "he gave a lead
which rallied all to follow." Referring to his leadership, one of his associates once said, "The cause of God
depends not upon human agencies,
but the Lord is pleased to use them.
Through the long years of service
which Brother Daniells gave to the
General Conference, we who were
with him were conscious of the fact
that God blesses and uses human
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he swerve from the faith he received
into his heart as a boy, and never
once did he betray us. He bore heavy
burdens, and carried great responsibilities, but never once did his life
and leadership mar the movement of
which he was so long the human head.
But those of us who labored closely
with Brother Daniells will always
love to remember him as our true
friend. In him we found those rare
qualities of friendship that bound us
closely to his own heart. We shall
always be the richer for his having
been our friend. We shall miss him
very much in days to come, for he
was the friend of this whole people.
He lived for them, and his memory
will remain with them as the memory
of a very true friend. He was a great
man among us, great indeed in his
friendships.
It was, perhaps, as a preacher of
righteousness that our brother won
his way most directly to our confidence. Throughout fifty years of
ministerial service his messages have
rung out with certainty and clearness,
and always they have been messages
of righteousness. He recognized
clearly that apart from the Lord
Jesus there is no goodness in man,
and his life and soul were yielded to
the proclamation of righteousness
only in Christ. Often have our souls
been thrilled and our faith exalted to
new strengths by his forceful preaching. Touch our journals where you
will through their files of the last
forty years, and you will still be
instructed and appealed to by his
preaching. Turn back to those old
records, and you will find that those
messages which he delivered twenty,
thirty, and forty years ago still burn
with power, and that faith and hope
in the message, to which his whole
life was dedicated, will spring anew
in your hearts as you read them
again.
Men there are and have been whose
eyes time has dimmed, and whose
vigor time has abated, but not so
with our beloved brother, Elder Daniells. He preached his last sermon
at Grace Tabernacle on Sabbath, January 19 last, and those who heard
that message were greatly blessed by
it. It is said by his hearers of that,
Mrs. E. G. White
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his last message delivered from the
pulpits of this movement, that it was
the most powerful address they ever
had heard Elder Daniells deliver. His
appeal was for higher and holier living by our people in preparation for
the coming of our Master.
With great humility of heart he
prepared for his own end. Weeks
before his life ceased, he wrote to me
with assurance in Christ Jesus. To
him, then, there was not one thing in
all this world for which he wished
still to live, but to finish his work
for this people, and to care for his
frail companion, He had committed
all to the keeping of Him whom he
loved more than life, and was ready.
With thousands of associates whom
his life had touched and blessed, and
with thousands of believers throughout the world who hold him in high
esteem for his life and work's sake,
is left a memory that will continue to
bear fruit in human lives until the
work is done. True it is that the dead
which die in the Lord are blessed.
They rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them. To the last
limit of his strength our revered
leader and much-loved brother gave
his life to the work of the Lord. With
all the longing of our souls we desired
that he should live, but God willed
otherwise. For him some better thing
has been provided.
He believed with all his heart that
Jesus both died and rose again, and
that because Jesus did so, they who
sleep in Him shall be brought again
from their resting place. We believe
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EARLY PIONEERS (DECEASED)
Top Row, left to right: Joseph Bates, Uriah Smith, Hiram Edson, J. N. Loughborough, H. H. Wilcox.
Second Row: Frederick Wheeler, J. H. Waggoner, J. 0. Corliss, S. N. Haskell, J. G. Matteson.
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this same glorious truth, and because
we believe this, our sorrow is with
hope. It will be but a little while
now till "the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the Archangel, and with
the trump of God : and the dead in
Christ shall rise first : then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with
these words." In that blessed hope
our beloved brother rests, and to the
comfort of that blessed hope we commend our dear sorrowing Sister Danjells, Grosvenor and Sister Grace and
little Marylyn, and these other sorrowing ones.
Brother Daniells is one of a long
list of noble workers who have fallen
in the conflict and who rest from their
labors. Among these are such men
and women as James White, Mrs.
E. G. White, George I. Butler, S. N.
Haskell, Uriali Smith, 0. A. Olsen,
George A. Irwin, and, in more recent
times, W. T. Knox, E. R. Palmer, H.
H. Hall, and C. W. Irwin. These
men, and others whom we might
name, wrought nobly for God in carrying forward His work. But they,
with our dear brother, grew weary
and are resting in the hope of the
glorious resurrection. With almost
all these laborers and leaders, Elder
Daniells was associated in service. He
always considered it to have been a
great privilege to labor closely with
Sister White, both in this country
and in Australia. He was conscious
of having been blessed and helped in
His life and leadership by the counsel
that he received from her on many
occasions.
But though we mourn his death,
shall we not remind ourselves that
the work to which Brother Daniells
gave his life is speeding on to certain
triumph I He did not follow cunningly devised fables in his religious belief or in his life's activities.
The movement of which he was so
long the human leader is as surely
the remnant church as were the people of the exodus the people of God.
It had been our brother's fond hope
that he might live till the Lord comes,
and then go home among the translated living. It was his earnest desire
to be actively connected with this people to the very end, to share with us
the labor that would close our work,
and the triumph with which it should
close. But God has willed otherwise.
It has pleased Him to give our
brother rest. The Lord buries His
workmen, but His great work still
goes on.
The banner of leadership has fallen
from the hand of Brother Daniells,
telt we must take it up and bear it
on in the sight of the people to the
final victory. Our work was born in
the spirit of sacrifice and simplicity.
It has been nurtured and fostered in
the power of faith in the soon coming
of our Saviour. It has been sustained by the consecration and devotion of a loyal people. Only by the
maintenance of these qualities in our
lives can the church triumph, and we
triumph with it.
Thank God, these elements do still
characterize the movement, and the
same spirit still posses es the hearts
of this people. Because of this we see
this message rising in power. It is
opposed, but it is breaking down the
opposition. It is meeting obstacles,
but it is surmounting them. It is
going out into the highways and byways of life in all parts of, the earth,
and is gathering from all classes and
races a people to stand in the day of
the Lord's coming. We have abundant reason to believe that the angel
of Revelation. 18 is even now descending to this earth, and a new power
is manifesting itself in the message
of God for this day. Brother Daniells
saw this, and rejoiced. We, too, may
well rejoice as we enter into his labors..
The final triumph of this work
is assured. We labor and live in it
with absolute assurance. May God
grant that its victory shall be ours.
We should not forget, though, that
this can be so only as we allow the
principles of God's holy truth to possess our lives and sanctify them
wholly. The truth must triumph in
us if we are to triumph in the truth.
Today we look out on the future
through tears, but to those in whom
the truth is triumphing, there is coming another day, a glorious day, when
the tears shall be wiped from all
faces, and sorrow shall flee away.
Human eyes have never seen, human
ears have never heard, human hearts
have never felt, human minds have
never conceived, the things that God
has prepared for His children in the
coming kingdom. There, dear brethren and sisters, is the inheritance of
our dear brother and of all who are
faithful.
His title to that inheritance is
clear. Soon, very soon, that kingdom
will come. A little longer, and the
trumpet shall sound, and the Lifegiver shall come, and the grave that
we sorrowfully close today will be
opened again, and our brother shall
come forth immortal. For him there
is no more pain, no more burden, no
more heartache, no more weary toiling. He has fought a good fight, he
has finished his course, he has kept
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the faith. Henceforth there is laid
up for him a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
shall give him at that better day so
soon to come.
We commend these sorrowing ones di
to the keeping of the same righteous .1111r
Lord, and pray that their hearts may
be comforted by the remembrance
that He that has promised is faithful
and true. He has the key to the
grave, and beyond the grave there
is an eternity of reunion. May the
sympathizing Jesus comfort these
dear ones in this dark hour. From
our hearts we sincerely pray that
Jesus may bless them with unwavering faith and trust and hope in Himself, and keep them each till the day
of His appearing and His kingdom.
May the Lord be with their spirits,
and give them His own sweet peace.
Amen.
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maladies had fastened itself upon him.
Quietly, and without a trace of fear, he
inquired how long it might be before the
end. Then, with all the energy he could
command and with the same spirit of unselfishness which had marked his life, he
endeavored to bring to completion important work not yet finished.
On the evening of Friday, February 1,
a little company met at the home of Dr. I
Grosvenor Daniells for a season of prayer
and anointing for Elder Daniells' recovery. That the Spirit of God was present
in a deeply marked manner all will attest,
but the Lord in His great wisdom permitted His servant to go to his rest.
I made a personal visit to Elder Danjells a few hours before his death, and
he then spoke of his faith in God, of his
love for his brethren, and of the rest and
peace which filled his heart as he looked
forward to the morning of the glad resurrection. And thus he fell asleep with
that abiding faith which had sustained
him through the long years of his min- I
istry, and in the hope of the blessed resurrection, of the grand consummation,
and of the happy reunion in that glad
day.
"I wiLL mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises
of the Lord, according to all that the
Lord hath bestowed on us, and the
great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which He hath bestowed on
them according to His mercies, and
according to the multitude of His loving-kindnesses. For He said, Surely
they are My people, children that will
not lie : so He was their Saviour. In
all their affliction He was afflicted,
and the Angel of His presence saved
them : in His love and in His pity
He redeemed them; and He bare
them, and carried them all the days
of old."
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The Funeral Services
BY GLENN CALKINS
President, Pacific Union Conference
1111 WITH dignified simplicity, and yet Dr. P. T. Magan. Following the
with impressiveness befitting his long
and conspicuous service in the advent
movement, we laid our dearly loved
Elder Daniells to rest March 27 on
Sunrise Slope in beautiful Forest
Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California. The burial plot
faces an opening in the Santa Monica
Hills near Elysian Park, looking toward the Medical College with which
he was last officially connected.
The funeral services were held in
Paulson Hall, Los Angeles. There
the casket was open to view from
twelve until two, with students stationed as guards of honor. Hundreds of mourning friends passed by
his bier, looking for the last time
upon the peaceful face of our brother.
This hall, seating eleven hundred,
was supplemented by additional seats
in the adjoining recreation courts, to
which the service within was conveyed by amplifiers. The police directed traffic from the adjoining
streets, thus ensuring quietness. The
side sections of seats within Paulson
Hall, accommodating more than four
I hundred, were reserved for conference and institutional laborers and
their families.
Solemn thoughts and holy memories filled every heart as the stream
of friends passed the casket rapt in
meditative hush. Many were recalling
incidents of Elder Daniells' public
life as an able executive and forceful
preacher, and mingled with these
were many thoughts of gratitude for
kindly personal words of counsel or
helpful acts, which were characteristic of his heart overflowing with tender love and thoughtfulness for
others.
His countenance revealed the beautiful spirit of resignation and restfulness expressed so touchingly in
his last words. During the closing
hours of Brother Daniels' life he
was in complete coma. Shortly before he lost full consciousness, he
turned to his attending nurse and
with his face lighted up with a holy
light, he said, "I never knew that a
man could be so happy." A few hours
later he fell peacefully asleep, desiring to rest, after having been marvelously sustained to virtually comI plete work he had in hand.
At two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, March 27, after the singing of
"Will There Be Any Stars in My
Crown?" by the Medical College male
quartet, the obituary was read by
Scripture reading by G. A. Roberts,
prayer was offend by Glenn Calkins.
Then Elder Daniells' final message,
"A Farewell Charge to the Advent
Ministry," was read by LeRoy E.
Froom. This was followed by the
touching sermon by C. H. Watson,
which appears elsewhere in full. By
special request of Sister Daniels, Dr.
Clemen Hamer sang, as the closing
song, Elder Daniels' favorite, "No
Shadows Yonder." Jesse Stevens was
in general charge of all arrangements.
The active pallbearers were Meade
MacGuire, William G. Wirth, E. F.
Hackman, 0. J. Graf, George Thomason, and R. Manning Clarke. The
honorary pallbearers were W. C.
White, J. A. Burden, A. 0. Tait,
William Guthrie, Dores Robinson, R.
W. Parmele, R. F. Cottrell, J. W.
Westphal, E. H. Gates, G. B. Starr,
J. H. Cochran, H. M. Blunden, E. H.
Risley, and Myron Lysinger. Doctors
Malcolm Hill and Benton Colver represented the Alumni Association ; and
E. B. Fisher, Fuller Whitman, Edwin
Lee, and Carl Meyers represented the
senior, junior, sophomore, and fresh-
Paulson Memorial Hall
man classes, respectively, of the Medical College. These twenty formed a
lane from the door down the steps of
Paulson Hall as the casket was borne
from the church to the hearse for
transit to Forest Lawn.
At the cemetery the remarks made
by W. E. Howell were as follows :
"Dear brethren, sisters, and friends,
we have gathered here by this beautiful
graveside to pay our sincere respects to
one greatly beloved of us all. As beloved
husband and father, his sacred memory
shall be cherished as long as life shall
last. As we stand here with bowed heads,
the beautiful life of this heroic leader
rests like a benediction upon us all. Sharing in our sorrow today are many thousands in every clime, of every tongue, and
of every race under the whole heaven.
"We had earnestly hoped and prayed
that it might please God to let him live
and labor on, but the sovereign will of a
loving Father has decreed that he rest
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from his toil, and we bow in humble submission.
"Our beloved brother has fought a
victorious fight. He has finished his course
so well begun in his youth and pursued
through more than threescore years and
ten. Henceforth there is laid up for him
a crown of righteousness, a crown of
many stars, which the Master he served
so well will place on his immortal brow.
"Our dear Brother Daniells, you have
lived your life like a shock of corn fully
ripe and laden with golden fruit, and we
now commit you tenderly to the bosom of
mother earth, to rest in peace for a little
while, till your Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout that will
pierce the tomb and call you forth from
your dusty bed.
"As it is written in the Scripture,
`Then shall the dust return to the earth
as it was: and the spirit shall return unto
God who gave it.'
" 'Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return'—dust to dust, ashes to ashes,
earth to earth. (Red rose petals were
used instead of earth, in accordance with
the custom in Southern California.)
`None of us liveth to himself, and no man
dieth to himself. For whether we live,
we live unto the Lord; and whether we
die, we die unto the Lord: whether we
live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
For to this end Christ both died, and rose,
and revived, that He might be Lord both
of the dead and living.' Rom. 14:7-9.
"As with loving hearts we have committed this prince of God to the tender
care of Him who never slumbers nor
sleeps, may the God of all grace comfort
the heart of our beloved Sister Daniells
and her children. May the noble example
of our fallen leader inspire us to take up
the task he has laid down, and finish
it unto the glorious dawn of the first
resurrection, when we shall be caught
up together with him to meet the
Lord in the air. And so shall we
be ever with the Lord. Amen."
Following these remarks• by
Elder Howell, H. W. Cottrell
offered the benediction. The
graveside service was concluded
with "We'll Never Say Good-by,"
sung by the Medical College
quartet, with assembled friends
joining in the final chorus.
Despite her great sorrow, Sister Daniels is brave and courageous,
trusting in her Lord, and wonderfully
sustained and comforted by His presence.
The floral spray for the casket was
from the General Conference, a floral
anchor from the Pacific Union Conference, a rose pillow from the Ellen
G. White Estate, with floral hearts
and sprays from the Review and
Herald, Pacific Press, Medical College, and various other institutions,
conferences, and individuals.
And now that the voice so kindly
in counsel and the hands always so
ready to help, are still in death, we
feel most keenly our great loss. Our
former leader and comrade sleeps in
Jesus. But soon at the beautiful
resting place will be heard the call
of the Life-giver, and then our
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brother will come forth to stand with
those he loved and with whom he
labored so devotedly.
'It is sobering to realize that many
of our strong leaders of bygone days
are now resting in the grave. We
face a momentous future, fraught
with peril, and yet we have ample
assurance of ultimate victory. The
great task lying before us in the carrying of the third angel's message to
all the world, rests as a constraining
burden on our hearts. In our great
need for divine help and strength, we
can only cry to God for wisdom, humility, grace, and loyalty, and for divine energy to meet heaven's expects-
tion of us in these closing hours of
earth's history.
During his last days, Elder Daniells' great burden was that God's
messengers might seek and obtain the
mighty power of the Holy Spirit, and
were he still here he would wish us
to move forward with courage, and
in the power of that Divine Spirit
finish the work he labored so conspicuously to upbuild, and to make ready
a people prepared for the Lord. As
we stood by the open grave where our
brother rests so peacefully in the
arms of his Saviour, this we pledged
to do, by the grace of our Lord
Jesus.
Memorial Services for Elder A. G. Daniells
Held at Battle Creek, Michigan, and Takoma Park, D. C., the
Two Headquarters Churches of the Denomination
BY THE EDITOR
FOR long years the headquarters
of the denomination was located at
Battle Creek, Michigan. Indeed, it
was in this place that the formal
organization of the church had its
beginning. Here was held the first
General Conference. Here was established the first printing office owned
and operated by Seventh-day Adventists, also the first college and the first
sanitarium. It was at the General
Conference held in Battle Creek in
1901 that Elder A. G. Daniells was
elected president of the General Conference, and for the next four years
this center remained the headquarters of the denomination.
It was therefore very fitting that
this church should conduct a memorial service in honor of this great
denominational leader. This service
was held in the Battle Creek Tabernacle, Sabbath afternoon, March 23.
Beautiful and appropriate music was
rendered. A mixed quartet sang
"Lead, Kindly Light," and the congregation united in singing "Abide
With Me." Prayer was offered by
Dr. A. B. Olsen. Several old-time
friends and associates of Elder Danjells took part in the exercises. We
do not have a verbatim report of the
service. The same speakers, however,
who took part in the memorial service gave an expression of their appreciation to the Moon-Journal, which
was published in that paper March
23. From this publication we make
the following quotations :
L. T. Nicola, a schoolmate and
roommate of college days, and an
associate of Elder Daniells both in
Iowa, their home conference, and
later in Battle Creek, said:
Christian. Perhaps no greater impression was ever made by his books than by
the one entitled, 'Christ Our Righteousness.' His addresses on this and allied
themes throughout the country often reminded one of the work of the Wesleys
in their effort to lead away from the more
legal and formal features of Christianity.
He was a leader. Few in any denomination have had a greater endowment in
that direction. He had a fine personality.
He impressed his friends as having a
reserve of physical, mental, and spiritual
capacities, which he wisely drew upon in
his labors for his fellows. He will be
greatly missed by his many friends and
fellow laborers."
April 18, 1935
"Elder Daniells was a born teacher, a
powerful evangelist, and a ready writer.
He always had a definite and clear-cut
message to give, and it is not necessary to
add that he was greatly beloved by our
people everywhere. In all his active
service he had the hearty encouragement
and loyal support of his faithful wife,
who accompanied him on his numerous
travels over the earth. Our hearts go out
in sympathy to her in this great bereavement and time of sorrow."
George E. Judd, the business manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium,
paid this tribute to an old-time
friend:
"In the closing of the earthly career
of Elder Arthur G. Daniells the loss is
not merely local, but world-wide. From
the Arctic Circle to the Southern Cross,
in every civilized country of the world,
there are hundreds of thousands of believers in the truths taught by Seventhday Adventists. To these people scattered
around the circle of the earth the passing
of this great and good man will come as
a distinct crisis in their lives.
"For more than half a century Elder
Daniells has been preaching Christ our
righteousness, and has proclaimed the
good news of the coming kingdom. Thousands of men and women of the denomination can testify to his wise counsel and
helpful instruction, and to the inspiration
of his life in the strong leadership which
he brought to them during the dark and
trying years of the early part of the present century. Much travel in the interest
of the work of the denomination gave
him a knowledge and grasp of world affairs which few men are privileged to
enjoy. This experience and the information thus obtained he put to good use in
his work as leader of the cause to which
he gave unstintingly of his life."
The pastor of the Battle Creek
church, Taylor G. Bunch, spoke of
his association with Elder Daniells
covering a period of more than twenty-five years, an association increasingly intimate in the work of the
College of Medical Evangelists, in
which Elder Bunch was the Bible
teacher:
Dr. A. B. Olsen, one of the staff
of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, told
of the great interest Elder Daniells
manifested in the work in England
when Doctor Olsen was a leading
worker in that country. The same
interest that he manifested in the
work in that field he manifested in
"It has never been my privilege to assoour world-wide mission work. Of the ciate
with and form the friendship of a
character of Elder Daniells, Doctor man of more sterling worth and higher
Olsen said:
qualities of manhood. There was never
"Elder Daniells was a rare Christian
character, with a kind and tender heart,
a genial, generous disposition, broad sympathy, and the patience of a Job. He
was a lover of mankind, and for sixty
years devoted an untiring and sacrificing
life to proclaiming the glad tidings of the
glorious gospel message of healing and
salvation to a sin-sick, dying world. With
joy of heart and gladness of soul he
counted it a privilege and a pleasure to
work early and late in the vast vineyard
of the Master.
"Notwithstanding the high and exalted
office which he filled so efficiently for
more than a score of years, he was ever
a plain, humble servant of the people,
frank, open-hearted. and always accessible to any and all who sought his counsel.
Willingly. with a candid mind, he listened
to the advice of his•colleagues, for he was
envious only that right principles might
"Elder Daniells was first of all a triumph.
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the least indication of sham or pretense
in his attitude toward others. His humility was always very refreshing; those
who approached him felt at perfect ease
in his presence. He was the kind of
friend that one naturally turned to in
time of need; and with the assurance of
a very sympathetic hearing and wise
counsel, his gentleness and kindliness
made him great and beloved of all who
knew him.
"Elder Daniells has without doubt been
the greatest leader and organizer in the
history of the Seventh-day Adventist
denomination. Under his wise generalship
the denomination became a world-wide
evangelical movement. His faith and
courage seemed never to falter in the face
of the greatest difficulties. His steadfast
faith inspired faith in those associated
with him."
We conclude these beautiful tributes by our Battle Creek brethren by
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one wired to the Moon-Journal by
Carlyle B. Haynes, of Lansing, Michigan, president of the Michigan Conference:
"A very princely man has fallen with
the passing of Arthur G. Daniells. It
was during his administration that the
great denominational activities were organized and greatly extended; that millions of dollars for a world program of
missions were raised; that the mission
enterprise of the denomination pushed
into every continent and practically every
country on earth; that the ministry was
built up, strengthened, and revived, and
that a greater evangelism was launched.
"Raised up to save this movement in its
gravest crisis, he remained a tower of
strength to the end.
"Younger ministers, whose lives he
touched and inspired around all the circle
of the globe, will mourn his passing; educational, publishing, and medical missionary institutions that belt the earth, as
well as conferences, mission stations, and
churches in every land which he was instrumental in founding, will pause with
their tribute of affection and honor.
"I know the depth of his sincerity, the
genuineness of his profound faith, the
strength of his rugged character, and the
worth of his friendship. I stand with
bowed head and grieving heart at his
passing. He was a man who walked with
Gad."
The Service in Takoma Park
It was fitting also that a memorial
service should be held in the Takoma
Park church, of which Elder Daniells
was a member for twenty-five years.
With the removal of our headquarters to Washington in 1905, Brother
Daniells closely identified himself, not
alone with the development of our
general institutions, but with the
growth of the local church work in
Washington and its environs. The
brethren of the Takoma Park church
listened through the years to many
sermons from their honored member
as he brought back reports of visits to
various countries and made stirring
appeals for the cause of missions.
Here too, again and again, as in
many other centers, he urged upon
the members of his own local church
the need of deeper consecration to
God, of the cultivation in their lives
of a love for righteousness and a
hatred of iniquity, in preparation for
the coming of the Lord.
It was the privilege of some of
Elder Daniels' official associates to
take part in this service, Wednesday
afternoon, March 27. W. H. Branson was in charge of the service.
11. J. Detwiler, president of the
Columbia Union Conference and representing the Washington Missionary
College, gave the Scripture reading.
Dr. D. H. Kress, of the Washington
Sanitarium, who had known Elder
Daniells for many years, led the congregation in prayer. Before prayer,
Doctor Kress felt impressed to read
the following statement from Mrs.
E. G. White, written to strengthen
Brother Daniels' hands at a time
when the work was going through a
special crisis:
"In this perilous time the Lord has
given us men of His choice to stand as
the leaders of His people. If these men
will keep humble and prayerful, ever
making Christ their confidant, listening
to and obeying His words, the Lord will
lead and strengthen them.
"God has chosen Elder Daniells to bear
responsibilities, and has promised to make
him capable by His grace of doing the
work entrusted to him. The responsibilities of the position,he occupies are great,
and the tax upon his strength and courage
is severe; and the Lord calls upon us to
hold up his hands, as he strives with all
the powers of mind and body to advance
the work. The Lord desires every church
to offer prayer for him as he bears these
heavy responsibilities. Our brethren and
sisters should not stand ready to criticize
and condemn those who are bearing heavy
burdens. Let us refuse to listen to the
words of censure spoken regarding the
men upon whom rest such weighty responsibilities...
. I know that Elder
Daniells is the right man in the right
place."—"Special Testimonies," Series B,
No. 2, p. 41.
M. E. Kern, the secretary of the
General Conference, and who as secretary of the Missionary Volunteer
Department was associated with
Elder Daniells during many years,
presented the following statement :
"One of God's noblemen has fallen
asleep. An outstanding characteristic of
this man of God was his personal interest in people.' It has often been a marvel
to me that, with the administrative and
financial burdens of a great movement
resting on his heart, he yet had the time
and interest to know the names and cultivate the acquaintance of the children on
his street. With all his other good traits,
Elder Daniells was a young people's man.
"Himself greatly influenced and saved
from discouragement when a young boy,
by the personal interest of the aged elder
of their little church in Iowa, one of
Brother Daniells' chief interests in life
was to help children and young people,
and to set into operation influences that
would save and train the youth of the
advent movement.
"It was this burden on his heart that
resulted in the organization of the Missionary Volunteer Department of the
General Conference in 1907. And his
constant encouragement has been a large
factor in the success of our young
people's work. Brother 'Daniells was
never jealous of the success of young
men, but, on the contrary, always rejoiced
in their advancement. He had unwavering, faith in young people.
"But Brother Daniells' interests took in
all ages. Well do I remember his great desire that some adequate provision should
be made for our aged workers. And he
grappled with this problem until our
present sustentation plan was evolved.
"Only two or three days after he was
told of his humanly incurable malady,
Brother Daniells wrote me with his own
hand of his condition and of two blessed
days of communion with his Lord, as he
faced this serious situation. Then he
wrote in detail concerning the work he
was doing, in which he knew I was deeply
interested.
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"And I felt, dear friends, that I. could
say nothing in reply that would bring
greater courage to his dear heart than
this: 'How I would like to see you,
Brother Daniells, and tell you personally
how much your life and counsel and encouragement have meant to me. And I
want to assure you that if I am left to
carry on in the blessed work of God after
you are gone, I will try to do my best.'
"As I think of the life and work of
this apostle of the advent movement, his
consecration, steadfastness, integrity, and
tireless toil, I am reminded of an illustration used by the poet:
"'As some tall cliff that lifts its awful
form,
Swells from the vale and midway
leaves the storm;
Though round its base the rolling
clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its
head.' "
Before leaving for the Pacific Coast
to attend the funeral, C. H. Watson,
president of the General Conference,
had prepared his sermon for the occasion. This sermon was read by the
only remaining ex-president of the
General Conference, W. A. Spicer,
and appears on page 3. At the conclusion of the reading, Brother Spicer
made the following appealing remarks
regarding the long years of his association with Elder Daniels :
"As former mission secretary, in close
association with Elder Daniells during the
twenty-one years of his presidency of the
General Conference, it is a privilege to
add a word of personal tribute to this
life of consecrated service. The secret of
the abundant fruitfulness of the life is,
I think, to be found in the blessing of
God upon a joyful devotion to a personal
Saviour and the unwavering fidelity to
the cause of this advent movement. Those
who watched him at • work knew that to
his deepest, innermost convictions, this
advent message was the special gospel
message for this time. The triumph of
this movement was to him as sure as the
sure word of prophecy itself, and his
whole life was wrapped up in doing his
part to win souls to Christ and hasten
the message on to all the world.
"In those days, thirty-four years ago,
when his brethren called Elder Daniells
to the leading official position, the steadily
expanding work of this cause was due for
a strong push forward. Every continent
had been entered. The time was ripe for
actually lengthening the cords to reach
the uttermost parts of the earth. The
Lord had prepared our brother, as an
agent of His providence, to give us the
clear lead in this expansion. He had
the apostolic gift of 'government,' as the
scripture calls it,—the administrative gift
to think and plan in terms of a world
movement. And brethren bearing burdens
in all the world were faithful in cooperating with that leadership. In times of
special crisis—for such times have ever
come in the work of God—those who were
most closely associated with our brother
saw him do, again and again, things that
we knew would not have been possible in
his own unaided strength.
"We, at the General headquarters in
Washington. mourn not only the loss of a
valiant leader, but of a friend and
neighbor. The memories of these years
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of association will abide with us all. We
thank God, in this time of sorrow, that
strength was given our brother, enabling
him to continue to bear major burdens in
the cause to the very last—well beyond
the threescore years and ten of ancient
scripture.
"This life, laid down in victory, will
continue an inspiration to us all. It calls
to the children of our church, for it was
in childhood that Elder Daniells gave his
heart to the Saviour. It is an inspiration
to Seventh-day Adventist homes, for it
was a mother's influence and prayers that
armed the youth of that Iowa home for
world service. He has told us of the
words his mother spoke as he made known
to her his conviction that he should give
his life to evangelistic work: 'Her face
lighted up with a beam of joy as she said:
"Well, the Lord has answered my prayer
at last. When I accepted this message, I
dedicated you to the Lord's work as a
thank offering, and for. fifteen years I
have prayed daily for the Lord to speak
to your heart, telling you that you must
give your life to the ministry."
"Elder Daniells' life is a call to the
90,000 and more students in our schools
to prepare for God's service. We who
saw him as a student in old Battle Creek
College knew he was there for serious
business, bent on doing his part in Christ's
cause. And his faithfulness as a church
member, as a field worker, as local and
union president, and General Conference
leader, constitutes a call to rank and file
and workers all, to carry on the work to
the hastening end. It is a blessed work
to join in—one world-wide movement,
Christ Himself our Leader. It is a joy
to serve Him, as our brother's life bears
witness. The work of God never stops
for one moment. Workers are laid away,
their labors finished; but the cause of
God moves on with ever-widening sweep
and ever-increasing power.
"To me it is a pleasant thought, even
in a sad moment, that whereas Elder
Daniells was called, in his early years, to
give himself to the building up of that
strong Australasian field at the other
side of the earth, now a brother who has
grown into service in that same far
Australasia, is called to our Washington
headquarters to lead our world movement.
We are in truth one great world family,
the advent people of the prophecy,
gathering from every nation, and working together at the one task, sorrowing
together as fellow laborers are stricken
down, rejoicing together in the assurance
that the resurrection morning is hastening, when the redeemed shall meet again
in the everlasting kingdom."
bly influenced my early life as much as
any one outside of my own parents.
"I well remember when he was appointed to go to New Zealand in 1886,
and the sense of loss this call brought to
the brethren, especially in Iowa.
"I did not see him again until Mrs.
Shaw and I were in Africa in charge of
the school at Claremont. In 1900 he returned from Australia by way of Africa.
His coming to Africa was a distinct
blessing to the work there. While at the
Cape, he stayed in the dormitory and met
with the teachers frequently, which was
a cause of much blessing to them.
"He emphasized the importance of
prayer and the prayer life. It was then
that he put into my hands George
Miiller's book, telling of his life and experiences and the founding and maintenance of the orphanages at Bristol,
England, which book has been a source
of inspiration to many thousands of
people.
"Another experience I well remember
during his stay with us in Africa. His
room in the dormitory was above ours.
Morning by morning as we arose, we
could hear him lifting his voice in prayer
to God for strength and help. His life
of earnestness and devotion was a strong
uplift to the school. We are thankful
that he held this confidence steadfast to
the end.
"Among his last words were the following, which indicate the strong assurance and confidence he had. (This was
dictated in the forenoon of the day before
he died) :
" 'Now, I want to say one thing more.
At first I had a very great longing to live
a little longer, to work with my brethren.
But recently I have become convinced
that it is not the Lord's plan, and you
cannot tell what satisfaction I have or
how sweet it seems to be taken across the
lawn and laid to rest. I just want to rest.
"Oh, yes, I want to rest, and I am
happy. I am happy in the Lord and
Saviour. There isn't a thing on earth that
I want, not a thing. I want to tell all the
brethren that I am not going to sleep with
sorrow. All that John said is mine:
"Blessed are the dead that die in the
Lord from henceforth." And that is the
joy of my heart. I would not call myself
back, I think, under any circumstances.
Christ my Saviour is all in all to me. I
love Him supremely. I am longing to be
with Him.'
"In a recent letter from Prof. W. E.
Howell, he said, 'Brother Daniells aroused
from his state of coma enough to say, "I
am so happy. I did not suppose a man
could be so happy."'
"Those were his final words, and indicate the peace and joy in the Lord with
which he went to sleep. Surely a true
brother, a gifted leader, a father in
Israel, is taken from us."
J. L. Shaw, treasurer of the General Conference, an early associate
in Iowa of Brother Daniells, spoke
of the influence which this early association had on his own life, and of
W. W. Prescott, one of- the field
his later association with Elder
secretaries of the General Conference,
Daniells :
expressed his estimate of his co"Elder A. G. Daniells was a visitor in worker in the following words:
my parents' home in my early childhood.
My memory of him in those days is quite
"At the General Conference in 1886,
clear and definite. He was with my father one year after I entered upon work with
in his last sickness. His life as a boy and this denomination, I was quite strongly
young man was exemplary, and as such impressed when a vote was taken apwas set before me by my parents as a pointing a young worker to go to New
worthy example. When he came to our Zealand to open the work in that field.
church and preached his first sermons, I That young man was Arthur G. Daniells,
distinctly remember the interest he took and I saw him then for the first time, but
in the young people and youth, and the did not become personally acquainted
inspiration he was to them. He proba- with him.
April 18, 1935
"Nine years later I visited Australia,
and there I found Brother Daniells acting as president of the Victoria Conference. I remained in that field about nine
months, and a large part of that time I
was associated with Brother Daniells in
attending camp meetings, Bible institutes,
and in general field work. This experience led me to hold our brother in high
estimation as a sincere Christian worker,
wholly devoted to the advancement of the
threefold message.
"In 1900, after I had been in charge
of the British Mission field for three
years, I received word that Brother
Daniells would arrive in London July 4,
on his way to the United States. It was
with great satisfaction that I welcomed
him to that field, and his short stay was
a real encouragement and inspiration to
the workers.
"The General Conference of 1901 will
long be remembered by all who attended
it. There I became more fully acquainted
with Brother Daniells as a competent adviser and administrator in our movement,
and after he was chosen at that meeting
to be the denominational leader, I was
much pleased to accede to his request that
I should unite with him in the general
work.
"At this Conference the territory of the
United States was divided into union conferences, and it at once became our duty
to visit these fields. Brother Daniells
showed much Christian tact and ability
in handling the new problems which
arose. My association with him during
this time strengthened my conviction that
he was an able Christian leader, who had
been chosen under divine guidance to
pilot this movement through a most serious crisis.
"In the summer of 1903 Brother
Daniells came east, with others, in the
search for a suitable location for the
headquarters of our work after it had
been decided to move from Battle Creek.
I shall never forget the hot July day
when we looked over the property where
the sanitarium and the college are now
located, and then sat down on the rocks
by the Sligo for a consultation. That
very day, as the representative of the
General Conference, Brother Daniells
entered into an agreement which led to
the purchase of that property, and I am
sure that no one has ever regretted that
important step.
"Brother Daniells' long experience in
fields outside of the United States stirred
his heart to develop our foreign mission
work, and he addressed himself very
earnestly and with good judgment to the
advancement of this feature of our movement. Under his earnest but tactful
leadership, such policies were adopted as
secured the hearty cooperation of union
and local conference leaders in providing
funds and workers, and greatly increased
our forces in many far-off fields. In
furtherance of this work Brother Daniells
made frequent visits to outside fields,
often spending months on a single trip,
and was thus able to guide intelligently
the actions of the General Conference
Committee relating to the work in the
different countries.
"From my personal correspondence
with him I know that our brother maintained an earnest and growing Christian
experience to the very end and that he
rests in hope.
"This movement has lost one of its
most loyal and consecrated supporters,
and we sincerely mourn his passing from
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us, but our God still lives and loves and preparing and training him for leader- crate their lives to the work of God, holdguides, and we know that He will accom- ship of the world movement.
ing themselves in readiness to go anylish His gracious purpose in sending the
"For more than a score of years where that the providence of God might
gospel of the kingdom to every land, and Brother Daniells, as head of the great indicate.
thus prepare the way for the coming of second advent movement, met the hopes
"During the years that Elder Daniels
our blessed Lord in glory, and our re- and expectations of his brethren; and stood as the leader of this people, he was
union with our brother who now sleeps even after he surrendered his high office impelled by a great passion to see the
as president of the General Conference, work established in foreign lands. Before
in Jesus."
up until the time of his last illness, his giving up his position of general leaderF. M. Wilcox representing the Re- counsel was sought, and his keen insight ship, he had the pleasure of seeing the
helped to guide and mold the work of this message well established in all the great
view and Herald, spoke as follows :
denomination. He has been to this move- lands of the earth.
"Through the centuries many crises ment the great apostle of Organization.
"This cause has had and still has a
have arisen in the church of Christ.
"God buries His workmen, but His
Leaders have been needed to meet special work goes forward. We here, with others number of great leaders. God has from
emergencies. The hour has revealed the throughout the world field, are left to time to time raised up men of outstanding
leader. And usually God has had the carry on. We do well to heed the many ability, and placed them in positions of
leader in preparation for the need, and faithful counsels Brother Daniells gave responsibility in connection with His
by a series of events and experiences us through the years. May his earnest work. But I am sure that among these
through which he has passed, fitted him spirit, his whole-souled dedication, his leaders there was none greater than Elder
Daniells. He was a man of God. He was
for the part he was to act.
consecrated love, his faith and zeal, prove a great preacher of righteousness. He
"Such a crisis arose in the history of incentives to us as we close up the ranks
was outstanding as a general and organthis movement about the turn of the last and press the battle to its grand and final izer. He had the spirit of a great foreign
century. The call had come to the church consummation, when the church militant missionary, himself personally spending
to make a mighty, far-reaching advance shall become the church triumphant at the a number of years in foreign service, and
in its operations. The message of the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus inspiring hundreds of others to go.
everlasting gospel was to go with new Christ."
"He led the church into the plan of
I force and impetus to the nations of men.
The concluding appreciation was giving a per capita sum each week for
Much had already been accomplished in
this way, but the church was to take on a given by W. H. Branson, vice-presi- missions, which brought a mighty stimunew and enlarged vision, and put forth dent of the General Conference for lus to our mission endeavor, and made
extraordinary efforts. This required re- the North American Division. He possible an advance upon every field. He
formation, reorganization, the creation of spoke as follows of the great influence was largely responsible for the development of our departmental organizations,
new units, new plans, new policies.
Where was the man who could lead out which Brother Daniells had in his life which today play such a prominent part
in our work. He encouraged evangelism
in this new program? To whom could as a young man:
as
the chief means of bringing the truth
the movement turn for efficient, aggres"My first intimate contact with Elder
sive leadership?
Daniells was in the early days of my to the attention of the masses, often
speaking to audiences of thousands not
"The occasion which revealed the ministry, while laboring in the Florida of our faith.
Conference,
some
twenty-five
years
ago.
leader, to me at least, was at a special
"Brother Daniells was a beloved father
meeting of some two hundred representa- I was being ordained to the ministry, a
tive men in Battle Creek Michigan, in service in which he had a part. His in Israel, loved and respected by both old
connection with the General Conference stirring reports of our work in mission and young alike. He was a world characI
of 1901. It was on this occasion I first lands, where he had traveled, his earnest ter, and thousands in all lands will, with
met the one whose obsequies we are appeals for recruits to go out to engage us, mourn his departure. Though he is
gathered today to solemnize. In the dis- in mission service, gripped my heart gone from us, yet he has left behind
cussions of that meeting, plans and tremendously. When a call was made for a great unfinished task. The greatest
counterplans to meet the existing need those who would be willing to go any- achievements of this cause are just before
were proposed by various speakers. Much where that God might call, even to the us. Shall we not this day rededicate ourconfusion of thought and opinion pre- ends of the earth if necessary, I was selves unreservedly to the finishing of the
vailed. The future appeared uncertain among those who responded by rising to work? We must take up the tasks laid
and forbidding, the obstacles insurmount- their feet. From that time forward I ex- down by the pioneers as they fall, and
pected some day to find myself in foreign must press the battle forward until the
able.
day of final victory. Until that day may
service.
"It was then that Elder A. G. Daniells,
"Later, in 1919, at the Autumn Coun- we all be faithful."
who had been a careful and silent listener,
took part in the discussion. I recall the cil in Boulder, Colorado, he walked up
The service was concluded by the
positive conviction with which he spoke, behind me one day, laid his hand firmly benediction by Elder C. S. Longacre,
the lucidity of his argument, the clear on my shoulder, and asked me about
vision he seemed to have of the questions going to Africa. I said I was ready. I Religious Liberty Secretary of the
before the meeting. He proposed means had been ready ever since those first im- General Conference and the associate
and measures which might be adopted, pressions were made upon my mind in my pastor of the church. Beautiful and
he presented concrete and workable plans. early contacts with this man of God.
appropriate music was rendered dur"I know that I speak not of myself ing the service. The choir sang "The
He sensed the call to advance, and was
prepared on his part to accept the re- alone. Hundreds and thousands of our
sponsibility. He looked forward with people have likewise been inspired by his Homeland," and a male quartet renhope and faith and courage, and called earnest appeals that they should conse- dered "Abide With Me."
his brethren to place their reliance upon
God and His promises as contained in
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His word and in the messages which had
come from the servant of the Lord. It
RESOLUTION BY THE GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
seemed to me, as it did to others, that God
was speaking through lips of clay. His
MARCH 24, 1935
message thrilled me through and through.
and fired my heart with new hope in God
Resolved, That we hereby record our deep sorrow because of the death
and fresh courage in His service.
of our beloved brother, Elder A. G. Daniells, who was for twenty-one
"Although Brother Daniells was comyears president of the General Conference and chairman of this Comparatively little known to the church in
mittee. Under his leadership the organization of this movement was enAmerica because of his long absence in
larged and strengthened, and the work at home and abroad was advanced
Australia, his brethren intuitively turned
until it circled the world field. He endeared himself to the hearts of the
to him for leadership. And they were not
workers everywhere. In all the world there are those who looked to him
disappointed. In the Australasian field
as a wise counselor and a kind friend. He rests from his labors, but truly
he had perfected, under the counsel of
his works do follow him.
the Spirit of prophecy, a form of reM. E. KERN, Secretory.
organization which was to prove in large
measure the model of the church organization in all countries. God had been 7111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i111111111111111111111111111111111111N1111111E111111111111N111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M11111111111111111111111111MME111111111111INIMIIIINUITIN
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GENERAL ARTICLES
erroneous Doctrines Dangerous
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE
SAYS the apostle Jude, "Beloved,
when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it
was needful for me to write unto you,
and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which
was once delivered unto the saints."
The apostles and their colaborers in
the early Christian church were constantly obliged to meet heresies, which
were brought in by false teachers in
the very bosom of the church. These
teachers are represented, not as coming openly, but creeping in unawares,
with the gliding motion of a serpent.
They followed their own pernicious
ways, but were not satisfied without
drawing away others with them.
They had no connected chain of truth,
but taught a disjointed medley of
ideas, supported by a passage of
Scripture here and another there.
These disconnected scriptures were
woven together into a tissue of falsehood that would strike the fancy, and
would deceive those who had not, by
searching the Scriptures for themselves, become established in the truth
for that time.
Through False Teachers
Satan worked through these false
teachers. Under a profession of regard for truth, they concealed base
purposes, for their hearts were corrupt. Had they come disclaiming
faith in Christ, they would have been
rejected at once; but professing to believe in Him, they gained the confidence of some, and without shame or
conscience perverted the truth to suit
their own unsanctified hearts. And
when once these deluded souls had departed from the old landmarks of
faith, they had let go their anchor,
and were tossed about like the waves
of the sea.
These lying prophets are described
in the word of God. Their deeds are
recorded in the register of heaven.
Their hearts and their deceptive,
wicked works were not understood by
men : but the Lord saw them ; He read
their hearts as an open book, and
knew that their very thoughts and
purposes were corrupt.
Satan Has Many Agents
False teachers are just as active in
our day as they were in the days of
the apostles. Satan has many agents,
and they are ready to present any
and every kind of theory to deceive
souls,—heresies prepared to suit the
varied tastes and capacities of those
whom he would ruin. There are
cheap fallacies for those who are easily led into error, and who desire
something new, odd, or fanciful,
which they cannot explain intelligently, or even understand themselves.
A mysterious, disconnected set of
ideas is more in accordance with their
minds than the plain truth, which has
a "Thus saith the Lord" for its foundation. He has other heresies,—intellectual poisons,—which he has concocted for another class of minds in
this age of skepticism and proud reasoning. These sophistries have a bewitching power over minds, and thousands are deceived by them.
One class have a theory that there
is no personal devil, and that Christ
had no existence before He came to
this earth ; and they try to maintain
these absurd theories by wresting
scriptures from their true meaning.
The utter folly of human wisdom in
matters of religious faith is thus made
manifest. The heart that is not sanctified and imbued with the Spirit of
Christ, is perverse in its interpretation of the Inspired Word, turning
the truth of God into senseless falsehood ; and some who have not
searched the Scriptures with humble
hearts allow these wild speculations
to unsettle their faith ; they accept
them in place of the plainly revealed
will of God.
Satan assails another class with arguments that present a greater show
of plausibility. Science and nature
are exalted. Men consider themselves wiser than the word of God,
wiser even than God ; and instead of
planting their feet on the immovable
foundation, and bringing everything
to the test of God's word, they test
that word by their own ideas of science and nature, and if it seems not
to agree with their scientific ideas, it
is discarded as unworthy of credence.
Thus the great standard by which to
test doctrines and character is set
aside for human standards. This is
as Satan designed it should be. Some
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say, "It is no matter what we believe,
if we are only honest." But the law
and the testimony remain valid, and
we are to seek unto them.
The Great Moral Standard
The law of God is the great moral
standard by which character is to be
judged. It is the expression of His
will, and must be obeyed from the
heart. Its holy principles must underlie our course of action in all our
business relations.
Those who belittle their profession
of faith by conformity to the world,
show that they despise the riches of I
the grace of Christ. They cry, "The
grace of Christ ! we are not saved by
works, but by Christ;" but they eontinue in sin,—continue to transgress
the law of God. They act as though
they considered it their privilege to
live in sin that grace may abound.
But every indulgence in sin weakens
the soul; it welcomes Satan to come
in and control the mind, making the
individual his effectual servant.
In these days of delusion, every
one who is established in the truth
will have to contend for the faith
once delivered to the saints. Every
variety of error will be brought out
in the mysterious working of Satan,
which would, if it were possible, deceive the very elect, and turn them
from the truth. There will be human wisdom to meet,—the wisdom
of learned men, who, as were the
Pharisees, are teachers of the law
of God, but do not obey the law
themselves. There will be human ignorance and folly to meet in discon- I
nected theories arrayed in new and
fantastic dress,—theories that it will
be all the more difficult to meet because there is no reason in them.
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Controlled by Impulse and Impressions
There will be false dreams and
false visions, which have some truth,
but lead away from the original
faith. The Lord has given man a
rule by which to detect them: "To
the law and to the testimony; if they
speak not according to this word, it
is because there is no light in them."
If they belittle the law of God, if
they pay no heed to His will as revealed in the testimonies of His
Spirit, they are deceivers. They are
controlled by impulse and impressions, which they believe to be from
the Holy Spirit, and consider more
reliable than the Inspired Word.
They claim that every thought and
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feeling is an impression of the
Spirit; and when they are reasoned
with out of the Scriptures, they declare that they have something more
reliable. But while they think that
they are led by the Spirit of God,
they are in reality following an imagination wrought upon by Satan.
Their character was described and
their doom denounced by the ancient prophets. It was ordained of
old that those who unsettle faith in
the word of God should bear the condemnation of God.
Jude says, "I will therefore put
you in remembrance, though ye once
knew this, how that the Lord, having
saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed them
that believed not." This will be the
sure fate of all the characters described by Jude, who depart from
God, and lead others away from the
truth. Although the Lord gave Israel the greatest evidences of His
favor, and upon condition of obedience, the rich promise that they
should be to Him a peculiar people,
a royal nation, yet because of their
unbelief and disobedience He could
not fulfill the promise. Because of
their transgressions, He removed His
restraining power over their enemies,
the ungodly nations around them,
and did not protect them as He had
done.
Loose Rein to Appetite and Passion
Some profess Christianity year
after year, and in some things appear
to serve God, and yet they are far
from Him. They give loose rein to
appetite and passion, and follow
their own unsanctified inclinations,
loving pleasure and the applause of
men more than God or His truth.
But God reads the secrets of the
heart. Base thoughts lead to base
actions. Self-righteousness, pride,
and licentiousness are far-reaching,
deep, and almost universal. These
are the sins for which God destroyed
the inhabitants of the old world by
a flood of water, and they are corrupting the churches in these last
days. They are the hidden rocks
upon which are wrecked thousands
and tens of thousands who profess
godliness. Only those who are closely
connected with God will escape the
devices of Satan and the prevailing
moral corruptions of this age.
The character is revealed by the
works, not by occasional good deeds
and occasional misdeeds, but by the
tendency of the habitual words and
acts. Those who would put God out
of their knowledge will show a want
of principle. Every man will show
which master he is serving with the
strength of his intellect, his skill,
and his ability. The servant of
Christ will watch unto prayer; he
will be devoted, humble, meek, and
lowly in heart, seeking to know and
do the will of God. Whereas he was
once the servant of sin, he has,
through the grace of God, become
transformed in mind and character.
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He will love the day of Christ's appearing; for he will be able to say
with Paul, "I have fought a good
fight, I have finished my course, I
have kept the faith."—Reprinted
from the Present Truth (London),
Feb. 2, 1888.
The Valley of Achor
BY H. CHRISTENSEN
FEw in this world of sorrow and
trial have not been led through the
valley of Achor, the valley watered
with the tears of disappointment,
where are found little mounds marking the resting places of perished
hopes, wherein lies that nearest and
dearest to the heart, where mankind
has drained the last bitter dregs from
the cup raised to his lips.
Somewhere among the Judean hills
is a heap of stones, stones stained
with human blood marking them as
instruments of death. This heap in
the valley of Achor is a silent witness
to the tragic death of one who dishonored God, and brought upon himself and Israel of old the curse of
God. He sought to gratify selfish desires at the expense of what God had
reserved unto Himself.
Israel had entered upon their conquest of the Promised Land, and the
signal leadership of God was manifested as the walls of Jericho crumbled before the host of God. They
had been warned not to take for
themselves of Jericho's spoil; but
Achan could not resist when he saw
the beautiful Babylonish garment
and the wedge of gold. He yielded
to his covetousness, took them, and
hid them in his tent, where they were
found when he was brought to account. He could not hide his sin
from God. He paid the penalty of
transgression in the valley of Achor,
and the pile of bloodstained stones
were the instruments of execution.
When this transgressor was removed,
victory again returned to Israel.
While each of us may at times wander into the valley of Achor, watering
it with our tears of disappointment,
God whispers to that one through the
prophet, "I will give her vineyards
from thence, and the valley of Achor
for a door of hope." How often,
though we do not understand it, this
valley becomes the gateway of God!
In the midst of this valley of distress, when it seemed the stars of
heaven shone down in mockery on
Jacob the fugitive, the ladder of
heaven was let down on which the
angels of God ascended and descended; yet more than twenty years
later the gurgling of Jabbok's -waters
reminded him that he was still in the
"valley of Achor." That night, however, this valley became a door of
hope, which swung open to Jacob,
and he walked out into a new experience radiant with hope.
No clouds and eternal sunshine turn
the verdant and fragrant fields into
barren hillsides, and blooming prairies into desert sands. The great Sahara, with soil as fertile as that of
the green pastures, is a desert of
drifting sand, devoid of life, over
which one may travel and see nothing
but the bleaching bones of some lost
caravan; because over it are no clouds
and storms, only sunshine. Clouds,
shadows, showers, would transform
this desert waste into a garden of
beauty. Life without clouds and
storm is but a barren waste, in which
there are no shadows where the weary
may find rest, no brooks of water
where the thirsty may drink and be
refreshed.
Yes, Achor, the valley of sorrows
and disappointments, under God may
become a door of hope. Clouds may
lower and the lightning flash, with
loud peals of thunder, but the rainbow is the promise of a better day.
"Far too well my Saviour loved me
To allow my life to be
One long, calm, unbroken summer,
One unruffled, stormless sea;
He would have me fondly nestling
Closer to His loving breast,
He would have that world seem brighter
Where alone is perfect rest.
"Though His wise and loving purpose
Once I could not clearly see,
I believe, with faith unshaken,
All will work for good to me;
Therefore when my way is gloomy,
And my eyes with tears are dim,
I will go to God my Father,
And will tell my griefs to Him."
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"MEN can make money and plenty
of it without God; men can acquire
learning without God; but character
cannot be formed without God."
"THERE is safety in the way of eternal life. But it is found in pressing
forward in the way, not loitering
near it."
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WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT? THE WATCHMAN SAID.THE MORNING COMETH,AND ALSO
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To and Fm in Europe
I THOUGHT of it again last winter
in Europe : Wherever we go, now, we
find fairly large bodies of workers
studying and praying and working to
press forward the message. I had
not visited Sweden since 1917, when
I moved out of Germany northward,
as the United States entered the war.
Now, in a year-end meeting of Swedish language workers from all Sweden
and Finland, I saw how the work has
grown and how earnest the working
force is to do yet stronger service.
The body of young people in our
school is larger than of old, and they
are still singing that fine hymn of
the gathering of the advent folk,
"They're coming from east and west,
They're coming from south and north."
From within the Arctic Circle in
both Sweden and Finland new believers are coming. I never saw anything
like the work with treatment rooms
that our brethren in the North are doing. With their fine rural school at
Ekebyholm, near Stockholm, G. E.
Nord in charge, I had supposed their
old school farm and buildings in central Sweden would be sold. But no,
they are operated as a summer sanitarium, and at a profit. People from
the cities love to go there for the
treatments, the health reform diet,
and the good cheer of country sanitarium life. And Ekebyholm, too,
is full to overflowing every summer.
We have something in this treasure
of the health principles that people of
the world appreciate.
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At the British Union committee
session in January so many interesting things were told that one despairs
of reporting. A revival of the work
is going forward along the hitherto
little-worked eastern counties of England—three church buildings erected
there in three years, Pastor Lowe told
us. "Come back in a few months,"
our people there told him at a dedication, "and we will have another chapel
to dedicate." One new member was
a builder who had seventy men in his
employ. He told them of his Sabbath
plans.
"Look here, George," his workers
said to him, "we have helped you
build up this business." "I know," he
said, "and I will do my best under
God to keep things up ; but I must he
true to God and keep His commandments."
Since then he has had to put on
ten more men. "The whistle blows
Friday afternoon well before sunset,"
we were told, "and the workmen
gather in and lay down tools." May
God bless all our brethren out in the
business world in all lands in these
times when they so much need His
hand over them for good. A Sabbathkeeping business is preaching a loud
sermon in any community.
* * *
Scotsmen abroad will be glad to
hear of a real sprinkling of witnesses
to the Sabbath along the extreme
northern parts of Scotland. It has
come mainly through the colporteur
work, Superintendent L. Murdock
told us. "Four lay brethren in Glasgow," he added, "are planning to go
up into this north coast region at
their own charges, to respond to the
call of new believers for help in
spreading the light." We were glad
to hear of a sister keeping the Sabbath in the Orkney Islands. That
puts a new island group on our missionary map.
* * *
Coal is the big business in Wales;
and the mines have been largely idle
for several years. Superintendent G.
D. King, of Cardiff, told us that many
of our members have long been on
the unemployed list. "But 1934 was
a good year in our work," he reported.
"The Harvest Ingathering was the
largest ever, tithe is well up, and we
have added more members in the
last two years than in the previous
four." Lay members are opening an
evangelistic effort in old Swansea.
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*
What pictures of the triumphs of
the truth are presented wherever
workers report. At the Northern
council, in Poland, William McClem- I
ents gave us this etching of a Nigerian
scene:
"A king of medicine men called our
workers to come and destroy his idols
and charms. He had taken many
lives in his day. His men worked all
night to persuade him not to forsake
his cult. 'No,' he answered. 'I leave
the devil's service forever.' And our
believers helped to pile up the whole
outfit of devil worship and set fire to
it. While the flames went up, our I
Christians danced about the burning
pile, clapping their hands, and singing, 'All to Jesus I surrender.' " I
understood, by a later recital in the
British meeting, that this same medicine man is now out in the native
villages with a Sabbath School Picture Roll telling of the Saviour who
delivered him from heathen darkness.
W. A. S.
Proposed New Calendar Reveals the
Importance of the Sabbath
In Two Parts—Part I
FROM time to time in these columns
attention has been called to the fact
that the Sabbath truth has taken on
new significance in our very present
day as a result of the widespread
apostasy in Christendom. This
apostasy, as we have often observed,
is the direct result of the acceptance
of the evolution theory. The result
is that the keeping of the Sabbath,
the memorial of creation, becomes a
distinguishing mark of those who
stand against this apostasy.
From another, but rather closely
related, angle we are brought to realize definitely that the Sabbath is today a distinguishing mark of those
who stand against apostasy. We re-
fer to the movement to change the
calendar in such a way that there will
be a blank day at the end of each
year, thus breaking the true cycle of
the week. Much has been written on
this during the last several years.
The justification for discussing it
here again is that calendar revision
continues to be agitated by wellfinanced propagandists. The latest
evidence of this is a book entitled,
"The World's Work and the Calendar," by Meredith N. Stiles, American secretary of the International
Fixed Calendar League. This league,
it may be said, was founded to promote Mr. Cotsworth's thirteen-month
calendar scheme.
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Summary of Past Happenings
Part of this book is devoted to a
consideration of religious objections
to the proposed calendar. In order
to understand rightly the discussion
in this book, the reader should refresh
his memory concerning certain developments in the calendar question over
several years' time. The first major
move for revision, so far as the
United States was concerned, centered around a Congressional hearing
on a resolution authorizing the President to call an international conference for the consideration of calendar
revision. That was at the beginning
of 1929. From the very first hours of
that hearing it was evident that religion had a stake in the apparently
nonreligious problem of revising the
calendar. There was immediately
brought to the fore the question of
I the basis on which a weekly holy day
rests.
Seventh-day Adventists opposed
any revision that would break the order of the weekly cycle, and thus disrupt the divinely ordained seventh
day, sanctified at creation and later
formally incorporated in the decalogue at Mt. Sinai. We knew that
one wing of the Sundaykeeping
Christians believed in the Sabbath
commandment, even though they held
that "the seventh" had been changed
to "the first" at the resurrection, and
that they were Fundamentalists.
How large this element was we had
no way of knowing accurately. Our
various experiences with those who
urged Sunday legislation because
they believed God had so commanded
in the decalogue, naturally led us to
feel that a very considerable number
in the Protestant churches would oppose the proposed calendar revision
that obliterated the historical first
day as much as it did the seventh day.
Accordingly we affirmed that there
were many who, when they knew the
facts about the breaking of the weekly
cycle, would be vigorously opposed to
the proposed calendar.
The Religious Questionnaire
In order to discover the mind of
religious leaders, the National Committee for Calendar Simplification in
the United States sent a questionnaire to a representative list of Protestant ministers. The report of the
findings was published in May, 1931,
and revealed that 82 per cent saw no
objection on religious grounds. Quite
evidently we had been mistaken in
our estimate of the number who still
held to a literal belief in the Bible
from Genesis onward. We were not
mistaken in our reasoning that such
opposition as came from Sundaykeepers would come from those who held
to the Bible account of creation, and
to the fourth command, which rests
upon it. Quoting from this 1931 report of the calendar committee:
"The committee's inquiry clearly
discloses that the religious opposition
to a fixed calendar embodying the
blank-day principle comes almost entirely from those few who cling to the
Old Testament account of creation as
literally true. They affirm that the
world was actually created in six
days of twenty-four hours each, and
that on the seventh day 'Jehovah
rested from His works.' On this
story and upon the fourth commandment, according to Exodus 20, which
cites this story as the reason for
keeping the seventh day, they rest
their claim that the weekly cycle was
`ordained by God at the beginning of
time.' . . .
"Whether Sunday observers or
Saturday observers, they insist in
common that the Mosaic command
delivered to the Jews: 'Six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy work, but
the seventh is the Sabbath,' must be
literally accepted, and that it was a
command from God requiring that
the seven-day week be observed for
all time without a breach in its continuity. As to which is the seventh
day, they cannot agree. Quoting
Scripture in each case for their authority, some of them say the seventh
day is from sunset Friday to sunset
Saturday ; others that it was changed
at the resurrection to Sunday, 'the
Christian sabbath;' others that whatever twenty-four hours it is, there
must be a holy day of rest every
seven days, that is 'one seventh part
of the time.' Among these views
there is no reconciliation and much
active contention. The three Saturdaykeeping sects hold in each ease
that the observance of their Sabbath
every seven days in unbroken periodicity is a fundamental tenet of their
respective religions."—Pages 44, 45.
Creation Eliminated From Religion
Summarizing the favorable responses to the questionnaire, the report declared: "It was clearly evident
that belief in a six-day creation was
not regarded as necessary to true religion."—Page 46.
This was really the first opportunity that had been given to Protestantism in any large way to express
itself as to the relation of a weekly
holy day to either the fourth commandment or creation. An analysis
of the findings published in the report reveals that the strongest endorsement of the proposed calendar
came from the ministers of those denominations known to be most fully
committed to Modernism. The facts
already given would make this finding inevitable.
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Since that report was published,
there was held the International
Conference on Calendar Reform at
Geneva, under the direction of the
League of Nations, in October, 1931.
This conference revealed the dimensions that the calendar agitation had
attained. Since that time there has
been more or less activity on the part
of the proponents of the twelve-month
and the thirteen-month revised calendar. Of this activity we have no
desire here to speak, for our purpose
is not to give a history of recent developments in this field, but only to
discuss the strictly religious aspects
that become more sharply marked as
the days pass by.
A New Propaganda Book
With this as a background, let us
now come to the more recently published book by Mr. Stiles, to which
reference has already been made. To
those who wish to keep informed as
to the current arguments in behalf
of the thirteen-month calendar, we
recommend this work. It is a wellwritten piece of propaganda. One
chapter of the book is entitled, "Certain Religious Objections." To a few
quotations from this chapter we shall
restrict ourselves. After citing the
views of Jews and Seventh-day Adventists, Mr. Stiles observes:
"It is clear that the sole religious
reason far the contention that the
seventh day must always be a rest
day, is the reason given in the Biblical story of the creation of the
world in six terrestrial days of
twenty-four hours each, and that on
the seventh terrestrial day, God
rested. Take the citation of Genesis
2:3: 'And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in
it He had rested from all His work
which God created and made.'
"Again the reason appears in the
Sabbath commandment according to
Exodus 20, '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 shalt do no
work : . . . for in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in, them is, and rested on the
seventh; wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath, day, and hallowed it.'
"In other words, the religious belief
that a day of rest must always be
observed on the seventh day is
founded on the story of a fiat creation [that is, creation by God's direct
and instantaneous command]." -"The World's Work and the eatendar," pp. 120, 121.
He is correct in declaring that the
belief of Sabbatarians rests upon the
record of creation in Genesis, and
that the reason for the Sabbath com-
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mand in Exodus 20 is also the creation record. Against this he places
immediately the following sweeping
statement :
"That the great majority of religious-minded, educated men and
•women, including Jews, have for two
generations accepted the discoveries
of science and rejected literal belief
in a fiat creation, is scarcely necessary to say. Except in some backward communities, the entire rising
generation is being taught as a matter of course the facts of geology, astronomy, astrophysics, and biology,
which show so conclusively that mil-lions and millions of years are required to measure the formation even
of our little solar system; that before
our tiny planet was fit for life, there
were many millions of years of geological change, and that its animal
and human life was a long evolutionary development.
"The exegetical historical view is
that the story of a six-day creation
can be nought else than the legend of
a primitive people."—Id., p. 122.
The language here is bald and obvious. We are to be ridiculed out of
our belief in the Sabbath that memorializes creation! But we believe that
all Scripture, including Genesis, is
given by inspiration of God, despite
the skeptical observations of calendar
revisers.
F. D. N.
"This Generation Shall Not Pass"
AFTER foretelling the signs which
would in due time show His coming
near, the Saviour, speaking of the
future, when the signs He had given
should be fulfilled, said : "Verily I
say unto you, This generation shall
not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but My words shall not pass
away." Matt. 24 :34, 35.
Everything foretold by our Saviour in this line of prophecy as signs,
everything that could possibly serve
as a timely warning, has been fulfilled or is in process of fulfillment;
and to those who would be in a position to recognize these things as signs,
our Saviour says :
"Now learn a parable of the fig
tree : When his branch is yet tender,
and putteth forth leaves, ye know
that summer is nigh : so likewise ye,
when ye shall see all these things,
know that it [margin, "He"] is near,
even at the doors." Verses 32, 33.
Close of Probation
It is true, other signs are mentioned ; but they run into the event
itself to such an extent that it is
difficult to tell where the signs end
and the event foreshadowed by them
begins.
"There is a line by us unseen,
That crosses every path,—
The hidden boundary between
God's patience and His wrath."
This is true of individuals, and it
is true of the world as a whole. That
line is the close of probation, whether
of the individual or of the world.
The world will cross it sometime, but
the Lord has not revealed the exact
time. This event steals upon a careless world as a thief in the night. The
Lord did not give the signs of His
coming in such a way as to enable
any one to locate the close of probation.
Not a Matter of Indifference
But now, we having passed nearly
all those events which we know to
be signs, the coming of the Lord cannot be a matter of indifference to us;
for Jesus has said of the generation
that would be in a position to understand the "parable of the fig tree,"
"This generation shall not pass, till
all these things be fulfilled." Truly
"We are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time;
In an age on ages telling—
To be living is sublime."
The writer recalls hearing, years
ago, as a small boy, two Presbyterian
ministers discussing informally, in
his father's home, the question of how
long it would take to finish the work
of giving the gospel to all the world.
Those ministers were in their prime,
but did not hope to live to see the
work accomplished. But now practically the whole Christian world,
several years ago, adopted as its slogan, "The gospel to all the world in
this generation." Why this change?
Ah, we have reached the generation
that is to see this work finished, the
generation that "shall not pass, till
all these things be fulfilled."
What a Century Has Done
Think of the wonderful changes
that have taken place in the world
within the last century. A hundred
years ago a large part of the world
was closed against the gospel. The
interior of Africa was practically unknown; Japan, Korea, and China
were for the most part sealed countries. India was locked, bolted, and
barred by caste. In Turkey, Mohammedanism barred the way. In Russia,
the Greek Church seemed an impassable obstacle to the giving of the
gospel to the millions in that land.
In Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria,
and Belgium, Roman Catholicism
sternly forbade the preaching of the
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gospel, as it did also in South America and many islands of the sea. Even
Mexico, our near neighbor on the
south, was unapproachable.
Knowledge Increased
But a new day has dawned; and
now there is scarcely a corner anywhere into which the light of gospel
truth has not penetrated. Bible Societies are printing and circulating
the Bible, in whole or in part, by millions of copies every year. All who
will, may buy at a price within their
means; while to those who have nothing, the Bible or portions are freely
given. The meaning of all this is
that God has set His hand to the
finishing of the work. The work of
giving the gospel to all the world is
soon to be finished ; and then will
come the end, "the end for which
we sigh."
Think, too, how modern inventions
have made it easy to do this work,
and do it speedily. Rapid transit by
means of steam and electricity has
made even the most distant nations
near neighbors, until today there is
- scarcely a nook or corner in all this
world which is not in close touch with
every other part, if by no other
means, at least by wireless telegraphy.
Less than a century ago, telegraphy
was unknown; but more than five
hundred years before Christ, an angel
of God had said to the prophet Dan- I
iel, "Many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased." Today we see that word fulfilled—literally, strikingly fulfilled ; and this fulfillment is a most significant sign of
our times, for it means that the work
of giving this gospel of the kingdom
to all the world is almost accomplished. "Then shall the end come."
C. P. B.
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archeologists, laboring
on the site of ancient Nineveh, discovered some tablets which have become
known as the "Genesis Tablets." A
translation shows that they speak of
the Sabbath as "the day of rest for
the heart." This carries with it a
suggestive inference that if the Lord's
day is to be a "heart's rest: day,"
many of the things which we of the
twentieth century do on this day will
have to drop out of our schedule, and
more hours of quiet will have to take
their place.—Religious Notes and
News.
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permission to give up that over which
my brother may stumble into ruin,
than to see how far I can go in the
use of it without committing sin.—
George Bain.
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The Simple Means God Is Using to
Accomplish Great Things
BY L. V. FINSTER
AT the recent Inter-American Division Council our hearts were
greatly stirred as our workers told us
what God was doing in their fields.
H. E. Baasch, superintendent of
the Colombia-Venezuela Union, in
speaking of the work in his field,
said :
"There are many who are reading
the Scriptures, but who cannot understand their true import. Men and
women are looking wistfully to
Heaven for more light. Many are on
the verge of the kingdom, waiting
only to be gathered in. The case of
illustrates this statement.
Sister
Years ago she gave her heart to God.
She had been a very devoted —
until she began to see the fallacies of
I that church. One night she visited
one of our meetings. The subject,
`The Mark of the Beast,' was based
on Revelation 13 and 14. She went
out from that meeting a converted
woman. It was the first gospel sermon she had ever heard, but she has
never swayed from her convictions
from that time• to this. She had been
sick for many years, not able to sleep
at night because of a chronic headache, but the minute she was baptized she was cured. She gathered
sufficient money through needlework
with which to buy a. house. The first
thing she did after she got the house
was to dedicate it to God. Two and
a half years ago, when our little
church in Medellin had no building
in which to hold their services and
were unable to pay the high rents, it
was then it dawned on her that she
had consecrated her house to God,
and she offered it to our church members for a house of worship. They
are still using it. Her husband accepted the truth and was baptized before he died a few months ago. Here
we have• a soul who was really longing for light.
"Let me tell you a story of a
brother in our field. He is a man
about fifty years of age, with a family
of nine or ten. He told me many
times he would toss on his bed' ,at
night, despairing that he could: not
better his life. He saw his boys and
CREATURE
have English and Spanish churches
in Cuba, but we have two Haitian
and two Jamaican churches, and the'
prospects of a Korean church.
"Brother Mattison visited a man in:
Oriente Province, who had read some
of our books. In speaking of the
books he said, 'That man, Mr. White,
must be a prophet.' We explained:
that it was Mrs. White who had writ-:
ten the books. I saw him just a few:
weeks ago, and he. said, 'Brother
Lorntz, I am keeping the Sabbath,;
and I want some more of your literature.' He is a very influential man:
in that community."
girls growing up in the ways of the
world, and he did not know what to
do for them. He realized his church
could not save them. Sometimes in
the middle of the night he would get
out of bed and kneel down, asking the
Lord what he should do. The Lord
heard his prayer. Light came• to that
little village there in the mountains,
and this man and his wife and eldest
Great Changes in Colombia
son were among the first ones to accept it. Now his whole family is in
N. H. Kinzer, in reporting for the
the truth."
Pacific Colombia Mission, said that
great changes were taking place in:
Spiritualists Converted
E. J. Lorntz, in speaking of the Colombia, that where formerly it was
work in Cuba, said: "Seventy per very difficult to carry on evangelistic
cent of our baptisms came from the work, now doors were opening everyefforts of the lay members." In re- where. He said:
"Five years ago Brother Trummer,:
lating experiences from that field, he
with
a Bible worker, was forced to
said :
leave
. They were cast into jail,
"One of our members, a young man
who had been in the church less than beaten, and Brother Trummer was
a year, went home to see his parents. left for dead. A few months ago
He found his home neighborhood Brother Plata and I made a trip over
filled with Spiritualism. He began there, and observed a different sentito pray and to study with the people, ment than was found formerly. Weand finally a change came in. Not made a visit to the alcalde, presented:
long ago it was our privilege to bap- our passports, etc., and the official.
tize twenty-two in that place• and to promised us all the protection we
organize a church. This young man might need. During our three or
said: 'Right here where we are now four weeks' visit in this place we did
standing we once could hear the cries not meet an enemy. It was a marvel
and groans of those who were pos- to me.
"While we were holding an effort
sessed of the devil. I had always
been a skeptic, and so was not ready in a large inland city, a family across
to believe all that I heard about devil the street was very bitter against us.
possession. But suddenly one of the We tried to make a special point of
girls gave a jump, and fell to the, being kind to, this family. One day
floor frothing and foaming at the we took over some beautiful large
mouth. We prayed in turn for her tomatoes. Later not only the mother,
three quarters of an hour before the but two sisters: were baptized. The
evil spirit was driven out. That is Lord saved our lives, and also
the last we have seen of demon pos- brought new life' to them."
session in that part of the country.'
"A few months ago I received a
letter written by the superintendent
of the Chosen Union Mission. He
said there was a gentleman in Cuba
who seemed to be interested in the
truth. He gave his name and address, and I immediately wrote to the
man. He answered my letter, and I
visited him. He said there were ten
other Koreans there with him who
wished to join him in learning more
about the truth. So not only do we
Door Open Among Indians
Orley Ford, of Guatemala, in giving his report, said:
"In our work there are two problems with which we have to' grapple.
One is the Indian work. We have;
been working among two Indian;
tribes, the Cachequel and the Poen,
main. It was but a short time agoi
that the door swung open among the
Pocomarn.Indians. We heard of people keeping the Sabbath. They had
been' doing this. for several months,
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and no one knew anything about
them. The work was followed up,
and we had a baptism of eight at the
time of my visit there; two or three
more have been baptized since, and
our worker tells us that he has several
more ready. The last time I visited
these Indians we had 100 present on
Sabbath morning. When we go there
they always say we preach too short
sermons. A person would have to
keep on preaching all day in order
to satisfy them. We need a school
there.
"We have only two native workers
in our republic, and to our sorrow we
find that because of cuts in our
must go off our
budget, Brother
pay roll. He is our only Indian native worker. The question of more
evangelists for our field is our other
problem.
we have had
"In the city of
much opposition. The judge in this
place, however, has become very much
interested in our truth. One day when
I was there, this judge came out to
our meeting. The night before I left
he asked me to have prayer with him.
His wife gave a public testimony, and
said she wanted to be baptized."
had received it. He got in touch with
the minister of a Protestant church,
but he was not satisfied with their
message. Eventually a friend of his
came into power, and he was freed
from prison. He was still interested
in the Bible, and one day he read
Matthew 24 :20. That puzzled him.
About that time he got hold of a copy
of our book, 'Coming King.' Here he
found the true Sabbath. He began
to observe the Sabbath, and for seven
years he did not know that there was
any one else in the world keeping it.
Later he got in touch with our people,
and after eight more years he was
baptized. He is a wealthy man, and
owns most of the little village, and
also most of the farm land near by.
He stopped drinking, smoking, and
eating pork before he ever saw a Seventh-day Adventist. He wears a
large Texas hat, which he reverently
removes whenever he mentions the
name of God. He keeps a chair in
Fifty Sign Petition for Mission
ONE hears about large camp meetings among the native peoples of
Africa, camp meetings where the attendance is registered in the thousands, with new records being made
each year, until in 1934 it is reported
that one of the camp meetings in the
Southern African Division had seven
thousand people seated before the
speakers. There are also small camp
meetings which are just as significant
as the large ones, for they all show the
same trend, namely, growth in the
spread of the third angel's message.
In August of 1934 a small camp
meeting was held at a new native
village, Kakompe, two miles from the
railway station of Makombo, in the
southern part of the Belgian Congo,
not far from the border of Northern
Rhodesia. There was but one tent.
Only nine meetings were held. There
were four ministers and three other
workers present, but the attendance
was only 130. The number baptized
was small, being less than a score.
The single tent housed the one in
charge, 0. U. Giddings, the field superintendent of the South Congo Mission field, who had come in his motor
van from his headquarters at Elisabethville, about eighty miles away.
He had met E. C. Boger, the superintendent, and E. M. Cadwallader,
the educational secretary, both of the
Zambesi Union Mission, at Makombo,
at one o'clock in the morning, and
had brought them to the campground
over a path cut through the forest.
The visitors were shown to a grass
R. 0. Garner, of the Venezuela
Mission, in relating some experiences,
said :
"One of our boys, while traveling
on a bus one day, began to whistle
a hymn. A woman came to him and
asked if he were a Seventh-day Adventist. He said that he was, but
wondered how she knew. She told
him that she recognized the hymn.
She said that she was on her way to
Caracas with a petition from fifty
people who are keeping the Sabbath,
and who are calling for a worker.
One of our lay sisters had moved to
this place, and had so lived and
taught the message that they desired
to know more of it.
"One day not long ago three men
arrived at our office. They had heard
that I was planning to make a trip
to Caucauca, and they had come to
take me back with them. They had
walked, bringing a horse and a burro
for me to ride and to carry my baggage. They say thirty-five people
are waiting for more light in that
place.
Rebel General Converted
"Up in the northern part of Venezuela lives a certain general. At one
time he was considered a rebel, since
he had fought against the controlling
government. Finally he was put in
prison. He now says that this proved
a blessing. While he was in prison
a Bible fell into his hands, and he
read it. The more he read the Bible
the more thankful he was that he
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his home for the poor people. They
may come to him at any time, sit on
this chair, and tell him their needs.
They never go away without something. When widows come to pay
money on their mortgages, he takes la
it, writes the receipt, and tells them
that the property is theirs. When he
hands them the receipt, he returns
their money. He is a real Christian."
Protected From Storm
C. B. Sutton, from British Honduras, after telling of the terrible
storm that destroyed a large part of
Belize, killing 25,000 people, said that
not one Seventh-day Adventist was
killed, and that our church was the
only one standing after the storm.
God is truly doing wonderful
things by these simple means to perfect His work of righteousness. If
the church would awake to her opportunities and privileges in this day, I
soon the message would be carried to
all the world.
Camp Meeting in the Congo
BY E. M. CADWALLADER
hut which was to be their temporary
abode, and were left to use the rest of
the night for the purpose for which
it was intended.
One meeting had been held on a
Thursday afternoon by Elder Giddings. On Friday there was a meeting
at eight o'clock. It was placed late
in the morning in order that the sun
might warm the air before the scantily clad African believers should sit
in the open-air meeting place, before
a rostrum cut into the side of a whiteant hill twenty feet high. The devotional service was conducted by
Pastor Albert, an ordained African
who had come as a missionary from
I
far-away Nyasaland.
At the eleven o'clock meeting Elder
Boger spoke. It was at this meeting
that the count was made, and it was
discovered that there were 130 persons present,—sixty-five men, thirtyfive women, and thirty babies and
small children. We rejoiced at this
number, for the country is sparsely
populated, and this number showed
a 500-per-cent increase over the previous year's attendance of twenty-five.
Thus it is that small, as well as great,
camp meetings in Africa show that
the gospel is going to, and being accepted by, the people among whom
we are working.
etke
THERE is nothing in the universe
that I fear but that I shall not know
all my duty, or shall fail to do it.—
Mary Lyon.
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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME"
Conducted by Promise Kloss
het Us Cease Struggling
BY MAY COLE KUHN
"THE heart that is to be filled to the
brim with holy joy must be held still."
—Bowes.
To rescue a drowning person who
is struggling is a difficult task. Expert swimmers say that if the one
whom they are attempting to save is
quiet, their work is comparatively
easy. The man who is making frantic efforts to save himself may drag
his would-be savior to death with him,
How often this is true in the spiritual experience. Out on the sea of
life, with the waves of temptation
surging about him, man struggles to
save himself. He battles against trial,
He meets opposition with opposition.
"I must fight for victory," he cries.
But the Master says, "In quietness
and in confidence shall be your
strength."
The story is told of two artists who
were asked to paint a picture illustrating their interpretation of peace.
One artist placed on his canvas a
green meadow with a background of
tall trees and gently sloping hills. A
shepherd boy lay looking at the sky
above him. Cattle grazed in the
fields. An atmosphere of safety and
assurance pervaded the landscape.
The other artist painted a raging
torrent. At the edge of the foaming
rapids he pictured a tree. Where
the branches drooped over the
troubled waters, a mother bird nestled
her brood. Above the tempestuous
river she had found a place where
she could rear her young in safety.
This was real peace.
Peace signifies quietness where
there has been tumult. It is the cessation of warfare. The grace of
Christ received into the heart allays
strife and fills the soul with quietness.
Being justified by faith, we have
peace through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I Simple trust in Jesus Christ is the
remedy for unrest. The great, loving
heart of the Father is waiting to receive the tempest-tossed soul He has
redeemed.
"Come unto Me, . . and I will give
you rest. Take My yoke upon you,
and learn of Me; for I am meek and
lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest
unto your souls."
"The mountains shall depart, and
the hills be removed; but My kindness
shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath
mercy on thee.
"0 thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I
will lay thy stones with fair colors,
and lay thy foundations with sapphires. . . . In righteousness shalt thou
be established : thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear:
and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee."
God forgives sin. He loves humanity. This planet is the dearest
spot in the universe to Him. It is
the most valuable. The greatest price
was paid for it. Heaven valued the
human soul as worth the total price,
the life of the Son of God.
God does not tire of the voice raised
to Him in supplication, nor does He
pass by him who is in perplexity and
distress. "Hast thou not known? hast
thou not heard, that the everlasting
God, the Lord, the Creator of the
ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither
is weary ? . . . He giveth power to the
faint; and to them that have no might
He increaseth strength." Can any
assurance be stronger?
A discouraged, worn-out school
teacher boarded a train in the
crowded city. Out of work on account of the depression, with a family for which to care, with no prospects in sight, it seemed as if the
burdens of life were too great for her
frail body to bear. Suddenly as she
looked from the window her eyes fell
upon this legend engraved in the cornerstone of a hotel, "The battle is
not yours, but God's."
She pondered over the words. The
more she thought about them, the
lighter her heart grew. She sent up
a simple petition to the God of battles,
and God heard the cry. Peace came.
Presently her perplexities cleared up.
God hears prayer, and prayer
changes circumstances. He has promised to bring "it" to pass. "Commit
thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in
Him ; and He shall bring it to pass."
"Fret not thyself."
Cease from struggling. Believe,
and trust, and wait. He will cause
all embarrassments to disappear when
they have accomplished their mission..
GWhen You Cannot Sleep
BY JENNIE E. STEWART
AN invalid friend of mine was being driven nearly frantic with worry
and sleeplessness. Try as she would,
she could not shake off the worries
which beset her when the shades of
night were drawn. Her dreams, when
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I know not when He sends the word
That tells us fervent prayer is heard. X
I know it cometh soon or late;
• Therefore we need to pray and wait. :
'4. I know not if the blessing sought
+ Will come in just the way I thought.
: I leave my prayers with Him alone,
+* Whose will is wiser than my own.
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she did fall asleep from utter exhaustion, were troubled and frightening.
Then one night, quite by accident,
she discovered a remedy for much of
her trouble. She was trying to recall
a beautiful poem she had recited in
her girlhood. At the tenth line she
was stuck. Over and over again she
went back to the beginning, hoping
association of ideas would bring back
to her the missing lines, but each time
they eluded her.
Then before she knew what was
happening to her she became drowsy
and fell asleep without conscious
effort.
She dreamed no bad dreams that
night. Morning found her greatly
refreshed. She had a much better
day than for many weeks.
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The next night she started that
poem again when she found she was
going to be wakeful. The missing
lines came to her like a flash ; so she
went on, only to get stuck again farther along in the stanzas.
In time she recalled the whole poem
and had to start another. She followed these with hymns that she had
not thought of for years.
She tried recalling the names of all
the boys and girls she had known in
certain schools she had attended. As
fast as her memory: of certain things
became perfectly satisfied, she took up
something else, always, however, se-
lecting something that would hold her
mind firmly away from worries and
unpleasant thoughts.
Because the state of her health was
really at the base of her wakefulness,
she did not wholly overcome insomnia, but she did conquer the worry
habit and the bad dreams. The little
bit of sleep she did get then was more
restful because of the tranquillity of
her mind when she fell asleep.
This is a far more interesting exercise than counting, sheep. It may be
varied, according to your special
tastes. Try it.—Home Department
Magazine.
ailroading—and Lettuce
BY MARY EINETTE BARBER
SINCE the toy railroad had appeared under, the Christmas tree
small Bobby had reveled in the delights of bridges, tunnels, carbarns,
sidetracks, dining Cars, Pullmans, cabooses, and the fascinating turntables.
The possibilities for new adaptatiOns
in "playing train" had been gradually
diminishing; nntil, it seemed to, him,
they were now exhausted. The railroad was beginning to pall. Some
of the rolling stock had decreased in
value from wear and tear, and he sat
on the floor playing with it halfheartedly.
. His mother, looking over the newspaper, said quietly, "0 Bobby, it says
here that the recent flood in Imperial
Valley, California, may affect our
supply of iceberg lettuce. What do
you think of that?"
Bobby loved dearly to. be talked to
as a grown-up, but the more he
thought of this, the less he could
make of it.
"You know where. California is,"
mother suggested helpfully.
"'Way out west."
"Yes. Well, out there is a lovely
:plaee called Imperial Valley: It
wasn't always so beautiful, for ,until
recently there was- no: water to make
things grow. Them Some 'engineers
got together and brought' the water
of :a river close tothe.valley; and dug
ditches for irrigation. Now it is like
great vegetable garden, miles long.
Why, there are whole fields of lettuce
:alone."
"How big fields ?"
"Oh, bigger than the golf links, bigger than grandpa's, farm. And out
there sometimes; it rains every day for
weeks, so they talk about the rainy
season, just as we say the winter seai son or the,summer season. It is the
rainy season there now, and,the paper
. speaks of a recent flood., It rained so
hard that much :extra water ran into
the river, and swelled it so that it
overflowed its banks and flooded the
valley."
"Did it drown people 7"
"No, only the lettuce. All the lettuce was covered with water, and may
be ruined, so there won't be as much
lettuce as usual in the stores for us
to buy. That's what it means by saying the flood may affect our own
supply of lettuce."
Interested in ditches and floods,
Bobby was indifferent to lettuce. So
mother went on : "That was iceberg
lettuce we had in our salad this noon.
Now if that came from California,
how do you think they brought it all
the way here 7"
"In the train," said Bobby, his tone
plainly indicating he would have felt
justified in adding, "Silly !"
April 18, 1935
"But it takes four days and nights
for a train to come from California,
and you know lettuce doesn't keep.
Do you remember that head I forgot
to put in the icebox, and how brown
and wilted it was when I found it
the bag ? But our lettuce at lunch '''.
today was crisp and good. The railroad must have brought it in the special cars made to keep things fresh."
Bobby had come to the arm of the
chair now. "What kind of cars 7"
he demanded, sharply.
And so he learned the mysteries
of refrigeration, and of warehousing,
and trucking and hauling, and wholesale marketing, and retailing through
Mr. 13log's grocery store with delivery
right to the kitchen door. He learned
something of climate, and how it is
that he could have green lettuce to eat
when the garden was covered with
snow. And he learned that if the iceberg lettuce crop fails, other kinds— I
and what other kinds—are obtainable.
He was fascinated to think how many
people, from the time the seed was
sown until the moment he ate his
salad, had been at work to bring that
lettuce to him.
Of all the jobs involved, Bobby
chose that of railroad engineer as his
future vocation !
Next day the grocer's boy brought
Brussels sprouts, and with three of
these to represent lettuce, Bobby reenacted the whole process of transportation and exchange. And when
the evening paper was thrown on the
front porch, he dashed to bring it in,
begging to have another story "read"
to him.—Issued by the National Kindergarten Association.
"g'il Take What Father Takes
NEAR the close of a lovely summer
day, a company of brilliant men gathered at a garden banquet. The pavilion was set among beds of flowers,
and opened toward the west.
The table was a dream of beauty,
with its fruits and flowers, its flashing glass and glittering silver. Some
of the noblest of the land sat around
the board. Among them was an
eager, bright-eyed boy, brought to
his first club dinner by his father,
an honored judge.
Wit and wisdom sparkled back and
forth, and wine gleamed like ruby
and amber. The boy saw and heard
everything. This was an enchanted
land. For the first time he looked
upon the faces and heard the voices
of great men who had been his heroes
from afar. Their words, their bearing, their dress, were full of interest.
Yet of all this goodly company, to
him his father was the king.
An empty glass stood by his plate
—a dainty shell with points that
caught the light like diamonds. A
waiter stopped before him with a tray
of costly drinks, and named them
over glibly, questioning : "What will
you take?"
The judge was an abstainer at
home. The boy had never tasted
wine. The names were strange to
him. But he said with ready confidence, "I'll take what father takes."
The father heard. The glass in his
uplifted hand shed over it a crimson
light like blood. All eyes were upon
him. Was he afraid to drink? In
a swift vision he saw the serpent in
the cup. For policy, for pride, for
social custom, should he set this
deadly thing upon: his best beloved ?
There was a hush as he set down the
untasted wine and said distinctly,
"I'll take water—cold water."—Crusader's Monthly.
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YOUNG
MEN AND
TO SAVE
FROM SIN
AND GUIDE
IN SERVICE
YOUNG
WOMEN
growing Up With the Third Angel's
Message7 —No. 2
As Told by Mrs. Jennie Ayars-Kellogg to Ruth Conard
On, I must tell you about our first
Adventist meetings. Of course, we
could not have what you really call
church services, as we had no church
building. So we used to come together at John Cottrell's home for
our meetings. There were about five
families of us who attended regularly
at first. But it really made quite a
congregation, for besides the older
folks, there must have been twentyfive children.
Then as we continued the meetings,
others of our neighbors would come
in. One of the men would read a
chapter from the Bible; then they
would all talk about it. Usually the
text was on the soon coming of
Christ, for that, of course, was what
interested us most. We children
would just sit back and listen and
answer questions when we could.
Later, R. F. Cottrell wrote a series
of lessons on the Sabbath, which we
used. These were the first Sabbath
school lessons, so far as I know, that
were ever written. I think they were
printed at the office in Rochester,
New York, where Elder and Mrs.
White were located at that time.
We used to have meetings in the
evening during the week sometimes,
also. They were something like our
prayer meetings. But they were
lively prayer meetings, never dull.
All in the room would feel like saying, "Amen." And they would say
it, too.
After the prophetic chart--which
represented in picture form the great
prophetic symbols of Daniel and the
Revelation--was published by J. V.
Rimes, we used it frequently in our
meetings. And many were the evenings our little company spent discussing the meaning of the figures on
that chart. In those early days, almost every Adventist family owned
one of these charts. It would always
be hung in a prominent place on the
wall, and was referred to often.
We would also sing a great deal in
our services. You see, my father was
quite a singer, and used to lead the
music in meeting. Those old songs
ring in my ears yet. There was that
one:
"When I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I'll bid farewell to every fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes."
We used to like to sing especially
about the soon coming of Christ, and
the wonderful home we would have
in the new earth. Here is another
that has always been one of my favorites:
"We have heard from the bright, the holy
land,
We have heard and our hearts are
glad;
For we were a lonely pilgrim band,
And weary, and worn, and sad.
They tell us the saints have a dwelling
there,
No longer are homeless ones;
And we know that the goodly land is
fair,
Where life's pure river runs."
There was also that grand old tune
that we still enjoy, "0 for a faith that
will not shrink, though pressed by
many a foe."
Then, so many times, after we had
risen from prayer at the close of
prayer meeting, everybody would go
around and shake hands and sing
this amen song:
"Amen, amen, my soul replies,
I'm bound to meet you in the skies,
Mrs. Kellogg, then Miss Jennie Ayars, at the
age of twenty-one, in the year 1864.
"THE
LOVE
OF
iit\\
CHRIST
CONSTRAINETH US"
And claim my mansion there.
Now here's my heart and here's my hand,
To meet you in the heavenly land,
Where my possessions lie."
Often at the conclusion of our family worship, we would use this song.
I always liked this custom very much.
It made one feel very solemn, and yet
very happy too.
Whenever one of the Adventist
ministers came to visit us, word would
always be sent around to all the believers, and we would have a meeting.
These would usually be very long
services. Boards would be laid across
especially prepared legs to form seats
all around the room. In those days,
there was nearly always a bed in the
sitting room of every home. When
we had these long evening meetings,
I used to try to get a seat near the
bed, and when my eyes got heavy, I
would drop over on it and go to sleep.
Often, I remember, I would hear the
visiting preacher talking, then would
drop off into unconsciousness, and the
next thing I knew, I was being lifted
out of our wagon, and father's voice
was saying, "Home."
How well I can recall the first time
Elder Joseph Bates came to our community. I was about seven years old
then. You see, most of the ministers
who had come to visit us up until
that time kept Sunday. One of the
Cottrell boys came over one Friday
and said, "Be sure to come to meeting next Sabbath, for there is to be
an Adventist there who keeps Sabbath." How happy we were, because
for seven years we had been having
Adventist services on Sabbath, not
knowing that there were any other
Adventists in the world who kept
the seventh day of the week.
That Sabbath stands out especially
in my mind because I had a new pair
of shoes to wear. But I enjoyed the
meeting too. Elder Bates told us all
about the new light which had come
to the Adventist people since the disappointment, by studying the Bible;
that the sanctuary was not on this
earth, but in heaven, and that the
cleansing really had begun at the
very time which had been prophesied.
Then he spoke about the chapter in
the Bible which fells of the little
book, and that it was sweet at first
and later was bitter. That, he said,
was our experience. We were very
happy when we thought Christ was
coming right away, and, when He
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tarried, we were keenly disappointed.
We all were so glad to hear what he
told us. I was only a child when I
listened to that sermon, but I understood it just the same as everybody
else. Everything seemed so perfectly
plain. I think that if people would
now take their children to meeting,
and let them listen to the preaching,
and not give them books and things
to play with, the children would
many times hear what is said, and
enjoy it. Then, too, I think it would
be well if the parents would talk
about the sermons at home, and go
over with their children some of the
points made.
That day, after meeting, Elder
Bates came home with us. He was
looking through his satchel, and I
was right there beside him. I was
always around when anything was
going on, for I was anxious to see
everything. Finally he took something out, and handing it to my
father, said, "Brother Ayars, there
is something that you want." That
was the first issue of the REVIEW we
had ever seen. Of course, we were
very much interested in it, for the
denomination had just started to
publish it that year.
Hiram Edson, J. N. Andrews, S. W.
Rhodes, and many other denominational pioneers also came to visit us
from time to time. Many of these
leaders were just young men, but no
matter what their age, all of them
were full of enthusiasm and a great
love for this message.
J. N. Andrews, you know, was the
first missionary ever to be sent to a
foreign field by this denomination. I
can remember very distinctly when
we heard he had gone to Europe to
preach the message we loved so well.
Think of it, we had just one missionary, in one place, then, while now our
missionaries are scattered throughout 295 countries and islands.
I always liked Elder Rhodes especially well. I can recall very clearly
just how he used to travel. He had
a buckboard—a rather light, fourwheeled vehicle having a long springy
board in place of body and springs,
with a seat on top of it. Then he
always carried an oilcloth to wrap
around him.
A certain incident which occurred
one evening has always given me very
special reason to remember that oilcloth, and has also made me like
Elder Rhodes the more. Of course,
if we had any idea there was to be a
preacher at our Sabbath meetings, we
would go, no matter how cold or
stormy it was. Father and mother
would always sit in the front of the
buggy, with the baby. And the other
three of us children occupied the back
seat. The meetings were long, lasting
all day and far into the night, and so
when we finally were ready to start
home, father would take out the back
seat, and lay us carefully in the bottom of the buggy. It was quite large,
and we could stretch clear out in it,
and sleep all the way home. One
stormy night—I was about eight
years old then—Elder Rhodes saw us
getting ready to begin our homeward
journey, and fearing that we children
in the back might get cold and wet,
he took his own oilcloth, and wrapped
it around us.
Elder Rhodes was a very consecrated man. He had been one of the
most ardent preachers of the second
coming of Christ before the disappointment. He was absolutely certain that Christ was coming at the
exact time set, and when the time
passed, and the next day came, and
still there was no sign of the coming
of the Son of man, he felt very sad
indeed. His neighbors began to make
fun of him, and he was so mortified
that he went right off, and no one
knew where he was. Of course, all
the Adventists were very much depressed for a time. Then, after
April 18, 1935
that, went around preaching it with
great zeal.
Whenever any of these ministers
came in those early days, they always
had new things to tell us. One time
when Elder Bates was visiting at our
home, he took out a pamphlet, looked
at it, and said hesitatingly, "I don't
know that I should let you have this.
It is pretty strong meat." I wondered just what he meant. And
mother said, "Oh, please tell us, what
is it?" We were so anxious to learn
everything we could. Then he told
us about Sister White being a prophetess, and explained that this pamphlet contained some of her visions.
We had never heard about them before, but we accepted them at once.
I remember so well when one of
these visiting ministers was telling
mother about the state of the dead.
You see, she had been taught that
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the soul was immortal, and she was
just sure that there was a text in the
Bible that proved this view. But
she looked and looked and could not
find it anywhere. Finally, knowing
that he was a very thorough Bible
student, she turned to the minister
and asked, "Where is that verse that
says, 'The soul is immortal and shall
never die' 7" He looked at her, and,
smiling a little, replied, "It is the
next verse after the one which says
that Sunday is the Sabbath." Of
course, mother was quite chagrined
not to be able to prove her point, but
when she learned that there was no
foundation for it, she immediately
accepted the Bible explanation.
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Mrs. Kellogg at the age of ninety years,
in 1934.
added light came that the sanctuary
was in heaven, and they studied the
Bible and found their mistake, some
of the ministers became anxious to
locate Brother Rhodes, and tell him
the good news. But they could not
find a trace of him anywhere. Finally two of them started out to
search for him. They at last found
him in a little shack in the woods,
living all alone. He had his Bible
with him, and had been studying.
When they explained to him the mistake that had been made, he recognized it at once, and came out
strongly for this new light, and after
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Elder A. G. Daniells. We believe, however, that this will be appreciated by our
readers throughout the world. The history of his life for the last thirty years
is largely the history of this movement,
because he has been so closely identified
with it. Of necessity, some of our regular departments and continued articles
have been omitted. These will be resumed next week.
tion, at this recovery of a treasure calculated to enlarge modern knowledge of the
ancient Hebrew tongue. Not scholars
alone, but every reader of the Bible will
be moved by the fact that these tablets
corroborate the Scriptural records of the
kingdom of Judah.
"During the past few years the socalled 'higher criticism' has soared quite
out of range of ordinary vision. People
who really accepted the Darrow school of
attack have begun to think that soon even
the historical portion of the Bible would
evx,
be lost to all save the eye of faith. For
the rank and file of mankind, it is thereFirm Under Trial
fore a comfort to learn that the Sacred
SOMEWHERE, all the time, in populous Writings, while retaining their theological
Europe, one may be assured our young and ethical values, are now receiving unexceptional testimony in support of their
men are meeting tests of faith.
"In our union," said one president, "a historical validity."
young man, in doing his term in the milietk,
tary, was punished far his loyalty to the
Sabbath. He was passed from prison to
Advanced Bible School
prison and from one course of discipline
Bulletin
to another; but he held fast to his faith.
In the end he was released, with all the
THE second session of the Advanced
prison record left off his papers, and his Bible School is to be held at Pacific
military book was marked, 'Very satis- Union College, St. Helena, California,
factory? "
June 5 to August 27, 1935.
In Southeastern Europe an officer, not
The purpose of this school is to make
yet fully a member, was accused by the available to Bible and history teachers,
ecclesiastics for attending our meetings. editors, ministers, and missionaries,
Under priestly pressure he was twice courses on a graduate level in Theology,
condemned by military court, and was Religion, History, English, Biblical Lanstripped of his rank. But the highest guages, Speech, and Education.
authorities intervened on the ground of
The school is open to all graduate stufreedom of conscience, the newspapers dents who by previous preparation are
reported, and his rank was restored, his qualified to pursue the courses offered.
papers being marked 'Good,' with all rec- Those who do not have graduate standord of his trial expunged. Now, free to ing, but who believe themselves able to
resign, he planned to train for Christian pursue the courses offered, will be given
consideration.
service.
Another young man in one country, a
For full particulars send for a copy
member of our church, was put through of the Advanced Bible School Bulletin.
the severest kind of punishments for his Address W. E. Nelseon, Secretary of the
loyalty to the Sabbath. The description Board, or M. E. Kern, Dean, Takoma
of it is like a story of the old-time In- Park, D. C.
quisition methods. The young Seventhetk,
day Adventist bore it all meekly and patiently. When he was finally set free, the
"There Is a River"
officer in charge made out his papers with
A BEAUTIFUL and moving story comes
no reference to punishments, marking his
record, "One of the best." And when the to us from one of the African missions.
young man bade his superior farewell to A missionary set out for a village that
go home, the officer said, "Keep on with had been determinedly hostile to the gosyour religion, and be true to your God." pel. His friends said that he would only
waste his time, but he felt bound to go
Thus fidelity to God wins respect.
W. A. 8.
and do his best to help.
After a tedious journey he reached the
egt,
village with his four bearers carrying his
tent and the other necessaries. Their arRecent Archeological Findings rival
was the signal for a great gathering
THE following is taken from an edi- of little black children, many of whom
torial in the Washington Post of March bad never seen a white man before. The
15, under the heading, "Another Book missionary glanced at them once, and
of Kings:"
then went on with his task of pitching
"In these days of speed, archeology the tent.
moves almost as fast as any forwardAfter a while one little fellow put his
looking science. Less than a week ago kinky head in under the canvas; he was
word came that in the Valley of the plainly fascinated with the white man.
Tigris had been found the ruins of 'a city The missionary took no notice of him for
older than Ur of the Chaldees.' Now it fear of frightening him away, but he
is announced at Jerusalem that a British knew the little fellow was coming closer
expedition to the southwest corner of and closer.
Palestine has discovered, between BeerAt last he felt the boy's fingers tugging
sheba and Gaza, chronicles dating from at his trousers. Then as he paused in his
900 to 600 B. C. and dealing with events work, a little black hand pushed its way
then contemporaneous.
into his, and he looked down into the
"Scholars will rejoice with Dr. John P. eager but shy little face. Clutching him
Harrington, of the Smithsonian Institu- now with both hands, the tiny representa-
April 18, 1935
tive of a village that did not want the
gospel said, "Please, white man, tell me
the name of the river where you wash
yourself white."
Could an appeal from the children of
Africa be better expressed?
ERNEST LLOYD.
The New Hebrides
SOME of the islands comprising the
New Hebrides group are large and some
are small; and all are scattered over a
stretch of tropical ocean about 100 miles
wide and nearly 400 miles from northwest to southeast. There are many languages. In many places, when mission
work was begun, the inhabitants were as
degraded as human beings could be.
Much hostility was encountered, extending to actual shooting in some instances.
Yet the work has moved on. Many of
the large and some of the tiny islands
have been entered. Now there are believers where formerly hostility was shown.
We also have believers from more than
twenty of the languages.
Nearly twenty village schools are in
operation, with over 400 in attendance.
There are twenty-five Sabbath schools,
with nearly 1,000 enrolled. Nor should
we forget our 500 enthusiastic Missionary
Volunteers. Much also has been accomplished along medical missionary lines.
From Sabbath and village schools many
have gone on to attend our training school
at Aore, and more than a score of our
students from this center have been called
to act as teachers and evangelists on their
own and other islands of the group. We
may realize what a radical change from
former conditions this means, when we
bear in mind that in former days it
meant almost certain death for a child
or an unarmed person to cross a tribal
boundary.
Best of all is the fact that our believers
are stanch and true. J. R. James, speaking from long experience in the work
there, described our believers as "tried
and proved."
Nevertheless, though progress in the
New Hebrides has been encouraging,
there is much yet to be accomplished.
We are just making a beginning in the
island of Oba, where the inhabitants, who
have a slight mixture of Spanish blood,
are perhaps the most intelligent people
of the whole group. Here a very fine
language is spoken, and we are hopeful
of recruiting many teachers and workers
as the message makes further progress.
We are also in touch with people on
Pentecost Island. With the exception of
Tanna, where progress has been rapid,
the southern islands of the group have
not yet been entered by us. Very much
still remains to be done; it is no time for
slackening our efforts; rather should we
intensify them.
H. STOCKTON.
cal,
Important Correction t
FALL COUNCIL action set date of Missions Extension Fund Offering for May 11
instead of the original date, April 27. This
allows two extra weeks to sell literature and
fill the Missions . Banks.
All workers and members are asked to
dedicate a day's income to this offering. We
have sounded the call to
ADVANCE. Let us arise and go forward
to victory.
J. L. SHAW, Treasurer
of the General Conference.