" r BY, WAY 'OF: COMPA'RISON"', These figures are taken.from the,x~a.r Books of '., the 'past six years. ', ',

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1 " "... ; "~ : t :" ". : : :....:." ~.-. " ". BY WAY OF: COMPARSON". ~ :... "..: / These fgures are taken.from the X~a.r Books of. the past sx years. Pastors Salares " $ " ~0~.. " "Other Local Expenses". $ ~72 " ()- " 38~ Denom- ". -natonal Purposes $19608~l ~15 60; ~ Acxordng to. thesefg:1les as sent to the Corres by the clerks of the churches n pondng Sec~etary "ther annual reports there has been a steady ncrease. n the amount of money rased by our churches durng the Forward Movetpe~t f~e year perod and the fgur~~ of 1919 the year ;before the Forward Move~ c::~.- " ment began as compared wth the present year just. : closed show a percentage ncrease as follows: ".. ":\ n Pastors Salares ~ ~. ~ % plus " """ Other Local Expenses... 75% plus ~... :: " " :. For Denomnatonal Purposes..-. ".222% p~us: l " " : " "" -. 1 NFLUENCE OF CHRSTANTY " ~ ". When the mcroscopc ~earch of skeptcsm whch has.. hunted the heavens and sounded the seas to dsprove" the exstence of a Creator has turned ts attenton: to human "" socetjr and has found a place o~thsplanet ten mles square" where a decent ~an can lve n decc?ncy comfort and securty supportng and ~educatng the; chldre~ un- spoled and unpolluted; a place where. age s reverenced" womanhood defended and human lfe held n due regard;. when skeptcsm can fnd such a place ten mles square on the globe where the gospel of Chrst has not go~e and cleared the way and lad the foundatons and made decency " and securty possble t wll then be n order for the. skeptcal lterat to move thther and ventlate ther vews. Butso lon.g as these very ~en are dependent. upon the reu- gon they dscard for.every prvlege they enjoy they may well hestate a lttle before they seek to J;ob the ChrstaJl of hs hope.. and humanty of ts Savor.-James Rus&ell Lowell. " " r Edltoral.-"Be "Stll and Know That lam GOd."-Fve Good Addresses on. Facng Our R.esponsbtes.- Read Carefully" the Commssons Report.-Chldrens Work; n.conferen e.- Young People at Confer- ence...;.;.womans Board at Confer- ence.-a Great ProhlbUonMeet- lng... < ) ~ ~ ~ 289~291- Sxth AnnualReport of the Comms- t:don of the Seventh" Day Baptst General Conference.:~" The :"New.Forward MoveDent.:":-The SeventhDay Baptst Onward MOvement. : ~..; Generat.. Conference Re- celpts for August. 192"4... ~ Doctor:Crandall and M-ss Burdck. Under Fre.". ~. ~.~. e..." ~ ~ ~ ~ ; S~venth Day Baptst"Fundamentals.296 MsloDs.~ur~" Mssohares~ Sal for "ChnaOctober 23. """:":Letter From Elder R. Loue Mgnott; Kngston~ Jamaca. B. W: l.-;-annual -Report ~. ~ " oft. L. M. Spencer Brtsh Guana. 300 Lfe! What s t? A Few Correctons Educaton Soeletys Page.- Makng a Good Wll.- The Transformers Womans Work.-Womans Board An-. nversary.-annual Report of Wom- ans Board~-TreaSurer s Report A Correcton... ~.. ~ Young Peoples Work. - Get t n g Thngs Done.- A Thought for the Quet Hour.- Jntermedate ChrstanEndeavor Topc. -- J u l 0 r --Work _... ~ : Report of the Commttee on Engrossng the Mnutes of the General Conference... " Chldren. Page. -Chldren n Our. Ctes. - The Whp-poor-wll. - A: " Brght Pn ~......:. 316;319.Mar~lages e"~ ".: SabbathSchool Lesson for September" < :.: ~. ~.. ~~ ~ ~O ".:.. ":.

2 -0 CO! " 1 " ~;:."" "..:..:.... SEVENTH nay BA.PTSTDRECTORY. "..." ~. ""... THE SEVENTH -DAY BAPTST GENERAL.. CONFERENCE... Next Sesson wll be held wth the Seventh Day. Baptst Church at Mlton. Ws. Aug ~ Presdent-Rev. Alva L. Davs Ashaway R.. Frst Vce Presdent-Rev. Wllard D. Burdck Dunellen N. J... Vce Presdents-Wllam C. Hubbard Planfeld N. J.; Frank E; Peterson Leonardsv11~~ N. Y.jFred B. Mars Nortonvlle 1<;an.; Herbert C. vanhorn - Lost Creek W. Va.; Curts F. Randolph Alfred N. Y.; C. Columbus Van Horn. Tchnor Ark.; Benjamn F. Crandall San Bernardno Cal.. Recordng Secretary-J. Nelson Norwood Alfred N. Y. Correspondng Secretary---Rev. Edwn Shaw Mlton Ws.. Treasurer-Rev. Wllam C. Whtford Alfred N. Y. D.r.ector. of New Forward Movement-Rev. -Ahva J. C. BonaPlamfeld N. J. ; Treasurer of New. Forward Movement~Rev. Wllam ~.. Whtford AlfredN. Y. COMMSSON Terms Expre n 192~Rev. Theodore.1. Van Horn Verona N. Y.; Paul E. Ttsworth Chestertown Md.; M. Wardner Davs Salem W. Va.. Terms ExPre n 1925-Esle F. Randolph Great Klls Staten sland N. Y.; George W. Post Jr. Chcago 111.; Henry Rng Nortonvlle Kan....Terms E~re 1926-Rev. Alva L. Davs Ashaway R..; Rev. James L. Skaggs Planfeld N. J.; D. Nelson ngls Mlton Ws. ". AMERCAN SABBATH TRACT SOCETY BOARD OF DRECTORS Presdent-Corlss F. Randolph:r-fewark N. J. ". Recordng Secretary-Arthur. Ttsworth Planfeld ~};sstant Recordng Secretary-Asa F. Randolph Planfe~d N. J. Cor. Secretary-Rev. Wllard D. Burdck Dunellen N. J.... Treasurer-F. J. Hubbard PlanfeldN. J. Regular: meetng of the Board at Planfeld N. J. the second Flrst-day of each month at 2 p. m. THE SEVENTH DAY BAPTST MSSONARY SOCETY Presdent-Rev.:C. A. Burdck West~r11.!_ R. Recordng ~ecretary-george B. Utter Westery R.. Correspondtng Secretar-Rev. Wm. L. Burdck Asba- W;l)" R... ".. Treasurer-S. H. Davs Westerly R... The re~jar meetngs of the Board of Managers are held ~e thrd Wednesdays n January Aprl July and Oct~ber~ SEVENTa DAY BAPTST EDUCATON SOCETY.. Presdent-Rev. W. C. Whtford Alfred N. Y. Recordng_Secretary and Treasurer-Earl P. Saunders. Alfred N. Y;".. Co"espondng Secretary-Prof. Paul E. Ttsworth Chestertown Md. The regular meetngs of the Board are held on the second Sun~ay of January Aprl July and October. WOMANS ElECUTVE BOARD OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE Presdent-Mrs. A. B. West Mlton Juncton Ws. Recordng Secretary- Mrs. Edwn Shaw Mlton Ws. ~~"tspondng Secrefar-Mrs. J. H. Babcock. Mlton WS.. "\..." f. Tr~asure"-Mrs. A;. E. Whtford Mlton. Ws. Edtor of Woman s. Work SABBATH RECORDER--Mrs. George~. Crosley Mllton Ws.. ( ASSOCATONAL SECRETARES Eastern-Mrs. Wllard D.Burdck Dunellen N. J. Sout1tetUtern-Mrs. ~.Wardner Davs Salem w: Va. C~""tJ~Mrs~. Adelade C. Brown West Edmest0!l. N. Y... We.rlem-Mrs. Walter L. Greene Andover N. x. SOflthff1estt~M.ts. R. J. Mlls Hammond La.. N orlhwenern-mlss Phoebe S. Coon. Walworth Ws. Pa.clc CoGlt-Mrs. N. O. Moore Rversde caj o /. THE SEVENTH. DAY BApTST MEMORAL FUNP. Presdent-H. M: Maxson Planfeld~ ll. 1~ Vce-Presdent-WllamM. Stllman. Planfeld N J Secretary-We C. Hubbard Planfeld N. J.. Treasurer-FrankJ. Hubbard F1anfeld N. J.. Gfts or bequests for any denomnatonal purpose ar. nvted and wll be. gladly admnstrated and safeguarde for the best nterests of.the benefcares n-accordance wth the wshes of the donors.. " The Me~or!al Board acts as the Fn~ncaAge~t of the DenommatlOn.. ~rte the Treasurer for n~ormaton as ~ to ways n whlch the Board can be of servlce.. SEVENTH DAY BAPTST HSTORCAL SOCETY (NCORPORATED 1916) Presde.nt.Corlss F. Randolph Newark N. J. Recordsng Secretary-As a F. Randolph Planfeld N. J. Treasurer-Frank J.Hubbard Planfeld N. J. Advsory Commttee-:-W11am L. Burdck Charman.. SABBATH SCHOOL BOARD Presde!t-Prof. Alfred E. Whtford Mlton Ws... Recor4sng Secretary-Dr. A. LoveUe Burdck Janesvlle WlS.. Tt:easurer-L. A. Babcock Mlton Ws.. Fseld Secretary-t M. Holston Dodge Center Mnn. Stated meetngs are held on the thrd Frst Day of the week n the months of September December and March and on.the frst Frst Day of the week. n the month 01 June n the Whtford Memoral Hall of Mlton College Mlton Ws.... YOUNG PEOPLES EXECUTVE BOARD Presdent-Benjamn F. JohansonBattle Creek Mch. Record~ng Secretary-}{ss Marjore Wlls Battle Creek Mlch... Correspondng Secretary---Mrs. Frances F. Babcock 156 Goodale Ave. Battle Creek. Mch..... FeldjSecretary-E. M.Holston. Dodge Center Mnn. Treasurer-Elvan H. Clarke 229 N. Washngton Ave. Battle Creek Mch.. Trustee Clf Unted S oddes-benjamn F. Johanson Battle Creek Mch.. \ Edtor of Young Peoples Department of SABBATH RECORDER-Mrs. Ruby Coon Babcock Battle Creek Mch. Junor Superntendent-Ms~ "" Elsabeth Kenyon Ashaway R... ntermedate. Supermtendent- Duane Ogden Salem W.VL. ASSOCATONAL SECRETARES Eastern-Marjore BurdckDunellenJ..N. ]. Cenlr(Jl-Hazel Lanporthy~ Adams unter N. Y. Western-Vda Randolph Alfred N. Y.. NorlhflJe.stern-?~rs Ho~ston Dodg~.Centert Mnn.. MSS Euntce Rood North LouJ>~ Neb. Southeastern..;...Mss Maybelle Sutton Salem W. Va. Southwestern-Mss Fuca Randolph..:... Fouke Ark.. Pacfc-Mss Alce Baker 159 W.uate St. Rversde Cd _ " " CONFERENCE AUXLARY FOR LONE SABBATH KEEPERS General Felcl.secret~ry-G. M. Cottrell Topeka Kan. Assstant Feld S ecre#ary~mrs.angelne Abbey Allen Fouke Ark. " SEVENTH DAY B:A.PTST VOCATONAL -COMMTTEE RObertB. St. Clar Charman; 3446 Mack Avenue Detrot Mch.;. Carl U. Parker Chcago Tl.; E. S Maxson Syrac.use N. Y.; George H. Davs Los Angele!!. Cal.; John H. Austn Westerly R.~;D. Nelson ngls Mlton Ws~; Holly W. Maxson West New YorkN. J. THE TWENTETH CENTURY ENDOW.. ME NT FUND Alfred N. Y. For the jont beneft of Salem and. Mlton Colleges anf~ Alfred. Unversty... " The Seventh Day Baptst Educat~n SOc~ solct( g1f~and ~equestsfor. these denomnatonal coll~re... " The Sabbath Recorder... ~ \ A Seventh Day Baptst Weeldy Publshed by the Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety Planfeld N. J. VOL. 97 No. 10 PLANFELD. N. J. SEPTEMBER WHOLE No "Be Stll a~d Know Ths was.. the text That Am God u.ed by Rev ~ H. C. Van Horn of Lost Creek VV. Va. n the frst sermon of General Conference on Tuesday evenng at Mlton. After showng by llustraton and by pre cept somethng of the feversh age n whch we are rvng so full of unrest. and dssatsfacton Brother Van Horn sad ~ ths text s approprate for our tme and should be heeded. Have we come here dscouraged over the sgns of the tmes over the worldlness of our feversh age? Then lsten to the words: "Be stll and know that am God." May we as dd the prophet of old see God lfted up n the temple. Let us learn even here to st quet be stll and kno~ our God. After Eljah was ready to de from ds.couragements he found God and by the stll small voce was qrected to the best work of hs lfe. May t be so here. We must hear Gods voce callng us to march on wth hm. Be stll and know that am God calls for more Bble study and devoton; more tnle for prayer. Prayer opens the very gate of heaven where lke Jacob at Bethel we may see angelsde- scend1g and ascendng. ft us for servce. These thngs wn Fve Good Addresses On On the second FacngOur Responsbltes day of Conference.after the report of the Sabbath School Board by Doctor Lavetle Burdck and a report of the Commttee 0~1 ndustv and Servce by Pastor James L. Skagg~. and the Federal Councl Commttees report Elder John C.Branch led n devotonal servce. Hs lesson was n Romans 12 and the burden 6f hs remarks was to the effect that every hnderng thng may be lad asde and. that the Holy Sprt may lead- n the path of unty and Chrstan love. -May he gve us the sprt of work ~and real servce. lvlay every effort n reports n sermons n songs and n addresses be blessed of God. Then came the fve short addresses on the general theme: "Facng Our Respons- bltes." 1. n.home Tranng by Rev. Edgar D. Van Horn; 2. n Chrstan Educaton by Esle F. Randolph; 3. n ndustry by Rev. James L. Skaggs; 4. n Cvc Lfe by Rev. Ero E. Sutton; 5. n nternatonal Relato~s by Presdent S. Orestes Bond. All these speakers but Brother Sutton had papers whch wll be found n the RE CORDER. Brother Suttons remarks were extempore and we gve the substance of them here as best we can: Wth the many problems of economc socal and farmng condtons Amerca needs a Chrstanty that fu1tcto1l-s rather than a formal eccle-sastcsm. A vtal Chrstanty wll go farther toward solvng our natonal problems than anythng else. Chrst was practcal. He ponted out the poltcal and socal evls of hs day taught men how to correct them and showed hs followers that relgon wthouf works s dead.. A vtal relgon wll put men and women on the job n any. rghteous work. t wll cause- them to work and vote as they pray.. too many forget ther relgon when they go to the polls to vote. would lke to be able always to vote my party tcket; but can not do so when some of ts canddates are unworthy of my support. For the most part Amercans obey law; why gnore the Prohbton Amendment and enforcement laws. No loyal ctzen has reason to complan of them; but "No rogue eer feels the halter draw wth good opnon of the "law." Yes Amerca needs a vtal ~hrstanty that wll make her ctzens fearless n-facng ther tasks. Brother Sutton closed wth the words of Abraham Lncoln: "Let every Amercan every lover of/lberty every well-wsher to hs posterty swear by the blood of the Revoluton never to volat~ n the least partcular the law of the country and never to tolerate ts volaton by others. "Let reverence for the law be breathed by every Amercan mother to the lspng babe that prattles on her lap; let t be taught n schools n semnares and n colleges; let t be wrtten n prmers spellng books and n almanacs; let t be preached from the pulpt proclamed n legslatve halls and enforced n courts of justce. "And n short let t become the poltcal r~lgon of the naton;. and let the old and

3 290 THE SABBATH RECORDER young the rch ;lnd poor the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and \ condtons sacrfce unceasngly upon ts altars." " Read Carefully The We looked n on the Commssons Report commsson at work n W. M. Davs home on Lake Geneva long er.ough to convnce us that for four days nne men had a full mans job. f anyone thnks the commsson has a play spell when - t meets he wll soon be convnced of hs error f he tres the job hmself. We gve the report as handed n by the secretary and feel sure our readers wll gve t a careful study. The ffteen tems "Dpped from the Stream"; the fourteen "Recommendatons"; the seven planks n "Our Platform"; the seven tems n "Our Program"; the complete "Onward Movement Budget" and the last page "By Way of Comparson" are all too full of nterest to be allowed to go unread. "By Way of Comparson" under the last headng of the report shows you at a glance somethrg of the steady ncrease n gfts for the Lords go?d work n fve years. Who can thnk of stoppng now?. Chldrens Work t was mpossble for the n Conference edtor to attend the outsde meetngs _ whch were usually held durng Conference hours. Four days of Conference at three oclock there was a specal servce for chldren n the college buldng n charge of Mrs. Wllard D. Burdck who was asssted by others n ths good work. Then on Sabbath day a very nterestng demonstraton of chldrens work was gven n whch abo\!t sxty chldren took part. The drectors wll supply some descrpton of the" work for the Chldrens Department. Young People More and more as the years At Conference go by. actve nterest :n denomnatonal matters by the young people s clearly seen n our annual gatherngs. Ths year there was a larger number than usual present n Conference and the three assocatons already held have been charac: terzed b :;sspecal and nsprng actvtes of fne groups of- young people. Each day at Mlton specal servces were held at one-thrty called "Yqung Peoples Actvtes." There was a fellovshp socal. _to begn wth.and then came "A Workers Conference" commttee conferences" a fellowshp breakfast and the regular program of the Young Peoples Board. We leave the~ matter of presentng the good papers and addresses for our readers n the Young Peoples Department of the SABBATH RECORDER" to the Young Peoples Board. Womans Board The -afternoon of Wed At Conference nesday was gven. to the program of the Womans Board. t was a great day n more respects than qne. The meetng was n charge of Mrs. Allen B. West. Besdes the usual reports there was a celebraton of the forteth annversary of the organzaton of the Womans Board whch took place at the Conference at Lost Creek \"1. Va. n The reports of ths. meetng wll appear n the W oman.s Department of the RECOR DER; so no attempt at a specal descrpton of the program wll be needed here.. There were two dvsons of the program -Vson and Realzaton. The Vson represented the outlook of those attendng the nformal meetng held forty years ago n whch the queston of organzng a womans. board was dscussed and settled. Twelve persons dressed n the style of 1884 and representng the men and women of that day marched n and held conven- \ ton on the platform. n ths conventon opnons for and aganst organzaton were presented and the decson to organze was reached. The Vson Realzed came next. n ths was gven a summary of last yeaes work by the correspondng secretary and a most nterestng revew of the achevemen.ts of forty years. Ths was gven n large sheets on an easel wth the good thngs done ~ prnted n large black type. Each sheet was read by Mrs. H. C. Van Horn so all could hear and then removed untl all the recofd was read. 1 After ths demonstraton of the "Vson Realzed" there was no chance left for any one to doubt the \vsdom of organzng n Womans Board n n ths sesson a large womans -chorus of about twenty. persons from Albon Ws. cparmed the audence wth ther sngng. Mss Gladys Hulett.9f! Bolvar.. " THE N. Y. sang a solo. Then came a pageant n whch representa~ves of the varous socetes of the denomnaton marched and counter marched wth more than forty _ banners up and down the asles. t" was a great demonstraton n whch about two hundred women took part. The slogan of ths parade was: "n the name of God we set. up our banners.". Mrs. May - Ross Davs gave several tableaux n whch young people n costpmes represented scenes n the home socal and school lfe of Chna. The ~logan on the frst page of ths program was: "What hath God wrought?" _ A Great Prohbton OnvV ednesday eve Meetng. nng there was ndeed a great prohbton meetng. The program began wth excellent movng pctures showng the dfference bet~een c<!ndtons n ~he home lfe and n the lquor bus_ness before and snce the Eghteenth Amendment was enacted. -Ths was a most convncng demonstraton of the good results of -prohbton.. The Mlton College Quartet sang and responded to an encore. Then came two. strong addresses and an excellent paper by Presdent B. C. Davs. The frst was by Thomas W. Gale superntendent of educaton n Wsconsn. The speaker was certanly a lve wre and made art address whch my pen s not able to report n a way that wll do t justce. The-last speaker was Dr. Scott ~cbrde presdent of the Natonal Ant-Saloon League. He was glad Uncle Sam s gettng after the real crm~1s by pushng the. brewers" and bootleggers behnd prson bars. The lquor traffc never -dd obey the law even n lcense fmes; and now mllons of dollars are beng spent n efforts to. show prohbton a falure. _ All eyes are _ turned toward Amerca and what we do wll settle the matter for the world. Have fath n God do your duty and the Eghteenth Amendment wll stay and law wll be enforced. - Presdent Davs haspronlsed hs excel SABBATH RECORDER 291 lent address for the RECORDER. t wll come n due tme. At the close of. ths meetng Brother Hosea W. Rood offered the followng resoluton whch was adopted by the General Conference: -Resolved That ths Seventh Day Baptst. General Conference"n annual sesson at Mlton Ws. January put tself on record as postvely" n favor of the followng propostons: Frst-That practcal relgon and cvc rghteousness are closely related. Second-That t s the duty of every voter to nterest hmself or herself ntellgently n cvc affars and to vote at every electon for such men and measures as n hs or her best judgment wll be for the hghest good of our sta te and naton. Thrd-That the Consttuton be upheld as supreme and nvolable and Jhat the laws made under t. shall be strctly enforced; ncludng n partcular the Eghteenth Amendment. SXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COM. MSSON OF THE SEVENTH DAY BAPTST GENERAL CONFERENCE ("Our Platform" and the "Budget" appeared last week.) To theseventh Day Baptst. Oeneral Conference:. ( " Your cbmm~~on herewth presents ts annual report whch conssts of a bref general revew of the work durng the year together wth certan recommendatons a" platform a program a denomnatonal budget and an apportonment of the budget to the churches n the Unted States of Amer-. "; lca.-... BREF REVEW The commsson has held two meetngs -durng- the year the frst at Pttsburgh Pa.; December and the other at College Camp Lake Geneva -Ws. August 12-~ Pttsburgh was selected as the place of neetng because of ts centrallocaton and the convenence n ralway faclt~s ard because of economy of t te and travelng expenses of the members attendng the meetng. Lake Geneva was chosen because t s near to Mlton where the Gen- eral Conference. convenes and because the commsson was entertaned at the nvtaton of 11r. and Mrs:. \;y." M. Davs at ther beautful- home by the akt:. ~ At these two meetngs each of three days extent the commsson carefully consdered the nstructons and suggestons comng from- the General Conference; from the denomnatonal boards and socetes and from J

4 292 THE SABBATH RECORDER.. ndvduals. All ts actons at the Pttsburgh meetng were publshed n the SAB BATH RECORDER of January 14 ~nd ; and all ts essental actons for the year are gathered together n the prnted pamphlet whch has at ths tme been dstrbuted. ( OUR PROGRAM n presentng a denomnatonal program to our people the commsson wshes to ex-. press ts frm belef that the results of the past fve years fully justfy and warrant a contnuance n general of the methods and polces whch have characterzed the New Forward Movement and to ths end t recommends:. 1. That our unted work as a people be known as the "Seventh Day Baptst Onward Movement" wth the motto: "Onward. and Upward" and wth the slogan "Lead On 0 Kng Eternal!" 2. That the am and purpose of our unted effort namely be~ter people~ moore and 1nore lke Jesus Chrst shall never be obscured by the detals of our methods. 3. The adopton and promoton of: plans whch shall contnue and further develop co-operaton among our churches and boards and better correlaton of all our forces. 4. The employment of a general secretary whose dutes shall be th6se specfed n Secton 8 of the recommendatons of ths report. 5. An annual denomnatonal budget adopted by the General Conference compled by the commsson from budgets and estmate$ sent by the varous boards and socetes and by the commsson. 6. The plan of a mnmum annual contrbuton of ten dollars a member for de~ nomnatonal work; and n ths connecton the consderaton of the tthng plan s earnestlv commended to each member of the den"omnaton. 7. Whle holdng frmly to the prncple. that churches and ndvduals have entre freedom n the desgnaton of ther gfts a cordal ~upport recommended. of the budget plan s RECOMMENDATONS 1. The commsson recommends that people and pastors contnue to stress the. tranng of ottr you!lg people for Chrstan. leadershp wth specal reference to the Chrstan mnstry. 2. The commsson recommends to the Tract Socety a new edton of the Seventh Day Baptst Manual. and for that purpose has placed an tem of $500 n the Onward Movement Budget for the ensung year. 3. The commsson recommends the employment of Rev. A. J. C. Bond n hs present capacty untl the frst of October 1924 at whch tme he s to become the pastor of the S~venth Day Baptst Church at Planfeld N. \J. 4. The commsson recommends for ~pproval by the General Conference that the opportunty be gven to the Tract Socety to make a separate campagn to rase the needed funds to complete thedenomna- tonal buldng. 5. The commsson recommends the adopton of the report of the. treasurer of the New Forward Movement Budget Fund and the report of the treasurer of the General Conference when they shall have been approved by the Audtng Commttee. 6. The commsson recommends that the term "general secretary" be gven to the offce noted n last year sreport as "de... notqnatonal executve secretary." 7. The commsson recommends that \ the correspondng secretary of the" Mssqn- - ary Socety nvestgate further the opportuntes for agrcultural mssonary work and ts feasblty n nda; together wth the suggeston that he mght confer wth Mr. Everett Davs who has been lookng forward to a work smlar to that mentoned by Mr. Mandale. The commsson also recommends the approval of the employment by the Mssonary Socety of C. C. Belgrave who s now n nda provded. he s returned to hs home n Jamaca. 8. The commsson reco1nends that the dutes of the general secretary be asfollows: 1 n general 1:1s feld of labor shall be that n whch the Forward Movement drector has been laborng; no addtonal nla j or. tasks are to be added. Whle the sprtual nterests of the denomnaton shah always re- ceve specal emphass he s to be respon~ sble for rasng the denomnatonalbuqget; he s expected to vst the assocatons and churches and to assst pastors as there may THE ; SABBATH RECORDER be need; and do such other work as the commsson mayd~ect; he s to labor wth freedom and ntatve "tu?-der the drecton of the commsson and hs relaton to the varous denomnatonal boarc~s s to be that of counsellor and co-ordnator. 9. Belevng n the real value of such work as Rev. Robert B. St. Clar s dong from the standpont of vocatonal needs and from the standpont of extendng our nfluence to people wth whom we are not now acquanted as well as n other mssonary lnes the commssonrecommends hs full- tme employment n these capactes by the Mssonary Socety. 10. n vew of the favorable report made by Rev. Wllam L. Burdck and Rev. C. A. Hansen who were apponted to vst Jamaca and make a careful study of condtons on that feld the commsson recommends that the fourteen churdhes whch have made applcaton be receved nto the ssterhood of the churches comprsng the Seventh Day Baptst General Conference. 11. The commsson reconlmends to the General Conference the plan of sendng a Seventh Day Baptst representatve from Amerca to attend the Unversal Chrstan COference on Lfe and Work whch s to meet n Stockholm Sweden n -August 1925; and asks for authorty to select and send such a representatve should such a plan seem wse and desrable later n the year The commsson recommends that the -request be renewed to the varous boards and socetes to.furnsh to the commsson ~t.ts pre-conference meetng typewrtten copes of the reports of [ther years work. 13. The commsson") recommends the adopton of the followng statement and that a copy be sent to John H. Fnley charman of the Commsson on nternatonal Justce and Good Wll of the Federal Councl. \Ve wsh to express our most emphatc belef that only an ncreased practce of the - prncples of Jesus Chrst can ever brng justce and pecl:ce nto world relatons; and we therefore call upon all- our churches to support every worthy attempt on the part of Chrstans to brng about endurng good wll and understandng among the natons of the world The commsson also recommer.. ds that tre method of co-operaton by our denomna- ton wth ths Commsso!l on nternatonal Justce and Good Wll he through the commsson and that the commsson be authorzed to purchase one htndred copes of a pamphlet e~ttled "What Pastors Can Do n the Crusade for a Warless W orld/ and dstrbute them to the pastors of our churches at a probable cost of about fve dollars. 14. n vew of contnued appallng con;: dtonsof sufferng n certan Near East countres t s recommended that the General Conference endc5rse the N ear East Movement. On the other hand we wsh to regster our decded dsapproval of the undue persstence an<;l dscourtesy shown our denomnatonal offcers by some of the offcal representatves of the Near East Commttee. APPORTONMENTS OF THE BUDGET TO THE CHURCHES dams Center... $ Albl...; Alfred- rst Alfred-Sec d Andover Attalla..... :.. ~ Battle Creelo ~ Berln Boulder J Brookfeld-Frst..... ~ Brookfeld-Second...." Carlton (Garwn) Chcago..... eo Cosmos DeRuyter Detrot ; Dodge Center Exeland Farna" ;-; Fouke..... ~ Frendshp Genesee-Frst..... ~ Gentry ~ Grand Marsh ~OO Greenbrer Hammond.. ~ Hartsvlle Hebron-Frst Hebron Center Hopknton-Frst Hopknton-Second ndependence..... ~...:... : Jackson Center Lttle Prare..."... ~ Los -Angeles ~ Lost Creek Marlboro Mddle sland..." Mlton

5 ~ ~! THE.. SABBATH RECORDER Mlton Juncton..... ~... ~ ng of our efforts but rather let t be wth Muskegon... ".;... ~.: a steady shoulder-to-shoulder unted ad- New Auburn :... ~... :.. ~~ vance all along o~ur lnes... New York Cty AL L DP d North Loup... 0 ~ VA AVS. res ent Nortonvlle THEODORE J. VAN. HORN Pawcatuck M. WARDNER DAVS. Pscataway.. ~ \ PAUL E. TTSWORTH Plan~eld :~ / ~ HENRY RNG. Portvlle t 0 ~ G W P J Rchburg ~~~. " EORGE OST R. Rtche... ~.;.( ~~ ESLE F. RANDOLPH. Rversde... 0 O o.o~:~.. ~.. d D. NELSON NGLS Roanoke ~.: : : Rock Creek... ;~.. ~... ~:"~:~~ ~..:~-..:~.>~~:.:.~. : ~~ - JAMES L. SKAGGS.. Rockvlle :L~~L~<... : Mltan r Ws.. Salem..... :::. ~.:;E::~t::~~:> "AUgflst Salemvlle ~.<C.<~.~{... ~~?~t.. : : : : : : :-: : ;:;~;;;};\:2;;: ::::..1~~ ~~ SUPPLEMENTARY RE:~T OF THE ;c:omms- Shloh ~~~..;.~.-.. ~ T h.. t tl t.. th th Stonefort... ;~.~L.; ;~-~:~~~..;~~ e commsson repor s la W e Syracuse.... ~.~;j.~:~;~;:..}:...:.. ~; approval of the General Conference and Verona-Frst...._... ~~~.~:~....;...: the Tract Socety concurrng n the present ~:~:r~~;d ". ::::::: ::J{::-":Y;;Hf01:;:::.!~ ~~ arrangements ~ev. Wllard D. Burdck s Welton... ;.. ~...:/.~:.. 0 : to be employed by thf com~:~1oo as gen- West Edmeston... ~"~ o eral. secretary at a sa ary ot P a year Whte Cloud... ~~... ~ on the part of the General Conference hs servces to begn October Total.! ~ ~. $58J~64 00 N CONCLUSON. The: commsson notes wth keen regret ANNUAL MEETNG that the drector of the New Forward The annual meetng of the members of Movement has decded to sever ths rela- the ~Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety of ton to the commsson and. the work of -New Jersey for the electon of offcers and trustees and the trarsacton. of such busthe denomnaton and wll return to the 1 before them 0 b H h " ness as rnay proper y come. pastor.ate cto er. / e as ac- wll be held n the Seventh Day Baptst compltshed very much towards the real church Planfeld N. J. on Sunday Sepsu~cess of the Forward Movement. ~n tember at 2.30 oclock p. m. ths York he has shown tact a~d power n. CORLSS F. RANDOLPH. securng a far better correlaton of our. Presdent. denomnatonal actvtes he has stmulated A.RTHUR L TTSWORTH. sprtual awakenng and?eve~opt?~nt.by hs Rec;"dng Secretary. earnest gospel messt:~ges n hs VSts among the churches and by hs contrbutons to the prnted page and he has been wse and untrng n hs efforts to rase the funds called for ~ the denomnatonal budget. The commsson has apponted a commttee to canvass the matter of securng a suc-. cess or to Brother Bond; the commttee s studyng and nvestgatng but as yet has made no report.. The members of the commsson whose term of "-offce expres wth the close of ths COl1ference are: Theodore J. Van HornM. Wardner Davs and Paul E. Ttsworth. As we pass from the N:ew Forward Movement at the close of the fve year -perod let t be wthout any br~.k or slack- ANNUAL MEETNG OF SABBATH SCHOOL. BOARD Notce of annual meetng of the Sabbath School Board of the Seventh Day Baptst General Conference.. The annual meetng of the Corporaton of the Sabbath School Board of the Seventh -Day Baptst General Conference wll be held n the "Gothc" at- Alfred; N. Y. Wednesday nght September at_ 7.30 oclock.. A. LOVEU..E BUlU)CK. Secretary. Mlton Ws.... A ugust 21" " ;. ~ ~:..".... THE NEW:FORWARD MOVEMENT AND SABBATH STUDY AND PROMOTON AHVA :1. C. BOND Drector 207 West Sxth Street Planfeld N. J.. THE SEVENTH DAY BAPTSTONWAllD MOVEMENT. The challengng battle cry of Seventh Day Baptsts for s "Onward and Upward" and. ther heart-prayer of devoton and of dedcaton s "Lead On o Kng Eternal." n a June number of th~ SABBATH RE CORDER the Forward Movement drector wrote."unless the churches do better than that (the amount contrbuted last June ) our great Forward Movement wll close wth a thud nstead of wth a-bang. Ths. must not be." Evdently recallng the language of that artcle Secretary Wllam L. Burdck wrtes : " feel that the Forward Movement perod has closed wth a bang and not wth a thud and am very anxous that the new year shall swng through on a rspg tde." What a vvd and thrll-- ng phrase that s: "Swng through on a. rsng tde." And beleve that n that vgorous language Brother Burdck s but Vocng the ardent desre and the holy purpose oa great many Seventh Day Baptsts as they begn the work of the new year. We dd npt know at\1he end?f June ~h t was gong to be! Buf nearly eght thousand dollars receved n July on last. years pledge$ made possble encour- agng reports at Conference from all our boards enablng us to face the new year wth thankful hearts and to go back to our churches to take up the work agan wth new hope for- the -future.. Nearly fve hundred dollars was---receved n August on tbe "Onward Movement budget" together wth more than a thousand dollars on the Forward Movement budget. From now on t s the plan of the treasurer to dstrbute all money receve<;l and not desgnated accordng to the new budget.. THE SABBATH RECORDER 295 Ths budget appeared n last weeks RE CORDER and wll be found n summary ths week on the back cover page. The chldren sng: "The tme to be happy s now. The place to be happy s here." The place and the tme to do a great many thngs s here and now. The tme to begn makng a good report at Salenl next. year s now.. One church at least makes ts annual canvass n October a very few make t n November. There are more churches that make the canvass n December and stll more n January. Durng seven months n the year one or more churches s. makng the annual; s~ul.taneous everymember canvass. We have never made a serous effort to establsh a unform date; Custom and local condtons determne very largely for each church. just wh~n t shall make ts fnancal callvass. t has been our custom however n recent years to desgnate November as "Stewardshp Month." So agan ths year do~bt1ess t wll be proftable to us all f we wll take ths tme to consder the queston of stewardshp.. There are aval~be two tracts on ths subject whch may be had by addressng the Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety at Planfeld. The lttle booklet Makng the Annual CanrtJass. gves drecton for mak- ~ ng the smultaneous ev:ery-member canvass n the local church and s based upon actual and --successful experence. t s the. method now us~d wth modfcatons n most of the churches.. That s n most of the churches that make -t regular canvass. There are stll churches that make no regular~ planned solctaton of funds for ths work of the denomnat~n. The other tract Prcserumg the dea of Ste-wardshp wrtten by Rev. L6yal F. : Hurley should be n th~ hands of every Chrstan. t dscusses the law of the tthe as related to the prncple of stewardshp ~. a very practcal and llumnatng way. Stewardshp as t s related to both tme and money s the subject dscussed andh s therefore a Sabbath tract as well as a. tract on _gvng. Every church should order enough of these tracts to supply each famly wth a copy for Stewardshp Month; November.... -: _ 1.. \

6 " THE SABBATH RECORDER GENERAL CONFERENCE Recepts for Augus~ 1924 Fptward Movement: Albon :..:.:. $. -< --00 Chcago.. ~... ~... ;.:; 3 00 Dodge Center.... b... ~. J4 50 Farna t-. :.-.:.~~~ ~ Fouke _... f.c.: " Frst Genesee... ~ Mlton.... :"..... ~" ~ ~ Pawcatuck... :.~... ~ ~ Salem..... ~ ~... ~.... ~... : Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crosby... ~ : $ Parallel Budget: ". Frst Alfred... ~:... $ Second Alfred...:...:~. ~... < Chcago <......L.. C Dodge Center... ~~ ~>.. : On Frst Genesee....:;.. ~./... " Pscataway... ~.. ~... ~... " Planfeld..... ~>. ~.5~~. < ~ ~ Frst Verona....~.. :. ~>..;.~ ~.. ~ Lela Stllman nterest... ~~:...".~.~ ; $ Onward Movement: " and Msson.Work."Furtherdown the :columrt app~ars ths paragraph:.. TWO. AMERCAN WOMEN UNDER FRE Two Amercan women remaned n Lu-hodur _ ng the bombardment. They were Mss Grace. Crandall a woman physcan and Mss Suse M. Burdck who were n charge of the- Seventh Day. Baptst Nsson Hosptal there.. When the frng began the R~d Cross unt from Shangha retreated twelve mles to the vllage of Lut but Mss Crandall and ~1ss Burdck refused to abandon the patents n the hosptal who were not war casualtes.. All day long the shells whstled overhead. Several of them passed through the hosptal buldng. Late n the day the Assocated Press corresponaent obtaned an automoble. truck and by usng the truck and hs own automoble managed to remove the patents tqgether wth the Amercan women to safety n Shangha. The ran of bullets contnued however whle the escape from the hosptal was beng effected. -. SEVENTH DAY BAPTST FUNDAMENTALS.~ REV. GEORGE B. SHA W (Sermon before Conference August ) Frst Alfred ~ ~ ~.. ~:... $ "Nevertheless the foundaton of God Second Alfred :....~ )~~;~.~:~/ standeth sure havng ths seal. The Lord DeRuyter..... ~... ~.:. :... : knoweth thenl that are hs. And let every Sp~contd sca away Hopknton.... ~ one that nameth the name of Chrst depart ~.~.... Planfeld from nquty." Second Tmothy 2: $ The wordng of the theme on our pro- Mnsteral Relef:. gram s suggestve of controversy. Ths Mlton... :... ~... ">. r~ L>. ; 500 strong text whch have just now an- Tract.Socety:..: "/~>..nounced could easly be used to call. atten- Mtlton..... ".".~ "" 5 ~O ton to dfferences of belef among Seventh Mssonary Socety:..... ;:..... :500 Day Baptsts. My purpose however s. Boy!"Pkt~hno~l a~d"gj;ssdh~~r{ merely to pont out n a smple comprehen- Mnneapols... ; sve way the fundamental artcles of fath Shloh and practce whch taken as a whole bnd Carroll Swenson.....; us together and separate us from qthers. WLLAM C. WHTFORD. am not a theologan. do not clam Alfred N. Y. August Treasu.rer. to be the exponent of Seventh Day Baptst doctrne. have lttle appette for argu- ment and none for controversy.. do not n ths address present anythng new or strange and venture to hope that. all Seventh Day Baptsts wll agree wth. DOCTOR CRANDALL AND MSS BURDCK UNDER FRE Assocated ~ress dspatches from Shangha to the daly papers of Amerca under date of September 4 carred news of very great nterest to. Seventh Day Baptsts. The followng s clpped from the front page of the NewYork Tmes for September 5 and came just n tme to fnd a place n ths ssue of the RECORDER.. The headlnes whch occup.ed the frst column head read n part as follows:.."amercan Women Brave." "Two Reman n Town Under Fre Attendng to Medcal what a111 about to say. However there are strangers here who may be nterested.. to know of thngs we count fundamental. There are young people here who need to be ndoctrnated.n 0 one of us can be too often remnded "precept upon precept lne upon lne here a lttle and there a lttle". of the fundamentals 011 whch we stand and for whch we contend. "Nevertheless the foundaton of God standeth sure havng thjs seal The Lord knoweth them that are THE SABBATH RECORDER 297 hs.. And. let every one that nameth the others meet us here or acknowledge that name of Chrst depart from nquty." \Vhel Paul wrote ths text he was n jal. t was near the end of the servce whch he we have a common ground for. dscusson. Ths s foundaton number one: The Bble the Word of God. rendered to God whle he was alve. He The second fundamental of the denonlnaton s the truth that salvaton s by the was wrtng a letter to Tmothy chefly for Tmothys drecton and encouragement. Cross. of Jesus Chrst. wll not turn The frst word of the text s very sgnfcant "nevertheless." -asde- to dscuss some ndvdual. case of salvaton." ha~e no nclnaton or ablty to. "Nevertheless the foundaton of God standeth sure." There set forth any theory of the atonement. was. so Paul sad n the church too much As a denonlnaton we have always been strfe about words to no proft. There were and always n1ust be mssonary and ~vangelstc belevng and preachng salvaton profane and van babblngs that were growng nto ungodlness. There was her~sy by fath n Jesus Chrst even the Cross of eatng lke a canker. Men were denytng Chrst. the truth of the resurrecton of the dead. The streets of our natonal captal are " Two men he called by name who had erred lad out wth reference to tht captol buldng. They center there. The roonls n the from the truth and were teachng others the sa:me. Hence Pauls "nevertheless." buldng look toward the great central dome. "Nevertheless the foundaton of God standeth sure havng ths seal The Lord know Jesus Chrst. We count our tnle backward So t s that all lnes of hstory center tn. eth them that are hs. And let every. one and forward from hs tme. Wthn the that nameth the name of Chrst )tepart from lfe of Chrst all s arranged wth refetence to hs death. When on the Cross nquty.".. vvhen J60k on the world today and see Jesus sad "t s fnshed." t was then the dfferent races and natons ready to and there that redempton was accomplshed whatever sgnfcance may be at~ fly at each others throats say. "N evertheless." When vew the Chrstan tached to the resurrecton. Ths let us Churc:J. dvded as t s say "Nevertheless." When see the Seventh Day Bap say s the second fundamental: Salvaton by the Cross of Chrst. tst denomnaton bravely markng tme Frst-The Bble as the Word of God. aganst a wall that seerns mountan hg-h Second-Salvaton by the Cross of say wth confdence "Nevertheless." "Nevertheless. the foundaton of God standeth The thrd fundamental s our belef that Chrst. sure havng ths ~eal The Lord knoweth the seventh day of each week s sacred them that are hs." tme. We hold that the Sabbath s not an The frst and most fundamental of Seventh pay Baptst fundamentals s the ac tcular.day. We beleve that the seventh nsttuton that can be dvorced from a par- " ceptance of the Bble as the Word of God.. day of each week was -sanctfed by the The revealed wll of. our.1t.eavenly Father s Creator at the begnnng of hunl2.n hstory; a standard and gtljde.1u all matters of that t has often been desecrated~ but that thought and conduct. Wthout ths rock t hls never been uns.anctfed; that the foundaton we have no excuse forexstence seventh day n each week s Gods representatve n tme. Seventh D~y Baptsts and no clan1 or argument. Should ths fundamental be abandoned our Conference have always taught that the Sabbath as a would never meet agan. But every generaton has nterpreted the Bble for tself. to be observed by all men. We call at partcular day s a part of the.. moral law My father beleved that the Bble was the. tenton to the fact that the prophets hghly Word of God and so do but we dd not regarded the Sabbath and ranked ts observance always nterpret t exactly alke. My chldren wth other mor~l precepts. Most beleve that the Bble s the Word of. of all we glory n the fact that Jesus and j. ~od" but they do ~ot always nterpret t. hs apostles were Sabbath keepers. To be Just as ther mother and do. However a sure our Lord was more than once accused belef that the Book. s n a real sense the. of Sabbath breakng but n hs own defej;lse Word of God s a necessary and. fundamental he never once suggested that t should nc)t groundwork of onrdenomnatonal lfe. be kept. He freed t from th~ rubbsh a ll d As we stand on ths tock: let us nsst that no!1sense whch the tradtons of the Jews.

7 298 THE SABBATH RECORDER had placed upon t. He sad " came not t s not a queston of what s necessary to destroy the law." When speakng of for ndvdual salvaton. t s a queston the overthrow of JeruSalem whch was to of the meanng of baptsm the orgnal occur a generaton after hs death he sad mode of baptsm -and our rght to change "Pray ye that your flght be not on the all ths f or our convenence. Sabbath day." Justus Jesus Chrst ded as a representatve man even as a snner des so he was Formerly there were many dverse theores whch led good men to beleve that baptzed as a representatve man even as the frst day of the week was sacred tme. a snner s baptzed. He who dd not sn At the present tme practcally the entre bore sn and he told John that he dd t Church has come to the place where men to fulfll all rghteousness. Our Lords deny the sacredn~ss of any day. Ths teachng about baptsm s clear. Hs example s before us. The practce of the seems to be more consstent for certanly Chrstanty wll-have the Sabbath or no 2.postles and the early Church s not. questoned. Sabbath.. But the Sabbath s a tremendously mportant matter. Look out over the troubled belever n token of hs prevous acceptance. Baptsm s the nlnlerson n water of a world and say wth me that the Church of the death and resurrecton of Jesus of Jesus Chrst holds the destny of the Chrst for hs s~lvaton. Accordng to my natons and of cvlzaton. Where else s count ths s number four of Seventh Day there hope? Now the Church wthout a Baptst fundamentals... Sabb<:tth s hopelessly handcapped n compe!ton wth greed and pleasure-seekng Second-Salvaton by. the. Cross of. Frst-The Bble as the Word of God. Chrst. ". <....~. and all worldlness. Seventh Day Baptsts at ths pont have. Thrd-The seventh: day Qtthe:l\T ek.as. a wonderful opportunty and a tremendous the Sabbath."..:. \... ~...:.... responsblty. f we do not gve the tght.. Fourth-Belever s. b~ptsrrlby:gtrmer- S10n then our candle stck wll be taken away. The Sabbath s then our thrd fundament~.1. A ffth fundamentaf of the denomnaton.as understand t~ s the matter of Frst-The Bble as the Word of God. Second-Salvaton by the Cross of organzaton and co~operaton..we hold Chrst.. ~hat--the Church vsble s a. form of Chrstan democracy. Thrd-The seventh day of tl1e week.as the Sabbath... am a mnster an eld~r a pastor ; but A fourth doctrne whch from the am not a prest. have no advantage standpont of the denomnaton s of suffcent mportance to be classed as funda~ blest and most gnorant chld of hs. before the throne of God above the hum mental s our vew of the ordnance of Wth us any group of Chrstans wth Chrstan baptsm. Baptsm s the mmerson n water of a belever n token of to a church. Our assocatons and General a lke purpose may organze themselves n hs prevous acceptance of the death and Conference are voluntary organzatons. resurrecton of Jesus Chrst for hs sal- They are wthout authorty except that of. vaton. The meanng of baptsm s more excluson. Ths authorty has not" been exercsed wthn my memory. Each church mportant than ts form. To brng an nfant to the altar and have t consecrated s a law unto tself. Each church makes by sprnklng wth water n the name of ts own artcles of fath. Sometmes the the trune God s a very beautful and mpressve servce but t s not Chrstan bap makes suggestons. \jt has asked churches Conference gves" advce. Sometmes t tsm. FJr be t from. me to cast upon t to accept a defnte part n a fnancal denomnatonal budget. The denomnaton s the shadow of rdcule. But all the beauty and all the vrtue s from the standpont bult on the prncple of power wthout. of ~he parents. Ths s very clear. THe authorty. -psually the majorty rules. Not one beng baptzed has not fath n Chrst. nfrequen~ly the majorty yelds to the mnorty but we walk by the prncple that He has not confessed sj.n a~d has no knowledge or vrtue. The act tself has the Church s a Chrstan democracy. nothng n t to suggest bural or resurrecton or plantng or ~ashng. oth.ers n all sorts of good We are usually.found co-operatng wth works~especally the SABBATH RECORDER 299. wth the P~otes.tant. Evangelcal churches a.ppo~tment. So t may be to all who beheve n God and have confdence that the but always n the hght of our fundamental vew of. the Church.- foundaton of God standeth sure. The Frst- The Bble as the Word of God~ ~ord knows and approves those who ar(" Second-Salvaton. by the Cross of hs. ".. Chrst... The apostle Paul was always careful not Thrd-The seventh day of the week as to.ea~e the mpresson that what a man the Sabbath. :. ~.. belreves s more mportant than what he Fourth-Bele~ersbaptsm by mmerson. does. He therefore n ths case adds as Ffth-. The Church as a Chrstan democracy. nameth the name of Chrst depart fronl a sort of postscrpt "And let everyone that As turn asde from these fve. Seventh ~quty." t s mportant what a man be... Day Baptst fundamentals to the text whch. heyes but there s somethng wrong n a you have not forgotten wsh to repeat ~ath that does not fnd expresson n a somethng whch sad n the begnnng: hfe ~epartng ~rom nquty. All of Pauls have no authorty or appontment to speak doctnnal teachngs are crowned wth drectons and exhortato~s for""humble unself for the ~enomnaton. smply take the opporturuty to express my own opnon.. sh sacrfcal.1-yng for our fellow men. on a subject whch seems to be worthy We have all ~amed the nanle. of Chrst. of consderaton... We beleve wth \ all confdence that a great "Nevertheless the foundaton of. God truth of untold value to the Church and the standeth. sure; havng ths seal The Lord world has been colnmtted to us. \Ve thnk knoyeth them that are hs. And let every Ye have a large measure of the foundaton man that nameth the name of Chrst depart of God that standeth sure. How are we from nquty." "Havng ths seal" probab!y refers to the custom of havng some worl~ that we ar~ rglt? The very best to attract others to t? How convnce the thng engraved on the foundaton -of a ~vay.1s suggested n ths text. Fortunately buldng. God; fundamental truth bears t Wll not requre wealth or educaton or )he seal of hs knowledge of them that organzaton or numbers helpful as these are hs. The dea would be the same f. nlay be. But t wll requre a unversal the reference s as many beleve to the personal consecraton to Chrst. To be ~ true Church... peol?le of power we must be a people that. The:e are doubt1e~s t~ose who belong to are n the world but not of the world. Our c God n all denomnatons. "The Lord relgon must be real to us. We must be knoweth them that are hs." There are leve what we teach f t:s true and we doubtless chldren of the devl n all denomnatons. do. not know. "The Lord We must demonstrate the fact that Sabbath. must practk~ what we preach f t s rght. knoweth them that are" hs.". There wll keepng. makes better Chrstans than can doubtless be found some who are chldren be pr~duced by any false~theory or rule of of God who are not cofulected wth any. expedence. We must not cover our lght church. can noj say.;). but "the Lord knoweth them that are hs."... Sometme~ t s dffcult to. see any good 10 the doctrne of others. Often t s not easy to. beleve n the sncerty and honesty of some one. Then remember that when the dscples asked Jesus whether there were few or many saved that he sad you "strve to enter 3n.". n t~s ~ext the word "knowledge". carnes Wth t ~he )dea of approbaton as s ~? often the case. Wtness the frst Psalm: The" Lord kn.oweth the way?f the rghteous. The rghteous man has the.lords help and approval. Ths sea was for the comfo~t and en~ouragement of Tmothy n the mdst of tot! and uncertanty and ds- under a bushel of our busness or put t out under our mattress of luxury. The world must see n our lves somethn«y beautful and attractve to correspond wth our splendd confesson. To depart from nquty s also a funda: mental to ndvduals. and deromnatons that have named the name of- Chrst. f o~r lvng s low. selfsh and unsprtual we shame~ully behe our hgh deals and fasten a mllstone about our denomnatonal. neck. "Nevertheless the foundaton of God standeth sure havng ths seal The Lord knoweth thetll that are hs. A~d let every one t~a~ n~eth the name.of Chrst depart from truqulty." Second Tunothy" 2 :-19.. ) ".".._ 1 -..

8 300 TljE SABBATH RECORDER THE SABBATH RECORDER 301. MSSONS REV. WLLAM L. BURDCK ASHAWAY R.. Contrbutng Edtor. am of good courage." shall prepare the reports for the General Conference and send same just as ~oon as return fronl ths trp on the twenty-second of ths month. Knd. regards to yourself. The. Baptst Reform.er s now on the press. OUR MSSONARES SAL FOR. CUNA AN-NUA.L REPORT OF ELDER T. L~ M. OCTOBER 23. SPENCER BRTSH GUANA. Rev. H. Eugene Davs and Doctor George Thorngate and ther fatules sal for Chna from Vancouver October 23. Ths date wll soon be here now and those desrng to send letters or messages to then to be receved on board the steamer can address them to the "S. S. Empress of. Russa Vancouver BrtSh Columba Canada." A hnt to the wse s suffcent. LETER FROM ELDER H. LOUE MG NOT KNGSTON JAMACA B. W... We are n dre need of a proper place to worshp n the cty of Kngston. should lke to organze the Chrstan Endeavor socety n all our. churches. need the proper nstructons regardng ts organzaton. Please forward same to me at frst opportunty. am glad to be able to send you the pa(;t quarters report. At the end of the quarter was away n the feld so that..t could not send you the report before. was at. Bath. n gong there experenced great dffculty on the roads wth my ll1achne and had to get a man to help me push t fronl Port l\.forant " to Bath arrvno = there at hah past eleven on Sabbath nght. However my trp there was much needed. The. churches were greatly helned and encouraged by my counselng wth them as vel as by my nst~uctons. But my greatest expenence wa ) n the mountans four mles from Bath at a place or vllage bv the. name of Sprng Bank. t was durng the pourng rans. The people were lke. hungry wolves watng for the truths of God. s~nt Sunday and Monday wth them. The nterest s great.. The brethren of Bath are to follow t up. am n hope of seeno many take ther stand for the Sabbath art all Gods commandments. Today s vvednesday and tomorrow shall be off to Santa Cruz to see Brother Sanlms ~l1d hope to see Brother Vaz of the Bluefeld Seventh Day Adventst church. DEAR BRETHREN : am very thankful. to Almghty God for the prvlege of pre~;entng another annual report. Ths year has been a very eventful one n our nlsson work n ths feld.. The. Baptst church was purchased and removed from the ~.outhern part of the cty to the nlsson sde on Regent Street. The transfer and reconstructon took three and onehalf months and on June. 8 the buldng was dedcated to the glory of God. t s a pretty buldng and wll do much good to our cause n ths colony. t s not panted outsde as yet owng to the lack of funds. n the month of November receved. a call from a lttle company of ex~seventh Day Adventsts and after payng two vsts receved them nto the Georg~town Church. Snce.then retln ~"l and bantzed three. converts and there are seven converts now awatng baptsm. These converts are not ex-seventh Day Adventsts. Ths staton s at Wakenaam an sland n the Essequebo Rver one-half day travel trom Georgetown. Brother \VUam Berry s the. catechst here and sa very energetc and con ecrated man. t gves me pleasnre to recomnlend hn1 to your. board for some fnancal help. \Ve have helped:hm a lttle qut as yet can 1.1ot gve hm suffcent to lve on as he a man of a small famly.an appropraton of $:~4() would meet hs case Brother Charles Cust at Mayaro Trndad. reports a flourshng Sabbath school;. but rejret that have not been able to vst hm so that cduld report to the board the real condtons. could not get the money to travel. n order for the work to be properly supervsed there should be an appropraton for travelng expenses as t was three years ago. can make no defnte recommendaton about May-aro untl vst there... The mother staton at Georgetown s ~ong forward. Souls are regularly added to the. church and. the nterest s "good. On LFE! WHAT S T? the ffteenth of last mqpth our frst bap-. A COMPLATON BY MRS. L. A. WNG tsm n the new buldng took place when sx adults were bured wth ther Lord. "Lfe s a school: Labor and sorrow; There s another.class of fve studyng. Vctory a~d Defeat tol together as teach~ Our addtons for the year are: by baptsm ers but happness s the graduatng pont." -"Lfe lke war s a seres of nlstakes;. twenty letter eght testmony nne makng and he s not the best Chrstan nor the a total of thrty-seven. Our decrease s as best general who makes the fewest false follows: by death one dsmssed fve total steps..... but he s the best who wns sx. Our total nlembershp stands seventyfour. Our recepts for the year are $ takes.". the most vctores by the retreval of ms- Expenses: church expenses $104.23buLdng $100 workers $ t have been made ndependently of us but "Yes lfe s aganle..... The rules of The Sabbath school and Chrstan Endeavor are n a healthy condton. Our These rules are the laws of nature the ~laws they are absolute and we must obey them. Bble worker Mrs. F. W. Smth s devoted of health the laws of ntellect above all - to her work. She vsts holds cottage meetngs and dstrbutes lterature. make of lfe a msery and of death a run." the laws of God. Dsobey them and you We were very glad for the vst of Secretary Burdck but regret that t was. cut ton; ts depth and fullness and rchness "Lfe s somethng more than mere dura short on account of the death of hs wfe. of experence. Therefore some men lve We hope that the board wll be able to send more n one year than others lve n a an evangelst down n the fall of ths y..eal decade." to carryon a campagn. "How much you have lved not how The publ~aton of the Gospel Herald long.}} wth the dstrbuton of lterature has "Everyone owes t to hmself to lve a grown on our hands. People are alwayh real lfe whether he s rch or poor to be callng for books but we have none to and not to sel!tm. "He owes t to hmself at.. offer. Several of our people would engage least to be genune.". n colporteur work- but we have no books. "t s n ths lfe alone we can learn lessons of patence and sel~-denal for there Th~. would gve employment to many deserv.ng ones. The future looks. brght and we hope by. Gods grace to do our part and buld up hs cause n ths place.. ~ May Jehovaf pour out hs abundant blessng. on your delberatons.. am. yours n the work. T. L.- M.; SP~NCER.. G ebrge town. Brtsh Gfa~. July ANNUAL MEETNG. The annual meetng of the members of the Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety- of New York for the electon of offcers and. drectors and the transacton of such busn~ss as may properly come before them wll be held n the Seventh Day Baptst.church Planfeld_ N. J. on Sunday" September 14; 1924 at 2 oclock p. m. -. CORLSS F. RANDOLPH... Presdent. : :A.RTHURL. TTSWORTH. ~...:;. Recordng Secretary... are no sck beds to watch by no sufferngs to soothe;- no mourners to comfort n the mansons of the Fathers house." "Lfe s made up not of great sacrfces or dutes but of lttle thngs n whch smles and kndnesses and small oblgatons gven habtually are what wn and preserve the heart ard gve comfort.. 1# "Lfe takes on a new meanng to ourselves and to others when we are rgdly scrupulo~sly dependable.". "Lfe wtho~t a msson s a great omsson. Lfe wthout endeavor s k~ enterng a jewel mne and comng out wth empty hands.". "Have a purpose nlfe and havng t throw nto your work such strength of mnd and. muscle as God has gven you." "Do. not dare to lve wthout some clear ntenton toward whch your lvng shall be bent. Mean to be somethng wth all your mght." "Soberly and wth clear eyes beleve n your o:wn tme and place. There s not " there never has been a better tme ora. ";

9 - -. ". "": -._... " 302 THE SABBATH RECORDER ~etter place to l~ve ~. Only wth ths be- lef can you beheve n hope.".."t!s not a change of crcumst.ances but by fttng our sprt to the crcumstances n whch God has pl~ced us that we can be re~?ncled to lfe and duty." Opportunty for dong greatly sedonl occurs; lfe s maqe up of nfntesmals." "The rchest experences n lfe never come to those who seek them selfshly." ""!e long for great events for mposng ~utles. vye c?uld make sonlethng of our hfe we thnk f we only had not such small. not a qu~l~y thc~.t s the gft of a chance few but t S the frst-born chld of an obe~ dent fath. Courage comes fron certanty. t s the~ assurance of thngs not seen.".. "There s a best for every lfe. Sometmes we can only reach t by a rockf path or along a thorny way; and those :whofear the pan come to t not at cll." "Get the pattern of your lfe from God and then go about your work ancl.be your~ self:" sordd cares and tasks. We ask for heroc A dutes but the dutes that le at our hands FEW CORRECTONS are heroc." T~ an artcle appearng n the RECORDER "The so-called heroc occasons are after of June enttled "Fouke Seventh all often easer and therefore less heroc Day: Baptst School" are the followng corthan the common place trals that da"ly tel the stuff of whch we are made." rectlons : ".. Elder Randolph left Fouke n not "We spol so much of lfe n fear and ". forebodng. We let slp the beautful mo- A. S. DaVS. and s~ac.?arrshcam~ to ments. that are ours and spol them by Fo~ke from Lt~le Prare <ootn 1904 ~ut dreadng the moments of the future wth some yea~s\ prevous. " whc~ w~ have nothng to do." The present prmary teacher s Mss Leo "Lfe S n?t for mere passng pleasure Greene. n?tmss Mary. q:reene. " but for the hghest unfoldment that one can OtherWse the data gven are accurate. attan to the noblest character that one can Many of the facts.1 gave fron111emory grow and for the greatest servce that one can render to manknd." and "h~~ no 0Pl?ortunty to verfy them un- tl after the artcle was publshed. "The stern dscplne of lfe reveals us CLFFORD A. BEEBE. to ourselves and makes us realze. an almost AlfredN. Y. nfnte need of God. And t r veals God September because ts necesstes lke so many fols: only set forth the varous provsons of hs MANAGER HAS NE.W PRVATE : SECRETARY tender pty. Only the wlderness could have revealed the mracles of the manna : Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. H. North 1016 of.}he rament and of the unswollen feet.; Sout~ Avenue Planfeld N. J. Monday We must ch0o.s~ out among the ways S~ptembe.r a daughter Alce Louse. anf! the o~portunlbes and. the companont. Lttle MSS North expects to become her ShpS of ths world f we would wn. The fathers Rrvate secretary at an early date. ~ap-hazard. happy-g.o-ucky" amless roll- ng stone knd of hfe can never succeed. G~s Word s fnal and suffcent. t D~ftng s not n the way of good thngs. contans all we need to know to be saved. The course toward success s always an t speaks the frst defnte word about our ascent ~ steep mountan clmb where one orgn and the last authortatve word about must tol up st~p by step ~eepng hs eye our destny.-mrs. G. C. Needham. ul?on the summt a~d choos~ng out hs way. Wth care." ANNUAL MEETNG OF EDUCATON HThe lfe that s lfe n whch the words SOCETY tameness a~d dullness are mpossble s found only by one who s n Chrst and all the way n." "Lfe requres courage: the kngdom of heaven s never entered by cowar.ds. t takes courage to be good" and courage s The ~nnua1 meetng of the Seventh Day Baptst Educaton Socety wll be held at the "Gothc" Alfred N. Y.. Wednesday evenng Septemb~r at 8 oclock. WLLAM C. WHTFORD Presdent. EDUCATON SOClETYSPAGE THE SABBATH RECORDER 303 to the. makng of a wll n the frst place there S a natural reluctance to the contemplaton of death. Then there s n many cases the dread of publc opnon. We fear l::==============:d to be judged f we make dscrmnatons PRESDENT PAUL E. TTSWORTH CHESTERTOWN MD. Contrbutng Edtor among our relatves or the benevolences that mght seem to requ~e our support. Another very great obstacle s nvolved n the fact that t s so easy to put off a matt~r that can be attended to at almost any tme. Wh~ should a m~n repar a leaky ~~l educaton should be relgous; all rel.~on should be educatonal; a relgous Sprt must enter nto educaton an. educatonal sprt must enter nto relgon; That whch begns ~s prmary educaton should end n relgon. Th:tt whch ends as relgon should begn n pr~mary. educaton. Take them apart thnk of them as separate and both wll suffer?amage. Relgon wll be a thng for w~lch t~ere has been no preparaton; educaton Wll be a process that leads on to no defnte goal.-l. P. Jacks. MAKNG A GOOD WLL REV. WLLAM C. WHTFORD (Gven at Conference at the Educaton Socetys Hour) My subject may be a trfle msleadng as do nc?t plan t? talk about the technque of makng a wll nor of the precautons that one needs to take to make sure of havng hs wshes carred out after he s dead and gone; but rather of the mportance of -study and care to make a good wll. The prvlege of makng dsposton of ones property after death s one of the to~~ns of our cvlzaton. The savage ret~uns control by force or cunnng of what he has; and when force and cunnng fal as they must fal wth the) weakness of age and fnally be extngushed -wth hs death then he has lost all power to control what once was hs. Our modern cvlzaton as manfest n the laws and customs of our land assures to us the prvlege of havng Our property go to those who are near to u~ by the tes ~f relatonshp. Or f we ":ls? for any reason to make an.. unequal dvson. among our chldren we can do so. O~ we Can gnore the demands of relaton Shp an~ bestow our property outsde. of the f~mly. as reason. or fancy may suggest. Wth ths power to make a wll comes a moral oblgaton to make a good one. There are tp be sure many hndrances roof when t does not ran? And when t do~s ran of course he can not repar t. t S easy to say What s the use of makn~ a wll when a man s well and strong? ~ t ~s very easy to f org t that the tme when t S no longer practcable to make a wll may come very suddenly. All of these dffcultes are very real but they can be met ~nd ~.ll be met b; the man of resolute dsposton. t s no worse to be judged of men for the drec:" tons that we leave after death than for the deeds whch we do now. We must of a. necessty be makng dscrmnatons. The. very fact of our acqurng property nvolves the oblgaton of dsposng of t. f yve do not spend our ~oney we must leave 1t.. We are forehanded n makng provson f?r other contngenfes. We ought to pro- vtdealso for what S to be done n the case of death. The man who has sense enough to put a good roof on hs house when t does not ran ought to have sense enough to gve drectons for the dsposal of hs property w:hen he des. : There are ndeed many cases n whch the law oj decedent estates saves. a man the trouble of makng a wll. But. even when a mans property wll go just where he would have t go he can often save trouble and money by makng a wll ;-to say nothng of assurng hs dear ones of hs thoughtful care by gvng explct drectons.. Not long ago a man n Hornell ded wth- out a wll leavng a wfe and three chldren.. Hs wdow had to get apponted guardan for each of the three chldren. and gve bonds n each case and has to make an annual report for each. By a wll of very fe:w lnes he could have left hs prop~ erty for hs wfe and chldren the same and t would have saved-a:- great deal of ex~ pense to say nothng of trouble. must speak also of one more hndrance.

10 304 T-HESABBATH -RECORDER whch~ does not affect nl0st people but s a very real hndrance to others. - refer -to ether the Communty Trust or the Unform Trust; but wsh you to observe th~obvth~ persons who do not know what to do ous advan~ge of_~ther elastcty. wth ther money. The great problem for When a man bestows hs property wth the man who has acqured a consderable very defnte restrctons he runs the rsk property s to dspose of t credtably. Just of complete falure of hs trust on the one because we have been able n the sght of hand or of wastng hs money on the other. God to acqure property s no reason why A certan ctzen of New York by the we should feel free to dspose of t accord- name of Marshall left a manufacturng ng to the dctat~s of fancy or to gratfy property to hs executors drectng them to a passng whm. And ths problem s not carryon the busness and dvde the profts smply for the nan who has mllons or among the Amercan Tract Socety the hundreds of thousands but s for anyone AnlercanHonle Mssonary Socety the who has more than enough for hs own. Amercan Bble Socety and the Marshall bural expenses. - nfrmary. The court held that there was a Although ths queston of how to dspose perpetuty nvolved and that the busness of of ones property after death s from ts such relgous socetes as those mentoned very nature an ndvdual problem n every was publshng Bbles and tracts; and not case there has n recent years been much the manufacture of cottor cloths. The court study of ths problem n a general way and therefore drected that the estate be dvded many suggestons have been made and con- - among the next of kn. t took -ffty thotlcrete solutons presented. _ None of these sand dollars and eght years to come to a answers may exactly ft our partcular stu- concluson n regard to ths estate. and then ato~ but a study of them may help n the t s plan to a layman that Mr. Marshalls solvng of our problems. property dd not goolwherehe vshed t to One of these general answers to the ques-. go. - ton n ~egar? - to the way of. wse publc. A presdent of the Pennsylvana Ralroad benefactons S through what t called the left a fund to establsh a home for the ~Communt~ Trust." Ths.has been put daughters of employees of the road who nto effect n. ~]eveland) OhO a?d about mght be klled n the dscharge of _ ther ~orty other Ct1~S. T~e Co~munty T~st duty. The fund now amounts to two nll S ~at.her complcated n detatl ~J..1t the gst lons _ of dollars ; but last year the trustees of t S that a man who does not know what were able to fnd but twelve arls who were to do wth hspr?perty or fe.ars t~at a certan elgble to enter the homepr~vded. -Whle benevolence whl~h he has n mnd may not the object of ths trust s very laudable t be permanent gves what he has to a cer- s manfest that a part of the fund nlaht tan board of trustees who wll admnster better be put to some other purpose. h!he. saf!1e for the beneft of ~he benevol~nt A lttle more than a century ago _ an old lt~stltt1tl0ns?f the. communty-followng sea captan left hs estate for the mantenhs general l~structons as far as practc- ance of a home for retred salors and for able and?epartng from them as necessty no other purpose. n fulfllment of ths may requre. trust there has been establshed on Staten An?ther solutol} t? the problem s n sland a home called Salors Snug Harbor. what S called the Unform Trust for Pub- The trustees have been even extravaoant n le U:ses." The advantage of ths plan s ther care for the salqrs who have c~me to that t may be adopted by any trust com- them but the fund has already amounted pany anywhere and when so adopted nlay to $ and: s stll ncreasng n be used by any man n hs lfe tme or after spte of all efforts to spend the ncome. hsdea.th for the management of hs prop- t s a part of our human nature to wsh erty Wth the full assurance that hs trust to control the management of the funds wll. not fal because of the falure of the partcular benevolent objects that -he had n whch we gve; but we need to beware -of the control of the dead hand. Even f t mnd; for ~he t:ustees wll be free to use as be granted that we are wse enough to prethey may magne that he would desre to scrbe the proper condtons for the use and have t used wlthout any. lmts of localty. lam not recomnlendlng that you use expendture of our money today _t s nl- possble that-we should foresee the stua- THE SABBATH- RECORDER 305. ton some years n the future. - Unless there that of the Tract Socety or elsewhere. We are some very defnte reasons why restrctons are necessary ts best to gve- 0111" corporatons of our denomnaton. can not go amss n gvng to any of the trustees and benefcares very wde f not unlmted powers. Another modern method of gvng THE TRANSFORMERS money whch has been n use longer than PAUL EMERSON TTSWORTH the Communty Trust or Unform Trust (Read at Educaton Socetys Hour at Conwhch has the advantage _ over those have ference) mentoned n that t can not fal by rea- Out of the msts of Egyptan antquty son of the gvers changng hs mnd s there comes down to us a strange yet beauwhat s called the Annuty Gft. The tful legend of a brd -called the Ph<:enx money s gven at once to the benefcary fabled to have had\ ts horne n Araba socety wth the understandng that the n- where t was worshped as an emblem of terest s to be pad to the gver for hs lfe- mmortalty. After lvng fve hundred tme. Ths -method s partcularly adapted years t was represented as destroyng to those people \Yho are ready to make suh- tself -by fre then arsng n youthful freshstantal benefactons now but feel that they ness from ts own ashes. Ths round of wll need the ncome from ther money lfe death and renewed exstence was for awhle for t4er own support. thought _ to contnue n endless cycles. Some people crtc~e the -gvng by wll Ths. story llustrates the manner n to benevolent objects on -varous grounds. whch andent man looked at the stream The }ate Stuyvesan~ Fsh sad n hs wll: of human events. To hm hstory was al- "Havng observed and always beleveu -ways turnng round and back upon tself. that chartable beauests afford the testator _ The thnkng man n Egypt Persa B~bya means of -gratfyng hs vanty at the ex- lon Greece and "Rome was of course panpense of hs hers make none." fully conscous of the mutablty of hunan There s however; a slght flaw n hs fortunes. As he looked out upon the shftargument; for beyond a certan extent our ng scenes of lfe le saw brth and death next-of-kn have no greater moral clam on growth and collapse~ He noted the rse our property than the benevolent -socetes. and fall of great m~n the constructon and. Gvng by wll should be part and parcel destructon of mghty empres. Change and of our gvng durng our earthly lfe. We decay n all around he saw. Herodotus the do not spend our whole ncome for our Greek one of the most graphc hstorans own expenses nor for the support of our hmself the father of hstory n hs nonufamles. And we are wljng to spend. mental work besde gvng a movng pcsome tme and tl;1ought that our gvng may ture of the Persan wars shows hmself nbe ntellgent and that the work carred terested n the declne of the Persan world. on by our boards may be effectve. power and the reasons therefor. What am suggest~ today s that we The forces of change the ancent world bestow thought Mpon leavng- all that we feared and tred to check. n van Xerxes have n some _ sense pfoportonate to that Alexander the Great Cresar-all drea1l..1ed whch we use n dsposng of the surplus of ther dreall}-s of erectng _ states that should our present annual ncome. defy decay. The Pharaohs of Egypt You wll agree that what have been sought n the Pyramds to construct edsayng s -very approprate for Educaton fces whch should ~et at naught the gnaw- Socety hour; for what we gve to our ng tooth of tnle.. schools for the tranng and development Change they saw these ancents a conof young people has no chance/of beng stant rse and fall n the tdes of men. wasted. A chld may easly lose the money Progress; n the modern sense they dd not left to hm; buehs educaton abdes through lfe. see. Cresar plungng nto the Rubcon strove not to mprove the lot of the slaves You may magne f you wsh that these and the common people of Rome but ~o suggestons"_ concernng the makng of a overthrow hs rval Pompey and to aggrangood wll have been spoken n connecton wth the Mssonary_ Socety program or dze hmself. Even the Greeks the most modern of ancent thnkers never ht upon. J

11 .. : the dea that God runs an ncreasng purpose through the centures. Wth all ther acumen they dd not dscover what we today call progress by whch we mean that through the collabora~on of God and man human sbcety and character advance from the less to the more perfect. Scholars nform us that the dea of progress as opposed to mere change dd not dawn upon men before that strrng sxteenth century when mens souls were thrlled wth a new joy of lvng. t was then that God toucped the sprt of man brngng t out of ts dungeon and that scence was born~ Scence progressvely lberated man from the gross fears engendered by superstton. An eclpse became an explcable a non-terrfyng spectacle and was no longer thought to be a dragon devourng the moon. Scence made possble the conquest of the ocean and embolden men to tame new contnents. ntoxcated wth ther new-found mastery over some of the forces of nature sxteenth century men began to peer expectantly nto the future for yet greater power. The pcture of the world as always changng but never advancng-a characterstc dea of the ancent world-dssolved now nto the dazzlng spectacle of a unverse growng bgger more nterestng more challengng. Ths vgorous nfant-dea grew by leaps and bounds wth the voyages of Columbus Magellan Marco Polo and all other ntrepd travelers by sea and by land. These men conquered many a hoary bugaboo. They threw a search lght; as t were on lands htherto veled n. mystery and n terror. The spread of knowledge whch Gutenberg made possble when he nvented prntng gave every nqurng mnd the power to release tself from the prsonhouse of gnorance and dsport tself n the open reaches of a wonderfrl new day. n the face of these new thngs whch had never exsted before""t s no wonder that men began to dream of progress. Lke the fabled pot of gold at the end of the ranbow men began to expect a new contnent at the end of every voyage. Not only was the unverse growng bgger by the ad-.. dton of new lands new seas new suns and new moons; the unverse of mnd was expandng from new knowledge new conceptons and from the growng convcton that man could overleap what had always THE SABBATH RECORDER seemed the nsuperable barrers of nature and that the world of hulnan affars was not a statc -but a progressng world. Thus progress not standng stll became the expected thng. n the eghteenth century man acheved a new outlook and a new hope. f he could conquer the sea dscover the crculaton of blood and nvent the telescope why was he not wse and powerful enough to put an end to ancent tyrannes and corrupt government? Why could he not lberate hmself from the mseres of msgovernment and oppresson? The Amercan and French Revolutons bear ample testmony to the success of the sprt of confdence n mans newly dscovered power to.take. long-standng customs and grey-hared tradtons and fashon them nto a farer and freer form of natonal lfe. The fortunate ssue of these two revolutons gave the doctrne of socal perfectablty a new authorty. A far cry t s from the ancent world when the tlnker perceved only a round of change wthout progress----change n whch man was helplessly jostled about as by a roughcrowd-to the dea of aprogress n the affars of men whch they can promote and fashon to ther lkng. For ages God had been callng men to come forth and assulne ther rghtful place as co-wotkers wth hm n brngng about hs kngdom on earth. At last hs voce made tsel f heard n a new way by the sprts of men. Today the convcton of mans ablty to control progress has ntensfed and become nearly unversal among enlghtened people. t s the presupposton of every school and church of every poltcal campagn and every attempted reform. n what have been sayng have tred to establsh the fact that the dea of progress s of recent orgn and that cvlzed man s just awakng to the sense of possessng a new and a sgnfcant power. Mans control of pr<jgress-:-thnk of t! For a mnute want you fully to taste the dea. By rrgaton hemakes the desert to bloom lke the rose; by conquerng the mosquto he banshes yellow fever from the tropcs so that even the northern-born whte man can lve under the equator; by dggng canals he separates contnents and shortens routes of communcaton; by the establshment of just laws he frees women and chldren from ndustral slavery; by ~THE SABBATH RECORDER 307 hs study of the wll of the heavenly Father or nflatng the cost of lvng may enrch he brngs somethng of r the lfe of God nto hm or send hm scurryng to the poor the heart of hs fellow man. n all these house. By hs ncreasng knowledge of ths ways man fnds hmself a co-laborer wth worlq. e~en n the face of ts growng ntrcacy he s learnng to overcome wrong God to sreed the comng of the kngdom. Some of you are sayng to yourselves and to assure hmself and hs fellow a bgger chance for a happy and useful lfe. presume-f not you should be-that man5 colltrol of progress s far fronl complete. Thrd man lves n a world of the emotons. He feels the tug of lkes and ds True. Man s yet only n hs swaddlng dothes. He s only begnnng to st up and lkes of hates and loves of repulsons devotons and of lo~altes. -e abhors con take notce. Great as are hs accunlulated achevements they wll dwndle nto nothngness besde those yet to come. But to ty of sprt. A mans emotons are to hm denlns gets angry knows the joy of serenassure ourselves that mans works are substantal f stll ncomplete let us exanlne emotonal earthquakes as strkes and war - a heaven or a hell. n spte of such socal for a moment somewhat n detal the four by hs knowledge of hs own tuake-up man worlds n whch he lves and strves. s surely gettng a grp on hnlself suppressng Frst there s the world of physcal facts the lower emotons and gvng the and laws a world of heat and cold of tme nobler emotons freer play. He progressvely realzes the deep wsdom of the Bb and dstance of contnent and ocean of growth and decay of dsease and death. lcal njuncton "{eep thy heart wth all Although he" s only begnnng to spell out dlgence for out of t are the ssues of the easer words n the book of nature man lfe." Wthout mans ncreasng control of has already learned to conserve heat aganst the forces of hs emotonal lfe snce he s the btter days of wnter cold and t6 cool now so many and hs sects nterests busnesses races and creeds so dversfed and hmsel f amd the tropcs. He crowds more real lvng. nto hs short three score years often dametrcally opposed hs strfes and ten than probably Methuselah knew n would long ago have destroyed the human. all.hslong nne hundred sxty-nne years. knd. Wth the development of locomot ve motor. Fourth nlpngng upon and somewhat car flyng machne of telegraph. telephone" engaged wth the world of the emotons s and rado he has wped out formdable the world of the sprt. n ths sphere man dstances. Hs knowledge of the human catches sght defntely of God walks wth qody and of medcne helps hm both to hm communes wth hm and realzes at cure and to prevent wastng dsease and. once human greatness and nsgnfcance. plagues. By scence he lengthens the average span of human lfe. By hs knowl he gets the strength for the daly task and Here he s warmed by nfnte love. Here edge and hs power.of thought he has ganed dscovers the meanng of exstence. From. a very real conquest over Nature herself. ths world he derves hs loftest ambtons Second man lves n r4- world of nsttutons and human r..elatofts. He s born nto top he s slowly le~rnng to lay hold 011 and gets hs beautfc vsons. n ths world a. famly. He jons a church. He becomes the sources of sprtual power. However a member. of the grange or of the Brotherhood of Locomotve Engneers or of the even now come a long ways from.the frst great a dstance he has yet togo he las Amercan Assocaton for the Advancement of. Scence or of a mnsteral asso truth and love. To be sure God and hs blnd gropngs of human kn4 after dvne caton. Normally as he grows older the truth and hs love do not change but by number of relatons nto whch he enters heedng and by helpng others to heed the wth hs fellows multples. He 1~~ the ctzen of a school dstrct of a town of ~ nto new knowledge of Gods greatness laws of the world of the sprt ~an grows state and of a naton. H~ suffers or prospers accordng to the falure or success of more meanngful harmony wth the dvne power and majesty; comes nto a new and t4e several groups to whch he belongs. purposes; thrlls at new outpourngs f)f The play of economc law-a term for a Gods love and care. set of most vtal human relatons-by rasng the prce of wheat or. lowerng wages. n these four worlds nextrcably bound up together to form the sum of lfe man

12 308 THE SABBATH RECORDER THE SABBATH RECORDER \ fnds hnlself sfrugglng to learn the laws of exstence more perfectly and thus to control the forces of an abundant lfe. "The goals n the game are for those who know the rules and tran thettse1ves approprately. Advance achevement n all these worlds re~u1ts only frolt ever ncreasng knowledge n each. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall nlake vou free." Truth and knowledge beget a lberty whch means a control of the factors of success. Ths s an age rch n organzed ntellgence. Knowledge s beng dscovered scrutnzed te;sted and put to work n every department of lfe. t s as free as the ar. t s a potenf nstrument for the servce of man. one to ad hm n lvng healthfully helpfully happly and holly. f you have been patent enough to follow my thought perhaps you have guessed that am headng n toward ths dea vz.: Relgon today wth the rche~ of organzed knowledge at ts dsposal sharng the growng belef n the possblty of n1ans ever _ strengthenng control over progress challenges wth a new urgency every Ulan and woman who thnks constructvely. The ablty to understand the world n vhch we lve and to shape and drect ts forces for the ennoblng of the race s one of Gods greate~t gfts to Ulan. Snce we possess all the accumulated wealth of the ages and beleve n a growng hunlan control under God or what our future shall. be we mu~t use yea we d~re do nothng el~e as Chrstans than use these powerful nstrumentaltes.to ~.prtualze Jfe. We must be transformers. Ths dea of transformng the nlperfect nto somethng much nearer perf ecton the unlovely nto the beaut ful the Tean nto the exalted and the mpure nto the pure s of the very essence of our relgon. n well-rembered phraseology Paul exhorted the ancent ROlnan) thus: "Be not confornled to ths world. but be ye transformed by the renewng of your mnd that ye may prove what s that good and a<;: ceptab!e and perfect wll of God. t s for us the profe~.sed followers of J esus Chrst usng all the resources of human ntejgence all the grace of our 1aster" and all ~he dynamc of Chrstanty to set more vgorously. about transformng a world out of jont nto one of order sob~ety! rghteousnes? and godlness by drectng and controhng the forces of progress. Our bgge::t job s to transform human character ncludng our own. Paul knevv how easy t was to conform-to follow the lnes of least resstance to grow lazy and content to worshp at the shrne of the god of thngs as they are and to shft to others shoulders the responsblty for keepng ones own and the worlds house n order. Probably when he looked about hm he saw fo~ks clabblng n secret sn; sa; them easly satsfed when they had enough to eat and drnk and comfortable houses to lve n; saw them lvng dungeon lves; saw them rulng ther conduct not by truth and reason but by selfsh and specous sentmentalty. can easly magne he perceved al these forces of ant-progress operatng among the Romans to whom he was wrtng. n sentences that have the punch of a puglsts rght fst he enjons them to lft them ~elves out of the clutches of conformty to any such practces and enlst n the ranks of the transformers. When we look abroad we fnd men satsfedwth flth gnorance sentmentalty. superfcalty selfshness crme. That way death and destructon le. Let us enter nto no truce wth these nsdous enenles of man. Lke sage physcans let us dao no.- e the malades of man and by gett~g control of the sources of renewal transform dsease nto health. By no means am a pessmst about ths old world of ours nor about the people who lve n t. ):T et have to admt that they are f.adly mperfect. Perfecton or even. an approxmaton to t wll not come for the "nlere wshng. Men and women nlust sweat ther hearts blood to acheve t. t s a glorous power we p<?ssess to help brng about the comng of the kngdom. ts a glorous fght we are called to to become tran::.forn~ers. " Buld thee more stately mansons 0 my Soul~ As the swft seasons roll. Leave thy low-vaulted past!.; " Let each new temple nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven fron. adom~ ~ore. vast Untl thou at length art free Leavng thne outgrown shell. On l es un restng sea. WOMANS" WORK MRS. GEORGE E. CROSLEY MLTON \VS. Contrbutng Ejtor WOMANJS BOARD ANNVERSARY Program of the celebraton of the forteth annversarv of the Organzaton of the \Vomans Board~ of the Seventh Day Baptst General ConferEnce at Mlton "VVs. August 20 ln2-1. "What Hath God Wrought." Num. 23: 23 Sngng... CongregJ. ton Scrpture Readng... 11rs. E. D. Van HCh"n ". Whte Cloud JVlch. Prayer.~..... ~....~frs. C. A. Burdck ;~. " Westerly; R.. Solo... ~ Mss Ann Post TheVson-. Tlf6rmal Meetng Held at Lost Creek W. Vcr Mrs. A. K. Wtter... Mrs. H. M. Burdck Mrs. L. A. Platts... Mrs. Herbert Polan Mss Suse Burdck...:Mss Ruth Stllman Rev. A. E. Man... Rev. Wm. 1\1. Smpson Mrs. Palmter... Mrs. L. H. Strnger Rev. O. U. Whtford... Clfford A. Beebe Mss Mary Baley... Mrs. J. D. C1arke Mrs.W. L. Clarke... Mrs. Aflen D1.vs Mrs. A. H. Lews... Mrs. O~!k Todd Mrs. Maxson... Mrs. G. W. Coon Mrs. Lowther... Mrs. Norton Lowther Mrs. Randolph... Mrs. John Crandall Pano Solo... ;-... Mrs. Marcella Bond. Lost Creek \V. Va.-- The Vson Realzed- Statstcs of the Years Summary of Last Years Work Gven n Reports of Correspondng Secretary Mrs. J. H. Babcock; Treasurer Mrs. A. E.Whtford Anthem~... AlbonW omen Chorus "n the Name of.god We Set Up Our Ban ners) Psalms. 20: 5 Solo.~... Mss Gladys Hulett " Bolvar N. Y. A Study n Contrasts p~tra:yed n tableau.x Arranged by Mts. Mary Ross Dav1s "Home Lfe" - "Then and Now" "Some Educatonal 1\fethods" "Wthout and Wth Hope" "~M uscal Possbltes" _ "The Mnstry of Preventve Healng" "Many Gods or One" ". Musc... Arranged by Ethelyn Davs Our nl0thers have told us that as long ago as the year 1800 there was a socety organzed for mssonary purposes called "The Boston Fenlale Socety." n 1811 ths socety rased the sum of two hundred dollars for the purpo~.e of translatng the Scrptures by the nlssonares ot SeralTpOre n Bengal. n 1813 t was sad spnn.ng weavjng and knttng socetes were ll1ultply)g wth a vew to ad n the great object of sendng the gospel to the ends of the earth. Through the years the~e socetes kept sprngng up to work for mssons home and foregn untl as lyrs. Montgonlery says: "t s hard at the present tme for the WOll1en of our churches to reaze that there ever was a tme when there wete none of the actve ever-present womens socetes that seenl so nltch a part of the structure of Church lfe." n our own denomnaton the Female Mte Socety of Shloh!-. N. ]. was organzed n10re than one hundred years ago and s stll n actve exstence. A Lade Aq. n Mlton Ws. dd actve relef work durng the years of the Cvl War smlar fo that done by the socetes of the Red Cross organzatons durng the recent World War. These and many other groups were the leaders of the movement the van-guard of the anny f)f our women n the."march wth God" whose efforts resulted! n our denonlnaton.. n the organzaton n 188~ of the \"l onlan s Board an organzaton that made for 1110re actve and progressve work n the cause of mssons and whose purpo"e was to un fy and concentrate that work. t soop became apparel!t that the rulll{ sprt of the movement was Mss Mary F. Baley of Vllton \V~. whqse natve abltes and force 0 f character tnade her a natural leader of ou women. The fst annual report of the board shows so:ne dscot1ra~ements. but a- credtable bes-nnng. "Our people are slow to comnlt therrseves but those.who have done so en oy the work wth ncreasng nterec-t" Mse;" Baley says " have met wth _ ~. to opposton nor wth any pronouncep n- ANNUAL REPORT OF WOMANS BOARD dfference." Wrters of hstory tell us that t s dff- Her frst report as secretary covers the cult to make an mpartal account of pa t work of fourteen socetes. events owng to personal lkes or dslkes The next year 1s3 Baley quotes l\1rs. toward the object of consderaton. 1t A. -. Lews as sayng "The Conference mght be better for one less nterested to acted wsely n organzng the Wonlans wrte ofw omans Work. Board n such a way: that ts offcers scat- : ;.

13 \ " 310 THE SABBATH RECORDER THE SABBATH RECORDER ) t. ~ 1 :l d f tered through ~he dfferent assocatons have a specal feld n charge and qnder constant supervson." n 1887 she wrtes "The results of the year are not really all that we had earnestlydesred that they should be; but they mght have been less than they are." n speakng of the Sabbath she says "t s a queston of lfe or death to our people and n a splendd sense to that specal prvlege whch the God of the Sabbath grants to us n the holdng of hs Sabbath truth." Later ~he wrtes "We fnd ncr-ease healthful development~ growth. Sterlng qualtes must rule conscence patence fathfulness to a cause th~t represents Gods facts." Then there follows a prayer that God may forgve any neglgence and drect the work nto ways of hs own choosng. n Mss Baley urges ltore organzatons untng correlatng harmonzng our powers-" dverse as they may bebut unte that unted we may stand and standng ve may be blessed of the Nlaster wth growng strength for hs servce. The next year Chrstan growth and a commendable zeal are reported "(-rattude" s the key.:.word of ths report. "God has been mercfully n the mdst to bless wthn the nner lfe of our womans organzed work." A greater sense of ndvdual responsbuty. and deeper consecraton of all are the yearnngs of the _Qevoted heart. n speakng of statstcs she says "So many have faled to report at all and so many to report n full that we can not gve you what we would" -words wrtten thrty-four years ago hut havng a famlar sound to ears of Referrng to msapprehensons on the part of some as to the practcablty of organzed work she enters a lst of negatves Cl;S to what womans organzed work does not stand for and what t s defntely pledged to do concludng "Once let the vtal prncples of organzed lfe be settled the detals wll fall nto regmental lne ready for the call to the front for effectve servce for Chrst the Captan of our Salvaton.". The next year one paragraph alone takes the place of the usual strrng appeals for unty and consecraton that have so strongly marked all of Mss Baleys reports. Ths paragraph s confned entrely to the report of Mss Suse Burdck mssonary teacher of grls n ShanghaChna and closes wth the request that prayers be offered for the 0 salvaton of the lttle grls Mss Burdck teaches. " f - ndeed a lttle chld shall lead them" fhe says "well may Mss Burdck work n fath and also well may we uphold her by our prayers." " The general report expresses the same reasons for grattude but tells ot a new experence of sorrow and tral n the loss of the fathful secretary who entered upon the lfe mnlortal June 22 of ths year. A wde-spread depresson was caused 0 by her ~eath!he loss of her nfluence and nsprato~ b~lng most keenly felt. The appealng voce S hushed the fluent pen s at rest! Her work s done and no one may take t up." Others must necess~rly try to carry ~on the work she so enthusastcally began and so effc~ently supported for nne short years.. But her voce s rot hushed t stll speaks to us through the power of the truths she uttered wth consecrated zeal fhrouo"h these. years of beautful; lovng serv~e. The ldea!s. that. flowed fronl her nspred pen are stll wth us urgng us on to greate." devoton n our work for the Master. n dfferent ways otl:ter worthy members of the ~~r1y board have been brought to your attenton. Let ths be the lovng memoral tothe noble work and worth of Ma~y F. Baley. " " "East s E~st and West s West." Once more the two have met met n Godsprovdence to talk of and plan for hs work. Another year wth ts record of falure or success has passed nto the hstory of the Womans Board. We thank God that he. has.~pared us to work together for hm "we beng many are one body n Chrst.". As a board we have been called to mourn the los~ by death of one of our fathful vce presdents Mrs. A. R. Crandall who for years has carred the nterests ~f the board on her heart and who was always.ready to defend the C4tse and gve freely of loyal sympathy and encouragement. We rejoce jn the memory of her usefulexemplary lfe. The annual letter outlnng the work of the budget was sent out early n the year. At that tme we hoped to be able.to report at the end of the year a womans socety n ~very church n the denomnaton. That hope has not been realzed. The women of several of our small churches where the membershp s scattered do not feel able to keep up an organzed socety for regular work. Perhaps they need the personal touch of a vstor on the feld. However we beleve our assocatonal secretares are capable of dong ths work and wll do t the comng year. We fnd that 48 socetes have reported. Last year only 42 of the 51 sent n reports. They gve a total resdent membershp of 1495 an ncrease of 106 above the report of last year; non-resdent membershp 235 an advance of 88 more than the last report; total members~hp The treasurers report wll show that wth the excepton of our pledge to the Tract Socety our For-. ward Movement pledge has been met. Two tems of our regular budget fell short the Retred Mnsters fund and the Twenteth "Century Endowment fund; perhaps because other appeals have enlsted sympa- thy and support. The Parallel budget Mlton College Thanksgvng offerng~ and contrbutons for the beneft of the colored people of. Asbury Park N. ]. and personal gfts for the Grls School n Shangha out- sde of the Parallel budget have come nto our treasurers hands. More than the usual amount has been rased for local work and general benevolence. For local work a total of $ was rased whle general benevolence has receved the sum of $ makng a total of $ not accounted for n the treasurers report. Who wll accuse our women of beng nactve? We could tell of qulted qults knotted comforters canned frut sewj?g rags for rugs etc.. as a means of rasng funds for the work.. One socety helped tpsc tend the church cotton to earn money to gve; also much free sewng and. other w.ork has. been done where needed of whch no record s made. And wthal very hearty and generous have been the gfts from many of the socetes toward th~!outfttng of Doctor and Mrs. George Thorngate for the Chna Msson. But we beleve that n dong what we ought we deserve no prase because t s our duty. and "the reward of duty s to fulfll another.".j _ Thus we leave the record of the year wth the prayer" " "We have not known thee as we ought Nor learned thy wsdom grace and power; The thngs of earth have flled our thought And trfles of the passng hour. Lord gve us- lght thy truth to see And make us wse n knowng thee." As woe are about to enter upon a ne\v year of servce we;. wsh to thank God for the blessngs of the past and to 0 take ncreased courage for t4e work of the future~ for "We know that every day wll brng us good Above our poor deservng ; We know that on the road of lfe" Hs love s leadng us along And never swervng.; As we consder the hertage of ever ncreasng opportuntes and new possbltes of servce left us by those who wth nspraton and consecrated devoton began organzed work for women n our denomnaton we do not dare to thnk of retrenchment nor do w~ n any way desre to lessen c any actvty that has for ts object the brngng:of souls nearer to the feet of Jesus Chrst the Savor of the world. "For t pleased the Father that n hm should all fullness dwell." We long to see the cause bult up at home and n forejgn lands and are some- ~ tmes tempted wth dscouragements because our efforts seem so ptably small n results. But we realze that ndvdualresponsblty n small thngs fathfully and lovngly accepted n tself tends for growth and larger attanments. "And whosoever shall gve to drnk unto one of these lttle ones a cup of cold water only n the name of a dscple.... shall n no wse lose hs reward.". Under the headng "What would you lke to see done?" one socety suggests "n every possble way ncrease the sprt of denomnatonalloyalty." "More socablty and more sprtualty n our socablty" s another good workng dea. "They that feared the Lord spake often one to another" Another suggeston s to. keep n close touch wth lone Sabbath keepers wrte them letters of love and good cheer "wthout duns or denuncatons" as Mss Baley wotld put t. Where our H. E. Davs mssonary famly has gone ths year an ncreased nterest n mssons has been stmulated. We can not keep them wth us but mssonary programs and mssonary studes help to keep the heart on fre wth longng for the advancement for the cause of mssons. Henry Van Dyke s quote<1as sayng "En-!!. ; " :

14 ... ;"...25: 00 - " 312 THE SABBATH. RECORDER THE SABBATH RECORDER 313! j j ~ thusasm for mssons s the measure of our fath n Chrst and of our love for man." An all:day servce of prayer for mssons s not too much for busy women to gve as has been learned by the personal experence of groups of our vornen fron1 year to year. "Those who thnk they can 00 nothng can do more than all else n the power and opportunty to pray." The Grls School n Shangha Chra n.a specal sense s a charge of ours. Let us pray much for the teachers and pupls ~nd work as well as pray for sor~ly needed buldngs and equpment../ _ Fnally as Chrstan solders we must be unted n purpose and we must be obedent to our dvne Leaders requrements. To know hs wll we must put on the whole :armor of God especally do we need the protecton of the sword of the Sprt-the Word of God-for ~t s quck and powerful. A memorable vctory n the wlder.. ness was won wth the weapon "t s wrtten." Earnest prayerful study of the Bb~e should form a regular part of our daly manner of lfe.. As we study ths gude -book seekng to know how to follow Jesus our leader more closely the Sprt wll :show us that. "We have not served hm as we ought Alas! the dutes left undone; The work wth lttle fervor W~-dught The battle lost or scarcely \Von!" Then wth open hearts may we pray: Lord gve the zeal and gve the mght For thee to tol for thee to fght.". And so may he gracously use us n hs -servce to the glory and honor of hs name.. n behalf of the Womans Board METTA P. BABCOCK Correspondng Secretary... Jlf lt on W s. August Battle Creek Mch. Lades; Alsocet~: ;C...-." Grls School Chna ~ ~... ~.":". ~.. $14875<; :.. Mlton College That~sgvng ~:.-:.16~:52~\: > Colored r-eople Asbury Park. ~.. ~;\~"25cOOf.~. Parallel budget ~ ~.1550;.::~-.. "0. ::. "?OS 77 Collectons: :~ <;C(.> c. Conference North Lonp... ~...;~.$ 23013"--;: Eastern Assocaton.... ~.. :.. ~; ~"" 730\:".:"....." :"":3043 Com!=ton. Calf. Mrs. Lucy ~.. &W;eet Fouke.; : 5 00 Cowen W. Va. Ozna M.Bee.. ~ ;-L..;~L "::~.-:::5 00 Dodge Center Mnn. Mrs.E. L Ells::.".. B?ys: School Chna... ~.q :<.$ Grls School e ".- ~". ".3.00"" Mlton College Thanksgh;ng -.. ~ : ~ Doctor Palmborg. Mss Wests salary.~."; Gentry Ark. Lades Ad socety; :~ Gulford N. Y; Mrs. l\fary.e~. B~njann~.~n-.:: r~.:. memory of Mrs. Mnnette Cowles Fouke to 00 Lttle Prare Ark. Lades Ad socety;~.... "5: 00 Maron Cl.. La. Seventh Day Workers for Chrst.... una ".." Rchburg N. Y. : ;.::...-.: 500 Rockvlle R! 1. Mss Jenne Crandall...; 2 50 Salemvle Pa. Lades Ad socety. ~ S~loh N. J. Female Mte socety...; Vlborg S. D.. Mrs. Mabel Swenson Chna~ Wllam C. Whtford Treasurer New Forward~.. Movement : Adams Center N. Y. :t;ades Ad socety:" ;.. Una"pro~rated... ~... :... ~~10000! Outft Doctor and Mrs. Thorrgate GO _.. ".. " ":12500 Albon Ws.: ".. Home Ben~ftsocety.;... ~.. _. ;: Wllng Workers:..." - < Tract Socety ~... ;. ~..;;.. ;...$SQO<. Evangelstc work S6uthwesternfeld Retred Mnsters Fund. ~... ::.< ; "SOO Fouke..." ".. Boys School....~ 500 Grls School ". ~"..~. ~... " Slf:JO... ~. Georgetown Chapel...;..." ; f~".... ; " 35:00 Alfrea N; Y. Womans Evangelcal Socety:.. ;... Outft Doctor and Mrs. Thorngate.. : Ashaway R.. Lades Sewng Socety:.. JFact Socety.. ~... ~.~ $250(>..:> Mssonary Socety...:... ~... 25: 00:.. Mss Burdcks salary... ";... ~ ;.2S00;. F!uke ~.. 0 ~...:.. Board expense...;.;... ;... ~:.~~ ;~ ~.; s 00:;:....> C... >AOSOO Berln N. Y. Lades Ad socety... ;... >:.. " 2700 Fouke Ark.: Lades Adsocety;:... ;. ;....~:L>-3200 Hartsvlle :N.. Y. : ;>;;; ;~. ~".;.~.;. ;25 00 Marlboro N. J..... ~. ;:.~.;~:.;.:~... ~ ;:: Mlton Juncton Ws.; Lades.:4d<Socety.:. ~._j.~ " Grls School Chna... ~... ; ;.~: ~:.$~~5 (r OO. c Mss Wests salary.. >...;. ~.~.. ;;;> ~ Unapproprated.".;...;.~...;.;. ; ~:ldooo "<" :~-.":". "20000 North Loup. Neb. Church ~.~~;.. ~ ~.;L.. <961 Shloh N. j. Lades "Benevolent(Soc~ty.. ~~. : Whte Cloud; Mch.... :. ;. ~~:~::... ;~:.~..;:.:. c25 00 Specal Fund outftjd()cto:;a~d;:mrs;.. Thorn.<:: _... To::: e ".. ;.. : ~/:".~ /":~ ;1 :"(_~::.~. _.~....~.....:.. ~.~..~~;$.:._.~.:.:...~~. e".~ ~~:~:.~ "~ ~. ~~-; _~:... TREASURERS REPORT"" t.. TractSoc:ety: "..C~>.... ". )Rs. ALFRED. E. WHTFORD n account wth. : ~:. :. THE WOMANS EXECUTVE BOARD OF THE. SEVENTH DAY BAPT1ST GENERAL CONF~tENC!<: Dr. "~......Balance on hand July : 0... $ 52C 67 Alfred N. Y. Womans Evangelcal Socety:. Board expense... $ ~ OO. Unapproprated : :28 00 Akron Oho Mrs. S. A. B. Gllngs Tract Socety Andover N. Y. Lades Ad socety ~. :"" " "..:... ~.... _...:L.... ;.Ge~~ral Fund... ~.~.. ~.. ~.0:; :" ;::..;[.61S.QO. ~~ne Jansz ~... >~.;... ~;"... ~ Mlss10nary Socety: "..." M~~s Burd!cks salary... :... ;:~. ~ M1SS West s salary.... ;;...:... o Boys School Chna Grls School Chna Georgetown. Chapel Brtsh Guana~ Evangelstc work Southwestern feld ""--~";"""... Memoral Board: Retred Mnsters Fund.:... ;... $ 5 00//:) Twenteth Century Endowment ; Fund ~43);. \L ;". Fouke School. ;.~ : ~.":<"""::>.:... : ;"2;:: ~.:~.;~~~g :r~ c... Mlton. College Thanksgvng offerng:"..... Battle Creek.... ~....-.;.. ~... $: 16S2 Mrs. E. L. Ells ~~. ;~~. ;"2 00..~._.....;"1852 W. C.Whtford Parallel budgetla:dles Ad:::;:> socety Battle Creek... ~...";..15. SO Screens Leu-oo Hosptal... ;:. ~;: / Colored peoll.le Asbury Park; N. J ~ ~.: Mssonary Revews for mssonares... ~ ::..Soo Expenses of Womans Board:.. ~... ~ - Conference expenses Mrs. T. J. Van y _:.. Horn ~ $115" 31. Conference expenses Mrs. J. H. Bab~.-..: cock......_ 25: Programs for pageant... _~... < ~ Foregn msson conference reports..341." Postage to offcers and assocatonal... secretares..... ~... ~ < Ruled blanks for treasurers bock.: :.. Letter heads and crcular letters.: SO <.~. Expenses of Mrs. W. W. Clarke~ Law Enforcement Conventon.... ".2:50..."...;; : Docto~ and. Mrs. George Thorngate. C;ut ft\;. b r;~ "".. Chna ~...:.. ~.. c. ~.. ~ ;;~;213c 88 :..... " ;--.; Balance on hand June "." Mlton:Wr.....]uly:7 )924/ t $3~ $ HELP)HAT MOTHER CAN COUNT ON Mother was sortng the basket of clean clothes just up from the laundry. She held up.. one. small garment after another and sghed over the complete. absence of buttons." "t seems mpossble to persuade 1\1agge that wrngers werent made for the- express purpose of tearng off or breakng buttons.. f ve asked her once ve asked her a dozen tmes not to put the boys suts through t4e wrnger. But precous lttle good t does. What wth the number of buttons Tom and Buddy manage to strew around the house and yard and the wrnger besdes there actually. snt a button left on anythng." ~ : Ffteen-year-old Gertrude curled up n a morrs char wth a bqok was the person to whom these. remarks were addressed. " wsh werent so -awkward wth the needle mother dear r d ptch n and help you." The only grl n the famly of brothers Gertrude had played wth marbles and baseball more than wth dolls and she was almost as unhandy wth a needle as any. of the boys. That she ddnt lke to sew and ddnt know how had always seemed a suffcent excuse. So she went back to her story~ Butevery.Jnow and-thell she glanced.. up at her mother stll busy wth the clothes basket and the ple of clothes that was begnnng to ovetflow the mendng basket. Fnally she shut her book wth a bang. "rm afrad mother cant mend well. enough to sut even Buddy. But theres "one thng l can do. lean sew on buttons. Henceforthm gong to be your buttons.. grl. You may even call me Buttons f you lke as they call the hotel bell boys n stores. guess ll start n rght now. Gve me the button bag and a needle and 19uess ll have sense enough to fl}.d the proper szes to ft the holes. wonder why never thought of ths before. But from now on you can count on me." The fne thng about Gertrude was that she was always as good as h~r word. Perhaps she had learned ths from her brothers whose hghest complment of a boy fr_end was that he. was "the knd you could bank on every tnle." When Gertrude sad she would do a thng she dd t and her mother knew that henceforth she would be releved of one of the most tedous llarts of puttng. the clothes to rghts... Help that you can count on n the home js the only help that really does count.. t snt much help n a busy household to have a daughter who wll set the table wpe the dshes or make the beds when she happens to feel lke t. t means that somebody else. and ts usually mother must carry these tasks 011 her nlnd to be ready to do them f necessary. There s lttle comfort or assstance n the home to be had f rom the grl who does thngs when the mood strkes her. The.grl who says she wll do certan tasks. and does thenl regularly s the grl who s the real good fary at home. t nlay be keep. ng the slver cleaned dong the daly dustng bed-makng or se~ng on of buttons. The task n tself may seem nsgnfcant. The sgnfcance les wholly n the way the doer undertakes t. Dependablty s one of the most valuable assets a grl may have. She wll need t everywhere n later. years n busness as a teacher or a professonal woman. And the best place to learn to be dependable s rght at home.-ruth Davs Stevens n Grls Companon. )-.--- A CORRECTON n the RECORDER for August page 226 second column ffth paragraph the word "t" should be nserted between "But" and "s." 1\. E. MAN. Alfred N. Y.. f ( ; "

15 314 THESABBATH RECORDER f THE SABBATH RECORDER 315 j ; ; ; n J j. ". YOUNG PEOPLES WORK MRS. RUBY COON BABCOCK R. F. D. 5 Box 73 Battle Creek Mch. Contrbutng Edtor GETNG THNGS DONE Chrstan Endeavor Topc for Sabbath Day September " DALy READNGS. ". :- Sunday- Organzng for vctory (1 Kngs 20: 13-21) Monday-For charty (Acts 6: 1-7) Tuesday-For dscplne (Tt. 1: 1-16) Wednesday-For effcency (Neh. 4: 12-23) Thursday-For helpfulness (Mark 2: 1-5) Frday-For worshp (1 ehron. 23: 25-32) Sabbath Day-Topc: Organzng to get thngs done (Neh. 1: 1~6; 2: 1-6; 4: 1~6) Nehemah pray~~ then pla~ned then worked. Too. often we reverse the order and plan and even work before we pray. Need we wonder that such an organzaton frequently fals to do real servce? An organzaton s often compared to an engne all parts workng together and dependent upon each other bu~ the whole utterly useless unless t s equpped wth power of some sort. The power we need -n our Cnrstan Endeavor engne s the Sprt of Chrst and t com~$ through prayer We read n the Endeavorers Daly Companon "n tself organzaton s nothng. No one makes an engne just to have a pretty thng to look upon. t s made for work. So s a Chrstan Endeavor socety organzed to get thngs done for Chrst.". What thngs can we do for Chrst? Nehemah found hs call to work n the stores told of the desolaton of Jerusalem. Read the current RECORDERS and the reports of Conference. and see f you do not fnd plenty of work to be done. Look about you n your own communty and fnd the needs. Pray for Gods gudance and help. Then study your Chrstan Endeavor organza- ton -and reconstruct t f necessary to meet the present needs.. Some one has sad that a good meetng s "one partcpated n by ey~rybody monopolzed by nobody and ~ whch everybody s somebody." Ths s equally true of an organzaton. See to t that everybody s somebody that everybody has some defnte thng to do. Ths can best be accomplshed through a vel ;organzed executve commttee and well planned com~ mttee work. -. n Nehemah 4: 6 t s made plan that the reparng of the wall was accomplshed b.ecause "the people had a mnd to work." Much prayer s necessary and much plannng but the successful work of any organz~ton depends largely upon the wllngness of every ndvdual member to do h~ own partcular duty. R. C. B. ATHOUGHT FOR THE QUET 86UR LYLE CRANDALL Everv member of a Chrstan Endeavor socety has a responsblty ~nd he s made to feel t f gven somethng to do. He should be at least placed on a commttee and f the commttee s well organzed and actve. he v feel that he has a defnte work to do. When ths s accomplshed he wll not only be a ble?sng to.the socety b?t he w. r~ceve a blessng n performng hs task. n tths yay. Battle Creek JJlch. So commttees help the members NTERMEDATE CHRSTAN ENDEAVOR TOPC FOR"SABBATH DAY c SEPTEMBER The laws of health. 1 Cor. 6: THE TEMPLE. My body s the temple of my God " For he has sad t! Well or poorlyk~pt My glory or dsgrace a far abode Or dsmal foulness stll my God s there. And every deed do or thought thnk > Makes record on the temple nstantly: No temperance but clears a wndow-pane No self-denal but wpes up the dust No burst of laughter but admts fresh ar No generous deed but sweeps a cobweb down No lovng word but flls a vase wth flowers! Better than sceptre and a royal robe " To bear the broom and use the cleanng-cloth" " A jantor wthn the house of God. 1 -AmosR.. Wells. JUNOR WORK ELSABETH KENYON. Junor Chrstan Endeavor Superntendent Our. t9pc for September 27 s a home. mssonary one and n connecton wth the meetng the j urors mght be asked the week before to brng some fn1t to the meetng. Let the SunshneComnttteepur chase a basket- or two and the frut be ar- that they are unmstakably. legble. They ranged n them durngthe meetng. Then should.be properly attested wth the reports let the Sunshne Commttee take the bas- of audtors attached. - kets of rut to poor people n your com- ~. Reports should not be gven the edmltnty especally where there are chldren tor of the SABBATH RECORDER. All docuand nvte the chldren to come to Junor ments gven hnl are presumably merely for meetng.. publcaton n the SABBATH RECORDER and Canonchet R. : not for record or for the Year Book. Such ;- reports as he may want to use he wll ob- REPORr OF THE COMMTrEE ON EN- tan from the recordng secreta~y.. GROSSNG THE MNUTES OF THE Falure to follow. these suggestons n the : GENERAL CONFERENCE. past has been. a ser?u~ contrbutng cause; To the Seventh DB pf t G : 1 C _. ~ to tht: delay n pubhshlng. the \Year Book. f aty a 1S enera on A few years act.o the most mportant record erence: \.. "... submtted to that annual sesson of the Your Commttee. on Engross~g the ~n- ~eneral C~nference was so ncomplete jn utes of the General Conference begs leave tself that t was utterly unntellgble.. t to r:port that the Y.ear Book for 1923 was was only because of the fact that the republshed much earler than for some years cordng secretary and the charman of. ths mm~ately precedng a result no less comlnttee were suffcently famlar wth pleasng-as we have t:eason to belev~- the facts nvolved to supply the mssng to. the denomnaton at large than to the data that the report could be made clear. members of the commttee and to the re- On another occason the report of the Comcordng secretary. t s hoped -that eqtally mttee on Nomnatons was submtted n satsfactory results wll be attaned tj:s such a fragnlentary form that a part of t year. was lost before t reached the hands of the n ~hs connecton w.e agan beg tq call attenton to the necessty of the greatest recordng. secretary and the rep?rt as t appeared n the Year Book was ncorr~ct possble care n the preparaton of reports as we w~re.nformed.by the charman of and other docunlents submtted to the Gell- the.n ortnatng Commttee concerned ; and eral Conference for record. To that end yet we followed the copy as submtted to we make the followng st1ctgestons: us. On yet another occason a fnancal 1. That all such repo~ts shall be conl- report submtted to the General Conference plete n themselves and that t shall not be was so llegble.that t c()st approxnlately taken for granted that others than those $15 to have t coped and verfed before submttng the reports wll understand "sendng to. the prnter. them. They should be wholly self -explall~ Asde from lessenng our work especally.atory. " that of the re.cordng secretary of the Gen-. ~. Tlla~ all reports be. ~arefully type- eral Conference. neat 111anuscd~t prepa:-ed wrtten wlth a black rec~ rbbon throuoh- as we request Wll nlake our prnters blls out trpple-:spaced.. (except n fscal repo~ts less; for slovenly prep?-red manuscrpt takes where the. tabulated fgures may be but much l~nger. for the prnter to de~pher d~ubled-spaced) on whte paper wth a and he S pad very hgh wages by the day wtde margn all around and of a texture or hour. " that wll readly. take wrtng ~. - " These" suggestons and remarks are not 3.!hat three copes be suppled the ~ade by. way of fault-fndng but for the recordng secretary of the General Con- nformaton of the General Conference and fer<;mcetwo of ;Whch may be black carbon e.specally those charged wth the preparacopes wholly and easly legble. / tlon of reports etc. 4. That n gvng nanles of persons and Respectfully submtted organzatons ntals and - other contrac- ( Sgned) CORLSS F. RANDOLPH ~ons should be scrupulously avoded gv- t;tg the name n full. Ths apples to fnan- Clw"r-rnan~ WALTON H. NGHAM cal statements as well as to other reports. WLLAM L. BURD~CK. 5. n all fnancal statements all copes " " C O1ntnttea. should be carefully n~pected" to make slre "Allton Ws. August ;. ;

16 "... " f 316 THE SABBATH RECORDER THE SABBAT-~ RECORDER L. \.!:! :1 son. Around blazng bon-fres krtdledn the gutters were gathered chldren ofdfferent ages and szes who repled n varous CHLDR-ENS PAGE ways to the nvtaton. They came nto the large msson hall RUTH MARON CARPENTER ALFRED. N. Y. Contrbutng Edtor nosly-an unruly crowd- Over seats and under seats any way ard any how. "Neglected" CHLDREN N OUR CTES they certanly are n every way. Encouraged by ther elders to le and cheat ELSABETH KENYON Junor Chrstan Endeavor Superntendent and swear how they need to know of a lvng Savor who ded that they mght be. Junor Chrstan Endeavor Topc for Sabbath Day saved from sn and lve pure clean lves! September DALY READNGS. " The frst meetng was to say the least ds.. orderly. Sunday-Chld.ren sacrfced (Ezek. 16: 21~2): Now we wll attend a meetng some Monday-Pumshment.of neglect (Exod.; months after- a. hot swelterng summer 24).. Tttesday-Gods care of the ne:de~ted ( ps. 27: afternoon. We clmb the. stars and board 10) a South Ferry elevated tran that goes rush- \l\tednesday-what Chrst thnks of chldren na past wndows where people are lean- (CNTh~tldt. 18: N-~) h (Tonah 4. 11) "ng out to get a... breath of ar past bud- Th urs d ay- 1 ren n meva.. h. Frday-Jesus attracts chldren (Matt. 21: 15 16) lngs used for c eap lodgtng hottse~ ~l~ng Sabbath Day-Topc: Helpng Chrsts neglected the Bowery and we see rough men Sttng chldren n our ctes Ovatt. 23: 27) n bg bare rooms readng or talkng. Sometmes the tran s on a level wth the MRS. L. ALENA STARR housetops and t makes us dzzy and sck A frend of all boys and grls to peer down nto the street. The tran (Junors have known and loved Mrs. stops wth a jerk at Chatham Square and Starr ever snce can remember and SO we hurry out descend the long drty stars want you to know just a lttle bt about her and -cross the cobbled street. and her husband too. But dont ever let mmedately chldren spy our flowers her kl}ow told you! We have so few real whch we have brought fresh from the mssonares who wrte for us that we lke cotlntry and we are beseged and besought to know who they are dont we"? When "Lady gmme a flower!" "Plea~e lady was a lttle grl remember mother recevng letters from Cousn Alena n Afrca. "Aw! aw!" Our hearts fal us how we jus one!" "Gmme one fur my sster!" My! how used to lke to hear mother read them and sometmes she would send pctures too. have them all saved and look at thenl once n a whle. N ow ~he and her husband are workng for the boys and grls n New York Cty and she has wrtten a nce nterestng letter for you junors and you wjlllke t ju~t the same as do the ones she sent my mother. Just read t and see f you dont!-e.. K.) ~lay take you boys and grls to a place n the great cty of New York where neglected chldren are beng helped to know Chrst? Before we start let nle tell you how these chldren were frst gathered together." t was a btter cold wnter evenng-snow everywhere-when two people ~alled forth to nvte the chldren n the neghborhood of Water Street under Brooklyn Brdge to a meetng for boys and grls at the ms- wsh we mght gve to each lttle admrng beggar but f we begn a mob of youngsters wll be upon us and our flowers must be saved for the meetng; so we say "Come to the boys and grls meetng n thewater Street Msson and we wll gye you each a flower.". We turn the corner and down the street a crowd of chldren are already gathered at the msson door. Ther brght eyes see us a-nd some of them rush to meet us seze our hands our clothng and thus are escorted to the msson buldng whch we enter leavng the chldren o~tsde untl all s n readness-the pcture chart hung the songs selected the flowers n water the pano opened. The panst plays "Onward Chrstan Solders" and n march the boys and grls-not e~-ractly lke solders but very well for them. The program s never twce alke; for these chldren lke YQu boys and grl.:; are fond of changes. They are all Roman Catholcs and new ":Amercans-Spansh talan clnd rsh.. There are the brown eyes and the b!a~k. eyes of southern Europe and eyes of laughng rsh blue. Many are "lttle mothers" whch means they have to care for a. lttle brother or sster all day long; so of course the babes have to come to meetng too and they laugh and cry and prattle. The toddlers try to get off the seat and run around-some succeed but never mnd that. Lttle Mary s the pet and darlng of us all and ~he and her sster Loretta make a bewtchng par. Mary has lovely brown eyes a darlng curly brown head of short slky rnglets a rosebud mouth and n her tny ears are lttle gold rngs. She s lke a lttle doll. Kathernes abound-both rsh and talan. One rsh Katherne learns every Bble text so quckly; but one day when she was asked to recte she sad " cant." "But you know th~m want you to repeat them." " cant" she nssted " have been to confesson and the prest says t s a sn." After ths the chldren were taught to sng :Bble verses and they quckly learned sa. 53: 6; Gal. 2-: 20; 1 John 4: 10 19; Psa. 34: 11; sa. 1: 18 and others.. The Lords Prayer they used to repeat Just as fast as they could rattle t off but after much exhortaton and practce say t more slowly and reverently. You wll enjoy the Bble story. Some of the chldren wll be restless but others often the bg boys wll lsten ntently wth ther eyes fxeq on the speaker. One day a!ter ~he s.tory of ~ljal(s" translaton one grl sad Wth a longng sgh "Oh wsh could go to heaven that way!" Today we tell them of Gods tender care over hs chldren as llustrated by the flowers we have brought-just common wld flowers but they do not even know ther names. They are told that as the flowers look up to the sun and receve from t warmth lght and beauty so God would have us look up to hs Son Jesus Chrst and he w. gve us pure clean hearts. Then as God has fashoned every try delcate part of the flower so he wshes t6 help us ~n every lttle thng-n our troubles and n our good tmes. " He s nterested as no one else ~an be and f we wll trust hm. he wll make us good and pure even n lttle thngs. "Even a chld s known by hs do- - ngs whether hs work be pure and whether t be rght." Prov. 20: 11. Now before the boys grls and babes are gven flowers and march out. want y<;>u to notce ope or two more partcularly. See that boy who s restless and naughty? He has brown eyes a pale oval face and s slender n fgure- a handsome lad. He often has wth h~ a baby sster whom he love5 dearly.. Hs name s Joe Sullvan and hs home across the street. He hears only oaths curses and wckedness. Does he not need to know Jesus Chrst? Anna who lstens so earnestly to the Bble story and sometmes begs to be told more has a bold coarse red face and rough tumb1ed har. She plays ball n the street and runs wth the boys-a regular lttle tough. At a weddng she attended~ -the "wne" ~owed freely and Anna-only _~leven or twelve years old-had to be carred home and lad on her bed-dead drunk. Wth all she s warm-hearted generous and lovable. N ow boys and grls as we leave the heat the drt the rsqqalor of the cty slums and go to our clean sweet homes shall we not ask. God what we can do to help hs neglected chldren n our ctes? J a:maca Estates J anzaca. LOng J sland. THE WHP.. POOR WLL Mrs. Whp-poor-wll hopped back and forth on the ground se~rchng among the low bushes for a hole or a hdden place n whch to -make her home. N ear her fluttered Mr. Whp~poor-wll wth hs dull brown coat strped wth broad whte tal marks. Both he and hs mate were so much lke the color of the leaves and bushes that t would have been hard for any person to see them. At last Mrs. Whp-poor~wll sad: "Heres a nce hole all covered wth leaves and just the place fot our house." So she pulled away the leaves and then settled herself comfortably n ths funny lttle house whle Mr. Whp-poor-wll flew up on the tree near by and sat1g-" hs ev~ng song fve hundred and ffty tnles "Whppoor-wll whp-poor-wll" as.f tellng all the world that he and Mrs. Whp-poor-wll -:

17 318 THE SABBATH RECORDER THE SABBATH RECORDER 319 J ;1 ; had a new house" and were ready torec~ve callers. One mornng there were two tny speckled eggs n the new house and no~ Mr: Whppoor-wll was kept busy feed~ng hs mate for she must keep the eggs nce and wa:m f they were to hatch ou~ nto baby W~Ppor-wlls. And every nght Mt. WhPpoor-wll smoothed hs dark coat and looked proudly at the whte sash across hs breast. and sang hs evenng song. "Ov~r and 0v.er agan came the clear call whtp..;p~>or-wtll" whp-poor-wll" whle mother Whp-poorwll sat quet and stll on the nest. Ard then one sunny mornng the "twns" Betty and Bobby Whp-poor~vl! came out of ther shells and held ther tny mouths "Squawk squawk " she sad as. she tumbled around and cred almost lke a puppy. The cat turned and spyng her slowly crept nearer leavng the twls tremblng wth fear for ther mother. Farther and farther away the mother whp-poor-wllled the cat all the ~me lm~ng and tumblng around untl Just as t sprang she wh~.ked up n the ar wth a flurry and was away to h~r babes. And whle old puss looked stuptdly around she gathered the twns nto the hole and softly covered them up wth leaves. That n!!ht when Mr. Whp-poor-wll sang hs e;enng SO:lg he r~peated t seven hundred and twenty-sx tmes. know because counted. And t surely could mean nothng ehe than joy over "the rescue of hs babes.-chrstan Work. open for Mr. Whp-poor-wll to fll. t seemed to hm as f they would never get enough to eat but ~e br~ug~t them?any a.. moth or nsect untl ther httle bodes began to :fll out and they could hop around A BRGHT PN. by themselves. They each wore a lovely dress of speckled gray down as soft as slk. Sttng quetly n my study one evenng One of the thngs- the twns notced was held a pn n my hand and sad "Now! Mr. that both ther father and mother flew so Pn let us hear what you have to tell me quetly that they could scarcely hear ther about yourself that wll help me to talk to wngs rustle. And they really felt very the chldren." The Pn repled "Well sr! safe for they were so nearly the color of want you to understand that! am straght the leaves and bushes that no one sped that whenever have a work to do go at them untl they began to fly about alone. t rght away; and because al1 straght One day mother Whp-poor;w!l and ~ "am welcome nto all knds of homes and father too were away and the/ twns had am used for all knds of purposes. Lades been told to?tay close by the home. delght to have me as ther constant c.onl" But they were restless and as they could panon. dne wth prncesses and kngs rust fly a lttle thought that they m!ght ven-dsplay me n gorgeous scarfs. am also ture out of the hole and hop a bt among welcomet the home of the poor and save the leaves. Now t happened that day that the workers a great amount of labor. Oh! a great black cat was prowlng around. n but t s dreadful to thnk that when bethe woods near by lookng for somethng come bent or crooked am thrown away to do. She wasnt very hungry for she and trampled upon! Mllons of my brothhad just dned off two gray mce whch ers and ssters are lost every day because she" had found n the barn. they are crooked! So long as! alt ~traght But as she wandered around she suddenly t s all rght." Boys and guls hsten to sped the twns hoppn~ about among the that: "So long as am straght am all grass and leaves. QUckly she stretched rght." What about you? Are yot; straght out on the ground wth her head between wth father mother and companons? f her front paws and her tal softly thumpng you are nott depend on t ypu wll become up ard down and w~tched them. useless:. Just then Mrs. \tvhp-poor-wll canle fly- Secondly says the pn " am sharp." )g quetly back and when she saw.the Dd you read n one of the papers the other empty hole she chrped softly to the twns. day of ~ dentst w~ohad a. troublesome And then she saw the cat! mmedately clent? He wouldn t open hs mouth.50 she ~flew past the twns and off to the other the dentst gave a boy a pn and told hll~ sde of the cat and pretended that she was when a certan sgnal was gve~ to pus~ t badly hurt.. nt.o the man. He dd and n -less tme than you can say "Jack Robnson" the tooth was out. ""Dd you fe~l t?" says the dentst.. " should thnk so where s that boy?" The pn was sharp and found the spot. Boys and grls need to be sharp. Gong down the Strand one day a boy was swngng hs arms just magnng that he was swmmng n the Thames. He ht a mans pocket and the man sad "Come hereyolt lttle rascal tryng to steal my pocketbook are you?" "Sr" sad the boy Colerdge " was smply swmmng." Hs sharpn~~s capt- vated the gentleman and he subscrbed to a lbrary for hm. The pn says: "Be straght L Be sharp." Thrdly says- the pn " am brght." You cal).t do anythng wth a rusty pn ; try t next tme when you tear a hole n your coat. Rusty chldren ate not mt~h use they are always n the way. They get.up n the mornng and crawl to breakfast and are ~too lazy to clean ther boots. They are so rusty that f asked to do anythng for mother they. dont hear. Pns get rusty by beng n the wrong place amdst drt and dust. snt that where boys get rusty? Jesus Chrst had an enthusastc dscple n "Peter" but one day he found hmself n a wrong place and mmedately rus-t. gathered all around hm and when Jesus wanted to use hm to speak" for hm Peter sad: " dont know hm." How rusty.he be~ame. So rusty that he was use- less; we cant afford to le.t rust grow over us. The pn then sad thaf t had two other thngs about t. A head and a pont. All of ushave heads; but sonle of us never get to. a pont but are lke a few preachers. know -*ho go round andt;und round. and round and never get an here but a pn that s "straght" ""sharp and "brght" always has a pont and gets there when requred. And then the pn says: But there s somethng havent that wsh _ had-.. -:...> - that s some brans. \ am so dependent on others!" No brans ndeed? Then you are not much after all and how can help the chldren by talkng about you? Then t sad: "Tell the chldren that to be what am they must use what have notbrans." So t amounts to ths: To be straght sharp brght and have a pont we must use the brans that are n what a pn has as well as ourselves the head.- Rev. John Dunstan n Th.e ChrStan Wark. MARRAGES SMTH-BEEBE.-At the home of the brdes mother Mrs. W. R. Beebe Alfred N. Y. on August Mr. Leon B. Smth and Mss Marjore H. Beebe both of Alfred were unted n marrage Presdent Boothe C. Davs offcatng. CooN-ROGERs.-At the resdence of Mss Ange Langworthy Mlton Juncton Ws. August by Rev. Dayton A. Burdck Edward Dupont Coon of Mlton Ws. and lvrs. EsHe A. Rogers of Brookfeld N. Y. DAVS-ALLEN.-At the Seventh Day Baptst church Shloh N. ]. June Therman C. Davs and Sarah T. Allen both of Shloh N. J. Rev. E. F. Loofboro offcatng. " E. F. L. (> W ARE-NEWKRK.-At the Seventh Day Baptst parsonage Shloh N. J. July Fred M. Ware Deerfeld N. J. and Alce B. Newkrk Shloh N. ]. Rev. E. F. Loofboro offcatng. E. F. L. BONHAM-HARRs.-At the home of the... brdes parents Mr. and Mrs. L. Hoover Harrs Shloh N. J. July Clarkson S. Bon ham and Elzabeth W. Harrs both of Shloh. The ceremony w~s performed by Rev. E. F. Loofboro. E. F. L. C~PER-DAVS.-At the home of the brdes parents Mr. and!vrs. N. W. Davs 146 E. Eghty-eghth Place Los Angeles Calf. on July by Rev. J. T. Davs grandfather of the brde Mr. Lee Cooper of Santa Paula Calf. and Mss Ada Louse.Davs of Los Angeles.. ".!

18 320 THE SABBATH RECORDER. SPECAL NOTCES THE SABBATH tec~;;~ :.. SAL.EM COLLEGE -""..!! Contrbutons to the work.n Pangoengsen Java wll be gladly receved and forwarded by the Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety. FRANK J. HUBBARD Treasurer Planfeld N. J. $ The Seventh Day Bapt~t Mssonary Socety wll be ad to receve contrbutons for the work n Pangoengsen ava. Send remttances to the treasurer. S. H. Davs esterly R.. The Frst Seventh Day Baptst Church of Syracuse N. Y. holds regular Sabbath servces n Yoke fellows Room 3rd floor of Y. M. C. A. Buldng 334 Montgomery St. Preachng servce at 2.30 p. m. Bble school at 4 p. m.weeklv prayer meetng at 8 p. m. Frday evenng at homes of members. A cordal nvtaton s extended to all Rev. Wllam Clayton pastor 1427 W. Colvn St. Syracuse. Phone James 1082-W. Mrs. Edth Spade church clerk 1100 Cumberland Ave. Syracuse N. Y. The Seventh Day Baptst Church of New York Cty holds servces at the Memoral Baptst Church. Washngton "Square. South. The Sabbath school meets at a. m. Preachng servce at a. m. A cordal welcome s extended to all vstors. The Seventh Day Baptst Church of Chcago holds re~lar Sabbath servces n Hall 601 Captol BudlOg (formerly Masonc Temple) corner of State and Ran dolph Streets at 2 oclock. Everybody welcome. Rev. C. A. Hansen. pastor 1152 W. Sxteth Street. The Church n Los Angeles. Ca1.. holds regular servces n ther house of worghp near the corner of West 42nd Street and Moneta Avenue every Sabbath mornng. Preachng at 11 oclock followed by the Sabbath school. Everybody welcome. Rev. Geo. W. Hlls. Pastor. 264 W. 42nd Street Rversde Calforna Seventh Day Baptst Church holds regular meetngs each week. Church servces at 10 oclock Sabbath mornng followed by Bble School. Chrstan Endeavor Sabbath afternoon.3 oclock. Cottage prayer meetng Frday nght. Church/ buldng corner Ffth Street and Park Avenue. E. ~(Ballenger Pastor 438 Denton St. Rversde. Cal. Mnneapols Seventh Day Baptsts meet regularly each Sabbath at 10 a. m. at the homes. Mr. Lloyd Burdck 4615 Vncent Avenue South Superntendent of the Sabbath school; Mrs. Wllam A. Saunders Robnsdale Phone "Hyland 4220" asssstant. Vstors cordally welcomed. The Detrot Seventh Day Baptst Church of Chrst holds regular Sabbath servces at 2.30 p. m. n Room 402. Y. M. C. A. Buldng. Fourth Floor (elevator) Adams and Wtherell Streets. For nformaton concernng Chrstan Endeavor and other servces call Pastor R. B. St. Clar 3446 Mack Avenue/ phone Melrose A cordal welcome to all. The Seventh Day Baptst Church of Battle Creek Mch. holds regular preachng servces each Sabbath n the Santarum Chapel at a. m.chrstan Endeavor Socety prayer meetng n the College Buldng (opposte Santarum) 2d floor every Frday evenng at 8 oclock. Vstors are always welcome. Parsonage 198 N. Washngton Avenue.. The Seventh Day Baptst Church of Whte Ooud. 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All communcatons whether on busness or for publcaton. should be addressed to the Sabbath Recorder Planfeld N. J. AdvertSng rates furnsheu on request. "The churches are by nhertance and choce the guardans and champons of the moral order n socety. Today they fght aganst h~avy odds. t behooves them to get rd of unnecessary baggage to make an end of rrelevant controverses to bury dead ssues concernng the source of ther authorty etc. to combne ther forces and concentrate ther energes on the one am of conservng and enforcng the Chrstan moral values of cvlzaton. Otherwse the reorudescence of pagansm may become the recrudescence of barbarsm. n the mdst of socal and moral chaos a few. choce sprts may fnd consolatol: and strength n phlosophy but fot the many a vvd passonate and energetc relgous.convcton s thf~ condton of moral health and vgor.- oseph A. L~ght01~. r Sabbath School. LeSon X ~ept JESUS MAKES A NsSON.~RY -TouR.--Mark 1: " -. Golden Te.xt.- "Thou canst make meclean/ Mark 1: 40. ".. 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19 Vol. 97 No. 11 September 15 19%4 _ a Seventh Day Baptst Onward Movement.the lnes. LNES TO MOUNP EVEREST.George mbre Sll "ArJang front hs nghts repg8e The S1D1 looks wer the eastern verge of earth ~o where 0 Everest Th7 vast D;sshapen form upheave8 Frownng portentous on the cowerng land. Where sky n homage beddb And lce-boond rocky r8dlpart8 rear Forbddng Hgh towers th7 mlghtt hea~ Set n tle slences of ages gone Crowned wth the dawn mperal and alone. And from that dlzzt frlgld hefght Of vrgn soltude Be70nd the far-hung. plaln below Across the ard deserts wear... waste Beyond where ocean. soundng bllows su"ge On other shores; World-wde Adventures gage s proudl7 cast BefOle the sons of men. Of them that dare Who next shall take the cuuenge gven And trt that upward path Beset b7 Death!. Who shall; fodla)ddg all. At allt auald that emnence And ~ UlJng the.tan of f~!.. -CONTlDNTSl!-- EdtoraL-Tract Socety at Confererce.-An mpressve Moment n General Conference. - Mssonary Day at MUton Conference; Hgh Water Mark Alfred-Alfred Staton Daly ~Vacaton Bble School J ; 326 The New Forward Movement.-Our Onward Movement Budget 328 Facng Our Responsblltles Mssons.-Monthly Statement 335 Womans Work.-nterestlng Letters From Chna Report of the General Conference Vocatonal Commttee Young Peoples Work.-How Jesus Cheered Others.-A Thought for the Quet Hour. - ntermedate Chrstan Endeavor Topc.-Junor Work.. :!.."t 345 Mchgan Sabbath Keepers Assocaton ~ Chldrens Page.-Jesus Gvng Hs Lfe.-The "Why" Habt Lone Sabbath Keepers Page.-Report of the General Conference Auxlaryfor Lone Sabbath Keepers Marrages Deatha " ~ 350 Sabbath School Lesson Sept