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. Betw~n:; the' plays several musical numbers were enjoyed.. . . ~ . . .

Tuesday)evening the members'" of the In, termediate. Christian. Endeavor' society en' joyed a ,!Hallowe"en social 'at the parsonage. The guests were led through the cellar' where they were greeted by the goblins. During ·the evening,' games and ,'refreshments were en .. joyed.-Wester.ly Sunll October 3 L

MILTON JUNCTION ~ WIS.

The Bible school lesson for last week being a 1:emperance lesson, Pastor Randolph of the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist Church got a group of boys and girls together and with ,their assistance tried some ~periments to test. the' actIons of ethylalcohol~e alco, hoI that is in beer, wine, whiskey, cider, and 'other ,popular drinks. During the Sabbath school: hoUr at the church he conducted the demonstration,' showing the' results of these experiments~ .

Two sets 'Of bottles:. one set containing alco .. hoI and; the ,other ·pure ,water with equal ,amounts of·,. some ;'other 'substances in each, llad'.been used-, in order.to compare the ac .. . tions, of water and .ofalcohol.

It was shown that alcohoi is very useful in the arts, in commerce and in science outside the body~because it dissolves substances wa' ter . will. not dissolve, such as oil, resin, cam .. phor;etc.

Also alcohol absorbs water and so pre .. serves .. substances--shown by its action on ;meat . which . it . preserved and hardened, on bread which rattled in the bottle like a 'Pebble, and an egg white which was' hardened so that -it appeared coOked.

These actions take place inside as well as outside, the body~ , : ,The demonstration was illustrated further by a-large posteifurnished liy the W~C.T.U. . '; This ··was the,' beginning ofa . series' of simi .. :lar experiments and ,demonstrations' to be COD'

tinned ·larer in alcohol· educa.tion~ -' '-' Milton News, October ll.·

, ~~God 1.1_ through h . •• he wor~ . timan agenCIes,' .

said. ""A· Christian'; should' have a religion that sweetens him 90 that people Will be 'at, tracted to the Christ ~ is<~ndia~ by h~~··

. Mrs. Hargis 'and her sons,' Robert and Don .. aid, recently home from Jamaica:. sang two

umbers ~"I Need Jesus"" and "Christ Liveth n , . . M ,'t 1fl e.

The picture of Jesus in the home of Mary and Martha, by Hoffmann, "Was presented by Rev. L. F. Hurley:. pastor. The, services will continue throughout the week. - Riverside Daily PTe8S.

M A. R R 1 .dG E S CROSBy-STAUTER.-On the afternoon of October

19, 1935, at the Denver Seventh Day Bap~ church, Margaret B. Stauter of Denver, and Kenneth James Crosby, son of Mrs. Jessie Crosby of Wheatridg~ CoIQ.. were united in

. marriag~ Rev. Ralph H. Coon officiating.

MORSE-CROSS.-At the' parsonali{eat Leonards­. ville, N. Yo. were married July 18, 19351 by

Rev. Paul S. Burdick. Mr. FrederiCk L Morse and Miss Maude G. Cross, both of Brook:field.

OBITUARY BUlWICK.--In S~for<L Conn .• October 11. 1935.

Albert De Wayne Burdick. aged -54 years. De Wayne was" bom at' Rockville; -R. I.. on

March. '28, 1881: ,He ~. th~ ; youngest son of Leander C. and Catherin~ .(Wells) Burdick.··His early life was spent at RodcVille. More tl1an thi~. years a~d be went to St.a!D;ford where be has smce reSIded.· On, November- 11, 1894,i,he was baptized by Rev. A1exan~er.: McLeanl' ,~d ~ted . with the Rpckvill~. ~v:~~ ~. ~~~t Church. Mr. Burdick -Dever ·marned. He 15 sur­vived by a brother, EJisha 'C-~'BurdicJf:ot'Wes­tei-ly, R. I_~ a niece, Miss . Maida C. Burdick 'of StaJI)ford.; . and a n~phe'W'!,. Walter Burdick,. ; H~ was of a cheerful dispOSItion 'and had a host of friends. . . . Farewell· servit:es 'were -held in Sta!tlford on Sunday ·afternoon and OD';MondaY'a, semce~ held in::W esterly:when Rev;' Haroitf. R. ~Cranda1I, a relative, officiated. Inte~ent. :was 1 in River Bend Cemetery. . H. lL C.

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RIVERSIDE~ CALIF. HIi.r..-Emest L. Hill was born at· Dakota, .Wis.. At the:. Seventh"Day Baptist church, last 0 December 2S~ 'l867l1 and died at BeJ:"1in. Wis.,

night,. Evangelist'.Van :Ho~J in charge of the ,October 11. 1935.. -. - '. , meetin. as,': ·took.· ',_for: his subJ°ect, ""An 'Old.. . .... ';He ,vi~ th~ .son.: pf .Va~~·G. and. !\my .~

0' !!ill. . 'He ,leaVeS}l.~~e .an~ pn~ so~ ~o; ~oum fasmo~ed: . Revivatn

. his loss., , A large' number of ·r~tives' an,a fnends ···He .. emph~d· as some of. the elements of attended ., the, (funeral'" i If waS,rSaid of . Jilin, ··that

a revival;~~a'religion that Will meet the needs he was a:ChristUm,·thoqgh..,not J>e1ong!n.a~ to ~ of our heartS1md' bhe: that .will do for others ~l;it~~a J~o~:~~?~~~~~~pt~~ptiSt what the old .. time revival did for us.~., Cemetery, Berlin, Wi!L 'j"_.i;; ;:" . , H.'

~NOVBMBER. 25: 19)5

BY GpAC£ NOLL CROWELL

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Contents IIkIlI:hldlll .2.eUJdoua Educ::atlon lntereat.a.-Petmayl'91U1la. and Race Ltnea..-

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.',.. .., ... .,$',Tbe,~r-.nted ~ ~Dd·._IJI_lona.-A BecommeluiaUon ~anu·· , ,·SDeclal·· K~Dth&. - A.pJ>l"ol)rlattODa for. 1918. - The Church-. Rela.ttotl ~ .

. "., c;,. l .MtaaloilL~The .BJble--e. k taaJoD&r7 Book..-N8wa From Ger-ma.ny .... 2"6-~

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Terms o~ Subscription . Per Year ••••••.••••.•••••.•••••.••••..••. $S.60 81% Months .......••....•.••..•••••• ,e ••••• .-,.~ 1.16

Papers to foreign countries Including ,Canada.. will be charged 50 cents additional. on account of postage. .

All communications. whether OD blHllnesB or tor publication. should be addressed to the Sab­bath Recorder. Plalnftel~. N. J.

. Subscriptions will be dls~onttnued at date ot expiration when so requested. ' . All subscriptions vrill be dfs.continue4 one year after date to which payment Is. made un­less expressly renewed.

Re6gioua Educa.tioD .... World;,· ,Wide Sunday 1I1tereata ' School 'News"~:· is now giving publicity to the '. twelfth convention of the World"s Sunday School' ~tion.to be held in Oslo, Norway, next July, 19. 36. .; In 1932, the wOJ;'ld convention' was' held in

Rio de Janeiro-the first south of .the equator. The twelfth will be the first to be held in Scandinavia. Certainly no more appropriate

, theme ···could be chosen than that announced ~""Christ the ,Hope of the World."" Surely in these conf~g days of .... disruptive~ ihflu" ences, " .. when the great need of world . unity is *> apparen~, there should be used every :me3:IlS ,posstble to' center' th~ .world"s, 3:ttentioh u,pon' the Christ who is ·~the Way, the Truth. and the Life.'." . The announcement urges that the Bible schOOl .... must' have'a distinctive share in winning the world' to unity in ·Ohrlst, for it is seeking to win and·teach and ~ the on'" com.iQg generation for the kingdom of God .....

While none of our readers is likely to have the opportunity· to attend this' convention, we can all interest ourselves ·'in it, .keep informed about it, and pray for the achievement of its id~. ~ '_ ,.

speaking of this, the ~'aoU1C:aQ

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P~1YaDia and Pennsylvania has recently Race Lilies passed an anti.-discrimi ... riation.',:Ca.ce bill that o~ght to please all right .. minded Christians. ' One of the ·hardest things seemingly we have 'to learn is that uGod hath made of one blood every n;ltion of men, ,.. and that he uis no,.respecter of persons:' This state has embodied tbisidea into law. The' bill provides' ~at there shall be no di& cri.tnin.~tion .... because of ~.~, or color"" and '8~ea inDS, ta~ hotelS, sc.h~ and some thirty..five· -other I • institutions including . public conveyances. Our· batS off to this old state named, for, William. Penn,. champion of love and a square deal for all. Let the time quickly, 'come when our other States will be~ come jUstice ... mirided.

About M.kinlr Willa Attention of Seventh Day Baptists is respectfully called to the de­sirability of making wills·whel'l one is in the normal use of all his faculties of mind and heatt~ Often well intentioned folk plan ti? do . certain things· with ,their, ;prope:t ty--ca.te f6~ loved ones, help S01'lle, worthy quse., or make; provision for worth while' interest&­but die· intestate, and good intentions go for naught. ,Not infrequently. too. unwise ~ are _made which G3-use disharmony ~ong those benefited.

, R eaJizing these dangers, the Presbyterian churches of Rochester, N. Y." have undertaken a will Writing campaign among theirmember8. A two mOnths· Ca.inpaign' ~ :being .projected ib. which the drive· will enUst; 1awy'~~ .and pl'O&' pective clients in an effort to' have Preaby,!' .---- 1- .. 1.._ .,. of ~ b·' ,_~~zea Jze,t.oIKA-·~~~ce:> . . ~ts1ng

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their 'pmpa;ty . while , they : are : able 10 .• ., wisely.~·' . "'lmportanCe~) of 'such actiqn~ abnoId be re:aJizeCf by' am landSCllDetbingdooe;abuUt,it.

In this connection it· maT;-not be out of place to aU attention'to the foims of bequests appe;nded . to reports of same of our societies -the American Sabbath~ Tract Society, the Missionary Society, and-others.

It .... of I~, ". ,Once ·more we are sad .. dened by the PaNung Of ~ of bUr outstanding citi~~ and;"'Cbristianl"Iadel'L":,l ~~. A r"~il1yn) Sunday died on November 6. in Chicago. For almost f~ ~ he baa been a ~t and compelling preacher of re .. pentance ~ peraonal salvation.. He was uniqUe in his penona1ity always daring to stand' for his convictions. "' He played the game of life as he played ~utriDg into it an that ~ in hitn. While many did not sub-­scribe to, his methods in evaogetiem. none could doubt his sincerity; and thou&anda were won to the Christian life by bim.

Recent information' from the Women '8

Radio Committee, New y~ City. states that the matter of- .a~· and aQliciting <fis, tillery ~dbre~ery,' proglams on their broad .. casting time is-being considered·' by . station WO~ Newark. '"N. J .• and ita associa'ted staO' ti6n8 ,in the. Mutual, B~ ~ which includeA the powerful statiOns WG~. Chi~o; "{!..w.· Cincinnati; and cnw. Win~. Ontario. .. '

"The . trade . papers, say they (the. stations reo­f~~to)., are ~,oDt; t.he- plan and if there aren~ 'pro~ts against it, ,. ~ will t:a)ce liquor ads. SO far there have 'beeli no 'proteSts.. .

"JInder l the' captio~; J~ -.Oid ~ of tbt: Mountain: ~ MOD~. Wedl1i9day, and Friday.. at 6.45 P.IQ.. to 7:( , .S. T-)~ therer_is a proglaDl ~nso~ed, by . the ,Frantz Disti1b:rs ·Gompany_ The pto'-' : is varied but it encou~· toa.stiDg ;ynth liqu~~m and ·is attri.d'iVe.· : Under";; tile Same sta-tion, WOR. with the'~mg~taD 1Amax:.' &om '7 • to.. 2.15 ~.m.. .eaCh. :_ev,t;o 8... spon59red by FeJgenspan's Brewmg Comp,ny. IS an~thet pro-:

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in w1ricb £Wei y Chi istia.n -can and should help. Send in you:r protest at .once

One of the most effective ways of lXWDbat, ing the use of ak:oho1 as a beverage is con" ceded ·,to 'be education of the young people as to its aifects. .Al1ied youth is an organiQticm with this as its PUl'pO!ile. as seen in the follow­ing exuac:t:

Allied youth is an OQP!!iptiou of y~ pe0-ple (ages 14 to 30) _ 'WIth it. 'progi am that em­phasizes better education concerning bewerage alcohol and wholesome citjpnsbip ~em. Locally. it faactions through posta. orpn.red in la.rgt: and small cities. towns and: rural 01 wrnmrmi­ties.. with youth officers and an adult sponsor -:ho tm~~ds yoath. Discassion aDd studY. directed mve&tJgatlon. and a weD-rounded social program aid youthful members to tbinJc clearly ~out beverage alcohol in relation to personal choices. friendship' socia! situa.t:ions, public be2J~ and safdy. .

Amed Yoath is non-po1itieal and DOO-sec:tar­ian., youth led and youth inspi:J eeL AIl yomtg pe0-ple. regardless of habits or opinions that they have acquired. may have a part in its program.

Allied Youth-s platform is: --W~ staA4 for tlw ~ tJrrosgiJ ftl~ of tar iaifi.viAaal awl SOcW~ frDM tAl ~s of lHvrf~ Gl­eOM"-

These Posts are the a. tadt workshops of the organizati9D where young. people meet··QD friend­Iy •. dem~ common _ground to study. totaDc" and toptay together ~ There is nothing stale or static about the PostS,: ~ vib~ With youth kadcr.ship aDd youth.' ~

The orga.niz.ation is financed by duntar')' gifts. ,. It, publishes a monthly paper called "The AUied Youth.·· subscription price $1 per year. This comes free tn 'anyooe con-­tributing $S or, more to the work of the 0I'4>

ganiza.tion. Information rqarding the wm:k or.bpw to organi%.e a Post may be obDined from Allied Youth, National Education J\sBcr dation Buildin~ Wa~jngton.. D: C. L L.

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·~TO.AT'BOULDER

crl) W Sab&th. Ruork,. 4~ t.o the Churches of the &ven%h. D4Y &.piut Gen.eTal Ccmfereina . Pla.injielcl. ~.~J.

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1936. 'In 1908" the Conference. : met in Boulder and after,a"lapse of·twenty ... eight years it would seem that no· one would feel that ~at field were· over fa.-vored if the-Conference ~ere. to meet there in .'.1936. On ·leaving J;louider, the president of the Conference ·told the people. ~qe' that if Sllitable arrangements could be Blade for the auditorium and sanitary accommodations, he would favor having the sessions of 1936 at ~ulder.

Word has come' that the auditorium and toilets of the North 'Side Junior High School building may be had at a very reasonable rate. That· settles the' question of meeting place. Within four or :five' 'blocks distance there are several· cafes and restaurants which ~ care for the meals of those atte~ding. From my experience in eating houses while on the visit to the churches in Kansas, Nebraska., and Colorado, I think that we may get meals thus about as reasona:bly as at a Conference dining .. hall.· .

Delega~.to. the Conference will have to make arrangemen~ 'for sleeping quarters, ana they will have to plan to m~e use of rooming houses, hotels, tourist cabins, etc., for enter' tainment as a whole. Many did that at Alfred this last year. The good . people at Boulder reCl'1i~, however, that many will have to have lodgings at no cost, and they wil1make·. pro-­vision for such in their' homes.: ·ThEW are sUre that they can accommodate at least' 1>-2-5 in that way. There ~e two or three camps at the city. ·limits where cottages ,may be had Very reasonably. There are many rooming houses near the' university where rooms may' be had at reasonable rates also. You may expect to hear more definitely concerning these' at a later date.

There are to be no excursions planned for the days in which the Conference meets. No delegate is. expected to take sigh~seeing trips by at>sel,l$g hjm~f, froql the meeting~ and the >members of ·the Boulder Church have

. backed this heartily. There'will be a trip into the mountains 'plaqned for the day following the adjournment' of the Conference.

After consultation with those members of the Commjssion who live near Milton, it was. felt that the decision should be made in favor of the invitation:Qf. the Boulder. Church ... for th~ 193:§ O>nfgr~ August 18.·to 23",1936~ So mak~'YQ~ ·p~to help,ma:ke·the Boulder Conference one of the rnost' outstanding in

,enthilsiasm . -and, BpiritiJal . qUickening, as· we meet: at the foOt iof one of :tbe moSt mighty of the handiworks of God, the, Rocky' Moun~;ns.

Sincerely yours,

President of Milton·. Wis .• ' .

November S·,' 1935.

D. N. INGLIS.

the Conference.

.. '. JlJSSIONS' ; .

TIlEPRIN lED PAGE AND 'MISSIONS r • , • . . . ...... '. . . \,'

Thotigli th~ printed p~ge. is a new t¥ng ~ ~e look. ~:~~across_ ~~ ages of ~an"~ history, It has come_to .~ lDdisp~ble In the estab­lishment of. Christ"s kingdOD,l in modern times. It is: a direct mea DS of reaching people and is used to _promote every conceivable thing, even that which is evil. Under these conditions the interests that do not use the printed page are at a great disadvantage, being crowded out of the ,mind by the items that are constantly in print.

For this reason every m~ possibl~ should be used to put religious literature before the people and to get them to read it. This is especially true r~g mjssions,_ for whether home or fote.ign,they are ~ore or less removed from. the observation of the lOcal church.

N: 6twithstanding ·the fact that the printed page is .. an imperative need in the promotion of missiops and all Christian work, religious papers and magazines have sUffered seriously during the last five or six years.' . Not only have' the subscriptions fallen {lif, but many papers and magazines have gone out. of exist' ence. . Among themaie 40wrhe Presbyterian Maguine,·· "7he Bap~'" and "!he Con .. gregationalist .... which was merged into ""The Advance.... ·Now ""The Advance .... has come to be a monthly instead ofa weekly. For many years the SABBATH REcoRoER appeared every week, but for more than two years it has been published only bi ... weekly and the number of pages has been reduced .

Perhaps this condition should be given more attention thaD it ,is. . They say it is the depre8' sio~ but evidently the depression is not the only' cause.. Some point to a growing lack of interest.. as . the. reason why denominational papers' are not better : supported, and'doubtleaa .a. dkeener .interest .. would ~ Jtelp, ·much;· but ,it would be . hard· to ·prove; tbat·.peop1e~are . less religious. ,noW than ·.formerly.': ·,·Others· think that the decline. of ·the .. religious. press is on

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acx:ount of lack of ekill on the patt of editors, contributing edit.Ora. and others who have to do with the management of these 31fair&. The most of us involved would J::d guilty in this reapec:t, and still one won if there is less abt1ity along these lines mday than in other days.

To revive intaest in the religious press is one of the great problems before all denomi, nations. The 8WXe88 of SeiQenth Day Baptists' work depends much . upon solving this que&'

tion. Ways and means should be found to publish an unabridged edition of the 8ABsATH R.E.cx>RDER every week and make it meet the needs of the hour.

A R£a)MMEffDAnON REGARDING SPECIAL IlONTIIS

As president of Conference last year, Pa,s, tor· James L. Skaggs. upon consultation with groups of pastors and others, inaugurated the plan of assigning cet lain months- to different lines of work. Missions were given especial attention one month, our publishing inte:rests another month, and the programs' of the Sab-­bath School Board and Young People·s Board were considered during other months

Upon the recommendation of the Commi51 sion, the General' Conference, at its last 8e&

sian,- voted to continue this plan. The report of the Commission regarding this· matter adopted by the General Conference reads in part as follows:

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APPROPlUAnows FOR 1 .. In the issue of the 8ABsATH R..BooRna of

November 11. page 2S6. the appropriations of the Missionary Board for 1936 will be fonnel. As WQlal, these appropriations were made at the regular quarterly meeting of the board, held in October. and therefore could not ap' pear before..

Attention is called to this because inquiries have come ~ the appropriations for next YE=a! .. P~ore. the publishing of the appropnauons gIves to all the financial details of the Missionary Boa['(fs work.. Owing to ~ circumstances, changes are necessary during the year; but the monthly statements of the trea.surer appear regularly in the ~ 5lons Department and these indicate any changes made..

. It has been thought by some that the Mi&­SIOnary .Board d.i~ not make full report of these things. It 18 true that. in compliance with the request of the General Conference, the annual reports are abbreviated; but those ~o read the REcoRDER. have every month a list of the employees and itemized statements of all expenditures and receipts. Full wor, m~tion is desirable and this requires two thIngs: that ~ be given in an interesting way and that people read what is publisbed.

THE CHURCH'S RELAnOH TO IUSSIONS BY REV. AHVA 1. C. BOND "c. The system of presenting the needs of the

different boards and agencies of the denomina- (A foar minute outline pro .. Died on tile PI'"OCIam of the tion on special days at least once a year, shoUld Mluionary Society at the Gaae:a&1 Ccm.f~ be continued, asing material provided by thOse Aupst 21. 1933.)

agencies direct to the pastor. An appeal for 1. The Church is the result of missions.. support of the whole budget should be a part of The early. followers of Jesus caught his spirit the presentation. rI and got his message., c:onceiying it to be a m.es--

January is the month assigned to missions. sage for all manJcj~ and went everywhere Thjnking that it wilf be helpful m the pastms preaching the gospel. As the message spread in arranging their ptogI'ams'if they know aev... and the work gtew. companies united for era! weeks beforehand when the spedal month !ellow&hip and ~or the purpose of strengthen, is to com~ announcement is made at this early mg each· other 1D the faith Bound together date: Later material' bearing on our mission ~ common ~ ~eogr:hened through suffer ... work 'and mission work in general will be aent mg. these ~ ~me established in to all our pastors.. If the church has no pa&- -' churches. and m the Chun:h of Jesus Christ. tor. the material will 'be aent to one of its This has been·the history of the Christian officer&- . JnOVe'J'rient from the beginning until now and . ·TheZe are several reaSODB why.it seems.good this is still the way by which new ch~ ~wise rto'a~~t apecial~ mOnths ;toa par... ~ .,.organized and bUilt -up.. The ririssionary ticolar" ~onnnat1Onal' work,. but these rea.. ~·.still moves: ~.to go into· ~ un.­SODS' ha.lre a1readybeen set forth and· need not ocxupied by Cb.ri.st:ianity.to orgaBite <drurc:be!i be repeated· u ··thia ,time. . . , ~ <.. and1'o'baild npl the -ehurch.' , __ :,; L· 1. ". ~: ........ ;.

278 2. The Cl1uTch'i piesmt lif1luef)mds upon'

missions. It is, of the 'Very na.tureof . ~e Church that it cannot live' unless it is ~gaged in mjssions~ Ap organization' mat, ~. and call itself a church. But it isllQt rightly. so named 'unless it is carrying the blessings of the gospel to those who do not· kno~. C~ and is engaged in the work of causu;t.g the spirit of Christ. to prevail in the life of all mankind. The present life of the Church-­the genuine quality of its life, ~d ev~ 'its very existence~epends upon Its haVlDg a missionary spirit and engaging in a program of missionary endeavor.

3. The Chu-rch-s ultimate objective. ~n .be -reached' only th-rough missions. Christianity is not simply a good religion among many re" ligions. It is not content to ~. classed. as the best' religion among other r~gtons that may be quite satisfactory for certam ~ or ~ pIes. Christianity may reco~ good m other religions~ and may seek to preserve that good wherever found, but it is the conviction of Christians that CIiristianity is the only true religion. The good of mankind, the salvation of the race depend upon the acceptance. on the part of men everywhere of Jesus <?~ ~d his way of life. This is the Church s m1SS1?D' ary task, to be diligently pursued and' faith .. fully and sacrfficingly prosecuted until every tongue shall confess Jesus as Lord.

THE BIBLE - A MISSIOllARY BOOK BY LA VE1lNE D. LANGWOR.THY

(A four minute outline presented OIl.the program of the Missionary Socl~ at the General Conference.

August 21. 1935.)

If I were to propound the question to this audience, Do you believe .the Bib~e to be a missionary book? I doubt if there 18 a person within the range of my voice who would reg ... ister a negative, reply.

Our Seventh Day Baptist home and Bible school training has been such that our chil ... dr~ even at a tender age, have a very definite idea of. the purpose of missions. And who could read the Bible; whether young or old, and fail to discover the idea of missions and missionaries, even from Genesis to R.evela ... tions?

At just this jnstant I do not reca11 the vel y Drat reference to missionaries; but I am re­minded. first among 'men· that of Joaqdl'. family. and among wODie.n of Esther"s being

set :apart, to' preserire,the Jews. When we come to the-book··of ~Psa1ms;we find ·many.references that remind us that missions -and miasiOilarie:s cannot be' left out of1he' pictUre of life eter ... nal. In this 'book verses ·like ~tbPse' appear: .. ~ Ask of me, and I shaJJ give thee~ the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.n Psalm 2: 8. Also, uAB the ends, of the ·world shaU remem .. her and turn unto theLmd; and all the .king, doms of the nations sha]] worship before thee " psalm 22: 27.

Then coming on into the New Testament. the intent and purpose of missions is with US

from Matthew to Revelations. In Matthew 24: 14. we find these words: uAnd.~ gospel of the kingdom shall be preached In' 'aU the world for a witness unto an nations; and then shaH the end come.·· And the. chaJJenge to every true ~ is given in Matthew 28: 19, .... Go ye ~erefore, and teach all nation&. baptizing them in the Dame of the Father, and of the Sons and of the Holy Ghost. n Many will argue that this verse, and its companion found in Mark 16: 1 S~ ~~Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every crea ... ture,.. were written directly to the mjnistry; but if we accept Christ·8 teaching in all its fullness, these words must n~ B9arily include every worth while layman.

Then again, the excuse is so often made. "I am not sitnated 80 that I can,help~; or "My business is 80 insistent in its demands that I have no time., or money that I can spa.re.to give.·· But. in these very admissions they for' get the most powexful meaD3 that God baa endowed all his true disciples with, that of prayer. Brothers and sista'B, do not forget to pray, for by prayers you can' bring about Gocfs purpose in this missionary problem. We know if we have more prayer we. .shaJl have more money to meet the needs. of t;be field. And as· we are taking the BiQle as a guide, we find this ve:me to -sustain pra~, ""And a vision appeared unt9 Paul in the night; There. stood. ama'D- of;¥acecJoma,:.a prayed unto bjm. saying. Come over _into Macedonia and help us." Acta 16: 9.

I often wish that it could be the privilege of every earnest Seventh Day Baptist to ait in at one of the quarterly Imeetinga of the Wi_on .. ary Board and listen to:tbe ,lettemthat .Be constandy pouring into :Sead:ary. Burdick'. oilice.aaking for help in -this. and tbat- field. I am. sure that many would: 6nd new food

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for· thought and'· that the Thmoe~ would, be more' snugbtm praYer.than: it ,is today.'

When we haw: 'read·tbe·Bible tbtough and meditated on all the mil·onary-Ieferehc~, VIe

arrive at this verae:in· the· book· of ~ which I will ~ The Triumph of Mi_ems. ~'And I saw, anotber·angel·tlyin the mid8t of heaven. having the 'everlasting gospel to preach to' them that. dwell 'OIl ;tbe-~and to etlet)'

nation, and ~and tongue. and people. ~ R.rielation 14: ~ ,

NEWS' nOlI GI.IUIAItY (Gleaned fraaa Bn,dae:r L Rlehud Co.:u-adt-.. ItaerL)

Your letter, of September 25 at hand. I was real glad to h:eai that your health is im .. proving and tbu· you expect 80QD to be in a condition to a~d to your important duties Time is fast pa-;ng and winter is nearing; ~.have had a good many stoJ,"A of lair. Wen. my dear brother •. J can. inform YOU:. that since my ~ I have ~ny tbinga f!.x' wbicb to· be tbanHul to the .Lord.. ~y :di;dDea is gooe; my head i8 clear. 80 that I can attend to my editorial· wmk Without' paiD;- my appetite and sleep' are good; the oidy thing' troubling me fa· my' bearin& but we must have' eome thorn in the'fIesh to .,ep us humble and dependent on the Lord. -. My Nove Jiiber').ka,tbIy is out; mY Deeen,her :Jmmba' is in the hand of the printer; my newfOtt, page "tract lacb ooly six pages of explaOatiooa :now.',being the origi .. nal of White's docIunent of ;1847·.·· H~fOlIh ISbaIJ give.my attention to ..,all1:racta:on"the Sai:lbath, the -law,-etc.,· -How 'We DUfu as Snenth· Day BaptistS from Seventh "Day Ad ... ftI1tists~ ae:eatS·to' have a good c:in::ulation 'in German.. , .

. During t:bis~ month at home, lbave spent one -~ in KieI;' from Priday to M~y I 'was· in \ .Celle., HSl)ftI)W!f't .;and, Brunswick, reoeiving~ WIo ~ln CelIe· as m~ From Friday next I shaJJ spend tIeD; 'dais in Gelsenkirchen. - Ludenscbeidt; . ·Isetlobn. -Per, hapiSt-Bielefeld,'; where 'a ."a11 chUrch: u:.to be OrganirAd .'" ~ : .. i8 ' -also ~r:to' ~be otganirAd: Brotber"',Wipper.n;Jnh'- jSJ'c1Oiog .gooCI WOr~ in the Bast. But with·,a.hout-~twenty, ~ andwe"tWc»t!le-only;.miniMiera. thete', is-:mDd, to be··done'·;Mide~·tbe dttudIes~ and "'-mitnhe:t of. -ails? &OaP.~~ ouMide. ?aw :thi&~ winter 11 8haH·ta'9Ciid:~~ and' give ·aiueh :ltte=ndOO to!.tb.ef\vorJt.'bete..~Hf : -,' : L.:: l-} -~.' :-i ",)~ . i ~.

r Keie;~[JWiIiu.r·.'~pi.~~cxk-:U ~ca1iied OIl with: vigOr; .. aDd··aD~pIeaaied ~~',many

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millions, have found 'work.. Crit:ics may have much' 10 say about eoitdidrlns here; but ODe thing is certains a -wonderful change 'has aI ... ready come in spite of aD the ditficulties that bad to be O"Jef'COI1.e to feed aixty'Six mjlljons in 8O·limited a cou.nt:ry en*aJler than Texa:a and not near ao fruitful..

Our e*crHe:m: Berlin Confere.M"Z helped greatly. Brother G. WippeJii,ann is ~ iog mcdy into a IUCO asful worker. Today be Wiote me that be does' not need to ae:r we until 1936, and tbe=n Olly right weeks Brother Lotw:h has also finished his six mondm· labor aervioe with the statz: in Eastern Pn,pu;;j;t be, havior vel 7 good. He enjoyed his Sabbath privileges. Oar wwk is gradually edpnt1jn&

and naturally. with 80 many churches" there are "alWily& troubles..

From Nove-ather an. I shaJJ. spe:nd much of my time in bOkUng Bible studies here in ~ burg. . and only "Visit: the Dear toWDi eluting Sabbaths, You may rest usured that I MaU use good CXJIDmon senle and not overwork. Coated andy app1icttinna come &un ·acaU2l!ed members of Seventh Day ~"I i4:s in dUfer# eDt placea.de!nanding ad",;-•• , ~ Bruhn. Loech, Sister 5a&t return

tqa.rds. .My aaa1 ~jai0e5 in the Lord thu I am full able again to attend to my weak, aDd may the Lord·-grant yo(l and all his dear ~ ants &tRngth and wisdom to·fwt:h£:r his king ... dam

OBSEIt.VAnOfiS BY THE OOBB.ES.PO}l{DJNG SBC&ETAilY OF THE

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the Sabbath.: In spite of loneliness ,since the passing : of his' wiles . who sU)odwith him; 'Zeal .. ously through: the' years, he continues his cru .. sade. We trust his experience of finding: and accepting the Sabbath will be written for·the SABBATH REOORDER.

Elder Gill has gatliered a small group of Sabbath keepers out in Highland Park,. which worships each Sabbath in a hOme furnished by a recent convert to the Sabbath,. Mrs. Thomas Armstrong. This nne Christian WO"

man was visited. Sabbath literature and some correspondence have gone out during the past year to Mrs.' Armstrong. She has been a teacher' for many years, and has recently be .. gun establishing' a Christian school for boys, whose parents are interested in a Christian education. She carefuHy adheres to the public SchooicWriculuiil of' <the state, ·and· in addi" tion gives 'Bible ·training;. This, evidently, she is making largely self.-supporting. She has in mind . to make their recent new quarters a center for Sabbath kee~ a· number of rooms being available. Another room she is prepar .. ing to arrange with stand and puipit for a religious meeting room. With large folding doors into halls and other rooms, 'a speaker can easily address one hundred 'people, she thinks, comfortably seated. Mrs. Armstrong and her husband <:ordially received the secre" tary 'and PaStor Hurley ~ She knew about the meetings at Riverside and said that a speciai prayer· season was held' for us last: Sabbath afternoon. Our· hearts ~e' "gready cheered by the consecration and earnestness of this devout woman .. She is dding a good work and we wonder~ as we Went on our way after a prayer,. why more of our people are not in some such sat;isfactory way attempting to solve their own problem of employment, and at the same time doing a setVice of love for. the Lord. 50 often we look for fields afar when opportunity is. knocking at our own doors. Mrs. ~ginvited Brother Hur" ley to com.eSQDle Sabbath ~Oon and J;Deet with . this group:. ~. he ~ gladly' do.' , It would ~. t;hat. here: might soon be anOther wann.activEi Seventh Day Baptist Church. May GOd grant it. .

A second visK with Brother Andreas of Glendale was made to. carry him some ~litera .. ~ oBrother Andreas, is; the consecrated .lead~ er:of two or· three' groups who are alowly·:fee1 .. ing:1:heir way- towam a' church home.. Weare lending ,all. the,. encouragement possible. , He

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is' anentbnaiastic, consect~ youngerly. man. sincerely \ endeavoring to help thee' groups to sane and safe moorings. but· who ·fears Undue h~ and pressure. He thjnks . there : are thou .. sands who are wanting to be l~ but are fearful'· of tying up with the wrong people. Seventh Day Baptista have a grave rtsponsi .. bility, in· these days as never before,' and have need to· be Spirit filled and Spirit. led. We ought to be on our knees: far ·more· than we are found. It is possible to lose-dlekernei of our religion in our complacency over a nice looking husk; to be satisfied 'With: polishing our machinery while neglecting the power that makes it go effectively. One feels more .~ more assured that from Spirit .. filled churches among us would come conversions from those about us, and means abundant to carry the gospel to those ubeyond. 't' Let us pray to this end.

Tonight, we are' in an auto cabin at Ven .. ,~ by a little fire of our own, a comfortable :bed by' our side. Santa. Barbara tomorrow. new contacts,. and on to uprisco."

~ uesday.. October 29.-CaliforUia. is a long state and the miles are long. The beauty of the way today helped to shorten these miles. but we still have more than a hundred yet to go before reaching San',Prancisco. The beauty of the drive ~ along the winding shores of the Pacific Ocean. where the- breakers pound the feet of the ~t Range of !JIlOUQtains. fore" ing the traveler to dimb·, heavy . shoulders of foot bills. isindeacribable. , The canyon roads, the· .passes, the . changing . <:ountiy from fruit bearing ,section ·through dry farming area, cat., tle ranches, gardening, ·.and oil developments lent charm and variety to the journey .. Read .. ing and study of vital truths conceinjog ()hris.. tian . life and development brought bleMiog. and diverted, minds from thought and .disoom .. fort of heavy head and side winds that made bard,going.. .

We were not over successful, in finding people at dUferent points whom. we sought to see. Some lone Sabbath keepexs were found at Santa ~ and wetruat eomewhat en" couraged by our ,brief .visit. , , The strong wind encountered. baa been

mentioned. I have just asked· Loyal what out of . our . experiences . today . Iabould say. that wight: be of ·help to ft':aden .of. the &8BATH RP.ooaDBIl.. EssentiaDy this. is. what ,he aug" gE;Sta .I. wish be would write .it, 0U1:a 'but he is gelling into bed •.. and Ihave.~-"/heart.to

ask him to do it. But here is the t:bougbt: Driving against such winds takes more gas, is harder work,. but it can be done. It costs more tQ make the' objectives. It is true in our Christian journey ~we can "~make the grade'" against the heaviest kind of difficulties and amid the most discouraging circumsta.nces if we are willing to pay the price. Alas. how often we are not willing to do thi&, but turn aside to spend our time beside some pleasant sea resort or camp for a season before the goal is reached. I.ike many a heavy mountain climb, the joy and vision of the scene spread before one as the summit is reached. more than repay for the extl a toil and cost.

October 30.-Big cr,..eesI What the cedars of Lebanon must have meant to Paiestin~ the great redwoods surely must mean to Cali, fomia. When friends around Rivetside in their enthusiasm were asking the man from New Jersey. uWell. how do you like Cali .. fomia?'" he was rather inclined, to be con .. servative in his answer. But after seeing ~"Big Trees'" and the giants in uBig Basin~' he just completely capitulates. He feels like Josiah when he saw the giraffe and sa.i~ ·"Samantha.,. there ain't no such anima). 't9 As one looks at these gigantic antediluvians. he just feels, as Samantha'ts partner felt.. it is just impossible.

. Think of it.· Trees fifty to more than sixty feet in circumference and over three hundred feet tali, estimated by ac:ientists to be five thousand years old. When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondag~ these trees were young giants. When Abram left Hur of the Chaldees. these trees were more than ~ thouoand yean; old. As we stood this morning in the chill of their shade., where no sun ever penetra.tes, it was an awful feeljng we had of being in the p~ of 4he oldest living things on God~8 footstooJ.. at least that we know' anything about..

Here are .6ODle figures concerning uGiant,·· one of the most wonderful of the grOups.. He is 306 feet t:al4.66 feet in ciicumference, and 22 ·feet in .diameter~ It is eatimat2d there are 425916 feet of llunber in the tree, or enough to build 30.hoUses of five rooms each. This tree, over 4,500 years old. if cut into shingles, would yield' ·o~ one and a. qua.rter~mjlljon. .. ·'jumbo.. .... 250~eet high with a c:iJOJlldcrena: of· 58 feet. is ,estimated to be 5.000 ye:ara of age... . -~. joyce "jlmer said. "Only God can make: a .tree.:~ ,Genainly .onlyoor·. Almighty ,GOd

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could make trees like tbeae. As we wandered from one great tree to another, stretching our nec=b. noting how they ·bad withstood stoUDI and fires through the millenniums. 1We weft

overcome with awe., and we could sc:an::e1y ex" claim. Here was ""Mother and Daughter,'" the one a giantess. the other looking like a telegraph pole beside the parent tree, yet itself more than twelve feet in circumference and .probably two hundred feet high. Of the ""Three Sisters.'" giantesses, one was lying atre:trbed out flat where doubtless it had been prone for a thousand years. uChimney'" t:n:e has been burnt out at the heart: for a height of one hundred fifty feet or more and the top burnt off; but from within at the base one can look up and see a living top above. How can life be transmitted through the outside shell and make a healthy growth. 80

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abundant to so many of these mammoths m these valleys and basins?

One of the most awe inspiring groups of ~·Big Trees"~ is the ""CathedraL'" Here sur" rounding two or three mighty ones are several others standing like immense pillars. One cannot wondet that the ancients worshiped trees. As we stood in the presence of God at the feet of this .... Ca~edral',. gro~p, we bared our heads in prayer, as tears fiHed our eyes. A party of five bad crossed our path once or twice on the ~ .. traiI.,"" and we invit2d them to bow with us while Brother Hurley prayed.. Afterward one of them came running to over .. take us and to thank us for the invit:ation and prayer. Said he., .... We have just been think .. ing and saying if all the folks were like that, the world wOuld be a better place to live in.'" I wish a hundred thousand people could have heard the prayer. I have asked him to rept'O' duce it. He can't:, because it was inspired by him who is the Great Forester. But in sub-­stance I am giving it to you, as he writes it out.

A P.IlAYER ;

Our Father in heaven, we thank thee for ev­ery eVidence of thy handiwork. We dank thee for the pri~ of wo~ thee amaag these giant ~ the oldest livmg things UpGIl +1rine earthly footstool We tbank .. thee· for their state­ly ,grandeur • and beauty,~ graa:. .,We thanlc thee for their power to withstand the atouBS and· fi.1'e5 of -the centuries with' their life 1ID­checked and their, vigor'" 'uadimmished,' We tba". thee. for their loYeImeu iD -spite of the scars that cabmity has ~ We~pray -that thou .wilt: 'helP' us alSO .to ~

stand the· storms of .1ife ,nth our .hopes stiD

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strong," and, ouraspi~tions undaunted ... May' pur c;h!lra~teis ,~9w -~t~Q~g·. and· ·s~~g1:tt. _ ~d • tall to spIte of any 'Calanuties . that hfe may bnng. may $omethhlgof; the' beauty of' Jesus be- 'seen in us. May thy. power. so work in' us that time and change ~d circumstance may leave us still vic-torious., .

WUt thou blessthes~ stranget:s with whom we pause to worship. Give to them the sense of thy nearness and thy love. Bless us all as we jour­ney. Give. 'us faith that the power which has kept and guarded these trees through the long centuries can also keep our lives through this day. And as 'the days come and go, may our lives manifest thy· glory and thy praise through Christ .our Lord. Amen.

< October- 31.-Cold in California? I can't see any difference in thirty .. four degreesahov~ zero in California, at six o·dOck in the morn .. ing with 'no floor covering for the bare feet, and the same temperature in Minnesota un'" der . similar conditions. The. sun shining through the . glass of the car, later, however, warmed' us up as we proceeded toward Ang .. win, where the Pacific Union College, a Seventh .Day Adventist institution, is located.

After a beautiful morning drive of about an hour from our night's. camp, near Nappa, we arrived. The last· eight miles -brought .us over a . ,beautiful mountain road, winding around. hill and. mountairi sides highly .colored with gorgeous clumps of hdlly and other bright berry bearing trees and shrubs. The school here enroYss .we understand~ about five hun ... dred atudentS who are preparing .for active Christian service. Here we, met the object of ourmj~on, a young Seventh Day Baptist who· recently had a victory over himself in accepting the call of God to the gospel min ... istry. I am not mentioning names, but his people and be are well known to many of our folks, and favorably. He came here. for

, preparau,ry work for a medical. missionary ~ourse. . Now,- definitely committed to the min ... istry, he'will be having to decide just what the next step wiH be. Ours is' to encourage and cheer him in his decision and to ansWer the questic;>ns that so easily arise in a mind dedicate<i to a new task. May God !bless him ~d give .him'courage to walk step by step by faith, . often without definite light upon his path. . How much we need young 'men· of consecration,wJto, ~ve ··prayed through" and thought tbroup. We are thanJdul. for men in.'servk:e. of th1s Btrt!t; for young men; of this kind who are"DOW ' .. g·their seminary, work, ,a.nd; .. for ~~ onea':.#ow· ,~~, ~ accq)ijn~ :G<d 8 call., Let us pray, lllOfe. than now ,18

·being cdonei that the ,Lord will thrust forth laborers into ·bis harvest. . .

N.o~~b.e·/ I.-The. rain ~~ Sfru~~. us at "puct7

• made the ~etary· feel 'qt11te at home, it being, the fir-st reaI rain be had SeeD in more than a month. The way to Heat~urg led through beautiful country and over a good mountain road through a geyser ~on and by a petrified forest. Pine p~eand apple or'" chards, unharvested grapes, and olive groves were passed on the way. Hea1dsb~g is a, ni~ . dean little city of

twenty1ive hundred people of rural interests. The nom~ of BrotPer. E~~y ~,quickly foUnd and the acquaintance of·his famuy soon made. Here . is the . church of Healdsburg .. Ukiah, organized within the' past'year and 'ad .. mitted to Conference membership at: Alfred last August. Rev. John I: Eastezly. ordained last July, wa.sr~ at Conference as aD accredited Seventh Day Baptist Diinister. Brother Easterly is self"'supparting. He is an architect of wide reputation, having many beautiful lpublic buildings to' his credit all over this part. of California. A $24S.()()(j nospital at Santa· 'RoSa, financed· by ·the ,government, is open; to. bids, as this is written. This·is one of Brother Ea.stedy's . architectural creatiQD8. In spite of such activities, he' finds much time to devote to the ministry. of the gospel. He is thoroughly alive to present, needs and has practical and helpful .plans for the work.

It seems good tonight :to be ·here in this home. I want our readers to know Brother Easterly and his family. Besides the parents, there are three children-two fine daughters and a lively boy with a brand new bicycle. They were all down last summer at the River' Side camp, and 'With others' from, here are fitting beautifuHy into the Pacific Coast work.

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N.ovember 2.-Tbis was a· beautiful .SaIY bath day. ' Services were, held at Healdsburg in the home of Brother Easterly. 'Sabbath scbonl came U teno"clock,· followed. by 'preaching. After worship 'service, Mr;:.Eaaterly ·reviewed the ; lesson of last ~week, and; Brother Harley taught the CU1"1"eIlt lesson.· Following this, the seCretary spoke, dividing his time-between a gospel-theme and!a little history of the Seventh Day. Baptist. churches.' Conference, and 80' cieties,~espeaa11y . presentiDg.tbe, WOIk, of the Tract Society with ita publications. About fifteen: were tp%eiWJ!.t -at the- m.omiQgworabip. After· lUnch,: -'four car ·Ioads : drove forty'Six

miles to tpriab for an afternoon meeting. This meeting was held in the· home' of Sister E. A Utter, and ~. tWeDty1ive attended. The ·two groups are bleared with nne young people. This afternoon -they sang many of the camp and consecration songs, led by Wayne Rood who· was spending the week ... end at Healdsburg. The secretary spoke briefly to 'the group on the meaning of Christian Endeavor. and immediately thereafter on some phases of our denomina.tionai work, pre ... ~ting the interests of the publisbing house. Brother Hurley' preached a helpful 8etmon on .1he Gospel in Three Tenses.~' The meet ... ing closed with a few inspiring remarks by Pastor EastUly.

Brother Easterly feels that Ukiah is a very promising field for evangelistic services.. espe-­cially if conducted in a tent. It is his hope and pian to put on such a campaign next spring. Meanwhile in the prayers of our people a place should be given for. these groups who have found a church home with us. It is felt by the leadem c:bn a·1ine of such churches can be established up and down the coa!t., and into them can be gathered many who are now without moorings. May this prove to be so.

FORK

no give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name; make known his d~ among the people.u

WOMAWS BOARD REPORT

The Woman's Board met Sunday, NovetD., her 10, 1935, at tlle henne of ~ Oris O. Stutler with the vi~premdent in the chair and the following ~·preaent: Mrs. Gee. B. Shaw. Mrs. Okey' W. -Da~ MisS Lotta Bond; Mrs.. Orville \ B. BoncL ,. Mra.. Edward Davis, Mrs. Earl'W. Davis. Mrs.·Kenneth v. Hulin, Mr& Clark H. Siedhoff, . Mrs. S. O. Bond. ·Mrs. 000. H. Trafuet1l and Mrs. Oris O. Stutler.

The twenty,third psalm was read in. unison, followed by prayers by members.

The secretary read the mUiutes for the 0ctQber meeting.· :~ ~,. read the 'following report

which was accepted.'

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Frances E. Davia (Mrs.. Okey W.) Trea.surer In account with the

Woman·s Executive Board of the Seyenth Day Baptist General Conference

Recftpl.s Balance October 13. 1935 .•.........•.... $91.00 Harold R. Crandall. Denominational

Budget . . .............•.............. S.2()

Di.sbv.rs~ Associational correspondent's expenses

Mrs.. S. E. Bates, Watertown. N. Y ..... $ S.oo Balan ce . . .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 91.2()

Salem, W. Va., ~

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N uvembn- 10, 1935.

The cmnmittee to select a subject for the essay contest made the following report which was accepted:

Your committee appointed to select a subject for the essay contest would ~ the fonowing report:

The subject chosen is--"WHO IS THY NltlCHBOIl?'"

This subject may ~ treated either from the ~dpoint of foreign missions. or home uris­Slons; the material to be taken either from mis­sionary study. or from experience, or both study and experience.

All women of the denomination are invited to participate in this coittest..

All essays are to be sent through the society of the church to which each writer belongs..

Rules for the contest wiD be ptJhlisbed in t:his RE:coamta. Please rt2d them.

Nml IE B. SHAW {MRs GEo. B.}, C~

Correspondence was read from the Foreign Missions Conf~ of North America con'" cerning the World Day of Prayer.

Rules for the essay contest were formulated The minutes were read and accepted.. Adjourned to meet with MEa Clark H.

Siedhoif in December.

MRs.. GEO. B. SHAw" Vice ... p.,.~"

Mas. Oius O. STUTLER.. Recording SeCTet4ry.

CONTEST RULES 1. The purpose of this contest is to srimu ..

late an interest in our neigbboIS near and far. 2. All women of the denomination an: in ...

vited to participate in the c:onte8t:. Eacb wri!er will send her paper t:hroUgh the woman's 80-' ~ of -her. ~urcb. .

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3~ The associational correspondents will carry out the plans of this -contest 'in the 80'

cieties' of their respective associations, present .. ing the work in person when posSible.

4. The associational corres~ndents shall receive the papers from all contestants of their associations and shall select the best paper from each society to send to the Woman's Board.

5. The board will select at least one paper from each association for publication in the 5ABBA TH RECORDER.

6. The papers shall not exceed one thou .. sand words in length.

. 7. A writer r:p.ay include her list of read .. in~. .

8. The papers must be in the hands of the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Board by June 1, 1936.

9 .. A prize of $5 will be given to the 80-'

ciety in each association sending in the best paper. (Please see rule 2.)

TRACT SOCIETY MEETING The Board of Trustees of the American

Sabbath Tract Society met in regular session in the' Seventh Day Baptist Building, Plainfield, N. J., Sunday, November 10, 1935, at 2 p.m., with President Corliss F. Randolph presiding and the following members..- present: Corliss F. Randolph, James L. Skaggs, Neal D. Mills, Asa F' Randolph, Mrs. William M. Stil1man, William M. Stillman, Esle F. Randolp~ Irving A. Hunting, Frank A. Langworthy, George R. Crandall, A. Burdet Crofoo~ Frederik J. Bakker, Mrs. Herbert C. Van Horn, Everett C. Hunting, and Business Manager L. Harrison North.

Visitor, Mrs. Irving A. Hunting. Rev. James L. Skaggs oifered prayer. The niinutes of the last meeting were read. The . report' of Corresponding Secretary

Herbert C. Van Horn, read by L. Harrison North, was received as follows:

This report is being written at Healdsburg. Calif. Your secretary has been on the field. or en rou~ since October 5. He attended the faIl meeting of the Pacific Coast Association at Los Angeles, October' 12. was well receiyed ~d preached the morning sermon. The diSCUSSIon in the afternoon concerning plans of work on the Pacific Coast -was of real interest. The attend­ance at the meeting was considered very good. \

At RiveJsicie, evangelistic meetings were be­gun Sunday night. Oct~ 131' an~ were con­tinued for two weeks with exceptlon of three nights. This "exception:- seeJIled ex:pecJient on account of the state W.C.T.U. COIIventiOll Wd

in the ,city. On' those days morning· prayer meetings were held p:t the 'churdL We. were dis­appointed that outsiders did not attend. But our own people whO came were encouraged and it was felt that goOd had been accomplished.

Immediately fonowi~ the close of 'this series. the secretary accompanted Pastor Loyal F. Hur­ley on a trip up the coast to come in touch with scattered Sabbath keepers and S~th-keeping groups. People in Glendale were visited, at Santa Barbara. Palo Alto, Hayward. Oak1an~ Angwin, Healdsburg and Ukiah. Some very interesting and hopeful conditions and situations were encountered of which there may be more to reJ!Ort later.

Sabbath, November 2, was spent at Healds­burg and Ukiah where the interests of the Gen­eral Conference and Tract Society were pre­sented, together with gospel messages.

The secretary is encouraged by the knowledge of the interest the board and 1ts members are taking in his work. He wishes to acknowledge his appreciation of this. and to solicit the con­tinued prayers for this work yet to be done.

Sincerely, HERBERT C. V AN HORN #

Corresponding S~cretary. November 3, 1935.

Treasurer Ethel T. Stillman reported the following balances: General Fund ..........•............. $1,586..41 Reserved for:

Printing tracts ..................... 72.50 Taxes ,. . .............................................. 10.00 ccREcoimEltIl supplement .•............ 901.00

Denominational Building Fund-general 2.67 Waldo Fund for Historical Room Fur-

nIshings . . ......................... 728.54 Maintenance Fund . ........•.......... 223.45

Voted that the treasurer be instructed to take such steps as seem necessary in regard to two properties on which the society holds mortgages and which are being offered for sale for delinquent taxes.

The following report from the leader in Sabbath Promotion. A J. C. Bonel was read:

I visited the Y o~ People!s Camp at Shingle­house, Pa., Sabbath Day. August ,3. Th{:Y hao a camp consisting of twenty-one boys and girls with Pastor and Mrs. E. H~ Bottoms as super­visors. Byron Whitford of Little Gen~ a graduate of Salem College. having charge oi-.the boys, and Miss Drake as director of the girls. The service on Sabbath day. when I visited them. was not only for the young ~l~ but was a union service of the First and Second Hebron, Richburg. and Friendship churches. Some of the young people as well as Pastor Bottoms and Pastor Wmg had, part in the morning service.. I preached the sermon. .

Friday. October 4, I attended a meeting in N-ew Xork of the Continuation Cooupittee of the World' Conference on Faith and Order. A rep­resentative Lutheran minister read a paper on

the Lutheran'. conception. of Scripture which was followed ,b)' an interesting. disaission.. Plans were made to tiave a. visit to this country of the Archbishop of York, who is the chairman of our comm;ttee.. Doctor Stevenson of PriDc:eton, who is president of tbeAmerican section, presided at this meeting. These diacuaSions are preliminary to the World Conference which is to be held in 1937.

A conference of young people has been planned to be held at Lost Creek. W. Va-, No­vember 16 and 17. I appointed a committee from the West Vuginia churche:a to plan this confer­ence.. They are a.s1cing me to have part on the program. _ I have not decided yet but may p0s­sibly attenci

Por the Committee on Distribution· of Lit .. erature Neal D. Mills reported as follows:

The committee recommends that the article by J. B. Conyers entitled "For What Is Your De­cision r' published in the SABBATH RlOCDRDEIl Supplement of September 16, be published in tract form in such quantity as possible with the funds contributed for that purpose.

It also wishes to present to the board the mat­ter of tract editorial and public:a.tion responsibil­ity. in view of the fact that .this £ommlttee has in the past done BUch work only because there seemed to be DO other committee bearing that r~ponsibility.

The fonowing is an inventory of tracts on hand as of October 10, 1935 =

500 A Sacred Day: How Can We Have It? 80() Expose of Faith and Practice

2,285 First Day of the Week in the New Tes-tament -

3,000 Pro and Con: The Sabbath Question in a Nutshell

4.600 Seventh Day Baptista as Distinguished f rom Seventh Day Adventists

150 The Forward Look 60 Making the Annual Canvass

800 God's lioly Sabbath Day 2.200 Why We Are Seventh Day Baptists

880 Seventh Day Ba1>tiats-Seventh Day Ad­ventista-How They Differ

2.375 The Tract Society and Our Mission as a People

700 Sabbath and Sunday . ·600 The Sabbath Post Card

19.020 total tracts on -band October 10. 1935. During October, . 704 tracts were sent out.

Eleven new 5A.BaATH REcoDEa subsa iptioI15 were received and five were discontinued.

Voted that 3.000 copies of J. B. Conyers· artide be published in' tract form.

Voted that the matter of tract editorial and publication resporisibility be referred to the Advisory Commi~ for consideration and report.

Por the Supervisory Committee L Harrison North reported that·the :prob1em of reducing factory costs is being considered and that the committee is. conRdedDg 'the advisability of

moving the business offices back intD the shop building where the manager could more easily supervise the shop work.

V <*d that the problem be referred to the Supervisory Committee with power.

The minutes were read and approved. Adjourned.

Coauss F. RANDOLPH. President •

NEAL D. Mn J 8. Recording Secretary.

YOUNG PEOPLE'S FORK

WESTERN ASSOCIATION MEEIING Your writer had the rare privilege recently

of attending the eemi'annual meeting of the W estern Association at Hebro~ Pa... 'Where he was royally entertained The hospitality of these rural Pennsylvanians is an entirely new and delightful thing "to one who is used to the indifferent welcome of urban people. The "tureen U dinner served Sabbath noon was one not easily to be forgotten. There was food.. food. and then more food. If you have never attended the Crandall Hill Chun:h. nestied away there in the hills of Pennsylvania. then you hav: yet an en~ely new kind of ddigbt to expem:nce... '

And your writer had. of cowae. to know the wby of the ~~we:stemn in the Western Association. He know-s full wdl that westCl n New Yark is in the eastern part of the United States. There is no question a.bau.t it. But when it was explained to him that the 38SO-'

dation was so named some hundred yean; ago. when western New York State was the .. ~W est., n then all difficulties of logic disap' peared. -

The ~~us programs at this me:eling of the aSSOCI a t:lon. too. were va 'Y intelcl!4 iog. This ia the Young People"8 Page., however. 80 that your writer cannot report otbe:r than what young people did. The three ... tbeol~~ from Alfred had charge of the devotional parU of the programs. Elmo Randolph. on Sabbath eve, conducted an int2resl ingdevuc innal period. His intl'Odnction of singing one -Vet&!!

of a h~ and reading two. and singing the last:.. was very conducive of a spirit of ~_ And Marion Van Horn"s introduction of a devotiQJlS period entitely of ..... tg was a wei, come change from the usual thing.

But other young people' dpn the -tbeotogS ... had a part on the progt3.!DS of the a-riarion.

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. The hyo papers below,· one by' MiSs Harriet Saunders ,and the other· by . Mt:~. Trevab' Sut, ton, indicate as much. N'ote the unusual style of the former. Only by' nearing this young lady deliver this original paper in her own inimitable way could you really get the full flavor of its tangy taste, but to read it certainly ,will give you some idea of its marked individuality. And the latter paper by Mr. Sutton represents a well thought through plan for developing the spirituality of any church.

The inclusion of the poem by 'Dean Bond in this column can, be justffied ~by- the ,fact that he has a young thinking, forward looking spirit in his work.' The ,parallelism of -idea and the. subsequent drawing of a not too didactic iesson for Us in the poem certainly would indicate stIch. Note the suggestiveness of his poem.

ARE YOU A ClllUSTlAN7 BY HARRIET LOUISE SAUNDERS

Someone has said that what you are is Goers gift to you, and ,what you ·become is your gift to God. We can say that Goers greatest gift to us is Christianty, but we make of this gift what we will.

1. Do you Iool{ like a Christian? Yes, I know your eyes are green, your nose is long, you are knock ... kneed·, pigeon"'toed, and bow .. legged. But I don't mean that. What is there in your general expression which sug ... gests that you are trying to live a Christian life? Are you interested in people? Do you like people? I know a girl who, when small, was the terror of every child her age and younger. We squirmed under the lash of her tongue and felt honored when she deigned to look upon or to speak to us with favor. She was a leader because we feared her. . She liked np'bodyand nobody liked her. Now ,my fear is gone and I despise this girl, for her attitude haS not changed. True, she is rather cute to look at, but her general ~pression is that of a thunder cloud; her tongue is the thunder and the scorn in her eyes is the lightning.

Do you smile easily?, Never mind if your teeth cu:e -:Crooked. If you reaJ.1y mean your smile, ~~ won·t-, mind· your .physical de .. f¢cts. C~tivatipg a smil~is not difficult. And if yo':! are too bashful to smile, grin; that~$ what I do. But abov(: ~appear ,to -be cheer ... M., It·st1J.e best" way -_to .... get ann in-this world. '

2. Do you -act like a Christian? I remem ... her the dread with which I a~ted my seven ... teenth birthday, because I ,thought that I would ,never again be able to eEWJe my rather boisterous actions on the: ground t1iat I was oniy sixteen. A friend of mine once ubawled me out" for jumping over a chain fence. ,rve jumped over that fence a good many times since, but always after dark and when she wasn"t along. You ask, "What has jumping over a fence to do with Christianity?" Noth .. ing, except that there are ce:ttain, rules of eti .. quette which have hitched their wagon to the Christian star and we must keep our seam in this wagon.

Just because Johnny yawns in church or knocks the -hat oft' the lady in front of him in his efforts to catch a fly is no sign that he is not a good Christian. On the contrary" he is a good Christian. He is being natural.

Do you ~oke, drink, or gamble? If 80. do you think it the Christian thing to do? The act itself may not be unchristian, but the effect on you is not one which is benefiting you in any way. You must be good to your ... self to live a Christian life.

3. Do you feel Christian? When I paddle one of my young brothers i feel righteous in .. dignation. Later, I feel like a fool. But if I manage to keep still when they bother me." I soon rea.)j~ that I have won a victory" a victory over my temper. Then I fee! like a Christian. How about you? When you are angry, do you think before you act?

A few years ago, when we children were small and hadn"t a million outside interesta" the ·whole family would pack up and drive off on a Sabbath afternoon. We never thought of going anywhere without the whole family. As I got older, I began to notice that none of my friends ever did this or seemed to have any interest in doing things as a family .. I .wondered about it and finany came- to the conclusion that this was my p~' way of teaching us the value of the fam11y as a family, not as a disjointed group" part-of ,which hums o1f tp Horn~ bikes up JeriCho. or runs off to a ,neighbor to spend the Sabbath afternoon. - Now that we are older we are no longer able to go about; 3$ . a ' family ~ but the feeling remains that we would like to go. I think, this fee,iflg is a ~ feeHng. Have,:yqu-,~er{elt~'-wayl. ','~" _"_

When l·~'asked to speak to. you during this young people"s'hour. I badn'ltthe ~ightest

idea what I would say. I started to ~ P1.1tting on .paper what I' fhough't just. as I thought it. ; My ~ ia to bring you ~ thing of ,what:yQUng .people do and abould do tom.; their' Uvea more Christian. I)hope I haven ott madethia, paper too ha.td to under .. atand.. '

[On the contrary. Mias Saunclera. your paper is .quite dear; and your style ia your own and Vel y int:e:resting. Keep it up. And let's have anothu paper-from yo\L' We read ... era would much ~ppreciate it" I can assure you.-Y. P. EDITOL] ,

MY ~ AND MY LIFE BY DEAN A. I. Co BOND

A thousand' acres bind my lake. And then ten thousand more­

I t mirrors baclc the 'bro1ce:n marge That borders rmmd its shore.

But to the canopy above l.ake ~ and. sboaJ­

And pictures in its bosom wide Blue sky and cloudy scroD.

My life is bound by earthly' things : A vast material store;

I have elJouidl for simple needs. And woula not ask for more.

For things do not suffice to set Ufe's ~ng goal:

~tantly I turn to heaven The mirror of ,.my souL

. AU,- of these glUAI,.bdp convey ~ knovdedge .. but· there shoold be a cxKudinatzd program to avoid competing inteiEis ~ over .. lapping of" ~k.. This can, best Ill! done by these groups co-operating tbrongb a ttntral committee or c.ouncil.

In the second pla~ the program of the church should, provide for wOlamp e:xperi ... eDCe4. UsuaBy we think of worship as ~ longing chiefly to the Sabbath eervic:e. Al .. though that is the major worship set vice. our prayer meetings. ve:spets.and de-9otional pe:ri~ ods in the church school and aocief ies are other vitai pri:xis for worship. '11aroughout aU of these there is an essential need for dignity and leva ence.. The church servioe may be formal with vested choirs and an elaborate orda. On the other hand, the service may be informal with a freer type of worship_ It is not a mat .. tel" of 'formality or informality ~ for d1n should be deteuninrd by the nee:is. desires. and abilities of the local church. Rather it is a service that is well planned and filled with dignity 'WOrthy of Goefs pI esenc:e , that will give a real W<lX:'$hip experience.. The use of our talents in . the best of music: and art" as ability and means allow. will e:n:able chwches to render vital worship e:xperience&.

In the third place.., the pIogI am of the church sbould- render religious guidance.. This. of course,' is a speciaJ task of the pastor alone. for there is a very -wide 6eId for all c:lnm:h members. young people. children. and those who are nat conneded with the chwc:h in finding solutions for many proHrms of life. Such asAstclncz may be the me3DS of holding people in the church and bringing others intn the fold.

In the fourth place, the progtam of the ~ should give opportUnity for ex:pression. 1'hrou.gli church membership, which ~:tght to be urged upon every ~ Christian, one can part:ici.pat:e in the church"8 program and be ~ benefi~ in suCh servia; as well as helping the chun:h.. The stewaniabip of ~"a mooey and ·time. through SJo1d"atic gi'V"' ing and aIervioe. rendem splendid expreasion to one"s migioos elperiences. Pdlowahipand recreation are other wayaof uprasion. By meeting together in the regular aenica .. Chrietiart·· charac:ta- atzeogtl.,'.aed as Cbrisa iaDl mingle. This may aIao be an influence ti» non-Chri.stia.ns. -".'-lee-wise is it t:rue with aeriaJ events. The failure of the- ,Jwwda ioprovide ~holesome n:crearion may, hage helped eDOOUr'"

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age Christians to participate in questionable recreation. The church should furnish whole .. some expression .in this way.

"When the program of the Ohristian church includes these things in a well balanced pro .. gram of activities, it is on its way to the de .. velopment of spirituality. Thi~ demands con" secrated workers who are willing to prepare for sacrificial service for the Master. What are we going to do about it?

MY NEIGHBOR SAYS "He laughs last who has to explain the

party joke to his wife when they get home ..... -Rochester Times ... Unicm.

.- HHitch your wagon to a star but keep your wagon on the road.'" - Trotty Veclt Mess .. ages.

HMussolini, says it will be England"s fault if a real war starts. In other words, ifs the cop"s fault if he interferes with a burglar ..... -Rochester Times ... Union.

CHI L D'R EN· S P Jf G E OUR LEIIER EXCHANGE

DEAR RECORDER FRIEND: I have read many letters on the HChildren·s

Page~ .... and enjoyed them. I am thirteen years of age. I have made many attempts to write, and now I have made the final start.

I belong to the "BonaVentura n Baptist _ ChUrch. I am going to sch091 at Anna ReO'

gina, many miles from home, so lam only at home on holidays. There are no Baptist churches that way So I have to wait until I am at home to go to church. I love to go to Sabbath school.

I have a sister whose name is Beulah and mine is Beryl :Men~. We have for our pets a parrot whose name is Loretta; two cats, Guy and, Amy; a monkey named. Lucy; also a dog named Daisy.

Daddy has a sma]] farm. on which -provisions and fruits are planted. We have chicks and other fowls an~ are. delighted with them.

I am very glad to join. this happy band. I must say. good afternoon for my l~tter is . get ... ting rather long. rn write when rm at home again. " . ,I. close. my rather long letter with dttlight ~d joy.Yo~ .... '

:. Gn.&ntCOusolation" Pomeroon RiVtr

-BERYL, ·MENEZEs.

DEAR. BERYL:

I think this is the first letter we have ever received from British Guiana arid I can assure you I am very much pleased that you have decided to become a SABBATH ·RBOORDER girl. You surely have joined a: happy ·band, and 1 am very proud of every one of you. Is your sister Beulah older or younger than you? I wonder if you can persuade her to write, too. rd like that very much. . I am glad you enjoy going to Sabbath school,

but sorry you cannot attend your church and Sabbath school more often. Do you enjoy your school work at.Anna-<R.egina,? It is nice that you 'have the privilege of gdting a good education, isn"t it?

You have a nne family of pets. Do they get along well together? I have always hearil that parrots and monkeys like to tease other acimals; do Loretta and Lucy?

My daughter Eleanor has a cute kitten named Toodfes, and a toY dog as . large as the kitten. Just as fast.as anyo~e stands the dog on its feet, Toodles wiD rush over and knock. it down; he cannot bear to see it on its feet for one second.

I'm expecting to hear from you often. Sincerely yotll'8,

MIzPAH S. GREENE.

DEAR MRs. GREENE: All the' children in our Sabbath school had

a big Halloween party given to us by our mothers. Each one invited a friend. It was fun guessing" who the others were. After BUpper we ~d movies.

For our party in school mother dressed me as .... The White· Rabbit..... acting as the herald in "Alice ,in Wonderland.'t't .' I won a ch()(X)' late ·pumpkin as a p~ for being the last girl the teacher guessed.

I am nine years old and am the youngest member of our church. I was the last child to be ba:ptited by Pastor Bond,- on July 5, 1935. Mother was baptized with me.

Your little friend, 'PATRICIA ANNE CRoFOOT.

1052 West 8th St .• Plainfield, N. J.

DEAR PATIuClA ANNB:

fWl9ween ? certainly is·"great fun,. and rm thinking you had' your· sbarerof: the- ,fun, ,with the :priVilege of attending itwo_partiea.- ,cI didn·t

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go to..~~~e,illihcn~·tbe:~"19 which ~Greene arra-Y'"beTcing; 'gaVe~~ ~ ~~!or !W9.~~, ~,-,~-,~,~ their. thirfy,fiftR. ~ aqOIw::rsuy •.. ~cl\ l' "er, -m1Jcb~~nted t to attend, but had· to· &ive .. it- \II» as -we:had-1l: more impOrtant meeting tD . attend . the "YeI Y same night. . We did have all 8Ort8 of -queer lotilcing. c:a1kn ·dlat·nigbt. with ter~ rible loolcingnces.· arid oar doorbeIl rang loOd and often, while our.\porch chain were found ~ fr9iil! ~ . trees.. The· bOys ;and girls had' -gieat fun' but we:re very ruee about it and not one bi~,of' Propel ty was desboyed. Fun is not fun unless all can enjoy it.. is it?

I wish I could hav.e seen you in }'OUr rabbit costnme. I think mother was very cleve:rto dress you that way. Miss White R.abbit, you should have had your pic.tnre taken

I think it was lovely that you and mother were baptized. at the same time I know you are very happy to serve the dear Jesus who especially loves girls and boyo.

I enjoyed your lettu and hope to receive many more of them..

y 0IUa sincerely. MIzpAH, S. GRBBNH.

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DEACOM ELVIN G. BUltDI<Z Elvin G. Burdick was born in Hebron.,

Potter County~ Pa., August 9, 18S8. He waa the oldest son of LaR.oy and Esther Randolph Buroick. He bad endured many years of 1JD# complaining helplessness, and peaoefuUy fell asleep on September ~ 1935.

W~ the exception of one year in Norton .. ville, Kan.., and his yeaI'8 in coHege at J\1:f.n:d, his entire life was spent 0Jl the farm where be was born. Early iJl life), Pe professed _ Cbr-i& tianity and united· :witJi _ tJle First Hebron Seventh Day Bapti~_Ohurch.of which he reO' mained a reBpe(ted ,and useful mes1tber to the time of his deatb~ setving untiringty. and faitli-­fully for many yeara as deacon. " In July. 1890, ~ married Susie Sta~ and three sona blessed ~ union: -EJno,RandoIpb. and Peo, aU of Hebron. He· served his ·towus1np in various offices. and it can· truly be said ·that no 1.Dan was ever more laved and honored . for his uprightness. He was indeed a Chr.i8tian ~ tleman.·

BeSides the three. ions.-. leaves four; ~ c:hildren.~aIao thn:e .•. !feU,:.),fr& Minnie: Miller ~:~ Mn.:'Mary Kenyon of Shill'

~·-aod·Y.m.;'E.Jb· Starns of HebrrCii; as wen as one brother. Rev .. w. L. Buntic:k of Ashaway. It. I. A brother. Lincoln ll. .died a year ago.

The funeral was beld at the FIrSt Hebruo Se:~enth Day Baptist church. in charge of R.ev~ R. W. W-tng. assisted byR.ev. C. A. Beebe. Intel ment was in the Hebron c:emetety. -rhe l'nrJ)mitment 8elvice 'WaS in charge of the Roulette. Pa-, Odd Pellows Lodge.. of which he was a me" ther. C. L. B.

COlOtADFS MEW BOC& The following are extra.cts frem Brie ..

press rev1ewa:

The author is German.. . . . He has had a mast varied career as a preacher. travelling in Ru .... Europe. the Far East, Afric:a.. and SOuth Ameri­ca. He bas read widely. • • . Students of eVe.r7 school of 'prO{lbetic interpretation will find mada of real value m these pages.-T_ CIwi.sti.cJa..

Yr. L R Conradi, the venerable Germaa author, has lec:t:ured and eva.ngdized over maD7 continents. His studies in cau.n::h History are prodigious, and he asserts his f2CtS in seYeD groups, matthing the Seven Churches of Asia.­TIw Bal'tin TiM-u.

The author pre.fa.ees his work with a short biography. We learn. that be was origiualIy • Roman Catholic from Carlsruhe Baden

After a abort period of in6deli9' be was led to a penonal knowledge of Oaist, aftenranI joining the Seventh nay Baptist Church ia U.s.A. ... The work which he 1zu snen to die world in the evening of his da~ n;prex:a.ts .. amazing 3mOllllt of research. He defines witIa remarlcabJe erudition the historic Pre-Mmermial Tbeory.-TM Clltll.olic.

This book. erne lmpenmg Porce of P"" phaic T 1'Uth;ought to be in ever)' Seventh Day Baptist home.. Order it of L H. North. Man-­ager. Seventh Day Baptist Building. S 10 Watchung Ave... Plajnfield. N. J. c. F. L

. THE RECORDER PUfO)

We.wish to &ank ""A Friend" in W'festesJ,. R. I~ for gifts from time to time for the REootu>a Fund. Other friends of the &:. BATH RBcottDa also remehicr this fUDd when they send in their own subecriptioa and make possible the sending of, the RBCDU>_ to . quite a Dumber of Sevalth Day 8;qA-. who would not othet wiele RCeive it.

LKNOItJR. Maager •..

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" BY WALTh LEE UNGtB. p~i> .• LL.D. President of Davidson 'COllege

'. 9oIiege, students ,cannot afford to leave ,the ~ib1e out ofth~ reading ,and, thinking_ From a litercuy~ hi$riCaJ., ethical, and spiritual point of view no.r.nari"s education is complete with .. out a,knowledge of ~e Bible. The Bible is ~~ ~ single book. It is a divine library, which is rioted for its Comprehensiveness and infinite varietY.' John Richard Green illustrates its charm and,:varietY. in an-' eloqu~ . paragraph in his "'Short' History of theEngIish People. .... He 'aays~

When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's, many well-disposed people used much·to resort to the' hearing' thereof. especially when' they 'could ~ any that had' an audible voice to read to'theni ... Sunday after Sunday, day after day, the' crowds that gatllel-ed 'round Bonner's Bibles in the nave of St~Pa.ul's, or the family grOttp that hung on the: words of the Geneva Bible in the devotio~ exercises at hom~ were leavened with a. new literature. Leg­end and annal, ,war song and psalm, state roll and ,biography, the mighty voices of prophets~ the parables of evangelists, stories of IlUssion Journeys, of perils by sea and among the heathen, philosophic argument, apocalyptic vis­ions-all were flung broadcast over minds unoc­cupied, for the most part, by rival learning.

. Sir Walter Scott was one of the greatest of all the, novelists who haVe' ever written in the English l~guage. He wrote-many books and be. books as few men.have ever known them~ }.&' great librarY is' stiJl. intact in his bea~ old home known as Abbotsford. As I went through his library this past· summer, I was ~,by the large number and scholarly char .. acter .of the 'books whicb- it contained One of- the mOst _ conspicuous books 'in that library is a handsome copy of 'the Bible, which bears this ins6iption in. the ,handwriting of -, his mother: '1'0 my so~ Walter SCOtt,' frbm'~his aft'ectionate mother;- -Ann-·R.utherford""; and this additiolt3JJ 'jn 4bijti6ti 3D HiS ,Own hand ... writing::, "Ibis: Bible, ~ the gift of my ~d .. father to 'my mother 'and presented by her to - e. .... , Ul,

- He p~ that lJible, not only as an ~ ... t~ but, as a, bqok "of literatut.-e and- ~ boQk of.life. ,His ;·son ... in-daw ,~. bjog@pher. Lockl ~:who., i$ buried -at ·ms- feet. in _,Drybyrgh Abbey, telIsjof, "a, strikingi,nci~t tha.t,.;~~ curred while Sir Walter was on his last bed of illn~:~ ':oniy a 'few days before his death: "He.> ;ap~sed a wish that I should read to

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-him, and when I asked f~ 'what book, he said: "Need you ask? There is but one.' .... As that great man surveyed his whole lrbrary and the whole field of, lit:erature. there was one Book that towered above all others, and ~t was his' Bible. I wonder .if it was his ttlothet"s Bible that' he was vd]ing for. ~t any rate, there is the estimate of 'a great man whose library ~ cr6wded with,'all manner of great' books. ' Is it too: much to say that' no man·s education is complete without a knowl ... edge of this Book of . boob?

What has ~ ~. attitude of college stu .. dents toward, -this Book?: :.One day !Martin Luther,_. a s~deIJ.t at the ,Univerm.!:Y, q( Erfurt, ran acroSs a copy of:the~Bible mc-the University library. It' was ,t:hefirst complete copy of the Bible that he had ever seen. It laid ,hold of hi$ heart and mind and transformed,.. his -whole life. That copy of the Bible had more to do in mating Martin Luther a great ChriStian leader and a great world figure, than any other inftuence that ever entered into his life.

WilHam Tyndale was an umisually brilliant student in the Uni"VeJ'8ity of Oxford. His biographer tells us; that he became 89 skilled in Latin,. Greek, ·Hebrew. Fren~ SpaniSh, Italian, and EngJisb~ that whichever he spoke iIi you, Would suppOse was· his native ~ The Bible came into his fife With· aU·its trail&­E~g r power. It completely. Captured his heart ana .~ and be.'yieldedbimse1f to it without reservati~: 'and' finally gave his life for,it. Toqay we 'think of,~·. the father ~{ the E~: LBible. A,J" we ,C;d.ebrate 'the four nuoo(edth. anniVeisan' of' the. 'prin~ng of. ~·.~'Complete ~le in;Engiiali..,letcw; remember that 'of I it 'the New Teaiament 'and the Pentateuch were practically TyD.(Jaie·s

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became 'interested in the ·methodical atudv of the Bible ~ it a profitable Book.. Ita teacf" the ,Bible. It ~me a tranifouliing pOwer in ings enter into their moral. ethical, aIld ~ their -1i1l~ and they ·we:ut oot to tum the itual ideals and thus help to mold t:brir char­world upside down. Through the power of artera. Not only so. but its simplicity and the 'WOrd of God, John Wesley became the beauty help- to mold thejr English style. We gleatest force of the eighteenth C£l11nry in wonder sometimes wbe:re Abraham Lincoln England. ever learned the use of the pure and beautiful

Thus we might come on down through the Eogiish of bia Gettysburg address and his centuries and ca!l the roll of a multitude of second inaugural. Hepn:t.abJy leta us into college and university- students whose lives the seaet when be t:eDa us that the two grat­have been transformed and made great by the ests events in his life were when be borlUWed Word of God. But 'What about present-day a life of George Washington and when be college students? Of course., it is not possible opened the Bible and read the life of Christ to put aD cotIege students together in one When I question alumni who have berD group under one label. There are just as out for years, practically all of them tell me many different kinds of college students as that they are glad they were requiJ:ed to take there are of older people. and there are at the courses in the English Bible, and that they least fifty .. seven varieties of the older ODeS. have found these coumea among the mOlt

Some coHege students shrug their shoulders profitable of all the COUI3e8 they rook during at the Bible. Others are indift"erent toward it. their college and university days. There are still others who are woefully ignor.. The pre:seot..<fa.y c:allege lltUdent probably ant of it. But, after ail this has been said, does not look upon the Bible as an autborita. ... there are many college students who approach tive Book in the same sense in which 001' it with reverence and find rich treasures in it. fathers did, and yet, after they have studied

it, the majority of them would agree with No one person knows the hundreds of thou.. Coleridge when he said: .... In the Bible there -

sands of college students in America well is more that finds me than I have e'perienced enough to speak with certainty about their . all other booL-attitude toward the Bible. Let me _J., dei.. m -JQJ put ~; the words of

~ the Bible find me u grkter depths of my be--nitely out of my own obse:a: vatioo and e1pexi.. in& and wbat:ever finds -me brings with it an ence.' I have the privilege of being connected inesistible evidence of having proceeded from with a college which has a studmt group of the Holy Spirit.'" six hundred fifty young men representing more ''It..Ta&ion4l ,..,~ __ _

than twenty1ive dUferent st:atea- Por neady - .. ~. ~GC:iOft fifty years couraea in the English Bible ha~ Cotamiuee .. been a required part. of the auriculum. Presh, men and 8Ophomores are required to tab thRe hours a week. ElectNe counee are provided for juniors and ae:niom. The English Bible itself is 8tUdied. and not simply boob about the Bible. After fifty yean we ought to be in a position to form aome eatirn 3te of the atti ... tude of our college 8IUdenta toward the Bible..

First of, all, it is our obeet vadon that the great majority of college students who study the Bible -find it. an intueatiog book n.e late United States, -Senator· Albert J.. ..-Beveridge wrote a. book-_ entided ""'I'be Bible as Good Beading." . The majority of students study.ing the Bible will CODCUr in the,idea e*lu~lJed in that title. By the way, in that book 4SrnatQr Beveridge says:· -swdy ,this Book baa DOt held away over • mlman- mind for brIO thou .. sand yearawithnut h:niDg ", .... qualities -ec:medring that appeala 10" our interat."

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OUR PULPIF - IUS SIILE

BY ALBEttr N. &OGBa8

Suggested Scripture: Deuteronomy 6: .,12. Luke 4: 1~21.

To the Purit.aD eettlers of New England it see nted the mast nabJral thing to 'ft:Ode:r thanks to Almighty God at the harw:at 8m ... Now that we ha-ve harvest twelve mood .. in the year. we find it dUlicult to eXI'Hienc:e any deep graUbJde. and God seem' eo far away .. to be lime intaested in our ftDIJtionL Ie .. a CQlJ'MDOD obselwarioo thai: God is 1MJt., ady aeir n in the groceaJ 8COI'e as in the ga.tden. IJat tbece are more ae:rioua aapec ,. of the 1!W mDe ~ w1ricb etaDei in the way of a JIMMf.t Q Thanbgiviog.

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.. 'As this sermon is written there are between four and ':five miJUon families totally depend .. ~t upon locat, state, and federal relief. These families cannot know the gratitude of the early settler who planted and tended his crops 10. faith through that first American summer. I'have eaten in one of New York City"s .... flop houses'" and have seen the utter hopelessness there as contrasted with the beaten but un" broken courage in McFadden"s Penny Restau .. rant where, God be thanked, the patrons still had three cents with which to buy a m~. Three· cents made all the di1ference between despair and self"respect. It is not easy to thank Qod for relief meals. - Again, twenty .. :five milHons in our country, though still independent, are living near or below the line of destitution. Even in 1929, nearly twelve minion families had an income of lese than $1,500. These may thank God for keeping them off the dole, but not for giving them ,plenty. Perhaps it was ·for these that Kathleen Millay wrote the following lines,

. ironically entitled ""Now I Lay Me"":

Tell me. God, if you were I. Lying sick upon your bed, Crying while the night ticks round, Q~vering cold· at every sound, Burning hot and fever bound­Longing to be dead Upon your tortured bed I Wondering why you cannot di~ Beat the night and wonder why J­God in Heaven. let me die I Weeping to be dead-

Would you think that God will care For every ill and every woe, . And . bend your stricken knees in p~y~r? Or would yoU scream' your bitter "No" I Beat the night and, answer-"N 0 1 He is not anywhere-He is not so 1".

We send miscrionaries to teach the Chinese to love God in the midst of famine; these are ~g ~ the mj~ of. plenty! .:. And what of the rest· of· us--we who are able.w buy what we need? We are aware that the very food and clothing we buy and the money in our pay envelopes are stained with blood and' tears. We must consume the prQi!ucts of unjust labor conditions; the clothes we .wear probably passed through at least one textiie' 'mill where a heartless · .... stretch .. out .. " exhausted .the worker; the sugar in· our coffee ~.:ubtedly came .. from a tropical plantation where the ignorant natives are ·treated.· . little

better ·than· slaves. The' prOducts'we COnsume vel Y'likely yielded dividends a tbousaIid miles from the place 'Of manuf~.to owners who did little more than clip their coupODs.. . A few hUndred of these owners, through a labyrinth of holding companies and interlocking direc .. torates, control the industry of our country. And worst of ali, those of us who work- in industries which involve a world market are helping Italy to wage her war against Ethiopia.. The weakness of our neutrality embargo is evident in that Italian imports· of American cotton, oil, ~ and machinery have more than doubled in the past year. Moreover, under our present system of competitive tar .. i1fs and colonial policies, most commodities on the world market are potential causes for war. With such a state of a1fairs it is little wonder that thanksgiving is· difficult and God himself seems far away.

II But Thanksgiving is more than a traditional

holiday; it is a moral necessity. God must be thanked! Without gratitude we are but sav" ag~ and if we thank mankind we are hope, less egotists. Thanksgiving is necessary to perspective and progress. The following sug .. gestions may help us to achieve the capacity for Thanksgiving in a day when it is mani .. festly' and perhaps wholesomely lacking.

A true Thanksgiving requires the faith that God is not dead. The writer of ··Now I Lay Men ~t least called upon God to witness her denial- of him. Sometimes he is the only One to whom a person may call. There are cer .. tain abiding values food is good. warmth is satisfying, beauty purifies the spirit - even though to us theY are unattainable. There is a right and a righteousness, a beauty and a love each quite unsoiled by the squalor and selfishness of the world; there is a God! H one cannot pray to ··the God of things as they are,"" he may pray to the God of -things as they might be. .

Now for some individuals this first sugge8' tion will seem unreal and impossible; we -rome to a second : If, the gospel for Thanbgiving is a faith, it is also. a "way of life."" The faith may seem more real if the way is .f~ !>'''he that doeth the truth. cometh to the . light .... The demand' of the "'way'" is. that God· muSt be allowed to provide for.his: people. .·This is the ·m~ge. of . the prophets;.:and supremely· of Jesus,. upon' whom the: Spirit of. ,Ute, Lord came ~.he preached .good ~tidjngs. to- the poor:'and

THB5ilABBA'lfi [ release to the captivea,; Bttak, down the bar, riers which still' the eongs' of' tb:inbgiving~ It· is. the providenCe of man. rather than ~ which' brings privation in . the midst of plenty!

The first step toward this new provi~ under our present cOnditions. has. recently been taken in the i-e.cOgnidon bY the federal' gOYf!rn .. ment of its re8pODSlDiJity to· the citizens who are unable to protect themselves from the in .. cidenee Qf illness. aCcident. old age. and· Wl'

employment. (Note-I said~ ""those who are unable on -not those who are willing to accept graft.) This achievement should not be aI .. lowed to be. sentimenb.Jj~ as charity or roe" gated to the position of a· partisan issue.. It is the demand of justice. A c:i~tion rises or falls according as- it.t:reat8 :its dependents..

The second step, for which the Chureb must issue a' clear call,' is the· inalienaDle right of every breadwinner to a dependable job at a minimum wage sufficient to support a decent and normal life for himself.and his finmly. Child tabor must be e1inrin atM, and unem ... ployment must be made optional rather than ~o~. '

T1)e thUd step will follow on the heel of the second: the. aodal .rather than individual control of' the baSic necessities· of life.. An a.t1~ent Jewish law provided that the well of water should not be owned by an individual, but by the rommunity. The essentials of food. clothing, human happin~ ,~ eocial life must be freed ,·{rPm .the exploitation of private profit before they. will becOme avail .. able 'to all. TQ ~ ~e vnu cry. "R.evolu .. tionary r ·He whO-woUld be truly thanlrful will be stayed by the ·knOwledge that so per' secuted they the prophets who caHed fOr public schools, the abolition of slavery, and even for parcel post. Only by some such &tepa as tbeae may we hope to. ~ to .btm»anity that for which it has a right to be thankful

Here I may add that Christian leaders are widely endoming the conslJmers" ~ movement 'as· a temporary aid in achieving a more God ... like, providence. Credit unions. mail .order houaea" and local stores. on a CO'

operative rather than a contpetiti¥e basis. can givem' ,the, iDdividualbuyer the ·eolI£ctive ba.rgaining;power. the ··chain &tore, bas loog en­joyecL' ~; .The! :Federa!·Ccuocil of the Churches of Christ in Americ:a and the New York But C1onfaen.-:e o£:tbe Metbodiat·Epiat"opa1;Cbuidl ueamong die bodieS wliirb haVe endonecI-die

moveril&it,iinc)' such. WOrld fCbrisl jaos' as E.. Stanley Jones and Toyohiko Kagawa are en' t:hnsiastic in their hopes far CX>-'Opera.tiveB be .. coming a step toward the kingdom of God

among~ . The . ~ has of late been doing more

than ever before to make the gospel concrete as . a "·way of life., - and tb.ia is an absolutely essential part of making Thanksgiving pclSS'b1e today. Christia..ns who are sensitive are forced to do their bit for the new order if they would spiritually survive - as a woman who had joined a public safety campaign said of the wlet:chedness of her neigbborbood. "·Now I can stand itr We may well thank God for the responsibility of being co-creators with him, and the way in which men have and are responding to that responsibility.

This sermon would be incomplete without one other;au.gge51ion. The mills of God grind slawly~ and frequently Divine ProvideDC".e itself appears to miscarry. 1'he ixt:t£1" lM')CjaJ

order is not set up in a day and may not be in a generation. Happy is he 'Who is enabled -"having dane all to sbnd" in the serene ~ viction that: his suffering. and that of his fellows. is not in vain. Will not he who marks the 8pa.r(OW~a fall, and to wham we are much more than sparrows .. ' will not he use Ol,tt suf .. fering to purge the world? Can we Dot be upheld by the .assurance that God 1D2m even the wrath of men to praiae him? Polycup, the aged Father of the early church, uti" ed this prayer before be met his> martyr~a death: "·1 thank thee., 0 Pather, that thou bast. found me worthy of this day~ and of this hour .. " Even so. those of Us who may have litde for which to be thankful, may thank God for the social significance of our povetty... Christianity bas forged ahead by the light of its burning mar ... tyrs.

... ·Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with singing. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his COW1j& with praise; be thankful unto him and b1.ess his name. For the Lord is good. his mercy is evedat¢ing. and his truth endureth to all geD'" eratiODL .....

.... What the church needs is not more mrnY

hem. but better ,'member8; Dot ID<m: pieacbem. lmt . b;tte(. ~bem; DOt more prestige. but b . ~ Idler prest r.ge..

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DENOMINATIONAL "HOOK~~ , and tbi8 Wcl8··foDoviid by a,'generi.l diacu.saiOD , on the fpart.lof, uri present. ,The meIetiDg CQID,-PAIU~A. ILL. menced, intbe" !moming;~ ,and: w..continued

' We have reCently enJoyed two..social· e~ts during the afternoon. ' Atlbot;h· ... ona a~ WQiP

at Farina9 the first a masquerade social,W~~ ship :~vi~ ~ held, in.tberGotbic.!Cbapel. was held Halloween night at the parish ho:use.. DuriDg,luncheon a soc:.;a •. ~' was enjoyed at an evenft thhat brought out some sixty pet\pl~ the ~~ of Dea:n A' J.' ,0 •. BODd.. , most 0 w om wore a costume 'of ingemous ~ong . those present for 'fthe meeri~g from make up. Following the unmasking and a out of town were: Reverends Walter L luncheon and program, games for' old 'and Greene, of Andover and ln~. Ha.r!ey young' were played. Sutton of Little Genesee.:, Jlobert, W., WlDg

Another enjoyable occasion was the cele.. of Hebron. Pa., and a number of inta"eSted bration of the golden weddiitg of Mr~' and laymen. ' Mrs. Otis Hewi~ this also taking ,place at the parish' ho~ where about one'hundred "Alkg4nY County 'Youth Confen'nce p. ersons sat doWn to the three tables. snread. The . Allegany County YoUth' Co!)fere:nce for the occasion. Although no thol:Jght ~f an arranged' an, ArmistieePeiaCe 6e:rVice ,which offering had been entertained. at the request washetd at the ·First ~Alfred Chuft:h, on Mon .. of friends opportunity was given -and aoout day,evening, No~ 11' .. ,)1le:aerviceawere $23 was donated toward some wedding gift well ~ded... the·dlurch ~g almost filled. which the couple were to select. Aside from John Norw~ president of the Allegany the splendid dinner a program. of music and' County ~tion. gave. a brief summary readings appropriate for the occasion was en" of the aims of the Youth ColJQCl1. The Bond joyed. quartet $ilDg "'Hark the Herald Angela Sing"

Another event which brought pleasure to and a.nQther selection ~tten especially for the pastor of, the church was a trip to Stone.. the occ;urio~ called "vrbe Flag.·.. The words fort late in September. where a preaching serv.. were composed by Dean A. J C. Bond and ice was held on the bank of a little 'creek, and the music written by his,daughter, Miss Ahva .. where ·following the sermon. Christian Young. gene Bond., Mi$s Edith Dudley gave a reaa .. a man of ,sixty"seven years old and a convert ing entitled. :~"Waste n 'The audience ~ in to the Sabbath, was bap~. At the close un~snn "'International ~tiOp.s'" ~oexeeg>ts oithis service a group of fifty enjoyed .a picnic putting forth some of ~. aimB ahd beliefs of <tinDer which was spread beneath the trees that those interested . in the anti .. war movement.' lined the banks of the creek.. . Miss.~tty M. Jaeox,~ ~, Cit ~ A1l&

We have recently organized a Junior and gany COunty organj:r.ati~ chajrman of ar .. an Intermediate Society of, Christian Endeavor rangemerits, .for,·the . ~eetblg. introduced the which give promise of a ,splendid future. They gUest spea~~. Rev. 'Richard E.' ~~ of the meet each Sabhath afternoon. RBPoaTEll.. ChristW;a 'remple in' 'WellsViUe. . -Mlo gave a

splendid address the title of which. was, 6·Paci .. .ALPB.BD. N. Y.

A meeting was held ,at the Gothic on Mon-­day to which clergymen in the Western Ase& ciation were invited as well as in~ . lay ... men. Rev. E. E. Sutton of MjItdn JUnction, Wis.,. director of Religious Education. of the Seventh . Day , Baptist Sabhatll 'SchOol Board. who ,has been. spending Some t~e_. working with the ,churches of 'this "association. ,Was present. The purpose' of the meetiDg~ 'which. was called by the seminary. was to di.sCUsS the Work.: of -the 'churdies 'of-'this -aSsociation- with )d(~.:S\lttOq. :.. . .

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"Dean. A. J: C. 'Bond 'presi ' . '.. "', ,'~ 'ReV~ E.'D. Van 'Horn af:tJie'8et:ond'~Alfied Church outlined the purpose at ~tbe ,~eetjn&

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MA1U.B01lO. N. J. \ SilVtr Wedding at Panonage

The twenty~ ~ of the mar .. riage of, Rev .. ~"L Cottrell to' Mias Margaret Sto~ of WeHaville,N. Y., was obeerved-last Sabbath njght.. Septem~.' ·28. '. When the pastor and wife arriwd home in the eveating from a planned aUtomObile: ; trip. they ftJUnd the parsonage fiDed witD· 'pariabionera and friends who came to wish them,' many happy returns.

Lively games,. conduCted . by Miss Harriet Cottrell; music. in wbich both yonng and old joined. with Mrs. ,~ Qibe~ at the piano; and recitations: by; ~ John Geisinger" and Mrs. Joaeph Bivins.. were ~joyed.' Perhaps the .cljmax came,when the pastoli' and 7 wife wete ".joined -'agaiB'" by Rev. ,1jeQO Maltby .. The weddilL 4K:el"'.DOO, iDdudCd' tlftidt:a the bride. and ~~,~ ,.~~·Davia. ,~ maid; joeeph.Bi.viDa.~be8t man~ Virginia .Bmoa. who·carried the bride"s ~;·EdwaMCook, Jr .• ring beara-." ' The' ~bride~ and poozr(" were visib1y..neivOuaand~w~,.~ of6ciating clergy, mao,' annonnced his·· fee;t.the groca __ eo QW:roCa.ne:~t:ha.t··it WaS, decidecl-co- Imeve his financial,,' dt1e;w.wna ','aDd ' -p1'.I'I __ ~, him . "at < tlUa jllQCtu.le with'. very atti'ad:ive baa: mnt;ajnjog

. At: the"amclusion of the .... ceremony" a wecI~bg~ca-} ~ by Mm. Elsie Buck .. ley. ~ aat..fiy!Mns., .Cot'lell. fnnt puDeb vn.a serVe.d·'b; MriJ"Me1vin Cobb and Miss Emma TomI.in!on, and' a variety of tasty om paaaed ~t, aeventy .. frve 'were preaent... - 'T~en fnnn... Bridgeton Ewning News.

H47Ven Home Day . Pollowing an established COSh ., , a VC1 y enjoyable .... Harvest Home Day·~ was' observed at the Marlboro Church on Sa.bba.tb day, Oc .. tabu 19. In the morning set wee.. the .... 'ClOD

relating to a Harvest of Character W3B

preached by P.utor Howard Shoemaker of Newfield, N. J. Special music. -Lord of the Harvest Time." was snng by the choir, and the aermonette by 'the pastor was ""The Joy of the Harvest. ...

After the morning service a covered dish dinner in the churcll basement was enjoyed by aver a hundred people.

In the ahernoon service after letters were read from non:resident mem.be:rs and a musical selection was given by the junior choir, a one-­act play, entitled. ~ Amateur C:OUectom.-was ~te4 Iw the ':yOhng ~le"s society. !he choir rendered an appropriate 2nt:brm.

Reapers' Are. Needed," and the dosing ad-­dress of the afternoon was given by Mr. J. Hartley Bowen of Haddon Hejgbt:a. N. J. Mr. Bowen is a grandson of Rev. joseph C. Bowen who, was t;Jle pastor of the Marlboro Chun:h from 1887 .. 1895. The singing of ~ old 8011& -Blest, Be the Tie That Biods,. - ,and the benedictioo by Pastor Sboemabr fiUingly closed our Harvest Home Day ae:rvia!& The beautiful arrangement of ~ fruita. graioa and vegetables with wbichthe church was dec:o:ated a~ded much to the sugge&1:ive ... and unpresa.tRJ*ess of the R:l vices.. A ~ OU& thank offering was given.

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PLAINPJSI D. N. J. On Sabbath day, October 26, in the after ..

r:oon. the ~ Church people had a tap.. tvpnaJ &erv1Ce 10 our -ehun:h. in whic:b two candidata were baptized by their pastor, Rev. P. P. ·StdJ.

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lowing day, and conducted th~ commUilion service. . Following. the 'business· .m~ting.' of the WOQlen's· Society on' Wedn~y afternoon, November 6~. the ;Tract Commi~e of the 80'" ciety presented a 'little play, setting f.orth the aims~d objects of ""Our Denominational Paper, n and· tb,e reasons why it should be in every family. .' Each department of the RB .. CORDER was represented by a different person, who gave interesting extracts from her de .. partment,' and the ""Hook .. up't' was broadcast by a ""radio announcer from station SDBR."

. A ~pper for members of the Women'ls So-­ciety~ who: cannot attend the regular meetings was' helcl~in ·-tile church November 12, with Miss::Gourser from the Visiting Nurses" AssrY ci3.tiotf :as .guest speaker. After. supper the Women sewed on garments for, the Nurses" Association, while their husbands enjoyed games and a talk by Wm. M. Stillman.

The yearly meeting of tnE;'LNew Jersey and eastern New York churches will be held with the Plainfield Church' November 29 and 30, beginning :Frid~y evening and closing with a meeting ~e evening after the Sabbath

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OBI T U .4. R Y . BURDICK.-Elvm G. '. Burw.ck. born August 9.

1858, died at Hebron, Pa., September, ~ 1935. . (A more .. complete obituary elsewhere'.'in· .. ~s

paper.) ..... ' . ' ' .

CLARKE..-P. L. Clarke, born' near Topeka,·Kan., in 1862, died October 30, 1935, at his. home, 5059 'Osceola S~, Denver, Colo.

Mr ~ darke ~ educated mWisconsm schools. including Milton College. He taught in various Wisconsin schools before coming to Denver in 1897, where he followed the teaChing pr~fession. Yor" twelVe, 'year$' he was principal of 'Berkeley School,'~ retiring: : in 1930. His, hobby" was horti­culture, and he .~ well known' ill many&tates by his . culture of Clarke's "blue., moI'I,ling glory."

He was a great church worKer'and devoted his life to uplift work ·of niaDy kinds. 'He is survived by his "wUe P and a number of nephews and' nieces. Funeral services were held N ovem­ber 2, at Olinger Mort~ary.-.Taken from Den­ver News.

JEFFREv.-Benoni I. Jeffrey, second, son of Wm. and' Mary :'Ann ,J:efJrey,was born in Sal~

, W. Va., March 27., 1852,' aJld died in River­'side; : caIif .. ~ October·1.3.; ~1935~

He was converted and joined the Seventh Day Bap~st . Clutrc.b.-r at -SaleJD- r ,Her . att~.ded Alfred U~ver~tt ~,~a; ... ,)vaS.. ~d~]~}~~ = ~.' 1;879: .. : .. f'l?-en 'he wetit--'to "Alli}on,/Wrs., whe.re lie marnedLida B~ '1Jurdick,' July 29,"1879. ,To·t1iis union' ,were

~orn .' a . .daughter: -ami: ,two, SODS.r: The .UChter. Mrs~ -EUief'D":vis'''anCl the so ~ Ene .()~' Je-Jrm" sUrnve: w.itli' the '-'vifeo: _ Ther~' . are' , ~out .'Pincl~ chifdreni rand three greal-grandehildreru '~:,,:~f"!<

He was obliged to discontinue:farmin.g beQQie of 'an' inj~, r~ved, ,~d JJl9yed ,.tp:- ~on, where he .lived for, seven~ ~ 'AdVl' . to gq to a. watm'climat~ :&e' ~~ t~.Ri , "4de ~ 1921. He ,has b~ a faithfu1"and"eaat~orker in aU' th~ churches ·with which, he:':lIas' been con­nected.

RosE.......,..Kenneth M~' RoSe, oldest :child· of Marion ,A.., ·and Ad(ije Lawrence Ro~. W¥"~"" ,J.)e-

. cember 4, 1910, on a f~. lq!Milt~ "t~­ship, Rock County, Wis:; in what is~'kDoWn as' ~e : ~~ River neighb.<)rbo()(l/ ~a ;-de­_parted 'this, life on Monday ~oon. 'Octo­ber 21, 1935,. at the home of his father·in Edgerto~ Wis. . . .

His mother passed away May I, i932, and.a baby. sister,. J~ette Irene, .. April 29, 1926.. He: is survived by tus father; a stster Ruth, Mrs. Leon­ard Hamele of Portage, WIS.;·a Y0l1!lger bro~er Lawrence,at home; and an aunt, MiSs Maude Rose of Milton Junction, WIS.' , . ~

Farewell services were beld at the undertak­er's parlors in Edgerton October 24, in charge of Rev. Edwin Shaw, and burial was made in the Rock 'River Cemetery. B.. s.

SPlNDLE.-Anna Randolph Spindle, the daughter of Chapin F. and Margaret Kennedy 'RaD­

. dolph, was born April 25, 1873, and died Oc­tober 13. 1935. at the home of her sister. Mrs. W. B. Lynch, near Salem, w. Va.

In 1900. she magied ~.Asa : Sj)indle, and the home baS always been' at Bq.s~ol.. near Salem. She . is survived.' by her busbaiiii ',:and son Earl, and by' a daughter, Mrs. GethereL'Rittftt. She also leaves a brother, Rufus H. RandolPh Qf Terre Haute, !net; . and two sisters, "'Mrs. b., G. Davis . and Mrs.' W. B. Lynch. There' are six grandclrildretL .; :. f' .' ~ Early' .in : lif~ 4mla: liandolph became a Cbris­ti~ ~d :h~ ~e pe~ ~: loyal member of the Salem. Seventh Day 13aptist Church. . 'The funeral 'WaS l1arge1¥ attended and was

conducted by her pastor, assisted by Pastor Hyd~, of ~e Bristol ~.: JL <;burch. . G. B. s.

TAssELL.-William Hen~rTassell, son of Benja-.. min c(J)d:Ma~ Tassell,;:lborri 'at Williams()D, . N. Y., September 10,;~~;<ljed ,at Couders-po~Pa.. SeptemberS; 1 ~5.~J' . .

Doctor Tassell 'was a grciRri3.te of Baltimore Q:ollege of Physicians and' Surgeons; "In '1901, he' specialized In eye, ear, nosel',anet, throat dis­eases, .. ~ .~hilad~p~~ ,In 'l.~ .. ..pe ~~e9··l.ryr~ Stearns. To.them-w;ere bom five duldren: carl S:,':Grace L.~' E4Wlh,' Fred,','and; ;H~old. l' ~e,s'ides his widow· 'an<l clllldren he' :leaves' 'onegTandcliild, ~sther, da~ghtet .. of -Carl'· and ,Lillian' TasaeU; one$is~r~ Mary E. H~riman" ~f Denv~r .. , CQlo~; and "one: :br~~e~,. ~r1~,; ,~fh'Y'(11~am~~~:,~;-:'y:

Funeriil servtces' 'Were' '"hela '. at ·t1ie··H~ron Seventh Day I:Baptist 'cl1urcli, September" 7~r!-;in ~rg~ Qf, ad~r .~p.Jl!er . ":';., ,BelQtej pf )th~ Adv~~ us!, Church, . .asslSted ~by ~asto,r, R, W... Wil ~..:: .. o~ the ~ H'ebrdti' 'Church and 'buHa1' ivaS -in tDe ,-' rret11 r,on' 'cem'eterY~' :,.-: t > ; l. '-~'~,!' J, fi'u/ &,:'fL:l::'B:Ul

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