Items of General Interest

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 23, 1913

Items of General Interest

The editor of the Review left Washington last week to attend the general council now in progress in California. He will be absent until about the tenth of February.

Elder E. W. Webster, a report of whose past season’s labors will appear in the next issue of the Review, arrived in Washington last week, and will at once connect with the Sanitarium as chaplain.

Elder D. C. Babcock writes that with his family he expects to leave West Africa the last of January. After spending a short time on the Canary Islands, they will sail direct to British Guiana and visit among friends and Sister Babcock’s relatives, this being her former home and Brother Babcock’s former field of labor. They plan to reach the States in time to attend the General Conference.

By a letter to the Mission Board from Elder J. G. Oblaender, of the West German Union, we learn of good progress in that field. “In the last quarter,” he writes, “we have been able to take in three hundred sixty-nine new members, and the tithe has largely increased. The political situation is having a deep influence upon the people in general, and our meetings were never so well attended. On account of the war situation, many persons have been so stirred up that they have taken their money from the savings-bank. We are surely coming into serious times in Europe, and one can see clearly how all things are hastening toward the end.”

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