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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 25, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 21.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A camp-meeting for Western Kansas has been appointed for June 9–18, at Oakley, Logan County.
The baptism of four candidates at Dayton, Ohio, by Brother J. O. Miller, is reported in the Welcome Visitor.
The annual camp-meeting of the Western Washington Conference will be held at South Tacoma, May 19–29.
The addition of four new members to the church in Amery, Wis., is noted in the Reporter by Brother A. C. McMoody.
The new building of the German church at Bazine, Kansas, was dedicated in connection with meetings held May 7 and 8.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Stillwater, May 27 to June 5.
A new house of worship was dedicated at New London, Wis., April 17, during the progress of a general meeting at that place.
At Pelham, Texas, three persons are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord through the labors of Brother Q. V. Shaw, a book canvasser.
The Utah Conference will have three tents in the field this season—one in the Bear River country, one in Sanpete Valley, and one in Sevier County.
The secretary of Upper Columbia Conference reports the organization of a church of nineteen members at Ontario, Idaho, by Brother J. M. Willoughby.
We are requested to announce that the address of Elder M. S. Babcock, formerly 2200 Chestnut Avenue, Newport News, Va., has been changed to Roanoke, Va.
We are informed by Sister A. R. Spencer that there are now three Sabbath-keeping families in Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa., and they have organized a Sabbath-school.
As fruit of meetings held at Minneapolis, Kansas, by Brother A. R. Ogden, eight persons have accepted the faith, and the interest was increasing at the time the report was made.
In the Workers’ Bulletin, Brother L. F. Starr notes the organization of a church of twenty-one members near the Little Sioux River, in Iowa. The people live in the country, but take the name of Orson church.
The Southwestern Union Record contains a good report from Fairfield, Texas, to the effect that twelve days’ labor there by Brethren Thomas Defreeze and J. H. Hollis resulted in the decision of fifteen persons to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.
The West Michigan Herald announces the organization of a new church of thirty members at Rothbury. Brother W. C. Hebner had been holding meetings there for about six weeks in the town hall. A house of worship is also being built.
Reporting to the Mission Board from Bermuda Islands, Brother J. A. Morrow notes the baptism of four candidates. They were members of a consignment of Boer prisoners sent to the islands by the British Government during the South African War.
Brother Baharian, who had been in a Constantinople prison for several months, waiting to hear what would be done to him because he persisted in preaching the truth, has at last been liberated. He has been sent to Aintab, nominally free, but it is written in his passport that he “dare not return to Constantinople.”
At the recent session of the Upper Columbia Conference, the following officers were elected: President, A. J. Breed; vice-president, F. D. Starr; secretary, J. L. Kay; treasurer, T. L. Copeland; superintendent educational department, J. M. Willoughby; missionary secretary and treasurer, T. L. Copeland; state canvassing agent, T. G. Johnson.
Our German brethren and friends will be pleased to learn that the Christlicher Hausfreund, heretofore published monthly, is now issued weekly. It is an able exponent of Bible truth, and especially of the glad tidings of the soon coming kingdom of our Lord. Subscription price: In the United States, $1.25; to foreign countries, $1.50. Address, College View, Neb.
The Family Bible Teacher is a series of twenty-eight Bible lessons designed for house-to-house missionary work. A lesson is left with a family to be taken up at a later date, when another lesson will be left. This set was originally issued by some brethren in Cincinnati, Ohio, but has been purchased by the Southern Publishing Company, Nashville, Tenn. Price, 10 cents per set, post-paid.
Writing from Rome, Italy, Brother Chas. T. Everson says: “Ten have thus far decided to keep the Sabbath as a result of our work in Rome, and others are coming steadily to the meetings. Among the number who have so decided is an ex-canon of the Church of Rome. He has his degree of doctor of theology from the leading Jesuit College of Rome.”