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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 25.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Five candidates were baptized at Bluffton, Minn., on the 10th ult., by Brother Andrew Mead.
From Queenstown, British Guiana, Brother W. T. Downer reports the baptism of eight persons.
Throughout the Australasian Union Conference, June 14–21 was observed by our brethren as a week of prayer.
A German Department has been added to the Keene (Texas) Industrial Academy, with Prof. A. Kunz as principal.
July 5 is the date set by the General Conference for special donations for the relief of the publishing house at Christiania, Norway.
May 18, five candidates were baptized in the Ohio River at Wheelersburg, by Brother R. R. Kennedy. Three others were awaiting a future opportunity.
Thirty candidates were baptized at Keene, Texas, at the close of the academy term, a few weeks ago. Special meetings had been held a week.
Prof. C. C. Lewis, for several years principal of Keene (Texas) Industrial Academy, has been chosen as principal of Walla Walla (Wash.) College, and Prof. Alvin Covert takes the place made vacant at Keene.
Brother J. L. Shaw, who is laboring in India, reports the baptism of a man afflicted with leprosy. He had been wanting baptism for some time, but did not broach the subject, as he feared that no one would be willing to baptize a leper.
At the last annual meeting of Upper Columbia Conference, officers were elected as follows: President, A. J. Breed; secretary and treasurer, J. L. Kay; executive committee, A. J. Breed, J. H. Holbrook, J. W. Pasey, J. M. Willoughby, and W. H. Saxby.
The name of the Keene Industrial Educator, published at Keene, Texas, has been changed to Southwestern Union Record, merging also the two conference papers of Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Record is to be the organ of the Southwestern Union Conference, issued weekly at 50 cents a year.
Four candidates were baptized recently at Merced, Cal., by Brother H. G. Thurston. This fruit was the result of labor by Sister Evelyn M. Riley.
Brother S. M. Cobb, president of West Virginia Conference, reporting a tour of the churches to the Monitor, notes the baptism of five persons at Flora, five at Grafton, and one at Newburg.
The Indicator says: “An aged brother at Monticello [N. Y.], who is a cripple and has had no experience in selling books, sold five ‘Christ’s Object Lessons’ in going from his home into town.”
Our contemporary, the South African Sentinel, has been much improved, mechanically and otherwise, under the management of editor W. S. Hyatt. It is well patronized by advertisements of Cape Town business men, which shows a good degree of local appreciation.
At Lincoln, Neb., May 18, five candidates were baptized by Brother C. R. Kite. The Reporter also notes the baptism of five persons at Oakdale, and twenty-four at Culbertson. Brethren Gaede and Schroeder have been laboring at the latter place among the German population.
Sister Vesta J. Farnsworth has been chosen as editor of the Bible Echo, published at Melbourne, Victoria. She will be assisted by an editorial committee. Her former place as managing editor of the Union Conference Record, published at Sydney, N. S. W., is filled by Brother E. C. Chapman, of Cooranbong.
Brother Loyd T. Caldwell reports that for a year past he has sold the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Good Health, tracts, etc., on the streets of Denver, Col., on Sundays, with success. Lessons on present truth are given from the Bible, charts, etc., and printed matter is sold. The down-town crowds will listen for hours, and one has a cheap, rapid way to put the Gospel before them. There is much blessing and good results.
At the meeting of the Tasmanian Conference, held in February last, Pastor E. Hilliard was re-elected president; C. H. Parker, vice-president; T. House, secretary; P. H. Pretyman, treasurer; tract society secretary and treasurer, Mrs. I. Hilliard; Sabbath-school secretary and treasurer, Katie Judge. The conference voted to donate a second tithe of its funds for one year to the erection of a sanitarium at Wahroonga, N. S. W.
We note with pleasure the statement that our contemporary in India, the Oriental Watchman, is growing in circulation and influence. Three thousand yearly subscriptions have been taken in eight months. Two brethren who are laboring in Burma took 200 subscriptions in ten days. They have also received a large number of orders for “Christ’s Object Lessons.”
Our readers who have followed Dr. J. E. Caldwell’s career in the South Sea Islands, who have mourned with him the death of his devoted wife, will rejoice to know that the fruit of the mother’s faithfulness remains in the two sons who are at the school in Avondale, New South Wales, fitting themselves for better work for the Master. The training of children for God is the privilege of every mother. Dr. Caldwell expects soon to return to this country.
The North Pacific Conference has been divided, and its territory is now known as the Western Washington Conference and the Western Oregon Conference. The officers of Western Washington are: President, F. M. Burg; secretary and treasurer, H. E. Hoyt; missionary secretary, G. W. Pettit; executive committee—F. M. Burg, H. J. Schnepper, C. J. Cole, W. R. Simmons, and L. I. Stiles. The officers of Western Oregon Conference are: President, S. W. Nellis; secretary and treasurer, Miss Daisy Cuddy; missionary secretary, W. H. Coffin; executive committee—S. W. Nellis, E. L. Stewart, A. Q. Shryock, W. C. F. Ward, and E. T. Cornell.
Brother T. Christian, of Lemoore, Cal., a native of Pitcairn Island, sends us the following information: “We have learned by last mail that our people of Pitcairn Island have purchased a boat of their own, to ply between that island, Mangareva, Tahiti, Oeno, and Elizabeth. Tahiti and Mangareva will be headquarters, and any one wishing to send mail to Pitcairn will remember to send by way of Tahiti. This is the first time that the people of Pitcairn ever have had direct communication with other parts of the world, altho the island has been inhabited over a hundred years. The Lord is blessing the people there in great measure. Any further information regarding this matter may be had by addressing T. Christian, Lemoore, King’s County, Cal.”