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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 48.

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Twenty-three church-schools are already organized in Wisconsin.
Three converts are reported at Culpeper, Va., by Brother B. F. Purdham.
The Eastern Union Conference is now in session at South Lancaster, Mass., to close December 5.
At Cooranbong, N. S. W., four candidates were recently baptized by Brother E. H. Gates, and added to the church.
The meeting in Philadelphia that was to have been held November 20-24, has been postponed to December 6-10.
The brethren at Blue Lake, Humboldt County, Cal., are raising funds for the erection of a new church building.
A branch of the St. Helena Health Food Company's establishment has been set up in Salt Lake City, with Brother W. J. Felt as manager.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Janesville, Wis., four names were added to the roll. Brother C. W. Olds officiated on the occasion.
Brother John Isaac, of Wisconsin, has been assigned to labor in the interest of the German population in Ontario, with present headquarters at Berlin.
The Sabbath-school donations in the Australasian Union Conference for the present quarter are donated to the work among the Maoris of New Zealand.
At Murfreesboro, Tenn., Brother B. Hagle has the free use of the court-house for meetings. He recently reported to the Watchman five applications for baptism.
The Record informs us that a lot has been purchased for a new church-building in Adelaide, South Australia, and the work of building is to be pushed as fast as possible.
Under date of October 20, Brother D. P. Ziegler writes that he was just closing a series of tent-meetings at Springfield, Mo., and that eleven persons had begun the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord. He also says that the church-school there is doing well under the management of Sister Annie Nordlind.
On the 7th inst. Sister Ellen G. White, accompanied by Sister Sara McEnterfer, took an overland train direct for New York City, where she will labor for a few weeks.
The addition of four members to the church at Bozeman, Mont., and $500 toward a new house of worship is the visible result of labor by Brethren J. C. Foster and W. A. Gosmer.
A church was organized at Guerneville, Cal., October 19. Brother H. F. Courter had been laboring there for some time, and Brother J. N. Loughborough assisted in the organization of the church.
Brother E. S. Ballenger, until recently connected with Healdsburg College, and superintendent of church-school work in California Conference, has been transferred to Southern California Conference.
Four converts to the faith at Hollister, Cal., are reported by Brother A. J. Morton. A Sabbath-school has been organized there, and Bible work is being continued by Brother C. N. Miller and wife.
The Wisconsin Conference Committee have voted to pay Sister Ida Thompson's expenses to China instead of to Brazil, if she prefers to go to that field to labor instead of going to Brazil, as was voted at the last annual conference.
In the Missionary Visitor Brother J. L. Wilson reports four converts at Anacortes, B. C., together with a liberal sale of books. After the Seattle camp-meeting he went to Cumberland, B. C., to complete the organization of a church.
Brother J. W. Bagby, reporting to the Pacific Union Recorder, notes the addition of four new members to the Tulare church, three to the church at Hanford, Cal., four to the Lemoore church, and two to the church at Grangeville.
Brother G. W. Reaser and family arrived in Natal Harbor, South Africa, August 27, after a journey of 17,000 miles on fifty different conveyances, from Walla Walla, Wash. Their address is Beulah, Bulwer Road, Natal, South Africa.
Brother S. M. Cobb, president of West Virginia Conference, reports to the Monitor that eight persons at Elk Garden recently covenanted to keep “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” He also reports the baptism of four persons at Hagerstown, Md.
The Avondale Press, connected with the school at Cooranbong, N. S. W., has issued its first book. It is a volume of Bible studies in the Fijian language, and the Record says it presents a very creditable appearance. Of the Joyful Tidings, printed at the same institution, 20,000 copies of the September number were issued.
The highest military court in Germany has affirmed the sentence against one of our brethren of twenty-three days' imprisonment for not serving in the militia on the Sabbath. Thus the military authority of Germany is reckoned superior to the law of God. But it would be the same in any of the so-called Christian nations, were a like test made. In most of the States in our own country the Sunday laws are held to be above the law of God.
The church at Eureka, Cal., has outgrown the house of worship, and contemplates building a new one, and using the old house for school purposes. Brother C. M. Gardner notes the baptism of eight souls, with some others who contemplate a like step. He also reports the baptism of five candidates at Pepperwood, where the public school was dismissed in order to allow the pupils to witness the scene, the ordinance being administered in the Salmon River.
Here is a good report from Brother A. G. Haughey, president of Ohio Conference, in Welcome Visitor: I spent Oct. 19-21, with the company at Waterford. While there I held seven public meetings, baptized twelve adults, and organized a church of seventeen members. Four others are keeping the Sabbath, and many more are interested. Some arrangements were made to erect a church-building and to organize a church-school. A lot was donated, also material for the building. The house will be built with a room for a church-school. This result followed the labors of Brethren M. C. Kirkendall, J. H. Smith, and W. W. Miller.