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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 31.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A NEW neat S. D. A. church building at Ellsworth, Kansas, was dedicated June 23. The brethren and friends contributed liberally, so that the house was dedicated free from debt. We can only say, “O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build Thee an house for Thine holy name cometh of Thine hand, and is all Thine own; . . . for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee.” Pastors Westphal, Beeson, Hiddleson, Ogden, and Brother J. A. Rippey took part in the dedicatory service. A. R. OGDEN.
COLORADO Conference has five tents in the field this year.
THE brethren at Connersville, Ind., are erecting a new house of worship.
JUNE 22, six candidates were baptized at Des Moines, Iowa, by Brother J. W. Adams.
ON the 22nd ult., five candidates were baptized at Terre Haute, Ind., by Brother I. J. Hankins.
A NEW colporter wagon, with Brother W. W. Jestes in charge, is now operating in the Carolinas.
SISTER ANNIE KNIGHT, one of our teachers in Mississippi, has been assigned to labor in India as a medical missionary.
MAY 18, two members were added to the church in New Orleans, one being an assistant physician of the U. S. A. hospital corps.
MEETINGS recently held by Brother H. K. Willis, at his home church, Mount Pleasant, Mo., resulted in the addition of eleven members.
A CONFERENCE for the Carolinas is to be organized in connection with a camp-meeting to be held at Hickory, N. C., beginning August 4.
THE camp-meeting to be held at Greenfield, Ind., August 21 to September 1, will be preceded by a canvassers’ institute to commence August 4.
THE new church building at Hildebran, N. C., is about completed. A summer school is being conducted in that place with encouraging success.
BROTHER S. N. HASKELL and his company of laborers in New York City have established headquarters for the present at 400 West 57th Street.
AT Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th ult., thirteen candidates were baptized. The services were conducted by Brethren A. G. Haughey and H. H. Burkholder.
IN the Visitor of June 25, a report from Sister Emma Shafer notes the addition of eight members to the church at Vancouver, B. C. This accession was the result of Bible work.
ON a recent Saturday night the mission workers in Detroit, Mich., sold forty-two single copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in saloons. A portion of every Saturday night is devoted to this work.
BROTHER W. L. McNEELY, of Missouri Conference, has been called to the Southern Union Conference. He goes to Birmingham, Ala., and will have charge of the work in that State.
A SANITARIUM has been opened at Graysville, Tenn., with Dr. Hayward in charge. Two sanitariums, one for the white population and one for the colored people, are being established in Nashville.
IOWA Conference has nine tent companies in the field this season. So far Iowa leads all the conferences in the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” having disposed of over seven thousand copies.
THE Tennessee Watchman of the 1st inst. says: “Our publishing house at Nashville is being pushed ‘to completion as rapidly as possible. The fourth and last story is now up and sheeted, and the roof ‘on. This room is very much needed, and will be ‘occupied as fast as it can be made ready. The new ‘building will contain a good-sized chapel, which ‘will be used by the Nashville church until a church ‘building can be erected.”
A NEW house of worship is being erected at East Port, Mich. Three persons from Bay View, Mich., where Brethren John Irwin and C. A. Hansen have been laboring, have united with the East Port church.
JUNE 22, during a five days’ meeting at Erskine, Minn., at which Brethren F. Johnson, A. Kjellman, and J. C. Christiansen were present, five persons were baptized, one candidate being prevented by sickness.
THE Reporter states that the pastor of one of the largest churches of colored people in Indianapolis has offered his pulpit for public services on the prophecies. Brother A. W. Bartlett expects to speak there at least once a week.
FIVE candidates were baptized at Sandyville, Iowa, recently, by Brother Charles A. Hansen. This brother has now been assigned by the General Conference to the Newfoundland mission field, to be supported by the Iowa Conference.
BROTHER WALTER HARPER and wife are on their way to Skaguay, Alaska, to engage in the colporter work. Brother Harper is one of our oldest and most successful canvassers, and has placed hundreds of thousands of pages of our good reading matter among the people.
IN the Nebraska Reporter Brother J. W. Boynton notes the baptism of two candidates at Beolus, two members added to the church at Loup City, and three to the church at Kent. Brother Boynton has been transferred to the mission field of Alberta, N. W. Territories, Canada.
JUNE 29, a company of laborers, headed by Prof. J. L. Shaw, of Michigan, sailed from New York for India, via Suez Canal and the Red Sea. One of the Company was Brother G. K. Owen, who spent several years in California Conference, but the past year has been laboring in Mississippi.
THE Tennessee River Conference, through its organ, the Watchman, announces that there will be good schools the coming year at Bowling Green, Ky., and Springville and Trezevant, Tenn. Of course these are in addition to the general academy at Graysville, Tenn., and will no doubt prove feeders to that institution.
AMONG the visiting brethren at the recent conference and camp-meeting in this city, were Brethren H. W. Decker, president of North Pacific Conference; W. B. White, president of Montana Conference; Prof. E. L. Steward, of Walla Walla College; and Dr. W. R. Simmons, superintendent of Portland (Oregon) Sanitarium.
AT the recent session of the Pennsylvania Conference at Erie, Brother R. A. Underwood was re-elected president. Nineteen persons were baptized, and three brethren—Morris Lukens, C. S. Longacre, and J. H. Schilling—were ordained to the Gospel ministry. The Conference voted to give a second tithe of its income to foreign missions. The reports for the past year were encouraging, and the work for the coming year starts out with good prospects.
THE employees of the office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES had an enjoyable outing on the Fourth of July. While in the cities of Oakland and San Francisco there were the usual festivities connected with the anniversary, the Pacific Press Publishing Company’s directors gave their workers a picnic in the hills known as Leona Heights. In the cool shade of a romantic canyon, by a stream of cool water, the company gathered to listen to appropriate music and an address by Brother W. T. Knox, president of the Pacific Union Conference. Then all sought recreation in the various ways that suited their personal likes. There was no waste of money in gunpowder, nor injury of person or property, but a general appreciation of pure country air and beautiful scenery.