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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 37.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE Visitor reports the baptism of eleven candidates at Springfield, and six at Dayton, Ohio.
A RECENT report from Brother F. W. Spies, missionary in Brazil, notes the baptism of seven candidates.
DURING the recent camp-meeting at Appleton, Wis., twenty-seven persons were baptized in the Fox River.
AT the camp-meeting recently held at Clinton, Mo., forty-eight persons were baptized in a lake near the camp.
DR. ALBERT CAREY has been assigned to the medical dispensary of the Helping Hand Mission, Cleveland, Ohio.
THE baptism of two persons at Hickory Grove, Ky., and three at Sedalia is reported by Brethren W. R. Burrow and C. G. Lowry.
AT the recent Ohio camp-meeting forty-eight persons were baptized; a number of others deferred the ordinance until they should return to their homes.
BROTHER T. B. SCOTT notes the baptism of four persons in connection with meetings held at Pine Valley, Wis., also the organization of a tract society.
THE depository of the Wisconsin Tract Society has been removed from Milton Junction to Fond du Lac, 14 East Johnson Street. S. D. Hartwell is the secretary.
A LOCAL camp-meeting has been appointed for Creston, Iowa, September 20 to October 2. A like meeting is now being held at Waverly, to close the 18th.
NINETEEN members added to the church at Cripple Creek, Colo., is one feature of the results of meetings held there under direction of Brother F. W. Trubey.
THE Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, notes the departure of two missionaries from that conference. Miss Winnifred Peebles goes to Bermuda Islands to engage in educational work, and Miss Anna King goes to South Africa.
THE Nebraska Reporter says: “The College View Sanitarium has recently established a branch office in the city of Lincoln. Rooms have been secured in the Y. M. C. A. Building, which have been fitted up for the treatment of patients.”
An encouraging tent effort is in progress at Rosenthal, Texas, conducted by Brethren J. B. Beckner and W. L. McNeely. They would like a number of copies of THE SIGNS to use in their work, and we trust their need will be supplied.
PROF. P. T. MAGAN, of Battle Creek, Mich., has been spending some time in Wisconsin in the interest of church school work. At Green Bay the brethren are building a schoolhouse, and at Milton Junction a like enterprise is being pushed forward.
AT the recent camp-meeting held in San Diego, Cal., forty-three persons were baptized. Notwithstanding the severe drought through which Southern California has passed, about $800 were raised for educational and camp-meeting purposes. The meeting was excellent.
PROF. B. O. WADE and wife, late of Union College, College View, Neb., sailed from San Francisco for Japan on the 3d inst., where they go to labor as missionary teachers. They were accompanied by Bro. Hasegawa, who has been connected with the Japanese mission in San Francisco.
BROTHER J. H. WHEELER reports fourteen converts at Custer, Neb., and a Sabbath-school of twenty-eight members, as a result of nine weeks’ labor. He also notes the organization of a Sabbath-school of thirteen members, at Deadwood, and a prospective church organization at Boyd.
MEETINGS being held at Vienna, N. Y., are making encouraging progress. A report in the Indicator states that nine had taken a decided stand, and a Sabbath-school had been partially organized, with thirty-two persons present. The meetings are conducted by Brethren F. Peabody and S. B. Whitney.
“THE DESIRE OF AGES” is the title of a forthcoming volume by Mrs. E. G. White, published at this office. It is intensely interesting and beautifully illustrated, and is devoted to the consideration of the great truth that in Christ the love of the Father is revealed,—that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.”
ON the 7th inst. Brother B. L. Howe and family sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu, to engage in church and missionary work. On the same steamer Brother F. J. Brainerd, for some years an employee of this office, with his family, sailed for Melbourne, Australia, where he will connect with the Bible Echo Office.
AT the recent annual session of the Missouri Conference the following officers were elected: President, W. A. Hennig; vice-president, W. B. Tovey; secretary and treasurer, James Cochran. Two brethren, L. W. Terry and Jacob Riffel, were ordained to the ministry. A report of the meeting says that “fully 2,000 people witnessed the solemn scene.”
BROTHER G. W. REASER, president of Upper Columbia Conference, reporting to the Reaper, says that at Union and Baker City, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho, steps are being taken toward the establishment of church schools. At Boise a teacher had been secured at the time the report was written. A camp-meeting is now in progress at Chewelah, Wash., to continue until the 15th.
ONE of our workers in Marsovan, Asia Minor, has been exiled in chains for violation of a command sent out some months ago from Constantinople, forbidding the promulgation of any new religion. The pretext for the command was that some might work rebellion under the name of religion. Satan never does anything to hinder the work of the Lord without a plausible excuse. He is always fearful that some harm be done, lest the people be aroused from their slumber.
IT is a quite common idea in the world that anything is too good for a tramp. A great many, however, who pose as philanthropists will modify this idea to the extent that anything is good enough for a tramp. But the real Christian idea is suggested in an item in The Bivouac regarding the mission in Butte, Mont. The report says: “The last few days have brought considerable bedding from different parts of the State, and as we open it we can but notice in this labor of love the pains that has been taken in selecting good material and doing the work well—knowing, too, that it would be used largely for covering tramps. In this we are made to praise the Lord.” This ought to be the rule in everything that is done for the poor. In no other way can our works show that we love them as we do ourselves.