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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 21, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 29.

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There are now eight tent companies at work in Michigan.
The next school year of Healdsburg (Cal.) College will begin September 7.
Brother C. J. Herrman reports the baptism of seven candidates at West Superior, Wis.
Brother O. Soule reports the baptism of six persons at Colfax, Mich., and one at Mesick.
The date of the camp-meeting at San Diego, Cal., has been changed from August 18-28 to August 4-14.
The report of the Paterson, N. J., church for the past quarter shows an addition of sixteen members.
Brother B. W. Marsh notes the baptism of one candidate at Crawford, and one at Montrose, Colo.
A new house of worship has been erected and dedicated by the church at Onawa, Iowa. Brother J. S. Hart and B. E. Fullmer were in attendance.
Brother L. F. Trubey reports to Echoes from the Field that ten persons have been added to our ranks at Cripple Creek, Colo.
A series of meetings is being held in the new house of worship at Stanley, Wis., by Brother J. B. Scott.
On the occasion of the last quarterly meeting at Nevada, Iowa, seven members were added to the church.
At Levi, Texas, Brother J. B. Beckner baptized three persons, one other candidate being prevented by sickness.
Four meetings a week are being held in Brooklyn, N. Y., for the benefit of the Scandinavian people, by Brethren J. F. Hansen and J. F. Olsen.
The clerk of the church in Jersey City, N. J., reports to the Atlantic News that during the past quarter “eleven souls have acknowledged their Saviour.”
After the German camp-meeting recently held at Endicott, Wash., thirteen candidates were baptized by Brother G. F. Haffner in the Palouse River.
Brother W. H. Smith reports to the Keystone Gleaner the baptism of six candidates at Pittston, Pa., and the addition of four members to the church at Harrisburg.
Brother D. C. Babcock, president of Virginia Conference, writes that he is in the midst of an important interest in Portsmouth, with an average attendance of about four hundred.
Elder J. N. Loughborough is spending a few weeks among the churches in Atlantic Conference. He spent a short time in Washington recently, going to Baltimore on the 7th inst., where he remained a week, and then moved on toward the northern part of the conference.
Brother O. Glass, who is holding meetings in a schoolhouse at Mansfield, Texas, reports the baptism of three candidates, with others deeply interested.
Brother W. H. Saxby, under date of June 28, notes the addition of three to the church at Louisville, Ky. Eleven had been added some three months previous. The outlook there is encouraging.
We have received the “Calendar Number” of the Keene Academy News, of Keene, Texas, and would commend its perusal to all of our brethren in the district to which the academy looks for support. It contains full information regarding the academy, and presents a neat appearance. All communications should be addressed to Keene Industrial Academy, Keene, Johnson County, Texas.
Brother W. T. Millman, who was recently called from Missouri to the Dakota field, reports to the Workers’ Record that at the North Dakota camp-meeting eighteen found the Saviour and were baptized. At the South Dakota meeting forty-two were baptized. Returning to Missouri temporarily, he attended the quarterly meeting at Winston, and reports an addition of ten to the church.
The officers of Pennsylvania Conference have decided to enter the most prominent places in the State with tents. Brethren W. H. Smith and E. H. Rees have pitched in Harrisburg, the capital; Brother E. A. Merrell, in Philadelphia; Brother L. S. Wheeler, in Pittsburg, and Brethren C. F. McVagh and Chas. Baierle, at Lake Ariel, Wayne County, a summer resort, where many visitors gather during the warm weather.
Scatter the periodicals in public places, brethren; they reach people that would otherwise be overlooked or passed by. A minister who resides in a Pennsylvania town never had seen the American Sentinel until he incidentally found one at the railroad station in Fairfield, Iowa. On perusing it his interest was aroused, and he sent for it to the office of publication. Such incidents are of frequent occurrence, and the periodicals are the means by which alone the attention of many will be called to the important fact that we are living in the last days.
Another of our well-known and efficient laborers, Brother Chas. L. Boyd, has laid down the armor. He died at Asheville, N. C., July 1, of malarial fever. Brother Boyd was a native of New Hampshire, but his labors in connection with the cause we advocate carried him across the continent to the presidency of Nebraska Conference, and, later, North Pacific Conference. Then he was one of the first ministers sent to the South African field, whither he went in 1887. After laboring there some years, he returned, and has since been engaged in Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina.