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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 10.

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Brother I. D. Van Horn is now permanently located in Indianapolis.
Brother F. M. Roberts reports the baptism of eight persons at Noblesville, Ind.
New churches are soon to be organized at Don Juan, Shelbyville, and Logansport, Ind.
At the last quarterly meeting of the church at Fort Wayne, Ind., five persons were added to the church by baptism.
Sixteen converts are reported as a visible result so far of meetings held at Levi, Texas, under the direction of Brother H. Woodruff.
The brethren of the Indiana Conference have been holding elders' and parents' institutes at various points. An appointment is out for Ligonier, March 10–13.
Special meetings held at Keene, Texas, have been fraught with extraordinary results. There have been four baptismal services, at which fifty-five persons were buried with their Lord in a watery grave. This revival season, under the labors of Brother A. F. Ballenger, has been of great value to the school at that place as well as to the church.
The board of trustees of the Keene, Texas, Academy have started the manufacture of health foods. There are three objects in view,—revenue for the institution, employment for students, and the supplying of healthful food to the people.
Meetings are being held in the courthouse and city hall at Cheyenne, Wyo., by Brethren O. S. Ferren and C. H. Abbott. In connection with these meetings, daily Bible readings are held in different parts of the city, and a good interest is manifested.
A new journal has been started at Copenhagen, says Present Truth; but we are not informed whether it is a weekly or monthly, nor is the price given. It is published by the Seventh-day Adventist Society of Denmark, and is entitled Trösteranden (The Comforter).
As reported to the Minnesota Worker by Brother L. H. Christian, there are in that State 119,000 Swedes, 107,000 Norwegians, and 16,000 Danes, who were born in Scandinavia, and nearly twice as many more who were born in the State, making a total of some 600,000. To the largest number of these the message we are bearing to the world must be given in the Scandinavian languages.
The International Tract Society has begun the publication of a 16-page monthly journal at Calcutta, India. We have received the first number (January, 1898) and bid it Godspeed as an exponent of Gospel truth that bears a certain sound. Price, 2 annas (5 cents) per copy. From it we learn that Bible addresses were being given in the Corinthian Theater every Sunday evening, which service was to continue during January and February.
We learn from the Missionary Worker that Brother W. A. Spicer, who for several years has been one of the editors of the London Present Truth, is to go to Calcutta to edit the Oriental Watchman, whose début is mentioned in another item. It is also stated that Brother G. C. Tenney, formerly editor of the Bible Echo at Melbourne, and later of the Review and Herald editorial staff, Battle Creek, Mich., will go to London to edit the Present Truth.
At a general meeting held in Portland, Ore., February 10 to 20, for General Conference district No. 6, an advisory council of the district was organized, the work of which is to consider and advise as to the general work within the district. The council is composed of the following: Chairman, A. J. Breed, superintendent of the district; secretary, E. J. Hibbard, College Place, Wash.; the presidents of the various conferences, heads of mission-field boards, and presidents of publishing house, sanitariums, and colleges.
Brother G. W. Angleberger, says of his labor at Cañon City, Colo.: “I had the privilege of speaking to the prisoners in the penitentiary about three weeks ago. I took as my subject, ‘The Love of God,’ emphasizing the thought that all sinners have been purchased by the blood of Christ, and may be saved if they will. As these themes were presented, the faces of those poor fellows would shine with joy, and tears flow. Some are reading the SIGNS in their cells, and the warden says they are becoming interested in them.”