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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 36.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

AT South Onondaga, N. Y., August 22, nineteen persons were baptized.
ELDER R. M. KILGORE and company are holding tent meetings in Cleveland, Tenn., and report large audiences.
ELDER M. G. HUFFMAN reports seven new Sabbath-keepers as the result so far of meetings held at Gardiner, Maine.
In connection with the recent Virginia camp-meeting, nine persons were baptized. The meeting was held at Charlottesville.
FROM Washington County, Ala., we have a report of seven accessions to the faith, under the labors of Brother J. M. Elliott.
THE Ohio Conference has re-elected its old officers for another year: President, Elder I. D. Van Horn; Secretary, E. A. Merriam; Treasurer, D. K. Mitchell.
At the recent annual camp-meeting of the Tennessee River Conference, held at Clarksville, Tenn., Elder F. D. Starr was elected president of the conference and also of the tract society.
EIGHT persons were baptized at Plymouth, Eng., August 9, and the interest in the meetings held there is said to be increasing, notwithstanding a bitter opposition on the part of ministers and others.
ELDER B. F. PURDHAM has commenced tent work in Archdale, Randolph County, N. C., where the Society of Friends is the religious organization, and the only religious people strong enough to own a house of worship.
ELDER C. L. TAYLOR, formerly of Mount Vernon Academy, of Ohio, has been called to the important position of instructor in the Bible in Walla Walla College. We trust he may have the especial blessing and aid of the Great Teacher.
HERETOFORE we have stated that Elder E. W. Farnsworth was to labor in Australia, but since his departure we have advices from Elder W. C. White, the General Conference representative in that section, that he will be assigned to the New Zealand field. This will be joyful news to the New Zealand brethren, as urgent work has long been deferred there on account of a lack of laborers.