Camp Meetings and Workers
AS FAR as heard from, the days of fasting and prayer, Sabbath and Sunday, the 16th and 17th, resulted in great good to many souls. ELDER URIAH SMITH, editor of the Review, spent Sabbath, the 16th inst., in Atlanta, Ga., on his way home from his recent sojourn in Florida. ELDER A. J. BREED, superintendent of General Conference district No. 6, left this city on the evening of the 20th inst. for Portland, Or., to attend the general camp meeting of North Pacific Conference. ELDER C. L. TAYLOR, for some years connected with Mt. Vernon (Ohio) Academy, is sojourning in California, where he formerly labored in connection with the Pacific Press Publishing Co. and in the Sabbath school work. He is laboring in Oakland until after camp-meeting. CAMP-MEETINGS to be held in June are as follows: California (Alameda), May 28 to June 7. Minnesota (St. Paul), June 2–8. Wisconsin (Stevens Point), June 9–15. Manitoba, June 15–22. South Dakota, June 22–29. Upper Columbia (Walla Walla), June 18–28. Sweden (Eskilstuna), June 9–21. THE headquarters of the International Religious Liberty Association have been removed from Battle Creek, Mich., to New York City. Elder A. F. Ballenger has been appointed to take charge of the work of the association, with present address at the American Sentinel office, No. 39 Bond Street. SOME of the laborers in Great Britain have been assigned to other fields. Brother Ellerby Robinson goes to India to conduct canvassing work; Brother N. Z. Town, to South America, to supervise the depository and book business; and Brother H. E. Champion, to Gibraltar, to labor with literature among the English and Spanish. ON Sunday evening, the 17th inst., the Pitcairn farewell services were held in the church in this city. There was an unusually large attendance, and the services on this fifth occasion of the kind seemed unusually impressive. The exercises, aside from choir, double quartet, and congregational singing, consisted of remarks by Elder A. J. Breed and Brother C. H. Jones; Scripture reading by Elder M. H. Brown; address by Elder M. C. Wilcox; outlining of the prospective voyage by Captain Graham; farewell words of the missionaries, and testimonies by members of the crew. An important feature of the occasion was the ordination of Brother H. H. Dexter to the Gospel ministry. Elder A. J. Breed, representing the General Conference, and Elder N. C. McClure, president of California Conference, officiated in the ordination. At half-past 9 A.M. on Tuesday, the 19th, the vessel left the Oakland wharf, amid the Godspeed of a large company gathered to witness the departure. She was towed out beyond the Golden Gate by the tug Sea Witch, and is now well on her way for the fifth voyage among the islands of the South Pacific. The missionary company consisted of Elder Herbert H. Dexter and wife, of California; Brother J. C. Whatley and wife, and Brother Joseph Green and wife, of Michigan; and Brother Wm. Floading, of Oregon. Elder J. E. Graham, of Oregon, goes as captain of the Pitcairn for the third time; Brother J. Werge, as sailing master; and Brother Peter Hansen, as mate; Brother J. E. Patterson, as steward, and Brother Daniel Fitch, as assistant and cabin boy. We failed to secure the names of the four brethren who go as sailors. Brethren W. A. and Arthur Young, who had been sojourning for a short time in California, return on the vessel to their home on Pitcairn Island.