GENERAL ITEMS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 24, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 38.

GENERAL ITEMS.

ELDER J. S. WASHBURN, of England, writes that thirty-three have recently been baptized in Kettering, and the church feels much encouraged. Brother Champness remains there a few weeks.

MORE definite information concerning the arrest of Brother Alexander Philpott, whose arrest in Tennessee for Sunday labor was noted last week, announces that the arrest was made in Rutherford County. The trial, which is set for the latter part of October, will be held in Murfreesborough.

DURING the summer vacation the academy at Graysville, Tenn., has been enlarged by the addition of two recitation rooms, an office, and a book storeroom. This is the institution that was temporarily closed about a year and a half ago by the imprisonment of its principal and an assistant for doing some secular labor on Sunday. The aim of the adversary was to close it permanently, but as yet he has not succeeded.

ELDER W. B. WHITE has been reëlected president of Nebraska Conference. At the recent camp-meeting held at Fremont, there were present from outside the conference, Elders J. H. Durland, O. A. Johnson, and H. Shultz.

A GOOD WORK is in progress in Lynchburg, Va., under the auspices of Elder W. A. McCutchen and Brother J. P. Neff. Under date of September 10, they send this report: “We began tent meetings August 27. Our attendance has been far beyond the seating capacity of the tent every meeting, from 600 to 800 being present. They are of the best people in the city. The prospects for a good company were never better. The music is furnished by the choirs of the different churches in the city.”

LABOR that does not produce immediate visible results is often deemed fruitless, but it is not necessarily so. If it be sown in honest hearts, it will bring forth fruit sometime. It was the seed which fell on stony ground which “had no deepness of earth,” that sprang up quickly. That the returns of labor are sometimes long in being realized, was shown in connection with the tent work in Rome, Ga., a short time since, when a man who first heard the truths presented about twenty-nine years ago in Illinois, came out and took his stand upon them. In the meantime he had been reading more or less on the subjects made prominent by our people.

“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.” Eccl. 11:6.

IN ROME, GA., our tent company have pitched in three different localities in the city during the season, and report a specially good attendance in the last location. In their first effort, the ministers of the city visited from house to house and persuaded the people to stay away. This is the method that the leading Jews used respecting Jesus when he was giving the people the word of God. “And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?”

OF the recent camp-meeting held at Dixon, Ill., the Sun, of that city, says: “The Seventh-day Adventists are a people who were almost entirely unknown to the citizens of this vicinity, but in their brief sojourn here have left a good impression of their sincerity and devotion, and have proven that neatness and good order prevails in the management of their religious gatherings.” We learn from the same source that sixteen persons were baptized, Elder J. P. Henderson officiating.

AT the recent camp-meeting at Denver, Colo., thirty persons were baptized, and a number of other candidates deferred the ordinance until they should arrive at their homes. Elder N. W. Kauble was unanimously reëlected president of the conference. In addition to the ministers of the conference, there were present Elder J. M. Rees, president of Oklahoma Conference, and Elder F. M. Wilcox, secretary of the Foreign Mission Board. During the conference year there was an increase of over three hundred in the membership of the churches and of $5000 in the tithe receipts.