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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 7, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 1.

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ELDER J. B. GOODRICH reports six additions to the church at Norridgewock, Maine, October 15.
THE church at Milton, Oregon, circulated 4,000 copies of the American Sentinel of September 22.
BROTHER F. L. MEAD, general canvassing agent, is holding a canvassers' institute at College Place, Walla Walla, Wash.
ELDER J. S. SHROCK, who labored for a time in Oklahoma and Indian Territories the past summer, has been assigned to mission work in South America.
"A LITTLE handful" of brethren at Spotsylvania Court House, Va., propose to build a church, and several "outsiders" have offered to help all they are able.
ANY person desirous of sending papers or tracts to Frank Jeffers for missionary work will please address them to Fresno, Cal., postpaid, instead of Lemoore.
BROTHER ADOLPH CHRISTENSEN, secretary of the Tract Society at Seattle, Wash., is desirous of having back numbers of the Signs, Sentinel, Review, Youth's Instructor, and Our Little Friend sent to him, postpaid, for missionary work. His address is 309 Poplar Street.
ELDER J. F. HANSEN began labor, on the 16th ult., among the Scandinavians of New York City and Brooklyn. At his first meeting there were seventy persons present.
OPEN-AIR meetings on Sunday afternoons in San Francisco are producing fruit for the Master. Elder Derrick is taking a special interest in following up this work with personal labor.
THE New York Record notices the recent arrival there of Harmon Lindsay, Jr., who was on his way to South Africa to take a position as teacher in the new academy at Cape Town.
ELDER M. G. HUFFMAN reports to the Union Record a good interest in Auburn and Lewiston, Maine. He says: "We are having a good attendance of those not of our faith, at our Sunday preaching services at 2:30 P. M."
AT Paramatta, N. S. W., Australia, where Brethren R. Hare and D. Steed were laboring, twenty-five persons were baptized August 21. A church was organized there, and a movement has since been on foot to build a house of worship.
AT Jackson's Creek, Maryland, October 16, forty persons were baptized by Elder E. E. Frank. The ceremony occupied fifty minutes. It was estimated that fifteen hundred people were present, upon whom a good impression was made.
THE last of the Seventh-day Adventist camp meetings announced for the year 1892 is in progress at Pomona, Southern California, as this paper goes to press. The camp meeting season just past has been highly important in far-reaching results.
BROTHER E. E. MILLS, who is the head of our canvassing work in District No. 1, says that during the last five years, $100,766 worth of books have been sold in New England Conference, which comprises the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
MRS. THOS. HADDON, School Street, Brighton, Mass., in expressing her thankfulness for the Signs which someone sends her, says that she can make good use of any old papers from any of the children of the Lord. Her work lies in part, at least, in the low places of the earth. The postage should be prepaid on all papers sent.
BROTHER A. J. HOWARD, who recently inaugurated meetings at Lafayette, N. J., met a minister of one of the prominent denominations who endeavored to discourage him in his work by telling him that there were already too many preachers there, and another would only "make it closer picking." It is no wonder there is spiritual dearth in the land, when the ministers admit that it is the "picking" they labor for.
BROTHER WM. HUTCHINSON, writing to the West Virginia Monitor from Reedsville, W. Va., says: "Never before have we seen the depths of Satan unfolded as they have been here. His latest is to present us as traitors to the government." That is just what will be done all along the line, as the Sunday-law enthusiasts become more emboldened by success in their persecutions of those who observe the seventh-day Sabbath. They will not only be so accused, but they will be indicted, convicted, and punished for treason.