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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 1.

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ELDER MATTHEW LARSON reports nine converts at Pringhar, Iowa.
A HOUSE of worship has been purchased for the use of the church at Burlington, N. J.
ELDER R. A. UNDERWOOD has been obliged to resign his position as president of Wisconsin Conference on account of ill health.
AT Pendleton, Ore., the Reaper reports a good interest, thirty-one having accepted the faith, and others being deeply interested.
AT Boise, Idaho, where Elder W. W. Stewart recently began labor, four had presented themselves for baptism at date of last report.
ON recommendation of the General Conference Committee, Elder F. M. Roberts changes his field of labor from Virginia to Indiana.
ELDER E. W. WEBSTER, who recently engaged in labor at Spartanburg, S. C., reports that five adults are now keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.
A CAMP meeting will be held in or near Melbourne, Australia, from December 29 to January 9, 1894, preceded by a workers' meeting of one week.
BY authorization of the General Conference Committee, the Tennessee River Conference has been enlarged to include the States of Tennessee and Kentucky.
IN connection with the last quarterly meeting services at Spokane, Wash., fourteen souls were baptized by Elder G. W. Davis. Three had been baptized a short time before.
IN connection with the last quarterly meeting at Los Angeles, Cal., Elder E. E. Andross baptized five candidates, and Elder F. M. Wilcox baptized a like number at San Diego.
AT the October quarterly meeting at Jamaica, Vt., ten young persons were baptized and sixteen were taken into the church. So writes Brother C. Hale to the Union Record.
THE church at Ford's Store, Md., dedicated their new house of worship on the 5th inst. The week following (the present week) seven of the members are to stand trial for having labored on Sunday.
THE General Conference Bible School, being a special course in Bible study, now in session in Battle Creek, Mich., numbers 200 students, besides 130 in the Sanitarium medical missionary and special classes.
ELDER DAN. T. JONES will start for Mexico the present month to look out a location for opening the work in that field. And Sister Ora Osborne is expected to go to that field in December to engage in missionary work.
ELDER F. M. WILCOX left Oakland for Battle Creek, Mich., on the 23d ult. He goes to take the position of secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, made vacant by the removal of Brother W. A. Spicer to London.
UNDER the labors of Elder W. B. Hill and Brother J. F. Pogue, at Pine City, Minn., twenty-four have signed the covenant and fifteen have been baptized. A meeting house has been so far completed that meetings are held in it.
AT Mt. Williams, Va., a new house of worship has been inclosed and so far completed that meetings are held in it. Elder F. M. Roberts had the work in charge. He reports the baptism of four candidates there and two at Winchester.
ELDER W. A. COLCORD arrived in Oakland from Battle Creek, Mich., on the 27th ult. He will sail for Australia on the 16th inst., in the meantime holding an institute in the church here for instruction in religious liberty principles and work.
ELDER J. O. CORLISS, who is preparing to go to the Australian field, at the call of the Foreign Mission Board, formally severed his connection with the church at Washington, D. C., October 11. He made a short visit to his aged mother at Bath, Me.
THE Board of Foreign Missions recommend that Brother W. M. Crothers, of Missouri, go to New Zealand to act as canvassing agent. Also that Brother W. G. Kneeland be invited to go to British Guiana, South America, to engage in missionary work. It is also designed to send a ministerial laborer to the West Indies this fall.
ELDER E. E. FRANKE reports, with reference to the work in Jersey City, N. J., that the "Sabbath school starts out with about seventy-five members," and that the people are moving in the matter of building a house of worship. Writing to the Union Record, he says:—
We meet fanaticism in all its different phases in this city. One church here is a complete counterfeit of Seventh-day Adventism with just enough truth to deceive. They pretend to keep the Sabbath, remaining in their homes on that day, devoting it to physical rest, refusing even to attend meeting. They hold their meeting on Sunday, claiming that the "beast" is the world, and "the mark" worldliness. They have three pastors; one is a lady who has, or pretends to have, visions. She was formerly a Spiritualist medium, and shuts herself away when she wishes to have a vision. Satan always works in darkness. Their churches are called "Tabernacles of the Testimony," and the ground on which they are built "Mount Zion." They have a large following, many being wealthy. Spiritualism is also at work here. Sunday night lectures are given on "Religious Spiritualism," "Spirits in Open Gaslight," etc.