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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 16.

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BROTHER G. B. REPLOGLE and wife and Sister Eva Stone recently left Battle Creek, Mich., for South Africa, to engage in the work there.
ELDER S. G. HUNTINGTON reports an earnest company of thirteen at Island Schoolhouse, Indiana, nine of whom are the fruit of recent meetings.
ON the 7th inst. Elders S. N. Haskell and J. H. Morrison left this city for Portland, Oregon. After holding a meeting of some eight or nine days there, their design was to go to Walla Walla.
A LETTER in the Union Record gives an encouraging account of the German canvassing work in Brazil. Two humble brethren tramping through the country pick up a goodly number of orders for books.
ELDER N. W. ALLEE says the Lord is blessing the work in Minnesota. Since the fall camp meetings six institutes and one general meeting have been held, all of which are reported as profitable occasions.
FROM the Review we learn that Brother A. E. Flowers, of Missouri, was set apart to the gospel ministry, at Battle Creek, Mich., on the 30th ult., preparatory to his departure for Jamaica Island to engage in missionary work.
OUR publications are now represented in seventeen different languages: English, German, French, Holland, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Bohemian, Arabic, Welsh, Finnish, Chinese, and Tahitian.
EXCELLENT reports come from the work of holding institutes with the churches in Michigan. In this way they are instructed in all phases of the message, and in all branches of the work, thus becoming better qualified to help as occasion may require.
TWO COLORED ministers of Troy, N. Y., are reported to have become somewhat interested in our faith through the Bible readings of one of our Bible workers. One of them attended a Sabbath service recently and preached an acceptable sermon from Rom. 8:11.
AS ONE result of meetings held at Jackson, Mich., by Brother A. J. Olsen, one man who had been a persecutor of God's people became converted, and expressed an intention to call in all the books he had scattered against Christianity. That is a pretty good evidence of conversion, when one makes an honest effort to undo, as far as possible, the evil he has wrought, and to destroy the means employed in the furtherance of evil. See Luke 19:8, and Acts 19:18-20.
ONE of our canvassers sold $1,600 worth of books in the province of Ontario, Canada, during 1893. The fact that he labored in territory that had been worked for five years past would indicate that our books wear well, and that one creates a desire for more.
A DISTRICT conference of General Conference District No. 1 will be held in Jersey City March 1-12. Elder I. D. Van Horn is superintendent of the district, and, in addition to the laborers in the district, it is expected that Elders J. N. Loughborough and A. T. Jones will be present.
THERE are still some traces of the once noted liberality of the Baptist Church. Brethren J. W. Collie and Chas. P. Whitford recently visited Osteen, Fla., and, although there had been bitter opposition to our work in that place, the Baptist Church was kindly placed at their disposal, and five meetings were held, with encouraging results.
AT the West Virginia Conference meeting, recently held at Newburg, the following officers were chosen: President, D. C. Babcock; Secretary, W. R. Foggin; Treasurer, Mina Babcock. Tract society officers were elected as follows: President, D. C. Babcock; Vice President, Wm. Hutchinson; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. Hutchinson. Brother and Sister Hutchinson are fruits from the California field.
OUR brethren are continually meeting the argument that they should submit to every civil law, however they may view it from the Bible standpoint, and, if it be wrong, to simply labor for its repeal. If the apostles and other great reformers had labored on that principle, not one of them would have lost his life for the truth's sake. The true principle is laid down by Peter in Acts 5:29: "We ought to obey God rather than men." Submitting to men until they see proper to permit us to obey the law of God, is not obeying God; it is giving the decrees of men the preference in our service. Such service is compromising with the adversary, and is all that he asks.