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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 40.

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ELDER A. J. OSBORNE reports the baptism of six persons at Vacaville, Cal.
As a result of meetings held at Springfield, Mo., by Elder J. H. Coffman, eleven adults accepted the faith.
At the last quarterly meeting of the church at Sioux City, Iowa, nine members were added, six by baptism.
ELDER J. H. ROGERS reports the covenant organization of sixteen persons at Beatrice, Neb., and twelve at Wymore.
ELDER G. K. OWEN reports the baptism of three candidates at San Diego, and the addition of two converts at National City, Cal.
At Buffalo, Ind., under the labors of Elder H. M. Stewart and Brethren R. M. Harrison and W. C. McCuaig, fourteen adults accepted the faith.
ELDER I. SANBORN reports the addition of eleven members to the church at Kickapoo, Wis., as the result of a two weeks' meeting. At Cashton he baptized three.
THE brethren in charge of the tent work at Benton, Iowa, report ten additions to the faith. The work is conducted by Brethren H. M. J. Richards, F. L. Moody, and A. L. Lingle.
ELDER J. W. SCOLES has been holding tent meetings at Benton, Ill., amidst strong prejudice. At first he had great difficulty to even secure ground on which to pitch his tent, and afterward the ministers publicly warned their congregations to keep away. Yet he reports a remarkably good attendance.
THE city authorities of Gainesville, Ga., have granted our brethren the free use of the city park for a camp meeting ground, and also water from the water works free of charge.
THROUGH a private letter from Australia we are informed that “Sister E. G. White is feeling much better. The Lord bestowed his healing power upon her lately, and she is greatly relieved.”
BROTHER WALTER HARPER writes from Sheridan, Wyo., July 27: “I have been at work now something like seven weeks, and God has given success in taking nearly 850 orders for our books, helps, etc., but mostly for books.”
OUR missionary ship Pitcairn was spoken July 5, in latitude 5 north, longitude 118 west, by the British bark Zinita. She signaled, “All well.” So we are informed by Elder G. K. Owen, who visited the bark at San Diego, Cal., on the 3d inst.
MEETINGS held in Fort Wayne, Ind., by Brethren W. A. Young, S. G. Huntington, and T. E. Johnson, have resulted so far in six converts to the faith. There were eight Sabbath keepers there before, and now they report a Sabbath school of forty-three members.
ELDER R. G. GARRETT recently visited the community in Weakley County, Tenn., where Brother Capps is now in jail for working on Sunday. He reports that one of the grand jurors who indicted Brother Capps is now, with his wife, keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.
ELDER N. C. MCCLURE, president of California Conference, left this city on the 1st inst., for Eureka, to prepare for the camp meeting, which is appointed to commence on the 16th, continuing till the 26th. It is expected that Elders E. H. Gates, Wm. Ings, and A. J. Osborne will also attend the meeting.
ELDER O. A. OLSEN, president of the General Conference, announces that the next session of that body will be held February 15 to March 4, 1895, at Battle Creek, Mich., and that from February 1-14 there will be held a ministerial institute and a council of the presidents of the different Conferences.
ELDER W. M. HEALEY, president of North Pacific Conference, passed through this city to his home at Healdsburg, this State, on the 30th inst. He expects to return to the North in time to attend a local camp meeting to be held at Seattle, Wash., August 23 to September 3. He reports business very dull both in Oregon and Western Washington.
FROM the Bible Echo we learn that in June Elder G. B. Starr and wife had gone from Melbourne, Australia, to open up the work in the province of Queensland. They expected to visit Brisbane, and afterward a company of Sabbath keepers at Rockhampton who never had seen a minister of our faith. They were subsequently to be joined by Elder A. S. Hickox and wife, and engage in a series of tent meetings at some point to be selected.
ELDER L. H. CRISLER, president of Florida Conference, writes that the place of their proposed camp meeting has been changed from Seffner to Tampa. The change is made partly on account of the good interest in the tent meetings held at Tampa by Elder J. W. Collie. The date of the camp meeting will be November 8-18. Brother Crisler reports favorably of the work in Florida. There have been fifty accessions to the faith since the organization of the Conference, nine months ago.
THE latest advices from the work in Jamaica Island state that the church at Kingston has forty-four members. At another point, in the Blue Mountain Valley, about twenty are keeping the Sabbath. The people are much given to rum and tobacco, but immediately give them up on accepting the truths presented by our missionaries. An Independent Baptist minister has accepted our doctrines, and
is preaching them to his people. He expects that the more substantial members of his flock will go with him. The canvassing work progresses encouragingly.
ELDER J. H. COOK, for several years a minister of California Conference, has gone to Colorado, hoping to regain his failing health. He has been suffering with asthma for a year or more.
TENT meetings are to be held in Benicia, Cal., by Prof. E. L. McKibben and Brother Stephen Hare, and also at some point in Ventura County, by Elder D. C. Hunter and Brother J. G. Smith. Special interest in our work is being manifested in East Los Angeles, as reported by Elder R. S. Owen. A tent effort is contemplated in that locality.