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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 43.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

ON the 3d inst. a Sabbath school of thirteen members was organized at Ackley, Iowa, by Brother D. P. Gaede.
Two persons were baptized by Elder C. P. Bollman, at the foot of Fifty-eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 10th inst.
ON the 17th inst. six candidates were baptized and united with the church at Burlington, Iowa. Elder John Hoffman officiated.
AT North Creek, N. Y., October 11, five persons were baptized in the Hudson River, by Elder A. E. Place, president of New York Conference.
THE date of Atlantic Conference annual meeting has been postponed till November 10-15. The place of meeting will be Jersey City, N. J.
ELDER W. A. HENNIG reports the baptism of three persons at St. Joseph, Mo. Also the erection of a new house of worship at Hamilton, Mo.
ELDER S. N. HASKELL left Cape Town, South Africa, for Australia, on the 17th of September, expecting to arrive in time for the camp-meeting at Adelaide.
BY the last mailship from Tahiti, Elder Herbert Dexter and wife arrived in San Francisco on the 21st inst. They returned on account of the sickness of Sister Dexter.
ELDER H. K. WILLIS, president of Missouri Conference, notes the recent addition of five to the church in Kansas City. That church is making preparation for active Christian Help work during the winter. Every church should have this important work in mind all the time, but especially as winter approaches.
A ten days' general meeting for the benefit of the German brethren of Missouri is now in session at Senate Grove. It began on the 23d inst., to continue until November 1. Elder Westphal, of Kansas, is laboring at this meeting. He is now engaged in general work among the Germans of General Conference District No. 5.
THE International Religious Liberty Association has been actively at work with the American Sentinel, having sent 10,000 copies of the issue of October 8 to as many prominent people in the southern states. Besides this, over 5,000 copies have been sent into Rutherford County, Tenn., where Brother Philpott was indicted for working on Sunday.
WE learn from the Atlantic Record that Elder George B. Wheeler, of Boston, is about to issue a pamphlet address to Baptist ministers on the subject of religious liberty. The Record adds: "Brother Wheeler was for fifteen years a Baptist clergyman, and became interested in the truths of the third angel's message, and left a good, united congregation to identify himself with a more humble people. Brother Wheeler has done considerable work with Baptist ministers with results so encouraging that it has been decided by the International Religious Liberty Association to address an appeal to the 27,000 Baptist ministers north and south in the United States. As is well known, the Baptist people have been the defenders of religious liberty from the birth of the denomination, and their literature is filled with strong statements in favor of a total separation of church and state. Brother Wheeler saw a movement to unite church and state, and his opposition led him into the light of present truth. He believes there are many other Baptist ministers who, rather than surrender this basic principle of Baptist doctrine, will espouse the cause of present truth."
ON the 10th inst., as a result of the labors in the Lenox Avenue tent, New York City, six persons were baptized. This tent effort has been closed, owing to the lateness of the season and the impaired health of Elder O. O. Farnsworth. On the 11th inst. five were baptized from the Ninety-fourth Street tent, making twenty-seven in all as a result of this effort. There are others who have accepted the truth at both places, who have not yet been baptized, and some who had previously been baptized in other churches. Arrangements are being made for one meeting place for Sabbath-keepers in New York City, to be under the charge of Elder E. E. Franke. His home address is 210 West Eighty-eighth Street.
BY steamer Monowai, which arrived in San Francisco on the 22d inst., from Australia, Elder M. C. Israel, wife, and daughter Jessie, returned to their California home, after an absence of eleven years and a half. They were among the first company of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to go out to Australia, and have witnessed a great work there and in New Zealand. Sisters E. J. Burnham and Sarah Belden also came from Australia in company with Brother Israel. Sister Burnham has been engaged in the Bible Echo office for a number of years, as assistant editor, proof-reader, etc. Sister Belden's husband was also engaged in the Echo office until his death. From Honolulu Elder E. H. Gates and wife were also passengers on the Monowai, both of whom return to America on account of failing health.