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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 20, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 20.

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THE New England annual conference and camp-meeting will be held at Worcester, Mass., June 10-21.
BROTHER J. S. HARMON reports the organization of a Sabbath-school of thirty members at Arbuckle, Cal.
THE annual meeting for the Maritime Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, will be held in Hopewell Cape, Albert County, N. B., May 26-30.
A CHURCH of nineteen members was organized at Provo, Utah, April 3, by Elder C. M. Gardner. He also reports a Sabbath-school of fifteen members at Springville.
THE General Conference Committee has appointed May 29 and 30 as a season of fasting and prayer, in connection with which a collection will be taken for the benefit of the mission work.
APRIL 11, four candidates were baptized at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and a week later two others were baptized, all by Elder F. D. Starr. He also reports several awaiting baptism at Sand Hill, Ky.
ELDER A. J. BREED left this city on the 11th inst., for the north, for the purpose of attending the Upper Columbia Conference, at College Place, Wash., and the North Pacific Conference, at Portland, Oregon.
ELDER N. W. KAUBLE has been chosen president of Union College, and will make his headquarters at College View, Neb. Professor Miller is obliged to discontinue his labors there on account of failing health.
ELDER J. A. HOLBROOK reports a seventeen days' meeting at Star of the West, Ark., with the result that seventeen persons were added to the church. Among the number were a Protestant Methodist minister and his wife.
IN the island of Barbadoes, Lesser Antilles, Elder Van Dusen reports forty-three baptized believers, and in the island of Antigua, fourteen. A club of fifty SIGNS is being used in the former island, and book agents are at work in both.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders of Healdsburg (Cal.) College was held on the 10th inst., when the following named persons were chosen as a board of trustees for the coming year: N. C. McClure, A. J. Breed, Wm. Ings, T. P. Heald, R. S. Owen, W. T. Knox, C. H. Jones. The chairman of the board is Elder N. C. McClure, and the secretary, Wm. Ings. The president of the faculty is Elder R. S. Owen.
THE annual meeting of the Rural Health Retreat Association of St. Helena, Cal., was held on the 6th inst., at the sanitarium. A board of directors was chosen, comprising the following named persons: N. C. McClure, A. J. Breed, J. A. Burden, Wm. Ings, I. C. Keck, F. Zelinski, T. Coolidge. Officers were elected as follows: President, N. C. McClure; secretary and business manager, J. A. Burden; medical superintendent, A. J. Sanderson, M.D.
MRS. M. A. BUZZELL writes to the Review of the work among the Chinese in Chicago. She says: "We hold a free school on Sunday and Monday evenings of each week. On Sundays we have an attendance of thirty to forty, and about twenty-five devoted Christian teachers. Many of those who have recently arrived in this country are as ignorant of God and his power, and of Jesus, the only Saviour, as though they never had heard of such beings, and probably some of them never have." She adds that there are Chinese women who have been in this country as much as thirteen years, who still worship and make offerings to the moon. Many of those who attend the school are anxious to learn to read the Bible, and to learn how to be Christians. What shall we do with these people for whom Christ died? Shall we give them the word of life as the Master would, or shall we join political societies and ask the government to drive them out? If this were really a Christian nation, what would the answer be? God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth," and he himself "hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation." Acts 17:26. "And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God." Lev. 19:33, 34.