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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 3.

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At Utilla, Bay Islands, a new church was dedicated November 13.
At Joplin, Mo., Brother L. W. Terry reports the addition of four members.
Brother H. M. Steward notes the conversion of four persons at Talona, Mo.
Four candidates were recently baptized at Talmage, Neb., says the Reporter.
The Minnesota Tract Society handled about half a ton of the special edition of the Signs.
The addition of two members to the church at Lovington, Ill., is reported by Brother C. H. Bliss.
During the recent season of prayer, two members were added to the church at Sigourney, Iowa.
Three converts are reported by Brother T. Painter, in connection with his labors at Danville, Va.
Seventeen persons were baptized at Council Bluffs, recently, after a discourse upon the subject by Brother L. Warren.
Four persons were baptized at Brockport, Pa., on the 18th ult. They were all members of one family,—father, mother, and two sons.
December 31, after a discourse by Brother S. H. Lane at South Side Church, Chicago, four candidates were baptized by Brother E. J. Hibbard.
It has been decided to establish a sanitarium at South Lancaster, Mass., under the auspices of the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association.
At a recent meeting at Johnstown, Pa., three persons were baptized, and a time of praise and rejoicing is noted in a report to the Keystone Gleaner.
Under the labors of Brethren H. L. Bristol and F. H. De Vinney, at Lake Placid, N. Y., the conversion of four persons is reported as partial results.
The cause which we are advocating is represented at Port Said, Egypt, by a man who is a Swiss, and speaks German, French, Italian, and some English.
The addition of eight persons to our ranks, and the organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty-two members, at Midway, Mo., are reported by Brother H. D. Blood.
The mission at Peoria, Ill., was formally opened December 27. The exercises consisted of Scripture reading, prayer, and appropriate remarks by brethren and friends.
From Union College, College View, Neb., comes The Practical Educator, a new journal issued monthly, and printed on the college press. It is full of practical education; 8 pages and cover; 25 cents a year.
Some of our workers have written from the South Sea islands that our ship Pitcairn gives our people a good standing among the natives wherever it has appeared. The captain is known as a tangata maru, or kind man.
The Atlantic Conference has rented Chickering Hall, one of the most popular halls in New York City, for Sunday-night meetings during January, February, and March, on which nights Elder E. E. Franke will deliver a series of lectures.
From a report of President G. W. Reaser, of Upper Columbia Conference, in The Reaper, we learn that the brethren at North Yakima, Wash., are planning to build a new house of worship, and to turn the present edifice into a church school building.
A special course at Keene (Texas) Industrial Academy was commenced on the 18th inst., to continue ten weeks. The first three weeks will be given to studies adapted to public workers, then more detailed instruction will be given, the course to close with a canvassers' institute.
The Oriental Watchman says: "In Russia believers suffer hunger, cold, banishment, and death. Families are broken up and children left desolate. Our ministers flee from place to place to avoid arrest. Open preaching is impossible, yet within a few years more than a thousand persons have accepted present truth."
The Battle Creek College people have opened a training mission in Jackson, Mich. A centrally located three-story building has been secured for the purpose, with a hall on the second floor that will seat over two hundred persons. The usual lines of Gospel mission and Christian help work are being carried on by the students, under the direction of experienced mission workers.