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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 15.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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THE California general camp-meeting will be held in Stockton, May 30 to June 11.
THE annual State camp-meeting for Wisconsin will be held at Marshfield, June 7-19.
DR. J. H. KELLOGG, of the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, has gone to Europe for a two-months sojourn.
As a result of meetings held at Moon, Wis., by Brethren C. J. Herrman and Wm. Sanders, twelve members have been added to the church.
AT a recent Sabbath meeting in Kansas City, Mo., after a stirring discourse by Brother W. A. Hennig, eight persons made application for membership.
THE church schools at Milwaukee and Loyal, Wis., are engaged in the laudable enterprise of making quilts for the new industrial school in Wood County.
THE South African Conference has elected the following officers: President, W. S. Hyatt; vice-president, H. Elfers; secretary and treasurer, I. J. Hankins.
AT Sartoria, Neb., where Brother J. W. Boynton has been laboring, a Sabbath-school of thirty members was recently organized, and a continued interest is reported.
OUR mission in Washington, D. C., is reported to be progressing favorably. In the past three months fifteen persons have been baptized. The mission is a most effectual means of helping poor outcasts.
ON the 20th ult., in connection with labors of Brother A. F. Ballenger at South Lancaster, Mass., just after the General Conference, forty persons were baptized. Thirty-five of the number were students.
OUR self-supporting missionaries (Brother and Sister Lamie) who went to Scotland a few months ago, are living at Longgrigend. They find plenty to do, and considerable encouragement, but they need aid in their work.
FROM the Wisconsin Reporter we cull this interesting item: "The Milton Junction school will close its term with a baptismal service. A large number of the school will receive the divine rite at that time. This will be a beautiful ending of a successful school year."
WE are informed that buildings for an industrial school near Suva, Fiji, are in process of erection. The land was leased at a nominal price from a native who is interested in our work, and several young men have already applied for admission to the school.
WE are pleased to learn that the people of California are assisting the brethren in Finland to pay for their boat. While the boat has been bought, and is already doing active missionary work for us, it is not all paid for. However, donations are still coming in to the California Tract Society.
FROM Chunchula, Ala., Brother A. J. Devinney writes to the Nebraska Reporter: "Mobile is only twenty miles away, and we go there every two weeks to distribute papers which have been furnished by the New York society. But these are only a drop in the bucket. It may be that some of our churches have back numbers of our periodicals which they would be glad to see used in the work here. If so, send post-paid to our address."
THE "comfort bags" made for the men in logging camps near Ashland, Wis., are much appreciated. Seeds of truth are being sown in this way, and many donations are secured for the Milwaukee Helping Hand Mission.
Two of the Chinese boys in our school in Honolulu have recently had their photographs taken with their Bibles in their hands, hoping in this way to let their fathers know that they believe the Bible. This ought to be an effectual sermon, and if it be more than a mere picture, it will be effectual.
THE Wisconsin Reporter tells of a man who, four years ago, was prominent in church and social life and worth $40,000. He lost all through sin and speculation. Some months ago he came to our Milwaukee mission a hungry tramp. There he found the Lord, and a home until he could get employment. Now he is reclaimed, and has been again united with his family.
IN the Atlantic News of recent date, Brother C. H. Keslake says: "Since closing public meetings [at Morristown, N. J.] I have devoted my time to the circulation of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. In this work I am having some interesting experiences. It does my heart good to have people come to me and say that they would like to take the paper, having seen a copy at a friend's house."
THE latest report from Elder E. E. Franke's Sunday meetings in Chickering Hall, New York City, is that they continue with unabated interest. Several have already taken a stand for the truth. Lyric Hall, on Sixth Avenue, near Twenty-second Street, a good hall, capable of seating about 700 people, has been secured for Sabbath and week-day meetings for the prosecution of the work started in Chickering Hall.
WORK has recently been opened at Karmatar, India, about 168 miles northwest of Calcutta. During January the number of visits, including patients coming to the mission and those visited in their homes, was 397. Our laborers are becoming acquainted with the language, and the opportunities for teaching the Gospel are good. The Lord is giving health and courage. The company that sailed for this field some weeks ago arrived February 9. They are fast preparing for work. The canvassers will labor up among the mountains.