Matters in Battle Creek, Mich.
By Editor
We reached home from the Eastern camp-meetings, Sept. 19. Everything is moving on here with more than usual activity. Sixty-five workmen are engaged on the Tabernacle. The framework of the building, with the exception of the dome and tower, is now nearly completed, and before the end of the week a portion of these will doubtless be up. The work of laying the outside veneer of brick is already commenced. It will be pushed forward to completion as rapidly as possible. Work on the new office building is also progressing favorably. This building is now entirely inclosed, and the workmen are engaged in finishing up the interior. Two new boilers of forty horse-power each have been placed in the basement of the new office building. One of these is designed to be used for heating the Tabernacle, the other to run the office machinery; though both are available for either service whenever desired. The one designed for office use is already in service, and works admirably. The new term of school has opened encouragingly, with between two and three hundred students. Others are waiting until after camp-meeting before entering. We expect a large attendance when all are in. The old church building is now securely placed on its new foundation, just in the rear of the office, on Washington St. A basement has been put under it, which is to be used for a shop while the Tabernacle is going up, a shaft having been run from the office to supply power for necessary machinery. The damage of moving has been repaired, and two Sabbath services have been held in the house in its new location. The social meeting last Sabbath was an excellent one, one hundred and fifteen testimonies being borne in a little less than an hour.—Review and Herald.