Items of Interest by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33.

Items of Interest

By Editor

Four members were added to the church in Akron, Ohio, at the last quarterly meeting. Three of these were baptized by Brother H. H. Burkholder, prior to the administration of the other ordinances.

The folly of the claim that "this is a Christian nation" is demonstrated in a note from one of our book agents in Nebraska, who says: "About nine out of ten whom I have met the last few days are infidels."

The first church school in Ohio, conducted under the auspices of Mount Vernon Academy, was that at Hamler. The closing exercises of the first term were held July 14, and the results are said to have been very encouraging.

At the Oak Street Church, Jersey City, N. J., July 8, a union meeting was held, at which Brother Stall baptized two candidates, who united with the German church, and Brother A. E. Place baptized two, who united with the English church in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brother S. N. Haskell, well known to our brethren in almost every conference and mission field, is now conducting meetings and other missionary work in Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle, N. S. W., Australia. He went there after a protracted effort, with others, at Brisbane, capital of Queensland, where a church of sixty members was organized, and a house of worship erected.

The News contains a brief report of a Fourth-of-July meeting at Cheswold, Del., by Brother Fred H. Seeney. We cull this extract: "A few days before the Fourth, it puzzled us where to go with our children for exercise, but when the day came the dear Lord just lead us out into a nice little grove. There were about seventy-five present, and they became so interested that they urged us to return and hold another meeting, so to-day, July 9th, we held a meeting in the same grove. I spoke upon the subject of baptism, and as the result eight souls went forward in the ordinance, in the presence of over three hundred persons. We have had another call from the people around Cheswold to come up near the little town and hold meetings in a grove there."

The Sixth Annual Calendar of Keene Industrial Academy, Keene, Texas, is received. It is a pamphlet of twenty-eight pages, printed by the academy press, containing general and detailed information regarding the institution, including illustrations showing the Academy Hall and the Home. A perusal of this calendar will give to any one a good idea of the advantages to be gained by attending the school. For a copy of calendar, and further information, address Prof. C. C. Lewis, principal.

A. J. Morton.

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