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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 3.

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AT Albany, Georgia, ten have been baptized.
FIFTEEN at Winnsboro, South Carolina, are obeying the truth.
FIFTEEN in Merritt, North Carolina, have accepted the truth.
A NEW church at Leach, Tennessee, was dedicated on December 13.
A BEAUTIFUL new church has been dedicated at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
AT Louisville, Kentucky, three were buried in baptism on a recent Sabbath.
EIGHT persons were baptized during a series of meetings at Rileyville, Virginia.
FOUR at Waukon, Iowa, were recently baptized and united with the church there.
TWELVE at Manchester, New Hampshire, have taken their stand for the message.
THE report comes from Fiji of three baptisms,—two at Wainunu, and one at Mualevu.
PASTOR H. J. FARMAN reports the baptism of fifteen believers at Kingston, Jamaica.
TWO churches have been dedicated in West Virginia, one at Charleston and one at Parkersburg.
ONE hundred and twenty persons in the Caucasian field were baptized during the first half of 1911.
A CHURCH of fourteen members has been organized at Binger, Oklahoma, and another at Afton.
AT Mayaguez, Porto Rico, ten believers were baptized, and others will later go forward in this rite.
AT the conclusion of a series of meetings held at Hillsdale, Idaho, five souls went forward in baptism.
THREE adults in Bonnie Vale, South Africa, were buried in baptism recently, and two at Grahamstown.
EIGHT in New Orleans, Louisiana, have received baptism. Nine at Ruston have decided to obey the message.
A CHURCH with a membership of seventeen, was organized in the vicinity of Colman, South Dakota, on a recent Sabbath.
A CHURCH of eleven members was recently organized at Brownsville, Oregon, and a church building dedicated at Silverton.
PASTOR H. KURIYA, of Japan, reports seven souls baptized in the ocean at Kagoshima, as first-fruits of a tent meeting in that city.
ON a visit to the island of Haiti, Pastor U. Bender, president of the West Indian Union Conference, baptized fifteen persons.
THREE persons have been added to the membership of the church at Camden, New Jersey. Three have been baptized at Jersey City.
THREE baptismal services were held during the past year in Nyasaland, Africa, fifty-eight souls thus being rescued from heathenism.
AT Mobile, Alabama, six have taken their stand for "present truth." Nine candidates have been baptized at Dothan, and others will be baptized later.PASTOR E. KOTZ, of German East Africa, reports the baptism of eleven persons, and says over sixty are preparing for baptism.
THREE were baptized and four united with the church at Port Townsend, Washington, and sixteen at College Place, most of whom were students.
THE evening of December 16 a church with a membership of twenty-five was organized at the Sheyenne River Academy, Harvey, North Dakota.
THE ordinance of baptism was administered to three candidates recently at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Four more at Hamilton, Ontario, are obeying the truth.
SIX new converts are reported at Skowhegan, Maine. There have been forty-seven converts reported by the workers in Maine in the last three months.
FIVE persons have united with the Englewood church, in Chicago, Illinois, three of whom were recently baptized. Four have been baptized at Orchardville.
BAPTISM was administered to five at Oregon City, Oregon, four at Portland, three at Monitor, three at Milton, and eight or ten near Medford are obeying the message.
THREE new converts at Indianapolis, Indiana, have presented themselves for membership in the Twenty-third Street church. These were baptized early in December.
THREE new converts were baptized at Granger, Washington, early in December. A church with a membership of nineteen was organized in Spokane on Sabbath, December 9.
AT Meiktilla, in Northern Burma, an industrial school has been started. Money has been raised in Burma to buy the land and put up the buildings, which are now being erected.
AS a result of a tent effort put forth in Merced, four were baptized and five united with the church, one being satisfied with his former baptism. Six have united with the church at Hanford.
SEVEN souls at Stevensville, and seven at Kalispell, Montana, have received baptism. A new church has been dedicated at the latter place. Four have taken their stand for the truth at Culbertson.
FOUR persons went forward in the ordinance of baptism recently in Bradyville, Missouri, and several more at Cole Camp. Eleven at La Plata have expressed their intention of obeying the message.
FOUR have united with the church of the colored people at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two were baptized at Bradford, and two at Altoona. Six were received into church relationship at the latter place.
A CHURCH for the colored people of Wilmington, Delaware, has been organized, with a membership of eleven. Six others who were unable to be present at the organization on account of the weather, will join later.
DR. GEORGE THOMASON, secretary of the Medical Department of the General Conference, has accepted a position with the St. Helena Sanitarium as superintendent. He has already entered upon his duties at the sanitarium.
A NEW church has been organized in Ogdensburg, New York. Fourteen new members have recently united with the Brooklyn German church, and it is thought several more persons will be ready for baptism in the near future.
TWO hundred and fifty members in the Little Russian field have united with the church by baptism during the past two years. Ten new churches have been organized recently, making the number of churches twenty, and the membership 514.
FOUR at Duluth, Minnesota, have received baptism, and several others are deeply interested in the truth. Two ladies at Morgan have decided to obey. The husband of one of these sisters is an infidel, but has begun the study of his Bible, and is deeply interested.
RECENTLY a man came a distance of seventy miles to our mission in Padang, Sumatra, especially to learn about the religion of Jesus Christ. After reaching Padang it took him almost a full day to locate our mission. It was indeed a pleasure to our people there to point him to the "Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world." Our work is getting a good foothold there, and souls are constantly being led into the light of this truth.
IN Nekoma, Kansas, eight have received baptism, and at Wellington, three. Four others are observing all the commandments, and it is hoped will soon take a decided stand. At the close of a series of meetings at Garden City, baptism was administered to five, and to two at Bison, making twelve who have been baptized there during the past thirteen months. A company of six families of new converts have organized themselves into a Sabbath-school. Four at Verdi have accepted the truth, and several others are interested.
CHURCHES have lately been dedicated at the following places in British Columbia: Manson, Vernon, Grandview, South Vancouver, Vancouver, Collegewood. All but two were dedicated free from debt, and it is expected that the small debts resting on these two will soon be cleared off. In Nanaimo there are eight new converts, and it is believed that others will soon take their stand for the truth. A Sabbath-school of twenty-one members has been organized. Three more have taken their stand in Vancouver with this people.
MR. AND MRS. C. N. WOODWARD and little daughter, of College Place, Washington, sailed on December 27 from San Francisco, for China, where he will take up the work of treasurer of that field. Mr. Woodward was for a number of years auditor of the Southwestern Union Conference, and later accepted a position as auditor of the North Pacific Union, from which place he was called to his present field. Mrs. Woodward has also been a most energetic and successful worker in the home land, and will be a valuable adjunct to the field to which she is going.
THERE are a number of patients at the St. Helena Sanitarium who are quite interested in the truth, among them a Catholic gentleman who has taken his stand for the truth. One of the patients has accepted the truth and been baptized. Another patient also accepted the truth while at the sanitarium. Two of his brothers have since done likewise. The gentleman has charge of a number of restaurants in San Francisco, and many of his helpers are studying the Bible with one of our workers in the city. Seven have united with the church at Ontario. A company of twenty-three members was organized at San Jacinto on an early Sabbath in December. The fruits of two months' tent efforts in Sacramento are eighteen souls taken into the church, and many more interested.