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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 40.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A CAMP-MEETING will be held at Grand Junction, Colo., October 5-12.
THE church school at Des Moines, Iowa, was opened September 18.
A CHURCH school of about thirty pupils is soon to be opened in Dayton, Ohio.
AT meetings held at Herkimer, N. Y., three conversions are reported by Brother Roy F. Cottrell.
IOWA CONFERENCE reports (June 30) the number of Sabbath-schools 192, with a membership of 3,541.
NINE new members added to the church in Pueblo, Colo., is noted by Brother J. E. L. Master, in Echoes from the Field.
A NOTE from Brother J. Kloss in the Reporter mentions the organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty members at Rose Lawn, Wis.
"THE command, 'Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,' would never have been given if every provision had not been made whereby we could obey the requirement,—be as perfect in our sphere as God is in His."
ARTICLES of Incorporation of the Iowa Sanitarium and Benevolent Association have been filed, and the board of trustees elected, consisting of the following persons: C. Santee, P. A. Hansen, T. S. Jackson, C. F. Stevens, J. W. Dorcas, Wm. Guthrie, J. M. Whitney.
BROTHER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH is now in England. After attending the camp-meetings at Bristol and at Liverpool, he expected to settle at Southampton for a time. He mentions the fact that when he was in London in 1883 there was but one Sabbathkeeper in that great city; now there are seven localities where regular meetings are held.
IN reporting a successful tent effort in Hartington, Neb., Brethren J. J. Hughes and L. V. Finster say: "The SIGNS occupied an important and conspicuous part in this work, for which we praise God. May God speed it on its mission, for Jesus' sake." They note that at date of writing, sixteen candidates were awaiting baptism.
PEOPLE who are not reading the American Sentinel these days are losing much information regarding the real trend of affairs in this country—the headlong rush upon the rocks and shoals of church and State. Much is revealed from week to week that is little dreamed of by casual observers of current events. Send for the Sentinel; 8 pages, weekly, only $1.00 a year. 39 Bond Street, New York City.
IN the first announcement of the World's Harvest special issue of the SIGNS, the price was given at ten cents per single copy, and five or more copies to one name and address, five cents per copy. Since that announcement was issued, the publishers have decided to give "twenty-five copies or more to one name and address for 4 cents each." Make a note of this, and remember that the paper will contain as much reading and more illustrations than the average book that sells for $1.00 to $1.25.
"IF we would elevate the moral standard in any country where we may be called to go, we must begin by correcting their physical habits." This can be done not by precept alone, but by example, in the matter of health reform. The masses of people are held in chains of immorality through the indulgence of appetite, ignorance of proper diet, and slavery to fashionable dress. Many people have been brought to a knowledge of Christ and His law through a knowledge of the gospel of health.
THOSE who are presenting the last message of mercy mentioned in the Scriptures (Rev. 14:6-12), which is to call out a people noted for their patience and obedience, should remember this sentiment, culled from the Monitor, of Parkersburg, W. Va.: "Did somebody hurt your feelings? Well, you ought to ask the Lord to forgive you. 'For ye are dead,' the apostle says of the believer, and the dead feel nothing. If your feelings were hurt, it shows that self is not altogether dead. Sensitiveness, or, in other words, sinful pride, must die."
THE Wisconsin Reporter gives this item from a missionary secretary in that conference: "We have missionary meetings in our little church each Sunday evening. Those who attend come regularly and have some real good experiences to relate; this, with a profitable study of God's Word, makes our meeting interesting as well as beneficial. Best of all, we are thankful because we know God meets with us by His Spirit, and blesses our feeble efforts put forth in working for Him." This is as it should be in all the little churches, and big ones too.
AN imposing baptismal scene is thus described in the New York World of August 28: "In the quiet waters of Long Island Sound, fifty converts to the Seventh-day Adventist Church were baptized yesterday, as John the Baptist performed the rite in the waters of the Jordan. A crowd of fully fifteen hundred persons watched the beautiful sacrament from the shore, and sang the tenderest of hymns with all the power of their voices. It was a harvest day for the Gospel tent at Manhattan Avenue and One Hundred Eighth Street, where Evangelist E. E. Franke has been working with marvelous success. There were black-robed men and black-gowned women and white-robed children in the throng of penitents, and their faces wore a look of happiness which comes but once in a lifetime. Everything about the service was beautiful and harmonious. There was a stirring meeting in the tent, to which 500 Adventists from Brooklyn and Jersey City had come. Then the great congregation walked two miles down a shaded avenue to Hunt's Point, on the Sound, and there Pastor Franke immersed them one by one, while the great throng on the shore sang hymns of triumph."