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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 12, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 11.

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Our Work and Workers

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AT Huichahue, Chile, five believers have received baptism.
SEVENTEEN new converts are reported at Ashford, Alabama.
FIVE at Fruita, Colorado, have begun to obey the truth.
BAPTISM has been administered to five at Waldron, Indiana.
EIGHT persons at Keene, Texas, were baptized on Sabbath, February 10.
SABBATH, February 10, five young persons were baptized in Portland, Oregon.
SABBATH, February 3, baptism was administered to five at Nashville, Tennessee.
SIX or seven at Boggstown, Indiana, have surrendered their hearts to the Lord.
EIGHT souls at Turksville, Kansas, have accepted the message, and five at Kansas City.
ELEVEN at Viola, Idaho, went forward in the ordinance of baptism on a recent Sabbath.
Two mission stations have lately been established in Bengal, India, on property of their own.
THE baptism of thirteen candidates at Grande Riviere, Haiti, is reported, and two at Pignon.
NINETY-SEVEN persons were added to the membership of the Vistula Conference, East Germany, during 1911.
THE colored work in Chicago, Illinois, is making encouraging progress. Five new converts are now awaiting baptism.
ON Sabbath, February 10, six souls at Chico, California, were buried in baptism, and two others joined the church.
A CHURCH of sixteen members was organized on Sabbath, January 13, at Elwell, Michigan. Others will join later by letter.
TWENTY-FOUR persons in Boston, Massachusetts, have been buried in baptism. Three of these came out of the Catholic Church.
EIGHT at Ladoga, Iowa, have taken their stand to keep the commandments, as the result of meetings conducted at that place.
IN Kalnemoise, of the Baltic Conference, six persons have been baptized, and a company of seven members has been organized.
SIX persons were recently added to the Provincial church, Saskatchewan, Canada. Eight at Nanaimo, British Columbia, are obeying the message.
WITH only ten workers in the field, the efforts put forth in the East Prussian Conference have yielded a harvest of 185 converts during the past year.
FROM Georgetown, British Guiana, comes the report of the baptism of ten earnest souls, and several others are desirous of being baptized in the near future.
SUBSEQUENT to a series of meetings at New London, Ohio, two men, with their wives and families, stepped out on the side of truth. Others are in the valley of decision.
BROTHER CHARLES DEGERING and his wife, of Walla Walla, Washington, sailed February 3 from New Orleans, for Colon, Canal Zone, where they go to take charge of the West Caribbean Conference office.
WORK recently started in Empire, Canal Zone, has thus far resulted in the conversion of five persons, and a number of others are interested. A church of seventeen members has been organized at Ancon.
AT the close of the sixth annual session of the Silesian Conference, held in Brieg, January 3-7, a number were baptized. During the year 1911, 169 were added to their membership, with twelve laborers in the field.
DURING the biennial term closing with December, 1911, 417 members were added to the Southeastern Union Conference. Eleven new church buildings have been added to the number owned at the close of the previous year.
A SPECIAL week of Bible study at Lonavla, India, resulted in the baptism of four sisters, the first-fruits of the week in that part of India. Still others are interested. At Tinnevelli, South India, the rite was administered to nine souls.
THE last week in January Elder T. M. French and his wife sailed from New York on the Olympic, for their field in West Africa. They plan to stop over one boat at the Canary Islands, to assist in locating a new mission home at that place.
THREE have been baptized, and four added to the church, at Port Townsend, Washington. Two at Ellensburg have received baptism, and two at Aberdeen. Three churches were admitted to the sisterhood of the Upper Columbia Conference, at their recent session.
A CHURCH of eleven members was recently organized at Washburn, Wisconsin. Seven of these are new converts. Five others, not yet baptized, are obeying the truth, and still others who hold their membership at other places will join when they have received their letters.
A CHURCH of eleven members was organized at Elm Grove, West Virginia, early in January. Four members of this organization connected with the denomination for the first time; and six others are observing all of the commandments, who it is believed will soon be ready for church fellowship.
AS A result of a tent effort at Binger, Oklahoma, a church of sixteen members has been organized, and at least ten more are obeying the truth who were unable to be present when the organization was effected, and some are waiting, on account of ill health, for a more favorable time to be baptized.
A CHIEF and another candidate went forward in baptism in Basutoland, South Africa, in the latter part of 1911, and ten others were preparing to take the same step at the time of the report. There are now three mission stations in Basutoland, with prospect that two others will be opened in the near future.
DURING a prolonged series of meetings in Brighton, England, fifty-five have taken their stand for the truth, and still others have expressed their intention of obeying. During the last two and a half years, twenty-nine have been added to the Southampton church. Recently seven went forward in baptism in Gillingham, Kent.
THE conversion of twenty-eight is reported at Wewoka, Oklahoma. These were taken into the church subject to baptism, which was necessarily postponed until milder weather, some of the creeks being frozen nearly solid. Some who were anxious for immediate baptism were baptized through the ice in one of the creeks near-by.
THIRTEEN at Buenos Aires, Argentina, have received baptism, and about six others are almost ready to go forward in this ordinance. During the last five or six weeks of 1911 thirty-two were baptized in that conference. The membership in Argentina now numbers ninety-three, having more than trebled during the past two and one half years.
AT Grand Rapids, Michigan, fifteen candidates were recently baptized. One of these was a young woman in the last stages of consumption, who was not able to speak above a whisper at the time of her baptism, but she was much stronger afterward. Eight of these united with the Bauer church, one with the Carlton Center, and six with the church at Grand Rapids.
A SUCCESSFUL workers' institute is in progress in Japan during the winter. About twenty-five young persons, giving promise of developing into workers, are in attendance. It is hoped that arrangements may soon be made for the establishment of headquarters in buildings of our own, where the publishing and educational interests may be carried on to better advantage.
A LETTER from Mr. F. G. Ashbaugh, who sailed the last of the year for the Philippines, states that the Sabbath previous to the date of writing, sixteen new members were received into the Manila church, and fourteen more applied for membership. Since the organization of their church on March 11, 1911, its membership has increased from eighteen to seventy-five.
ABOUT the middle of January Pastor G. W. Pettit and his wife, of Portland, Oregon, and Pastor J. M. Comer and his family, from the same State, sailed from New York on the Oceanic, for India. Miss Rachel Jones, a former student of the Foreign Mission Seminary at Washington, D. C., and W. S. Mead and his wife, also students at the Foreign Mission Seminary, accompanied them.
FROM the Nyasaland Mission comes the good word that permission has been granted to enter Portuguese territory. A communication has been received from the office of the high commissioner of Portuguese East Africa, the purport of which is that the request for permission to traverse the region of Angoni, in the district of Tete, in the work of mental, spiritual, and moral propaganda, had been granted. This work will be started as early as possible.
AS A result of tent work carried on in Los Angeles, California, during the last eighteen months, one hundred new converts have been baptized and added to the church. In addition to these, there are a number yet to be baptized. This brought about the organization of the eighth church in Los Angeles, with a present membership of 115. It has just completed a neat church building in which to worship. Four more have united with the church at Sacramento, and four at Chico, and a new church has been dedicated, free from debt, at Turlock, California.
THE latter part of December, 1911, baptism was administered to twenty-four persons in Riga, Russia. Among these was an old lady ninety-one years of age. Others were held back because they had not obtained their official dismissal from their former church, without which they are not allowed by the State to unite with another church. Since January 1 a third church has been organized in Riga, the total membership in that city being over three hundred. At Harbin four Russians, a professional singer, and a Chinaman have been baptized. This is in the Little Russian Conference.
FROM Singapore comes the report of the baptism of seventeen, and seven or eight others who it is hoped will soon be ready for baptism. One of those baptized was eighty-three years of age. She had been a pagan, and had persistently opposed Christianity, but she could not longer resist the pleadings of the Spirit, and finally surrendered herself to Christ. Two others, twins, and daughters of the first native convert of the Straits Settlements, were sixty-three years of age. Recently at an auction in that city there was some lively bidding over a book. It started at fifty cents. Several wealthy merchants carefully examined the book. It was faded and old and seemed of very little value, but the bidding continued, rising hotly at the rate of fifty cents bid, and the book was knocked down finally on the sixteenth bid to one of Singapore's wealthiest young merchants. The book was "Daniel and the Revelation," in cloth binding.
IN two issues of the Lincoln Evening News (January 31 and February 1), published at Lincoln, Nebraska, very favorable accounts of the joint biennial session of the Central and Northern Union Conferences, which convened in College View January 16-27, are given, together with a list of officers elected at that session, and other workers, and actions taken. In connection with the notice given in the issue of January 31, are three large photographs of the delegates to the conference. More than three columns are given in the Sunday State Journal of Lincoln, to a syllabus of the points of our faith, including a brief history of the rise and progress of this denomination. The executive committee of the Central Union Conference, as given in the Evening News, is as follows: president, E. T. Russell, of College View; C. R. Kite, of Denver, Colorado; L. W. Terry, of Springfield, Missouri; N. T. Sutton, of Hutchinson, Kansas; J. W. Christian, of Hastings, Nebraska; A. E. Ogden, of Utica, Missouri; D. U. Hale, of Crawford, Nebraska; W. F. Kennedy, Topeka, Kansas; E. A. Curtis, Grand Junction, Colorado; W. J. Huffman, College View, Nebraska; H. A. Green, Boulder, Colorado; Frederick Griggs, College View, Nebraska; Meade MacGuire, Loveland, Colorado; C. G. Bellah, Kansas City, Missouri; F. F. Byington, College View, Nebraska; G. A. Grauer, Clinton, Missouri. The newly elected executive committee of the Northern Union Conference is as follows: president, Charles Thompson, of Graysville, Tennessee; C. A. Pedicord, Nevada, Iowa; M. N. Campbell, Nevada, Iowa; S. E. Jackson, Minneapolis, Minnesota; C. J. Buhalts, Harvey, North Dakota; C. M. Babcock, Redfield, South Dakota; W. W. Ruble, Alexandria, Minnesota; F. E. Painter, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Dr. C. W. Heald, Nevada, Iowa.