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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 8, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 32.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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THE Minnesota Worker reports a Sabbath-school of 24 organized at Milaca, July 14.
THE annual camp-meeting and conference of the Tennessee River District will be held at Paris, Tenn., September 6 to 16.
JULY 8 a fine church building was dedicated at Bowling Green, Ky. At the time of its dedication but $350 debt remained on the building.
A CHURCH building dedicated with a debt upon it means an unfinished building; and it is always so much more difficult to raise a debt on a church building than it is to raise the money previous to its dedication.
THE new sanitarium recently opened in Spokane, Wash., has had such an increase of patronage that they have had to pitch four tents and rent a cottage of eight rooms in order to accommodate all.
BROTHER GEO. H. SMITH writes from Tilden, Neb., to this office that sixty converts have accepted the truth during this year under his labors, forty-three of whom have been baptized. A new church has been organized at Morrisville, and six joined the Oakdale church June 30.
THE papers and addresses on the subject of Christian Education delivered at the Teachers' Conference recently held in Battle Creek are to be published in booklet form, the price of which is 40 cents per copy. This will be of both interest and profit to all who are interested in the subject of Christian Education.
THREE hundred persons have been baptized in Wisconsin during the year, one hundred at the camp-meetings held during the season and two hundred by conference laborers in different parts of the state. Two church buildings have been dedicated, and eighteen church schools, with an aggregate enrolment of four hundred pupils, have been organized.
THE Review and Herald notes that some time before her death Sister S. M. I. Henry had written an autobiography covering the greater part of her life. This has now been finished by her daughter. The title of the work is "My Mother's Life, The Evolution of a Recluse." The book will contain about 360 pages, with several illustrations. The price of it is $1.50. All who wish to obtain a copy of the first edition will send their orders to Miss Inez C. White, Battle Creek, Mich.
THE Review and Herald of July 10 gives an interesting report of the first camp-meeting held on Pitcairn Island. Inasmuch as the time of the camp-meeting was wholly given up to the spiritual interests of those who attended, this was both profitable and interesting throughout. This does not mean that business meetings ought not to be interesting, but it is frequently the case that they are not. And yet all of God's work ought to be of interest, and all the business connected with His work should be understood by those who are His.
"TRUE EDUCATION," a journal for the home and school, is the name of a little magazine conducted by the faculty of Healdsburg College, Healdsburg, Cal. Its first issue is creditable, and the press work well done. True Education is designed to form a connecting link between Healdsburg College and its patrons, and to give instruction and helpful suggestions in the establishment and conduct of church schools. That it may do this, it needs circulation. We hope that it may receive liberal support in California, and that God may greatly bless its work. Price, 50 cents a year.
The Reaper, published at College Place, Wash., prints a letter from Sister Cornwell, who recently went to Australia. It says: "I am real well. Seven of my readers have accepted the Sabbath this month, beside other truths. Those who have come out have experienced a great change, for which I praise God. I endeavor in my all labor to make conversion, true sanctification, the power of the Holy Spirit, a part of every doctrinal reading that I give. I have no burden to get the theoretical facts into the reader's mind without the power of the Holy Spirit." And this is what every Christian worker ought to do.
WE have received the nineteenth annual announcement of South Lancaster, Mass., Academy. It contains statistics and particulars of the school, such as one would wish to know who is interested in the school. It has also some fine illustrations of South Lancaster and vicinity. This is a most excellent school, and has added to its good reputation from year to year. If there are any readers of the SIGNS in the vicinity who wish a good, moral school for the education of their children, one in which righteousness is made of first importance, they would do well to send for the catalog of South Lancaster Academy. Address Prof. Frederick Griggs, South Lancaster, Mass.
THE Midsummer number of the Gospel Herald comes to us with a cover printed in colors. The object of this little paper is to awaken an interest in the great Southern field. It is published by the Southern Missionary Society at Battle Creek, Mich. It certainly is a worthy paper and has a worthy field. It is published for the small price of 25 cents a year. It will shortly be moved to its new office, the Southern Missionary Society, Nashville, Tenn. Surely it would seem as tho it ought to have very many more subscribers than it has at the present time. Inclose 25 cents and send by mail to the above address. You will be interested to know how the work in the South is going, and will help the cause there just so much.
THE Battle Creek College is using its students who are studying for missionaries in various parts of the field, in practical work. The Jackson Mission was started about two years ago. It has various lines of work, such as canvassing for religious and health books, Bible work, visiting, nursing, and conducting meetings. The students have been blessed; and, as a result of the last year's work, twenty persons have accepted the truth. This work has always been largely self-supporting. At the present time the mission is disposing of one hundred copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and ten copies of the Review every week, all profits being turned into the mission. The work is certainly a good one.
THE Industrial Educator, a journal of Christian education, published at Keene, Texas, in the interests of Keene Industrial Academy, prints as its May issue a calendar number of its seventh year. It certainly presents a good report and very interesting reading in regard to its industrial department. The only store in the village is the academy store, the clerks of which are students. Broom-making is one of the industries of the school, furnishing employment to a number of students and enabling them to work their way through school, the school having all the business it can do in this line. In fact, it furnishes one of the great railway systems of the country to the extent of two thousand dozen per year. Beside this is taught blacksmithing, carpentry, gardening, dairy, poultry, horticultural work, and otherwise. The calendar may be obtained by addressing the principal, Prof. C. C. Lewis, Keene, Texas.
THE following camp-meetings will be held during the month of August:
Virginia, Richmond, Aug. 9-20
Vermont, St. Johnsbury, Aug. 16-27
Maine, Brunswick, Aug. 23 to Sept. 3
New York, Lyons, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
Alabama, Fruithurst, Aug. 2-12
Georgia, Norcross, Aug. 10-19
Carolinas, Asheville, N. C., Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Michigan, Ionia, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
Ohio, Dayton, Aug. 15-27
Illinois, Kankakee, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Nebraska, Oxford, Aug. 28 to Sept. 2
Texas, Dallas, Aug. 2-12
Kansas, Clay Center, Aug. 9-19
Arkansas, Boonville, Aug. 9-20
California, Long Beach, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Utah, Salt Lake City, Aug. 15-22
Up. Columbia, N. Yakima, Wash. Aug. 9-19
Montana, Red Lodge, Aug. 16-26
We have SIGNS readers in the vicinity of all these meetings, and we earnestly hope that they may attend.