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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 32.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

ON the 12th ult., three candidates were baptized at Oxford Mills, Iowa, by Brother J. H. Kraft.
THE brethren at Lincoln, Neb., are building a new house of worship, with a school-room annex.
A HOUSE of worship is being erected at Muncie, Ind., under the direction of Brother J. S. Shrock.
BROTHER J. W. WATT desires us to note that his present address is 148 Washington Street, Barre, Vt.
ON the 13th ult., a church of nine members was organized at Erskine, Minn., by Brethren L. Johnson and J. C. Christensen.
A CAMP-MEETING is announced for Erin, Tenn., to commence September 4. This meeting is for Tennessee River Conference.
ON the 13th ult., a church of fourteen members was organized at Prentice, Wis., by Brethren Wm. Covert and H. W. Reed.
FIVE tent companies are at work in Nebraska Conference,—at Beaver City, at Burr, at Newman Grove, and at North Platte.
THE first annual session of the Georgia Conference will be held at Alpharetta, in connection with the camp-meeting, August 15-25.
AN educational convention was commenced on the 4th inst., to continue till the 18th, at Anniston, Ala. The convention is under the auspices of the Southern Union Conference.
A NOTABLE feature of the late camp-meeting in South Dakota was the interest taken in the establishment of an intermediate industrial school. A committee was chosen to take special oversight of the matter.
THE missionary boat, the Sentinel, which has been in service in New York Harbor for several years, recently made a trip to Buffalo through the Erie Canal. Captain Johnson designs to labor a while in Buffalo Harbor.
THE Ohio Conference and camp-meeting will be held at Coshocton, August 7-18. It is announced that Brethren A. G. Daniells, W. W. Prescott, Wm. Covert, and W. A. Spicer, in addition to local conference laborers, will be present.
THE tent at Prairieton, Ind., in which Brethren S. S. Davis and C. H. Bliss have been holding meetings, was recently given over to the W. C. T. U. for an evening, and a large congregation listened to an address by a Mrs. Pierce, of Terre Haute.
THE Minnesota Worker says: "A sister at Mankato had been praying for the Lord to open the way for her to sell 'Christ's Object Lessons.' When the plan was presented she took five books and sold them to the first five persons she canvassed."
A LETTER from Brother W. G. Kneeland to the Dakota Worker reports the work in Trinidad, W. I., as moving ahead. They issued a leaflet entitled "The Voice of the Volcano, or God's Call to Repentance," which is being widely circulated, and is said to be doing a good work.
THE Advocate of Christian Education says: "No branch of work among Seventh-day Adventists is succeeding better just now than the church-school, and it is especially successful in places where it had been deemed impossible. Surely the Lord has guided in this matter, and the work manifestly is His."
A SAN DIEGO paper, the Western View, gives a very appreciative notice of the new vegetarian cafe, on the corner of Fourth and C Streets. The Western View is published by ladies of culture, who are supposed to be good judges of culinary excellence, and their hopes that the cafe is there to stay is encouraging to the management. The institution is under the auspices of the California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association.