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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 20.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A CAMP-MEETING at Woonsocket, S. D., is appointed for June 8-18.
THERE will be a general camp-meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, June 8-18.
THE Indiana Reporter notes the baptism of seven candidates at Medaryville, Ind., by Brother B. Hagle.
AT Estella, I. T., April 8, nine candidates were baptized by Brother F. H. Conway, as a result of six weeks' labor.
THE address of Brother E. W. Webster is now Cheraw, S. C. He desires his correspondents to take notice of the change.
IN the East Caribbean Conference there were 114 persons baptized in the year 1904. The annual offerings were doubled over the previous year.
THE baptism of two Spanish-speaking people in Arizona is reported by Brother Marcial Serna. They are the father and mother of eight children.
ANOTHER worker has fallen at her post in a foreign field. From the interior of China we have the sad news of the death of Dr. Maude Miller, March 14, of tropical dysentery.
WE have received word that Brother George W. Reaser has been elected president of Southern California Conference the ensuing year. We are not advised as to other officers.
A LETTER from Brother R. S. Donnell notes the addition of ten members to the church in Memphis, Tenn., April 8. He expects to engage in tent labor near that city in a short time.
AT the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Alto, Texas, two members were added to the church, making fifteen during the year. Brother D. U. Hale was present at the meeting.
THE annual session of the Western Oregon Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Portland, June 8-18. A ten-days' workers' meeting will precede the regular meeting.
IN the Workers' Bulletin, Brother C. W. Hollingsworth reports the organization of a Sabbath-school with fourteen members at Sutherland, Iowa. This school is a branch of the Sioux Rapids missionary society.
THE report of Southern California Conference for the last nine months shows an increase of about two hundred members. The conference has voted to pay the salary of one of its laborers in a foreign field until the field becomes self-supporting.
REPORTING to the Southwestern Union Record, Brother A. E. Field notes the addition of five members to the church at Merritt, O. T., and the baptism of three candidates at Mayfield. At the latter place a church of fifteen members was organized.
AT the quarterly-meeting of the church at Streator, Ill., held April 8 and 9, five candidates were baptized by Brother E. A. Curtis. The brethren have decided to build a house of worship, 54 x 36 feet dimensions, with a basement story for a school-room.
A NOTE in the Southwestern Union Record states that a series of meetings is being held in the new meeting house recently erected by the colored brethren of Cleburne, Texas. The meetings are conducted by Brethren S. S. Ryles and Thomas Defreze.
MEETINGS were held in Ottumwa, Iowa, April 16-18, by Brethren L. F. Starr and C. A. Washburn, during which a church of fifteen members was organized. These had been brought to a knowledge of the truth mainly through the labors of Sister Margaret Young.
AT the recent annual meeting of Arizona Conference, Brother C. E. Knight was re-elected president; Mrs. M. T. Poston, secretary, and the Arizona Sanitarium, treasurer. The executive board are: C. E. Knight, J. E. Bond, M. Serna, H. A. Dow, and a member to be supplied.
ON a recent journey by rail, to Denison, Texas, Sister Watts stopped over at Fort Worth, and sold about three hundred copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. She says, "The Lord blessed in selling all papers. I don't believe I ever saw as marked evidence that the Lord was doing the work."
IF you have not done so already, don't delay any longer in ordering the Review, that you may have full reports of the General Conference proceedings. Three months, containing these reports in addition to the regular matter, 50 cents. But it is better to order for six months, at 75 cents, or a year for $1.50. Address 222 N. Capitol Street, Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY evening, the 2d inst., the editor of the SIGNS started on his journey to Washington, D. C., to attend the session of the General Conference. He expected to make a short stop at Chicago, and again at Battle Creek. Other delegates from this conference and from this publishing house, are J. N. Loughborough, W. C. White, A. S. Kellogg, J. O. Corliss, H. H. Hall, and E. R. Palmer.
An appeal comes to California from Brother H. H. Dexter, now laboring in Southern France, for donations to purchase a tent for that needy field. The sum of $200 is wanted for the purpose, and donations to the cause may be sent to W. A. Spicer, 222 N. Capitol Street, Washington, D. C. In a letter to the Recorder, Brother Dexter reminds us that while California has an average of one worker to 35,714 souls, in France there is one to 6,000,000.
ABOUT two months ago a girls' school was opened in Canton, China, with thirty-eight applications for admission. Others have applied since. As some copies of Our Little Friend were being torn apart in order to go around, a little girl said to the teacher, "Won't you please write a letter, and ask the children of America to send us more papers?" If those who have Bible picture-cards to spare will send them to Miss Lucile Thompson, Mauston, Wis., she will forward them by Brother Anderson.
A REPORT in the North Dakota Worker, from Brother George Wagner, states that he was recently privileged to meet a group of Russians, to the west of Anamoose. "Tho he is able to carry on a common conversation in their native language, he found it rather difficult to proclaim to them the Gospel in Russian. But he succeeded in securing a good interpreter, who, a Russian himself, also speaks German, and is a firm believer in the message. All essential points of our faith were presented quite fully, and, as the result, four of these precious souls and two Germans were accepted as members. They, with about thirty more Russians, had been Baptists, and had begun to observe the Sabbath prior to Brother Wagner's coming. He says there is every reason to believe that many of those who have not yet identified themselves with us, will do so after continued labors."
IN the South African Missionary, Brother W. S. Hyatt says: "Again and again have we considered the advisability of opening a mission in Kafirland, but we have never felt sure that the time had come till we met at the conference in East London. As Brethren Tarr, Shone, and Moko told us of the interest among this people, all were agreed that something should be done, and delay no longer. During the past year the truth has been gaining a strong foothold in the location at East London, and several intelligent natives have accepted the message. At the time of our camp-meeting the brethren held open-air services each evening at the location, and they reported some wonderful meetings. Our missionaries from up country enjoyed this work very much. Several of these natives who are keeping the Sabbath speak English, Dutch, and Kafir, and have some education. Three or four have been local preachers, and, now that they have received the truth, they are anxious to be fitted to go to their people with the message." It was recommended that the surplus Sabbath-school donations for the present year be devoted to this work, and, as there are twenty-five schools in South Africa, that will afford a nucleus.