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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 34.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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Six members were added to the church at Groton, S. D., at the last quarterly-meeting.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Webster, S. D., six new members were added.
NEBRASKA CONFERENCE has undertaken the support of Miss Amanda Van Scoy as a missionary to China.
A CHURCH of ten members has been organized at Cadott, Wis., by Brother C. McReynolds, president of the conference.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Flintville, Wis., two persons were baptized by Brother J. S. Shrock.
JULY 22 five persons were baptized at Royal Center, Ind., where meetings were held by Brethren J. C. Harris and B. Hagle.
ON the 8th ult., a church of twenty members was organized at Wilson Creek, Wash., by Brethren H. J. Schnepper and C. F. Knott.
SEVEN persons recently took their stand for the truth at Burleson, Texas, where Brother W. A. McCutchen had been holding meetings.
TWO PERSONS were recently baptized, as partial fruit of meetings being held at Kewanee, Ill., by Brother E. A. Curtis and Brother Wood.
A REPORT in the Reporter, by Brother L. E. Sufficool, notes the baptism of five persons at Eagle River, Wis., three of whom were church-school children.
THE general camp-meeting of New York Conference will be held September 7-17, at Phelps, sixty miles west of Syracuse, and forty-three miles east of Rochester.
THE Welcome Visitor reports thirteen converts at Medina, Ohio, where Brethren W. E. Bidwell and G. P. Gaede have been laboring. They desire a church organization.
THE local camp-meeting held at Newfolden, Minn., July 10-16, is reported to have been a profitable occasion. Five young people were baptized by Brother P. A. Hanson.
AT Saginaw, N. D., July 2, a church of twenty-one members was organized by Brother A. E. Christian. This was the result of six weeks of labor. Others have united since.
IN connection with meetings held at Senjen, Minn., by Brethren George L. Budd and Albert Olsen, seven converts were recently baptized. A church building has been completed at that place.
A SUCCESSFUL camp-meeting at Santa Anna, Texas, is reported in the Record by Brother T. W. Field. Fifteen persons were baptized, and some others decided to observe the Sabbath of the Lord.
THE organization of a church of nine members at Six Points, Ohio, is noted in the Visitor by Brother H. H. Burkholder, president of the conference. This was the fruit of labor by Brethren F. M. Fairchild and R. B. Thurber.
WRITING from Gland, Switzerland, Brother Jean Vuilleumier says: "We have just had our Swiss and Latin Union camp-meeting on our new sanitarium grounds. Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium were represented by the workers in these fields. Algeria is to be entered at once. All are of good courage."
On the 10th inst., Brother O. A. Olsen and family, and Prof. L. A. Hoopes and family sailed from San Francisco, on the steamer Sonoma, for Australia. Brother Olsen goes to take charge of the Australasian Union Conference, and Professor Hoopes to connect with the Avondale Academy at Cooran-bong, N. S. W.
Reporting to the Recorder concerning the camp-meeting at Sun River, Mont., Brother J. A. Holbrook says: "About twelve of our young people have yielded to the Lord, and about the same number of outside people have said that they would keep all the commandments of God." A report in the Bivouac says that fourteen were baptized.
As a result of meetings held at Elk City, O. T., by Brethren A. E. Field, E. L. Maxwell, and J. B. Hampton, after the camp-meeting, ten members were added to the church. Others have accepted the Sabbath who have not yet joined the church. Eight had been baptized during the camp-meeting. Funds are being raised to build a house of worship.
A card from Brother W. R. Beatty, dated Vancouver, B. C., August 7, says: "Our missionaries returning to their fields in the Orient got off safely this afternoon. In the party are Brother J. N. Anderson and Miss Amanda Van Scoy for China, and Brother F. W. Field and Dr. Maria Edwards for Tokyo, Japan. The latter goes on a visit only. They sailed on the C. P. R. liner Tartar."
A brief call from Brother J. N. Anderson at our office, on the 1st inst., brought us in refreshing personal contact with our missionary to China, whose encouraging reports have interested the readers of the Signs in the past. He came to America to attend the General Conference, and is now on his way to his chosen field of labor, headquarters at Canton, China. He left a number of illustrations, which will, from time to time, be reproduced in the Signs.
Of the camp-meeting at Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, Brother J. W. Boynton writes: "We had a real good spiritual meeting. The attendance was about ninety, nearly double that of last year. Eight souls were baptized, and some others desired baptism but were compelled to go home on account of sickness. Brethren R. W. Underwood and J. S. James were with us and gave good help. After camp-meeting they went with me to Leavings, where we organized a church of twenty-five members. Nine were baptized there, and more expect to be in the near future. I am now at Edmonton, where we have the tents up for a series of meetings."
As in the days of the apostles, the spirit mediums of the present day are sometimes bold enough to try to inject their doctrines into places where the truth is being taught. Brother G. W. Reaser writes to the Pacific Union Recorder concerning a recent instance: "The tent-meetings in Los Angeles have been attended of late by a number of Spiritualists, who came to oppose the truth. One of these opposers was a woman who was ordained to the ministry in the Methodist Church, but who is now a Spiritualist medium. Two evenings she stepped upon the platform and stated her views to the audience. On being questioned by the ministers in charge of the work, the darkness and Satanic origin of Spiritism were made manifest, and a glorious victory was gained for the truth." We need not be surprised that even ministers of the Gospel are sometimes deceived by this delusion; for "the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils." 1 Tim. 4:1.