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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 25, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 17.

News and Notes

By Editor

The baptistry of the Baptist church was kindly loaned for the occasion. Two other candidates were obliged to defer the ordinance till a future occasion.

THE new organ of the Northern Union Conference—Northern Union Reaper—is at hand, and presents a neat appearance. It contains 16 pages, size of our Pacific Union Recorder, and is devoted to reports of labor and intercommunication between the brethren of the Union Conference. Published weekly, at 337 E. Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minn. 50 cents a year.

FROM the Australian Signs of the Times we learn that the plant of the Echo Publishing Company has been moved to its new country home at Warburton, Victoria. We hope that the arduous task and heavy expense of moving a large publishing plant will be more than compensated by the freedom from city contraction and the growing evils of city association. We wish our sister institution much success and prosperity in her new situation, and a greatly extended influence.

THE loss sustained by Union College in particular, and the cause in general, by the death of Prof. August Kunze, mentioned last week, is partially shown in the statement that he was "a teacher of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English, and had a working knowledge of French and Spanish."

In addition to teaching in Battle Creek (Mich.) College, Keene (Texas) Academy, and Union College (College View, Neb.), he edited our German paper, and did much translating for several years. He was studying for the Baptist ministry when his attention was called to the Seventh-day Adventist faith, which he accepted after careful investigation. He began to labor as a teacher in Battle Creek in 1880, and had therefore spent twenty-five years in the service, laying down his work and his life at the age of 54 years and 8 months.

THE remainder of the printing plant of the old Review and Herald Publishing Company at Battle Creek, Mich., has been removed to Washington, D. C., which completes the absorption of that corporation by the new Review and Herald Publishing Association. Thus has been completed a very important, tho arduous, move. Nothing in the history of our work in the United States has given it more conspicuous notice, or a more uplifting and far-reaching influence. The headquarters, with the able corps of laborers in various lines, were providentially planted at the national capital at a time of urgent need. The church-and-state spirit of so-called National Reform had been having an unprecedented run of influence for several years, almost unopposed, until its votaries began to feel secure in making extreme demands of Congress for religious legislation. "While men slept," the seeds of religious-political domination were about to bear fruit. It was a time when strong advocates of religious liberty were needed to check, for a season, the fast-ripening harvest of religious tyranny; and, by a train of remarkable circumstances which few, if any, could understand as they occurred, the needed force of Christian patriots were prepared to occupy the field and champion the truth. Only through events that were deemed great calamities was this important move accomplished. "O, how great is Thy goodness, which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee before the sons of men!" Ps. 31:19.