TWO PERSONS were baptized by Brother W. W. Stebbins at Plum City, Wis., November 17.
AS A RESULT of the labors of Brethren J. Biffel and L. R. Conradi, at Shaffer, Kan., two have been baptized.
A NEW church building has been dedicated near Hartford City, Ind. Brother U. S. Anderson conducted the service.
ELEVEN have begun to keep the Sabbath at Seymour, Ind., through the labors of Brethren A. L. Miller and Robert W. Leach.
AT Fargo, Texas, Brother C. M. Hoyhurst reports good success. Of a number who believe and acknowledge the truth, ten have taken their stand.
SIX or eight souls have accepted present truth at Brigham, Utah, through the labors of Brother H. G. Gjording, who has been laboring at that place for several months.
THE Northern Illinois Recorder says: "Four of Miss Hancock's readers were baptized at our South Side church (Chicago), Sabbath, November 10, by Elder Covert."
BRETHREN Locken and M. G. Huffman recently closed a series of meetings at Pana, southern Illinois, in which sixteen took their stand with the keepers of the commandments.
THE first Seventh-day Adventist church in British Central Africa was organized Sabbath, July 14, 1906, with twenty-one members, by Brother Thomas H. Branch, formerly of Colorado.
BROTHER S. W. Carr, in the Union Conference Record, Sydney, Australia, reports much interest in the school work in the Fiji Islands. Several natives have accepted the truth, also a Wesleyan teacher.
BROTHER W. W. Eastman, of Texas, reports more than 3,500 of our large bound books, valued at more than $10,000, placed in that state from January 1 to November 1. More workers are planning on entering the field the coming season.
ABOUT seventy-one thousand copies of the Special Thanksgiving Number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES have been sold. The church at Mountain View disposed of about one thousand copies in the cities and towns near by. A young lady and a young man sold 174 and 175 respectively.
PROFESSOR GEORGE W. CAVINESS, who has been laboring in Mexico for a number of years, has just finished translating "Coming King," "Christ Our Saviour," and "Gospel Primer" into the Spanish language. This work has been done at the Pacific Press, which is pushing the work on these books. Brother Caviness has just returned to his field of labor in Mexico.
A LETTER from Brother Luther J. Burgess informs us that a small station is now being opened at Almora, India, away up in the Himalaya Mountains among the Hindustani people. It is both pleasant and healthful, and seems to be a favorable place in every way to give the everlasting Gospel to that part of India. A number of government schools are held there, attended by an intelligent class of native men, many of whom read English. For this we are glad.
BROTHER W. S. Hyatt reports good progress in Somabula Mission, South Africa. The mission is prospering financially, educationally, and, more than all, spiritually. Recently he baptized eight young people who had been in training for the last four years. These will all probably make good workers to their own people.
A MAN in South Hartford, Ind., a non-professor, has become so interested in the truth that he has gone to the trouble to fix up a very good place in his yard, under the largest apple tree in the country, seated to accommodate about one hundred persons. He spread sawdust over the ground, built a nice rostrum and stand, bought canvas for a covering, and gives the use of his organ. Brother U. S. Anderson says, in the Indiana Reporter: "We have a beautiful place under the shade of the old apple tree to preach the Third Angel's Message."