THE annual camp-meeting of North Pacific Conference has been set for May 17-27, at Portland, Oregon.
IT has been decided by the Chesapeake Conference Committee to hold a camp-meeting in Baltimore, Md., June 21 to July 1.
A NEW church organization has been effected in Buffalo, N. Y., known as the Second S. D. A. Church, with a membership of twenty-one.
UNDER date of March 5, Brother D. E. Scoles writes that since last October over twenty persons have accepted the faith under his labors in Missouri Conference.
A CHURCH of seventeen members has been organized at Norwich, N. Y., by Brother J. W. Raymond. The ordinance of baptism was celebrated in the First Baptist Church.
FROM Roseburg, Oregon, there comes the report of the addition of four members to the church, and a like report comes from Riddle. These reports are from Brother B. C. Tabor, in the Visitor.
THE dedication of the new house of worship at Stoughton, Wis., was attended by Brother Wm. Covert, president of the conference, and a number of other State laborers. A good interest was manifested on the part of the citizens of the place.
TWO HORSES and half the necessary money have been donated for outfitting a colporter wagon in Montana. As a session of the conference has just closed, we expect to hear that the whole enterprise has been provided for. A wagon-load of truth traveling through the country, in charge of a competent colporter, can not fail to find interested readers.
WITH one helper, Miss Sadie Needham has been selling the SIGNS in Seattle, Wash. They sold 344 copies in six weeks, going out only once a week. Sister McMartin, who labored for a time in San Francisco, has returned to Portland, Oregon, to continue the SIGNS work. She expects to dispose of 50 to 100 copies weekly. A brother in Pueblo, Colo., delivers sixty copies every week in addition to his regular work.
BROTHER D. T. FERO writes to the Visitor that Sister Woolsey's Orphans' Home at Tacoma, Wash., is in a distressing condition, owing to a visitation of smallpox. "There are over twenty small children in the home, and the source of supply is to a considerable extent shut off. Sister Woolsey has never called for help before, and would not now if she were not forced to do so. Her address is Mrs. Kate Woolsey, 1151½ Tacoma Avenue, Tacoma, Wash."
IN the Nebraska Reporter of February 14 there is a letter from Sister Annie Knight, who went to Gitano, Miss., from Battle Creek, Mich., to engage in teaching. She began work in a log cabin, something over a year ago, with twenty children, only five of whom knew the alphabet. Her letter reports the completion of a comfortable lumber house, 24x16 feet and porch, on forty acres of land of her own, which is to be used as a school farm. In her letter she returns thanks to the persons, eighty in number, who donated the means to build the house.
A REPORT of labor in the Workers' Bulletin says: "One prominent liquor dealer and his family have been converted, and he is now preparing to enter the work among the Germans. At the time of his conversion he had over two thousand dollars on his books which he had been trying to collect. When people who were able to pay tried to dodge their debts, he would hold malice against them. After his conversion he took his accounts before the Lord, and asked Him to take every wrong feeling out of his heart. On getting up from his knees, he said, 'Now, Lord, none of these men owe me anything, I have left it all with Thee.' After that his testimony in social meeting had the right ring."
THE Workingman's Home and Vegetarian Restaurant, recently started in Springfield, Mo., gave a free dinner to the poor of the city, March 1, which was partaken of by 300 people. Brother D. P. Zeigler, who has charge of the enterprise, says: "We came here the 1st of January, since which time seven persons have united with the church. The mission was opened to the public February 14." One of the daily papers gave an extended notice of the dinner, as also of the work of the mission. It says: "The tickets for the dinner had been distributed all over the city, the ministers, relief officer, and other persons acquainted with the needy families of the town assisting in this benevolent cause."
PROGRESSIVE work for the season has been arranged by the Texas Conference Committee. We note that a tent is to be placed in Houston, with Brother D. U. Hale in charge, and that a camp-meeting will be held there at a time yet to be fixed. Another tent goes to Marshall, under Brother J. N. Sommerville and A. G. Bodwell, with a camp-meeting in contemplation. Also that a camp-meeting be held at some point in Central West Texas, preceded by the labors of Brother T. W. Field. The regular State camp-meeting will be held at Dallas, if suitable arrangements can be made. Brother H. W. Woodruff is to continue his labors in the northwestern part of the State, where he has recently met with considerable success.
FROM the Advance, of Wellington, N. Z., we clip this bit of intelligence:—
"Dr. F. E. Braucht arrived in Auckland on February 1, and, after a short stay in that city, went to Christchurch, where his family have remained during his absence. New Zealand is to be congratulated on account of securing the services of a God-fearing, conscientious physician, one who will treat disease with rational remedies. The Foreign Mission Board and all acquainted with the work feel that the doctor can ill be spared from Samoa, where he has established a sanitarium, and secured a large practise. We can show our appreciation of his coming by our influence and means given to assist the doctor in starting his work. If any of our friends need the services of a good physician, they should correspond with Dr. Braucht. They can also recommend him to their suffering friends and neighbors. For the present, address him at 71 Hereford Street, Christchurch."
THOSE who look up the actual membership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as given in denominational statistics, in order to learn the extent of the influence wielded by the truth this people advocate, are sure to be deceived. There are a great many people not members of this church who hold to the main distinguishing views of the church, and of whom no account is taken in reports. Our laborers are continually finding them or hearing from them in places where they had not known that true sympathy existed. The last number of the Tennessee River Watchman gives reports from two isolated companies conducting Sabbath-schools and studying the truth from the Bible and other literature that has come to their hands. From one of these companies comes to the president of that conference this information: "There is some interest to hear our faith presented, and it will be no trouble to get a place to hold services in when you come."
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