AN institute for church-school teachers will be held at Maple Plain, Minn., August 14–18.
THE East Michigan Banner notes the baptism of five candidates at Saginaw, by Brother Wm. Ostrander.
THE Welcome Visitor notes the baptism of six candidates at Massillon, Ohio, June 16, by Brother H. H. Burkholder.
ANY of our S. D. A. literature sent post-paid to Eld. H. Clay Griffin, Chester, Ark., will be used to good purpose.
FIVE converts are reported in connection with the labors of Brother C. D. McMoody and Anna M. Jenson, at Sparta, Wis.
IN the Wisconsin Reporter, Brother F. F. Petersen notes the baptism of seven candidates at Eau Claire, Wis., June 9.
THE city churches of both Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio, have purchased meeting tents for use in those cities by the conference.
THE annual session of the Utah Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting in Salt Lake City, August 16 to 25.
THE academy at Harvey, N. D., has secured the services of Prof. N. W. Lawrence, who has been principal of Mount Vernon College, Academia, Ohio, for a number of years.
FROM Chester, Ark., Brother H. Clay Griffin writes of a good interest and several keeping the Sabbath. He was to move his tent to Winslow on the first inst.
IN the Northern Illinois Recorder, Brother F. J. Harris reports the baptism of seven candidates at Aledo, June 2. Four others had commenced to keep the Sabbath, who were to be baptized at a later occasion.
THERE was an addition of two members to the new church at Longview, Texas, at the last ordinance occasion. A half-dozen others have accepted the faith and are keeping the Sabbath, but have not yet united with the church.
IN connection with meetings at Chatham, Ont., June 16 and 17, a new house of worship was dedicated. The sermon was by Brother E. K. Slade, president of East Michigan Conference. Brethren Isaac Sandborn and A. O. Burrill also took part in the exercises.
THE camp-meeting at Oakland, Cal., will commence on the 19th inst., and continue until the 29th. A large outside attendance is expected, because of the large number of fire refugees in and about the city with no special occupation. The camp will be located at Grove and Forty-First Streets.
AT the late session of Minnesota Conference, officers were elected as follows: President, H. S. Shaw; vice-president, J. F. Anderson; treasurer, C. M. Everest; secretary, Wm. Asp; Sabbath-school and mission secretary, Ella E. Merickel; educational secretary, W. W. Ruble; field secretary, F. F. Fry, religious liberty secretary, O. O. Bernstein; medical superintendent, Dr. E. P. Hawkins.
THE office of the Pacific Union Conference has been moved from Oakland to Mountain View, into the new headquarters building. The California Conference office will be moved to the same building after the Oakland camp-meeting, or about the first of August. The presidents of both conferences, Brethren H. W. Cottrell and W. T. Knox, have their homes here. In this connection we also note that the Pacific Union Recorder will be published in Mountain View hereafter.
A PRETTY little booklet recently received, is replete with information about our Paradise Valley Sanitarium, in San Diego County, Cal. It is illustrated with a number of views of the buildings and premises; also of the surrounding country, of the bay, and the Pacific Ocean. A description of the climate is accompanied by a temperature diagram, showing interesting comparisons with other localities. Persons desiring information regarding the sanitarium and its advantages should send for a copy of this little souvenir. Address, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal.
NO ONE should lose sight of the fact that circumstances are accumulating that will make it harder and harder to disseminate the Gospel message. One or two more such disasters in our country as has just befallen California would create a very stringent condition in the money market. We have not yet seen the full result of this calamity. Noting the things that make it necessary to redeem the time while circumstances are comparatively favorable, the Gospel Herald (Nashville, Tenn.) says: "Turning to the financial world, we see indications of changes there that may make it much more difficult to secure means for carrying forward our work than it has been in the past. We can not expect that the prosperity that has attended this country for a number of years past will continue indefinitely. We must, in the very nature of things, pass through a period of financial stringency in the very near future. Only a few days ago, a panic was very narrowly averted in Wall Street, and the reason for it no one could tell. Turning to the industrial world, we find a state of unrest that is a harbinger of serious labor difficulties in the near future, with all the attendant evils which result from such a difficulty."