AVONDALE SCHOOL, Cooranbong, N. S. W., reports 140 students the present term.
AT Ridgefield, Wash., two candidates were recently baptized by Brother W. F. Martin.
TWO CONVERTS to the truth are reported by Brother Jacob Hoptra, who is laboring among the Hollanders, at Grand Rapids, Mich.
FROM the Welcome Visitor we learn that the English Lutheran church at Defiance has been opened to our brethren for meetings, which are conducted by Brother G. P. Gaede.
MEETINGS held in Great Falls, Mont., in February, by Brethren W. B. White and Paul Iversen, resulted in the baptism of six persons, who were united with the church.
IN Halifax, N. S., February 9, after a discourse on the Sabbath question by Brother Wm. Guthrie, six persons expressed their conviction of duty to observe the seventh-day Sabbath.
A COMPANY of ten Sabbath keepers was organized at Apollonia, Wis., February 27, by Brother Swin Swinson. A leader, clerk, and treasurer were chosen, and they design to organize a church school this summer.
THE officers of the Sanitarium Board for Washington, D. C., are as follows: President, W. C. White; vice-president, G. A. Hare, M. D.; treasurer, J. N. Nelson; secretary, J. R. Scott; business manager, A. P. Needham; financial secretary, J. S. Washburn.
TWELVE converts, in connection with meetings held at Midland Junction, West Australia, by Brethren J. Pallant and N. J. Walldorff, is the substance of a report in the Record. Brother Pallant also notes the baptism of nine candidates at Newcastle, W. A.
In the Wisconsin Reporter, Brother J. Kloss says:
"At Mattoon I found a man and his wife keeping the Sabbath. They have had no connection with our people, but learned the truth some years ago through Brother Plante and the books he sold them, and now desire baptism."
IN the Reaper Brother J. A. Holbrook reports that in February four persons at Twisp, Wash., took their stand for the truth. Also, in March, thirteen persons were added to the church at Pomeroy. The brethren at this place are planning to erect a house of worship.
UNION COLLEGE, of College View, Neb., is to be represented at the St. Louis Exposition. President L. A. Hoopes is preparing an exhibit, together with written information concerning the institution. Many views of the internal workings and of the surroundings will be included. The student enrolment for this year numbers 362.
THE Canadian Union Conference Committee recently adopted a resolution to remove headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. This means also the removal of the Canadian Publishing Association, a branch of which is to be established in the Maritime Conference. The change of headquarters will take place about May 1.
IT has been decided to locate the headquarters of the Religious Liberty Department of the General Conference at Washington, D. C., and Brother W. A. Colcord has been appointed secretary. Aggressive educational work is to be the policy of the department, which should receive the hearty support of all lovers of the Golden Rule.
THREE ladies in the town of Prentice, Wis., have recently taken their stand with those who "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Sister Martha E. Kinne also notes in the Reporter that a German family of six, living seven miles from the place, have commenced the observance of the Sabbath. Some of them walk to the meetings every Sabbath.
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IT seems that Emmanuel Missionary College, at Berrien Springs, Mich., is really a college of missionaries. Writing to the West Michigan Herald, Brother Wm. Covert says that on February 9 thirty new students arrived, and ten more were to come a week later. The letter says:
"The facilities for students, lodging and comfort in this institution are not yet perfected, and there was some questioning as to whether such a large addition to the school could be made comfortable. But the faculty and pioneer students were quite equal to the occasion. It was a true inspiration to learn that those who had been in the school could and did give up their rooms to the new arrivals, so as to extend to them the best possible welcome and comfort. The welcome given and the beautiful spirit in which it was received made the occasion very profitable and pleasant."
The reader will not fail to note the wonderful contrast between this reception of new students and such an occasion at some of the popular world's colleges. Imagine, if you can, the "seniors" of a popular college giving up their rooms to accommodate a lot of "freshmen" and make them comfortable!
THE Riverside (Cal.) Enterprise of March 2 devotes a column and a half to a notice of the Adventist faith and the new Seventh-day Adventist church building in that city. It speaks very highly of the new building, and of the ministration of Pastor Wm. W. Simpson. We clip the following interesting paragraph:—
The building of the church edifice was a marvel of "faith with works," for it was just a month from laying the first brick of the foundation till services were commenced in the building, and yet only one man was hired, a carpenter, on the construction, all the rest being volunteer work by members of the church, with the exception of the plumbing and the wiring for lighting. One feature of this rapid construction was that no work was done on Saturday, their Sabbath, but the orthodox Sunday, when the members could work nowhere else, they gathered here and put in good work "for the Lord" on what is usually called "the Lord's day." The very handsome front doors and the three large plate-glass windows came from the Dyer Bank building when it was remodeled, and in this way this church could afford to have plate glass windows, where other churches are content to use the common article. The bell tower at the corner of the building over the entrance is topped with a very handsome ornament, presented by a member of the Catholic Church, who attended services one night in the tent and became much interested in the doctrine preached there. The finishing of the auditorium inside is very neat and handsome, and when the folding chairs now in use give place to the pews that are in course of construction, and the elegant cement bridge across the canal in front, which is to lead directly up to the front doors and vestibule, is completed, with the proposed improvements of the grounds, this society will have one of the neatest churches in Riverside.