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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 4, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 39.

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SEVEN have engaged in the rite of baptism at St. Elmo, Illinois.
A CHURCH of six was organized recently at Bisiatabu, New Guinea.
M. H. SERNS baptized six souls recently at Kenosha, Wisconsin.
FOUR souls were buried with their Lord in baptism, August 27, at Springfield, Ohio.
Two young ladies from the same family will soon leave their home in Illinois as missionaries to the Chinese.
INCIDENTALLY we read the following words from Murcia, Spain: "Three persons here are walking in the light of God's law."
THE new British Union College, at Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts., England, was dedicated a short time ago, free from debt.
IN response to a call for 120 foreign missionaries, the Kansas Conference has released ten of its workers, who will soon take up labor in other lands.
FIVE persons at Staples, Minnesota, have covenanted with the Lord through baptism to "keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
THREE souls have signified their intention to obey all the commandments of God, through the influence of C. V. Starr and coworkers at Garner, Iowa.
As the result of work done by four evangelical companies sent out by the Atlantic Union Conference, nearly fifty have decided to obey the Sabbath truth.
A ONE-MILLION-DOLLAR farm which has recently come into the possession of Ethan A. Brown, Marlboro, Massachusetts, will be used by him as an orphans' home.
AT a state assembly of believers at Marion, Ohio, twenty-one persons were baptized, and others of that convocation will receive the ordinance in their home churches.
FOUR have united with the believers at Spartanburg, South Carolina.
SABBATH, August 27, three persons were baptized at Village Creek, Iowa.
A CHURCH of fifteen members was organized a short time ago at Barstow, Texas.
FOUR persons were united with their Lord in baptism at Mountain View, August 17.
AT a camp-meeting at Battle Creek, Michigan, recently, twenty-five persons were baptized.
THREE are awaiting baptism at Marion, Michigan, also three more at Ishpeming, in the same state.
FIVE were immersed in the waters of Storm Lake, Iowa, and arose to newness of life in Christ Jesus.
TWO have accepted the truth at Dover, New Hampshire, as the fruit of local colporteur work.
AS the result of a six-weeks effort of the tent company in Montgomery, Alabama, ten have been baptized.
A COMPANY have organized themselves for work and worship near Sebeka, Minnesota, known as the Wing River church.
A CARLOAD of books to the value of $45,000 has recently been shipped by our sister publishing house at Nashville, Tennessee.
AS a result of meetings held at McMinnville, Oregon, seven souls have received baptism, and a few others are keeping the Sabbath.
SIX persons are walking in the light of God's message for this time as the result of stereopticon lectures given by Dr. Menkel in India.
BROTHER R. T. BAER writes that two earnest souls followed their Lord in baptism at Wilmington, Delaware. Later, visiting the church at Rock Hall, Maryland, he baptized three more souls.
STUDENTS have been coming at the rate of five a week for more than a month at the main station of the Barotseland mission schools in South Africa. They number more than ninety at present.
IT took twenty years to make the first one thousand converts to God's last message in Europe, but in the last three months over one thousand persons were baptized into the faith in the same territory.
AS a result of evangelistic work at Florence, Ohio, one family of ten and parts of other families have accepted the message. A Sabbath-school of twenty to twenty-five members has already been organized.
BROTHER W. S. HYATT writes from South Africa: "We left twelve keeping the Sabbath at Amatola. Two of these are young men who expect to attend our school and become better acquainted with the truth of the Bible."
TWELVE persons were baptized during a camp-meeting held recently at Everett, Washington. At Elma, in the same state, five adults, all over fifty years of age, have accepted the faith. A church of sixteen was also organized at Walnut Grove, near Vancouver.
TEN persons were baptized at the West Side church in Chicago, Illinois, September 3. Funds are being raised for the purpose of erecting a church building for the colored people in this vicinity. Three colored candidates are waiting for baptism, and five for church-membership.
THE Broadview Swedish Seminary recently located in Chicago will begin its first term the 28th of this month. The growth of the Swedish work has demanded its separation as a department at Union College, College View, Nebraska, and it now has a seminary in this country dedicated exclusively to its own work.