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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 25, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 42.

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Six have received the rite of baptism at Exeter, Ontario.
THE first Seventh-day Adventist Church was recently organized in New Guinea.
FIVE souls were recently buried with their Lord in baptism at Duluth, Minnesota.
AT Sipe Springs, Texas, two have taken their stand for the truth and five have been baptized.
A CHURCH of fifteen members was recently organized at Mason City, Iowa. Five others will unite soon.
AT the close of a camp-meeting at Syracuse, New York, fifty went forward in the ordinance of baptism.
SEPTEMBER 24 six were received into the Kansas City second church. Four others are keeping the Sabbath.
FIVE persons were baptized at Rowell, New Mexico, recently. Later others will follow in the ordinance.
ELDER C. S. WEIST reports seventeen baptized as a result of the tent effort in Reading, Pennsylvania, this summer.
NINE have signified their intention to obey the Sabbath truth, as a result of tent meetings held in Omaha, Nebraska.
FOUR persons have taken their stand at Tyler, Minnesota, to "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
As the result of the labors of a tent company at Cottage Grove, Oregon, in all thirty-four have taken a firm stand for the truth.
ON the last Sabbath during the recent camp-meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, eight persons received the ordinance of baptism.
THE tent company at Kalispell, Montana, reports a good interest. Fourteen have accepted the message as the result of the summer's work.
SIX at Miles City, Montana, have promised to observe all the commandments of God, and there are bright prospects that others will follow.
ELEVEN persons in one town in Colorado have accepted the truth as the result of an individual's effort to interest readers in this journal.
THE missionary report of our work in Mississippi for the last year shows that forty-one have been baptized and thirty converts have not yet received baptism.
SIX candidates were baptized at the Barotseland Mission in South Africa recently. Brother C. Robinson is making a tour to open up two or three new stations.
AS the result of services held at Allentown, Pennsylvania, Evangelist C. S. Baum states that nine have fully accepted the truth and many more are interested.
A CHURCH of eleven members has been organized at Ringgold, Louisiana, nine of whom received baptism. The auxiliary Sabbath-school is composed of thirty-four members.
THE following foreign missionaries have recently sailed for their respective fields of labor: Brother S. A. Oberg and wife, formerly of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Danish West Indies; Brother(Continued on page 15)

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Esta Miller and wife, of the Mount Vernon (Ohio) College, to Shanghai, China; Miss Rachel Wendell, of New Hampshire, as a teacher, to the West Indies; Miss Ida Thompson and her sister Gertrude Thompson, to China. Miss Thompson returns with assistance to resume her work in the Canton Girl's School. Brother W. E. Gillis, formerly of the Pacific Press, has also sailed for China to connect with the publishing work.
It is stated in the annual report of the Nebraska Conference that 142 have been baptized and received into the church during the year. During the year the Oklahoma Conference added 137.
AMONG other literature translated into the Chasu language of German East Africa, is the complete Gospel of Matthew. This is the first portion of Scripture ever printed in that tongue.
IN our issue of September 27 we gave notice of a little pamphlet entitled "Gems of Truth: Man's Reward," by Mr. M. C. Israel, Oakland, California. His address should have read Oakdale, California.
CALLS from the hungry hearts of the colored people of the South are coming faster than can be responded to for lack of means. Nearly one hundred have accepted the message during this season's effort.
THE sale of literature by our publishing house has increased about five hundred per cent among the Spanish people of Mexico and South America for the first eight months of 1910 over the same period last year. The sales thus far this year amount to over $58,000.
THE good report comes from North Dakota as follows: "A tent effort was conducted near Rock Lake, where five persons accepted the truth; these were baptized and joined the church. Three persons accepted the truth as the result of a tent effort among the Scandinavians at Grand Forks; others are still interested. Twenty-seven persons united with the church at Willa, west of the Missouri River, and there were twenty-eight accessions among the Russians in the vicinity of Dogden. This makes eighty-three converts since the camp-meeting."
A very neat catalog comes to us from the International Publishing Association, College View, Nebraska, which prints in several languages, and carries publications in still more. The catalog that has come to us is Danish, Norwegian, and English.