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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 27.

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SIX souls at Wheeling, West Virginia, have received baptism.
THREE have been baptized at Dover, Delaware, and three others will follow soon.
THE ordinance of baptism was recently administered to seven souls in Tokyo, Japan.
BAPTISM was recently administered to eleven candidates at Reading, Pennsylvania, and to four at Scranton.
FOLLOWING the camp-meeting at Nampa, Idaho, seventeen were baptized. Nine baptisms are reported at Fruitland.
TWO new families have accepted the truth and united with the Sabbath-school at Carroll, Wyoming. A church and Sabbath-school have been organized at Lander.
As a result of a series of tent meetings in Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, twelve have asked to unite with the church. A new church has been dedicated in Arima.
AT Charleston, Illinois, fourteen persons are obeying the truth, three at Mattoon, six have been baptized at Carterville, ten at Elgin, and four at the Dearborn church, Chicago.
ON Sabbath, May 25, a new church was organized at Dexter, Maine, consisting of seventeen members. Seven have united with the church at Dyer Brook, and ten new converts are reported at Madison.
AT Camden, Ohio, five young persons have been baptized, eleven at Cincinnati, and seven at Zanesville. At Akron, during the year, eighteen have been added to the church, and others are waiting.
FIVE at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, have been baptized and united with the church at that place, five at Weatherford, three at Madge, and six more have taken their stand upon the promises of God; and a church of eight members has been organized at Vandyke.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty members has been organized at Three Forks, Montana, where five have taken their stand for the message; seven have been baptized in Butte, twenty in Culbertson, and a church of twenty-four members organized at the latter place.
BAPTISM has been administered to four souls at Fish Creek, Wisconsin; to five at Orange, where a church of seventeen members has been organized; and four at Tomahawk are awaiting baptism. A Sabbath-school of twelve members has been organized at Fairview.
FOURTEEN persons at Brooklyn, New York, recently received baptism, all uniting with the German church, making twenty-eight added to that church through baptism since last summer's effort. Three were baptized who united with the New York Swedish church, and a number more in Buffalo who united with the German church in that city.
ON Sunday, May 26, five souls at Hayden, Colorado, were buried in baptism; seven at Delta were baptized on the preceding Sabbath; and fifteen at Grand Junction have received this rite. Eleven baptisms are reported during the school year at Campion Academy.
SIX converts are reported at Oakdale, Nebraska, six baptisms at Petersburg, twelve at Valentine, nine at Hastings, and six at Culbertson. A Sabbath-school of twenty-one has been organized at Edison, with three new converts, and a Scandinavian church organization has been effected at College View.
EIGHT have been added to the church at Barbers Mill, Indiana, seven of whom have recently been baptized; ten have been baptized at Middletown, and others will be baptized in the near future; twenty-one baptisms are reported at Wolf Lake, three at Salem, and six conversions at Pleasant View.
AT the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists at Santa Rosa, June 20-30, the following officers were elected: Pastor E. W. Farnsworth, president, Oakland; Claude Conard, secretary, Oakland; J. J. Ireland, auditor, Lodi; executive committee, E. W. Farnsworth, A. Brorsen, C. L. Taylor, C. W. Irwin, C. H. Jones, Andrew Nelson, E. E. Parlin.
NINETEEN persons at Maplewood Academy, Maple Plain, Minnesota, have been baptized; five at Minneapolis, and eight added to the church; seven at the Danish-Norwegian Seminary, Hutchinson; nine at Duluth, three of whom united with the Scandinavian church; three at Alexandria have promised to keep the commandments, and three at Two Harbors.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of fifteen has been organized at New Boston, Missouri. A new church building was dedicated June 2 and a church organized June 8, at Mendota; another at Turner, with a membership of thirteen, on Sabbath, May 25; and another at Cole Camp. Three new members have been added to the latter company, and ten to the church at Windsor.
AT Richmond, Virginia, not long ago, thirty-one persons went forward in baptism, and between ten and fifteen others have expressed their determination to be baptized later. Five new converts are reported as a result of an effort for the colored people at Richmond. A church building has been dedicated at Guinea Mills, and a church of twelve members organized.
SABBATH, June 1, five persons, all adults, were baptized and united with the church at Detroit, Michigan, and others will take the same step soon; seven at Farmington were baptized on Sabbath, May 25, uniting with that church; and eight students of the academy at Holly. About nine at Ithaca have taken a public stand for Christ, six at Denver, and three at Alma.
A NEW church has been dedicated at Ladoga, Iowa; another at Mason City, where five candidates were baptized; a church of fifteen members organized at Creston, another consisting of eleven members at Riceville, and another of fifteen members at Calmar. Eleven conversions are reported at Lansing, six or seven at Oskaloosa, five at Urbana, and twelve additions by baptism to the church at Des Moines.
ON a recent Sabbath four believers in Ferndale, Washington, went forward in baptism, and a church of eleven members was organized; four at Paulsbo have received baptism, thirteen at Wenatchee, three at Spokane, three at Granite Falls, ten are awaiting baptism at North Yakima, fifty-two were baptized at the close of the Spokane camp-meeting; fifteen at Des Moines have been converted, and four at Genesee.
THE report comes from China of five converts at Hankow—the first in the province of Hupeh. In May another out-station was opened at Chang Djang
Poo, forty miles inland from Hankow, and now there is a large company of believers in that place. Later, five others were baptized, and a church of sixteen members was organized. During the past year eighteen students of the China Union Training-school, located at Chowkiakow, received baptism.
THE ordinance of baptism has been administered to thirteen young persons at Lacombe, Alberta. It is reported that six families of Galicians near Edmonton have recently begun the observance of the truth as a result of personal work done by one who speaks the Russian language. Four baptisms at Vancouver, and four more additions at South Vancouver, British Columbia, are reported. A church of fourteen members has been organized at Hodgeville, Saskatchewan.
SUBSEQUENT to the camp-meeting at Portland, Oregon, eighty-one souls were baptized; twenty at Hopewell have taken this same step; nine at Monitor; seventeen from the Doremus school in Portland; twelve at Lents are awaiting baptism; four have been added to the church at Brownsville, and three others expect to join soon; six have united with the Ashland church; and six or more at Canyonville have commenced to obey the truth. Two at Medford have received baptism, and others will be baptized later.
AT the close of the camp-meeting at Reedley, California, twenty-two persons were baptized; four have been baptized at Eureka, twelve at Alameda, three at Salida, seven at Hemet, five at Laguna, eleven at San Francisco, and twelve at Turlock. Five have been added to the church at Fort Bidwell. A church has been organized at Lindsay, and a church building dedicated at Laguna. About fifty have been baptized and united with the churches in Humboldt County during the past year; and six or eight at Elmhurst have espoused the message, and about twenty more are deeply interested.
TEN at Strode Academy, Oswego, Kansas, have been baptized, making twenty-three who have been baptized during the school year; five at Wichita have received this ordinance, and eight have been added to the church. Seven or eight at Sharon Springs will be baptized soon. Five persons at Naron are obeying the truth, three at Preston, five at Elk City, and five have been taken into the church at Lawrence. A Sabbath-school has been organized at Great Bend, another at Iuka, a colored church of fifteen members in Oswego, and a Sabbath-school of twenty-eight members at Sparks. Five have been baptized at Emporia, and seven united with the church.
SEVEN baptisms are reported from our mission in Zululand, two from our Kolo mission in Basutoland, four at La Rochelle, ten at our Barotseland mission, and nine more at the latter place have requested baptism. Nine souls at King William's Town, and three at our Maranatha mission, have decided to keep the commandments of God. Three churches have lately been organized and received into the Cape Conference,—one at Bloemfontein with a membership of fifteen, one at Steenbraas with a membership of seven, and another at Bonnie Vale with a membership of thirty. Fourteen native students have been baptized at the Solusi mission.
SEVEN at Victoria, fourteen at Melbourne, and a family of six at Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, have stepped out on the truths of the message. On the last day of the Victorian camp-meeting thirty-three were buried in baptism; following the meeting at Cottesloe, West Australia, eighteen followed their Lord in this solemn ordinance; and at the close of the South Australian camp-meeting, eleven went forward in this rite. Eleven more will be baptized at their home churches. A new church was dedicated at Harden, New South Wales, the latter part of April, and a church was organized. Subsequent to a tent effort at Cowra, a company of nine commandment keepers was formed, besides two isolated persons.THIRTEEN at Springfield, Massachusetts, have received baptism, thirteen at South Lancaster, two or three at Melrose, and nine at Worcester. Sabbath, June 1, a church of sixteen members was organized at Westfield.
WE have received calendars from the following schools: Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. Emmanuel Missionary College Summer School, Berrien Springs, Michigan. Lodi Normal Institute, of Lodi, California. Union College, of College View, Nebraska, for 1912-1913. College of Medical Evangelists, Loma Linda, California.
Here certainly are a lot of splendid schools open to the young men and young women who desire more than ordinary education,—an education in religious things, education along the lines that fit men not only for the very best of service here, but for eternal life in the hereafter. These calendars give the faculties, management, rules, regulations, and expenses of these various institutions of education; and we are sure that any one who is interested in them and will make inquiries at the proper source will receive the information which he desires. It would be well, in writing to any one of these schools, to address the president of whatever school it may be, with the address as given above.