GAVE a course of lectures at the Pleasant Valley school-house, in the vicinity of the Bethany church. Prejudice was very strong. Met some opposition from Eld. Foster, a Greek scholar, on the Sabbath question. His strongest proof was Heb. 4:9. He claimed that the word rest is derived from the Greek Sabbatismos, and refers to the first day of the week. Five began to keep the Sabbath.
MARSHALL ENOCH.
IOWA
By M. M. Kenny
Butterville, Tama Co., May 13.
I CAME to this place, April 25, and have given twenty discourses to attentive congregations. The average attendance is seventy-five. Yesterday afternoon I spoke on Christian temperance, to a very attentive audience. Think some good was done. Six or eight have decided to keep the commandments; among them is a man who has been a first-day Adventist minister.
M. M. KENNY.
PACIFIC COAST.
[Abridged from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.]
San Francisco and Oakland, Cal.
In the SIGNS of May 9, Bro. J. N. Loughborough says:—
“Our tent-meetings in San Francisco still continue, with increasing interest. We are now speaking on the Sabbath question. We are not trying with this meeting to reach all San Francisco, but taking our tent as a center, we make a specialty of canvassing thoroughly the square mile around the tent. In this square mile there are five thousand houses. These we have supplied, with either posters or copies of our tent paper (of which we have had two numbers already), four times.
“Our missionary workers are canvassing this square mile, street by street and house by house, ascertaining who are interested, and obtaining three-month subscribers for THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES; of these subscribers about a score have already been obtained since the meetings commenced.
“We place occasional notices in the city papers, so that the people at large are not ignorant of what we are doing, and we are frequently favored with hearers from other parts of the city.
“We meet alternately with the church in Oakland on the Sabbath, and Sunday evening, which serves to help the interested ones there, and those who have newly embraced the truth. Last Sabbath was a good day to this church. Five more were baptized. There are now over one hundred Sabbath-keepers in Oakland. There is perfect unity and harmony in this important church at the center of our work on this coast. The Vigilant Missionary society in Oakland is doing a noble work. God bless the workers.”
V. M. Societies.
By H. A. St. John
While attending the last session of the General Conference at Battle Creek, Mich., we had some opportunity of learning about the workings of the vigilant missionary society of that church. Of course we had seen frequent notices of this society and its workings before, but we had never been favorably impressed with the idea of two societies for manifestly the same purpose, or nearly so. It had really seemed to us that to organize a V. M. society was virtually to write the T. and M. society a failure. We were fully convinced of our mistake, and as fully satisfied of the practical utility of the V. M. S. at the time and place above-mentioned.
Upon returning home we very soon put in operation a V. M. society at Clyde. We have attended three of their weekly meetings, and have been really surprised at the interest, activity, and results. A club of eight copies of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES was coming to one person at Clyde, and scarcely any one else had any interest in their distribution. As a consequence, this noble enterprise would probably have ceased entirely in a few short weeks. This club was turned over to the V. M. society, and at their third meeting it was unanimously voted that the club be continued another year, and six more copies added to the number. And without doubt this number will be increased soon. They also voted to order immediately, twelve copies each of THE HEALTH REFORMER and YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, and ten copies of THE COLLEGE RECORD.
We shall build up and encourage this kind of work as we have opportunity. God will bless and crown the faithful workers, that faint not by the way, but hold out to the end.
H. A. St. John.
APPOINTMENTS
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Minnesota Conference.
THE seventeenth annual session of the Minnesota Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Hutchinson, June 19-25, 1878, for the election of officers and to transact such other business as may come before the meeting.
EVERY church and company of believers within the limits of the Conference should be represented by delegate at that meeting. If any church or company cannot send a delegate, do not fail to report your numbers, wants, and standing, by letter, to the Conference.
MINN. CONF. COM.
THE camp-meeting of the North Pacific Conference of S. D. Adventists will be held at Salem, Oregon, June 27 to July 2, 1878. The second annual session of the N. P. Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting.
Wisconsin State Conference.
THE eighth annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Madison, May 29 to June 4, for the election of officers, and to transact other business that may come before the meeting. Every church in the Conference and every unorganized body of believers should, if possible, be represented at this meeting by delegates, and where this is not possible, a letter stating their number, condition, and wants, should be forwarded in season.
WISCONSIN CONF. COM.
No preventing providence, I will meet with the Victor, Iowa, church, May 25 and 26.
H. NICOLA.
SPECIAL meetings in Minnesota, as follows:— At Greenwood Prairie, June 1, 2. Dodge Center, June 8, 9.
HARRISON GRANT. L. H. ELLIS.
At Wolf Lake, Noble Co., Ind., May 25, 26. A general attendance is desired. Baptism first-day, May 26. Meeting at Ligonier, Sabbath evening, May 24.
S. H. LANE.
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Hymn and Tune Book. 536 hymns, 147 tunes. $1.00.
History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week. By J. N. Andrews. 528 pp., $1.25.
Life of Wm. Miller. By Eld. James White, 1.00.
Thoughts on Daniel. By Eld. Uriah Smith, 1.00.
Thoughts on the Revelation. By U. Smith, 1.00.
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The Constitutional Amendment: A Discussion on the Sabbath between W. H. Littlejohn and the editor of the Christian Statesman. $1.00. Paper covers, 40 cts.
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The Hope of the Gospel: What it Is, and When it will be Consummated. 10 cts.
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CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1878.
KANSAS, Neosho Falls, May 22-27.
WISCONSIN, Madison, May 29 to June 4.
NEW YORK, East Aurora, “ “ “ “
MISSOURI, Appleton City, “ 30 “ “ “
“ Gallatin, June 6-11.
MINNESOTA, Hutchinson, “ 19-25.
NORTH PACIFIC CONF., Salem, Oregon,
June 27 to July 2.
JAMES WHITE
By James White
Camp-meetings.
CAMP-MEETINGS are becoming one of the most important means of grace to Seventh-day Adventists. The time for these meetings is upon us. These should increase in numbers, and in general turnout. The growth and importance of the cause demand this.
We hope to attend the Michigan camp-meeting, at the time of the General Conference.
JAMES WHITE
To the Brethren in New York.
We are requested to announce that Eld. S. N. Haskell will be in attendance at the Aurora Camp-meeting, May 29 to June 4.
The Biblical Institute.
THOSE who have read THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES have noticed the report of the Biblical Institute held in Oakland, Cal., April 1–17, 1877, which has occupied quite a large place in that paper during the past year. Those articles gave a synopsis of the discourses delivered during that Institute, covering all the main points of our faith. They have now been issued in book form, having review questions appended to each lesson, and containing also the questions which arose in the class, with the answers to the same.
The subjects are presented in the same manner that they would be were they to be written out to-day. All the main facts, figures, data, and arguments on the important themes canvassed are given. It is a book for universal use. Families can use it for general reading. Sabbath-schools and Bible-classes will want it as a text book for study. In short, brethren everywhere can now have a Biblical Institute by themselves in their own church. It will be good to put into the hands of investigators who want a comprehensive synopsis of our faith. The number of pages is 352, nicely bound in muslin, with gilt back and side titles, making a comely and elegant volume. It is now ready, and orders can be filled at once. Price, single copy by mail, $1.00, with the usual discount by the quantity.
The School. New Campaign.
By Trustees
THE present term of the school will close in about five weeks, June 26, and after a vacation of nine weeks, a new school year will commence with the fall term, the last Wednesday in August.
We expect many new students to enter at the beginning of the fall term; and it is the design of the managers to increase the facilities of the College as shall be demanded by the increased patronage.
It is now designed to open with the fall term a Normal Department, in which special attention will be given to the theory and practice of teaching. It will be under the management of one who has specially fitted himself for that branch of the work, and has shown himself eminently successful in it. This will afford just as good advantages of this kind as can be had anywhere. The young should not delay to avail themselves of the advantages now offered at the College. No one has any too much time to prepare for usefulness during the important time before us, and those who have not already commenced the work of preparation should do so at once. We hope to see five hundred students at the fall term. TRUSTEES.
Minnesota Camp-meeting.
By Harrison Grant; WM. H. Hall; Calvin Kelsey
AS THE time for our camp-meeting is but a few weeks in the future, and I understand that the most of our brethren are making arrangements to attend, and some are inquiring what they need on the ground, I would say, All that can should bring a tent, straw ticks, quilts, robes, &c., so as to care for themselves as far as possible. One and perhaps two forty-foot tents will be pitched on the ground to accommodate those that cannot provide small tents for themselves.
Let none stay away from this meeting, but bring your children and neighbors with you, and our camp-meeting committee will do all they can to make you comfortable. There will be plenty of hay, straw, and oats on the ground for teams, and the provision stand will be supplied and open.
We cannot get reduced fare on the railroads this year. All that come on the cars and want conveyance from Glencoe or Dassell to the camp-ground should notify J. L. House, at Hutchinson, by letter, immediately, and they will find teams ready at the depot to bring them on the ground at a reasonable price. We expect Eld. Canright and Bro. Stone to attend our meeting.
Brethren, let us see you all out to this meeting, as we have promise of help from abroad.
HARRISON GRANT, Minn.
WM. H. HALL, Conf.
CALVIN KELSEY, Com.
Terrell, Kaufman Co., Texas
By R. M. Kilgore
Notice.
IN answer to letters received from the North, I would say that we can furnish names and addresses to any who may wish to send the SIGNS to this field. We are gathering the names of such as we think might read the paper and be benefited by it. R. M. KILGORE.
Terrell, Kaufman Co., Texas
Correction to Danvers Report in Review
By Dudley Marvin Canright
CORRECTION: In my report from Danvers, Mass., in REVIEW No. 19, Vol. 51, the sentence, “The brethren pledged on the house $488,” should read, “The brethren pledged on s. b. $488.” D. M. CANRIGHT.