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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 13, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 7.

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SEVENTEEN converts are reported at Hove, England.
FIVE converts are reported at Cowra, New South Wales.
FOUR more souls have been baptized at Shaffer, Kansas.
NOT long ago eighteen souls in Manila, P. I., were baptized.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL has been organized at Lead, South Dakota.
AT Murgon, Queensland, ten young persons have received baptism.
FOUR more at Traverse City, Michigan, have accepted this truth.
FOUR persons at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, have requested baptism.
DURING the first half of 1911, 107 baptisms were reported in Korea.
THREE persons have lately been baptized at Tacoma, Washington.
TWO Sabbath-schools have been organized in Indianapolis, Indiana.
IN South Kavirondo, British East Africa, sixteen were recently baptized.
SEVEN at Omega, Ohio, have united with us as a result of a tent effort there.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of sixteen members has been organized at Bancroft, Iowa.
DURING the year 1911, 757 conversions were reported in the Central Union Conference.
THREE at Lents, Oregon, have yielded their hearts to Christ, and wish to join the church there.
SIXTEEN at Wenatchee, Washington, have expressed themselves as believing the message.
AT Fallon, Nevada, two have been added to the church, and a number more are awaiting baptism.
WE receive word of a number of conversions in different places in the West Michigan Conference.
EIGHT souls at Oakwood, Oklahoma, have surrendered themselves to this message, and others are interested.
BAPTISM was administered to thirty students of Union College, at College View, Nebraska, early in January.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL has been organized at Brownsboro, Oregon, where fifteen persons have recently accepted the truth.
FIVE persons at Magherafelt, Ireland, have been baptized. A number more are obeying the Gospel who will be baptized later.
THE results of the past season in the tent work in the Atlantic Union Conference are the conversion of about three hundred persons to this truth.
WORD comes from the Tamil mission station, India, of the conversion and baptism of nine persons, and others are preparing for that step.
A FAMILY of three in Surabaya, Java, have recently identified themselves with this people, and a number of others are on the point of deciding.
NINE persons in Richmond, Virginia, have recently embraced the truth, through the labors of Elder W. D. MacLay, and others are deeply interested.
ANOTHER mission field has been entered,—the New Hebrides Islands, by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley McCoy, of Norfolk Island. We wish them success in their new field.
AT Cliff Island, Maine, seventeen went forward in baptism on Sabbath, December 30. These, with three others, received the ordinance in the baptistery of the Portland church.
ON Sabbath, December 23, a new church was dedicated at Butte, Montana. A family of six at Shirley are obeying the truth, as a result of meetings held in that neighborhood during the last month.
NINE young persons recently united with the Claremont, South Africa, church; and twenty-eight at Fish River, Africa, have given their hearts to God, and identified themselves with this message.
EIGHTY new believers in Newbern, North Carolina, are rejoicing in the truth. Besides these, seventy have been baptized in that conference since their camp-meeting in August, and have united with our churches there.
PASTOR W. G. Kneeland reports the baptism of three persons at Plainfield, New Jersey, and the organization of a church of thirteen members. He also reports four or five other persons deeply interested in the truth.
A GENERAL meeting and Bible institute in China was appointed to convene on January 25, 1912, which all our workers from that field, as well as workers from the Philippines, Singapore, Japan, and Korea, were invited to attend.
TWO sisters were recently baptized in the uplands of Peru, South America, fourteen thousand feet above the sea, in the hot springs of the Yauli. During the first eight months of last year forty-one converts went forward in baptism in that mission field.
THE rite of baptism was administered to four souls on a Sabbath in last November, at Quorn, South Australia; to six at Ballarat, seven at Costerfield, and four at Shepparton, Victoria. A church of nineteen members was organized at the last-named place.
THERE comes to us a new periodical, entitled "Gospel Medical Messenger," published bimonthly by the Virginia Conference. As its name indicates, its object is to report progress in work done in that conference in the combination of these two lines of effort—the evangelical and the medical.
A NEW church building was dedicated on December 17 at Hotchkiss, Colorado, free from debt. On December 24 three members were added to their church. Three at Cripple Creek were buried in baptism on January 2. Still others are convinced of the truth, who it is hoped will later come into its full light.
AT Fernando, California, twenty-six young persons followed their Lord in baptism, on a recent Sabbath. Eight were baptized at Fresno, fourteen at Hanford, and five at Eureka. Three more at Eureka are awaiting baptism. Four at Modesto have commenced to obey the message, two of whom have already been baptized.
A CHURCH of fourteen members was organized at Hollister, California, on December 30 and 31, 1911. A number at that place are deeply interested in the message, who it is hoped will take a definite stand later. Three souls at San Pedro have taken their stand, while others are interested. A Sabbath-school of ten members has been organized at Cedarville.
A CHURCH of fourteen members was organized at Ogdensburg, New York, in the last week in December, six of whom are new members, and others who are from other churches joined by letter or profession of faith. Several are observing the principles of the message who will unite later; and still others are interested. A number of new converts were baptized at Troy on a recent Sabbath.
THE good news comes to us from Germany that one of our brethren who had been condemned to seven and a half years' imprisonment for refusing service in the army on the Sabbath day, has been granted his freedom. This was brought about through the personal application of the prison inspector to the emperor himself. By this pardon from the emperor, our brother has escaped two and a half years' confinement, having already for conscience served five long years.