THE Pacific Union Recorder of April 18 is devoted to a report of the proceedings of the Pacific Union Conference, containing the addresses of the president and department secretaries, together with a report of the conference business. To our brethren and sisters living in the Pacific Union this is a valuable number, and one worthy of preservation for reference. It is much better, we believe, for all our local papers to publish the proceedings of their conferences in a single number than it is to scatter such proceedings through several numbers of the journal.
Death of C. E. F. Thompson
THE Mission Board is in receipt of word from West Africa, announcing the death of Brother C. E. F. Thompson (colored), March 25, from Bright's disease. Brother Thompson was a native of Jamaica, who accepted the truth in West Africa, and had been employed as one of the laborers there for some time. He was faithful and devoted, and his death will be a loss to our work on the West Coast.
Changes in Publishing Department Leadership
IN consequence of Brother E. R. Palmer's taking the general management of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, he has resigned as secretary of the General Conference Publishing Department, and Pastor N. Z. Town, the assistant secretary of the department, has succeeded to that position.
St. Helena Sanitarium Nurses’ Graduation
We have received a copy of the St. Helena Star in which there is given an extended report of the graduation exercises of the nurses' class of the St. Helena Sanitarium, together with other interesting items pertaining to the work of the institution and the sanitarium family.
Lake Union Conference Sessions
The Lake Union Conference is holding its sessions this week, in Battle Creek, Mich. Pastors A. G. Daniells, G. B. Thompson, W. T. Knox, H. R. Salisbury, and Brethren T. A. Ford and D. W. Reavis are in attendance from Washington, D. C.