OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Brother R. W. Munson is making preparations to go as a missionary to the Philippines.

In the church in this city, on the 1st inst., five persons were baptized by Brother J. W. Bagby.

The addition of four members to the church at Eureka, Iowa, is noted by Brother E. G. Olsen.

Seven members added to the church at Monticello, Texas, is part of a report of Brother H. Woodruff.

A camp-meeting is to be held at Canastota, N. Y., August 10–20. The location is on the New York Central Railroad, between Rome and Syracuse.

At a quarterly meeting held by the church at Beverly, Kansas, in May, eleven members were added to the church. Brethren J. W. Westphal and A. R. Ogden were present.

Brother A. O. Burrill has been transferred from Michigan to New York Conference. He is now engaged in tent-work at Addison, in connection with Brother J. W. Raymond.

At a recent general meeting in London, it was decided that Brother S. C. Haughey should labor in Ireland for a time. Brother Haughey was assigned to the British field by the late General Conference, having previously labored in Ohio.

The seeds of truth sown among the colored people of Houston, Texas, several years ago, are now bearing fruit. Brother Felix Conway reports that six of them are now keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. He also states that Brother J. F. Bahler is doing a good work selling the special number of the Signs in that city, and the blessing of God is attending his efforts.

From the Atlantic Chesapeake News we take this item:—

“A company of four canvassers, consisting of Brethren E. V. Orrell, W. H. Luce and wife, and Geo. Edwin Tack, are now engaged in the exalted work of canvassing on the resident canvasser’s plan. They are combining industrial work with their canvassing, and are located on a little farm at Reisterstown, Md., near the Hannah More Academy. They expect to work the country about there for a radius of fifty miles. They have in a nice lot of produce already, and expect another year to carry on the industrial part more extensively.”

At the recent camp-meeting held at Warren, Pa., there were present Brother A. T. Jones and Sister S. M. I. Henry, of Michigan; Brother G. B. Thompson, president of New York Conference; Brother J. E. Jayne, secretary of the foreign mission board; Brother S. N. Curtiss, manager New York branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., and Brother H. G. Thurston, of California, representing the Signs of the Times. Thirty-six persons were baptized. Conference officers were elected as follows: President, R. A. Underwood; vice-president, Lee S. Wheeler; secretary and treasurer, W. M. Lee.

After an absence in America at the General Conference, Brother C. A. Hall returned to Jamaica. Writing to the Kansas Worker of his subsequent labors, he says: “I have visited and held quarterly meetings with several churches, helped put up the framework of a church, and organized the company for whom I have labored since September last. Seventy persons have signed the covenant at that place, and thirty-eight were organized into a church, with others to follow soon. I am now in a new place [Santa Cruz] and have a motley crowd of hundreds in attendance every night. Some are interested, and many are noisy and troublesome. The people tell me there is only one family of whites in the city. I have not seen any yet.”

A letter from Brother I. D. Richardson (who is canvassing India) to the Visitor, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, gives an encouraging account of his work. The letter is dated Lahore, March 30. The writer says: “During the past month, I have canvassed 19 days, taking 183 orders, which amounts to $518. ‘Patriarchs and Prophets’ and ‘Great Controversy’ are the books being handled here. Many times I take an order for one of each in the same house. I also sell ‘Man the Masterpiece’ and ‘Ladies’ Guide.’ These books take well among natives and Europeans who care nothing for religious books. . . . I am now about 1,264 miles north-west of Calcutta; and I suppose by the time this letter reaches you I shall be about 1,600 miles from there, on the frontier between India and Afghanistan. The natives there are very bitter against Europeans. Several white people have been killed there. But the God of Israel, who delivered His people from the enemy, is just as able to deliver now.”