p. 14 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 21, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 3.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS

(Foreign)

Three new churches have been organized in Finland.

The report comes from Haiti that over 50 persons await baptism.

Recently the first church was organized in Ecuador, South America.

Baptism has been administered to ten more converts at Singapore, Straits Settlements.

Pastor C. E. Rentfro reports the conversion and baptism of nine persons at Lisbon, Portugal.

Twenty-one were added to the Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, church the last eight months of 1912.

From Sumatra, East Indies, comes the news of four believers waiting to be baptized, one from the Devil-worshipers.

In Korea during the past year 150 have been baptized, and many others have expressed a desire to unite with God’s people.

Twenty-two new members have been added to the church in Ireland during the past few months, and others are awaiting baptism.

The Latin Union Conference record shows that there were 104 persons baptized during the last quarter in the Catholic field of Southern Europe.

The largest baptism ever held in Australasia was conducted on the last Sunday of the New South Wales camp-meeting, when 80 persons were baptized.

Pastor G. W. Caviness tells of a recent trip among some of the churches in Mexico, during which he baptized 17 at Torreon, 16 at Monterey, and 14 at Visnaga.

Eleven at Christchurch, New Zealand, have been baptized, seven in Wellington, 17 in Auckland, and two in the Palmerston North church. On South Island, four persons have been baptized at Dunedin.

From China comes news of the baptism of six at Hongkong, 24 in Fa-tshan, and in Amoy ten persons are awaiting baptism. Pastor A. H. Bach reports that nearly 100 in Pakhoi, South China, have been won to the present truth.

At Harvey, West Australia, 12 adults have embraced the faith. Four at Broken Hill were baptized, and three others will go forward in this rite at the next opportunity. At the Queensland camp-meeting 24 candidates were baptized.

Brother F. W. Spies reports the baptism of five new believers in Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil. The first baptism in Sao Paulo was recently administered to four souls; and six others are soon to follow. A report from Espirito Santo states that 18 persons have been baptized. At Menteiga a church of 32 members has been organized, and a meeting-house is under process of construction. In the East Brazil Mission the first half of last year 46 persons were baptized.

In a letter from Pastor Elbridge M. Adams, Manila, P. I., he states that “in a little over two years our work has grown from nothing to a church of nearly 140. . . . The change in the government has given the people an opportunity for advancement which they had not before. . . . In their thirst for knowledge they will attend our meetings, read our books and papers. It seems that now is the time to put a strong force into the field. We ought to have not less than five families immediately.”

“O where are the reapers to garner in The sheaves of good from the fields of sin?”

At the Mantandane Mission, British Central Africa, baptism has been administered to 18 individuals, all gathered out from darkness by one boy, who has been laboring for two years at his own home, under persecution, teaching and leading his friends and relatives into the way of truth. Report comes of the first baptism at Neno, Nyasaland, at which 24 believers participated in this ordinance. Eleven were baptized in June at the Tsungwesi Mission, Rhodesia. At the Claremont church, three souls were buried in baptism on November 2. Fifteen were recently baptized at the Maranatha church. At Malawi, during a recent visit there, Pastor R. C. Porter baptized 19. There are fully 160 names in the candidates’ classes for baptism at various schools in South Africa.

Off for Foreign Fields

The following missionaries have recently left for foreign fields: F. A. Detamore to Singapore, Isaac Baker and wife to Central America, A. F. Prieger and wife to Haiti, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Sherman to Argentina, South America, G. M. Brown to Cuba, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Wood to Shanghai, China; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kirstein, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown, and Misses Stout and Murphy, to South America; Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Meeker to Canton, China.

Reported in the Home Land

Sabbath-Schools Organized: Arizona, 2; Ontario, Canada, 1; Alabama, 1; Texas, 1; Oklahoma, 1; South Dakota, 2; Kansas, 2; Wyoming, 1; New York, 1.

Additions to Church-Membership (not including baptisms): Montana, 8; Washington, 9; Idaho, 7; Indiana, 3; Missouri, 40; Ohio, 12; New Jersey, 9; Pennsylvania, 7; Texas, 5.

Churches Organized: Washington, 2; one each in Tennessee, Saskatchewan (Canada), Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Colorado, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire; one company each in Illinois and South Dakota.

Baptisms: Pennsylvania, 21; Minnesota, 10; Tennessee, 38; Illinois, 43; Arizona, 53; California, 143 (Los Angeles during three years, 230); Utah, 7; Washington, 31; Idaho, 9; Oregon, 6; Manitoba, Canada, 4; Saskatchewan, Canada, a Greek Catholic priest; Ontario, Canada, 4; North Carolina, 7; New Mexico, 3; Oklahoma, 188; Texas, 17; Arkansas, 8; Iowa, 27; Michigan, 12; Colorado, 26; Kansas, 26; Wyoming, 3; Missouri, 7; New Jersey, 17; Ohio, 21;

Virginia, 5; Maryland, 10; New York, 15; Rhode Island, 23; Massachusetts, 17; Maine, 5.

Conversions: Pennsylvania, 9; Tennessee, 16; Minnesota, 6; California, 54; Arizona, 7; Idaho, 5; Ontario, 6; Alabama, 16; Florida, 9; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 6; Oklahoma, 15; Iowa, 22; North Dakota, 3; Illinois, 11; Michigan, 11; Wisconsin, 13; Colorado, 14; Kansas, 13; Missouri, 50; Wyoming, 3; New Jersey, 18; West Virginia, 15; New York, 13.

Churches Dedicated: Kentucky, 1; Minnesota, 1; Wisconsin, 1; Massachusetts, 1.

Churches Erected: Kentucky, 1.