OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 27, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 21.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS

THREE new churches have been organized in Finland.

NINE believers recently went forward in baptism at Barbados, West Indies.

WE learn of the baptism of fifteen Chinese at Singapore, Straits Settlements.

AT a general meeting held at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, nine persons were baptized.

NEWS comes of the organization of another church in the Philippines, with a membership of twenty-seven.

FOUR more have been baptized at Lord Howe Island, one of the number a woman ninety-five years of age.

IN Old Providence Island, South America, during the past year thirteen souls have received baptism, and four more are preparing for this rite.

BAPTISM has been administered to ten in St. Johns, Newfoundland, and two others have declared their intention to walk in the light of the message.

DURING a recent trip to various churches in Asiatic Turkey, Pastor E. E. Frauchiger, superintendent of the Turkish Mission, baptized ten persons.

PASTOR F. W. SPIES reports the baptism of nine believers at Sao Paulo, Brazil. The past year's work has resulted in the baptism of forty in the Brazil Conference.

THE recently completed buildings of our new mission station and publishing plant in Seoul, Korea, were dedicated on Sabbath, February 1, 1913, Prof. H. R. Salisbury delivering the dedicatory address.

ON April 15 Dr. Law Keem and family, who have been in this country on furlough, returned to China, their field of labor, sailing from Seattle. About the same time, Brother and Sister F. H. Loasby sailed for England, en route to India to engage in missionary work.

NINE at the Maranatha Mission, South Africa, have received baptism, and others are awaiting the rite. Six at Zandfontein, Orange Free State, have been baptized. At Majita, German East Africa, baptism has been administered to twelve, and twenty-eight have asked for baptism. Three churches have been organized lately in this field. In British East Africa sixteen have been baptized at Gendia.

A REPORT from J. L. Shaw gives an encouraging word in regard to the work in India. He says: “It now looks as tho the number of converts to the truth in India this year will be more than in any previous year. In January several were baptized in Rangoon, and eighteen at Nazareth, South India. People are accepting the truth in Lonavla and Bombay. Twenty-two have begun the observance of the Sabbath in Calcutta as the result of the efforts of Elder Comer and his associates.” A Sabbath-school has also been organized in Bombay.

ON the last Sunday of the New Zealand camp-meeting, twenty-four were baptized. On Sabbath, March 15, another baptism was held in Wellington, eight candidates going forward in this ordinance. A church of twenty-three members has recently been organized at Ourimbah, New South Wales, and a church building is in course of erection nearby. Five new converts are reported at Auburn. At the close of the South Australian camp-meeting, twenty-five were baptized. Forty-six were baptized at the Victorian meeting.

CONCERNING the work in Hunan, China, we glean the following from a report from E. F. Cottrell: “At Lin-yang we held a three days’ meeting, which was attended by about forty persons. A goodly number presented themselves for baptism; but as many had so meager a conception of its meaning, we advised the most of them to defer a little time, while they studied the gospel more thoroly. On Sabbath morning four persons were immersed in the beautiful river that threads its way among the mountains, and in the afternoon a church of twelve was organized. . . . On the following Sabbath, at Ih-yang, six were baptized; and in the afternoon of the same day, twenty persons united in church fellowship. . . . Churches have likewise been established at Hwa Yung, Heng-shan, and Ning Siang.” At the last-named place “ten persons presented themselves for baptism, nine of whom were accepted.” “All the candidates were direct from heathenism. . . . This gives for the year a total of sixty additions to the church by baptism. . . . We have ten young men in the Union Training-school at Nanking, preparing for various lines of Christian service.”