Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 13, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 40.

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Our Work and Workers

THREE Germans have recently accepted the truth in Baltimore.

W. M. CUBLEY, of Texas, reports eight baptisms at the New Hope Church.

TEN were reported by W. E. Bidwell and F. E. Gibson as accepting the truth at Youngstown, Ohio.

J. R. BAGBY has been called from Oklahoma to Alabama to take the presidency of that conference.

REPORTS from West Philadelphia are to the effect that thirty-four have given themselves to the Lord.

AT the North Missouri conference in Chillicothe, August 5 to 15, A. R. Ogden was reelected president.

FOUR were baptized at Louisa, Ky., recently, uniting with the McKinney Church. They learned the truth through reading.

E. M. OBERG, of the Upper Columbia Conference, has recently gone to Nebraska to take charge of the book work in that state.

I. M. MARTIN writes from Asheville, N. C., that sixteen have yielded themselves to the Lord, coming from some of the best families in that town.

REPORTING the Dixon meeting in East Tennessee, R. M. Kilgore tells us that eight souls were baptized on the last Sunday of the meeting.

THE North Carolina conference held August 12 to 22, elected as conference president G. W. Wells. M. H. Brown, an old associate in this office, was elected secretary and treasurer.

N. C. BERGENSEN, of Norway, reports to The Workers’ Bulletin, of Iowa, “We have held meetings in thirteen places during the year, and 109 were baptized and added to the church.”

AT the recent North Michigan camp-meeting and conference, J. J. Irwin was reelected to the office of president, E. A. Bristol treasurer, Miss Edith McLellan educational secretary, and H. W. Johnson field missionary agent.

AT a recent Arkansas camp-meeting held in Fayetteville, three were ordained to the Gospel ministry: L. Littell, R. H. Devereaux, and J. W. Dancer. Thirteen were baptized. Elder J. W. Norwood was elected president, and C. J. Dart secretary and treasurer.

A COLPORTER in Ohio last winter was told that it was useless to call upon a certain man, as he was an infidel and would abuse him; but the infidel received him courteously and purchased the book. Later a neighbor bought the same book, “Daniel and Revelation,” having concluded that it must be a good book because of the change that it had wrought in the infidel. He said: “It has made a new man of him. He talks about it and the Bible all the time.”

THE Review and Herald of September 23 records the death of three workers in our cause. Elder H. F. Phelps, who has many times contributed to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, fell asleep in Jesus Sept. 7, 1909, at his home in Minneapolis, after years of painful illness from tuberculosis. He was born in Antwerp, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1839; was at the time of his death 69 years, 8 months, and 21 days of age. He was engaged actively in the ministry for about forty years. Aug. 23, 1909, Elder James B. Wilson died in Pueblo, Colo., in the 71st year of his age. He had been engaged in the ministry for nearly twenty-five years. August 24, Elder Hugo John Schnepper fell asleep in College Place, Wash., at the age of 45. He taught in Battle Creek and Walla Walla Colleges, and labored in the Western Oregon and Upper Columbia Conferences. These faithful men rest from their labors, but their works follow.