p. 13 | Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 15.

Our Work and Workers

Early in March three members were added to the church at Duluth, Minn., by baptism.

Ten of the young people of the church at San Jose, Cal., were recently baptized by Brother D. T. Ferro.

Seventeen students of the Western Normal Institute at Lodi, Cal., and two from the village, were baptized by Brother D. T. Ferro, Sabbath, March 20.

A church of fifteen members has been organized at Mercedes, Texas. The membership is made up largely of believers who have come in from other places.

Brother and Sister W. L. Black report the organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty-two members at Phoenix, Ore. Brother Black recently baptized three at Ashland, Ore.

During 1908 the Middle-Russian Mission took into church-membership 866 persons. The present membership is a little over three thousand. Brother J. T. Boettcher reports splendid interest.

On March 20, six were received into the Dover (Colo.) church, five by letter, one by baptism. Two others were baptized who had been previously received into membership. Brother J. W. Lair makes the report.

Brethren Robert S. Fries and L. L. Hutchinson, the latter a former worker at the Pacific Press, have been conducting meetings at Elmhurst, a suburb of Oakland, Cal. Five have taken hold of the truth through their labors.

Writing from Nyasaland, East Africa, Brother J. C. Rogers says: “At our last baptismal service seventeen were baptized. Six months before, a chief of one of the villages was baptized. Others who were too old or too young to walk seventy-five miles for baptism are still waiting (about a dozen or more). Among those last baptized was the son of a chief of several villages among which is one of our out-schools. We have baptized forty-eight since coming here. Forty to fifty more are receiving instruction in preparation for baptism. We seldom baptize until they have been taught one year or more.”