Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 24, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 12.

Our Work and Workers.

At Iola, Kan., five were recently converted and baptized by Brother B. W. Brown.

The District of Columbia has been organized into a conference, and Prof. B. G. Wilkinson has been elected as its president.

The last Sabbath in January, Brother C. J. Buhalts organized a church of fifteen members at Fort Wayne, Ind., where Brother and Sister J. H. Niehaus had been laboring for some time.

There are six Seventh-day Adventist churches in the Society group of islands. We have also a paper published in the Tahitian language, which practically all the natives are able to read.

Korea has been organized into a separate mission. The working force consists of eight foreign and six native workers. There are twelve million inhabitants to be taught of the soon-coming Saviour.

Sabbath and Sunday, February 27 and 28, Brother A. T. Robinson, assisted by Brother and Sister G. W. White and O. A. Hall, conducted the dedicatory services of a new church building at Bartley, Nebr.

Brother T. B. Westbrook and wife have been laboring at Hornell, N. Y. He writes, “After just fifteen meetings, I asked those who would be true to God to please stand up, and sixteen precious souls took their stand for the blessed truth that we love.”

Work has been started in India in seven languages aside from English; namely, Bengali, Hindi, Burmese, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, and Santhali. This is only a beginning, however, as there are a hundred and fifty languages spoken in India, most of them very difficult to learn.

During the past three years a number of Hindustani men and women have received the message of present truth and have been baptized. Some of these have gone into the work, and are proving earnest and faithful. A church has been organized among the Hindustani people.

A note from Loma Linda (Cal.) College of Evangelists speaks of the school as in a flourishing condition with a total attendance of 107 students of which fifteen are medical. In the regular courses there are sixty-nine, forty-two of which are in the nurses’ course.