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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 30, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 47.

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Our Work and Workers.

A new house of worship is being erected by the church at Levi, Texas.
Eight candidates were baptized at the camp-meeting held in Decatur, Ark., last month.
The baptism of six persons at Holton, Mich., is reported in the Herald by Brother W. C. Hebner.
The Kansas Worker notes the good work of church building at Leavenworth, El Dorado, Glen Elder, and Hepler.
Brother Wm. Covert notes the baptism of two candidates at Madison, Wis., the result of some meetings held at the sanitarium.
The church at Buffalo Gap, Texas, is much encouraged by the addition of sixteen members, the result of a recent local camp-meeting.
As a result of labor by Brethren R. C. Horton and others, a church of twenty-two members was organized at Bangor, Mich., October 22.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Orange, Wis., five members were added, four of whom were baptized by Brother Swin Swinson.
At Checotah, I. T., where Brethren F. H. Conway and W. B. Toney have been holding meetings, five converts have taken their stand for the truth.
Reporting to the Minnesota Worker, Brother H. Steen notes the baptism of two persons at Bath and the addition of four members to the church in Minneapolis.
A note from Brother John F. Jones says: “A two-weeks’ revival effort at Ford’s Store, Md., has resulted in the baptism of twenty candidates, who have been added to the church.” This report was dated October 22.
The Southern Illinois Herald notes the organization of a church of twenty-two members in Danville, October 15. Also that fourteen persons have accepted the Lord’s Sabbath since the recent camp-meeting at that place.
The company (yet unorganized) at Mountain View, Cal., now hold Sabbath-school and preaching services in the chapel room of the Pacific Press Publishing Company’s new building. The enrolled membership on the 12th inst. numbered 123.
The Atlantic Union Gleaner says: “On October 1, six persons united with the Rutland, Vt., church. Three of these were persons who recently embraced the truth at Bennington, under the labors of Brother T. H. Purdon.” There were two other applicants for baptism.
A report which has been incidentally belated, informs us that fifteen persons signed the covenant to “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,” at Fortuna, Cal., as a result of meetings held by Brethren D. T. Fero, A. Brorsen, and Prof. H. G. Lucas.
A most excellent brother in Israel, A. M. Way, of the Southern California Conference Committee, fell asleep in the Lord the 18th of last month. He died right in the midst of a life of usefulness, at the age of 48 years and 6 months. Our sympathies are with his family and with our brethren in that conference.
The addition of two members to the church at Brookhaven, Miss., is reported by Brother W. H. Sebastian, of Vicksburg, who had been laboring a short time at Brookhaven for the encouragement of the church. He adds: “We need the co-operation of our brethren and sisters to help us to forward this message to our race.”
In the Southwestern Union Recorder, Brother U. Bender reports the addition of five members to the church at Springdale, Ark., in connection with the last quarterly-meeting. On the following Monday he baptized five others in a country place, where a Brother J. F. Klump had been holding Bible-readings with his neighbors.
The Workers’ Bulletin of the 1st inst. says: “If you could have looked into the office of the Iowa Tract Society last Friday and seen the pleasure of the workers and heard the remarks of approval, you would have wondered what was the occasion for it all. The first issue of the special SIGNS had just been received and was being examined. It is fine, just what you need to assist in getting the truth before your friends and neighbors.”
The Indiana Reporter says: “There are now twelve new Sabbath-keepers at Martinsville. The regular meetings every night have been discontinued, but a building has been rented where meetings will be held three times a week, and several workers will remain there and continue the Bible work with many who are deeply interested.”
The training-school for colored workers at Huntsville, Ala., is the only institution of the kind sustained by Seventh-day Adventists. For a number of years it has struggled under adverse circumstances, and consequently has not been able to accomplish all the work for which it was established. This school should be well equipped, so that it can rapidly bring into the field teachers, Bible-workers, colporteurs, and ministers. A strong effort is being made this season to put the buildings into proper shape and provide the facilities necessary to make the work fully successful. Considerable outlay must be made at once, and the work is now in progress. Can you not help a little? It will be a good investment, for time and for eternity.
It is encouraging to know that workers for the “present truth” have at last entered Portugal. Brother C. E. Rentfro and wife, who recently left Iowa for that field, are now located in Lisbon. From a brief report of their journey, in the Worker’s Bulletin, we take the following: “We are quartered in a very nice part of the city, near the home of a former member of parliament, and also near a large English church. There is a large garden near by, which is full of tropical plants and trees. The climate is pleasant. We hope soon to be studying the Portuguese language with the aid of a teacher. The Lord blessed us much while traveling, and for this we thank and praise Him. We are alone now so far as human help is concerned, altho we have found a friend in the person of a Mr. Moriton, agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society of England, whom we do not intend to lose sight of.”
In the Eastern Tidings, Brother W. A. Balrow says: “God has been helping and blessing us in the work at Simultala [India] and the district, and we are full of faith and courage to go forward in His name. During Elder Shaw’s last visit, he had the pleasure of baptizing three Santhals, the first-fruits among the Santhals, as far as we know, as Sabbath-keepers. Two were school students and one a young woman, the wife of our school assistant, and, thank God, they are doing well in studying the message. The young woman will soon be able to read her Bible, altho she could not read until lately. The two newly baptized students lead the other students on Sabbath days into the villages to sing and preach the Gospel and circulate tracts and papers. We also have the Sabbath-school lessons translated into Santhali, and by the aid of our prophetic chart we spend a very profitable hour together.”