OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 47.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE West Virginia Conference is now in session at Parkersburg, to continue till the 30th inst.

AT the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Darbyville, Iowa, five members were added.

As ONE result of a general meeting recently held at Wrights, McKean Co., Pa., five persons were baptized.

FOUR candidates for baptism in Buffalo, N. Y., is the report of Brother A. O. Burrill in the Indicator of the 4th inst.

THE brethren at Cedaredge, Col., are preparing to build a new house of worship. Brother G. O. States is in charge of the work there.

BROTHER H. H. DEXTER and wife, formerly California laborers, but more recently of Maine, have changed their field of labor to New Orleans.

BROTHER J. L. LOUGHBOROUGH arrived in this city on the 4th inst., after an absence of about four months, during which time he attended camp-meetings and other meetings in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.

BROTHER J. W. BOYNTON, who has been laboring in Alberta, Canada, for the past two years, reports to the Central Advance that they have four organized churches and several smaller companies in that new field. They have one church school.

THE Minnesota Worker of the 4th inst. says: “Last Friday evening seven who have lately accepted the truth under the labors of Elders Stone and Steen, were baptized at the Lake Street church, Minneapolis. Six of these have united with the Scandinavian church.”

UNDER date of Shanghai, October 24, Brother J. N. Anderson writes: Drs. A. C. Selmon and W. H. Miller, with their wives and two nurses, Miss Simpson and Miss Erickson, reached Shanghai to-day, where, according to previous arrangement, they were met by the writer. They report a favorable voyage, and all seem strong and well prepared to enter upon their work. After a brief stop here, all will proceed up the Yang-tse about six hundred miles to Hankow, where Brother Pilquist will meet us, and escort us to our mission station in Honan.”

As in ordinary callings, so in the work of the Lord, keeping at it is what counts. Brother F. E. Painter says, in the Atlantic Union Gleaner: “Many of the most prosperous canvassers I have ever known were men of ordinary ability. Nothing particularly brilliant about them or their work, except the quality which kept them at it, while some of their more talented fellow workmen were taking it easy at home under the pretense of writing letters, or with some other equally good(?) excuse. They never have any remarkably large report to send in, but they always have a report as regularly as the week rolls around.”

TO THE WORKER’S BULLETIN Brother John Hoffman, writes encouragingly of the work in Finland. Of their annual meeting, held at Helsingfors, September 25 to October 4, he says that about forty of our people were in attendance. A good interest was manifested by a few outside of our own people, and Brother A. C. Anderson was left to conduct a further effort. The laborers have been blessed with good health, altho the climate is very severe. They are getting out a Finnish song book, and are printing 15,000 copies of the special Finnish paper. Those who know of Finlanders in this country should order this number of the paper sent to their address.

WRITING to the Atlantic Union Gleaner concerning the work in Bronx, New York City, Brother George A. King says: “The plan of using periodicals freely is working well. Since January 1 about three hundred yearly subscriptions have been obtained. During the tent season of this year nearly one hundred subscriptions were taken for the SIGNS alone. The work in the Bronx is a healthy and growing work. During the last eighteen months thirty-two have been added to the church. Others will be baptized and unite with us at the first opportunity. Scores are interested, and we are overwhelmed with openings for Bible work. The members of the church, forty in number, are using tracts freely. They also take a club of SIGNS amounting to three hundred and seventy-five copies each week for missionary work.”

Two SPECIAL appeals come to us from the South. One is from Brother N. W. Allee, president of Tennessee River Conference, asking for a small printing plant to be set up as a feature of the school at Hazel, Ky. He says, “If any of the friends of the cause of education in our Southern field have such an outfit, and would sell at a reasonable price, or, better still, donate it, a worthy and needy cause would be greatly benefited.” Address Prof. C. L. Stone, Hazel, Ky., or N. W. Allee, 1025 Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tenn. In connection with this call, we have another from Prof. B. E. Nicola, principal of Oakwood Industrial School, Huntsville, Ala. He, too, is anxious to install a small printing plant, and a blacksmithing outfit in order to increase the efficiency of the school as an industrial institution, and incidentally to help defray expenses. So far the school is dependent upon charities for support.