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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 6, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 27.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Four candidates were recently baptized at Elgin, Ohio, by Brother W. W. Miller.
The baptism of two candidates at Birnamwood, Wis., by Brother C. J. Hermann, is noted in the Reporter.
On the night of June 7 the Piedmont Sanitarium, at Hildebran, N. C., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000.
In the Montana Bivouac, Brother J. C. Foster reports the organization of a church at Rockvale with a membership of eighteen.
Of the work at Mount Forest, Mich., by Brethren D. P. Wood and E. R. Landa, the Banner reports sixteen candidates awaiting baptism.
A new conference organ has been started at Lansing, Mich., to record the doings of East Michigan Conference. Bi-weekly, 25 cents a year.
The school at Edenville, Mich., taught by Miss Celian Nowlin, recently closed with five pupils awaiting baptism. A new school building has been erected there.
Referring to the recent session of Minnesota Conference, the Worker says that thirty-seven churches were represented by eighty delegates. Four new churches were added, aggregating sixty-nine members. During the session twenty-six persons were baptized.
From Washington, D. C., Brother Lewis C. Sheafe writes that he has pitched his tent for a third season’s effort, and asks prayers for success. The visible fruits of his personal labors in the past two years is eighty persons baptized; total number received into the church, 125, and one church organized; for which he gives God the glory.
The following opportune resolution was adopted by the Lake Union Conference, at its late session: “That the religious liberty work be made a department in each local conference, and this union conference, and that some suitable person be chosen in each local conference, and this union conference, as secretary of said department.”
The Sixth Annual Announcement of Bethel Industrial Academy, 1904, is a neat, illustrated pamphlet of twenty-four pages, which gives information concerning our institution at Bethel, Wis., of interest to its friends and prospective patrons. To us the most interesting illustration is that of a two-story dwelling, built by students. The second term of this year began June 29, to close September 27. A note accompanying the pamphlet says: “Professor Washburn, having been called to the Emmanuel Missionary College, Prof. A. W. Hallock has been elected principal to fill the vacancy.”
The editor of the little monthly journal, entitled Save the Boys (the name indicates the object) is contemplating a special issue in the near future, to be devoted to the dangerous character of beer, and the evils of beer-drinking. There is surely enough involved in the subject to make a valuable paper, and, no doubt that number will be well worth circulating. Prices: single copy, 5 cents; five or more copies sent direct to your friends, 4 cents each, if names are all sent at once; in clubs of ten or over to one address, 3 cents each; fifty or over, 2½ cents each. Address, 118 W. Minnehaha Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minn.
Brother W. H. Hyatt and wife have joined the mission workers in Matabeleland, Rhodesia, South Central Africa. Writing to the Missionary, at Cape Town, of their trip, Brother Hyatt says: “At Mafeking we met Brother Tickton, whom we found hard at work selling ‘Christ’s Object Lessons.’ The Lord has greatly blessed his efforts in that direction as he has labored to place this precious book in the hands of the people.” They were met at Bulawayo by brethren from the mission station, and the next evening arrived at the farm. There he found the workers well, and busily engaged in gathering in the crops, and conducting the school. They were greatly in need of the additional help.
Brother L. E. Sufficool sends this encouraging word from Three Lakes, Wis.: “Words can not express the good work the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has done in our field. We have endeavored to place it in every home available, and the results have far exceeded all expectation. With the SIGNS, through God’s help, together with ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ we have succeeded in the establishment of a commandment-keeping church at Eagle River, and the paper is esteemed more highly to-day by the new members than ever before. In company with Brother N. P. Neilson, we are now holding tent-meetings in this place, and expect in the same manner to establish the truth here. Our attendance is good. One family has commenced the keeping of God’s commandments, and others are deeply interested.”
In the Pacific Union Recorder we find the following interesting note from Brother Alfred Whitehead, concerning a recent visit to Richfield, Utah: “On coming down here, I have met with a result of the faithful work of a canvasser. No Seventh-day Adventist minister has ever been here before, but the canvasser has, and, as a result, I found an elderly lady, who has been keeping the Sabbath since 1891, practically alone. She was never inside a Seventh-day Adventist church. She is of Danish nationality, and was a Mormon, then a Josephite Mormon, but now she is a Seventh-day Adventist as far as I can see. She has a copy of ‘Bible Readings,’ and ‘Great Controversy,’ in Danish, and is also a subscriber to the ‘Sendebud.’ She says that next to the Bible, ‘Great Controversy’ was the book that brought her into the truth. She seems to be sound on most, if not all, points of our faith. She is a vegetarian, and drinks neither tea nor coffee, and last, but not least, she has not put her light under a bushel, but the good old lady is well and favorably known in her neighborhood, and has done what she could to let people know what she has learned. She seems to be a spiritually-minded woman, and her great desire is to see the coming of the Lord. Truly the faithful canvasser often does a work that he little dreams of. Let this experience revive the hearts of those who might become discouraged in the canvassing work.”