OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 5, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 39.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A note from Sister A. R. Spencer, of Fall Brook, Tioga County, Pa., says that two more in that vicinity have commenced keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.

The West Michigan Herald says that Sister E. G. White was in Battle Creek September 6, and spoke to a large audience in the tabernacle for an hour and a half.

In Eastern Tidings (published in Calcutta) Sister W. O. James reports that four persons have lately accepted the Sabbath in Simla, India. She also says that the Lord is blessing the periodical work.

On the 28th ult. a new church and school building was dedicated at Hampton, Iowa. This is the result of tent-meetings held by Brother E. E. Gardiner and wife. Brother G. G. Rupert conducted the dedicatory services.

In the Wisconsin Reporter, Swin Swinson notes the baptism of five converts at Rhinelander, Wis. In the same paper Brother N. P. Neilson says that forty-five persons were baptized at the recent camp-meeting held at Oshkosh.

At the North Michigan camp-meeting, which was recently held at Mancelona, forty candidates were baptized in a small lake near the camp. They expect to have twelve church schools in this conference the present season. Brother S. E. Wright has been re-elected president.

At the late session of Wisconsin Conference, Brother Wm. Covert was re-elected president. Four new churches were admitted to the conference: Hines, with sixteen members; Bruce, with thirteen; Appleton, with thirteen, and Black Creek, with ten. Wisconsin now has 101 church organizations. Brethren R. T. Dowsett and L. E. Sufficool were ordained to the Gospel ministry.

“The message of Revelation 14 is the message that we are to bear to the world. It is the bread of life for these last days. Millions of human beings are perishing in ignorance and iniquity. But many of those to whom God has committed the stores of life look upon these souls with indifference. Many forget that to them has been entrusted the bread of life for those starving for salvation.”

In the matter of raising the $100,000 fund for denominational headquarters in Washington, D. C., the following example is worthy of note and pattern by our own people. It is from a letter published in the Review: “Enclosed find money order for five dollars for the $100,000 fund, and I will try to pay one dollar a month until it is raised. I am a Methodist minister’s wife, and this is by self-denial. May the Lord bless and prosper you, is my prayer.”

We are requested to warn our people in the United States against imposition by a family who travel about the country professing to be Adventists, but whose object is to get money by telling pitiful stories. The family consists of husband, wife, and four children. The man is about thirty-five years old, below medium height, has small, black eyes, dark, curly hair, round face, and turned-up nose. The wife is small and slender, with features resembling the man’s, but light hair. Both seem to know many of our ministers and churches.

Brother E. L. Sanford reports the organization of a church of nine members in the Reed Lick Valley, Madison County, Ky. The organization is known as the Beech Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church, and is mainly the result of labor by Brother John W. Stein, Dr. Godsmark, and others. One new member has been added since the organization. At the time of writing, Brother Sanford was engaged in tent work at Winchester, Ky., in connection with Dr. Godsmark and wife, and five had decided to “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” The prospect was good for further success.

From the Union Conference Record we gather these items of progress in Australia; Brother R. Hare reports the baptism of five candidates at Ballarat, and five at Bunyip, Victoria. Avondale School, Cooranbong, N. S. W., reports an enrolment of 170 students. In all the conferences comprising the Union Conference (seven in all) financial gain is reported, excepting in New South Wales, which shows a small deficit. The average weekly circulation of the Australasian Signs of the Times for the past

year was 9,614. The Union Conference, at its late session, decided to send Brethren G. F. Jones and R. A. Caldwell to Singapore, an island of the Straits Settlements, off the Malay Peninsula.

A letter from Brother Ole P. Norderhus, in the Dakota Worker, tells of the work at Lillehammer, Norway. He says the effort in that place brought out a small company of believers. Six sisters from there were baptized at Christiania during the last conference session, and several more are keeping the Sabbath. Some who accepted the Sabbath message had to give up their places of work and go to other towns. Referring to the work in general, he says: “Quite a number have been baptized and added to our churches the past year, but so many emigrate that the conference membership does not increase much. Times are hard here, and the crop prospect is poor over the best part of Norway.”

For five years Brother Freeman has been laboring in Basutoland, establishing and building up the mission at the foot of Kolo Mountain. As he had no companions except native workers, he had a lonely experience; but the Lord was with him, and he stood faithfully at his post. Through the recommendation of the Union Conference Committee, Brother Freeman will now transfer his work to the Orange River Colony, which has long been a neglected field. He will first visit the Sabbath-keepers in the colony, effecting such organizations as may be advisable, and will then carry the truth to the homes of the people. Other workers, especially canvassers, are greatly needed for that colony.—South African Missionary.