OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 7, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 36.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

FIVE persons were baptized by Brother S. B. Whitney, in Onondaga Valley, N. Y., August 6.

FOUR candidates were baptized by Brother Geo. W. Rine, and united with the church at Sacramento, Cal., August 14.

AT the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Rockford, Ill., two candidates were baptized by Brother L. D. Santee.

IF you want to see a live interest in the message, note the places where the circulation of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and kindred literature is being pushed with energy and faith.

WRITING from Galesburg, Ill., Brother Geo. G. Johnson says: “I have been here a year. Sixteen have been baptized and fourteen added to the company in this city. A new chapel for meetings and church school has been erected and dedicated of late.”

At a meeting held at Jeddo, N. Y., July 8-10, five candidates were baptized. Three united with the Jeddo church, and two with the church in Buffalo. This meeting also resulted in clearing off the debt on the new house of worship, and was, therefore, an occasion of much rejoicing. This was the last meeting attended by Brother A. O. Burrill in New York before taking up work as president of the Ontario Conference.

On the theory that God wants the last message of mercy proclaimed in the very center of our noisy, throbbing cities, Brethren M. L. Andreasen and L. H. Christian have pitched a large tent in a very busy part of Chicago. Their report in the Recorder notes the situation in these words: “The Socialists, Mormons, Free Methodists, Plymouth Brethren, Salvation Army, and several other wandering parties and preachers, hold forth, some of them, every night, and all of them some nights, within a stone’s throw of the tent. Right behind the tent, near the platform, is a large music and merry-making palm beer-garden.” Yet, it was necessary to add a twenty-foot splice to the 40x80 tent in order to accommodate those who want to hear the truth. A further word is, that “one of the most encouraging features of the work is the eagerness with which people buy and read our tracts.”

THERE is no limit to the ways of doing good. Brother W. B. White, in Pacific Union Recorder, tells this experience during a recent journey: “The train was running through a forest; near by the track a man was cutting wood. He seemed to be entirely alone. I waved the package of tracts and tossed them to him. I saw him leave his ax and go to pick them up, and I thought, Surely he will read them, and no one knows the good they may do. Coming to a small station, I saw the engineer of the pumping plant looking out of the window. Rolling up a small bundle of tracts, I tossed them to him. He came out, opened the package and looked at the headings, then lifted his hat to thank me for them. While the train was standing at the station, I saw five men gathering around him, looking at the tracts with him. I sent a silent prayer to God that the truth might find a lodgment there. A lady was working in a garden near the railroad, and a good, strong throw landed a package of tracts near her. She carefully picked them up, and I saw her put them in a little basket that she had with her. May the Lord let the seeds of truth fall into her heart. Another package of tracts was thrown at the feet of a section boss. Before the train carried me out of sight I saw him unroll the package, and, after looking at the headings, he withdrew from the men at work, and, sitting down in the shade, began to read.”