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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1904

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

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Our Work and Workers.

THE post-office address of Brother J. H. Rogers has been changed from Los Angeles to Riverside, Cal.
BROTHER T. H. JEYS, of Iowa Conference, has gone to North Carolina, to make that his field of labor.
THE Indiana Reporter notes the recent baptism of three candidates at Lafayette, by Brother A. W. Bartlett.
AT the recent session of South Dakota Conference it was decided to maintain a religious liberty department with a secretary at its head.
IN connection with the recent quarterly-meeting at Baraboo, Wis., three candidates were baptized in Baraboo River by Brother F. F. Peterson.
THE Central American field is soon to have an additional Bible worker in the person of Sister Elizabeth McHugh, of Grand Rapids, Mich.
A LARGE farm has been purchased near Nashville, Tenn., where a training-school is to be established, in charge of Professors E. A. Sutherland and P. T. Magan.
THE headquarters of the Indiana Conference is now located at Room 23, Unity Building, Indianapolis. The office of Lake Union Conference is to be in the same building.
JUNE 18 Brother F. Stebbeds baptized six candidates at Milton Junction, Wis. The company gathered at Clear Lake for the occasion were addressed by Brother Samuel Shadel.
DEDICATION services were held in the new house of worship in Springfield, Ohio, June 26. Services were conducted by Brethren H. H. Burkholder, R. R. Kennedy, and W. W. Miller.
DURING meetings held at Dowling, Ohio, by Brethren F. M. Fairchild and J. P. Gaede, the United Brethren have discontinued their weekly prayer-meetings in order to attend the tent-meetings.
THE Southwestern Union Record gives a report of a good interest in meetings held at Jonesboro, Ark., by Brother J. A. Sommerville. Six adults had commenced the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath, and others were studying the Word with much interest.
FROM Porto Rico, Brother R. E. Connerly reports that two promising young men have begun keeping the Sabbath. Brother Moulton, a young colored man who speaks Spanish, has joined the meager force of workers on that island, and his wife is soon to follow.
AT Thorp, Wis., Brother C. D. AcMoody is holding a course of meetings in the Baptist Church. In the spring he held a series of meetings in the Congregational Church at Amery. These opportunities show the opening providence of God, and a desire on the part of the people to hear more of His truth.
WRITING from Ru Ning Fu, China, Dr. H. W. Miller says: “We are daily finding people searching after something which they have not, and that is a living God. To-day four men came forty miles to be baptized. We ought to have a hundred missionaries in China to-day. ‘Come over and help us.’ China has millions who are perishing. Who are responsible for the lost? And who will come? We ask you to remember the workers already on the ground.”
THE following officers have been elected for the South Dakota Conference: President, C. A. Burman; vice-president, E. G. Hayes; secretary, N. M. Jörgensen; treasurer, L. D. Randall; recording secretary missionary department, L. D. Randall; corresponding secretary, Leona Burman; field secretary, F. L. Perry; secretary Sabbath-school department, Mattie Randall; health and temperance secretary, Dan Isaacs; superintendent educational department, C. F. Betts.
IN the Workers’ Record Brother R. C. Porter, president of Missouri Conference, says: “The SIGNS OF THE TIMES is our pioneer missionary paper for the United States especially. I regard it as the best pioneer missionary paper published by our people. . . . It is now decidedly ‘our paper,’ and its circulation should be greatly increased. Will not each church call up the matter of increasing their clubs and make a special SIGNS campaign in Missouri. Many souls will be brought into the truth if we do all we should in this matter. Shall we not do our best?”
PROF. F. R. ROGERS, who has been an efficient laborer in the school work of Mississippi Conference for several years, has been elected superintendent of the Huntsville (Ala.) Training-school, and Brother J. E. White, who has also been a pioneer in this work, has been made a member of the board of trustees. A meeting of the Southern Union Conference Committee, at which Sister E. G. White was also present, was recently held there, and it was voted to raise $5,000 to place the institution on a more effective basis.
FROM a letter to the secretary of East Michigan Conference, written by Brother R. W. Munson, of Sumatra, East India, we take these extracts: “I am glad to say that, while we have no great things to report, we can say that we are of good courage in the Lord, and the Spirit of God is working with us. There are several adult converts who keep the Sabbath, and a score or two of interested Chinese, who either attend our Sabbath services or are in some way under our influence. The outlook is promising, and we hope for good. . . . I am studying Hokkien Chinese, so as to be able to preach to the large immigrant community found here and all through the East Indies. It is a very difficult language, and I need your prayers, that God may be pleased to give me such a passion for the language, and such a retentive memory, that I can quickly learn it. The gift of tongues is one of the gifts promised to the church in the gifts of the Spirit. I desire with an exceeding great desire to be able to present the truths of the Third Angel’s Message to these poor heathen. We love them, even tho they are dirty and unattractive to the eye.”