OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 29.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

In connection with the recent camp-meeting at Loup City, Neb., eight candidates were baptized.

At Algona, Iowa, June 18, an aged mother and her daughter were baptized by Brother E. G. Olsen.

May 28, six candidates were baptized at Norfolk, Neb., by Brother J. J. Graff. He also reports the baptism of seven persons at Grand Island during May.

At the meeting of the Ontario Conference held at London last month, Brother A. O. Burrill, of New York Conference, was chosen president. During the meeting seven persons were baptized.

Writing from Vicksburg, Miss., Brother N. B. King reports the baptism of three candidates on the 18th ult., and that others were soon to follow. Brother King lost all his household effects by the recent great fire in Yazoo City. His wife was sick at the time, and had a narrow escape.

In the Southwestern Union Record, Brother N. P. Nelson reports that “seven miles from Devall’s Bluff [Ark.] the brethren have pitched a tent in which meetings are conducted by Brethren Ryles, Defreeze, and Devereaux. Ten have taken their stand for the truth and united with the church, and three others have been baptized.” He also notes that “a colored Methodist minister has accepted the truth.” The Arkansas brethren are planning to build an industrial training-school on forty acres of land near Lake Village.

Brother L. D. Santee writes, “We have closed our local camp-meeting at Wheaten, Ill. While the attendance was not large, the meeting was a good one. Brother S. N. Haskell was with us two days, and Brother Wm. Covert, president of the Wisconsin Conference, was with us the entire time. As we had no business in connection with this meeting, the brethren had a good opportunity to seek the Lord. The meeting lasted ten days, and the attendance of our people each Sabbath and Sunday was about three hundred. During the week many were compelled to be away on business. In addition to the help that I have mentioned, all our own conference ministers were here. Brother Covert’s testimony was, ‘It is the best camp-meeting that I have ever attended in Illinois.’ Twelve were baptized, several others waiting to be baptized in their home church. We all enjoyed the meeting, and return home with renewed courage, determined to ‘work till Jesus comes, and then be gathered home.’”