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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 26.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The Indiana State camp-meeting will be held at Peru, July 30 to August 9.
June 20, two brethren were baptized in this city by Brother Andrew Brorsen.
Two candidates were baptized at Dayton, Ohio, June 6, by Brother C. A. Smith.
Eleven tent companies have been placed in the field this season by Iowa Conference.
Four tent companies are set apart for labor in West Michigan Conference this season.
At Eagle Lake, Minn., May 16, ten candidates were baptized by Brother M. B. Van Kirk.
The new company of Sabbath-keepers at Franklin, Ind., are building a new house of worship.
On the 6th ult. a church of twenty members was organized at Rainey, Mo., by Brother H. M. Stewart.
Until further notice, the address of Brother John F. Jones will be 221 King Street, Wilmington, Del.
Land and cash have been donated for an industrial school in the Western Washington Conference.
At Nashville, Tenn., May 23, at the close of a discourse by Brother George I. Butler, four candidates were baptized by Brother J. E. White.
At the recent camp-meeting at Colfax, Iowa, forty-four candidates, mostly young people, were baptized.
Reporting to the Pacific Union Recorder, Brother H. G. Thurston notes the organization, on May 30, of a church at Dinuba, Cal., with a membership of nineteen.
On May 30, twelve persons were received into the church at Toledo, Ohio. Nine were baptized by Brother D. E. Lindsey, three having been baptized previously.
Brother G. A. Snyder, who returned to California from Australia early in the spring, has accepted the position of Bible instructor at Walla Walla (Wash.) College.
From Cripple Creek, Col., Brother C. H. Bates writes: “On May 24 six dear souls were buried with their Lord in baptism. Others are keeping the Sabbath, and will go forward later.”
The incidental labors of lay brethren near Petersburg, Transvaal, South Africa, have resulted in the conversion of seven persons to the Adventist faith. One of these is himself a missionary.
Brother A. D. Gilbert, general agent for the Signs of the Times, has been laboring in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., for a short time, in the interest of house-to-house work with the paper.
A new house of worship at Marshfield, Wis., was dedicated on the 21st ult. There is also a church-school connected with this church, several of the pupils being children of parents not of our faith.
Having decided to give themselves wholly to the German work, Brethren J. P. and G. P. Gaede have pitched a tent at Pandora, Putnam County, Ohio. They divide their time between public services and selling German publications.
Our colored school at Vicksburg, Miss., is in charge of Brother N. B. King and Sister L. C. Roby, who were formerly public school teachers at Yazoo City. Brother F. R. Rogers notes the recent conversion of two mothers and eight children in connection with this work.
The Western Oregon Conference, at the recent session, elected the following officers: President, F. M. Burg; secretary, Nellie Nelson; treasurer, Wm. S. Nelson; missionary secretary, G. W. Pettit; executive committee—F. M. Burg, W. R. Simmons, J. M. Cole, F. S. Bunch, A. Carey.
The report of work in Celt, Dallas County, Mo., is reported favorably in the Workers’ Record by Brother D. P. Zeigler. He notes that twelve adults have accepted the Sabbath of the Lord. A Sabbath-school of thirty members has been organized, and land has been donated on which to erect a church. Work will soon be commenced on the building.
At the first annual session of Western Washington Conference, held in May, the following officers were elected: President, E. L. Stewart; secretary-treasurer, Daisy D. Cuddy; missionary secretary and canvassing agent, Lee Moran; executive committee—E. L. Stewart, W. W. Sharp, W. F. Martin, J. N. Clark, and G. A. Peterson. Four new churches were added to the conference—Green Lake, Etna, Ridgefield, and Mossy Rock.
A report in the Southern Watchman, by Brother F. R. Rogers, concerning work among colored people in Jackson, Miss., says: “The work in Jackson, though begun only a year ago with one little child in attendance at the day-school, now has an attendance ranging from twenty-five to thirty, and a company of eleven believers who are ready for organization. Brother and Sister Strachan have labored here faithfully and under great opposition, but the Lord has blessed their efforts.”
On arriving at Johannesburg, Transvaal, Brother A. W. Kuehl, who recently went to that country from Minnesota, found the cost of living very high. Writing to the Worker, he says: “After considerable looking around we finally found two little unfurnished rooms out in the suburb, Jeppestown, for $25 per month. Everything seems to be high in proportion. The motto of this people seems to be: Gold is the principle thing; therefore, get gold; and with all thy getting get gold. Farmers can not depend upon their crops in this country as there are so many obstacles to contend with. They have hail storms of unexampled severity. Every now and then the locusts come in swarms, at times even darkening the sun, and where they alight nothing green remains. The rinderpest takes its share of the cattle, and there are other diseases among the horses and fowls. If it were not for the gold-fields the Transvaal would be of but very little value. There are black men and white men scattered through all the streets of Johannesburg, and it seems that there are people of nearly every nation, kindred, tongue, and people in this great city of the Transvaal.” Brother Kuehl sold sixty copies of the South African Sentinel in one evening on the market square.