OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 29, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 17.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

IN connection with the recent institute at Perry, Texas, four candidates were baptized.

THE church-school at Keene, Texas, has enrolled 118 pupils, and employs three teachers.

THE missionary institute at Hutchinson, Kansas, was closed March 23, and thirty-three persons started for their fields of labor.

AT the recent quarterly-meeting at Alton, I. T., which was attended by Brother A. E. Field, four members were added to the church.

THE brethren in Cleveland, Ohio, are building a new house of worship and expect to dedicate it about the first of June. It will seat 600 persons, and will cost $7,500.

THE openings for labor, and the facilities for doing it, exceed anything that has been in the past. A greater number of people than was ever known before are concerned about things which are transpiring in the world. We have more publications now than we had in the past, and many of these are well up to date. All these things are calling upon us to go into the vineyard to labor.—Wm. Covert.

A CHURCH of eighteen members was organized at Westlake, Wash., March 15, and a new house of worship was dedicated on the same date. Brother C. E. Ford has been laboring at that place, and Brother F. D. Starr was present at the organization and dedication.

REPORTING the result of the first term of the South Dakota Industrial School to the Worker, Brother J. W. Beach says: “We are glad to say we have been able to pay the running expenses of the school from tuition received.” The school is located at Elk Point.

IN connection with tent labor at Bell, Fla., by Brother C. B. Stephenson, he reports to the Southern Watchman, that a Sabbath-school of forty-five members was organized March 21. Also, that about twenty persons were ready for church membership, and that they would soon build a church on land already secured.

A SUMMER SCHOOL of five weeks, closing with an institute of one week, will be held at Graysville, Tenn., beginning May 13. This is for the benefit of teachers, or those who expect to be teachers, for Bible-workers and canvassers, and any who desire to become better informed with regard to general missionary work. Address, The Southern Training School, Graysville, Tenn.

THE California Conference met in annual session in this city the day after the General Conference adjourned. Officers were elected as follows: President, A. T. Jones; vice-president, A. S. Kellogg; secretary, M. H. Brown; treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Company; missionary secretary, A. J. Bourdeau; Sabbath-school secretary, Mrs. Carrie E. King. The executive committee is composed of the following persons, A. T. Jones, A. S. Kellogg, M. H. Brown, M. C. Wilcox, D. T. Fero, M. E. Cady, and T. J. Evans.

IF any one feels a burden to fit up a laborer among the colored people of the South, he can do so at very small expense. Brother S. M. Jacobs, who has been connected with the Industrial School near Huntsville, Ala., for several years, informs the editor of the Welcome Visitor that “ten dollars pays the necessary expense of clothing and books for a worthy poor student in that school for a whole year, his work on the farm providing for board and tuition.” Surely there should be no lack of students at that school.

OF the experience of Drs. S. L. and Myrtle L. Lockwood, who went to Japan last fall, the Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, says: “They are located at Tokyo, and, having been unable to secure a foreign house, are living in a Japanese cottage,—a paper house with sliding walls. They have to purchase all their furniture at sales or at second-hand stores. However, with many inconveniences to meet, the work seems to be opening up nicely. Because of the difficulty in securing a location in Tokyo they think of settling at Kobe. They have become acquainted with influential people there who are glad to do all they can to assist. It is hoped that a house suitable for sanitarium work can be secured soon.”

BROTHER A. G. BODWELL, who is doing evangelistic canvassing work in old Mexico, sends an interesting report to the Southwestern Union Record. Of the town of Zamora, State of Michoacan, he says: “This has the name of being the most fanatical town in the world. It has a population of about thirteen thousand, and has about eight hundred priests. They have a school here for priests, and one for nuns. The first day we landed, in walking one block and a half, we met about twenty-five priests. So you can see the difficulties under which we have to labor. It has only been a few weeks since they killed an American here. But in spite of all this we are taking some subscriptions for our paper. I can sense more clearly than ever before what the reformers had to contend with. It takes patient, careful, untiring labor to accomplish anything. Sometimes, when I leave my room I wonder if I will return alive. The other day, in a small town, I had just turned a corner, and a rock about the size of my fist came whizzing past me. Of course I could not see the one that threw it. So I just walked on, thanking God for the privileges that I was enjoying.”