OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 14.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The dedication of a new church and school-building near Hewitt, Wis., is announced for May 17.

Six members were added to the church at Kansas City, Mo., March 13, and two the Sabbath previous.

Two persons have united with the church, and others are observing the Sabbath of the Lord, as a result of labor by Brother H. R. Johnson, at Amery, Wis.

Brother F. D. Starr reports to the Reaper, under date of March 13, that he was on the way to Westlake, Idaho, to dedicate a new house of worship.

The Medical Missionary Board has decided to dedicate the new sanitarium at Madison, Wis., on May 3. Dr. J. H. Kellogg has been invited to deliver the principal address.

In a report of Brother G. B. Thompson, president of New York Conference, in the Indicator, we note that the Lord is blessing the work in Buffalo. He says: “It seemed refreshing to see such large bundles of the Signs being delivered from the Post-office, to be sold into the homes of the people. The Lord is greatly blessing those who are engaged here in this work. And hundreds of our people all over the State could be engaged in a similar work with this good paper.”

Writing to the Workers’ Record from Rainey, Mo., Brother Steward reports that twelve persons have recently begun to observe all the commandments of God, in connection with his labors at that place.

The March number of the Advocate of Christian Education is being placed in the hands of something over forty thousand public school teachers in the United States. As previously announced, this issue has been specially prepared for this purpose, and is well adapted to the introduction of the great subject of Christian Education.

The business sessions of the General Conference, after the first meeting, were preceded by two days (Sabbath and Sunday) of earnest presentation of the fundamental truth that constitutes our message, and of the needs of the great field. Seven discourses were given—by Brethren W. W. Prescott, G. A. Irwin, A. G. Daniells, L. R. Conradi, and A. T. Jones, and Sister E. G. White.

A Presbyterian pastor in Kokomo, Ind., gives this testimonial: “I have examined the book, ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ and unhesitatingly recommend it as a valuable addition to any one’s library. It is devoted to a study of the parables, and I feel sure it will prove helpful in arriving at an understanding or interpretation of these precious teachings. I most cordially recommend it to the public.”

From North Yakima, Wash., comes this good report: “Our treatment rooms are doing a good business here. We don’t begin to have the capacity to fill the calls, as we only have one set of rooms, and only one can work at a time. There are ladies enough to occupy the whole time. We are now thinking of enlarging our capacity by putting in rooms right in the business part of town as soon as we can find a suitable location.”

We have frequent indications that our church-school system is coming to be appreciated by people not of our faith. The teacher of the school at Adams Center, N. Y., says that “four pupils have been taken from the village school and placed in ours, who are not of our faith. One of them is a Catholic, one a Seventh-day Baptist, and two are from parents of no church whatever. I think the pupils are interested. I am sure I never taught nine weeks that I enjoyed more, and we all believe that the school has helped us toward realizing that ‘the knowledge of God is as high as heaven and as broad as the universe.’”

During the last session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, a bill was introduced designed to amend some obsolete features of the old State Sunday law of 1794. From a report in the Review, we take the following:—

Brother W. H. Smith succeeded in placing in the hands of every member of the Legislature literature bearing on the question, and it had a telling effect. It was clear that the Sentinel, which has been placed in the hands of each member during the present session, has also been having its effect. Several speakers lifted the Sentinel from their desk, commending it as an organ standing in defense of principles of liberty, recommending that it be read by every citizen. When arguments were presented showing that, upon Bible grounds, the first day of the week has no foundation as the Sabbath, and that arguments of the clergymen for Sunday enforcement, based upon the Fourth Commandment, had failed to apply to the first day of the week (since the Sabbath law refers to the seventh, not the first day of the week), there was a general clapping of hands by nearly all the members of the House, showing the effect which has been produced by the reading of the Sentinel and other literature placed in their hands. It is just such occasions as these which the Lord uses to bring the truth for this time before the leading men of the nation.