OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 10.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE new house of worship at Connersville, Ind., was dedicated on the 8th inst.

AT Trezevant, Tenn., four students were recently baptized by Brother B. Hagle.

NEW YORK CONFERENCE is pledged to furnish a tent for mission work in Scotland. The cost will be $200.

THE Wisconsin Reporter says that the work is progressing nicely at the Madison Sanitarium, and the building will soon be completed.

LABORS of Brother C. E. Ford at Westlake, Idaho, have resulted in the addition of a dozen or more to our ranks, and the erection of a new meeting-house.

EIGHT persons have recently accepted “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” at Ellensburg, Wash., under the labors of Mrs. J. G. Smith. Owing to her little girl’s affliction with small-pox, she was obliged to temporarily leave a growing interest, and submit to a quarantine at Yakima.

OF the work in St. Louis, Mo., Brother R. C. Porter says that “the tract work is being entered upon with good interest. The young people are energetically pushing their part. The church-school and the children generally have organized themselves for aggressive work and are actively pushing forward.” Four candidates were baptized on the 7th ult., and one other made application for baptism.

THE new industrial school at Boggstown, Ind., will be continued through the summer until August, in tents. The Reporter says that “the Indianapolis church-school has agreed to buy the shingles for the new school-building at Boggstown. The children are now busily engaged in raising the money, the amount required being about $100. The Muncie church-school has promised to pay for the large double front door.”

CONCERNING the support of the church-school work, Brother R. C. Porter says, in The Workers’ Record: “God by the mouth of the prophet Amos, pronounces a woe upon those who are now at ease in Zion, stretching themselves indifferently upon their couches, while their children are drifting to destruction. The next view the prophet presents is the young wandering from sea to sea to hear the Word of the Lord when it is too late. They faint from thirst in the terrible famine, fall and never rise again.”

A LETTER from Brother and Sister H. H. Brunsteller, dated Falkner, O. T., February 20, says: “Brother Robert Bagby has been holding meetings at this place. The house was generally crowded, and the interest manifested throughout the meetings was exceedingly good. As a result, quite a number have decided to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, and a Sabbath-school of twenty-eight members was organized. We greatly rejoice in this, and tho we live fifteen miles distant, when health and weather permit we expect to be among this little company of worshipers.”

“SLOWLY, but surely, the branch Sabbath-school work is coming to be regarded as effective missionary work. These branch Sabbath-schools can be conducted wherever a few children can be gathered together.” This is what Sister L. Flora Plummer, corresponding secretary of the International Sabbath-school Association, says on the subject. To this she adds letters, from which we take this one—

“Our regular attendance is about thirty, but when I can do a little visiting, we have as many as seventy. Many of the children would not miss our school for anything. A number of the boys are ready to leave any play to come. I am getting acquainted with the parents, and am selling some ‘Object Lessons.’ The work is branching out into many openings for good missionary work. I use the Little Friend lessons in the school, and illustrate them as well as I can.”

FROM old Egypt we have an encouraging report by Brother W. H. Wakeham. He sends three pamphlets in the Arabic language, printed at Cairo. These are translations of our standard publications entitled, “Sunday Not the Sabbath,” “Which Day Do You Keep and Why?” and “What the Gospel Abrogated.” Brother Wakeham says: “Egypt is an open field now. A great work could be done here in a short time, if we only had consecrated men and money with which to push a vigorous campaign. Especially are the people ready for our health principles, and in no place in the world are they more needed, or would, I believe, be more appreciated. The cholera has opened the eyes of the intelligent reading classes to the fact that sanitary laws must be obeyed if the country is to be preserved from that plague. So the times are auspicious for our work.”