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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 9.

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Our Work and Workers.

A church was recently organized at Cement, O. T., by Brother U. Dake.
An institute for canvassers will be held in Oklahoma City, O. T., March 5–26.
The annual session of Montana Conference will be held March 13–21, in Helena.
The colored brethren of Kansas City, Mo., have a Mission Sunday-school of fifty members.
Wisconsin reports twenty-eight church-schools, with 385 pupils, besides the school at Oneida.
Brother I. G. Knight and wife, of Kansas, have gone to Central America to engage in missionary work.
Four candidates for baptism at Fish Creek, Wis., under the labors of Brother J. Kloss, is noted in the Reporter.
Three heads of families have accepted the truth as presented by Brother J. O. Peet, at meetings held at Stony Brook, Minn.
Three additions to the ranks of Sabbath-keepers in Helena, Mont., is part of a report in the Bivouac by Brother W. A. Gosmer.
The students of Union College, at College View, Neb., are making an effort to raise funds for the education of a worker in Argentina, South America.
January 24 a Sabbath-school was organized at Cozad, Neb., and two persons took their stand on “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”
As a result of meetings held in Taloga, Ark., by Brother J. N. Sommerville and Sister Minnie Syp, seven persons have accepted the Sabbath of the Lord.
Three persons recently accepted the truth in Milwaukee, Wis. A former saloon-keeper has given his heart to the Lord—and there is joy in heaven, as well as in Milwaukee.
At the request of the Mission Board, Brother J. M. Hyatt and wife, of Minneapolis, have gone to the Gold Coast of Africa to engage in missionary work. They are supported by Minnesota Conference.
The Montana Bivouac states that Brethren L. A. Gibson and P. S. Quinn “are having an excellent interest at Rockvale, south of Billings. Twenty have already accepted the truth, and still others are interested.”
After the camp-meeting in Adelaide, South Australia, last fall, meetings were continued a while by Brother E. W. Farnsworth, with the result that a company of thirty Sabbath-keepers was called out to witness for the truth.
The German people of St. Louis are taking a deep interest in meetings held by Brother H. Gellert. Some come a distance of twelve miles, and some sisters walk eight miles. Two Roman Catholics have accepted the truth.
Brother G. M. Brown, of Nebraska Conference, has been called by the Mission Board to take charge of the work in Mexico. He is the fourteenth laborer that has been called from Nebraska Conference within the past two years.
A report in the Central Advance, from Brother J. W. Beams, who has been laboring in Ionia, Wyo., says that “many are rejoicing in the Saviour’s love who recently were skeptical. Over twenty have taken their stand for the truth, and others are deeply interested.”
The name of the Bible Echo, published at Melbourne, Australia, has been changed to Australasian Signs of the Times. The postal authorities refused to register the paper for transportation through the mail at newspaper rates, unless it was made to conform to their ideas of a newspaper. So more of the matter must be of the character of news, and to add to this feature the publishers decided to change the name also.
The March number of the Advocate of Christian Education, published by the college at Berrien Springs, Mich., is to be a special for public school teachers. An effort is being made to place it in the hands of all the teachers in the country. It will be mailed to any address for four cents. Such an opportunity may never come again. We have noted this enterprise before, but it is worth emphasizing. How about the teachers in your locality? Have their names been sent in?
In sending the request for publications, which appears in the regular place, Brother Sawyer says: “I am furnishing about one thousand readers with literature.” This example is worth noting, as this brother is an aged man who has to earn his living in addition to doing his missionary work.
Incidental to the labors of Brother Jens Jensen among the Scandinavians of Clifton, Texas, an anti-tobacco movement was recently started there which created quite an interest. Some prominent citizens, including the mayor and leading physicians, took an active part in the meetings. A goodly number of people were induced to give up the habit, and pledges were taken against the use of the noxious weed.
The new sanitarium at Sydney, N. S. W., was opened for the reception of patients January 1. The Avondale School at Cooranbong was opened January 6, with 110 students. A private letter from the editor of the Australasian Signs of the Times says: “The Lord has greatly blessed the school and prospered them in their work on the farm. Altho drought has prevailed around them, they have raised good crops, and I never ate finer peaches than grew in the orchard there this year. They have raised sufficient produce to supply their school family, and have sold quite a quantity besides. This school farm is only another evidence that it is always safe to walk in the light that God gives.”