OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1903

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

In response to the call of the Mission Board, Brother A. W. Kuehl and wife, of Minnesota, are preparing to go to South Africa.

As a result of literature, a camp-meeting, and a series of tent-meetings, there is now at Coshocton, Ohio, a company of twenty-five and a Sabbath-school of fifty members.

Prof. C. B. Hughes, who has spent several years in school work in Australia, says that Australia occupies about the same position as a missionary center for the islands that the United States does for the world.

Brother W. A. Spicer, secretary of the Mission Board, left New York January 1 for the West Indies. The Review states that he is planning to hold a general meeting in Jamaica and also in Trinidad. This is with a view to organizing conferences in these islands. He is also to visit British Guiana, and to return to this country in time for the General Conference, which is to convene March 27.

The Review of January 6, the first after the fire, contains a striking story on the first page. The story is told in a picture with two parts. The first part shows the great publishing house (the largest and best equipped in the State of Michigan) as it was on the last day of December, in full blast; and the second part shows the ruins of the same establishment the following day. Thus is fulfilled the proverb, “Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” The old Review, that for more than fifty years has been heralding the Advent message, still lives. And better still, the truth of God lives and will go forward though all the institutions in the world were consumed. The editor of the Review truthfully says: “Fire can not burn up this message. Satan and all his hosts can not destroy it. It is a part of the eternal purpose of God, and it has in it the living and life-giving power of God’s own life. And the home of this message is not in buildings of brick and mortar, but in the hearts of those who receive it. The burning of a building and the destruction of machinery employed in printing the truths of this message need not retard the progress of the message in the least.” It is refreshing to hear these hopeful expressions from those who are called upon to immediately face the terrible disaster.

At a recent general meeting at Buffalo, N. Y., Brother B. E. Connerly was ordained to the Gospel ministry. He and his wife have been called to labor in Porto Rico. At the close of this service a liberal collection was taken for the work in that needy island. The Indicator says of this meeting that several persons gave their hearts to the Lord for the first time, and the ordinance of baptism was administered in a Baptist Church, which was kindly loaned for the occasion. During this meeting Brother A. O. Burrill was assisted throughout by Brother W. A. Spicer, secretary of the Mission Board.

Says the Welcome Visitor: “The young people’s society of the Cleveland church has a membership of about twenty-five earnest Christians, who meet every Sunday evening at the house of some member of the church. These meetings of the young people are very lively and interesting, so much so that some of the older members of the flock attend them. Their object is to become more familiar with the Third Angel’s Message, to become filled with the spirit of truth, that each one may be able and ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.”