OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 19, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 41.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

SEPTEMBER 17, Brother H. Nicola baptized four candidates at Charlotte, Mich.

THREE candidates were baptized at Sweetwater, Texas, on the 18th ult., by Brother A. W. Jenson.

At the last quarterly-meeting of the church in Oakland, Cal., four candidates were baptized by Brother J. D. Rice.

MEETINGS recently held at Howard, Mich., by Brethren A. L. Evans and James Thorp resulted in the baptism of seven converts.

A LETTER from Brother E. L. Sanford, dated Winchester, Ky., September 12, notes the organization of a church of ten members in that place, as the result of tent meetings.

PROF. N. W. KAUBLE, late of the Industrial School at Sheridan, Ill., has been chosen as principal of Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich. Prof. J. W. Covert succeeds him at Sheridan.

WRITING from Naruna, Va., Brother C. B. Rule reports that he pitched a tent in that place and commenced meetings September 2, and by the 18th fourteen persons were keeping the Sabbath. This letter dated the 21st says, “We have now sixteen, and three others have said they are ready.”

At the late session of East Michigan Conference, the following officers were chosen: President, E. K. Slade; vice-president, A. R. Sanborn; secretary and treasurer, Frank Hiner; field secretary, H. B. McConnell; superintendent of education, J. G. Lamson; secretary and treasurer of Sabbath-school work, Tillie E. Barr.

We have received the first annual calendar of the Maplewood Industrial School, situated twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minn. The post-office address is Maple Plain, Minn. The prospect for this new educational institution is apparently good, and surely the purpose is good. “The school farm consists of ninety-two acres of fertile land. About forty acres of this is covered with heavy timber, a large portion of which is sugar-maple; hence the name, Maplewood.” The calendar is illustrated with several fine views of the premises. For particulars, address O. O. Bernstein, principal.

A LETTER from Brother H. G. Thurston, president of Mississippi Conference, speaks encouragingly of the work in that field. There are now ten organized churches in the conferences, besides some companies not organized. A year ago there were but three churches. The present condition is the result of new accessions, and the gathering and organizing of scattered forces. They have money in the treasury to pay all bills, which, Brother Thurston says, would hardly be true but for the liberality of California brethren. He has also been able to gather several hundred dollars in New York and Pennsylvania for the Industrial School at Huntsville, Ala., which is one of the important interests connected with the work for the colored people of the South.

THE following extract is from Brother W. W. Eastman’s report in the Southwestern Union Record: “In her report one of our workers writes, ‘A few days ago, while canvassing, I was showing a lady my book. She learned that I was a Seventh-day Adventist and said, “I don’t want any Seventh-day Adventist book. I have a book on the coming of the Lord by my own denomination.” Then she went on to tell what a wonderfully good book it was. Finally I asked for the title of it, which she could not give; so I asked to see it. When she brought the book, to my surprise, it was “Heralds of the Morning.” I said to her, “Why, that is a Seventh-day Adventist book.” Then I had a good talk with her about it.’ Another canvasser writes that, after showing a lady the book, she said, ‘Well, if that is Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, I am one and did not know it.’ She gladly took a book.’”

In the Sabbath-School Worker for September we note an excellent article by Sister Carrie Knight, of Bocas del Toro, Republic of Panama, from which we clip this excerpt: “Just think of it! Only twenty workers in this vast field! They are obliged to endure hardships to which our people in America are strangers. The work is so great that they are compelled to work far beyond their strength. Their money is so scarce that they must sacrifice the comforts which you enjoy at home. They meet discouragements such as you never dream of. They never complain, knowing that these things ‘work for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’ They need your sympathy, your prayers, and some of the means God has given you. O for a faith like Paul’s, ‘to work’! O for a faith like Abraham’s, who ‘went out, not knowing whither he went’! O for a faith like that of the poor widow, who ‘cast in all that she had’!”