OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER L. T. NICOLA reports to the Indicator that six adults were recently baptized as the result of labor at Campville, N. Y.

NOVEMBER 23 was the date set for dedicating the new house of worship in Kansas City, Mo. Brother A. G. Daniels, president of the General Conference, was expected to be present.

THE brethren at Joplin, Mo., have completed their new house of worship, and have moved the old house onto the same lot for church-school purposes. On the 9th ult. thirteen members were added to the church.

THE Second Seventh-day Adventist Church of Washington, D. C., has purchased a house of worship at the corner of 12th and M Streets, at a cost of $12,900. It was formerly owned by the Central Methodist Church. The membership is sixty-five.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL was recently organized at Fairview, Texas, by Brother H. Clay Griffin. The school is in charge of Brother J. F. Springer, formerly a Baptist minister. A four-acre plot of ground has been donated, along with other substantial pledges, for the erection of a house of worship.

A CAMP-MEETING was held in South Australia in October, which resulted in thirty souls being won to the Christian life. Brethren E. W. Farnsworth and W. A. Hennig were the ordained ministers present, both of whom went over from Melbourne. Brother Farnsworth reported back that he never had seen a larger percentage of really interested persons in a camp-meeting; so it was decided to continue with a series of tent-meetings.

FROM Laurento, La. under date of November 3, Brother S. B. Horton writes: “The Lord has worked marvelously here. We pitched tent here October 21, and have had a good attendance of Catholics as well as Protestants. We organized a Sabbath-school last Sabbath. About forty were present, mostly adults, many of whom have taken their stand for the truth. Among these are a Methodist preacher and his family who had previously opposed the work. Ground and funds are being furnished and promised for a meeting-house.”

NOVEMBER 8 eleven persons were baptized in the lake at Hiawatha Park, near Mount Vernon, Ohio. Ten of the number were students of the Mount Vernon Academy, at Academia.

A TEACHER in New Zealand writing of the tract lately printed in the Maori language, says: “There were Maori girls coming to see after school nearly every day this week for that tract, ‘Second Advent,’ asking for tracts for their fathers to read, and I have run out of them. They were so anxious to get them and the Little Friends. The most of them can read English. There is a glorious work among the Maori children here, I am sure, if we could only get the books.” Another says, “You will be glad to know that the Maoris appreciate their tracts.”

WRITING to the Welcome Visitor from Cincinnati, the 9th ult., Brother F. H. Henderson says of the SIGNS work: “Brother Granger and myself ordered fifty copies (twenty-five each). These we disposed of in various ways, and sold single copies at five cents each; and some on hearing of our work would often give us twenty-five cents for a single copy. Lastly we took out a few of the old Centennial Number, and started out to give them away; but quite frequently we were offered five, ten, and twenty-five cents, and one lady gave me thirty cents for a copy. I was often encouraged by words like these, ‘I am so glad that you are in our neighborhood distributing such good literature.’”

IN the Workers’ Bulletin we note an interesting letter from Sister Julia L. Atwood, who recently located at Quitman, Miss. She says: “An interest had already been awakened by a camp-meeting, at which the educational work received attention, and four hundred dollars was pledged toward an industrial school. The land was donated by the Mississippi Lumber Company, which runs a large sawmill in Quitman. We are located on this land, one hundred and sixty acres, which is valued at two dollars and fifty cents per acre. The schoolhouse is enclosed but not finished, as Bro. H. W. Pierce and my husband have been at work on it only since October 14. We live in tents and shall be glad when we can stay in the schoolhouse, for even in the sunny South the mornings and evenings are cool. The land is yet to clear, and I wish that some of our strong northern brethren with their heavy teams could have the privilege of helping to get the land ready for the fruit trees and vines which we hope to set out in February.”