OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 47.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The addition of three to the church at Elmira, N. Y., is reported in the Indicator, by Brother J. W. Raymond.

The brethren at Joplin, Mo., are erecting a new house of worship. The work was begun while tent-meetings were in progress, conducted by Brethren W. S. Cruzan and D. P. Zeigler.

The late session of North Dakota Conference recommended that some of our books be placed in the public library of Fargo, and that the Sentinel of Christian Liberty be sent to all members of the State Legislature.

Sister Alice Rider, of New Salem, North Dakota, has adopted a practical plan of medical missionary work—that of transforming her house into a hospital for the sick. This is a Bible hospital, and true hospitality. I. Peter 4:9, 10; Heb. 13:2. Surely no class needs such service as much as the sick.

The missionary society of the church at Carthage, Mo., have decided to devote one evening in each month to the study of Christian education. They have recently started a church-school, and it is deemed important that the entire church make the matter of proper education a subject of prayer and study.

Meetings recently held at Lebanon, Ohio, by Brethren J. O. Miller and W. E. Bidwell, have resulted in eight names to the covenant to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” A Sabbath-school of twenty-eight members has been organized. A school-house has been secured for permanent meetings.

The first year of the Southern California Conference showed the following items of progress: increase in membership, 150; tithe received, $12,996.47; annual offerings, $992.26; first-day offerings, $592.52; for India, $105.02; “Object Lessons” fund, $1,125; Sabbath-school donation to missions, $381.17; Christiania Publishing House, $392.22; Southern Field, $79.57; Skodsborg Sanitarium, $43.56.

Brother W. D. McLay recently held a few meetings with Mexicans at Elmendorf, Texas, speaking through an interpreter, and reports three converts to the faith. He also notes that a lady mission school-teacher of San Antonio is keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, having decided the question without suggestion from others. She is well educated in both English and Spanish.

The following note from Sister P. W. Baker of Grinnell, Iowa, breathes the true spirit of our message to the world: “I enclose to you a small help for the work in Barbados, W. I. The article from W. A. Sweany, in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, October 29, is truly very touching, and I feel that I want a part in that island work. My heart is in the missionary cause. . . . I am, as ever, in love with the message, and hope to triumph with it.” Accompanying this testimony is five dollars for the cause specially referred to.

The organization of branch Sabbath-schools is becoming an important factor in our church work. One minister testifies: “Nearly all the members of our regular school have something to do in branch Sabbath-school work. Even the children seem to feel a responsibility in bringing others to the schools. I do not know of anything we have taken hold of yet that has in it the possibility of developing workers as this work has.” This is a sample of many experiences recently related concerning this work; but, like everything else, it requires missionary zeal to make it a success.