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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 46.

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Our Work and Workers.

A church of ten members was recently organized at Canandaigua, N. Y., by Brother S. B. Whitney.
The forty-second annual session of the Minnesota Conference will be held at Anoka, November 19-30.
The brethren in the South African Conference have started out a colporter wagon, in charge of Brethren H. J. Edmed and T. J. Francis.
The mission school at our Matabele station, Rhodesia, South Africa, has a daily attendance of over sixty native pupils. The workers there are erecting a new church building.
Brother E. H. Gates and wife and Sister Hattie Andre, our well-known laborers in the Australasian field, have gone to Norfolk Island to spend the “summer,” our winter time.
Brother D. Kalaka, our native missionary in Basutoland, South Africa, makes extensive tours in a cart, holding meetings and distributing small books and tracts in the Basuto language.
Our first publication in the Malay language has recently made its appearance. It is a 32-page tract, by Brother R. W. Munson, of Padang, Sumatra. It treats of the signs of the times and the coming of Christ.
Brethren W. T. Knox, president of Pacific Union Conference, and Alonzo T. Jones, president of California Conference, were called by telegram to Battle Creek, Mich., last week, to attend a meeting of the General Conference Committee.
As a result of labor at Farmington, Col., by Brother Wm. Kennedy, four members have recently been added to the church, making nineteen so far during the year. They contemplate a church-school the coming winter. Brother M. McIntosh, who makes this report to Echoes, also notes two candidates for baptism at Durango.
It is gratifying to learn of the success attending the enterprise of the Review and Herald Publishing Co., in issuing special numbers of their Scandinavian papers—Evangeliets Sendebud (Danish-Norwegian) and Sions Väktare (Swedish). Through the Iowa Conference office alone, says the Bulletin of October 28, orders have passed the ten thousand mark.
The South African Sentinel says: “Brother A. Tickton, a colporter of Kimberly, made two successful trips last month to the Orange River refugee camps, where he sold a large number of Bibles and religious books, and distributed thousands of papers and tracts. He had the good-will and assistance of one minister who had charge of the spiritual interests of a camp.”
Reporting the work in China, Brother J. N. Anderson says: “A few days ago wife and I made our long-delayed trip to Canton. It was an eye-opener in many respects. Canton is perhaps the largest city of all China. The people dislike foreigners, and do not hesitate to show it by looks and words. It is an important center, and we must not fail to enter there soon. In our work for this and other provinces, it is the gateway.”
Meetings held at Ionia, Neb., resulted in the acceptance of the faith by fifteen persons. The meetings were conducted by Brethren E. L. Cook and J. W. Beams, who were returning to the eastern part of the State from a canvassing tour in Wyoming.
Concerning the branch Sabbath-school work, Sister L. Flora Plummer writes: “There are two young ladies in different locations in the South, who are all alone in the truth, and they each have a fine school. The attendance of each averages fifteen children. What a wonderful factor in spreading the truth this branch Sabbath-school work might be, if it were taken up by every church, and as far as possible in every home. These little schools will become centers of light reflecting truth to all who come within their influence. The light from such schools would form no small part of that great light which fills the whole earth with its glory.”
From Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Brother A. H. Piper writes to the Mission Board: “Our school buildings proper are nearly finished. Our hearts are rejoicing as we see already the lives of many of the children and young people changing for the better. At first they were so hard to control. We are also pleased with the spirit of our native brother and his wife, who are now helping us in the teaching and work. What can you do with our plea for another worker for this group? Now is the time to work these islands. It seems to me I can not do alone any more than I am doing. Chances for work are offered on all sides. The other islands are calling continually for some of our people to visit them.”
At the Greater New York Conference held last month, the following disposition of labor was decided: Brother E. E. Franke to have supervision of the Manhattan division of the city; address, 119 W. 114th Street, New York, N. Y. Brother Luther Warren to have supervision of the Brooklyn division; address, 400 W. 57th Street, New York, N. Y. Brother C. H. Edwards to have supervision of the Bronx district; address, 986 Freeman Street, Bronx Borough, New York, N. Y. Brother O. E. Reinke to have direction of the German work; address, 147 Himrod Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Brother C. Meleen to have charge of the Scandinavian work; address, 256 19th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Brother S. N. Haskell to have direction of the mission work; address, Vendome, 363 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.