OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 43.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The baptism of four candidates at Wakamatese, Japan, is reported by Brother F. W. Field.

The tent-meetings recently held at Boonville, Mo., bore visible fruit in six converts to the faith.

That popular little book, “His Glorious Appearing,” is being translated into the Hungarian language.

The Minnesota Worker reports sixteen church-schools provided with teachers, with a number of others yet to be provided for.

A church-school is now under way in Halifax, N. S., with Miss Alberta McLeod, of that city, as teacher. The school opened with sixteen pupils.

The Bible Echo notes that six persons have recently accepted the Sabbath of the Lord in West Australia, the report being from Brother J. Pallant.

Fruit of the message bearing “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” is now seen in Bithynia, Galatia, Pontus, Iconium, Cilicia, Aleppo, and other places made prominent by the preaching of the apostles and their fellow-laborers. Brother B. Z. Baharian says: “Asia Minor is one of the most promising fields, but we need laborers in every province.”

At a general meeting to be held at Saranac Lake, N. Y., October 22-26, a church organization is to be effected. They have just completed a new house of worship.

Montreal has been selected as headquarters of the Canadian Union Conference, and Brethren W. H. Thurston (president) and S. D. Hartwell (secretary) have located in that city. Our source of information does not give the address.

At the session of the Quebec Conference held last month, officers were elected as follows: President, S. A. Farnsworth; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Libbey; executive committee—S. A. Farnsworth, H. E. Richard, Wm. Ostrander, John Ellis, Wm. Blythe.

Speaking of our new prophetic primer, “Things Foretold,” combined with Our Little Friend, the popular child’s paper, the New York Indicator says: “Our church-schools will find in this combination profitable literature with which to work.” This a good suggestion.

The Workers’ Bulletin states that on a recent Sabbath, Dr. George Daniells, a native of Kurdistan, spoke in the church in Des Moines, Iowa. “He gave an interesting and profitable talk on missionary work; and related how, from a captain of a band of brigands and from a home of plenty, he was converted to Christianity by the earnest efforts of a man whom he held up expecting to rob him. Dr. Daniells has suffered imprisonment twenty-two times for his faith, being confined in jail eight months at one time. But in spite of all opposition, his one desire is to work for God and humanity.”

At a recent meeting of the California Conference, in connection with the camp-meeting at Fresno, officers were elected as follows: President, Alonzo T. Jones; secretary, M. H. Brown; missionary secretary, A. J. Bourdeau; Sabbath-school secretary, Mrs. Carrie R. King; executive committee—A. T. Jones, J. O. Corliss, H. G. Thurston, A. S. Kellogg (State publishing agent), D. T. Fero, J. S. Osborne, M. E. Cady, C. H. Jones, and the medical superintendent of St. Helena Sanitarium. The following-named brethren were elected trustees of the California Conference Association: M. H. Brown, G. W. Mills, Reuben Gray, T. A. Kilgore, E. A. Chapman, C. H. Jones, E. G. Fulton.

“The keynote of the St. Peter [Minn.] camp-meeting,” says the Worker, “was that of dedicating all to the service of God. Sabbath, when Brother Flaiz asked all to stand who would give themselves to the service of God to be used anywhere God might indicate, whether in Africa, China, India, or the Islands of the Sea, some twenty-five of our young men and women arose. It was an impressive and inspiring sight, one that touched the hearts of fathers and mothers, and when they were asked how many were willing to give up their sons and daughters, a large number expressed themselves as glad to do so, while many said that they would return to their homes to farm for the Lord as they had not done before. May we have many such meetings.”