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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 42.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

VERY encouraging reports of the canvassing work come from Natal, S. Africa.
A NEW church-school building has been erected at Spirit Falls, Wis., and the school itself is under way.
THE brethren in St. Paul, Minn., have opened two church-schools—one English and one Scandinavian.
AT the Nebraska State camp-meeting, which closed September 15, twenty-two persons were baptized.
BROTHER G. W. REASER is now conducting progressive work in Johannesburg, S. Africa, with an organized company.
AT the recent camp-meeting at Long Prairie, Minn., nine persons were baptized. A collection for foreign missions amounted to $1,012.61.
THE October Life Boat is a Home Purity number, and an edition of 75,000 is being printed. Price, 2 cents. Address 28, 33d Place, Chicago, Ill.
IN Buffalo, N. Y., September 20, four persons were baptized by Brother A. O. Burrill. The Baptist Mission on Virginia Street was used for the occasion.
THE brethren of South Dakota Conference have secured fifty acres of land near Elk Point, and are erecting buildings for an intermediate industrial school.
IN a recent issue of the Minnesota Worker is a report of a branch Sabbath-school in St. Paul, by Sister F. E. Stewart, who states that the number of members is seventy-one. There are many other places where a like work could be done.
OUR sanitarium at Skodsborg, Denmark, has been visited by the King of Denmark, the Queen of England, and the Empress of Russia. The papers have noticed the fact, and that these royal visitors were pleased with the institution, and said many kind words for its work. The sanitarium has more patients than it can conveniently accommodate.
BROTHER W. A. FLODING and wife are now on the way to Samoa; Dr. S. A. Lockwood and wife are ready for Japan; Sister Cora Blodgett, of Nebraska, will leave this month for Natal, S. Africa; and a brother and sister are to be selected for China in a short time.
BROTHER M. E. OLSEN writes from London that “our school opened with something over thirty students. We are holding it this year in Holloway Hall.” He also notes that his father (Brother O. A. Olsen) was making a short stop at Skodsborg, Denmark, for treatment and rest.
THERE is a growing missionary spirit among our young people. At the recent Iowa camp-meeting about three hundred pledged themselves to enter the work of the Lord whenever and wherever called. At a later camp-meeting in Nebraska, upon a like call, nearly two hundred responded.
BROTHER R. W. MUNSON writes to the Mission Board from the Island of Sumatra, E. I.: “At the coal mines at Sawah Loento there are four thousand convicts, mostly Javanese, and two thousand free coolies. I have been asked to preach to them. The mines are government property. This is a good opening.”
THE Fortnightly Visitor has this encouraging word from our Matebele Mission, Rhodesia, S. Africa: “The father of two of the girls recently baptized has given consent for them to live at the mission, and they have brought a sister with them. Two more young men and another girl have come to attend school. We have now sixty-four pupils enrolled. Two of the native boys are assisting in the home school, besides spending a portion of each school day in teaching another school seven miles away. They have an average of twenty-eight in that school.”
A BATTLE CREEK, Mich., paper makes the following reference to the progress of our new sanitarium: “The steel gang at the sanitarium has begun work on the supports for the first floor of the men’s bath-rooms, and the bricklayers have started laying the walls of the first floor. The pillars to support the gymnasium floor have also been set in position. The cement floor gang is now putting in the fourth story in the main wing of the big building. The other floors are filled with plumbers, steam-fitters and electric wiring men, who are putting in their part of the work as fast as possible.”
FROM Fiji, Brother J. E. Fulton writes to the Bible Echo that “a native has begun to preach the Sabbath truth, tho he had never met any of our missionaries. He accepted the Sabbath through reading a portion of a torn tract, and quite a number more have become Sabbath-keepers by reading our native literature.” Under date of September 12, Brother Fulton writes to the editor of the SIGNS that himself and family designed to go to Australia the present month. He says: “We feel the need of a change. My wife has been quite poorly of late. I feel better than I did a few months back. I will write from Australia for our little monthly paper here, and will continue translations already under way. We will be located at Cooranbong, N. S. W., for a time.”
AMIDST the sufferings caused by financial panic and smallpox epidemic in Barbados, W. I., Bro. W. A. Sweany writes encouragingly of the work. He says: “None of our people have taken the disease so far, and we are hoping and praying to be spared to the honor and glory of His name and cause. I am glad to say that despite all these forbidding circumstances, our work is prospering and making some advancement. The church members are almost all earnest and active in the various lines of church missionary work. No phase of our work has as yet been interrupted. The church is packed and surrounded by interested listeners on Sunday nights, and some are deciding almost every week to obey God, and many more are studying. There will be quite a large class to be baptized at the next quarterly-meeting.”