OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 38.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A camp-meeting to be held at Bartow, Fla., is announced for October 10-20.

A camp-meeting is now in session at Cleveland, Tenn., to continue till the 22d inst.

There is to be a camp-meeting for Southern Mississippi September 26 to October 5. The meeting is to be held at Quitman.

Four new Sabbath-keepers at Coleridge, Neb., is noted in the Reporter by Brother Robert Ryan. This is fruit of recent labors.

The baptism of four candidates at East Galway, N. Y., is noted in the Indicator by Brother G. B. Thompson, president of the conference.

The company of Sabbath-keepers near Stanley, N. D., were recently organized into a church by Brother Lars Neilson. He writes to the Worker that the members are mostly young people of earnest faith.

Captain Johnson, with the missionary boat Sentinel, has returned to New York through the Erie Canal from his trip to Buffalo. He speaks encouragingly of his labors in Buffalo Harbor and at Tonawanda.

Brother Geo. I. Butler, president of the Southern Union Conference, reports to the Watchman that a church of twenty-six members has been organized at Brooker, Fla., where Brethren C. B. Stephenson and Crisler have been laboring.

From a report of the Nebraska Conference we take the following items of interest: “The Conference is now composed of sixty organized churches, with a reported membership of 2,600. There are thirty church buildings, and the amount of money given for the support of the Gospel work in the Conference during the year ending June 30, 1902, was $25,640.76. In addition to this the sum of $5,275.39 has been donated to missions outside this conference. Besides aiding financially, workers have also been sent as missionaries to Africa, Australia, and other mission stations the past few years.”

At the close of the recent camp-meeting at Alpharetta, Ga., thirteen candidates were baptized. Writing to the Watchman, Brother H. F. Courter says of this meeting that “it was peculiar for its deep spiritual, heart-searching experience.” This is, in a measure at least, accounted for by an expression of Brother W. C. Wales in the same paper, concerning the meeting. He says: “Seldom has there been seen such a spirit of sacrifice among our people as the brethren of the Alpharetta church manifested in order to make this meeting a grand success. And the Lord surely rewarded their efforts.” Brother Courter was elected president of the conference.

Michigan Conference has been divided into four parts. The upper peninsula is made a mission field, with E. R. Williams as superintendent and Mrs. F. Hutchinson as secretary and treasurer. The rest of the State, excepting the city of Battle Creek, is divided into three organized conferences, as follows: Northern Michigan Conference,—president, S. E. Wright; secretary, E. A. Bristol; treasurer, Mrs. M. C. Kenyon. Eastern Michigan Conference,—president, J. D. Gowell; secretary and treasurer, E. I. Beebe. Western Michigan Conference,—president, A. G. Haughey; secretary and treasurer, D. W. Reavis. Battle Creek is under the jurisdiction of the General Conference.

From the island of Trinidad Brother W. G. Kneeland writes to the Dakota Worker: “Our hearts were made glad a few days ago to know that some funds had been sent from Dakota for use in church buildings. That is our greatest need. I have been working with my own hands considerably of late teaching the natives how to build cheaply. The two churches that we began in January and February are far enough along so that we use them to save hall rent. It will take about $50 worth of material to finish them, but that means many months of self-denial for our brethren to do that in addition to what they are doing. Port of Spain is doing nobly to raise funds to build.”