OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 37.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

TWO MORE Sabbath-keepers have been added to our ranks at Cove Creek, Haywood County, N. C.

BROTHER F. T. WALES, a self-supporting missionary in Memphis, Tenn., reports three converts to the faith, as a result of recent labor.

THE company of Sabbath-keepers at Waterloo, Iowa, was recently organized into full church relationship by Brother L. F. Trubey.

THE Mississippi Conference has chosen the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Rodney S. Owen; secretary and treasurer, W. J. Blake; executive committee—R. S. Owen, H. W. Pierce, F. R. Rogers, J. D. Hendon, J. H. Rhodes.

THE Southern Watchman says: “The office of the Carolina Conference and nearly all connected with it, together with two other families, have moved to Rock Cut, Iredell County, N. C., and are preparing to build homes in the woods. It is expected that a school building will be erected this fall, and a church-school conducted during the winter.”

AS a result of lectures on the prophecies, illustrated by stereopticon views, by Brother J. E. White, in the chapel of the Southern Publishing House, at Nashville, Tenn., fourteen persons have commenced the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord, and, says the Watchman, “each week is adding to the number.” And in addition to this, “a precious revival work has sprung up in the church.”

THE Union Conference Record, of Sydney, N. S. W., notes a letter from Fiji which states that Brethren J. E. Fulton and C. H. Parker had visited the Law District, where three new companies had just begun the observance of the Sabbath as a result of literature distributed among them. The inhabitants of several of the islands in the group are becoming interested through the same means.

J. H. STUCKEY, a First-day Adventist evangelist, traveling with a “Gospel Wagon” in California, says: “There is some prejudice at every place against us, where there are Seventh-day Adventists, because people do not, as a rule, know that there is much difference between the Seventh-day sect and the Advent Christian people. I take the trouble to let people know very soon that we are not Seventh-day Adventists.” Good; that is right.

THE fourth annual announcement of the Cedar Lake Industrial Academy, at Cedar Lake, Mich., is at hand. It is a neat pamphlet, containing valuable information about the school, and a number of illustrations showing views in and around the premises. In addition to Bible and the ordinary academic studies, instruction is given in a number of industrial occupations. The fall term begins October 6. For specific information send for the calendar, to Prof. J. Grant Lamson, Cedar Lake, Mich.

WE have to record the death of another faithful missionary in a tropical field. Brother Frank J. Hutchins died at Bocas del Toro, Colombia, August 4, of bowel trouble, after a few days’ illness. He was aged but 33 years, but, in company with his wife, had been in Central America and Colombia since 1891, as missionaries. He was a native of California, but a graduate of Battle Creek (Mich.) College. A letter from his wife, copied by the Battle Creek Enquirer, says: “The funeral was the largest ever attended in that section of the country, and was conducted by Rev. E. C. Notman, the Baptist missionary at that point. Three launches and a large lighter were required to take the funeral party to the place of burial, the American cemetery at Macca Hill, where the remains were deposited by the side of the late Dr. Eccles, another Adventist missionary, whose death occurred on January 18.”

THE California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association maintains a vegetarian café at 755 Market Street, San Francisco. It is under the supervision of a board consisting of E. G. Fulton, manager; H. H. Haynes, R. A. Buchanan, M. D., A. Booker, and B. F. Richards. The Helping Hand and Medical Mission is another charge of the association. It is located at 641 Commercial Street, San Francisco, and is under the direction of G. B. Douglass, superintendent; E. E. Parlin, and W. S. Sadler. The association also maintains the San Francisco Union Home at 971 Howard Street. It is under the personal direction of E. G. Fulton, H. H. Haynes, and R. A. Buchanan, M. D.

THE Battle Creek, Mich., Enquirer, of August 18, devotes over a page to descriptions and illustrations of the new sanitarium building now in process of erection in that city, on the site of the buildings that were destroyed by fire six months ago. The principal view shows the main building up to the second story, together with the foundation walls of the gymnasium and bath-rooms in the rear. The view gives some idea of the immensity of the structure, which will be 560 feet long, and the width at the narrowest point will be 50 feet. A pavilion at each end will increase the width to 62 feet. There will be three rear wings, making a total depth of 278 feet. With the present buildings, the managers expect, when the new one is completed, to be able to accommodate 1,000 guests. They are caring for 350 at the present time.

BROTHER WM. COVERT, president of Wisconsin Conference, writes: “I drop you a note in regard to our annual camp-meeting, which was held at Grand Rapids August 14–25. The number of our people in attendance was variously estimated at from 800 to 1,000. I do not think that I ever attended better meetings. Fifty persons were baptized. Seven churches were received into the conference. Arrangements were made relieving the General Conference Association of $6,000 of its indebtedness, by Wisconsin taking the responsibility of the same to its creditors. Donations and pledges were taken as follows: $710 for the work in Scotland; $1,000 toward a sanitarium at Madison, Wis. We voted to continue the salary of Sister Thompson in Hong Kong, China, thus connecting Wisconsin with the Chinese mission field. Plans were made to greatly enlarge the church-school work in the State. All things proposed to the delegates by all committees were carried without a negative vote in any instance. This is quite remarkable, when we consider the various interests that were discussed and acted upon.”