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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 36.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Camp-meetings are now in session at Springfield, Ill., and at Ames, Iowa.
An institute for church-school teachers at Anoka, Minn., is being attended by sixteen students.
Brother E. A. Curtis reports to the Illinois Recorder that three members were added to the church at Streator at a recent communion service.
Labor by Brother H. Steen at Local, Becker County, Minn., has resulted in three conversions to the truth, and a good interest continues.
From the Recorder we learn that Brethren M. L. Andreasen and L. H. Christian have pitched a tent on Ohio Street and Center Avenue, Chicago, Ill., which is in the midst of the Norwegian population.
The first work on the Sabbath question issued by Adventists was a little pamphlet of 100 pages, published by Joseph Bates, a retired sea captain, of New Bedford, Mass., in 1846. The denomination known as Seventh-day Adventists was organized in 1863.
From a circular recently issued by the Mission Board, we take this paragraph: “Brother W. H. Wakeham has accepted the call to Egypt; Dr. S. A. Lockwood and wife, of Portland, Or., have planned to go to Japan to open the medical missionary work in that great empire of forty million; Brother Harry Armstrong, of Scotland is ready to go to the Bombay side of India, which has so long waited with its hundred million souls; Natal, South Africa, must at least have a teacher this year, for a new school now building; W. E. Floding, of Emmanuel College, has planned to go to Samoa in September; E. W. Wilbur, of Iowa, to China, in October; Jamaica, Panama, Mexico, Porto Rico, and Sumatra, have expected help.”
We notice in the New Orleans Picayune the advertisement of a new vegetarian restaurant in that city, established by our laborers. The location is 305 St. Charles Street. Through this means our laborers are coming in touch with many of the business and professional classes. Physicians, merchants, lawyers, and clergymen are among the daily diners.
Early in the season the Minnesota brethren decided not to hold a camp-meeting this year, but to devote the time to the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” But the Lord has so blessed that work that it has now been decided to hold two camp-meetings. The first one is announced for September 9-14, at Long Prairie, and the second at St. Peter, September 23-28.
Reporting a recent visit to our mission in Matabeleland, South Africa, Brother G. W. Reaser says: “Some of the converted native boys seem to do as acceptable work in preaching as the average of our young white preachers. The congregation has grown to such a size that it is necessary to erect a new and larger church building. The location of the mission station is pleasanter and much more productive than I had supposed before making the visit.”
The California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association conducts a branch sanitarium and vegetarian restaurant at 315-319 West Third Street, Los Angeles. The board of managers are: F. B. Moran, M.D., superintendent; R. S. Owen, Lee Moran, Clarence Santee, S. S. Merrill, G. B. Hemphill. A branch sanitarium is also conducted in Sacramento, 719½ K Street. Superintendent, G. A. Droll, M.D. Another branch sanitarium is in successful operation at Eureka, cor. Third and J streets, C. F. Dail, M.D., superintendent. The Oakland Health Food Store, located at 46 San Pablo Avenue, is another of the association’s enterprises. Also a health food store at San Jose; and at San Diego a health food store, restaurant, and treatment rooms. These are located in Sefton Block, T. S. Whitelock, M.D., superintendent. A health food store is also carried on in Salt Lake City, Utah.