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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 23.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The Bethel (Wis.) Academy shows an enrolment of 176 students during the school year.
A church has been organized at Kulp, Columbia Co., Pa., with a membership of fifteen.
Twelve graduates received diplomas at the close of the school year of the Graysville, Tenn., Academy.
Work in Washington, D. C., is being carried on by Brothers J. S. Washburn and L. C. Sheafe. The former has recently returned from England.
The Oakwood Industrial School, Huntsville, Ala., is to be in charge of Brother C. H. Rogers and his sister, Mrs. Estelle Graham, for the coming year.
Nine are keeping the Sabbath at Orlando, Florida, as a result of a tent-meeting held last November, and of Bible-work since done by Brother C. P. Whitford.
The first general meetings for the Balkan States were held in March, one in Roumania, the other in Hungary. Our first canvasser entered Bucharest April 1.
A sanitarium for colored people is in operation at Nashville, Tenn. C. P. Bollman, editor of the Gospel Herald, is president of the board of management.
The name of the union conference which embraces the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado, has been changed from the Southwestern to the Central Union Conference.
Writing from Valparaiso, Chile, Mrs. H. F. Ketring says that she has taken orders for, and delivered, about two dollars’ worth of books for every hour she has been out canvassing.
A parcel of literature on present truth was sent to General Cronje, who is a prisoner of war on the island of St. Helena; and after thanking the donors, he added, “This literature I can recommend to our people.”
Elder W. J. Stone, president of the Tennessee River Conference, has been elected treasurer of the Southern Union Conference vice Elder Irving Keck, who has resigned all official positions on account of poor health.
The branch office of the Echo Publishing Co., Australia, which Brother Harry Camp expects to establish in Durban, S. Africa, will carry a good stock of books, and will be an aid to the canvassing work by enabling agents to get their books promptly.
At the session of the Northwestern Union Conference held in Des Moines, Ia., April 3–13, it was voted to recommend to the Mission Board Edwin H. Wilbur for service in China, Brother B. E. Fullmer and wife for India, and Brother C. J. Buhalts and wife for the African field.
Of meetings held on Eland’s River, twenty miles from Utenhage, S. Africa, Pastor Edmed says: “I had a Kaffir preacher in the congregation, and he was very much interested. One young man began to keep the Sabbath, and has given up smoking, swearing, and the use of liquors.”
“The Lord imparts a fitness for the work to every man and woman who will co-operate with divine power. All the requisite talent, courage, perseverance, faith, and tact will come as they put the armor on. A great work is to be done in our world, and human agencies will surely respond to the demand.”
A report in the Welcome Visitor, from Prof. F. W. Field, who went from Ohio to labor in Japan, states that from Monday to Friday he has two Bible classes daily, attended mostly by students from the high school and the Imperial University. When he speaks in the Sunday-evening service, Brother Hasegawa interprets for him.
The Minnesota Worker of May 14 contains a letter from Pastor W. A. Sweany, who is laboring in Barbados, B. W. I. He reports the workers well, and fully and happily employed. Since Sister Sweany took charge of the school, nearly all the students have been baptized. This paragraph gives some idea of conditions on this distant island:—
I baptized five at the recent quarterly meeting, and one last Sabbath, the latter in the sea at the northern end of the island, where we have a small company. To-day this person, an old black woman, walked all the way here, eighteen miles, as she has frequently done, to get Bibles and other of our books, for which she canvasses with quite good success. At the December quarterly meeting, nearly the entire company walked here, and I baptized four of them. These are earnest, honest, intelligent, precious souls, as well worth laboring for as any in this world. They love and obey the truth at the cost of such sacrifice as most of you know nothing of in that land of plenty.
As a result of meetings recently held at Kaycee, Wyoming, nine persons decided to walk in the Gospel light, and a working company was organized.
The corner-stone of the new sanitarium building was laid May 11, with appropriate ceremonies. Dr. Kellogg has since left to attend the European General Conference.
The work for “Christ’s Object Lessons” is eliciting a great deal of enthusiasm. In Wisconsin one lady whose home duties prevent her going out to canvass has taken ten orders. Two aged sisters, one eighty-two years old and the other in her eighty-fourth year, have each sold, or taken orders for, four books. Many in different States are having excellent success, and are receiving rich blessings in the work.
Writing from Kenilworth, South Africa, Pastor W. A. Ruble says:—
The work here is onward. The war that is still in progress is a great drawback in some ways, but the good Lord helps us marvelously. We are much encouraged in our school work. The college closed last year with the largest attendance in several years. The attendance was not quite so large at the beginning of this year, but we have over eighty in the school and about fifty in the home.
The Life Boat for June will be devoted to the cigaret and tobacco question in pointing out the evils especially to the rising generation. It will contain extracts from letters from prison officials all over the country, and from prisoners also, respecting the good work of the prison number of the Life Boat. The price is only 25 cents a year, and copies of this issue will be furnished at one and one half cents a copy. It ought to have a tremendous circulation. Its address is 28 thirty-third place, Chicago.
Of work in the French field Brethren Arnold and Oscar Roth say, in the Review and Herald, “One who has not lived among the people, who has not seen the incredulity, the indifference, the lightness, the immorality, displayed everywhere and in everything, can not comprehend the difficulties to be met in overcoming the obstacles by which the prince of darkness has surrounded this great nation. But the arm of God is not too short, and we have firm assurance that He has prepared a way through which France can be reached.”
A lady tells this incident of her work while out selling the (South African) Sentinel in Wynberg:—
I met a man as he came in the door [of the bar-room], and offered him a Sentinel. He asked me if it would help him to keep away from the canteen. He went on to say that he was the son of a wealthy man; that he had wasted ten thousand pounds [about $50,000] during the past two years; and that he was so wicked the Lord could not save him. I told him that Christ came to save those who were lost, and he promised to read his Bible and pray. I sold him a Sentinel and Journal of Health, and went on. About half an hour afterward I met him on the street, and he said he left the bar without drinking. Will you not pray for this man?”