Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 22.

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Our Work and Workers

Union College, College View, Neb., reports that this year it is paying expenses.

Pastor Wm. Covert has been chosen vice-president of the Lake Union Conference.

The address of the Welcome Visitor and the Ohio Tract Society is Academia, Knox Co., Ohio.

The West Australian mission field has been organized into a conference, with Pastor J. Pallant as president.

An excellent ten-days’ meeting at Newark, Ohio, is reported in the Welcome Visitor by Brother B. L. House.

Pastor W. A. Colcord recently baptized five persons at Gatton, Queensland, and another at South Brisbane.

The General Conference summer school for teachers begins June 12 at Berrien Springs, Michigan. No expense, except for board and books.

There are 800 Sabbath-keepers in Brazil. An industrial school and several church-schools are in operation, and they are planning to establish a printing plant in connection with the industrial school.

There are two organized companies of commandment-keepers in Wales. One of these is at Cardiff, the metropolis; the other is at Swansea, another large town, and in each the membership is about twenty.

At Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, a little company of Sabbath-keepers has been raised up under the labors of Brethren F. L. Chaney and Arthur Smart. A neat little church building has been erected.

A lady in New York City has advanced $5,000 to be used in opening a health restaurant in that city. She feels sure that the right food will be served, and correct health principles maintained, under S. D. A. management.

At Karmatar, India, Sisters Black and Orr are conducting a school, orphanage, and medical work. Dr. Ingersoll comes from Calcutta twice a month for special work; at other times Sister Black prescribes for patients, and the older students assist in giving treatments.

A new church building is to be erected on one of the principal streets of Toowoomba, Queensland. The site is a beautiful one, overlooking the whole city, a thriving place of 19,000 inhabitants, and the largest city on the railroad line between Brisbane and Sydney.

According to a report from F. I. Richardson in the May number of the Missionary Magazine, there are thirteen companies of commandment-keepers in Jamaica, with a membership of 198 and 112 awaiting baptism. They are erecting eleven church buildings on the island.

A lady from Texas who was a patient at the Boulder, Colo., Sanitarium, last winter, gives this pleasant description of the place in the Keene Industrial Educator:—

Things are getting green here in spite of the snow. It does not get cold here as it does in Texas when it snows. This is the prettiest country I ever saw. The loveliest mountains and canons, creeks, irrigating ditches, plains, lakes, and also the University and Chautauqua grounds, and all of Boulder City, with its forty-eight oil-wells—all are in sight from the sanitarium; and when the mountains and everything are covered with snow, and the moon and stars are shining, and the city is lighted with electricity, it is the loveliest sight I ever saw.

At a recent meeting of the Southern Publishing Association the following officers were elected: President, Geo. I. Butler; vice-president, C. P. Bollman; secretary and business manager, W. O. Palmer; treasurer, W. J. Stone; other members of the board, R. M. Kilgore, R. L. Pierce, L. A. Hansen.

The New York Indicator gives this item: “A Jew who heard Sister White speak recently in New York City became very much interested, and through his influence the committee that furnishes lectures to enlighten the Jews, made arrangements with Sister Geisel, a physician from the Sanitarium, to deliver five lectures, and for this service they pay her $100.”

The first camp-meeting in West Australia was held at East Perth, March 7 to 19. There were thirty-five new tents erected on the ground. Pastors G. A. Irwin, president of the Australasian Union Conference, and Robert Hare, editor of the Bible Echo, together with D. H. Kress, M. D., were in attendance. The meetings were of a good spiritual character. The occasion was both profitable and enjoyable, and the interest was good to the close.

A letter from Brother Walter Harper, who is canvassing in Utah, states that he has taken over a thousand orders in three months, the value of the books amounting to about $2,500. He says, “I am selling some ‘Patriarchs,’ ‘Steps to Christ,’ and other books in foreign tongues. In most of this lot of orders Good Health goes one year. Later the Signs will be sent.” Brother Harper adds that “only God’s grace and power could have wrought such a success.”

The church-schools can do a good work. This has been demonstrated by Brother Philip Conway, who has been teaching in Oklahoma. He says:—

Nearly all my students will be in the [canvassing] work this summer. This causes my heart to rejoice. Our closing exercises encouraged the brethren greatly in church-school work. The program consisted of a series of subjects covering the Gospel story from the fall of Lucifer to the new earth. The people rejoiced as they listened; and even the outsiders came to me and said it was just grand. I see more than ever the necessity for church-schools and the object that God has in establishing them.