p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Five members were added to the church at Killbuck, Ohio, April 5. Brother J. O. Miller was present on this occasion.

Sixty sanitariums and eleven academies and colleges are now conducted by Seventh-day Adventists in the United States.

The Missionary Magazine for May notes the death of two of our foreign missionaries—Brother A. M. Fischer in Porto Rico, and Brother Charles Grin in Belgium.

Through the Worker, Brother W. H. Wild reports thirteen persons keeping the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of distributing literature in Minneapolis, Minn.

Notwithstanding the extensive drought in Arkansas during the year 1901, our canvassers sold books to the amount of $1,835 in excess of sales for the previous year.

The Nebraska Reporter says that six persons have decided to keep the Sabbath of the Lord at Hill City, S. D., where Brothers Johnson and Nethery have been holding a series of meetings.

After a series of meetings in Auburndale, Wis., Brother C. A. Telyea and wife report that fourteen adults and twelve children are now rejoicing in the Lord. They have also organized a Sabbath-school.

In this city, on the 3rd inst., after a discourse by Brother J. O. Corliss, Brother Charles T. Everson was ordained to the Gospel ministry. Brethren J. O. Corliss, J. N. Loughborough, M. C. Wilcox, and M. H. Brown officiated.

The Nebraska Conference at its recent session decided to donate $500 to the work in Central Africa, $75 to pay the fare of W. O. James to the English field, and $50 to help forward the work in New York City, where Brother Luther Warren is now laboring.

At Hong Kong, China, March 1, six young sailors belonging to the British man-of-war Terrible were baptized by Brother J. N. Anderson, who had but recently gone there from America. They had learned the truth from a Brother W. J. Young, while on the voyage to that country. At the same time an old resident of Hong Kong was also baptized.

Brother G. G. Rupert, president of Oklahoma Conference the past year, has been elected president of Southwestern Union Conference, and Brother C. McReynolds has been chosen president of Kansas Conference, vice E. T. Russell, now president of Central Union Conference. Brother H. G. Haffner has been chosen president of the Oklahoma Conference.

We have a little mission school in Basutoland, South Africa, with but one white laborer, Brother J. M. Freeman. He reports that four have been baptized, two of whom were the wife and daughter of an old chief. The chief himself, who used to be a drunkard, now attends all the meetings. His wife died not long after her baptism. The teacher of the school is a native, Brother David Kalaka, who attended our college at Claremont, near Cape Town.

Another one of our early California members has passed away, Mrs. Mary C. Chapman, who fell asleep in Jesus Sabbath morning, May 3, at the age of 72 years, 4 months, and 27 days. She was the mother of E. A. Chapman, the treasurer of this institution, and E. C. Chapman, missionary to the islands of the Pacific, now in the printing and publishing work at Cooranbong, Australia. She accepted the Sabbath truth at Petaluma, where she is buried beside her husband. Their home, when they were living, was ever a pilgrims’ arbor. The bereaved children, three sons and two daughters, are all Christians.

The isolation, as well as the faith, of the Pitcairn Islanders, is well illustrated by the following paragraph from a letter in the Missionary Magazine, written by Brother J. R. McCoy while on a visit to Tahiti:—

Last year we received but one paper from a passing ship. It was a copy of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES of March 6, 1901. I can assure you that it was treasured and read with much interest in the meetings and at home. Our last regular Sabbath-school lessons were the ones that I carried with me when I left California in 1898, but this did not stop our Sabbath-school. We selected portions from the Word of God. Working on Pitcairn Island is like working in a little world all our own.