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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 10.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A LETTER in the Bulletin reports the addition of two members to the church at Grinnell, Iowa.
PREPARATIONS are being made for a city mission in Fort Worth, Texas. Brother O. Glass has the work in hand, and would appreciate any practical help.
THE REAPER reports that a Sabbath-school of about twenty members has been organized, and a good work is being done with publications, at Westlake, Idaho.
THE REPORTER states that our Hygienic Café at Madison, Wis., “is becoming very popular with the university students, and is giving general satisfaction to the public.”
ON the 7th ult., Brother H. W. Reed attended the quarterly-meeting at Birnamwood, Wis., and besides the election of officers, two persons were added to the church.
FROM the Industrial Educator we learn that a new church of twenty members has been organized at Avinger, Cass County, Texas. Already they are maintaining a good church-school.
BROTHER M. C. STURDEVANT, a well-known laborer in the Southern field, has decided to go to Matabele Land, South Africa, to help supply the want of laborers in that needy land.
THE Helping Hand Mission at Spokane, Wash., has become in part a medical mission, having a free dispensary and regular days when Dr. Leadsworth, of the Mount View Sanitarium, gives free help to the poor.
THE Keystone Gleaner says that Dr. John Eccles, well known in Pennsylvania a few years ago, died, January 18, in Colombia, South America, where he and his wife have been laboring as self-supporting missionaries.
THE Workers’ Bulletin notes the receipt of a letter from Brother John Hoffman, of Borga, Finland, in which he says they had just had a canvassers’ institute, from which fourteen workers had gone forth with the printed page.
BROTHER ENRIQUE BALADA, our Spanish minister, began labor in Callao, Peru, some months ago, and gathered in a few souls, among them a missionary of twenty-two years’ standing, named Signor Billasol, who is now assisting Brother Balada.
TWO OF OUR missionaries to Chile, Brethren G. H. Baber and T. H. Davis, recently returned to the United States. Brother Baber had been six years away from his family, who reside in Illinois, and Brother Davis, who has been absent seven years, returned on account of ill health.
JANUARY 26, a new church was dedicated at Hildebran, N. C. Brother J. O. Johnston preached the sermon and Brother J. E. White offered the dedicatory prayer. The other public laborers present were Brethren D. T. Shireman (pastor), F. W. Halladay, S. Brownsberger, and R. T. Nash. The building was dedicated free from debt.
BROTHER J. B. COGSWELL, a self-supporting missionary who now resides in Minneapolis, Minn., writes that he uses regularly fifty to sixty copies of the SIGNS, twenty copies of the Sentinel, besides several copies of the Instructor, Little Friend, Review and Herald, tracts, etc. To this he adds, “God bless the SIGNS; it is a great missionary.”
ON the fifth of February, Brother C. E. Leland and family sailed from San Francisco for Hilo, H. T., to engage in missionary work. He goes with the indorsement of the Pacific Union Conference, and was ordained to the Gospel ministry in this city just before starting. Brother J. N. Loughborough offered the ordination prayer, and Brother J. O. Corliss gave the charge. Brethren M. H. Brown and W. S. Sadler also took part in the service.
THE Union Record, of Australia, relates that one of our book agents in New Zealand met an old lady who had been keeping the Sabbath alone for five years. She had been convinced of this duty by reading our Melbourne paper, the Bible Echo, which some one had sent to her. When her friends ridicule her, she tells them her Sabbath-keeping is a contract between her and the Lord, and she enjoys a better spiritual feast on that day than on any other.
A GENTLEMAN writing to our branch office in Kansas City, Mo., for some literature, adds: “I am a life-long Baptist, and only two months ago my attention was called to the Sabbath question. For my life I can not find where our Saviour, or the apostles, or any of the early churches kept the first day of the week as the Sabbath, nor any account of the change of the Sabbath excepting by the Catholic Church. So I have kept the last four seventh days for the Sabbath.”
BRO. A. G. DANIELLS, president of the General Conference, arrived in this city from Battle Creek, Mich., on the 23d inst. He spoke in the church in the afternoon. On Wednesday evening he started, with the company of delegates and others, to Portland, Oregon, to attend the annual session of the Pacific Union Conference. His talk in this city was full of encouragement and bright prospect for progress in the work.
A FAINT idea of what the faithful book-canvassing evangelist sometimes has to endure in certain regions, is told in the Reaper by Brother Fee, who writes from Burns, Oregon. He says: “Two weeks ago and a little more, I was wandering in a blizzard and sleeping out in my wagon with the temperature ranging from 13 to 24 degrees below zero for several days. But now the mud and water have driven me into shelter for a while.” However, he sent in a good order for books.
THE California delegation, accompanied by some brethren from other parts, en route to the Pacific Union Conference at Portland, Oregon, commencing the 27th ult., secured the exclusive control of a modern sixteen-section tourist sleeping car, which left Oakland the night of the 26th. The following named persons composed the company: W. T. Knox, A. G. Daniells, A. T. Jones, J. N. Loughborough, J. O. Corliss, W. C. White, H. G. Thurston, M. H. Brown, E. R. Palmer, M. E. Cady, Dr. David Paulson, Dr. A. N. Loper, E. R. Albrecht, E. A. Chapman, J. J. Ireland, C. H. Jones, W. V. Sample, A. J. Bourdeau, A. Boeker, E. G. Fulton, C. E. Frisbie, H. W. Rose, H. H. Haynes and wife, Mrs. C. R. King, Mrs. J. Gotzian, Miss Edith King, and Mrs. Jasperson.
THE Workers’ record of the 19th ult. has the following extract from a letter written by Brother R. C. Porter, of St. Louis:—
Last Friday and Sabbath the newspapers came out with a flaming advertisement of three business men, who, by studying the Bible, had concluded that the seventh day was the Sabbath, and had applied to the court for a legal incorporation as a “Modern Sabbatarian Society.” I went down Sabbath afternoon to call on them, but the man I went to see was not in his office. Having other engagements for Sunday and Monday, Brother Gellert (our German minister in St. Louis) called on them Monday morning. He found that all spoke the German as well as the English. They were surprised to find there were any Christian Sabbath-keepers in the world. They supposed they were founding a new sect. They say there are others interested. They promised to attend our next Sabbath service. We await with interest our further acquaintance with them.