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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 30, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 18.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE book “Steps to Christ” is being translated into the Zulu language.
Six members have been added to the church at Oakdale, Neb., the present year.
MEETINGS held in Highmore, S. D., last month, resulted in ten converts to the faith.
As a result of a five weeks’ meeting at Red Cloud, Neb., twelve persons accepted the message.
A CANVASSERS’ school at Morrisville, Vt., was begun on the 22d inst., to continue until May 8.
BROTHER S. W. NELLIS reports the organization of a Scandinavian church at Enterprise, Wash.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty members was recently organized at Youngsville, Pa., by Brother August Anderson.
A new house of worship is being erected at Redlands, Cal., where Brother S. Thurston has been laboring for a time.
The brethren at Taftsville, Vt., are pushing forward a new church and school building, to be ready for occupation by the middle of May.
A BRANCH sanitarium has been opened at 1809 Wallace Street, Philadelphia, by Dr. A. J. Read and a corps of helpers, and a good work is reported.
Ten persons recently began the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord at Gip, O. T., and a Sabbath-school was organized by Brother D. F. Sturgeon.
FROM the 16th to the 20th inst., Brethren A. T. Jones and J. O. Corliss held a series of profitable meetings at Reno, Nev., which were well attended.
MEETINGS at Divide, Oregon, by Brother C. J. Cole, have resulted in eleven converts to the truth. A Sabbath-school of twenty-five members has been organized.
A LETTER in the Dakota Worker, from Brother W. G. Kneeland, states that a new church building is being erected at Indian Walk, island of Trinidad. Tent-meetings at Prince had resulted, at time of writing, in eight converts, with an encouraging attendance.
In the Nebraska Reporter, Brother W. B. Hill notes that nine heads of families have taken their stand for the truth, and others are deeply interested in the meetings being held at Decatur.
At the late session of the Montana Conference, Brother W. B. White was re-elected president; Mrs. Nettie G. White was chosen secretary, and Brother T. G. Johnson missionary secretary and treasurer.
TWO CAMP-MEETINGS will be held in South Dakota this year; one in the southern part, beginning June 9 and closing the 16th, and one in the northern part, to commence June 16 and continue one week.
It has been recommended by the Northwestern Union Conference that North Dakota organize as a separate conference from South Dakota. Steps toward carrying this out will be taken as rapidly as may be consistent.
At the last quarterly meeting of the church at Clinton, Iowa, six persons expressed a desire to be baptized and unite with the church. They were received into the church, subject to baptism. The occasion was one of rejoicing.
MARCH 16, a church was organized at Monrovia, Cal. The ministers present were C. Santee, president of Southern California Conference, J. F. Ballenger, E. S. Ballenger, and R. W. Miller. Brother J. F. Ballenger was elected pastor of the new church.
At the late session of the Northwestern Union Conference, it was voted to indorse the plan of the Mission Board to begin work in Nyassa Land, Africa, about eight hundred miles northeast of our Matabeleland mission; and over three thousand dollars was given by conferences and individuals to help open that work.
BROTHER WALTER HARPER sends this report of labor at Rock Springs, Wyo., under date of April 13: “In one day I was favored with nearly $100 worth of orders. Not long ago the dear Lord granted $285 worth of orders in one week. In about six weeks I was blessed with orders to the extent of over $1,200. I praise the Lord for it all. He only can give success.”
On the 30th inst., Brethren A. G. Daniels, E. R. Palmer, and some other representatives to the General European Conference, will sail from New York. The following-named canvassers for England will also sail at the same time: G. W. Bailey, of the New England Conference; Joseph Brandt, wife, and daughter, of Wisconsin; W. O. James, of Nebraska; Ernest Taylor, of Texas; William Olmsted and wife, of Oklahoma; Charles E. Holmes and wife, of California; and W. B. Scott and wife, of Oregon.
FROM the Fortnightly Visitor we learn that a new house of worship was dedicated at Uitenhage, in the southeastern part of Cape Colony, South Africa, February 7. Most of the brethren and sisters from Port Elizabeth, and some families from country districts were present; also some from Grahams Town. Brethren H. J. Edmed and D. F. Tarr conducted the services, which were continued from Friday evening till Sunday evening. The building is said to be one of the neatest chapels in the conference. In connection with the occasion, four persons were baptized.
DURING the first week of this month the churches of Arizona were organized into a conference. Brother J. O. Corliss, representing the Pacific Union Conference, and Brother J. J. Ireland, secretary, conducted the organization. Officers were elected as follows: President, E. W. Webster, secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Pauline Heady; State Agent, J. E. Bond; missionary secretary, E. W. Webster; executive committee—E. W. Webster, C. D. M. Williams, Walter Black, J. E. Bond, and Eugene Brown. Brethren Williams and Black were ordained to the ministry. Brethren J. E. and F. S. Bond were given ministerial license, and Sisters Webster, Williams, Black, and Iles were granted missionary license. The conference numbers 150 members.
A LETTER from Brother G. W. Reaser, dated Durban, Natal, Africa, February 10, says: “Our work in Africa has brightened up very much of late. California has sent us a sufficient supply of tents for our present requirements; the New York Conference has made us a much-appreciated donation of $200, and the Upper Columbia Conference is supplying us with a few hundred dollars, according to the vote taken in conference session before I left that field. We are about to secure a splendid school site of more than thirty acres for dwellings and all, and we have the funds in hand for the erection of a modest school building. These things, with the fact that people are embracing the truth, and the mission board have voted to send us more help, including Brother E. E. Andross and family and Brother M. C. Sturdevant and wife, lead us to praise the Lord because He is working mightily for ‘darkest Africa.’”
REPORTING to the Fortnightly Visitor from East London, on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa, Brother D. F. Tarr notes the baptism of six persons, in the Nahoon River. “One sister, as she rose from the watery grave, was healed of physical infirmity. She now rejoices in the healing and keeping power of God.” A church organization was also effected. Brother H. J. Edmed was present, and took part in the services.
ANOTHER of the California pioneer Seventh-day Adventists passed away on the 13th inst., at Napa. Sister Angeline Howard, wife of Brother J. S. Howard, elder of the Napa Church, came to California in 1846, crossing the plains with her parents. She embraced the Adventist faith in 1873, at a camp-meeting in Yountville. Some sixteen months before her death she had a severe attack of the grip, and her health continued to fail until the end. Deceased was aged 65 years and 24 days. Funeral services were conducted by Brethren J. N. Loughborough and Chas. T. Everson.