OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 13.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A camp-meeting for Ontario, Canada, will be held June 12-22, at Woodstock.

The addition of eight members to the church in Ingersoll, Ont., is reported in the Messenger.

At Scotland, Ont., successful meetings are being held by Brethren Wm. Simpson and W. A. Young. Their report in the Messenger says that their first Sabbath meeting was attended by twenty-nine adults and ten children.

A note from Brother Thomas De Freeze in the Educator of Keene, Texas, says that the colored church at Corsicana is prospering encouragingly, and now has fifteen members. The Sabbath-school is increasing in numbers.

The Southern Watchman says that the Christian Help Band in Bowling Green, Ky., is doing a good work, collecting food and clothing and distributing it among the poor. They receive hearty responses from the people from whom they solicit aid.

According to the Missionary Magazine, the annual offering is the largest that has ever been taken up by Seventh-day Adventists, and it is still coming in. This will enable the Mission Board to send laborers into new fields, and the regular weekly donations will support them.

From far West Australia comes the news that three candidates were baptized at Perth, November 30, by Brother Wm. Knight. Thus the last Gospel message is finding its way to all the world, and gathering here and there such as will accept the invitation to come to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Brother W. T. Knox, president of Pacific Union Conference, sailed for Honolulu on the 20th inst., to be absent about one month. His object is to become better acquainted personally with our institutions and work in the Hawaiian part of his jurisdiction.

On Sabbath, the 15th inst., a church of twenty-seven members was organized in Berkeley, Cal., by Brethren M. C. Wilcox and M. H. Brown, secretary of the California Conference. This church is composed partly of former members of the church in Oakland and partly of persons brought to the faith through the labors of Brother Charles T. Everson. Brother C. A. Smith, formerly of the Oakland church, was chosen as elder of the new organization.

From Brother J. L. Shaw’s report in the Review we take this interesting paragraph:—

Burma is especially ready now for our books and papers. A railway, starting from Rangoon, goes through Burma to within fifty miles of the Chinese frontier, so the means of travel render it possible to send our books through Burma as well as India. It is said that a famine never was known there. Times are prosperous, and the people sociable. Any Burmese home is said to entertain a stranger, no matter what his religion or nationality.

The young men members of the training classes at the Battle Creek Sanitarium have volunteered to work for their board till the institution is in condition for them to take up their work again. A number are working in the ruins. Thirty new patients have arrived since the fire, and they came knowing that the two main buildings had been burned; but they had confidence that the institution is still alive, and that some provision would be made for their accommodation.

Rev. S. D. Dutcher, pastor of the Christian Church, Oklahoma City, says: “I have read with some care ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ and take pleasure in most heartily recommending the book. It is well written. It is true to the teachings of Christ. It is vigorous. It is clear. It will be a blessing to any one who will read it. I especially recommend it as a most valuable and interesting book for children and young people.” 248 pp., cloth, illustrated, $1.25. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal.; 11 W. 20th St., New York City; 18 W. 5th St. Kansas City, Mo.

At its recent session in Portland, Oregon, the Pacific Union Conference elected officers as follows: President, W. T. Knox; Secretary, J. J. Ireland; Treasurer, E. A. Chapman; General Canvassing Agent, S. C. Osborne; Missionary Secretary, H. H. Hall. Mission Board—W. T. Knox, J. J. Ireland, W. C. White, J. O. Corliss, W. S. Sadler, C. M. Snow, and M. E. Cady. Educational Committee—A. T. Jones, R. S. Owen, W. B. White, George Pettit, W. S. Sadler, the president of Walla Walla College, and the president of Healdsburg College. Executive Committee—The president of the Union Conference, the presidents of the local conferences, the president of Walla Walla College, W. R. Simmons, the General Canvassing Agent, the Missionary Secretary, the President of the Pacific Press Publishing Co. The following fields were represented at the Conference: The Conferences of California, Southern California, North Pacific, Upper Columbia, and Montana, and the mission fields of Utah and Arizona. It was recommended that British Columbia, Utah, and Arizona each be organized into a separate conference.

A letter from Pastor H. F. Courter, dated March 6, who left California February 12 to labor in the great needy Southern field, states that on his way to Graysville he stopped off at a sister’s whom he had not seen for 35 years, and had the privilege of seeing five of her grown children make a public profession of religion. Of Graysville and the school he says:—

While here I have spent a very pleasant time visiting the Graysville Academy and the surrounding country. I was happily surprised in seeing such a fine lot of scholars assembled together. Intelligence and earnestness beam from every countenance. Last Sabbath afternoon I spent a pleasant hour with them. It was my privilege to speak to them for a half hour, after which nearly all took part in a social meeting. It would have done your soul good to have listened to their prompt and earnest testimonies.

The Lord is doing a grand work here through the consecrated teachers, guided by Professor Tenney as principal of the school. The brethren here are planning for a Sanitarium at Graysville. Graysville is situated in a narrow valley. The ground does not produce a very heavy crop of corn or wheat, but it is very good for gardens, and pears and small fruits do well in the valleys. Peaches, apples, and other fruits do well in the mountains.

Brother Courter’s address is, till April 4, Sanford, Tenn., where it is expected a church will be organized soon. Permanent address is presumably Nashville, Tenn.