OUR WORK AND WORKERS

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

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

AT Patricksburg, Ind., Brother R. S. Donnell reports six converts to the truth after a series of meetings.

THE last quarterly-meeting of the two churches in Buffalo, N. Y., was made a union service, and two candidates were baptized by Brother A. O. Burrill.

IN connection with a recent general meeting at Severy, Kan., altho the attendance was small on account of inclement weather, eight persons were baptized.

THE Union Conference Record notes the baptism of eight persons at Ballarat, Victoria, by Brother G. B. Starr. Also the baptism of six candidates at Launceston, Tasmania.

THE Chicago headquarters of our medical missionary work has been changed to the corner of Thirty-third Place and Cottage Grove Avenue, and ample preparations have been made for all classes of medical and surgical work.

IN the District of Kawhia, N. Z., a mission house is being erected among the Maori people, from which center it is expected to reach the whole of this historic tribe. Dr. J. E. Caldwell has gone there to reside, and to conduct the work.

THE Dakota Worker says: “One of our colporters sold a man ‘The Coming King.’ He gave it to his daughter, who liked it so well that she took it to school; here it met with such favor that the teacher read from it for opening exercises.”

AS a result of labor by Brethren J. M. Ellis and J. E. Collins at Independence, Ind., seven persons have taken their stand on “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” They had the free use of a new Baptist church building for meetings, and have left a favorable impression.

DURING the past week the worker’s convention in San Francisco has been occupied with the medical missionary phase of our work. In addition to the physicians of this conference, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., and Dr. David Paulson, of Chicago, were in attendance. It is expected that this convention will develop a large number of foreign missionaries; in fact, this was one of the objects of the convention.

REPORTING to the Wisconsin Reporter concerning a recent visit to the church at Oneida (composed of Indian brethren and sisters), Brother T. B. Snow says: “Nearly all took part in the social meeting on the Sabbath. Many of the testimonies were well wet down with tears. The silence preserved in the house of God, even during the intermission, impressed me with the thought that many of our white brethren might learn a useful lesson of how to behave in the house of God from these sons of the forest.”

WRITING to the Reaper from Natal, South Africa, Brother G. W. Reaser gives the following information about the cost of living:

House rent averages about $5.50 per room, and it is hard for a family of four to get along with less than four or five rooms. The house in which we are living seemed to be as economical as any that we could secure in the city, and cost £6 10s per month, which amounts to $32.00 when reduced to U. S. money. We sub-let part of the house, however, which reduces the rent somewhat. The house has six living rooms, pantry, one closet under the stairway, and bath-room. The cheapest flour is about $2.25 per hundred; and about one dollar more for the best. Apples, small, 36 cents per dozen; potatoes, 5 to 6 cents per lb.; tomatoes, fresh, retail at 8 cents per lb., and are said to be cheap now; dry beans, peas, and lentils retail at 8 cents per lb.; canned tomatoes, at 30 cents per can; other canned fruits at 36 cents; the cheapest raisins sell at 18 cts. per lb.; all nuts retail at 24 cents per lb.; wood sells at 24 cts. per sackful, which makes a fair-sized arm-load; native coal, at 48 cts. per 90 lbs.; butter at 60 cts. per lb.; eggs at from 60 cts. to $1.20 per doz., according to the season of the year. Just now tropical fruits are high in price, but it is said they are cheap at certain seasons of the year. Furniture is about twice as expensive as in America, and in some lines even higher than that. The price charged for hauling one small load of trunks and boxes from the landing to our home is nearly $10.00. In erecting a dwelling house here, about $5.00 is required to accomplish as much as $1.00 in Washington and Oregon. City property is fabulously high in price, so it seems almost out of the question for our workers to own houses here.

At the recent session of the Southern Union Conference, officers were elected as follows: President, George I. Butler; vice-president, R. M. Kilgore; secretary, C. L. Kilgore; treasurer, Irving Keck. Of Brother Butler’s return to prominent official position in the cause he had served so long, Brother A. G. Daniells writes to the Review:—

“The many friends of Elder George I. Butler will be pleased to learn that he not only attended this conference, but that he took a very active part in all the proceedings. In many respects Brother Butler’s sojourn in Florida has been a great blessing to him. Perhaps he would not have remained there so long had it not been for his afflicted companion. While she lived, he felt it to be his duty, as well as esteeming it a blessed privilege, to remain with her, and tenderly minister to her needs. Now that she sleeps, his mind turns to the needs of a lost world, and he responds to the call from his Lord to take up again the duties of the public ministry. All who met at this conference rejoice that he comes forth from his retirement with good health, a clear mind, a tender heart, and a burning zeal.”