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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 2.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The new conference school at Hazel, Ky., was opened December 23.
The Fiji brethren are taking hold with energy to replace the schooner Cina, which was wrecked some time ago.
A collection of Bible-readings in the Fijian language has been printed by the Avondale press, Cooranbong, N. S. W.
A lot has been purchased and a house of worship will soon be erected by the church at Hickory, N. C. Brother R. T. Nash is in charge of the work at that place.
A church of eleven members was organized at Brushycreek, S. C., on the 1st ult., and two members have since been added. They also have a church-school.
The brethren at Rolyat, Texas, have built a neat little church-schoolhouse, and school has been progressing nicely for some time, says Brother C. P. Bodwell, in the Reporter.
On the 7th ult. seven young persons, from 14 to 20 years of age, were baptized at Austin, Minn., by Brother W. W. Stebbins. These and one other were added to the church.
The first church to be organized after the organization of the Carolina Conference was at Charlotte, N. C., the headquarters of the conference. This church was organized November 23.
A 32-page tract on the second advent of our Lord has been issued in the Maori language, and “Christ Our Saviour” is being printed in that language. The Maoris are the natives of New Zealand.
The Watchman says that the students and young people of Graysville have organized a society for the improvement of the mental and spiritual faculties, and for the advancement of the cause of God in the earth. The name of the society is The Spanish Mission Auxiliary Society. Its prime object is “to become better acquainted with the history, the literature, the geography, and the resources of the Spanish and Portuguese-American countries which lie upon our borders, and with the religions, customs, and physical and moral status of the people of these countries, and to learn their needs, for the purpose of enabling us more intelligently to carry to them the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Dr. Braucht is again in charge of the work in Samoa, and it is said the medical work is opening up encouragingly in that group.
A Spanish lady, Mrs. Burgess, of Key West, Fla., has come to Graysville, Tenn., to teach the Spanish language in the Southern Training School, and to fit herself for other labors in the Lord’s cause. She brings her children with her.
The Workers’ Record says that Brother Sidney Scott, a colored minister under the employ of the Southwest Union Conference, is now laboring in Kansas City in the interest of his own race. The colored brethren in Kansas City now have their own Sabbath-school organization. A good hall has been secured for their services, and they are getting along nicely.
The Atlantic Conference has been dissolved, and two conferences take its place,—the New Jersey Conference, including the State of New Jersey, and the Greater New York Conference, embracing Manhattan, Staten, and Long Islands, and several counties in the southeastern part of the State of New York. The name of the Eastern Union Conference has been changed to Atlantic Union Conference.
Brother J. B. Beckner, who went to Jamaica in the fall, writes from Balaclava to the Texas Reporter, under date of November 14: “We have just returned from a trip of about fifty miles southeast to Milk River. There we had the privilege of burying with their Lord thirteen adults. We arrived at the water just at daylight. About fifty were there in all. Most of them had walked from nine to twenty miles. Two sisters had walked barefooted twenty miles to be baptized, then all walked home again. Six of those who were baptized were the work of the Grove Town church, without the help of a preacher. Six were the result of a meeting by Brother W. J. Tanner, and one by reading,—the work of a canvasser. Calls to hear the Word are many more than the workers here can fill.”
In the Southern Watchman Dr. O. C. Godsmark tells of the work in Louisville, Ky. We clip the following items of progress: “We are now meeting in the church building, which we have leased with the option of purchasing at a reasonable price, and which we have repaired at our own expense. The house makes a good appearance, and we are indeed thankful to have a place of worship that properly represents the truths we profess. We expect soon to begin making regular payments on the purchase of the property. Last Sabbath three arose for baptism; and four new ones are now keeping the Sabbath as the result of Mrs. Godsmark’s Bible work. Brother and Sister Barry are now here doing good work among the colored people. Already they have had the promise of brick and mortar enough to build a church-house when they are in readiness to go ahead and build. Two new ones have also begun the observance of the Sabbath.”
At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Southwestern Union Conference, Brother J. M. Rees related the following interesting circumstance: “At the first camp-meeting held in North Carolina, we had a missionary meeting, and while we were holding that meeting a man and his wife stepped into the back part of the tent, and I noticed they were interested in what we had to say. Our meeting had not been in session long until a sister got up and produced a little bunch of tracts, yellow with age, sewed together, and she said: ‘Somebody sent me these tracts, and I embraced the truth from them. I do not know where they came from.’ Her husband said that he embraced the truth, too, from reading those tracts. And then another arose and said the same thing, and another, until eight people in that congregation had testified that they had received the truth from reading those tracts. They all lived in the same neighborhood. The meeting closed, and the strange woman who had stayed in the rear of the tent, stepped forward to the woman who had spoken first, and, facing her, said: ‘Do you know me? I am your sister, who left North Carolina twenty years ago. We sent you those tracts.’ You never saw such a greeting as they had there, and we all wept in sympathy with them. Then when the greeting was all over, the man said: ‘Yes, we are the ones who sent you the bunch of tracts. We lived in Kansas, and when we sent those tracts we were so poor that we did not have any money, and we wondered how to get the postage to send them. We prayed that the Lord would help us to get the postage to send them, and the Lord gave it to us, and we sent them.’”