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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 4.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

AN attendance of 160 is the present report of Walla Walla (Wash.) College.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL has been organized with eighteen members at Portsmouth, Ohio.
A CANVASSER'S school is to be held at Marshalltown, Iowa, February 4 to March 30.
TWO MORE of the students of the Anglo-Chinese Academy at Honolulu have asked for baptism.
A CANVASSERS' institute will be held at Newberg, Oregon, February 17 to 27, to be conducted by Brother S. C. Osborne.
THE church in London, Ont., is erecting a house of worship, which they hope will give a new impetus to the work in that city.
SABBATH, December 28, twenty-three persons were baptized at College Place, Wash., and six more were baptized on the following Sabbath.
THE first seventh-day Adventist church in San Benito County, Cal., was organized at Tres Pinos recently. Brother C. N. Miller and wife are laboring in that community.
THE Atlantic Union Conference has started a neat and interesting organ, entitled Atlantic Union Gleaner. It is issued weekly, from South Lancaster, Mass., at fifty cents a year.
THE Canadian field has been organized into a union conference, with Brother W. H. Thurston as president; J. W. Collie, vice-president, and Carroll Drown, secretary, treasurer, and auditor.
FROM a report of Brethren J. W. Bagby and F. D. Gautereau, in the Recorder, we learn that on the 21st ult. five persons were received into the church at Laton, Cal., making thirteen that had been added recently.
REPORTING to the Bulletin, Brother G. W. Anglebarger notes as results of labor at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that twelve persons had recently united with the church, and two others had made application for membership.
BROTHER P. L. HOEN, who has been canvassing in Story County, Iowa, says he called on one of his neighbors one Sunday, and sold him eleven books, four of which were "Christ's Object Lessons" to send to his relatives.
NEW JERSEY Conference, recently organized, reports the following officers: President, J. E. Jayne; vice-president, C. H. Keslake; secretary and treasurer, J. W. Rambo; secretary of Educational Department, Mrs. J. W. Rambo.
A REPORT to the Pacific Union Recorder by Brother H. J. Schneffer mentions the addition of three to the church at Eugene, Oregon, and six to the church at Blachly. Of these accessions eight were by baptism and one by confession.
THE Keystone Gleaner says that the Southern field is making inroads on Pennsylvania's force of canvassers. It speaks well for a conference when it is able to supply trained laborers to needy fields. That is as it should be in all the old conferences.
ON a recent trip in Northern India, Brother J. L. Shaw learned of several persons keeping the Sabbath of the Lord whose names he had never heard before, and some were awaiting opportunity to be baptized. A man and his wife had been awaiting such opportunity for two years.
FOLLOWING are the officers of the newly organized Greater New York Conference: President, H. W. Cottrell; vice-president, S. N. Haskell; secretary, A. B. Smith; treasurer, S. N. Curtiss. Brother Cottrell takes the office temporarily, as he is already president of Atlantic Union Conference.
A BROTHER in Halfway, Oregon, recently wrote to the upper Columbia Tract Society for twenty copies of the SIGNS for three months, and later for twenty copies of Our Little Friend, all to be used in Sunday-school work. The Reaper suggests that “many others might do well to follow his example.”
ANY blind person who has not had opportunity to attend school can be instructed by mail, and after instruction will receive a copy of a 24-page monthly journal. Price of full course, 25 cents. Within the last two years forty persons have taken the course, and twenty-six of them learned the alphabet in two hours. Address H. A. Dike, Ohsweken, Ont.
BROTHER J. F. HANSEN, a Danish minister of wide experience, died in this city on the 6th inst., aged about 61 years. He had labored among the Scandinavians in Europe and from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States. There are prominent results of his labors in New York City and Chicago. His death was caused by cancer of the stomach.
FROM Brother Clarence Santee, president of Southern California Conference, we have some interesting items. Fourteen persons have accepted the truth at Sawtelle, and have erected a new church building. They received substantial help from persons not of our faith. A ten days' meeting at San Diego resulted, at the time of the report, in the baptism of eleven candidates, and the interest had not then ceased. In the past six months more than forty members had been added to the Los Angeles church.
THE wife of Brother F. L. Mead, who recently died at his post while in charge of the work in Matabeleland, Africa, evinces the true missionary spirit. She writes to the Mission Board: “My husband's death has been a great shock to me, but I have sought the Lord, and He has been very gracious to me. The precious promises of His Word have been my comfort, and I long to learn all the dear Lord would have me learn from this experience. I see no light in thinking of returning to America, and the children feel the same as I do.”
BROTHER J. W. BOYNTON, who went to Alberta, in the Dominion of Canada, last July, writes that he has visited all the principal towns in the northern part of Alberta, holding meetings as the way opened. He has visited isolated brethren, distributed tracts and papers, and received orders for our periodicals and books. Two Sabbath-schools have been organized, and he was expecting soon to organize one more school and two churches. At the time of writing he had baptized four persons, and others were awaiting opportunity. There was also a prospect for two church buildings in the near future.
BROTHER F. W. FIELD, who recently went from Ohio to Japan as a missionary, writes to the Welcome Visitor of his introduction. He says: “On Sabbath, November 16, I spoke to the little company, and Brother Okohira translated. Besides the brethren and sisters, there were present a number of those who have attended the Bible-classes. Brother Wade has a home about five miles from here, near the imperial university. His students are mostly from the university and the high school. All these students understand English fairly well. Last Friday evening I spoke to them on the love of God. About twenty-five were present and we had a good meeting.”
BROTHER N. N. LUNT, a pioneer in the faith, died in this city on the 8th inst., aged 80 years and 8 months. He was born in Calais, Me., and accepted the message preached by William Miller in 1841. He was among the first to accept the Sabbath message soon after the disappointment of 1844. He afterward moved to Battle Creek, Mich., and was connected with that church as elder for several years. He moved to California in 1886, and has been connected with the work in this city and this office until his decease. For about two years he had been unable, because of age and infirmity, to take a specially active part, but his heart was in the work to the last. He was the father-in-law of Brother C. H. Jones, president of the Pacific Press Publishing Company.