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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 1, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 1.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The brethren at Drywood, Minn., have erected a new school-house.
The Southern Union Conference will hold a session at Nashville, Tenn., from the 3d to the 12th inst.
The first annual meeting of the Pacific Union Conference will be held at Portland, Oregon, February 27 to March 8.
A church was organized October 27, at Waterford, Ohio, with seventeen members, and the work of erecting a house of worship is progressing.
Brother J. W. Bagby reports an unorganized company of eight adults at Laton, Fresno County, Cal., and the baptism of one candidate at Tulare.
The Recorder notes an interesting harvest ingathering at Aledo, Ill., with a varied program. The church was appropriately decorated and well filled with people.
Since the meeting of the General Conference in April last, 104 missionaries have left America for foreign lands. This number includes the wives of missionaries.
There are now over thirty church-schools in the California and Southern California Conferences, besides several family schools conducted on the same principle.
Brother J. N. Loughborough is now at College Place, Wash., giving a special course of instruction in the college on the rise and progress of the Third Angel’s Message.
At Cumberland, B. C., November 17, a church of eight members was organized. The Sabbath-school has an attendance of over twenty. This is the result of labor by Brother J. L. Wilson.
On the 4th inst., Professor J. N. Anderson, of Battle Creek, Mich., accompanied by his wife and sister-in-law, are to sail from San Francisco for China, which is to be their field of labor.
December 4, Sister Georgia Burrus sailed from New York on her return to India, to resume zenana work. She is accompanied by Sisters Anna Orr and Grace Kellogg. Sister Orr goes under support of the sisters of the Southwestern Union Conference.
“Marvel of Nations” is to be published in the Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, and German languages. These books will be ready for delivery about May 1, 1902. This is a revised edition of a work that has already had a large circulation in the United States.
From the Bulletin we learn that considerable enthusiasm is manifested among the younger pupils of the Des Moines, Iowa, church-school in the circulation of the Signs and Life Boat. One little boy has sold 170 papers during the past two weeks.
In reporting a tour of several churches in South Dakota, to the Dakota Worker, Brother F. A. Westphal mentions the addition of five young persons to the church at Milltown, two to the church at Bowdle, and two to the church at Eureka. All but two were received by baptism.
A canvassers’ institute is now in session in San Francisco, to continue until the 30th inst. It is conducted by Brother S. C. Osborne, traveling missionary of Pacific Union Conference. It is expected that this institute will add materially to the canvassing force in California Conference.
The Sabbath-school of the Alameda, Cal., church held an interesting convention on the 14th ult. The exercises were interesting and instructive, and several important topics were freely discussed. This young church has shown commendable enterprise, as is manifest in their neat house of worship and the church-school room that has just been completed.
Many of our readers will rejoice to hear that the veteran laborer in the cause of truth, Brother George I. Butler, is once more in official position. At the recent session of Florida Conference he was elected president. He was not present at the time, but was immediately notified, and spent the last two days on the ground. He accepted the responsibility, and indicated his purpose, as soon as he could arrange his private affairs, to enter upon a vigorous campaign. Mrs. Edith Stephenson was elected secretary, and C. B. Stephenson, treasurer.
In a letter to the Workers’ Record (Mo.), Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Green, of Rhodesia, South Africa, say: “They who are but heathen to-day will soon be preaching the Gospel to their benighted brethren in the darkest regions. There are some preaching the Gospel to-day who were but heathen three years ago, when we first entered Africa.”
Under date of Jericho, November 25, Brother L. R. Conradi writes: “Arrived at Jaffa November 10, and after stopping at our medical mission there, went on the 14th to Jerusalem. Yesterday I went to the Dead Sea, then to the Jordan, where I baptized a sister. By the end of the week I expect to proceed to Egypt. In Nicomedia I baptized eight, and one at Smyrna. There is a lack of workers here.”
The addition of five new members to the church at Tucson, A. T., is reported by Brother W. L. Black to the Pacific Union Recorder. Also a prosperous Chinese mission school of twenty members. These are taught English from 8 to 9 o’clock every evening, the Bible being the text-book. Some have shown their interest in the truth by closing their small stores or stopping their work in order to attend the Sabbath-school.
The church in Des Moines, Iowa, says the Bulletin, has a well-organized branch Sabbath-school in South Des Moines, with an attendance of from thirty-five to forty. One sister pays the rent of a small store building, and others have furnished a stove, organ, several seats and chairs, blackboard, etc. So they have a comfortable place of meeting. The young people of the church are the teachers, and they canvass the neighborhood for pupils each Sabbath.
In the Watchman of December 11, is a report of an interesting beginning of labor at National Hill, Tenn., by Brother B. Hagle and wife. They had secured a school-house in the forest for their meetings, and give this account of their introduction:—
It was a query in our minds where we would get a congregation, but to our surprise the house was nearly full the first night. The people came every night on horseback for miles around. One would think, to see the many horses coming down the road, that a regiment of soldiers was coming. The school-house will not hold the people. The speaker has scarcely standing-room. The aisles are full. The doors and windows are left open, and the people crowd all around the house, and listen with the greatest interest that we ever witnessed in all our experience in this message. We find more than we can do. The teacher of the school invited us to hold a meeting with the children every day, so Mrs. Hagle occupies the eleven o’clock hour each day, and many of the parents come and listen. The teacher told us that the children are a great deal better since the meetings began, and he says he would like to learn how to teach from the Bible. Sunday and Sunday night we had three ministers to listen to the discourses; and as soon as the meetings closed, two of them came forward and asked what would be the cost of a set of the charts and an instruction book. They were asked what they wanted to do with them, and they said they wanted to learn how to teach the whole truth. They were then asked if they would keep the Sabbath, and they said they would. Last Sabbath was the first Sabbath meeting we held here, and we had forty in attendance. Many have asked when we were going to organize, as they wanted to unite with us. We told them we were not ready to take members in yet, as we wanted to present some more truths, and if they would follow all the Bible, they would be members with us.