OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 50.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

NOVEMBER 9, three candidates were baptized at Ariel, Pa., by Brother C. F. McVagh.

THE addition of three to our ranks at Granite Heights, Wis., is noted in the Reporter.

THREE churches have been organized in Wayne County, Pa., during the past three and a half years.

BROTHER I. SANBORN, of Wisconsin, has been transferred to Mississippi, and has located at Ridgeland.

Dr. A. B. Olsen has returned to England, to begin the work of establishing a sanitarium in that country.

ONE of our canvassers in Arkansas recently took seventy-five orders in fifty hours, the total amount being $248.

A NEW house of worship was recently dedicated at South Canaan, Pa., by Brother R. A. Underwood, president of the conference.

BROTHER WALTER HARPER reports the delivery of from $375 to $400 worth of books at Phillipsburg and Granite, Mont., in five days in the middle of November.

FROM the Review we learn that the Swedish edition of “Christ’s Object Lessons” is now ready. It is a page-for-page facsimile of the English book, and the same price, $1.25. The proceeds of this edition go to the school in Sweden.

REPORTING to the Review concerning the work in Chile, Brother G. H. Baber, notes the organization of a church of thirty-four members at Iquique, also a demand for the book, “Daniel and Revelation,” in the Castellano (Spanish) language.

BROTHER E. S. BUTZ, who has been acting as State canvassing agent for Illinois Conference, has resigned his position, and will return to the Island of Tonga, in the South Pacific Ocean, to resume the missionary work in which he was formerly engaged.

THE new church that was organized a few weeks ago at Middlefield, Ohio, has now seventeen members, with others interested in the truth. A lot has been procured, and a house of worship is being erected. Brother C. C. Webster is looking after the work there.

THE General Conference Committee has appointed December 21–28 as a season of special devotion. Readings have been prepared for the occasion, and will be sent to church officers and isolated Sabbathkeepers. In connection with the meetings the usual offering for foreign missions will be taken.

THE young people of the church in Des Moines, Iowa, says the Bulletin, “have found a number of the Lord’s needy ones in the city during the past week, and have provided them with comfortable clothing, donated for the purpose. Much more along this line will be done this winter.”

THE harvest ingathering service held in the fore part of November, at Newark, Ohio, is reported to have been a very interesting occasion. The Visitor says: “The meeting-house was trimmed with evergreen and fragrant with flowers. A fine display of fruits, grains, and vegetables reminded all present of the bountiful Giver of all good. An hour and a half was filled full of Scripture recitations, speeches, reading of papers, and songs, in which both old and young took part.” A collection of over thirty dollars was taken for mission work.

THE Correspondence School for Nurses connected with the Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training School, will begin a new class at the commencement of the new year. Lessons are sent weekly to students who are unable to leave home duties in order to take a regular course at one of our sanitariums. This is the third year this course has been carried on, and scores are availing themselves of it. Studies on eleven subjects are given, among which missionary work and care and treatment of the sick are prominent. The tuition fee is $3. Address Correspondence Department Sanitarium Training School, Battle Creek, Mich.

BROTHER JOHN HOFFMAN, who is laboring in Finland, tells of going to a certain neighborhood and holding a meeting in a farmhouse. Writing to the Workers’ Bulletin of the occasion, he says: “The people had us stay with the parish priest and his wife in their large house, where we were made welcome. He was a learned man, and I took an interest in his translations from the Hebrew and Greek; and as he loved music, Mrs. Hoffman played some, and the old folks seemed pleased to have us there. The next evening he let us have a meeting in the assembly hall. The organist was there to play and sing, and about two hundred and fifty people gathered to listen to the message. They took up a collection to pay our fare there.”