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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 49.

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Our Work and Workers.

Three candidates have recently been baptized at Black Creek, Wis., by Brother C. J. Herrmann.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Janesville, Wis., four members were added. Brother C. W. Olds officiated.
November 9 and 10 a church was organized and a house of worship dedicated at Birnamwood, Wis., by Brethren Wm. Covert and H. W. Reed.
The recent General Conference Council appointed Brother E. R. Palmer, who recently returned from Australia, as a world's general canvassing agent.
On the 10th ult. two candidates were baptized at Beldenville, Wis., by Brother Wm. Sanders. Services in connection with the ordinance were held in the Baptist church.
Two candidates were recently baptized and received into the church at Walkerton, Ind., the rite being administered by Brother J. Davidson. Two other members were received by letter.
The Gleaner notes the organization of a church at Hawley, Wayne County, Pa., and the dedication of a church building at South Canaan. Brethren R. W. Underwood and C. F. McVagh officiated.
A course of studies on the rise and progress of the work of Seventh-day Adventists will be conducted at Walla Walla College (Wash.) by Brother J. N. Loughborough, during the month of December.
A church of twenty-three members has been organized at Halfway, Oregon, by Brother J. A. Holbrook. A new meeting-house is being erected. The Sabbath-school numbers over forty members.
The brethren at Bozeman, Mont., have purchased ground and are erecting a house of worship, with additional provision for a church-school. The Bivouac says that the citizens are donating liberally. There is already a conference intermediate school at Bozeman.
Meetings held at Clear Lake, Texas, by Brother O. Glass, have resulted in three converts to the truth—one of whom speaks and writes Spanish, and one is an Indian lady. There were others deeply interested at the date of this report. No one in the vicinity had ever heard an Adventist sermon before.
Brother O. S. Ferren writes to the Nebraska Reporter that money and material have been collected for the erection of a church building at Sheridan, Wyo. Almost every business man in the town has contributed to the work. Brother Ferren says, “I am very busy now with this church, and we are building another on Columbus Creek, forty miles away.”
The three daily papers of Shamokin, Pa.—the Herald, News, and Dispatch—all give extended notices of the work of Evangelist Schmidt in that vicinity. A discourse on the “Coming of the Lord” was reported at length, and notice was given of two discourses one Sunday in the Baptist church, on the subjects of “The End of the Wicked” and “The Only Way to be Baptized.” He is credited with “having a plain way of preaching the Word of God.”
A really valuable educational help is found in the Advocate of Christian Education, published monthly at Berrien Springs, Mich., in connection with Emmanuel Missionary College. In these days of denominational schools, this journal should receive special reading. After Jan. 1, 1902, it will merge into itself the Sabbath-school Worker, combining both branches of Christian education. The address will be Berrien Springs. Subscription price, 50 cents a year.
In a recent letter to the Minnesota Worker, Brother W. A. Sweany reports the baptism of six candidates at the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Bridgetown, Barbados Island, B. W. I. Eight others desired baptism, but the administration was deferred. Brother Sweany adds: “Our work is well established here. We have a beautiful substantial white stone church with iron roof, that will seat 300, with a membership of over 100. Besides this there are three unorganized companies out in the country, and a number of scattered ones. Our services are all well attended.”
At the recent session of the South African Conference at Cape Town, the following named persons were appointed as a South African Union Council: W. S. Hyatt, J. M. Freeman, H. J. Edmed, F. L. Mead, and G. W. Reaser. News of the death of Brother Mead was received the next day after the close of the conference. He died at Kimberley, on his way to attend the meeting. Brother Hyatt was re-elected president of the conference, and O. O. Fortner secretary. At the close of the conference six persons were baptized. The reports showed a good financial standing, and remarkable book sales by canvassers considering the warlike condition of the country.
In the Indicator of the 7th ult. is a report of labor among the Seneca Indians of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., by Brother and Sister Carnahan. They have distributed many of our periodicals, and assisted in the Presbyterian Sunday-school, sometimes having charge of it. One feature of their work is thus described: “We have in the home at present a young man who came to us, sick, and in need of friends. He was suffering with malaria. Had chills every other day. A bath in the steam cabinet, and a healthful diet soon wiped out the malaria, and he is fast gaining his strength and health. We have many opportunities to help in this way, much more than we can do. This being the only ‘white home’ on the reservation, people who are in trouble all come to us.”
A writer in the Jamaica Times, of Kingston, Island of Jamaica, charges that Seventh-day Adventists are anarchists, and presents three counts: (1) They teach that all of the religious teaching of the past in Jamaica, and presumably elsewhere, is wrong; (2) That Adventists were working to control elections and so abolish Sunday; (3) That the laws concerning marriage are of no account, etc. Now every one who knows aught of Seventh-day Adventists and their teaching knows that there is no truth in any of these charges; and the candid who do not know will investigate before accepting such statements as truth. All this is to be expected. God will turn all falsehoods against His cause to His glory. “We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”
The Workers' Bulletin gives substantial testimonials to the value of the book, “Christ's Object Lessons,” from four leading ministers in Oskaloosa, Iowa—the pastors of the First Baptist, the Central M. E., the Christian, and the Congregational churches. The book is well worthy of their commendation. Price in cloth, $1.25. As an exposition of the parables of Jesus, it has no equal.
The attention of American Christians is called to the example noted in a letter to the Atlantic News, from Brother W. Jay Tanner, missionary in Jamaica. He says: “It does one's heart good to see how anxious the natives who accept the truth here are to have it prosper. Their love for the cause is so strong that they do not want the workers to spend their time with them, but to go to others who have never heard. Our people on this island are mostly poor and can not afford to have as many books as even our poorest people in America. Nevertheless the most of them make good use of what they have.” He mentions one young man in particular who is longing for something to help him in Bible study. He had committed “Helps to Bible Study” to memory, read and reread “Steps to Christ” and “From Eden to Eden,” besides memorizing all the texts in the Sabbath-school lessons the past quarter. Brother Tanner says, “I have known him to walk fifteen miles and more to teach some one that he thought might be interested in the truth.”