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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 43.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A CAMP-MEETING is announced for October 12-20, to be held at Quitman, Miss.
A CHURCH-SCHOOL has been opened at Selton, Ont., with Miss Agnes Stewart in charge.
DURING the recent camp-meeting at Hazel, Ky., eighteen candidates presented themselves for baptism.
In connection with recent labors of Brethren P. M. Howe and J. F. Ballenger, at Petrolia, Ont., six persons have been baptized.
BROTHER E. J. HIBBARD and family arrived in California October 7, from Battle Creek, Mich. He will have charge of Bible instruction in Healdsburg College.
A CHURCH of thirty members has been organized at El Dorado Springs, Mo., where Brethren Willis and Millman have been holding meetings the past two months.
THE Indiana Conference has decided to support a minister as a missionary for one year in the province of Ontario, Canada. Brother W. A. Young has been selected.
AS THIS paper goes to press, a camp-meeting for the colored people is being arranged at Edgefield Junction, Tenn. This is the first occasion of the kind in that conference.
CHURCH-SCHOOLS are being instituted in Tennessee River Conference, at the following places: Springville, Trezevant, and Nashville, Tenn., and Bowling Green and Hazel, Ky.
A CAMP-MEETING to be held at Carthage, Mo., is appointed for October 8-14. For the special accommodation of the churches in the southeastern part of the State, a camp-meeting will be held at Poplar Bluff, October 29 to November 4.
THE company at Clintonville, Wis., held a “harvest ingathering” service September 19. Brother L. Jasperson notes in the Reporter that “it was especially enjoyed by the children, who had raised some missionary chickens and planted gardens, the proceeds to be given for missionary work.”
A REPORT in the Visitor from Brethren J. F. Hansen and H. C. J. Wolleker, who are laboring at Cedarhome, Wash., says that: More than a dozen persons have commenced to serve the Lord and to keep the Sabbath together with us. We expect soon to have baptism and to form an organization.
A LETTER from Brother George E. Crawford to the Wisconsin Reporter, tells of the opening of the colored school in Vicksburg, Miss. He says: This is a colored mission-school established a year ago, and taught last winter by Prof. F. R. Rogers, who is still connected with the school work in this State, as superintendent of schools. School opened September 9, with a force of three teachers, and an attendance of twenty-four students, and prospects of filling up all the room we have. The educational condition of the colored people here is deplorable. There are several schools in the city for them, but they get very little good instruction. This can easily be understood when I tell you that there is an old teacher attending our school, who is doing about fourth-grade work. The children that are attending at present, are as bright as any it has ever been my lot to teach. We have a free night-school twice a week, which is attended principally by old people. Some are so old they are children again, seventy-two and seventy-three years. Two came last night who were about fifty years old, and couldn’t spell their names. These we endeavor to teach a little of the common branches, so they can read the Bible, which is their greatest delight.
THE Wisconsin Reporter of September 3, has this item from Brother W. S. Shreve: At Haney, where Brother Couey resides, the Methodist brethren kindly opened the church which is under their control, and gave us a fair congregation of interested hearers on both Sabbath and Sunday. On Sunday evening, their pastor being present, I shared the time with him in telling the wonderful story of the cross.
It has been truly said that in evangelistic canvassing, young men may become better prepared for ministerial labor than by spending many years in school. Those who are fitting for the ministry can engage in no other occupation that will give them so large an experience as will the canvassing work. The ministry is an institution of God for giving the truth to the people. And God has not limited His ministers to any one means of doing His work. He is a being of resources adapted to the susceptibilities of all classes of people. Let none think lightly of any of the Master’s appliances, but be willing, and seek the ability, to win souls by any means.
THE Texas Reporter of September 25 has a letter from Brother A. G. Bodwell, who recently went from that State to labor in the city of Mexico, from which we take the following extract: We spend a portion of each day at the mission, then we go out and visit the people at their homes, or sell papers. Last Sunday I sold 191 papers in two and a half hours, making an average of selling over two papers a minute. It was quite interesting work. Dr. Erkenback was with me. We would start to selling them, and the crowd would gather round us; but when it would get too thick we would run to the next corner, and others would see us running from the crowd, and this would attract their attention, and we would sell them papers. We had to be very careful, for sometimes they would yell, “Protestant!” in the crowd. Then we would have to skip lively to keep from being mobbed.