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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 42.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE first session of the Eastern Union Conference is to be held at South Lancaster, Mass., November 27 to December 5.
AFTER meetings held with the church at Waukon, Iowa, August 23–25, by Brother C. A. Washburn, six candidates were baptized.
THE laborers of North Pacific Conference are all engaged in a three months’ campaign selling “Christ’s Object Lessons,” beginning October 1.
SEVERAL new rooms are being added to our school at Hildebran, N. C., and it is now designed to establish a sanitarium at that place in the near future.
THE States of North and South Carolina have been organized into a conference with Brother J. O. Johnson, president. The new organization is known as the Carolina Conference.
TEN conversions to the truth, together with a continued interest, are noted in connection with a tent effort at Trinidad, Colo., by Brethren H. L. Hoover and G. W. Angleberger.
THE dedication of a new church building at Hawkeye, Iowa, was part of the program of the general meeting held at that place beginning on the 9th ult. and continuing till the 13th.
THE eighteenth annual session of the Virginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the city of Richmond, at the regular place of meeting, cor. 25th and Clay streets, November 1–10.
THE Indiana Reporter says: “The Indianapolis ‘church gave the right hand of fellowship to three ‘new members last Sabbath. One was Sister Booz, ‘for many years an evangelist of the United Brethren ‘Church.’”
BROTHER ALLEN MOON has been elected president of Illinois Conference, and Brother Charles Thompson, vice-president. Brother W. D. Curtis is field secretary of the Sabbath-school and educational department.
DURING meetings recently held at Alliance, Neb., by Brethren O. S. Ferren and J. Nethery, six adult persons were baptized. The brethren also report an encouraging sale of books and periodical subscriptions.
THE Oklahoma Conference includes Oklahoma and Indian Territories. The officers are, President, G. G. Rupert; secretary, E. Josephine Rupert; treasurer, C. Shaeffer. The conference office is at Oklahoma City, O. T.
ALL the laborers of Iowa Conference are to devote two months to the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” beginning the 21st inst. They are to draw half their regular pay, and then to be further compensated according to the number of books sold.
THE late camp-meeting at Lincoln, Neb., was the largest ever held in the State. The Reporter says that more than 1,100 were encamped on the ground. About a hundred candidates were baptized. Brethren L. E. Johnson and A. C. Anderson were ordained to the Gospel ministry. Brother N. P. Nelson was elected president of the conference, and Brother J. F. Beaty was chosen secretary and treasurer.
A SISTER who resides in Pasadena, Cal., and who is a cripple and has almost reached her threescore and ten years, gives us a little of her experience in trying to do something for the Lord’s cause. She says: “I had a pair of canary birds given me, and ‘I said, ‘Lord, if Thou wilt help me to raise some ‘birds and sell them, I will give half I make to Thee.’ ‘I then made a nest and put it in the cage, and during the season my birds hatched sixteen little ones. ‘One escaped, but I raised fifteen, and sold birds ‘to the amount of seven dollars and a half. Then I ‘began to consider what I should do with the Lord’s ‘half. I decided to give one dollar to the Southern ‘field, one dollar to the Orphans’ Home, one dollar ‘to the home work, and seventy-five cents to the ‘Scandinavian work.’”
FROM a private letter written by Brother T. H. Watson of Douglass City, Alaska, bearing date of September 21, we take the privilege of quoting as follows: “I find this a very difficult field. We ‘have very few friends here, I can assure you. The ‘Lord has blessed us, however, and with good courage ‘we are pressing on, and we are also looking for-ward to see souls respond to the Master’s call. We ‘are passing through a severe time just at present, ‘there is so much sickness among the children. ‘This climate is very hard on any one not a native. ‘We have been here nearly two months, and it has ‘been raining almost the entire time, with no present ‘prospect of letting up. But God has a work to do ‘here, and it must be done soon, for the ‘night is ‘soon coming, in which no man can work.’ Remember us in your prayers; and may God lead us and ‘aid us, for truly the harvest is ripe. I never so ‘fully realized this great truth as since coming away ‘from the home field.”
AFTER an absence of eight years, Sister Georgia Burrus recently returned to California for a brief visit to her old home. The greater part of her absence was spent in India, where she has been our only worker among the zenanas. As is quite generally known, only women can have access to the women in that country, and there are 150,000,000 of them to be reached by the Gospel through the personal ministration of women. Only an infinitesimal proportion of them can read, and one must learn their language before being able to converse with them. Sister Burrus says that vegetarian Christians have a decided advantage as missionaries, as the Hindus are religiously opposed to eating flesh, and many of the missionaries have urged converts to eat flesh-meat just to show that they were Christians. People who know this think that flesh-eating is a part of Christianity, and this makes the Gospel especially repugnant to them. Sister Burrus has been gladly received into houses because the people had learned that she was a vegetarian. It is well to heed the advice of Paul: “Destroy not him with thy meat, for ‘whom Christ died. Let not then your good be ‘evil spoken of; for the kingdom of God is not ‘meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and ‘joy in the Holy Ghost.” Rom. 14:15–17. Sister Burrus is doing what she can to arouse an interest in the zenana work, and after a short sojourn in America will return to her labors in Bengal. On Sabbath, September 28, she spoke to the church in this city, giving a very interesting account of her experience and labors among that most oppressed and downtrodden of all classes of human beings. Are there not a goodly number of our young sisters who are willing to make the sacrifice necessary to join this lone devoted worker, who has, by the help of the Lord, opened the door, and demonstrated that souls can be brought out of even zenana darkness to His marvelous light? Those who will go now will have the encouragement of one who has gone before, who will be an efficient helper and companion.