p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 41.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

At the recent camp-meeting held at Seattle, Wash., twelve candidates were baptized.

At Cheboygan, Mich., Brethren O. Soule and F. A. Bristol report the baptism of five persons, with others to follow.

Brother S. M. Cobb, president of West Virginia Conference, notes the baptism of two candidates at Parkersburg, and one at Culloden.

The recommendation of Iowa Conference that Brother E. G. Olsen be assigned to the Scandinavian field has been accepted by the General Conference Committee.

At Gibson, W. Va., where Brethren Toggin and Rule have been laboring, twelve converts are reported, with an increasing interest. The brethren expect to organize a church in the near future.

At the opening of the academy at Cedar Lake, Mich., September 9, the first announcement made was the reading of a telegram bearing news of the death of Brother H. D. Day, of Fairgrove, former principal and business manager of the school.

Brother A. T. Jones, president of California Conference, spent the time from September 13 to 22 in this city, holding two and sometimes three meetings a day. The discourses were of the nature of instruction in practical every-day Christianity, from the standpoint of the Golden Rule.

In a country place near Seymour, Wis., September 1, a church of eleven members was organized by Brother Wm. Covert, president of the conference. They have a new church edifice built by themselves, to be dedicated on the 13th inst. They have also organized for a church-school, and have applied for a teacher. This is a commendable beginning.

As the West Virginia Conference decided not to have a camp-meeting this year, the plan of substituting twelve general meetings in as many convenient localities is being carried out. The last will be held at Parkersburg, December 11–18, at which time the annual business meeting of the conference will be held. Delegates will be elected for this purpose.

And still another of our missionaries has fallen at his post. Brother L. M. Crowther died at Port of Spain, island of Trinidad, August 25, of malarial (or jungle) fever, contracted while on a few weeks’ trip to the island of Tobago. The Mirror, a local paper, in noting his death, says: “He was a most ‘zealous minister of the Gospel, and it can be said ‘of him, that in the service of his Master he knew ‘no rest, and he greatly overworked himself. His ‘remains were followed to the grave by a large con-‘course of the sorrowing members of the church. ‘At the funeral a very solemn service was performed ‘by an elder and two deacons. The service at the ‘grave was also most impressive.” A letter from Sister Crowther to the Dakota Worker, dated August 30, says that Brother W. G. Kneeland came home from Tobago the day after her husband was buried, and was then down with the same disease.

The following item concerning the work in Matabeleland, Africa, is from a letter by Brother F. L. Mead in the Wisconsin Reporter:—

Experience teaches us that the best way to work for this people is to educate a few of their young men, and send these out among the people as teachers. These become an object-lesson of what education will do even for a black man. They know that only a few months before, the young man did not know any more than they do; but now, since attending school at the mission, he can read the Bible and tell them things, as once he could not do. In this, the native has a great advantage over a white man; for the people can see a wonderful transformation in the native youth, and it awakens a desire in them to obtain that which will benefit them as well. We will have four native young men to send out as teachers the first of July. These give evidences of sincerity in their Christian experience. They have made good progress in their school, and we shall send them out to teach what they have learned. After being out three months, they will come back into school again for another term. Our plan is this: A term of school, then field work for the same length of time, then another term of school for three months, then field work again. We believe this plan will bring success to the work here. By and by we hope to have some young natives to send into the interior of Africa, where it is not practicable for white men to go.