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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 38.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The baptism of three candidates at Glenville, Cal., is reported by Brother A. S. Kellogg.
The new church recently organized on the Oneida Reservation, Wis., has twenty-three members.
It is estimated that about thirty-five church-schools will be in operation this fall in California.
Our Sanitarium and bakery at Des Moines, Iowa, have united in arranging a nice exhibit at the State Fair. They have a booth in the Exposition Building, where all the cereal and nut foods, also health literature, are on display and for sale.
At Paterson, N. J., August 17, two candidates were baptized by Brother C. H. Keslake.
Fifteen converts are the visible results of labor the past summer at Capay, Cal., by Brother F. D. Gauterau and others.
Brother J. E. Jayne, president of Atlantic Conference, has moved his headquarters to Paterson, N. J., 165 Godwin Street.
Brother A. T. Jones arrived in this city August 27, after an absence from the State of about two months, during which time he attended important teachers’ institutes at Berrien Springs, Mich., Keene, Texas, and Walla Walla, Wash.
At Guerneville, Cal., Brethren H. F. Courter and Denton Sees report that seven adults have accepted the Sabbath of the Lord.
Brother A. R. Ogden, reporting to the Kansas Worker, notes the addition of six members to the church at Wichita and six at Ellsworth.
Prof. E. J. Hibbard, formerly president of Walla Walla College, has accepted a call to teach the Biblical classes in Healdsburg (Cal.) College.
The lot and material for building a new house of worship at Shelton, Wash., has been purchased, and the work is progressing. Brethren F. M. Burg and Geo. E. Squire are laboring there.
From the Atlantic News we learn that over two hundred persons are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of tent-meetings held in Trenton, N. J., begun July 7 by Brother E. E. Franke.
A new post-office has been established at St. Helena Sanitarium, Napa County, Cal. The name of the office is Sanitarium, and Brother L. M. Bowen is post-master. The sanitarium itself is enjoying the largest patronage in the history of its business.
The sisters in the Southwestern Union Conference have decided to support a worker among the zenanas of India. The sisters of not only every union conference, but of nearly every State conference, might do the same, and still the work would only be started.
Brother H. W. Decker reports to the Visitor that the recent camp-meeting at Coquille, Oregon, was a decided success. Brother C. N. Martin, of California, and J. C. Bunch remained to continue the work. The Coos County church was disbanded, and two churches were organized in its stead—one at Coquille, the other at Gravel Ford.
The Atlantic Conference has purchased the Fischer Kindergarten Home, in Paterson, N. J., which was formerly conducted by Brother and Sister John Fischer. The Atlantic News has been removed to the home, and will hereafter be published there. It has also been decided to issue a monthly paper entitled Our Little Ones, “devoted especially to the care, education, and development of needy, orphaned, abandoned, cruelly-treated, and neglected children.” Within the past three years the home has sheltered over five hundred little ones. At no time during the past year have there been less than twenty-five at one time, and sometimes there have been over seventy. The work was started by the Christian Help Band of the Paterson church. The address is Children’s Home, 472 Union Avenue, Paterson, N. J.
The following officers were elected by Kansas Conference, at the late session held at Burlington, Kansas: President, E. T. Russell; vice-president, C. A. Beeson; treasurer, T. J. Eagle. Secretary and treasurer of the Tract and Missionary Department, R. M. Rockey; State agent, W. F. Surber. Other secretaries were chosen by the Conference Committee.
Writing to the Bulletin (Des Moines, Iowa) from Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico, Brother D. D. Fitch says that the sanitarium there is enjoying much better patronage than a year ago. He says, “Take it all around, there is no place for comfort like the State of Jalisco. It rains as often as desirable, and the average summer temperature is about 86°. Really we have neither hot nor cold weather.”
A letter from Sister Mary B. Hansen of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Des Moines, Iowa, Bulletin, gives this item of special interest: “Our people had a splendid opportunity to let the light on health reform shine while the Peace Congress was in session at Frederikshavn recently. All the delegates were invited to visit our sanitarium and partake of a peace breakfast. There were about one hundred and fifty of them, all of the better class of people,—senators, lawyers, college professors,—all learned men. The breakfast was enjoyed to the utmost, and many words of praise were spoken. They were surprised that such a bountiful meal could be prepared without bloodshed. A call was made by many of them for some one to teach healthful cookery.”
Our Alaska workers, Brethren T. H. Watson and A. M. Dart, have settled for a time—the former on Douglas Island, in Douglas City, and the latter in Juneau. There is a three-mile channel between these places, but the close proximity enables them to work together as occasion may require, and thus be a mutual help. The wives of these brethren work together at times in selling papers and other missionary work. The field is a peculiarly difficult one, inasmuch as the white population are there for the one purpose of making a fortune as quickly as possible and returning to their homes. But, as has been previously reported, papers and books sell well. So the truth disseminated in this form may bring results at a later day and in a different field. It appears to be a good country for sowing, at least. Brother Watson asks for clean copies of the SIGNS, or other S.D.A. reading matter for missionary work. Address, post-paid, T. H. Watson, Douglas City, Douglas Island, Alaska.
From our laborers in the various fields we frequently get items of interest about the country as well as about the work. A recent number of the Southern Review contains a letter from Brother N. W. Allee, President of Dakota Conference, to Brother C. P. Bollman, of Nashville, Tenn., from which we clip the following:—
I have had some very blessed experiences in the work since coming to this field. I have traveled many miles by team over these vast treeless prairies, laboring among those who can not understand the English language, my speaking being done through an interpreter. The experiences are quite different here from those in the South. Traveling for many days in the newly settled portions of the country, it seems strange not to see a tree or even a twig of timber growing. One sees many houses, barns, school-houses, and churches built of sod. One place where I was visiting, the ground freezes five or six feet deep in winter time. That is in North Dakota. Fortunately there are coal mines there, and fuel is cheap, one to three dollars per ton. Wheat, oats, and flax are the principal crops. Many of the farmers have from 200 to 500 acres in grain. The weather has been unusually warm this summer here. We have suffered more from heat than in the South. We are well and of good courage.