OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 34.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A new church building has been erected at Seward, Neb.

Eighteen persons were baptized at Muncie, Ind., on the 20th ult., by Brother P. G. Stanley.

Two members were added to the church at Wallace, N.Y., at the last quarterly-meeting service.

At the last quarterly meeting of the church at Darbyville, Iowa, two members were added to the church.

A church of ten members was recently organized at Auburn, Ind., by Brethren F. M. Roberts and J. E. Collins.

A mission among the Indians on the reservation near Salamanca, N.Y., has been started by Brother F. H. Hicks.

An institute for college and church-school teachers is now in progress at College View, Wash., to continue till September 3.

Eleven converts, in meetings held at Lamar, Mo., by Brethren D. E. Scoles and J. B. Stuyvesant, are reported in the Record.

Six converts are reported at Clifton, Kansas, where Brethren I. A. Crane and E. H. Curtis have been holding meetings.

Five converts were baptized at Frankton, Ind., on the 18th ult., and four at Huntington on the 20th, by Brother W. A. Ebert.

At the local camp-meeting recently held in the Black Hills, near Custer, S. D., four candidates were baptized in Sylvan Lake.

July 27 a church of twelve members was organized at Astoria, Oregon, by Brother H. W. Decker, president of the conference.

From the Review we learn that during the past eighteen months 112 members were added to the church at Battle Creek, Mich. Thirteen were baptized July 27.

A new colporter wagon has been fitted out for work among the Scandinavian settlements in Nebraska. Brother J. F. Anderson has charge, and is working in the vicinity of Holdrege.

At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Steamburg, N.Y., seven candidates were baptized. Five of them united with the church at Randolph, and two joined the Steamburg church.

The managers of the sanitarium at Spokane, Wash., are now erecting a new hospital building. Although this is a new institution, the question of accommodating patients is already a perplexity.

The officers of Ontario Conference for the ensuing year are, J. W. Collie, president; Helen McKinnon, secretary and treasurer. The executive committee are, J. W. Collie, E. J. Dryer, T. H. Robinson, J. H. Watson, Robert McCormick.

The missionary spirit was manifested at the recent New England camp-meeting, held at Springfield, Mass., when it was voted to sustain a minister in the Maritime Provinces for an unlimited time; to donate $250 to the work in New York City, and to support a Bible worker in that city.

A remarkable meeting at Keene, Texas, is reported in the Review by Brother C. McReynolds, president of Southwestern Union Conference. He had gone to Keene to hold some meetings in connection with the close of the school. He says that the first Sabbath of the meeting was a time that will remain in the memories of hundreds of God’s children. A general move began among the children, and little ones from seven to ten years of age went throughout the audience inviting their playmates and others much older to come to the altar of prayer. This work began without any suggestion on the part of any one, and it resulted in over sixty coming forward to seek the Lord. A week later twenty-two candidates were baptized.

The Dakota brethren have decided to hold a church-school institute, beginning about October 1, the place to be selected in time for due notice. All other preparation can be made in the meantime, as the place will be the most convenient available. It is expected that several new church-schools will be established this fall, as the people are said to be awakening to the importance of this branch of the work.

The Reaper of July 31 tells that “Brother A. J. Breed, accompanied by his wife, arrived in College Place, Monday, the 29th. He comes to take charge of the work in the Upper Columbia Conference, to which position he was elected at the last camp-meeting. He has been detained on account of the illness of his wife, but we are glad to announce that she is improving rapidly, and stood the trip remarkably well. All will be glad to welcome them into the work here.”

The July number of the Religious Liberty Library is entitled “Self-Government, or the Reign of Conscience,” by C. P. Bollman. It contains 48 pages, illustrated, and the price being only two cents, there is no reason why it should not have a wide circulation. The principles enunciated need emphasis in these days, when the tendency to ignore them is so manifest in both public and private life. Address International Religious Liberty Association, 324 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill.

The Missionary Review of the World for June gives some statistics of Protestant mission work in South America. It sums up 778 missionaries, among whom are sixty-three Seventh-day Adventists, just the same as the American Presbyterians, and more than some other prominent denominations. Yet we can truly say that “the laborers are ‘few’ compared with the importance and urgency of the Gospel of the coming kingdom, and its attendant admonition, ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make ‘His paths straight.’”

Of our recent special issue, the Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, says that the Wealth and War number of the SIGNS is all that was anticipated,—replete with choice thoughts, attractively presented, on the timely topics considered. But shall we be content with enjoying these good things alone? Are we not under obligation to bring to our fellow-men a knowledge of these saving truths for our time? This number of the SIGNS is another means given us to be used in the proclamation of the advent message to the world in this generation.

Concerning the new Emmanuel Missionary College now being established at Berrien Springs, Mich., as the successor of Battle Creek College, Prof. P. T. Magan reports that the people of Berrien Springs have been exceedingly kind, and have taken great interest and pride in the location of the school in their midst. The prayers of all the people of God are asked, that God may bless in the founding of this new institution. The move was made from Battle Creek for two reasons: (1) To secure a quiet rural location, better adapted to study and industrial training; (2) the college buildings in Battle Creek were needed for sanitarium and medical school purposes.

A letter in the Workers’ Bulletin, from Brother P. A. Hansen, notes the annual meeting held in Odense, Fyen Island, Denmark. He says that one hundred and fifty-nine were in attendance, and the city well represented. Some had accepted the truth previous to this, and the meeting was held here in order to establish the work. Twenty-two were baptized. This was the first baptism ever held in Fyen. We went up the river in a steamer with 300 on board; and the main road, which ran along the river, was thronged with people. That dread disease, tuberculosis, is at work here. Many even of our own people are going down with it, and it is stated by sure authority that one-fifth of the inhabitants are caught by it. Only the power of God, through obedience to His laws, can protect us. The Board of Health are doing all they can to prevent it from spreading, and are building hospitals in every county.