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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 25.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The West Virginia Conference has two tents in the field the present season.
Canvassers in Finland have sold books amounting to $7,750 during the past year.
Successful medical missions are now in operation at Jaffa and Jerusalem, and three medical workers are laboring in Egypt.
In connection with the work at Balham, England, Brother J. S. Washburn reports the baptism of fourteen persons in the last four months.
The canvassing work in Missouri is in a prosperous condition, the last report in the Record being the largest ever made in the State.
The Southern Educational Convention is now in session at Graysville, Tenn. It was commenced on the 18th inst., and will continue till July 4.
Brother J. Vuilleumier has recently begun labor in Paris, and medical missionary nurses are working successfully at the watering places Niel and Vichy.
Kansas City, Mo., is now favored with the labors of Brother E. A. Merrell, who has had an extended and successful experience in other cities as a city missionary.
Sabbath, July 6, has been appointed by the General Conference Committee as a day of special prayer and consecration for the work in foreign fields. A collection will be taken for the benefit of the publishing house in Christiania, Norway.
Four tents are placed in the field by Chesapeake Conference this session. The recent annual session of the conference elected Brother O. O. Farnsworth president; secretary and treasurer, Charles D. Zirkle. The office of the conference is at 903 Woodley Street, Baltimore.
Brother Wm. Saunders, who for years has been connected with this office as one of the directors of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., recently received the sad news of the death of his mother, Mrs. Christiana Tayler, in Lansing, Mich., May 22, at the advanced age of 93 years.
From Springfield, Mo., Brother D. P. Zeigler reports that six persons have recently taken their stand on the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, making eleven additions since the first of the year. A new church building is being erected, and work with the SIGNS is encouraging.
A report in the Workers’ Record, from Brother J. M. Rees, notes the organization of a church at Cotton, Mo., with sixteen members, and the dedication of a new house of worship. This meeting was followed by the baptism of four persons. The labor which brought about these good results was done by Brother H. M. Stewart.
A report in the Missionary Reporter from Belfast, Ireland, by Brother J. McAvoy, says that the work is growing in that city, and precious souls are being added to the church. A portable hall is used, which is moved from one part of the city to another. From 600 to 700 copies of Present Truth are sold weekly, and seven book agents are at work in the city and vicinity.
During a recent visit of Brother N. Z. Town to his old home at South Russell, N. Y., he had the pleasure of seeing his father and mother, his brother’s wife and her daughter, and a neighbor’s daughter received into the church at that place. Brother Town had come from his mission in Argentina, S. America, to attend the General Conference at Battle Creek, Mich. After the conference, in company with Brother F. M. Wilcox, of Boulder, Colo., he made this visit to their home. They held a few meetings while there, which bore good fruit. Brother Town returns to Argentina very much encouraged.
Brother J. W. H. Geiss, of Lawson, N. S. W., formerly a Church of England minister in Tasmania, and for some time editor of the Hobart Church News, has recently sent out a neat little tract, entitled, “To My Friends,” in which he gives his reasons for becoming a Seventh-day Adventist, and tells of the blessings that have come to him in consequence of taking this step. It is an interesting and very readable little document. In concluding it, Brother Geiss says: “I believe the time has now come when true believers in every denomination will join themselves with those of whom the Lord says, ‘Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.’”—Bible Echo.
On May 30, Brother G. A. Irwin and wife and Brother W. D. Salisbury sailed from San Francisco for Australia on the steamer Mariposa. Brother Irwin is to act as president of the Australasian Union Conference, and Brother Salisbury is manager of the Echo Publishing Co., at Melbourne. He had come to the United States to attend the biennial General Conference. A number of other laborers for that field, including New Zealand and other islands, had expected to sail at the same time, but were unable to secure accommodations on the steamer, and will sail at a later date. This, however, gave them opportunity to attend the California camp-meeting at Oakland. This company consists of the following persons: Brethren Wm. Woodford, wife and three children, C. W. Irwin and wife, L. V. Finster and wife, F. L. Chaney, wife and child, W. A. Hennig and wife, G. A. Snyder and wife, and Dr. Nettie Armstrong.