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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The date of the Minnesota camp-meeting is June 4-12; the place Anoka.
The Wisconsin camp-meeting will be held at Grand Rapids, June 12-23.
The brethren at Saranac Lake, N. Y., are taking initial steps in the erection of a house of worship.
A church of fifteen members was organized at Clinton, Iowa, on the 4th of May, and one week later six more were added.
A Catholic priest in New England bought a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and offered no objection to its circulation among his flock.
An Indian brother was recently baptized in Syracuse, N. Y., by Brother A. O. Berrill. This new recruit has connected with the church at South Onondaga.
On the 4th ult., twelve candidates were baptized by Brother J. E. Tenney, at Bethel, Wis. These persons were students in the school at that place. One was an Oneida Indian girl.
At San Pasqual, Cal., April 6, after a union Sabbath-school service, three candidates were baptized by the local elder of the church. The gathering was composed of the local school, the school of Escondido, and some from Rainbow and San Diego.
Brother A. D. Westcott, who has been laboring at Fennimore, Wis., says, in the Reporter, “The other day a preacher of another denomination handed me a small sum of money, saying that it was the Lord’s money—a tithe, and he was going to give it to me.” He had been reading some of our publications.
The Bible Echo (Melbourne) says that “Mr. and Mrs. Piper, who recently left Australia to take up school work among the natives of Raratonga, report interesting and encouraging work among the children.” The same paper says that “on Sunday, April 14, a baptismal service was held at Brighton by Pastor G. B. Starr, when seven persons were baptized.”
The late General Conference came to a recognition of the fact that “the field is the world,” and dropped out the word “Foreign” from the title of the Mission Board. Hereafter there is to be no such distinction. The field is one, the work is one. There is no need of more than one field, for there is only one kind of seed to plant—the truth; there is to be but one harvest—the harvest of souls at the end of the world.
The American Medical Missionary College is just starting a little paper, a copy of which they wish to send to every Seventh-day Adventist farmer. The subscription price will be ten cents a year. The first number will be sent free to every farmer who will send his name and address within the next thirty days. The publishers have a special proposition to make to missionary farmers. Address, Missionary Acre, Battle Creek, Mich.
In some of our little conference papers items that would be of interest are sometimes marred because some essential point is omitted. Brevity is commendable, but brevity at the expense of an important fact is too brief. For instance, one paper had four notices of a camp-meeting, not one of which gave the date; another gave information concerning a meeting, but omitted the place; and a third had the report of a laborer giving the good news that six heads of families had accepted the truth, but the place where it occurred is not given.
The academy at Keene, Texas, makes a good report for the year just closing. The graduating class numbers twenty-eight, and five students of the academy have been called to distant fields for missionary work. Brother and Sister G. F. Jones will go to the Society Islands. The Educator says: “Their first work will be to have charge of the missionary ship which is to be purchased with the proceeds of the sale of the Pitcairn. Brother Jones will have charge of the ship, and will teach the science and art of navigation to some of the Pitcairn Islanders, so that in about two years they will be able to sail their own ship. A training school will be held on the ship, the products of Pitcairn Island will be taken to market, missionaries will be taken to their fields of labor, and missionary work will be done while the ship is lying in port.” Brother and Sister A. G. Bodwell have been called by the General Conference to labor in Mexico. Brother George Beckner is to go to the island of Raiatea, and to have charge of the industrial work of the boys in Brother B. J. Cady’s school.