OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1901

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

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg arrived in this city on the 18th ult., and spoke three times at the workers’ institute which followed the camp-meeting.

AN audience of 600 men recently listened to a discourse by Brother J. F. Bahler in the penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas. He and his wife distributed a large number of tracts, which were gratefully received.

A SECOND church has been organized in New York, the charter members being former members of the first church. The meeting place is at Eighth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. This forms another nucleus for the ingathering of souls.

BROTHER E. E. MILES reports in the New England Gleaner that he has just received a letter which “tells of eleven persons having received the truth, directly or indirectly, as the result of the selling of one book by a New England canvasser, and these eleven persons were in seven different families in five States.”

THE Gospel Herald, published at Nashville, Tenn., as a missionary paper for the southern field, has been materially enlarged. It is an eight-page monthly, issued at the low rate of 25 cents a year. A fund is being raised for its circulation in the field for which it is designed. Address Southern Missionary Society, 1025 Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tenn.

MRS. C. C. LEWIS, of Keene, Texas, says in the Reporter, that “the library committee of Cleburne has given us a book case, and asked us to fill three shelves now, and after that we can put in as many books as we wish. We must fill three shelves as soon as it is open, to hold the case. The cases have been ordered, and they are expecting them to come every day. The brethren at Keene have responded very liberally, and have donated 59 books. The cases hold from 10 to 30 books according to the size of the books.”

THE illness of our workers in Matabeleland, Africa, is a matter of sorrow on the part of their brethren and friends. Brother F. L. Mead writes to the Missionary Magazine that he has had three attacks of fever. His son Walter has had two, and his wife and daughter each one attack. The only ones who have escaped are Brother Chaney and Sister Green. Even the natives are having the fever. The mortality was so great among the people of Buluwayo that the undertakers were unable to take care of the dead promptly. It is gratifying to know that our people were likely to all recover. Their hygienic manner of life no doubt greatly aided them in the battle with the dread disease.

TO THE Advocate of Christian Education Brother T. B. Buckner writes from Montgomery, Ala.: “Our school for colored children, which began its second school year October 1, with forty-five pupils, has since increased to sixty-eight. Several applicants have been refused for lack of room to accommodate them. We are fitting up another room, expecting an assistant teacher. Brother W. G. Buckner, and friends, of Hanford, Cal., have sent us several hundred pounds of nice fruit, for which we are very thankful. We ask our friends in the North and East to help us out in any way they desire,—with clothing, or beans, or any other produce. All can be used to help the poor children and their parents. Please prepay all freight charges clear thru.”

THE good camp-meeting in this city closed with a grand social meeting early Monday morning, the 17th ult. From first to last it was an extraordinary occasion, even the business meetings manifesting much of the presence of the Holy Spirit. The camp occupied two large blocks of ground, a public street with double car-line passing thru the center. Many times the large pavilion was packed to overflowing, while side-meetings in a half dozen smaller meeting tents were almost continuous. On Sunday, the 16th, fifty persons were baptized in the baptistry of the Oakland Church. About twenty others were accepted for baptism, deferring the ordinance until arriving at home. It was decided to divide the conference, and form a new conference in Southern California. This new organization will be effected at a meeting to be held in Los Angeles in the fore part of August. A committee was appointed to effect a division of the conference property. Officers of the existing conference were elected as follows: President, Alonzo T. Jones; Secretary, M. H. Brown; Treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Co.; Executive Committee, A. T. Jones, M. H. Brown, J. O. Corliss, M. C. Wilcox, M. C. Cady, T. J. Evans, C. N. Martin, W. C. White, H. G. Thurston. An institute for the benefit of all classes of conference workers, continuing two weeks, was held on the camp-ground at the close of the main meeting.