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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 17.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE issue of April 6 of the Sentinel of Liberty is a good one for special circulation, that is, if you are going to count one number as above another in importance, and give it paramount attention. That one gives a practical illustration of the meaning of the principle of religious liberty in the United States.
IN the Montana Bivouac we find mention of the death of Brother H. Grant, in the eightieth year of his age. He commenced the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord in 1857, and began public labor in 1862. He served sixteen years as president of Minnesota Conference. Later in life he lived six years at College View, Neb., but since the fall of 1899 he has resided at Missoula, Mont., with his son-in-law, Brother W. B. White, president of the Conference.
OF the work in the Hawaiian Territory, Brother B. L. Howe says, in the California Missionary: “In the islands we have all the conditions of soil, and no soil, that can be found. Our sowing has to be done in faith.” It is a good thing that it has to be done that way, for sowing done in any other way would not be very productive in any country. Brother Howe also says: “We have a large population of Chinese. We have a well-organized school for Chinese boys, under the management of an earnest corps of workers.” Some subscriptions are being taken for the Japanese paper published in Tokyo, Japan, and a successful canvass is being made by Brother Da Silva for the Portuguese paper published in Valparaiso, Chile. Brother Howe arrived in California recently en route to the General Conference at Battle Creek, Michigan.
AT Canandaigua, N. Y., Sister Lulu Wightman reports five additions to the cause.
ON March 24 two candidates were baptized in the Delaware River at Camden, N. J., making five recent additions to the church.
FIVE persons have begun the observance of the Bible Sabbath at Orange, Wis., under the special labors of Brother J. B. Locken. This report was only the beginning of the interest at that place.
ON the 11th ult., Brother L. Johnson baptized eleven persons at Meadow Grove, Neb. Since that date three others have accepted “the faith which was once delivered to the saints,” and for which they were exhorted to “earnestly contend.”
THE South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy has announced a summer school for church-school teachers, beginning early in July and continuing two months. Concerning this school those especially interested should address Prof. Frederick Griggs, principal.
SABBATH, April 20, has been set apart as a day of thanksgiving in the Keene (Texas) Academy school district, to thank God for the way in which He is blessing in the selling of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and to ask for a continuation of the same.
A new church organization has been formed at Mountain View, Mo., under the labors of Brethren W. S. Cruzan and W. L. McNeely. The church started out with thirty-two members, and a new house of worship. Brother J. M. Rees, president of the conference, was present at the organization and dedication.
A REPORT in the Atlantic News from Brother R. G. Patterson notes that in connection with his labors in Patchogue, L. I., he has forty-five families reading and paying for the SIGNS, and is kept quite busy evenings giving Bible-readings to interested families. He teaches a class in the Congregational Sunday-school, and has twice occupied the pulpit of the Baptist church when the minister was sick.
AT the beginning of the General Conference four new conferences were admitted, as follows: (1) Queensland, Australia, with 226 members; (2) South Australia, with 193 members; (3) Ontario, Dominion of Canada, with 415 members; (4) Cumberland, with 394 members. The territory of Cumberland Conference comprises Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee, formerly known as Cumberland Mission Field.
ON her way to the General Conference at Battle Creek, Mich., Sister E. G. White went the Southern route from California. We have before noted her stops at Los Angeles and Vicksburg. Leaving the latter place, she stopped over at Memphis, Tenn., and spoke to the church there. Then going on to Nashville, she attended meetings in that city at which a number of representative brethren were present. This was her first visit to what is known to our people as the Southern Field, and she spoke very commendingly of the work of the Southern Missionary Society. It is encouraging to know that while bearing the infirmities of age and physical weakness that would ordinarily unfit one for travel or labor of any kind, she is able to write much, and to speak to the people when necessarily called upon to do so. Notwithstanding a sudden prostration while at Los Angeles, she was enabled to pursue her journey and take part in the meetings already mentioned, and to bear important testimony at Battle Creek before and at the opening of the General Conference. Like the apostle Paul, her many and arduous labors are performed in spite of much physical suffering.
THE president of California Conference, Brother C. Santee, makes this timely suggestion, which is just as good for other conferences: “In the canvass for ‘Christ’s Object Lessons’ there will be a grand opportunity to circulate the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. There will be many who will not feel that they can take a book, and with these we can leave a paper, and in some instances it will be the means of drawing them to search for the truth. If one soul in the State can be drawn to the truth by all that all can do in this way, it will be a grand success. But there will be more than this. Then, I believe that we can not do a better work than to leave a paper with every one that subscribes for the book. We can afford to do this, and the influence of doing more for the person than they had a right to expect will also be good. Dear brethren and sisters, in your meetings arrange to take a club of the SIGNS to use in this way, and it will be the best of missionary work. It will be getting out the paper, and at the same time it will be leaving a better impression in regard to the people who are selling the book. It will be a means also of doing missionary work with the paper in a thoro way, with no loss of time for this alone. I feel certain that the Lord will bless this addition to the canvass.”