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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 15, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 20.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

At Albion, Mich., three heads of families have accepted the truth under the labors of Brother L. N. Lane.
The addition of two members to the church at Poplar Bluff, Mo., is reported by Brother A. P. Heacock.
March 16 and 17, eight persons were baptized by Brother G. R. Hawkins, and added to the church at Dubuque, Iowa.
From meetings held in Washburn, Mo., by Brother D. E. Scoles, six converts are reported in the Workers' Record.
Five persons have taken their stand on Bible truth, as presented by Brethren O. F. Butcher and W. E. Videto, at West Olive, Mich.
An effort is being made to erect a house of worship in Birmingham, England, and it is designed to have it completed this summer.
Reporting to Field Echoes, Brother L. A. Kellogg notes the accession of two persons at Howard City, Mich., and two at Howard.
The first effort to sell Present Truth (our London paper) in the city of Birmingham, resulted in the sale of thirty copies in two hours by one person.
A more aggressive effort is to be made in New York City, and to this end, Brother S. N. Haskell and wife have been assigned to that important field.
Concerning the work in and around Stockton, Cal., Brother J. S. Harmon reports the baptism of four candidates on March 30, and four more on April 13.
The annual camp-meeting of Minnesota Conference will be held at Anoka, June 4-12. The regular session of the conference will be held in connection with this meeting.
The General Conference has invited two of its ex-presidents to occupy foreign fields,—Brother O. A. Olsen, to go to South Africa, and Brother G. A. Irwin, to Australia.
The General Conference executive committee is now composed of twenty-five members, of which Brother A. G. Daniells is chairman. He is also president of the Lake Union Conference.
Brother J. E. Jayne, who has been holding the office of secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, returns to his former position of president of Atlantic Conference. Brother A. E. Place, who has been president of Atlantic for the past two years, now becomes president of New England Conference.
Among the many assignments to foreign fields by the late General Conference, we note that of Brother J. N. Anderson and wife, of Harvey, Ill., as missionaries to China. These are the first regular missionaries of the denomination to China proper. Brother A. LaRue has been doing ship missionary work in Hongkong.
The six General Conference Districts in America have been organized into union conferences. District No. 1 is now known as Eastern Union Conference; No. 2, as Southern Union Conference; No. 3, as Lake Union Conference; No. 4, as Northwestern Union Conference; No. 5, as Southwestern Union Conference; No. 6, as Pacific Union Conference.
The executive committee of the Religious Liberty Department of the General Conference is composed of the following persons: A. T. Jones (chairman), E. A. Sutherland, David Paulson, A. Moon, S. H. Lane. The Mission Committee is composed of the following: A. G. Daniells (chairman), J. H. Kellogg, David Paulson, A. J. Read, E. A. Sutherland, I. H. Evans, W. C. White, H. F. Rand, W. T. Knox, A. T. Jones, W. W. Prescott.
A sister in Belfast, Ireland, writes to the Missionary Worker about the blessing attached to the little book, “Steps to Christ.” She says: “I have sold about forty of them to ministers of all denominations, some of whom have recommended the book from the pulpit. In all I have disposed of over four hundred copies, my customers including lords and titled ladies. Some of them have been willing to talk about Jesus. There are houses in which I have sold six books, not in my own strength, but thru the power of God.”