OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 8, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 19.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

From the Missionary we learn that five persons have accepted the faith in Glennville, Cal.

Three recent additions to the church in Portland, Oregon, by baptism, are reported by Brother D. T. Fero, in the Visitor.

Three candidates were baptized in San Diego, Cal., by Brother George A. Snyder, just before his departure for General Conference.

In Los Angeles, Cal., five members were recently added to the church by baptism. The rite was administered by Brother R. S. Owen.

An encouraging increase in the financial receipts of Montana Conference was reported at the recent session. There was an increase in all the funds.

A teacher’s institute will be held in Graysville, Tenn., during the month of June. It is expected that this institute will organize, and give a new impetus to the church-school work in the South.

During the past two years sixty-three ordained ministers and sixty-seven licentiates have been added to the ministerial force of the denomination. Two hundred and thirty-eight new churches have been organized.

Nine sanitariums have been established by the denomination in the past two years,—one in Germany, two in Australia, one in New Zealand, and five in the United States. There are now twenty-four such institutions under the auspices of Seventh-day Adventists.

The Montana Conference has voted to conduct bath and treatment rooms in Butte, and to carry on medical missionary work in Christian-help lines from house to house among the poor and sick. This work is to take the place of the lodging-house mission, which has been operated for some time.

Here is a word of encouragement for the young who are looking about for enjoyment: “Young men, young women, there is a work for you to do. Just as surely as you do this work will you see the salvation of God. Close the windows of the soul earthward, and open them heavenward, and you will receive the rich blessings of heaven, and will at last gain a crown of immortality.”

A report of the Portland, Ore., Medical Mission, in a recent number of the Visitor, says: “Some seventy or eighty men and five to ten women lodge with us nightly. From five to ten are daily treated in the bath-room for various ailments, such as rheumatism, morphine habit, alcoholism, a sprained joint, or a broken bone. From five hundred to six hundred dishes of pure food are served each day. This in addition to the general Gospel work.”

April 6, the first Sabbath of the General Conference at Battle Creek, Mich., services were held simultaneously in four different places,—the tabernacle, the college chapel, Review office chapel, and the Sanitarium chapel. The speakers were Mrs. E. G. White, W. W. Prescott, E. J. Waggoner, and J. O. Corliss respectively. The topics were Tithe-paying, the Sanctuary and its Service, the Temple of God, and Christian Growth. The four audiences aggregated about 5,000 people.

In the Atlantic News is a letter from Brother W. J. Tanner, missionary in Jamaica, which shows some of the difficulties under which it is sometimes necessary to labor: “Our church work is being hindered just at present on account of lack of rain. The water supply of this part of the island is derived from the clouds. Large tanks or cisterns are made, and rain-water caught in these and used for all purposes for which water is used. We have not had any rain for three months, and consequently water is too scarce to use for mixing mortar. However, we have the sills, uprights, rafters, and some lumber, besides much stone and lime on the ground. When a rain comes, we can go on, if we are not hindered by a dearth of means. We had another baptism yesterday (March 23). We had to go nine miles down the mountain to find a place for the ordinance. One of the candidates walked thirty-two miles in order to be baptized. Surely the argument of ‘inconvenience’ did not have much weight with him. This man used to be one of the worst drunkards in the district before the tent came.”