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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 7.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE church-school at Lane, Tenn., opened on the 8th of January.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of fourteen members has been organized at Pleasant Ridge, Neb.
FIFTEEN members have been added to the church at Dubuque, Iowa, during the past year.
ELDER S. B. HORTON writes that he has recently organized several new churches in Louisiana.
THREE have recently taken their stand with the Lord, and expect soon to unite with the church at Santa Rosa, California.
A BROTHER in Nebraska who recently accepted the faith has made a generous donation of $1,000 to the foreign mission work.
THE church-school at Trezevant, Tenn., has outgrown its present quarters and the brethren are talking of enlarging their building.
TWO PERSONS have recently commenced the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath at Ashland, Wis., and united with the church at that place.
THE Southern Review reports that the sale of our books in its district has been the highest during the past year of all the years of the past except one.
BROTHER RAULEDER reports a good interest in the work at Los Angeles. Two received baptism and united with the church there on a recent Sabbath.
BROTHER E. O. CUMMINGS has been asked by the General Conference Committee to take charge of the canvassing work in district 4, which includes the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Manitoba.
THERE will be a general meeting at Fresno, Cal., March 5–10, and another, at Hanford, March 12–17. President Santee urges that all our brethren living in these localities attend one or the other of these important meetings.
DURING the year ending October 31, 1900, the Chicago Medical Mission served 591,860 penny lunches; gave lodging to 70,872; held 992 gospel meetings, the attendance aggregating 48,135, and 615 are reported as having professed conversion.
THE church at Boggstown, Indiana, has been doing aggressive work in the adjoining neighborhood of Pleasant View during the winter. As a result, twelve are keeping the Lord’s Sabbath, and rejoicing in the blessed hope of the soon-coming Saviour.
SINCE the founding of the San Francisco Helping Hand and Medical Mission, nearly three years ago, “over 500 persons have been furnished permanent positions, and more than 4,000 provided with temporary employment. More than 1,500,000 have been fed and sheltered.”
BROTHER JAY W. INGINGSON had the rather novel experience recently of being called upon to talk on the prophecies in a hotel office. He gave his discourse in the evening, and the interest was so great that they invited him to speak again on the same subject the next evening.
AT the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Conference, recently held, the report showed that six new churches had been added to the conference during the year, and that six new meeting-houses had been built. Thirteen new Sabbath-schools have been organized during the same time.
THE brethren at Neillsville, Wis., have organized a church-school, and will open it for work right away. May the Lord bless them in their efforts to save their children from the vices and evils of this time, by planting in their minds the true principles of Christianity as the most essential thing in their education.
THE Portland medical mission is crowded. They have sixty-five beds on which to care for the sick and helpless poor, and these are all filled. Fifteen or twenty more beds are needed right away. Any who desire to assist in this work should send their donation to W. J. Burden, 508 East Everett Street, Portland, Oregon.
TWO MINISTERS in Maine have recently seen and acknowledged the binding claims of God’s Sabbath, according to the commandment. Connected with us they will devote their lives to teaching the great truths for these times, prominent in which is the soul-satisfying fact that the Lord Jesus is about to come the second time. May the number of devoted workers of this class be rapidly increased. The world is in crying need of them.
A BROTHER in Iowa writes: “As I was driving along the road a few days since, a man stopped me to pay for a copy of the Outlook SIGNS that he had purchased some time previous. In reply to my inquiry as to how he liked the paper, he said that he had read and reread it.” This shows the interest that is felt in this important issue of the SIGNS. Has every one done his full duty in circulating it? It is still live matter, and should be sold by the thousands.
EVERY available place in the students’ home connected with the Woodland, Wisconsin, Academy is now occupied, and some of the nonresident students are obliged to room outside the home. This kind of prosperity is very encouraging indeed. The brethren in charge of the school say to any who are thinking of attending: “Do not let this crowded condition keep any from coming who can do so. A place will be found for you, and you will be made comfortable and happy.”
BROTHER S. C. OSBORNE has been requested by the Pacific Press Publishing Co. to transfer his field of labor from General Conference district No. 5 to district 6, the home territory of the Pacific Press. Brother Osborne will make his headquarters at the Pacific Press, and, while he will be in the field most of the time, mail will reach him addressed in care of this office. He has already entered upon his work here, and we bespeak for him the hearty co-operation of the friends of the cause in this part of the field.
THE president of the conference in New South Wales, Pastor W. A. Colcord, writes us: “Our conference is young, but it is growing. Over 100 persons have been baptized in the conference during the last year; two new churches have been organized; five new Sabbath-schools have been added since last June, and the membership of our Sabbath-schools increased during the year 140. There are about 600 adult Sabbath-keepers in the conference, and the membership of our Sabbath-schools stands at 850.” May the good work go on.