OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1901

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Pastor Roberts recently baptized nine at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The brethren at Connie, Oregon, have erected a neat meeting-house, and expect to dedicate it soon.

Brother J. B. Scott reports good meetings at Beldenville, Wis., in which ten souls gave their hearts to the Lord.

Brother W. H. White says that an organization of eighteen is the result of the meetings he has been holding in McCook, Neb.

Brother O. E. Jones reports two whole families who have recently given themselves to the service of the Lord in Sterling, Neb.

Brother P. S. Quinn says there is a good interest in the work at Billings, Montana, where he has recently organized a Sabbath-school of eighteen members.

Brother J. C. Foster has held a successful series of meetings in Red Lodge, Montana, during the past year; a new church building has been erected, and a church will be organized soon.

The permanent address of the Southern Missionary Society, as well as of Pastor J. E. White, president of the same, and also Brother John H. Niehaus, is changed to 1908 Grand Avenue, Nashville, Tenn.

Pastor W. B. White, president of Montana Conference, who has been dangerously ill with typhoid fever, is making a good recovery, and is beginning to take up his labor again in his conference.

Pastor A. T. Robinson reports a splendid missionary interest in the Avondale School, Cooranbong, N. S. W. He also reports commendable progress for the Avondale Press, the name given to the publishing plant connected with the same school. Among the enterprises that the Press is projecting is a paper, to be called the Joyful Tidings, for gratuitous distribution in localities where ministers seldom or never call. They expect to issue the first number of it in a very short time.

The annual donation to foreign missions of our church at Battle Creek, Mich., is nearly $1,300. The money is not all in yet, and Pastor Saxby thinks it will go beyond the $1,300 mark.

Our academy at South Lancaster, Mass., at its seventeenth annual meeting elected the following trustees for the ensuing year: W. L. Payne, R. A. Underwood, G. B. Thompson, A. E. Place, H. C. Basney, J. W. Watt, O. O. Farnsworth, D. B. Parmelee, and S. A. Farnsworth.

The Battle Creek, Mich., Sanitarium is enjoying a most prosperous season. The patronage is heavier than ever in its history. Notwithstanding the fact that the institution is so large that 600 physicians, nurses, and other helpers are necessarily employed, the institution is crowded to its greatest capacity.

The church school at Moon, Wis., is in a flourishing condition. It began its fall term with thirty-eight pupils in attendance, and now the enrolment is forty-five. The school at Milwaukee is also prospering. The pupils at this latter place have taken quite an interest in circulating the Outlook Number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

A private letter from Australia tells of a good revival in progress in North Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne. Pastor G. B. Starr is conducting the meetings. Seven were baptized on November 12, and 25 more were to be baptized on November 19. The letter was written before the 19th, and stated that the prospect was good that even more than 25 would be ready for baptism.

Pastor G. C. Tenney, writing to the Union Record, Cooranbong, N. S. W., says: “I have been at Bundaberg, Queensland, two days, and have baptized twelve, and organized a church of twenty-four members. There is a deep interest here, and we hope for still other accessions to the church.” Brother Tenney also tells of the success that attends the work at Rockhampton. Five or six have recently begun the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath at that place.

The demand for our denominational literature was never greater than at the present time. This office has been rushed with work for several months past; in fact, it has been obliged to work overtime in many of its departments. Our sister publishing house in Battle Creek, Mich., with its 340 employees, has also been rushed so heavily that it has had to work overtime. One of the jobs has been to print 60,000 copies of the new book “Christ’s Object Lessons,” since October 1, when the first edition was put on the press. The whole of the profits from the sale of this book go to the relief of the indebtedness on our schools, and we are glad to see it selling so rapidly.