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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 50.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

AT Bertrum, Minn., three candidates were recently baptized by Brother A. Mead.
THE addition of four to our ranks is reported by Sister Lulu Wightman, at Silver Creek, New York.
OUR Walla Walla Mission served a Thanksgiving dinner to the poor and friendless of that city. See Luke 14:12–15.
BROTHER JOHN HOFFMAN and wife have arrived safely at their destination in Finland, whither they have gone as Gospel missionaries.
ON Sunday, November 20, a new house of worship was dedicated at Fulda, Minn. The exercises were conducted by Brethren D. Nettleton and A. W. Kuehl.
A COMPANY of fifteen adherents to “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” is the visible result of recent labor by Brother F. C. Bush, at Pineville, Mo.
THIS good counsel is given by Brother F. Johnson, of Minnesota Conference: “Brethren, whenever you hear of an appointment that is within your reach, remember Heb. 10:25, for it contains present truth.”
THE address of the Helping Hand Mission in St. Paul, Minn., is 145 East Third Street. Donations of provisions, clothing, especially under-garments, or cash, are needed and solicited. A report in the Worker, from Brother J. H. Behrens, says, “The cold weather has brought many to our doors who avail themselves of the meals at one cent per dish, and bed with bath for ten cents.”
A LETTER from the tract society librarian in Salem, Oregon, says: “Our church seems to be working in earnest, but it is mostly the children. They are in earnest selling the SIGNS, and fairly clamor for more papers. . . . Even my little five-year-old is selling tracts and papers.”
THE brethren of New South Wales Conference set apart November as “self-denial month,” in which they were to live for four weeks on the usual expense of three weeks, and give the income of the fourth week (less the tithe) toward the needs of the Union Conference and Australian Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association.
THE managers of Walla Walla (Wash.) College have erected a new building for a bakery. It is 26x48 feet, two stories high, above a seven-foot brick basement. The building cost $1,500, and the apparatus nearly as much more, making a complete establishment for turning out health foods. Those who patronize it will serve two good purposes,—secure good food for themselves, and assist a worthy educational institution.
ONE brother in Iowa has ordered 1,000 copies of the quarter-centennial edition of the SIGNS, which he expects to sell. There are hundreds of others who could do likewise, “if—” but—”. These two little words are the rocks on which many timid souls will yet be wrecked. When the “fearful and afraid” had turned back from Gideon’s original army, less than one-third were left. When the ease-loving ones of the remainder had been sent back, there were left less than one in a hundred of the whole—300 out of 32,000—and these went on to victory.
THE mission work in Butte, Mont., according to The Breeze, is on a good footing. It says: “The mission is now located in new quarters, on South Main Street, in a building which, had it been made for mission purposes, would not have been better adapted for our work. The room is ample, neat, and clean, with an abundance of air and light. A firm in the city has just constructed for the mission forty iron beds, which are the perfection of neatness and durability. . . . Many men come to the mission in a very needy condition, out of work, with but little means, and without home or friends. Many of these are men who have seen better days, but through drink or misfortune have become stranded. These need encouragement, and a helping hand. They also need to be directed to a power which can save and keep from sin.”
JUDGING from the sentiments and reports in all of our conference organs, the brethren are awaking to the importance of the quarter-centennial issue of the SIGNS. By the time it reaches them, we expect that most of them will have even more fully appreciated that the circulation of a million copies is not out of reasonable expectation. The office force, altho a little late getting fairly started, is demonstrating that the issuing of the edition is not an impossibility. With the experience gained on this number, future efforts of the kind should be only within common expectation, and not be deemed extraordinary at all. Both in the office and in the field we must learn that the proper announcement of the coming of the Lord in glory requires immense editions. As the time draws near, millions must take the place of the tardy thousands with which we seem to have been satisfied in the past.