OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 49.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

AT Gorin, Mo., Brother H. M. Stewart reports the addition of five persons to our ranks.

ENCOURAGING success is reported in the work of the Helping Hand Mission at Lafayette, Ind.

AT Herington, Kansas, Sister Ida Lindstrom reports the organization of a Christian Help Band and a Life-boat Crew.

BROTHER W. A. HENNIG, president of Missouri Conference, notes the addition of nine members to the church at Rolla.

OF about twenty missionaries recently sent out to foreign fields, five had previously labored in a like capacity for other denominations.

THE baptism of three candidates at Steinhagen, and six at Senate Grove, Mo., is reported by Brother A. A. Meyer. Others were to be baptized the week following the report.

FROM The Review we learn that a great spiritual revival has been experienced in the church at Battle Creek, Mich. On the 20th ult. fifty-seven persons were baptized, most of whom were from the college in that city.

BROTHER G. C. TENNEY and family are now on the way to Australia, having left Vancouver, B. C., on the 17th ult., on the steamer of that date. Brother Tenney has labored in the Australian field before, and will no doubt be warmly welcomed again.

SIX persons have decided to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” as a result of labor by Brother J. N. Sommerville, at Webster, Texas. He also reports success in canvassing for the SIGNS and “Bible Readings.” His was the first presentation of Seventh-day Adventist doctrine in that place.

THE addition of two members to the church at Leavenworth, Kansas, is noted by Brother J. W. Westphal. He also mentions that half a dozen have begun to keep the Sabbath of the Lord in Kansas City, Kansas. Work with the SIGNS is being well pushed there too. Besides the club of 150 taken by the tract society, there are 800 going to actual subscribers.

IN response to numerous calls from persons in the district, the faculty of Keene (Texas) Academy have decided to start a correspondence school for the benefit of those who can not pursue a course of study at the academy. Only two lines will be taken up at first—Old Testament history and physiology. Prof. C. C. Lewis will conduct the former, and Dr. E. H. Mathewson, the latter study. Address, Keene Academy Correspondence School, Keene, Texas.

ALL the conference organs give evidence that the brethren are becoming more and more awake to the importance of the great quarter-centennial edition of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Special bands are being organized in the churches for systematic work, and isolated individuals are ordering with a view to canvassing unoccupied territory. One brother in Indianapolis reports orders in advance for sixty copies, and another, for fifty-seven. Indiana Conference has made a definite order for 20,000 to start with.