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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 47.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THREE members were added to the church at Alameda, Cal., on the 12th inst.
SEVEN converts are reported by Brethren Henry and Wm. J. Johnson, at Perry, Iowa.
FOUR converts are reported at Sheridan, N. Y., under the labors of Sister Lulu Wightman.
A CHURCH school has been instituted at Huron, South Dakota, with Brother J. D. Barton in charge.
ELDER E. PAYBERG is organizing a school of health in Milwaukee, Wis., and is meeting with good success.
THE General Conference has asked Brother B. G. Wilkinson, of Battle Creek, Mich., to take charge of the work in Manitoba.
FOUR persons were baptized at Elk Point, South Dakota, during a four days’ meeting held by Brother J. H. Rogers.
FOURTEEN have been added to our ranks at Russell, Iowa, through labor of Brother Frank A. Washburn and others.
FIVE candidates were recently baptized in Lake Kenka, near South Putney, N. Y., by Brother W. A. Westworth. Two candidates were baptized at Adams Center by the same minister.
THE autumn class in medical missionary work now being drilled at the Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., numbers about two hundred. The class entered upon regular work on the 3d inst.
A GOOD report comes from the colporter wagon of the Illinois Conference, and Brother Hook, who has charge of it, deems it a means of great good. This means of work in the country will no doubt soon become more extensively used.
NOT only in the office of publication but also in the field it is coming to be more and more recognized as a fact that our million-copies edition of the SIGNS, for January 5, 1899, is not only an immense but an important enterprise. Individual orders are running from 100 to 5,000 copies, aside from tract society orders. The 5,000 individual order is from Brother J. F. Bahler, a Texas laborer.
A CHRISTIAN HELP BAND was recently organized at the South Side (Chicago) church. The pupils of the church school have formed a society for the purpose of soliciting food from the opulent to give to the poor.
IN connection with meetings held in Duquoin, Ill., four have been added to the church, a Christian Help Band has been organized to help the poor and to distribute Gospel literature, and the brethren acknowledge the Spirit of God as their leader and helper.
MEETINGS held at Fish Creek Landing, N. Y., by Brother S. B. Whitney, are giving good results, ten having taken their stand on the Lord’s side. One of these is a man 84 years of age, who has thus demonstrated that the prolongation of his years has not been without a purpose.
MISS MARGUERITE WATERS, who is teaching a church school at Prescott, Wis., writes to The Wisconsin Reporter that fourteen of her pupils are living with her in the rooms in connection with the school. It is conducted on the plan of a private boarding-school, and, altho it has a small beginning, yet it is no doubt a nucleus for a much greater work.
IOWA CONFERENCE recently voted $500 of surplus funds to the Foreign Mission Board, and then Kansas Conference did likewise, adding $500 each to three other enterprises. The proper solution of the money question on the part of Christians, in view of the soon-coming reckoning day, is to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.”
FROM The Gleaner we take this item, showing the sentiment that is being aroused in regard to our quarter-centennial issue: “The time of the regular Sabbath morning service in South Lancaster [Mass.] last Sabbath was devoted to the missionary theme relating to the grand opportunity, already at hand, of preparing the way for the extensive circulation of the quarter-centennial number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, soon to be issued.”
THE influence of our Chinese schools in Hawaii is reaching China, and the teachers are being urged to go there. It is said that scarcely a boat leaves the islands for China but bears back some one who has heard more or less of Gospel truth, having attended our schools from four months to two years. There is not a boy in the school but expects to return to China some time. One school is located at Honolulu and one at Hilo, the next largest city in the group.
PROF. C. C. LEWIS, of Keene (Texas) Academy, spent a good part of the vacation in the field. He visited twenty-one churches, delivered forty addresses on the subject of education, rode 500 miles by team, and in other ways endeavored to arouse an interest in educational matters. The Academy News reports that the success of his efforts is shown in a goodly number of new students. Oklahoma Conference has resolved to assist the academy to the extent of $2,000 the coming year. It is expected that the academy will conduct a special school for Christian workers during a period of three months from January 1.
BROTHER G. B. THOMPSON, president of New York Conference, says: “The SIGNS is worthy of our highest endeavors. No better medium exists to reach the people of our populous cities. The Lord is coming; and it is high time that we awake from the stupor which has come upon many of us. Shall we not take hold of this work in earnest, and roll up a large list for our pioneer journal between now and the holidays?” This is worthy the earnest consideration of other conferences as well as New York.
“The Lord is coming! let this be The herald note of jubilee, And when we meet, and when we part, The salutation from the heart.”
AN institute, the primary purpose of which was to consider work in California Conference with the SIGNS, was held last week in this city. However, other matters were considered, and a morning hour was given each day to individual consecration, and especially seeking the Lord for guidance in the work. Besides the conference officers and several laborers, there were present Brethren J. N. Loughborough, A. J. Breed, and Allen Moon, of the General Conference Committee. An interesting feature of the occasion was the resume, by Brother Loughborough, of the opening of the work in California and the establishing of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The meeting as a whole was one of encouragement, as the brethren and sisters sought broader views of the great work of giving the Gospel to the world. A striking feature of the institute was that the brethren and sisters came together without any set plans; they came expecting the Spirit of God to lead out, and with a willingness to follow its leading. The importance of using the SIGNS as a pioneer in our work was emphasized, as the experiences of successful workers in all lines have borne witness to its adaptability to this purpose.