OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 3, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 44.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

At the local camp-meeting held at Arcadia, Neb., eleven persons were baptized.

Four members were added to the church at Des Moines, Iowa, at the recent quarterly meeting.

A report in the Workers’ Bulletin notes the baptism of five candidates at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Also that “the sisters are making quilts for the Sioux City Mission.”

The Montana Bivouac says, “The work starts out in this newly-organized conference under very favorable circumstances, and the brethren generally have a mind to work.”

An old lady in Wheeling, W. Va., who sent some copies of THE SIGNS to a friend in the army at Santiago, Cuba, received acknowledgment stating that he and his messmates enjoyed the papers very much.

In order to be fully organized for the sale of the great quarter-centennial number of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, our brethren would do well to drill their forces on the Thanksgiving number, which will be an unusually attractive issue.

Brother F. L. Mead, for several years prominent as a district and general canvassing agent for our denominational books, has been called by the Foreign Mission Board to take charge of the mission in Matabeleland, Africa, and will start for his new field within a few weeks.

The general season of convocation and prayer is this year set for November 23 to 26 inclusive—just in season to give special attention to the circulation of our Thanksgiving issue, along with other missionary enterprises. Readings will be sent out as usual in the General Conference Bulletin.

The Welcome Visitor gives this report from Cincinnati, Ohio: “We are very busy now with our work, with so many openings that we can not fill them all. We are doing quite a work in the jail, among the prisoners. We have privileges the other societies do not have, as our work has already resulted in so much good. They say it is because we show an interest in their soul’s salvation, and our work is real, personal work.”

At a recent session of the Nebraska Conference, held at York, the following officers were elected: President, N. P. Nelson; secretary and treasurer, J. F. Beatty; tract society secretary and treasurer, Mary F. Beatty. Brother J. H. Wheeler was ordained to the Gospel ministry. Five new churches were admitted to the conference, with an aggregate membership of seventy-eight. In harmony with the request of the publishers of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Brother J. J. Hughes was recommended as agent for this paper in that conference. Among the resolutions passed was the following:—

“WHEREAS, The managers of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES are preparing a thirty-two page double number, in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of that paper, setting forth the world’s progress for the past quarter of a century; and, whereas, we recognize the value of such a number; therefore,

“Resolved, That we encourage all our churches, Sabbath-schools, and isolated members to take hold and lift to extend its circulation.”