OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 27, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 43.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER J. B. Wilson reports the baptism of four candidates at Sterling, Colo.

SABBATH, October 29, has been set as the date for dedicating the new church at Atlantic, Iowa.

BROTHER G. W. Anglebarger reports the baptism of three candidates at Cañon City, Colo.

AT the last quarterly meeting of the church at Hollandville, Del., four names were added to the roll.

FOUR persons were baptized at the local camp-meeting held at Creston, Iowa, September 27 to October 2.

FROM the Indiana Reporter we learn that thirteen members were recently added to the church at Frankton, in that State.

BROTHER R. S. Donnell, president of Indiana Conference, expresses a hope to soon open a Helping Hand Mission in Indianapolis.

GENERAL meetings are appointed in Wisconsin as follows: Granton, October 21-30; Debello, October 31 to November 6; Plainfield, December 5-12.

BROTHER D. T. Jones, of Guadalajara (Mexico) Medical Mission, who had been on a short trip to Battle Creek, Mich., was in Kansas City on the 9th and 10th of this month, on his return.

BROTHER Swin Swinson, who has been holding tent-meetings at Spring Valley, Wis., reports five additions to our ranks, and also that an interest has been aroused in a district a few miles from that place.

IN the report of Brother R. A. Underwood, superintendent of General Conference district No. 1, in the Review, we notice the statement that fifteen persons were baptized at the camp-meeting at Grafton, W. Va.

BROTHER C. P. Bollman, formerly of the editorial staff of the SIGNS, and for several years of the American Sentinel, has been elected vice-president of Tennessee River Conference. Brother F. D. Starr is president, and B. W. Parker is secretary.

FROM a report of Brother J. M. Rees in Echoes from the Field, concerning the camp-meeting at Olathe, Colo., we take these significant words: “Eleven were baptized, and almost every one who came on the ground unconverted went home converted.”

BROTHER J. N. Loughborough, accompanied by his wife, arrived in this city on the 13th inst., and is now attending the camp-meeting at Hanford, Kings County, Cal. Brother Loughborough is not only a pioneer in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, but he is the pioneer minister of that faith in California, having arrived here in 1868. His first labors extended over a period of about twelve years. Then, after an absence of a few years, part of which was spent in England, he returned to this State for another brief period. Since his last departure from the State he has occupied various leading positions, including a tour of the conferences and mission fields of Europe. He has also written a valuable work, entitled, “The Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists.”

THE last report of the home for little children in Paterson, N. J., states that there were in the home eighteen children, ranging in age from three weeks to fourteen years. The managers appeal for clothing, etc., suitable for winter. Address, John Fischer, Temple and Fourth Streets, Paterson, N. J.

BROTHER R. M. Kilgore, superintendent of General Conference district No. 5, reporting to the Review, says: “Prosperity is attending the medical mission in Denver. Its large building, with eighty rooms filled every night, and the running expenses all met, gives evidence of the prospering hand of God.”

AT the recent session of the Kansas Conference Brother J. W. Westphal, president, and all of the Conference Committee were re-elected to their respective offices. The camp-meeting in connection with the conference session was held at Ottawa, and on the last day of the meeting thirty-one persons were baptized. The conference starts the new year with 52 regular laborers—ordained ministers and licentiates, 24; missionary licentiates, 28.