OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 42.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER J. B. SCOTT notes the addition of four to the ranks at Bear Lake, Wis.

“TWO PERSONS lately baptized,” is the report of Brother G. A. Petrich, at Waseca, Minn.

BROTHER GEORGE A. SNYDER reports the baptism of three candidates in Los Angeles, Cal., during the past month.

ON the 28th inst., three sisters were baptized in Lake Michigan, at Sheboygan, Wis., by Brother H. W. Reed.

FOUR persons were baptized and added to the church at Bluffton, Minn., on the 17th ult., by Brother Andrew Mead.

“SEVEN souls have made a start in the good way,” is the report of Brethren B. G. Wilkinson and M. N. Campbell, at Stoughton, Wis.

AT the recent session of the West Virginia Conference four general meetings were appointed, as follows: Parkersburg, November 4-10; Walker, 11-17; Berea, 18-23; Amos or Fairmount, November 25 to December 1.

BROTHER C. H. JONES, president of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., returned last week from attendance at the Helena, Mont., camp-meeting. He reports a very enthusiastic meeting. That mission field was organized into a State Conference, with Brother W. B. White as president. Brother White’s experience in Nebraska and other conferences will be of value to the new enterprise. Mrs. W. B. White was elected secretary of the conference, and Brother W. J. Stone missionary secretary.

PROF. W. T. BLAND, president of Union College, at College View, Neb., writes to the Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, that about ninety per cent. of the students at the college are there to fit themselves as soon as possible for some place in the closing work of the Gospel.

OF the Walla Walla (Wash.) Mission, Brother E. S. Ballenger says: “The private work is reaping good results, while the penitentiary and jail work grow in interest.” He calls for copies of the SIGNS, Sentinel, Instructor, and denominational books suitable for mission work.

BROTHER GEORGE M. BROWN, of Fond du Lac, Wis., has been assigned to the business management of Battle Creek (Mich.) College. Brother Brown is a son of Brother M. H. Brown, secretary of the International Sabbath School Association and editor of the Sabbath School Worker.

AT Arlington, Iowa, where Brother U. P. Long was recently holding meetings, a brother 77 years old walked eight miles to the meetings each alternate evening. This is inserted for the benefit of younger and stronger people who find difficulty in going a mile or less to sustain meetings.

ELDER S. H. LANE, president of Illinois Conference, gives in the Recorder a glowing account of the camp-meeting at Willow Hill, in that State. Twenty-two were baptized, among the number being a young man who had walked seventy-five miles to attend the meeting. He never before had seen one of our ministers; but in another State he had seen the Review and subscribed for it, and from it learned the truth that so deeply interested him.

THE matter of church schools is being advocated with considerable success by Wisconsin Conference. The Reporter says: “Church schools are now in progress, or soon will open, in Milwaukee, Milton Junction, Green Bay, La Crosse, Baraboo, Oxford, Loyal, Prescott, and Moon. Others are planning to enter upon this work soon.” After the summer school at Battle Creek, Mich., almost the entire normal class visited the camp-meeting at Owasso, in that State, and one of them reports that “there are not enough teachers to supply half the churches that have asked for schools.” The desire of Seventh-day Adventists to carry on schools of their own is not because of opposition to public schools. These have their place, and a very important place; but the Adventists believe that important religious truth should be taught to their children in connection with their ordinary education, and they know it is not the province of the public schools to teach these things. Wherefore the growing tendency to establish denominational schools, from the primary grade up to a collegiate course.

A Special Manifestation of the Spirit.—Brother A. G. Bodwell, who has been laboring in Fort Worth, Texas, sends the following interesting account of his work to the Reporter:—

“The Lord is working in a wonderful way. One evening not long before we took the tent down Brother Egner found a woman lying in the tent who proved to be one of the worst characters in Fort Worth. She was known as Cocaine Nell. After meeting she was brought to the house and nature’s remedies, with God’s blessing upon them, were applied. She told us just what she was, and said she had slept in the street the night before. This woman is now clothed in her right mind and free from the use of morphine and cocaine. She has not touched it for over two weeks, and she says that no amount of pain would cause her to touch it again. She had used it for eighteen years, and spent thousands of dollars trying to effect a cure. Altho she had fallen about as low as it is possible for one to fall, she is now rejoicing in a Saviour’s love. It does us good to hear her voice uplifted in prayer. All glory is due to God. Last Saturday night we held our first and only street meeting. I have never seen the Spirit of God present in a more marked manner. The longer the meeting lasted, the larger the crowd became, and when the meeting closed, people seemed loath to leave. Five stout, able-bodied men made a start for the kingdom, and after meeting they were very anxious for us to talk with them. The people seemed to be spellbound, and gave good attention.”