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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 40.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS,

AT the recent local camp-meeting at New Richmond, Wis., four persons were baptized.
AT Ashland, Wis., five persons were baptized August 21, and two September 4, by Brother T. B. Snow.
BROTHER J. B. SCOTT reports the organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty-one members at Bear Lake, Wis. Two were baptized.
FOUR persons were recently baptized by Brother L. Warren at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Seven others had decided to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.
BROTHER GEO. B. THOMPSON, who has been president of West Virginia Conference the past year, has now been chosen as president of New York Conference.
A SISTER recently began canvassing for our periodicals, and the first afternoon she took nine subscriptions for the SIGNS and three for the Swedish paper.
As a result of tent-meetings held by Brother Chas. Pelmulder and H. Wierts, at Pella, Iowa, eleven adults have begun the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath.
THE Illinois Conference has decided to establish missions at Peoria and Decatur, and President S. H. Lane is calling upon the churches to furnish the necessary bedding.
THE Minnesota Conference Committee has decided to open a mission in St. Paul. A building has been secured, and the work will begin right away, with Brother C. L. Emerson as superintendent.
BROTHER I. N. WILLIAMS, president of Pennsylvania Conference, notes the organization of a church at South Canaan. There were seven members at the organization, with six others to be added.
BROTHER C. H. PARKER and family arrived in Suva, Fiji, on the 16th of August. Writing to the Minnesota Worker, he says: “Albert, the first and only one thus far of the Fijians to accept this message, met us at the wharf.”
TWENTY students from Battle Creek (Mich.) College have been spending their vacation in Grand Rapids, canvassing for Good Health, holding street meetings, and working in the mission. They report “grand meetings every night.”
A TENT 70x50 feet, owned by the New England Conference and in use at West Newton, Mass., was destroyed by fire on the 14th inst. Elder H. W. Cottrell appeals through the Gleaner to the Conference for means to replace it, and also to purchase an additional tent.
BROTHER C. H. JONES, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., started on the 27th inst. for Helena, Mont., to attend the camp-meeting now in progress there. It is expected that the Montana mission field will be organized into a State conference at this meeting.
THE Ruthven, Iowa, Free Press makes very favorable mention of the tent-meetings in progress at that place, and states that some “very interesting lines of prophecy for our time” are under consideration. It helps to extend the invitation to all to “attend and hear for themselves.”
THE New England Gleaner says: “If liberal donations for the District Sanitarium in South Lancaster continue to come in just a little longer, the present encouraging prospect of soon starting the institution will be changed to actual reality at a very early date. Definite steps are only delayed a little until the necessary sum is all pledged and becomes available.”
BROTHER S. H. LANE, president of Illinois Conference, recently preached at the South Side meeting-house, Chicago. The after-meeting gave opportunity for a Baptist and two officers of the Volunteer Army to state that they were keeping the Sabbath “according to the commandment.” The truth is quietly taking hold of many minds through the medium of the printed messengers.
A GOOD report concerning the work in Punxsutawney, Pa., is given in the Keystone Gleaner, by Brother J. G. Saunders. After stating that “seventeen are now keeping the Sabbath,” he says: “We go all over the city with our open-air meetings, and find many honest souls who are hungering for the Word of truth. As the Bible is unfolded to them, they readily grasp the truth and give assent to it.”
A BROTHER loaned a copy of “Great Controversy” to a man, who read it and pronounced it good, but did not feel the need of living up to it. His hired man read it, accepted the truth, and began to labor among his friends. In a short time a company of six Sabbath-keepers was raised up where no sermon had ever been preached, and the young man himself entered the canvassing work. This is the result of one book, and the same book is still going.—Martin J. Fritz, in Workers’ Bulletin.