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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 22, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 38.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

FIVE converts are reported at Tulsa, O. T., by Brother R. W. Parmelee.
ON the 28th ult. a church of ten members was organized at North Enid, O. T., by Brother E. T. Russell.
A BROOM factory is one of the new features of Healdsburg (Cal.) College.
A UNION meeting is to be held at Willow Hill, Jasper County, Ill., September 22 to October 2.
FROM the Keystone Gleaner we learn that Brother A. E. Place, of New York Conference, has been chosen president of Atlantic Conference.
IMMEDIATELY after the session of the European Union Conference, which was held at Hamburg in July, the German field was organized into a conference.
THE West Australian Tract Society has been organized at West Perth, with Mrs. Hindson as secretary and treasurer. The address is 265 Newcastle Street.
AT the recent session of the New South Wales Conference, the N. S. W. Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association was organized and put into operation.
BROTHER S. THURSTON reports the organization of a church of seventeen members at Susanville, Cal., August 5. The church and tract society were both started on a good financial basis.
UNDER date of the 8th inst., Brother J. O. Corliss writes from Ottawa, Ont., that he had a large interest on hand. “About thirty have taken their stand for the truth, and there are twice that number who are seriously investigating.”
THE pastor of the Baptist Church at Storm Lake, Iowa, attended our recent camp-meeting at Smithland. The Workers’ Bulletin says, “His presence and assistance at the meeting were greatly enjoyed both by the people and laborers.”
ON the 3d inst. Brother J. V. Willson, with his family, sailed from New York en route to Cape Town, S. Africa, to labor in the medical missionary work. Both Brother and Sister Willson are graduates of the Battle Creek (Mich.) Training School.
UNDER the labors of Brethren S. M. Cobb and W. A. Westworth, a church of twenty-seven members has been organized at Rochester, N. Y. The tent-meetings were closed in order to prepare for the camp-meeting in that place, which it is expected will add more to the new company, as several others are deeply interested.
UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE is making a record this year in book sales. Brother G. W. Reaser, president of the conference, in a report to the Reaper says: “As we compare the reports of our canvassers with those that come in from other conferences, we find that not only are our agents aggregating more money from their book sales than agents in any other conference in the world, but the average amount of sales to the agent is greater than in any other field. A number of conferences have more agents than there are in the Upper Columbia Conference, but none equal us in the total value of books sold.” In addition to this, it may be said that, from the standpoint of physical geography, there are few more difficult fields to work.
PROF. C. C. LEWIS, principal of Keene (Texas) Academy recently made a tour of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, in the interest of the academy. From his report in the Academy News we take the following reference to Indian Territory:—
“Indian Territory is not the ‘wild and woolly’ country that people often imagine. It is a land of broad prairies, well wooded and watered, with abundant coal fields near the surface, and with towns as well built as typical Western and Southern towns. Vinita has two or three thousand inhabitants. It has bricks as large and numerous as those in Cleburne. It has two railroads, an academy, and a college. One sees a few Indians, and does not always know them as such when he sees them. They and the negroes whom they formerly held in bondage are the only ‘citizens,’ and every man, woman, and child among them is entitled to 160 acres of land. This land is to be allotted to them this fall, and if any is left it will be for sale. Some of the Indians work their farms and are wealthy, but more lease or rent their farms to the whites, and live near the rivers. When the Curtiss Bill goes into effect, a more stable government is inaugurated, free schools established, and titles to property become secure, this country will quickly take its place as one of the finest of the West. There are many openings for good schools. Medical missionary and missionary teachers would find ready employment at reasonable wages. Our principles of education and caring for the sick are so much superior to those in operation there that persons well prepared to represent these principles will be welcomed, and will find a good support. But it is no place for poorly-prepared workmen. Their worthlessness will be seen at once. The whites comprise some of the most vigorous and intelligent from the population of the surrounding States, and are not to be deceived by mere pretense.”