OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 8, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 36.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A CAMP-MEETING IS now in progress at Richmond, Wis.

THE fall term of Union College, College View, Neb., will commence on the 14th inst.

BROTHER JOHN HOFFMAN has been called to Finland to assist in starting mission work.

BROTHER J. C. MIKKELSSEN reports the baptism of three candidates at Clear Lake, Wis., and one addition to the church at Baldwin.

IN the vicinity of Macyville, Kansas, there are but two Sabbath-keepers—two ladies—but they have a Sabbath-school of fourteen members, besides visitors, in a public schoolhouse.

THE Minnesota Worker announces the death of Brother D. P. Curtis, an aged and faithful minister. The entire conference will feel the loss of a recognized father and friend. He died after a critical surgical operation, August 15.

AS a result of the special course of instruction at the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, some forty or fifty young men and women are to be sent into the field as instructors in health and evangelistic work. A vigorous educational campaign in these lines is expected.

BROTHER W. L. H. BAKER, wife, and child, arrived in this city from Australia on the 25th ult., and remained until the 29th, when they went on to Grinnell, Iowa, to visit Brother Baker’s father. Both Brother and Sister Baker were formerly connected with this office, but for about twelve years past they have labored in the Australian field, he having been president of the New South Wales Conference during the past conference year. They hope to return to that field.

PAUL gives us an example of practical Gospel service, in his labor at Ephesus. His report to the elders of the church in that city was, “I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house.” Acts 20:20. Brethren D. E. Scoles and D. Nettleton have been working on the “house-to-house” principle in Rochester, Minn., and report “over two hundred orders for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and several for our Scandinavian and German papers.”

THE officers of the Texas Conference seem to realize that it means work to give the last message to “every creature” in that great State—great in area, tho in many parts sparsely populated. By the report of the distribution of laborers at the summer conference it is shown that the working force is scattered out about as far as they can reach and keep in convenient touch. The brethren who are used to laboring in small, thickly-populated States hardly realize what it means to cover 320,000 square miles, much of which is without railroad accommodation. Yet even this State has ideal conveniences and labor supply as compared with many other fields, especially in foreign countries. And the Lord has shown us that just at and during the judgment hour the “everlasting Gospel” must be preached to “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” From a human view the thing is impossible; but “with God all things are possible,” and He is to furnish the power. “Without Me ye can do nothing.”