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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 28.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The practical value of the industrial feature now introduced into most of our denominational schools is manifested in several lines. For instance, of the comparatively new institution at Cooranbong, N. S. W., the Bible Echo says: “Through the kindness of Pastor W. C. White, who recently arrived in Melbourne to attend to important business matters, we had presented to us the other day several luscious-looking bunches of grapes grown this season on the Avondale school land. They were indeed fine specimens of their kind, and made us think of the sample which the spies brought back from the promised land.”
The Avondale School, at Cooranbong, N. S. W., reports one hundred students.
Brother T. H. Purdon writes from Rutland, Vt., that a new house of worship has just been completed in that place, and will be dedicated in the near future.
At Kadina, South Australia, where Brethren Woods and Ballingall have been laboring, a church of twenty members has been organized, and they are contemplating the erection of a house of worship.
In St. Lawrence County, N. Y., the brethren have decided to revive a former custom of union quarterly meetings of all the churches in the county. Good! We remember the meetings of old.
New York Conference now has five tents in the field for the season.
Brother P. Z. Kinne reports to the New York Indicator that he has baptized four candidates, but the place is not mentioned.
The Maine Tract Society (headquarters at North Deering) recently sent a liberal supply of our periodicals to the soldiers at Key West.
At the late camp-meeting held in St. Helena, Cal., a successful canvassing class was conducted, and twenty-eight workers were prepared to enter the field to circulate our books and papers.
Arrangements have been made for establishing a broom factory at South Lancaster, Mass., for the purpose of furnishing employment to students who desire an opportunity to pay their way through school at the academy by useful labor. Those who have the work in charge hope to furnish employment to about twenty-five or thirty by the first of October.
Brother W. H. Thurston, missionary in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, tells the Wisconsin Reporter of a visit he recently made to an American colony in the interior, about 350 miles from Rio. He says there are about forty families in the colony, living within a radius of fifteen miles, and their principal crops are melons and sugar-cane, altho they raise some rice, corn, beans, and a few potatoes. “The sugar-cane is mostly used to make a cheap grade of intoxicating liquor, called paraty. It is drunk freely all over Brazil. The majority of the people in the colony belong to some church—Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian.” Altho the main crops were almost a failure this year, Brother Thurston sold a number of books, and was requested by some to send them other reading matter and to visit them again.
Brother Swin Swinson recently baptized five candidates at Eleva, Wis.
Brother F. Stebbeds has been holding meetings with the church in Omaha, an account of which in the Reporter says, “We baptized ten last week, and have more for this week.”
Brother C. L. Boyd reports to the Review concerning work in North Carolina, and notes the baptism of three at Asheville, three at Silverstone, five at New Light, four at Kelvin Grove, and two at Raleigh.
Prof. W. T. Bland has been chosen to preside over the faculty of Union College, at College View, Neb., and his place at the Southern Industrial School, Graysville, Tenn., is to be filled by Prof. C. W. Irwin, formerly of Union College.
Of the Christian Help Mission in Omaha, Brother A. J. Howard says: “Our work is still onward, and increasing daily. We are still crowded, and can not accommodate the dear men that come to us. We have given 346 baths, given away 401 pieces of clothing, 18 pairs of shoes; 757 meals have been given away; about 25,000 dishes have been served; have held Gospel meetings every night, 20 open-air meetings, Sunday-school every Sunday at 10 A.M., sewing school every Thursday afternoon at four o’clock for girls.”
The Adventist doctrine is not popular, for the same reason that Jesus and His immediate followers were not popular. (See Mark 7:5-9; John 17:14-17.) But Adventists are liked well enough when they can be used to advantage. Instance the following from the Minnesota Worker: “Quite a number of the members of the Minneapolis church have gone to Lake Minnetonka, about twenty miles from Minneapolis, to pick berries on the fruit farms there. Some farmers have twenty acres of raspberries. They are glad to get Adventists, because they will pick berries on Sunday for the Monday market. No berries are picked on Saturday, as they do not keep well till Monday.”