OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 27.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER J. G. SAUNDERS reports five and a half months' labor at Washington, Pa. “Forty-five persons made a start in the new life, eighteen were added to the church, and several are observing the Sabbath of the Lord, who have not yet joined the church.”

A LETTER from Kansas City, Mo., states that one brother has been using 150 copies of the SIGNS, selling from house to house, for eighteen months. Of his readers thirty-three are now taking Bible readings, five have been baptized, and several more are about ready to unite with our people.

A MICHIGAN Bible worker writes to Field Echoes: “I have always felt as tho I could not canvass for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, but thought I would start out last week and try. I took twenty-five orders for three months, and it did not seem difficult either. God opened the way, I know.”

OF the work in Los Angeles, Cal., Brother George A. Snyder reports to the Missionary that “a home for destitute women has lately been opened by the church, and with the co-operation of kind friends it has been the means of doing much good in a quiet way.” The object of the home is suggested by its name, “The Open Door.”

BROTHER F. D. STARR reports that three persons were baptized at Render, Ky., May 3, two of whom, with others who recently embraced the faith at that place, immigrated from Wales a few years ago. Near Utica, Ky., two others have been added to our ranks. The city mission work at Nashville, Tenn., is also noted as enjoying encouraging success. Several persons have been relieved both in body and mind.

BROTHER C. M. REYNOLDS reports to the Texas Reporter that three persons were recently baptized at Denison, and three in Austin. He also states that Brother Mackie, of Chicago, is laboring in Galveston, where a mission has been started in a house furnished free of charge. He spoke in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, in the Presbyterian Church, and on the streets. The mission is located in the neighborhood of the factories. Several hundred dollars have been donated to the work by wealthy people, and a brother has donated a hundred acres of land as a mission farm.

A REPORT of Brother S. H. Carnahan in the Reaper notes the receipt of a letter from the little island of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean, acknowledging the arrival of fifty pounds of reading. This was the result of correspondence a year and a half ago. This island is somewhat isolated, is thirty-seven miles in circumference, and contains sixteen families. Two more families were expected soon when the last letter was written. The writer says that they had not had a minister for six or seven years, and expressed a desire to have one. The island belongs to the British Government.