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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 30, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 26.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

EIGHT members were recently added to the church at Shelby, Mich.
THE local camp-meeting at Paw Paw, Mich., was not largely attended, but six were baptized.
SAYS the Bible Echo (Melbourne) of April 18: “The new three-story addition to our office building is now completed. It contains 11,650 square feet of floor space, thus affording considerable accommodation for increased facilities.”
APRIL 17, initial steps were taken in the North Fitzroy church (Victoria) for the organization of the medical missionary and benevolent work in Australia on the same lines now in vogue in various parts of America.
A RECENT report of Elder J. B. Goodrich notes the addition of four to the church at East Washburn, and three at Burleigh, Me.
A GOOD work is being done with the SIGNS in Wheeling, W. Va., by Brother Noffsger and wife. About two hundred copies are being circulated each week. They took thirty orders in one day.
BROTHER J. W. RAYMOND reports the organization of a church of thirty-eight members at Corning, New York. Also the addition of five members to the church at Gas Springs, and two to the church at Hornellsville.
ELDER M. G. HUFFMAN, formerly of Maine Conference, has been laboring for some months in Florida, not far from the prospective battle-fields. He writes to his former conference paper, the Vineyard, concerning the work, and says: “We have a Sabbath-school at Punta Gorda, with a membership of about thirty-five, and another school at Fort Ogden, with a membership of between thirty-five and forty. About forty-five meet at this latter place every Sabbath. Thus you can see that we have much for which to praise the Lord. We are having greater victories than either Dewey or Sampson; but this should be no marvel, from the fact that we have a more powerful fleet than they. Our weapons of warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. . . . We are almost within hearing distance of the great carnal weapons, but, notwithstanding all this, the Lord has and still is blessing us in the presentation of his truth.”
THE thirty-fifth annual session of the Iowa Conference was held in connection with the camp-meeting at Des Moines, May 27 to June 5. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, Clarence Santee; secretary, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer; treasurer, C. F. Stevens; conference committee—C. Santee, C. F. Stevens, P. A. Hansen, J. W. Dorcas, L. F. Starr. Eighty-five persons were baptized. Fifty churches were represented, with a total membership of 3,353.
BROTHER G. B. THOMPSON, president of West Virginia Conference, attended the recent camp-meeting at Harrisburg, Pa., and in course of the meeting he wrote as follows to the Monitor: “We have a beautiful location, and the weather is fine. The Lord has come in in power. On Sabbath a call was made for those to arise who desired to more fully consecrate themselves to the Lord. Nearly every one arose. Seats were brought forward, and many came to fill them. Nearly every child and grown person on the ground came forward weeping. It was a glorious day, never to be forgotten. The work is deepening, and we look for a powerful outpouring.”
FROM the report of Brother J. A. Strickland in the Virginia Messenger we learn that four names “have been added to the list of colored Sabbath-keepers” in Norfolk, and that “there is a growing interest manifested.” The possibilities for work there are illustrated in the following bit of experience: “The day-school we were running had grown from fourteen to fifty-seven pupils; but I was compelled to close it, because I could not longer pay its expenses from my earnings at canvassing.” It is sad to think that such an opportunity for missionary work should have to depend upon the earnings of one individual for support, and have to stop when that support fails.
SISTER VESTA J. FARNSWORTH, secretary of New Zealand Conference, writes, under date of May 24, that Elder E. W. Farnsworth was then in the extreme south of South Island, where he found one family of Sabbath-keepers. He reported that he had gone “into the synagog of the Presbyterians and sat down, and the master of the synagog said to him that if he had any word of exhortation to say on; and that being just what he wanted to do, he preached to them.” He was having a good interest in a country place. Sister Farnsworth wrote from Christchurch, and further says: “God is working for us here. Seven more were added to the church two weeks ago, and the interest to hear is now greater than ever before.”