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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 16, 1898

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

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE new church building at Butte, Mont., was dedicated May 1.
THE new church edifice at Jefferson, Mont., was dedicated on the 11th inst.
FIVE persons were baptized at Eleva, Wis., May 15, by Brother Swin Swinson.
BROTHER W. J. STONE has again taken charge of the tract society work in Montana.
BROTHER J. B. BECKNER reports the baptism of six candidates at Ad Hall, Texas, May 14.
BROTHER L. F. TRUBEY reports the baptism of six persons at Pueblo, Colo., during a brief stay at that place.
RECENT meetings in a schoolhouse near Oklahoma City resulted in eighteen converts and a Sabbath-school of thirty-five members.
AS THIS paper goes to press, the California general camp-meeting is in progress at St. Helena; also the camp-meetings at Sparta, Wis., at Harrisburg, Pa., and Stanstead Plain, P. Q.
AS A result of the labors of Brother J. F. Bahler in Texas Conference the past year, he reports that twenty-four have embraced the truth.
THE Helping Hand Mission of Cleveland, Ohio, has been moved into new and more commodious quarters, and is thus enabled to do more efficient work.
A NEW house of worship was dedicated at Locust Point, Ohio, May 8. Brother D. E. Lindsey, assisted by Brother Albert Carey, conducted the services, and there was a large attendance.
A CARD from Brother W. D. Parkhurst states that the meetings conducted by himself and Brother R. C. Horton at Robinson, Mich., are well attended, and the blessing of God is upon the work there.
IN a previous issue we stated that a new church had been organized at Ashland, Wis.; but the report of Brother Wm. Covert in the Review places the number at twenty-two, and adds that subsequent applications for membership increase the number to thirty-four.
THE Workers’ Record, organ of the Missouri Tract Society, says: “Scarcely a mail comes but it brings a good-sized order for ‘The Alarm of War’ and ‘Arming of the Nations.’ A number are meeting with excellent success selling them on the streets and in the stores.”
THE right kind of missionary work will always attract support, and many times from unexpected sources. The secretary of a local society in Ohio writes to the Welcome Visitor that a young man recently came to their missionary meeting, and was so well pleased that he sent $15 to the president through the mail. He was not a professor of religion.
THE Farmers’ Advocate, published at Hamilton, Mo., notices the dedication of a new Seventh-day Adventist church at that place on the 15th ult. Brother W. A. Hennig conducted the services, assisted by Brother R. C. Porter and three ministers of other denominations. The building is said to be the neatest and best-finished church edifice in the county.
BROTHER GEORGE R. LESCH, reporting to the Indicator concerning the Buffalo Mission, says: “The work here is progressing nicely. To God alone be the praise. But as the work extends, we are obliged, in order to keep pace with it, to make new improvements right along. We are at present fitting up a bath-room and rooms for lodging. To do this requires quite a little outlay of cash, even at the lowest cost. We expect to see this mission self-supporting, or nearly so, before long.”
THE soldier of an earthly government can not give his attention to the affairs of any other government. No more can the soldier of Christ. In His service “no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” 2 Tim. 2:4. One of Great Britain’s great commanders, at a critical moment in a hard battle, inspired his men by the cry, “England expects every man to do his duty.” Now is a most critical time in the controversy between Christ and Satan, and the Lord expects every soldier to do his duty.
THROUGH the Bulletin, the Iowa Conference paper, Brother S. M. Jacobs, of the Oakwood Industrial School, at Chase, Ala., returns thanks to the children for their donations. In his letter he says: “I wish you were all here this minute to hear the boys sing at the dormitory. About twelve of them are singing some fine pieces.” There are thousands of bright colored children in the South that contain material for good workers in the Master’s vineyard. There is a great responsibility somewhere for the education of this talent. Who is there that is doing nothing who will go into this fruitful field? It is open, and it is wide.
FROM the Bivouac we learn that the Workingmen’s Home and Helping Hand Mission in Butte, Mont., was dedicated May 15. “The first night the power of God was manifested, and at the close of the short Gospel talk several men held up their hands to signify their desire for the prayers of God’s people. . . . It is no uncommon occurrence for a man who is too drunk to help himself, to find his way to the shower bath with the help of the mission boys. Here he is treated to hot and cold water until he can manage himself. Even this class are beginning to appreciate the work of the mission, and are often heard to say, ‘I believe you people are all right.’”