OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 12, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 19.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A RESCUE home for women is soon to be opened in Des Moines, Iowa.

AT a general meeting held at Motley, Minn., last month, five persons were baptized.

A CHURCH is soon to be organized at Guide Rock, Neb., where Brother O. E. Jones is laboring.

THE Australian Union Conference has appointed a special prayer season from May 28 to June 5.

TWO YOUNG persons were added to the church at Village Creek, Iowa, at the last quarterly meeting, by baptism.

THE general camp-meeting for Minnesota will be held at Minneapolis, May 31 to June 6, to be preceded by a workers’ meeting of one week.

MISS HIVA STARR, of Beatrice, Neb., has accepted a call from the Foreign Mission Board, and will soon go either to South Africa, or Australia.

THE organization of a church at Oakdale, Neb., with nineteen members, is reported by Brother G. H. Smith. Also the baptism of two candidates at Arcadia.

A COMMODIOUS house of worship is being erected at Stanmore, N. S. W., near the ground where a recent camp-meeting was held. Brother S. N. Haskell is looking after the work.

A SERIES of meetings held at East Tawas, Mich., by Brother O. Soule, has resulted in a company of fifteen adults keeping the Sabbath, and a Sabbath-school of twenty-three members.

AT Fish Tank Schoolhouse, Navarro County, Texas, a Sabbath-school of eighteen members has been organized by Brother E. Taylor. This brother also notes that two Methodist churches are opened to him, one at North Corsicana and one at Dresden.

AT the annual meeting of Healdsburg (Cal.) College, held on the 2d inst., the following board of trustees was elected: H. A. St. John, R. S. Owen, W. T. Knox, M. H. Brown, H. F. Courter, T. T. Heald, G. W. Rine. W. T. Knox was elected president, and R. S. Owen, secretary.

NINE members were added to the church at Temple, Mich., under the labors of Brother J. C. Harris.

TEN converts are reported at Decatur, Mich., as a result of meetings held by Brethren H. C. Goodrich and B. Hagle.

THE annual meeting of St. Helena (Cal.) Sanitarium was held April 28, when the following board of directors was chosen: N. C. McClure, president; J. A. Burden, secretary; A. J. Sanderson, medical superintendent; F. Zelinsky, W. T. Knox, T. Coolidge, J. H. Anthony.

AT KNOXVILLE, Iowa, Sister E. M. Stevens began the work of helping overburdened mothers, who were not able to hire sewing done. Other ladies joined in, and twenty-one families were helped with new garments and old ones repaired. Previous to this work, there were not enough children at the regular meetings to hold successful children’s meetings. Now, however, about one hundred attend, and many are taking a deep interest in Bible study, and the opportunities for practical help are constantly increasing.

THE summer training school for missionaries, to be held at Chicago, and Battle Creek, Mich., will commence on the 15th inst., and continue twelve weeks. The success of last year’s experiment warrants a more extended arrangement and course of study for this year. The first half of the course will be given at Chicago. The class will be divided into two sections, the first to begin May 15, and the second, July 1. Special attention will be given to the study of personal Gospel work, Christian Help work, and City Mission work. Practical instruction will also be given in cookery, physical culture, and simple methods of treating the sick.

THE new board of directors of Pacific Press Publishing Co. was organized with the following officers: C. H. Jones, president and general manager; Wm. Saunders, vice-president; S. C. Stickney, secretary and assistant manager; E. A. Chapman, treasurer. The following appointments were made by the board: Manager New York Branch, T. A. Kilgore; manager Kansas City Branch, B. R. Nordyke; manager San Francisco branch, Henry Scott. Editorial committee of Bible Students’ Library and Apples of Gold Library.—M. C. Wilcox, W. N. Glenn, A. O. Tait. Editors of Our Little Friend.—W. N. Glenn, Alberta L. Little. Publishing Committee.—C. H. Jones, M. C. Wilcox, M. H. Brown, L. A. Phippeny, H. H. Hall.

CONCERNING the work of the Mission in Detroit, Mich., Brother A. J. Harris reports as follows to Field Echoes: “Anxious souls are inquiring every day for light, and the Lord is surely going before and preparing the way for His truth. People are sent to us for help both spiritually and physically. Much time is spent in looking after the needy,—sometimes nearly the whole day, and even late in the evening, after the meetings at Star of Hope Mission; but a precious blessing comes with it all. A few days ago the secretary of the Bible Society expressed himself as being in harmony with our work, and gave us an order for a supply of Testaments for distribution, and said when we wanted more to let him know.”