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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 21, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 16.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The brethren at Bellvue, Colo., have nearly completed a new church building.
As a result of meetings held at Boise, Idaho, by Brother E. D. Sharpe, six converts are rejoicing in the truth.
On the 26th ult. four persons were baptized and added to the church in San Diego, Cal., by Brother W. M. Healey.
Brother M. A. Altman notes the addition of six to the faith, and the organization of a church of twelve members at Flora Vista, N. M.
Meetings held at Levi, Texas, by Brother H. Woodruff, have resulted in twenty adherents to the “commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”
A report from Fort Collins, Colo., in a recent number of Echoes from the Field, states that “nineteen have been baptized, and eight await that ordinance.”
By advise of the district council, Brother J. W. Bagby has changed his field of labor from Upper Columbia to California Conference. He is at present in Oakland.
On the 2d inst. four persons were baptized and added to the church at Denver, Colo. The same report says very few Sabbaths pass without witnessing accessions to this church.
Brother Oscar Hill reports that the patronage of the Workingmen’s Home in Walla Walla, Wash., is on the increase. Also that it has been decided to hold a camp-meeting there sometime this season.
Brother C. E. Leland recently preached in the Methodist meeting-house in Ellsworth, Mich., to a large congregation, and received a cordial invitation from the pastor to return and speak to them again.
Brother J. H. Durland, president of Michigan Conference (which includes Ontario), has appointed to begin a series of special services in Toronto on the 24th inst., which will be continued through the month of May.
Brother J. M. Rees, president of Colorado Conference, reports the organization of a church of sixteen members at Cañon City. Also, that at Florence a new meeting-house was dedicated on the 27th ult. Brethren Rees, Anglebarger, and Mackintosh officiated.
The appointment for a central California camp-meeting, which was set for May 5-15, at Visalia, has been taken up. The conference committee learn from Brother H. W. Thurston that the brethren in that section generally do not think it advisable to hold it, on account of the drought. It is therefore abandoned.
A discussion of the Sabbath question is announced to take place at Peoria, Texas, between Brother W. A. McCutcheon and a representative of the Christian denomination whose name we have not learned. The discussion, which has been a long time urged upon Brother McCutcheon, will begin May 3d and continue ten days.
A Methodist brother who had been twelve years in the ministry, recently took his stand as a Seventh-day Adventist at Oakfield, Me. He had been studying our works for about four years, and consequently came over with his eyes open. There are many who acknowledge the truth of the doctrines we hold who lack the courage to take up the cross.
Arrangements have been made with the managers of the Prohibition Park Hotel, on Staten Island, New York Harbor, whereby this fine summer hotel will be conducted during the present season as a sanitarium, under the auspices of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. A corps of physicians, trained nurses, cooks, and other assistants will be sent from Battle Creek, to conduct a sanitarium in a first-class manner. A summer school of health will be held in connection with the sanitarium.
The following item from a worker appears in a late issue of the West Virginia Monitor:—
“Recently a lady arose in a meeting in a Presbyterian Church, in a West Virginia city, and said in substance as follows: ‘Last September I was traveling on the train. On the same train was a lady going to attend a Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting at Clarksburg. She was reading the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. She looked so pleasant and happy that I could not refrain from watching her. When she left the train, she left the SIGNS in her seat. I went and picked up the paper and read it; and I want to say to this congregation that that paper was the best one I ever read.’ Moral: Look pleasant (and you will if you are) and happy, and circulate the SIGNS everywhere.”