OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 17.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER H. D. DAY reports six converts at Lapeer, Mich.

THE book sales of the Pacific Press Publishing Co.’s branch office at Kansas City, Mo., the past fiscal year, amounted to $60,000.

IN connection with meetings held in Vernondale, a suburb of Los Angeles, Cal., by Brother F. M. Burg, seven converts are reported.

ELDER J. G. SMITH will, in a few weeks, remove from California to Upper Columbia Conference, in accordance with the recommendation of the district council.

BROTHER J. W. COVERT reports the organization of a church of thirteen members at Wilson, Kansas, March 26; also the addition of two members to the church at Beverly.

BROTHER L. N. LANE reports the conversion of six persons at meetings held at Morenci, Mich., four in the southern part of Wayne County, and the baptism of three at Carleton.

BROTHER E. L. FORTNER and wife, of Kansas City, Kansas, have been asked by the Foreign Mission Board to go as missionaries to British Guiana, South America, and have accepted the call.

THE Foreign Mission Board have asked Brother and Sister C. H. Parker, of Pipestone, Minn., to go to the Fiji Islands to labor as missionaries, and they have decided to go after camp-meeting in June.

BROTHER S. S. DAVIS says, in the Indiana Reporter of the 13th inst., that the work in the Helping Hand Mission at Evansville is onward. The Mission is doing much good, and the self-supporting missionaries are finding a great deal of work.

THE officers of Kansas Conference are endeavoring to raise means by subscription to erect a mission building in Kansas City. The necessary ground has been purchased. About $3,000 will be necessary for the building. An active campaign in Christian help work is being carried on in the city, and many needy persons are being assisted.

AN EVIDENCE of what people can do, “if there be first a willing mind,” Brother and Sister Tucker, of Lafayette, Ind., started a Sabbath-school in their house, which grew until the enrolment the past quarter numbered forty. The school was started for the benefit of children whose parents were not members of the church, and otherwise would not have had the privilege of attending one of our schools.

FROM Brother C. A. Hall, missionary in Jamaica, comes the good word that seventy-eight persons have accepted the message of salvation at Southfield. A church has been organized and a house of worship is in process of erection. The Lord has wrought this result through the labors of Brethren Hall and W. W. Eastman. The latter remains to carry on the work at Southfield, while the former introduces the Gospel in some other locality.

A RECENT number of the Kansas Worker gives an encouraging report from Brother Garde concerning the work in Atchison. A free bath-room has been opened, and is affording an opportunity to labor and pray with those who accept the accommodation. A cottage meeting begun in a house among the colored people, was so crowded that they were under the necessity of moving it to a schoolhouse, and the schoolroom is now well filled at each meeting. A number have been converted.

THERE are many infidels in the world who are such because of false Christianity and false ideas of the Bible spread abroad by false teachers. Many of these infidels are honest at heart, and when Christianity comes to them in its true light, they see it and accept it. One of our laborers in the field reports the conversion of an infidel by simply reading the little work “Steps to Christ,” by Mrs. E. G. White. The price of this book is only sixty cents, to be had of any of our publishing houses or tract societies. The Gospel is “the power of God unto salvation” when properly presented to honest minds.

THE General Conference Committee have made recommendations in regard to laborers as follows: That Brother W. B. White, president of Indiana Conference, go to Arizona; this is in accordance with Brother White’s request, for the benefit of his wife’s health; that Brother R. S. Donnell, president of Upper Columbia Conference, go to Indiana; that Brother H. Nicola, of Michigan Conference, go to Indiana; that Brother H. M. Stewart, of Indiana Conference, go to Missouri; that Brother W. T. Millman go from Missouri to the Dakota Conference, and Brother E. L. Stewart, of Nebraska, go to Missouri.

A LETTER to the Minnesota Worker from Brother E. Hilliard, dated Tonga, Friendly Islands, South Pacific Ocean, March 16, 1898, gives these interesting items:—

“Since our last report, Doctor M. G. Kellogg has joined us, and is now erecting a building, 32x39 feet, in which to live and also give treatment to the natives. He came to this island from Samoa in the latter part of September, rented a house, and commenced treating the sick; He had occupied the house but a few weeks when he was notified that it was the intention of the landlord to build on an addition, to be used as a store, after which it was to be rented to another party for two years for the enormous rent of $40 per month. After looking around for some time the doctor could find nothing that he thought suitable for his work. He has leased nearly two acres of land, for twenty-one years, for which he pays an annual rent of $40 per year, and is now erecting the building mentioned above. Brother E. S. Butz and the writer have been assisting him for six weeks, and it will take about three or four weeks more to finish it. This is the hot season of the year, and sometimes we find it rather hot work in siding up the north side of the building, where the sun sends its tropical rays directly down upon us. But, notwithstanding the intense heat and the hard muscular labor, we are in better health than when we commenced, or when we were in America. Mrs. Hilliard has taught school almost steadily for over two years, having only a few days’ vacation during the latter part of December and first part of January. She is in fair health, and says that she enjoys the work. Our new schoolhouse was completed nearly six months ago, and was built with money earned in the field.”