OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 14.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE brethren at Stanley, Wis., are making the preliminary arrangements for the erection of a new house of worship.

SIXTEEN adults have decided to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus near Victory, Wis., as a result of meetings held by Brother N. P. Neilson in a schoolhouse, the teacher of the school being one of the number.

A GOOD work is reported at Fort Collins, Colo., by Brethren J. M. Rees and W. Zeigler. Up to March 15, there had been fifteen additions, and the interest continued. The attendance had necessitated securing a larger meeting place.

A NEW paper, entitled The Life Boat, has been started by the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, at 1926 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. It is devoted exclusively to mission and rescue work, and is full of interesting matter. Issued monthly; 25 cents a year.

IF ANY people in the world should be aggressive, it should be those who bear the last message of warning to a perishing world. If you are a light-bearer, do not hide it, but keep it in a conspicuous place. “And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.” Deut. 28: 13.

OF the mission in Buffalo, N. Y., we find a good report from Brother George R. Lesch in the Indicator. The mission address is 623 Genesee Street. Immediately connected with the work, besides Brother Lesch and wife, are two missionary nurses, and several others. A dining-room has been fitted up in the basement, where a pint of soup with a good-sized slice of bread is served for one cent, regular meals at ten cents, three tickets for twenty-five cents. Gospel services are held every night. Three evenings in the week these are conducted in the German language. A most important branch of the work is the cottage Gospel meetings. Such meetings are now being held at eight different places, with good results. As soon as circumstances permit, open-air meetings will also be held. A women’s industrial department has been opened, where poor women are given an opportunity to work a few hours a day at making kitchen aprons, or other simple garments. And so in many ways the Lord gives opportunity to work for Him. This work should be liberally supported.

BROTHER R. R. KENNEDY says of the Helping Hand Mission in Cleveland, Ohio, that it “is being run on sound business principles; therefore it is self-sustaining. Hundreds of people are being lodged, fed, and clothed. Service is held every evening, and the Spirit of the Lord is in the meetings. Souls are converted, and testify to the power of the Lord to save and keep from sin. It has been demonstrated that the Lord is ready and willing to carry forward this work with power, if His people are only ready to co-operate with Him.”

CONCERNING the Haskell Home for orphans, and the James White Memorial Home for aged people, at Battle Creek, Mich., Dr. J. H. Kellogg says: “Nearly two hundred persons are sheltered in these homes, and a grand work is being done, not only in receiving the outcast, homeless, and friendless, into a Christian place of refuge, but in the education and training of children for lives of usefulness, and in the training of Christian women to go out as missionaries, and engage in rescue work for children in all parts of the world. This is a work which everywhere calls loudly for attention, and which should have the sympathy and support of Christian people everywhere.”