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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 13.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A NEW house of worship is being erected by the church at Jefferson, Mont.
AT Walla Walla (Wash.) College, on the 6th inst., nine candidates were baptized by Brother Oscar Hill.
AT the close of the general meeting held at Livingston, Mont., the present month, seven candidates were baptized.
AT Davis City, Iowa, where Brother L. F. Starr has been laboring, eight recently united with the church. On the 6th inst. the new house of worship was dedicated.
THE brethren in Butte, Mont., are laying plans to open their contemplated workingmen’s home and mission in that city April 15. Preparations are being made to start with fifty beds.
BROTHER D. T. SHIREMAN, Hildebran, N. C., writes: “I am working this year on a methodic plan, in an entirely new field, visiting from house to house, and have regular appointments for every day at stated times.”
A NEW church building has been erected and dedicated at Cape Town, South Africa. The Sanitarium and orphanage that have been instituted in that colony are both full, and more room is necessary to meet the demands.
BROTHER O. E. JONES is holding a series of meetings in the Baptist Church at Guide Rock, Neb., with a good attendance. Brother Victor Thompson has the use of the court-house in Alma, same State, for meeting purposes.
THE Reaper says: “The interest continues good at the mission in Walla Walla. A large audience assembles every evening. The patronage in the restaurant is increasing. The beds are filled and applicants have to be turned away.” This report is all good but the last phrase, “applicants have to be turned away.” But that is characteristic of the human arm—it is always too short.
A REPORT of the work of the mission opened in Buffalo, N. Y., in January last, says that the prospects for the future are bright. The work has been growing continually. Many families have been helped to clothing and provisions, and this has opened the way for cottage meetings in several parts of the city. Other lines of missionary work are also being taken up.
THE Review of the 15th inst. contains the following sad intelligence:—
“Just after going to press last week, we were pained to receive, by telegram from London, the sad intelligence of the death of Elder George B. Tripp and Dr. A. S. Carmichael, of the Matabeleland Mission in Africa. Of the cause or the circumstances of their decease we have no knowledge. For information on these points we shall be obliged to wait the comparatively slow movements of the mails.”
PROFESSOR R. S. OWEN, of Healdsburg (Cal.) College, says: “A special feature of the work here this year is the organization of a company of young men for the purpose of making special preparation for the ministry. This company meets on Saturday evening; and under the direction of the president of the college, its members arrange and deliver discourses on various Bible themes. A number of these young men hold services each Sabbath in our churches in neighboring towns, and some of them hold meetings in district schoolhouses on Sunday.”
FROM a private letter from Brother C. L. Boyd, dated Asheville, N. C., March 3, 1895, we are permitted to take the following extract:—
“I have bought a piece of land, 111 acres, on which to establish an orphanage and industrial school for colored children. The lumber for cottage No. 1 is ordered, and is to be shipped to-day. If you and any of your friends would like to donate toward the support of some one or more of these orphan children, I shall be very glad of your co-operation. We will board, teach, and clothe at $50 per year per child. You understand that we propose to do it as far as we are able without the $50, but my means are limited.”