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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 11.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

An institute for the accommodation of the brethren in south western Ohio is appointed for March 29 to April 12, at Dayton.
THE New Zealand Conference and Tract Society have begun the monthly publication of a neat little organ styled The Advance. It will no doubt be a great convenience as a means of communication among the churches and laborers.
A CHURCH of twenty-four members was organized at Jacksonville, Fla., on January 30.
SEVEN additions to the church at Hawkeye, Iowa, are reported by Brother B. L. Dieffenbacher.
THE Welcome Visitor notes that the Ohio Tract Society is soon to erect a building at Clyde as a headquarters for its growing work.
ON the 5th ult. Brother N. W. Allee baptized five persons in New Orleans, the baptistry of the First Baptist Church having been kindly placed at his disposal.
MISS RUTH JONES, of Auckland, N. Z., who recently completed a nurses’ course at the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, is about to go to West Australia to engage in medical missionary work.
IN one year after Brother E. W. Farnsworth and wife went to Christchurch, N. Z., to begin work in an entirely new field, there was a church organization of thirty-six members, and a new church building, capable of seating over two hundred people. The Sabbath-school numbers about sixty.
THE Wisconsin Reporter says the Helping Hand Mission of Milwaukee “is a great blessing to the poor and needy in the metropolis of this State. The good work done in this mission is very highly complimented by the city papers. It is a Heaven-sent benediction to the unfortunate and fallen in our midst. We do not only minister to the wants of the physical man, but the needs of the spiritual man are also supplied.”
BROTHER D. P. GAEDE tells, in the Kansas Worker, of a good work being done in Atchison. On going to that city he was “greatly surprised to see how the Lord is going before His people, opening up the way for the work.” Continuing he says: “Everything is now ready, and the Lord is just waiting for us to co-operate with Him in the work. When we go to the people in the city and tell them what is needed in the reading-room, it is given. . . . One of the sisters gathers up the children from the streets, takes them into a house, and tells them of God and His love. A good work is also being done in the jail meetings.”
BROTHER S. M. JACOBS writes to the Kansas Worker concerning the Oakwood Industrial School, near Huntsville, Ala., and from his letter we clip the following paragraph:— “Our school holds two sessions each day, giving me one-half of the students to work on the farm each half day. Some of them know nothing about work; are not able to hitch two horses together. Of course, they soon learn, but it takes care and patience all the time. It is a source of encouragement to us to see the earnestness they manifest in their studies. I wish you could step in to some of our devotional exercises, and hear the ringing testimonies. Dear brethren, sometimes when I note the progress made by some of the students, whom we came South to help, I wonder if God will not use some of them as missionaries to go into the North to do His work.”
BROTHER I. C. COLCORD gives in the Reaper a good account of the Columbia Academy, at Kettle Falls, Wash. This school was started as a private enterprise in November, 1896, but after running about four months, Brother Colcord was tendered the public schoolhouse, and merged his school into the public school, becoming the principal and conducting the school in his own way, with two assistants. There is now an enrolment of seventy-two pupils, and with the extra room recently added by the trustees, there is room for double that number. In connection with the institution is a students’ home, in which the principles of health reform are inculcated. The following extract from Brother Colcord’s report is worthy of special notice:— “The officers of the academy begin to recognize that the greater benefit comes to them when they cast about and gather in the poor and needy, helping those who can not help materially in return. When we said, ‘Come in, a way will be planned for the payment of tuition, etc.,’ then it was that the Lord began to shower blessings down upon us.”