OUR WORK AND WORKERS

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

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The new church building at Libertyville, Iowa, was dedicated on the 23d ult., Brother C. Santee officiating.

The Reporter says “the brethren and sisters of the Madison (Wis.) church have begun a systematic work with the SIGNS in the capital city.”

At the Keene (Texas) Academy, forty-five of the students are preparing especially for labor in some department of the work. Of this number twenty-nine are men and sixteen young women. On the 8th ult., three students were baptized.

The citizens of the “highways and hedges” of Columbus, Ohio, were recently invited to attend the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and, to the surprise of all, the church was filled at the hour for prayer-meeting. A hall has now been secured where meetings will be held and where supplies of food and clothing will be given out to the needy. Here as elsewhere there is a hearty response from the business men of the city.

Rescue mission work has been fairly started in Lincoln, Neb. A three-story building has been leased, and prepared for the rescue of unfortunates, both men and women. Prominent citizens are taking an active part in meetings which have been started. The police matron is also lending a helping hand. Meetings are held four evenings in the week, and several have professed conversion, while many have asked for prayers.

In a letter to the Kansas Worker, Brother C. A. Hall, a missionary to Jamaica, gives some of his experience as follows: “Here we go alone with our tent, do our cooking, wash dishes, sleep, eat, pull teeth, dress sores, do up cuts and bruises, visit and read with callers, read, write, and study, all in our one large tent. As I now am, the dust is thick; my chair, a bench; my bed, an old door laid across a couple of benches, with my bedding laid on it; my food, such as the natives bring in or I cook myself; my congregation, from one to two hundred nightly, and preaching every night; and am in better health than when I left Kansas; and, best of all, am enjoying the presence of God as I never did in more prosperous days and more pleasant surroundings. I wish I had one of our young brethren from Kansas here to develop in this field. It would be a fine experience for him, and would last him till the end.”

The Michigan Conference Committee have decided to establish a mission in Detroit. The committee has also adopted the following resolution: “Resolved, That we recommend a number of our laborers to make a specialty of the canvassing work, and that the profits on their canvassing work go to the conference fund; that they retain their credentials and licenses, and that their accounts be audited by the auditing committee, the same as the other laborers.”

The Avondale School Board (Cooranbong, N. S. W.) are erecting a building for the accommodation of young men and boys, to be named Herman Hall, which will accommodate forty-two persons. The board is also planning to make a special effort to have taught such studies as lie at the foundation of a thorough training in nursing. To this end they have invited Dr. Kate Lindsay, of Battle Creek, Mich., to visit the school on her way from South Africa to the United States.

The following press despatch, dated the 4th inst., has been going the rounds to tell of a good work in Kansas City: “An experimental mission, where the poor are to be served meals at a penny a dish, and a bed for five cents, with a bath thrown in, has been started here under the direction of the church of the Seventh-day Adventists. One hundred and fifty cots have been placed in a large room in a building on the second floor. In the basement, bath-tubs have been provided, together with a room for fumigating clothes and a laundry in which a man may wash his own clothes. The meal consists entirely of vegetables, meat being barred because of its expense and the work of cooking it, and because the management are believers in vegetarianism.”