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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 4.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

AT Longmont, Colo., Brother J. F. Jensen notes the baptism of three persons.
BROTHER J. W. DORCAS reports two more who are rejoicing in the truth at Manchester, Iowa.
BROTHER H. M. J. RICHARDS mentions the addition of two at Winterset and one at Brittain, Iowa.
AT the last quarterly meeting session of the church at Pueblo, Colo., two persons were baptized and united to the church.
DECEMBER 15 Brother E. J. Van Horn baptized four persons at Castalia, Ohio, and organized a Sabbath-school of thirty members.
THE new house of worship at Shelby, Iowa, was dedicated on the 9th inst., Brother C. Santee, president of the conference, officiating.
A CHURCH of eighteen members was organized at North Fairfield, Ohio, November 28, by Brother H. H. Burkholder. The same brother reports an accession of eight at Lockbourne.
A LOCATION for the Helping Hand Mission in San Francisco, inaugurated by the publishers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, has been secured at 641 Commercial Street, between Kearny and Montgomery, and the work of fitting up has been begun. Mission work always means liberality on the part of those interested. Just now the call is for cash (always in order), sheets, pillows, blankets, quilts, mattresses, dishes, and staple provisions. The latter will be always in order also. The location, which has been secured for three years, is in the central portion of the older section of the city.
BROTHER JAMES A. LELAND has been selected by the Foreign Mission Board as a missionary to South America. His recent field of labor has been Colorado, but he is now on his way south with his family.
BROTHER W. ZEIGLER, who has been laboring at Golden, Colo., reports an addition of eight adults to the number who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” in addition to several children who have given themselves to the Lord.
L. R. WILLIAMS, of Pritchard, Ala., writes concerning the SIGNS: “I received a copy of your paper from a friend, and it is my delight, my joy. It is the best paper of the age, and I think when it gets into Alabama that it will cause souls to be converted. May the time come when Alabama will be blooming with the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.”
BROTHER E. H. GATES, who has been sojourning for a time in Tennessee, reports as part of his work, personal labor with the SIGNS taking short-term subscriptions and delivering them himself, thus coming in contact with the people. He says: “We are satisfied that this is the work for the times. There are vast possibilities before us if the SIGNS is used as it should be.”
A LETTER from Sister Fannie Emmel, of Alliance, Ohio, to the Welcome Visitor, says: “On Saturday night, as one of the sisters and myself went out to sell the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in the saloons, we realized in part the truth of the Saviour’s words, ‘But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things.’ We started out with sixty numbers and came back with seven.”
THE Cleveland, Ohio, Visitor says: “Brother J. W. Collie spoke upon invitation, before the National Association of Spiritualists last week, upon ‘Religious Liberty.’ Before introducing Brother Collie, Mr. Woodbury, the general secretary, paid a most glowing tribute to that body of Christians, Seventh-day Adventists, who stand firm, shoulder to shoulder, for the principles of religious liberty. The address was received with round after round of applause, and seemed to be appreciated very much by the large audience. We felt to thank God for this, an opportunity of giving this Gospel of the kingdom to these people.”
THE Wisconsin Reporter says: “A private letter from a friend in New York reveals the fact that the Lord is working in more ways than one, and people are receiving the light of truth through reading the Bible alone. An extract is as follows: ‘A family away up in the upper part of the city has been found who, without knowing anything about the existence of Seventh-day Adventists, simply from reading the Bible began the observance of the Sabbath, and by the merest accident were found by one of our dear old sisters. There are four young people, all grown, however, and their mother. The boys have a store, which they promptly close on the Sabbath, and put out the customary sign, and you can imagine how happy they are to find such a company as we have here of like faith.’”
THE Chicago Medical Mission is employing about one hundred persons in various lines of relief work in Chicago. It maintains a Working Men’s Home, with beds for about three hundred, a Rescue Home for fallen women, an industrial and home-finding agency for homeless men, several missions and dispensaries, a nursery, a kindergarten, a hospital ward, and several other lines of relief and rescue work. This work is made in part self-supporting, but at the present time the management is overwhelmed with the appalling spectacle of thousands of homeless men, women, and children wandering about the street, without home, without friends, without money, without food. Fifteen hundred men sleep each night on the cold stone floor of the police station, while many more crouch, shivering and frost-bitten, in doorways, empty box-cars, market wagons, wherever they can hide away. Scores of half-clad, hungry men, women, and children call at the mission daily for relief, and hundreds of penniless men apply for shelter at the Working Men’s Home, while a thousand or more gladly avail themselves of the opportunity to get a bowl of hot soup for one cent at the lunch counter. There is much ado about nineteenth-century civilization and material progress, but such reports as are here cited, from only one city in the most favored nation of the world, is a sad commentary on our boasted advancement. The more the material wealth increases, the more widespread is the destitution and the suffering; consequently, the greater the call for the exercise of Christian benevolence. This sad condition, in the face of our boasted national prosperity, is evidence of an ever-increasing selfishness and departure from the commandment of God, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” This very matter is a prominent feature in the final judgment. Against many in that day this charge will be laid: “I was an hungered, and ye gave Me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave Me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in; naked, and ye clothed Me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited Me not.”