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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 34.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A CAMP-MEETING for the western part of the State of Colorado has been announced for October 5-11, at Montrose.
ELDER D. A. BALL has been holding meetings in a Methodist Church at Sidney Center, N. Y., and reports that seven persons have fully decided to obey the Lord, and others are deeply interested.
“THE work in Boston, under the management of Elder Geo. B. Wheeler, is prospering very encouragingly, there having been several recent additions to the church there.” So says Elder H. W. Cottrell in the Review.
“FIFTEEN have taken a stand for the Sabbath of the Lord, and others are interested,” is the report from a tent effort at Grand Island, Neb., under the labors of Brethren E. L. Stewart, O. E. Jones, and L. V. Finster.
A REPORT to the Review from the Texas camp-meeting, at Fort Worth, during its progress, told of a deep spiritual interest, and a large outside attendance. A like report comes from the meeting at Springfield, Ohio.
THE new schooner Herald, which has been built for use on the Caribbean Sea, made her first start on a missionary trip on July 9, and is said to give good satisfaction. There is a call for experienced canvassers to work in the towns on the Caribbean Coast of Central America.
THE labors of Elder J. D. Pegg at Mayfield, Ky., have borne fruit. He reports that twenty are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, and that there is an unusual interest on the part of the people to hear. Several hundred people went out to a lake near by to witness a baptismal scene.
A CAMP-MEETING for the special accommodation of the brethren in the southern part of Idaho will be held at Boise, September 23 to October 3. Another meeting for the eastern part of Oregon will be held at Union, October 7-17. Both these meetings will be under the auspices of Upper Columbia Conference.
THAT so-called Protestants are sometimes more intolerant than Roman Catholics was illustrated recently at Deer Park, Wash. Elder W. W. Steward had permission of two of the three trustees to use a certain schoolhouse for meetings, but when the time came, he found the house closed against him. However, the free use of a hall was granted by a merchant who is a Catholic.
PROF. W. W. PRESCOTT is again in Battle Creek for a short time, assisting in the Sanitarium Summer School. He will shortly return to Europe with his family.
In addition to the laborers at the Los Angeles, Cal., camp-meeting mentioned last week, there were afterward added, Elders N. C. McClure, M. C. Wilcox, and R. S. Owen.
THE annual report from Texas Conference shows an increase of 209 members, not counting those received by letter from other parts. Six new churches were added to the conference during the year.
BROTHER G. R. HAWKINS writes as follows to the Des Moines Bulletin, of the work in Dubuque, Iowa: “The readers of the Signs are anxious to have readings, and are beginning to inquire about the Sabbath question. If there were ten or fifteen Bible workers here, I am sure they could be kept busy.”
THE tent work in Atchison, Kansas, has been attended with good results. New members have been added and backsliders reclaimed. In the forepart of the month a general meeting was held there, in which the Spirit of the Lord was present in a marked degree. Elder G. C. Rupert has had charge of the tent work.
A BROTHER in Waukon, Iowa, over seventy-five years of age, recently secured eight subscribers for the American Sentinel. Our older brethren are prone to deem themselves on the retired list, while there is still work that they can do. Here is an example for them. The Sentinel is always full of that information for the want of which the people of the United States are being unwittingly led into the delusive web of Church and State union.
WORD from Prof. W. E. Howell, who with his wife and Mrs. S. B. Kinner were released from Healdsburg College to inaugurate the new Chinese school in Honolulu, indicates that the work is in a prosperous condition. A number of wealthy Chinese merchants are promoting the enterprise, and it is hoped that their new building will be completed before the fall term begins. A branch school will be established on a neighboring island.—Christian Educator.
ELDER J. M. REES, president of Colorado Conference, reports a good work at Cripple Creek, in the face of very inclement weather. Cripple Creek is a mining region high up in the mountains, and the tent-meetings conducted by Elders Wilson and Curtis have been considerably hindered by storms of rain, hail, and snow. A church of twenty-nine members was recently organized there, and an effort is being made to build a house of worship. Brother Rees says there are more than 40,000 people in the Cripple Creek country, within a radius of fifteen or twenty miles.