OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 32.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

ON the first day of July four persons were baptized in St. Johns, N. F., by Elder S. J. Hersum.

SISTER LENA HOWE reports a good interest in Sacramento, Cal., through working with our papers.

THE executive committee of Florida Conference have decided to hold a camp-meeting at Tampa, October 1–10.

ELDER H. F. COURTER and BROTHER J. S. HARMON are conducting a series of meetings in a hall in the eastern part of this city.

AT Whittier, Cal., where Elders George A. Snyder and F. M. Burg are holding meetings, four have accepted the truths they are proclaiming.

BROTHER SWIN SWINSON, a Scandinavian laborer in Wisconsin, reports additions as follows: Green Bay, 4; Forestville, 1; Sawyer, 4; Fish Creek, 1.

ELDER M. G. HUFFMAN, whose labors for the past five years have been in the Maine Conference, has removed to Nashville, Tenn. Address 324 Cleveland Avenue.

THE tent-meetings conducted by Elder C. H. Bliss and Brother J. T. Sweatt at Worden, Ill., are producing encouraging results, and they expect to organize a church in the near future.

ON the date of this paper the local camp-meeting at Los Angeles, Cal., will be opened, to continue ten days. Elder A. J. Breed, superintendent of the Pacific Coast district, Elder W. T. Knox, president of California Conference, and the ministers located in the southern district of the State, will be in attendance.

THE Vermont camp-meeting will be held at Rutland from the 19th to the 30th of this month. Other meetings soon to commence are announced as follows: Logansport, Ind., August 24 to September 5; Council Grove, Kansas, August 25 to September 6; Forest, Ill., August 26 to September 5; Augusta, Me., August 26 to September 6.

A LETTER from Brother N. Z. Town, of Buenos Ayres, Argentina, dated June 24, says: “We are just starting the publication of our new Spanish paper. It will be a twelve-page monthly. The matter for the first number is in the hands of the printer.” He also notes that five members were added to the church at Buenos Ayres June 19; also that the workers are all well and of good courage.

AT the last quarterly meeting of the church in Barton, Fla., three persons united with the church. One of these was at the time undergoing a sentence of ten days for working on Sunday, but he was permitted by the officers to attend the church services. During all of his term of imprisonment he was allowed to go to his home at night and return to the prison in the morning. This signified that the authorities did not consider the offense very heinous, or the prisoner a very dangerous man. But all officials are not so considerate of the people’s rights in the face of unjust and intolerant laws.

WE have received the calendar of Healdsburg (Cal.) College for 1897–98. It is a very neat pamphlet, containing full information regarding that efficient institution of learning, and will be sent free on application. The next session will commence September 8. The faculty comprises the following experienced instructors: R. S. Owen (president), English Bible; G. A. Droll, Natural Sciences; Miss Fannie Ireland, Mathematics; Mrs. L. M. Droll, Ancient Languages; G. W. Rine, English Language and Literature; H. A. St. John, History. Preparatory department, Mrs. F. J. Morrison, Miss Evelyn Riley.

FOR the encouragement of laborers who are inclined to complain of the hardness of the way, we give the following bit of experience from the report of Elder O. S. Ferren and Brother C. H. Abbott in the Review. These brethren are laboring in the Wyoming field, and report as follows: “July 7 we loaded a four-horse wagon with tents, satchels, bedding, books and papers, food, grain, etc., and with two saddle ponies, two boys, and a man to help and return with the team and boys, we started for a seventy-five-mile trip over the mountains into the Big Horn Basin. I can not tell of the roughness of the roads. We had to fasten ourselves to the seat in order to remain there at all. As we passed the summit, with snow on every side, our overcoats and blankets were much appreciated. After passing the summit, eleven thousand feet above the sea, and going down the southern slope, we halted, and, taking our saws and axes, proceeded to cut and make stakes and poles for our two tents. Friday, the last day out, we made our stakes and tent-poles, traveled twenty-five miles, put up both tents, and were ready for the Sabbath. The evening after the Sabbath we borrowed rude school benches, procured a dry goods box for a pulpit, announced meeting, and had an attendance of about twenty.”