Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 30.

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Our Work and Workers.

The Colorado camp-meeting will be held at Colorado Springs, September 2 to 12.

At the local camp-meeting recently held at Spokane, Wash., fourteen persons were baptized.

A local camp-meeting is to be held at Fayette, Iowa, from the 17th to the 22d of the present month.

On the 17th ult., after a discourse by Elder J. M. Rees in Denver, Colo., four persons were baptized.

On the last quarterly meeting occasion five members were added to the church at North Yakima, Wash.

Elder C. F. Stevens reports an addition of five members to the church at Ladoga, Iowa, at the last quarterly meeting.

Elder D. P. Gaede reports a good attendance at tent-meetings in the interest of the German people of Dubuque, Iowa.

In connection with the tent-meetings held at Durango, Colo., Elder L. F. Trubey reports the baptism of six persons.

Sixteen converts to the Adventist faith is the visible result of meetings held at Leesburg, Texas, by Brethren T. W. Field and W. L. McNeely.

The South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy is to have an agricultural department, and Brother D. M. Hull, a practical gardener and fruit farmer, is to have charge.

Brother Lee Bond, for several years an employee of this office, with his family, sailed for Australia July 23. He goes to Melbourne to take charge of the presswork in the Bible Echo office.

A series of meetings, conducted by Elders G. W. Rine and H. H. Dexter, is now in progress in San Francisco. The meetings are held in the business part of the city, 506 Kearny Street, between California and Sacramento.

Elder C. D. M. Williams writes encouragingly of the work in Phoenix, A. T. He reports six additions to the church, five of whom he had baptized. He also states that the enemy is at work again trying to establish a Sunday law.

We are glad to learn that a good interest accompanies the tent-meetings held in Chattanooga, Tenn., by Elder C. P. Bollman, a former editorial laborer in this institution, and for several years resident editor of the American Sentinel, in New York City.

Elder C. McReynolds, president of Texas Conference, reports the organization of a church of sixteen members at Liverpool, in that State. Also the addition of eight members to the church at New Hope, and the baptism of two persons at Galveston.

It has been decided to hold the Montana camp-meeting at Butte. This city is deemed most desirable because its 47,000 inhabitants comprise about one-fourth of the population of the State. The meeting will be held in September, commencing either the 2d or the 9th, and continuing ten days. Full particulars may be had by addressing Elder W. J. Stone, at that place.

Elder R. D. Hottel writes concerning the work in Birmingham, Ala.: “I find it necessary for me to stop awhile on account of my health. However, the work here will go on. Brother Sturdevant will be joined by Brother Wells, and the tent effort will continue. About ten have commenced to keep the Sabbath, and others are hopeful cases. My permanent address will be, for a few months, Newmarket, Virginia.”

In the Reaper, published at College Place, Wash., we see notice of the death of Elder G. W. Davis, which occurred July 7. Brother Davis had labored in the Upper Columbia Conference five years, and part of the time was a member of the conference committee. He was 58 years of age, and his death was in a measure due to injuries received by a fall while picking cherries two years previously, causing partial paralysis.

Notwithstanding certain hindrances, our laborers succeeded in placing about 30,000 tracts on religious liberty in the hands of people attending the late Christian Endeavor Convention in San Francisco. The hindrances were in the form of opposition on the part of some of the local C. E. leaders to their distribution in the pavilions, and a city ordinance forbidding their circulation on the streets. However, some Endeavorers, even ushers, helped to circulate them on the inside, and some policemen made no objection to their distribution amongst those who stood outside. The tracts were supplied by the International Religious Liberty Society.

In a letter to the Review, Elder Holser notes a visit of Brother Baharian to Ovajuk, Turkey, where five persons were baptized. All of these had formerly been bitter opponents; and this is the village in which our workers had been twice driven away, and the houses stoned where they lodged and held meetings. He also notes the imprisonment of two Greek laborers at Marsovan, and the imprisonment for three days of an Armenian brother at Smyrna, who had come from Tarsus. He further states that there are calls for labor from Brusa, from Adrianople, and from Egypt.