OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 12.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Elder S. W. Nellis reports the baptism of four persons at Aberdeen, Wash. The brethren at Aberdeen are erecting a new house of worship.

The church in Rokeby Park, Cape Colony, S. Africa, dedicated a new house of worship in January last, Elder A. T. Robinson officiating. His report adds that several new members had recently been added to the church.

Elder J. S. Washburn writes to the Review that “there is a constant and steady growth in the work in Great Britain and Ireland, numerically, financially, and, we trust, also spiritually.” He reports twenty-two churches and companies, besides a good number of isolated brethren.

At Stevenson, Wash., where Elder A. J. Stover has been laboring recently, the deacon and Sunday school superintendent of the Baptist Church have accepted the truths set forth, and went to laboring from house to house among their neighbors. The deacon also opened his house for preaching service.

Brother C. M. Nichols, who recently moved from San Jose to Soledad, Cal., writes as follows concerning the work in that place: “We have a Sabbath school and Bible reading at our house every Sabbath; also a Sunday school and Bible reading at a schoolhouse about three miles from here, with usually about thirty in attendance. If our brethren who can find nothing to do in the larger churches will move out to localities where the truth is little known, they will find plenty of opportunity for work. The cause is in need of the lay talent that lies dormant in the larger churches.”

A letter from Sister Vesta J. Farnsworth, Christchurch, N. Z., dated February 11, says of the work in that place: “We have now been in Christchurch about three weeks. Our tent meetings are well under way, but there has not been a large crowd at any time. The people have been imposed upon so many times by persons from America that they are very cautious, still there are some who are very much interested in the truth as it has been presented so far. A good interest has been manifested among the children. I began meetings with them the first week, and have been holding them two or three times a week. At first but twenty came, then thirty-five, then fifty, and last Sunday there were about seventy-five as nice, well-behaved children as you could wish to see.”