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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 7.

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Our Work and Workers.

There are ten Scandinavian churches in the Iowa Conference.
Kansas Conference has located two Bible workers in Leavenworth.
A church was organized at Beaver, Ohio, January 11, by Elder O. F. Guilford.
A new house of worship was recently dedicated at Dayton, Ohio, Elder I. D. Van Horn officiating.
A house of worship is in process of erection at Binghamton, N. Y., where a church organization was effected last fall. Elder S. M. Cobb is in charge of the work in that city.
The Biblical Institute which precedes the General Conference is now in session, having commenced on the 9th inst. The Conference proper convenes on the 19th, to continue till March 6.
Brother C. T. Shaffer reports eleven converts at Jefferson, Mont., with an increasing interest. A lot has been donated for a house of worship, and some cash subscriptions towards a building.
Large audiences, with some additions, is the report of meetings held at Blossburg, Ala., by Elder Wm. Woodford. He attributes the interest largely to books sold in the community by canvassers.
As a result of labor by Brother H. E. Giddings at Tarsney, Mo., eight persons were baptized February 2, by Elder W. A. Hennig. A place for baptism was prepared by cutting through the ice in a neighboring creek.
The house of worship at Kansas City, Mo., was dedicated Sabbath, January 30. There were about 300 people present, and the services were conducted by Elders W. A. Hennig and H. K. Willis, of the Missouri Conference, and Elder E. W. Fortner, of Kansas.
Elder C. L. Boyd has commenced meetings in a hall in Paducah, Ky. Although Paducah is a city of 20,000 inhabitants, he found but one person keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. Such facts show the urgent necessity of increased efforts in the spread of the message of truth.
Meetings held at Half Rock, Mo., January 22–24, by Elder W. T. Millman, were fraught with unusual interest. A report in the Workers’ Record says: “Among the prominent ones that studied with us was the U. B. minister and members of his family; also one of the most accomplished schoolteachers in the county. The Baptist brethren postponed their regular meeting to be with us.”
The brethren in charge of the Colorado Sanitarium, at Boulder, Colo., are determined to let the public know of that excellent institution. Their latest advertising enterprise is a beautiful souvenir of thirty-eight pages, containing a number of artistic views of the institution and scenes in the vicinity of the grounds. It is a credit to the sanitarium and to the printers, the Review and Herald Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is encouraging to note this evidence of prosperity on the part of our Colorado institution.
From Elder R. C. Porter’s report in the Review we cull the following: “The Christian help work in Boston is doing much good. Brother Charles Palmer, assisted by the poor, has worked twenty-four missionary gardens in Everett during the past summer, the proceeds being used by the poor. Although he had to agree to pay rent for the land, in order to secure it, it was all donated by the landlord when he saw the use to which it was really put. The workers here, as in Chicago, find open doors everywhere, and the Lord is greatly blessing the work. A few of the thousands of the hungry in this great city are being fed, and a few of the half clad are being clothed.”