OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 14.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE Ohio Conference Committee has decided to hold a state meeting April 12–19, an earlier date than usual, in order to lay out the summer’s work as early as possible.

ELDER G. B. STARR, reporting to the Review from Queensland Australia, notes an addition of fifteen to the number who have accepted the doctrines presented to them.

ELDER J. G. WOOD baptized six persons in Cincinnati, the last week in February, using the baptistry of the Disciple Church, which was kindly loaned for the occasion.

AN encouraging report of the progress of the cause in Toledo, Ohio, comes through the Visitor. A special feature of labor is the Christian help work, which brings good results. Such work is specially noted in the judgment. See Matt. 25:31–46.

FOLLOWING is the present organization of the General Conference Association board: President, I. H. Evans; vice-president, J. H. Morrison; secretary, John I. Gibson; treasurer, A. G. Adams. Executive Committee—I. H. Evans, J. H. Morrison, J. I. Gibson, A. G. Adams, W. C. Sisley.

WORD comes to us, through the kindness of the president of the General Conference, that Prof. E. A. Sutherland takes the presidency of Battle Creek College, Prof. G. W. Caviness having resigned. As to how this will affect the Correspondence School of Walla Walla College, we do not know.

A REPORT in the Review from Brother Ellery Robinson, who went to India last autumn, makes an urgent appeal for canvassers to labor in that country. There is a wide field for the bookseller, where thousands are hungering for the pure Gospel, and physically suffering for want of the information contained in our health books.

BROTHER THOMAS WHITTLE, a Bible worker in the mining town of Charters Towers, in the northern part of Queensland, Australia, reports an encouraging interest. Canvassers had previously placed our leading books with a number of the people in that vicinity. There are souls ready to receive the truth in the most isolated parts of the earth where the children of men dwell. But it must be taken to them. They will not hunt for it until they are informed concerning it.

THE Gleaner, our New England Conference paper, says: “The church in Boston had the pleasure of listening to Rev. T. B. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lynn, Sabbath, March 13. Brother Johnson preached a most interesting and powerful sermon, showing the drift of the religious forces of the nation away from God, and calling attention to the little flock that would be ready to meet the Lord when he comes. Last Sabbath Rev. B. R. Harris, pastor of the Bunker Hill Baptist Church, Charlestown, preached in Boston. Brother Harris gave a most tender discourse, showing the relation that the family of God ought to sustain to each other, and to all.”

A FEW weeks ago Brother T. Alexander was summoned to appear as a witness in a court in Oklahoma City, O. T., on the Sabbath day. Of course he did not go voluntarily, and an officer was sent to bring him. He took his Bible with him as his defense. Being interrogated as to his reason for holding the court in contempt, he replied that he did not hold the court in contempt, but it was the Sabbath day, and he could not give testimony. Being asked if he would rather suffer the penalty than testify, he replied that he would. “But,” said the judge, “you are already here, and you will not be giving evidence of your own free will, but by force.” Then Brother Alexander answered, “My Bible teaches me that I ought to obey God rather than men.” He would no doubt have been sent to prison for contempt, but the attorneys in the case agreed to have the case postponed to a time when he could conscientiously attend and bear testimony.