p. 12 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 15.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER E. E. GARDNER reports six converts at Ladoga, Iowa, and the work there was encouraging.

THE company at Kilmarnock, Va., have erected a new meeting-house. Elder C. A. Watkins has been holding meetings there with a view to organization and dedication.

PROF. W. E. HOWELL, recently a teacher in Healdsburg College, sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu, H. I., on the 2d inst., for the purpose of working up a school interest at the latter place.

MEETINGS held at the village of Levey, Iowa, by Brethren F. A. Washburn and C. T. Adams, resulted in the conversion of twenty persons and the organization of a Sabbath-school of thirty members.

APRIL 7. Elders W. W. Prescott and O. A. Olsen sailed from New York, the former for England and the latter for the continent of Europe. It is expected that Elder Olsen will also go to South Africa for a season.

BROTHER S. M. JACOBS, manager of the Industrial School Farm near Huntsville, Ala., reports to the Iowa Bulletin that “the school is running along nicely.” They plowed fifty acres in February. The fruit trees were in bloom, and the prospect was promising.

THE annual meeting of the Iowa State Conference will be held at Nevada, May 29-31. This meeting will be held in connection with a local camp-meeting, it having been decided not to hold a State camp-meeting this spring, but to hold a greater number of local meetings instead.

WE are informed by letter that Elder J. C. Bunch, who has been laboring in the vicinity of Milton, Fla., died on March 27, aged 69 years 5 months and 28 days. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. S. H. Chappelle, of the M. E. Church South.

SISTER FLORENCE HARPER reports to the Echoes that she has been laboring in a part of Pueblo, Colo., where there are people speaking seven different languages—English, French, Polish, Italian, Swedish, German, and Spanish. There are many opportunities for doing foreign mission work at home.

THIS good report from Brother B. W. Marsh is from the Echoes, of Denver, Colo.: “The Lord’s blessing rests upon the work in Howard. Seventeen are now keeping the commandments of God and rejoicing in the salvation of a precious Saviour. Besides this number the children have caught the Spirit of Christ, and several have expressed a desire to unite with us and keep the commandments, too.”

FROM a private letter from Elder C. B. Tripp, now in Matabeleland, Central Africa, dated February 7, and published in the Minnesota Worker, we take the following: “There is a rich blessing to every soul who moves out in the opening providence of the Lord. To many, the thought of coming to Central Africa is quite a bugbear, but when you are here, you find you are still in the world, surrounded with human beings—the purchase of the precious blood of our Saviour, and just as precious in his sight as those in America. Then the Lord is just as near here, in Central Africa, as in any part of the world. It is not as it was twenty years ago, and is nearing civilization rapidly. In a year from now we expect the railroad at Buluwayo; then we are not so far separated from the world as one might imagine. . . . I suppose you know our family has increased since coming here. We have been here about a year and a half, and our own children, including George, number eleven, all black but George. We have taken ten native children as our own, whom we feed and clothe from our own funds.”

FOUR candidates were baptized in the baptistry of the church in this city after the missionary meeting on the evening of the 7th inst. They were united to the church in Alameda. Appropriate remarks were made by Elder M. C. Wilcox.

On the new Religious Liberty Library pamphlet, No. 46, entitled “Baptist Principles of Religious Liberty,” the publishers have this testimonial from Dr. Wayland, editor of the Examiner, leading Baptist organ: “I have read your pamphlet on ‘Baptist Principles of Religious Liberty’ with great interest and with entire sympathy. I believe that Sunday laws have frequently been used as a means of infamous oppression. . . . I hope you will continue your efforts for the promotion of religious liberty.” Baptists should read this pamphlet; it was written by one who was a Baptist minister for fifteen years. Price, 6 cents.

THE delegates to the late General Conference, at College View, Neb., who went eastward by way of Chicago, visited the Working Men’s Home in that city, and partook of a penny breakfast. The editor of the Cleveland Welcome Visitor has this to say of the breakfast and of the institution:—

“The soup was pronounced good by all, and the measure liberal. The Home is located in one of the worst parts of Chicago, and this day was crowded with men, as it was raining. We learned that about seventy gallons of soup were served daily. The reading-room, used also for a dining-room, is cleaned three times a day, all the men being sent out. Many wait outside until the door is opened, to return again. Up one flight of steps and we were brought to the large dormitory, where about three hundred men find beds. These, with a number more, on the third floor, accommodate about 480 men. For ten cents each man receives a ticket entitling him to a bath and a bed. If he attempts to go to bed without the bath, it is detected at the check-room and he is required to take the bath first. He then goes to the check-room, a sort of ante-room to the dormitory, and deposits his clothing, for which he receives a check, which he hangs about his neck. This is done to prevent the men from stealing each other’s clothing during the night. The beds are arranged in double berth style. Religious service is held every morning after breakfast, a Bible reading in the afternoon, and preaching or Gospel service in the evening. We were surprised to learn that out of the forty helpers, all but six were converts from the class of men who frequent this place. The blessing of the Lord has rested upon this work in a wonderful manner, and there have been some marked conversions. To visit this home is to appreciate its work.”