p. 11 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1897

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

FIVE members were added to the church in Alameda, Cal., on the 9th inst.

IN Battle Creek, Mich., nineteen persons were added to the church about Christmas time.

ELDER W. W. PRESCOTT has returned from his missionary tour of the world, and is now at Battle Creek, Mich.

THE papers of Boise City, Idaho, make favorable mention of the work our people are doing in that city in behalf of the poor.

ELDER W. C. WHITE is expected to arrive in San Francisco about the 14th inst., en route from Australia to the General Conference, at College View, Neb.

ELDER F. D. STARR reports the baptism of two persons at Springfield, Ky., and three at Memphis, Tenn. At the latter place a church organization was effected.

TWO MISSIONARIES, Brother and Sister Frost, have recently gone to the island of Jamaica, W. I. At last report, Brother Frost was making a tour of the island in quest of a suitable place to locate.

AT St. John's, island of Antigua, Elder E. Van Deusen notes the baptism of four sisters, making a company of fourteen at that place. At Grace Bay, fifteen miles distant, there are eight others.

ELDER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH reports a general meeting held by him and Elder Conradi with the nine companies in the eastern part of Prussia, near the Russian line. In the audience three languages were represented—German, Polish, and Livonian.

FROM Elder G. B. Tripp's report to the Review of the situation in Matabeleland, we have the sad announcement that their mission oxen which had been saved from the Matabele insurrection have all died of the rinderpest. This leaves them without any team, and they were putting in a small crop with hoes. The natives were in a starving condition, and begging for food. They readily ate the cattle that died of disease. The missionaries were living upon boiled corn and corn-meal mush, but they express a determination to stand by the field. Brother Tripp appeals to the brethren and sisters of America, and says: “If it were possible, I would gladly transmit some of these appeals, groans, and tears to you, just as they come to us, as an appeal for this field, believing they would fill the missionary boxes and inspire a zeal such as is not always manifested. The truth of God’s word alone can give to these poor souls permanent relief. Shall they not have it, and have it soon?” Parents are pleading for our missionaries to take their children for life.