OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 30.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Brother R. M. Kilgore reports twelve or more converts at Rockwood, Tenn.

At the recent small local camp-meeting at Waterloo, Quebec, six were baptized.

Brother Minard Wood reports ten adults as having accepted the message in New Haven, Conn.

From Cass County, Texas, Brother J. N. Somerville reports 25 converts to the Sabbath and kindred truths.

Elder H. F. Phelps reports a recent accession of nine persons to the church at St. Paul, Minn., only two of whom were by letter.

Elder Wm. Covert writes from Wisconsin that forty-three have been baptized in that conference by the various ministers in less than a month.

Brother J. G. Baharian writes to the Review of the baptism of four precious souls at Ovajuk, Nicomedia, and two at Shagshag. He reports great opposition from Armenians in Brusa, because he had converted a man from infidelity to Christ.

At Oak Level, Ala., are nine families who have yielded to present truth, partly through the labors of Brethren Wells and Drummond, and partly through the missionary efforts of one brother in Battle Creek, Mich., Chas. F. Wilcox, and one in Chattanooga, Tenn., L. Dye Chambers.

Six more precious souls followed their Lord in baptism in the Oakland church, the evening of July 22, Elder W. N. Glenn administering the ordinance. This makes 29 who have joined this church by baptism since the recent days of fasting and prayer. And there are more to follow.

The sanitarium at Boulder, Colo., has been enlarged, and better equipped for service. It consists of three buildings, the main one being 96x45 feet, with a large annex, and two cottages. At present there are fifty patients in the home, and the building is rapidly filling. At the head of the institution is W. H. Riley, M.D., whose experience and skill are a guarantee of the best work. He is assisted by Drs. W. H. Hubbard, G. W. Burleigh, Kate Lindsay, and Mrs. Eva Reed.

Brother and Sister Lingle write from Honolulu, under date of June 22, to the Iowa Workers' Bulletin, that the way has not opened yet for the establishment of a sanitarium, tho the prospects are favorable. The health of Elder Gates is not good. Expenses for living are high, wood costing from $10 to $14 per cord; coal, $12 to $14 per ton; potatoes, $1.00 per bushel; flour (fifty-pound sack), $1.25 to $1.50; gasoline, 35 cents a gallon. A four-room house rents for $25 per month. Bananas only are cheap, one stalk can be bought for 15 cents. Barring the bananas, these prices are but little different from those in San Francisco and Oakland.

Robert Morehead, a Sabbath-keeper of Greensboro, N. C., was arrested, and tried before Justice Keith, of that place, for Sunday labor, on June 27. The justice is a Methodist. The charge made against Brother Morehead was false both as to day and date, but it was a matter of rumor that Mr. Morehead kept the seventh day, and of course he worked on Sunday; and, therefore, the dignity of the law must be upheld, so he was promptly fined, with cost of prosecution. But respectable citizens, enlightened as to liberty, not of the faith or color of Mr. Morehead, furnished security for cost of appeal to the circuit court, and provided counsel. “It is refreshing to find,” as Brother Allen Moon remarks, “that there are some noble men still to defend the cause of liberty in the face of the intolerance that is manifesting itself all over the land.”