OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 26.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The organization of a church at Elsmore, Kansas, with fifteen members, is reported by Elder R. H. Brock.

A London paper of June 2 states that Elder J. O. Corliss’ daughter Lulu, who was taken from a steamer at Plymouth and confined in a hospital for a time, had so far recovered as to be released, and, after stopping in London for a few days, the family would resume their journey to America. Elder Corliss had preached some while in Plymouth. A growing interest is reported by laborers in that city.

Our good London paper, the Present Truth, is receiving very encouraging patronage in the world’s metropolis. Of course unpopular truth must needs meet many obstacles in gaining extended notice amid the varied prominent interests of the world’s market; but “truth is mighty,” altho sometimes apparently obscure and deemed insignificant. The influence of the paper is also being felt in other parts of the kingdom. A worker in Oldham reports that an evangelist who conducts a very large mission there has been taking the paper, and has introduced it from the pulpit.

Altho our brethren in Matabeleland have been obliged to leave the mission farm and seek safety in Buluwayo on account of the native uprising, and have lost most of their cattle, and some other property, it is reported that the Chartered Company, under whose government and assurance the country is being settled by foreigners, will recompense settlers for pecuniary damages resulting from the insurrection. The other losses will be made up by the Lord, who is “able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”

Brother U. Hale, a laborer in the Gold Coast of Africa (popularly known as the white man’s grave), reports himself and four collaborators enjoying fairly good health, altho three of them had been attacked by the malignant fever, that carries so many to the grave on very short notice. When he wrote, they had been there seven months, and he says: “I have come here to glorify God, and my life is entirely in his hand. If he desires me to live and work, all the diseases of Africa can not kill me. A Baptist missionary here, a minister, has accepted our doctrines and has offered himself to the work.”

An instance showing how the message goes to the world is stated by Elder J. W. Westphal in the Review. He says: “At Wentz, Weld County, Colo., there is a company of ten keeping the Sabbath. Most of these accepted the truth three years ago as the result of missionary work done with our German papers in Russia seven years ago, and later canvassing work in Colorado.” Our literature is doing, and is destined to do, the principal work in giving the last message of mercy to the world; and among English-speaking people, especially in the Americas, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is the recognized “pioneer.” It is especially designed for pioneer work, but “how shall they preach except they be sent?” They can not go of themselves.