OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 24.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Elder G. F. Watson has been transferred from Iowa to the Dakota field.

A new house of worship was dedicated at West Valley, N. Y., May 24, Elder J. W. Raymond officiating.

Brother W. W. Wheeler reports five converts at Centerville Station, N. Y. He is now conducting tent meetings at Summitville.

An interesting and helpful series of meetings are in progress at Kissimmee, Fla., conducted by Elder L. H. Crisler and Brother C. P. Whitford.

A church has been organized at Colman, Mich., with fourteen members. Arrangements are being perfected for the erection of a house of worship.

Elder J. O. Corliss and family, en route from Australia to America, were obliged to land at Plymouth, Eng., on account of the sickness of his daughter.

The Oklahoma Conference, which was organized two years ago, with 416 members, has about doubled its membership. Nine churches have been organized since last October.

In connection with a two-days meeting recently held at Charlotte, Mich., twenty-four persons were baptized and united with the church at that place and other churches not far distant.

Prof. E. A. Sutherland, of Walla Walla College, who attended the California state camp-meeting at Alameda, left for his home on the 11th inst. His labors at the meeting were much appreciated.

Elder W. A. Hennig, who was at St. Louis at the time of the recent great tornado, informs the Kansas City Record that, as far as he had ascertained, not one of our people suffered injury from the storm.

Meetings begun in the spring and a great prejudice, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have resulted in thirty-five converts and quite a general interest. Elder Luther Warren has been in charge of the work.

The Iowa Conference has chosen Elder C. Santee as president for the coming year. The former president, Elder E. G. Olsen, has been assigned to Scandinavian work of a general nature, by the General Conference Committee.

At Selton, Ont., May 9, as the congregation was singing the first hymn, “Stand Like the Brave,” an officer came to take Elders A. O. Burrill and P. M. Howe to jail. A sentence for Sunday labor had been hanging over them for several months.

Elder E. W. Farnsworth and wife, of College View, Neb., have been called by the Foreign Mission Board to labor in Australia. We learn that Elder L. A. Hoopes is to take the place in Union College made vacant by Elder Farnsworth’s retirement.

A young Japanese, named T. H. Okohira, was granted a ministerial license by the California Conference at its recent session. He has been doing good work in connection with the Japanese school in San Francisco, and will probably go to Japan as soon as arrangements are completed for opening a mission in that field.

Elder J. N. Loughborough, one of the oldest of Seventh-day Adventist pioneers now living, sailed for Europe May 27. He goes at the earnest solicitation of brethren across the water, who are anxious to know more about the rise and progress of the denomination, from one who can tell them more about it than any one else.

Elder A. J. Breed, now president of California Conference, after arranging for the season’s work in the conference, goes to the Upper Columbia camp-meeting, at Walla Walla, in his capacity of superintendent of district No. 6. After that meeting he will go to Montana for a short time, to look after the interests of the work in that growing field.

At Alden, N. Y., a good interest is reported by Elder George M. Ellis. Meetings were held in the Methodist Church. A discourse on the “Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan” was, by request, repeated to a large audience in a public hall, furnished free of charge. The interest was such as to call out a request for another address, and Brother Ellis responded with the subject, “God’s Eternal Purpose.”

Elder A. T. Jones, who is attending the general camp-meetings in the Pacific Coast states, spoke in the San Francisco church in the morning and in Oakland in the afternoon of Sabbath, June 13. His discourse in Oakland was from Rom. 14:12, “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” On the day following (Sunday), he delivered an address at Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, and in the evening started for Walla Walla, Wash.