OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 20.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

It is said that there are 16 church buildings in process of erection in the Michigan conference.

On recommendation of the General Conference Committee, Elder C. Santee has been transferred from Minnesota to Iowa.

The brethren at Garden Grove, Orange County, Cal., have completed a neat house of worship, and there are other indications that the Lord is blessing their labors in behalf of the truth.

The Bible Echo states that tent meetings at Surry Hills, Sydney, N. S. W., have resulted in two companies of Sabbath-keepers in different parts of the city. Also that the institute for teachers, ministers, and Bible readers, which was held at Cooranbong, from March 26 to April 26, had an attendance of about sixty.

We have encouraging word from the work in London. Arrangements have been made for enlarging the capacity of the printing office by putting in a new American folding machine and a press formerly used in the office at Basel, Switzerland. Increasing sales of Present Truth, and increasing demand for other literature, require this additional machinery.

Reports from our workers on the Gold Coast, Africa—Elder D. U. Hale, G. T. Kerr, wife, and child, and G. P. Riggs—state that the work is in a favorable condition. Some of the laborers have had light attacks of the malignant fever which has swept off so many, but at last reports all were well, and work prospering. But they need our prayers and our offerings.

Word is brought us by Brother W. F. Caldwell, who comes on the Monawa, that the work in Australia is prospering. Brother C. called on Dr. Braucht at Samoa, and reports splendid success in the doctor's medical work, especially in the treatment of that dread disease of the tropics, elephantiasis. He has had remarkable success in treating the malady surgically.

The recent camp-meeting held at Fresno, Cal., is reported to have been a decided success in every way. There was a larger attendance than was expected, including about five hundred of our own people. The brethren were greatly refreshed, and fifty-three persons were baptized. A number of afflicted persons were healed in answer to prayer. At last the controversy in regard to the church property, which has been a source of discouragement to the company at Fresno, has been settled, and a new impetus has been given to the work there. This fact added materially to the success of the camp-meeting, and in turn the meeting has been a source of great encouragement to the church.

Of the work in Kettering, England, Elder J. S. Washburn reports as follows: “We are having a very interesting time here at our Wednesday-night meetings. Our subject for several weeks has been Spiritualism, and it seems to have awakened more interest than any other subject since we began our meetings in this town. We were surprised to find that Spiritualism is very firmly established here. A medium has been at two of the meetings, and by desultory remarks interspersed all through the address, and by questions and a speech at the close, has manifested indeed that he is one of the sons of Lucifer, and that the spirit of the father is in the son. I have seldom seen so venomous and bitter a spirit manifested against the word of God, and it is a sad fact that many in Kettering are being swept away by this strong delusion. The fact has been made very clear that the belief in the immortality of the soul is the foundation of Spiritualism, and many honest people in Kettering are beginning to see that those only who have Christ have eternal life, and that the dead are not alive till the resurrection.”