p. 12 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1896

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A NEW house of worship was dedicated at Placerville, Cal., on the 23d inst., Elders N. C. McClure and Wm. Ings officiating.

ELDER E. VAN DEUSEN arrived at Barbadoes, West Indies, January 25, and enters upon the work of a Christian missionary in that new field.

BROTHER C. H. JONES, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, left this city on the 20th inst., for Battle Creek, Mich., to attend the spring meeting of the General Conference Association.

ELDER C. N. MARTIN, reporting the work in Missoula, Mont., mentions the baptism of six persons on the 8th inst., and states that others are soon to follow. A church was recently organized at this place.

THE new house of worship at Atlanta, Ga., was dedicated on the 2d inst. Elders Geo. A. Irwin, Rodney S. Owen, Geo. E. Fifield, and J. A. Brunson took part in the dedicatory exercises, Elder Fifield preaching the sermon.

AS A result of circulating literature in Iceland our friends in Scandinavia report a good interest in that island. One Lutheran minister there has, with his family, been led to accept the Bible Sabbath, and desires to fully coöperate with our Danish brethren in the work. Iceland is a Danish possession and has a population of nearly 71,000, mostly of the Lutheran Church.—Present Truth (London).

THE South African Telegram of January 11 gives quite an extended account of the Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting then being held at Mowbray, a suburb of Cape Town. Among the ministers in the camp are mentioned the familiar names of Elders S. N. Haskell, A. T. Robinson, Geo. B. Thompson, Ira J. Hankins, and P. J. D. Wessels. It is stated in President Robinson’s address that “arrangements are pending for the translation of several of our smaller works into some of the native tongues.” Also that the Orphans’ Home, recently completed, “is now providing the comforts of a Christian home for fifteen destitute children;” and that “our people in Kimberley and Beaconsfield have opened a home for destitute men, which is doing a grand and noble work in its line.”

BROTHER F. L. MEAD, general canvassing agent, reports that the amount of book sales through our denominational agents during the year 1895 was $343,960. There were not so many agents in the field as in some former years, a number having withdrawn on account of general hard times. Had they continued, the sales would have been much larger. The experience of most of those who stuck to the work has demonstrated that success in book selling, as in all other branches of the Lord’s work, is a matter of faith rather than of worldly financial prosperity. Even in the best of times, those who buy books for the sake of the truth they contain, often do so at a sacrifice. It will never do to estimate what may be done for the cause of Christ by the business prospects of the world. There is just as much silver and gold in the world in “dull times” as at any other time, and it all belongs to the Lord. We may safely trust his Spirit working in honest hearts to call it out when the proper effort is made in faith believing.

THE following assignment of laborers in General Conference District No. 2 was made at the recent meeting in Atlanta, Ga.: Elder Isaac Morrison and Brother Frank Lyndon to conduct tent meetings at Minden, La. Elder H. S. Shaw to resume labor at Vicksburg, Miss. Elders W. T. Drummond and D. C. Babcock to conduct tent meetings at Citronella, Ala. Elder C. M. Kinney and Brother M. C. Sturdevant to labor with the colored people of Birmingham, Ala. Elder J. A. Brunson and Wm. Woodford to labor with a tent at Chattanooga, Ga. Elder Rodney S. Owen and Brother Curtis to labor with a tent at Rome, Ga. Elders B. F. Purdam and E. L. Sanford to labor with a tent at Lego, N. C. Elder D. T. Shireman and Brother De Vault to labor in North Carolina, as the way may open. Elder R. M. Kilgore and Brother C. L. Kilgore to conduct tent meetings at Rockwood, Tenn. Elder I. E. Kimball and Brother J. O. Johnston to continue their labors in South Carolina. It was also decided to hold a district camp meeting at Chattanooga July 17–26.