OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1896

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

NINE conversions are reported by Brother Huntington at Walberton, Ind.

THE special Bible school at Union College, Neb., now numbers 60. The recent Bible school in Colorado had a regular attendance of 75.

TWENTY-NINE persons were baptized at Healdsburg, Cal., on the 8th inst., by Elder E. E. Andross, assisted by Prof. G. W. Rine, local elder of Healdsburg Church.

Work is advancing in and around Raleigh, N. C. There is a Sabbath school now numbering 30 members, one-half of whom are adults, and many more are interested.

THE president of Kansas conference, Brother C. McReynolds, says that the week of prayer in Kansas was a time of revival, and reports more than thirty-five conversions which have come to his knowledge recently.

BROTHER S. N. COBB and A. R. HYATT report that there are five good souls in the city of Binghamton, N. Y., who have accepted present truth, one of whom is the leader of the “Rescue Mission” in that city.

BROTHER G. H. SMITH writes from Steamboat Springs, Colo., that the ministers of other churches in that place took up their appointments, and all were attending his meetings. May the Lord lead them all into his truth for this time.

THE cause in St. Johns, N. F., is progressing in a very encouraging way, notwithstanding the many hindrances, especially the difficulty of procuring a suitable hall. Elder S. J. Hersum reports that they are contemplating the erection of a house of worship.

AT Ithaca, Mich., during the week of prayer, eleven were added to the church by conversion and baptism, the church now numbering 90 members. Six were converted at St. Charles, Mich., the same week, and at Saginaw 12. These are reported by Elders Burrill and Soule.

WE learn from an article in the Review of February 4 that a ship mission is opened at Galatz, Rumania, for work on the Danube and the Red Sea, and that the number of our publications in the Balkan languages is increasing. Our literature has gone across Siberia and to the Transcaucasus. In one place in the Baltic provinces there is a company of ten Sabbath keepers. Publications have been translated into the Lettish and Esthonian languages, and are going through the press. Over four hundred souls have been gathered in the European field during the last year. The circulation of our publications by sale has been doubled. Truly there is cause to be grateful.

THAT there is a strong desire in the various churches to hear and learn and know the truth of God for this time is evident from many circumstances constantly occurring, chiefly the openings for labor before our ministering brethren everywhere. Not long since a pastor of a large Baptist Church in Boston asked the New England conference for one of our ministers to come and preach to his people a week on the subject of the Lord’s second coming. This call was supplied by Elder G. E. Fifield. More recently another invitation was given by the Prudential Committee of the same church that a minister of ours should preach upon all the lines of doctrine which are held by Seventh-day Adventists. This Baptist minister and his people feel that God has more truth for his people in these evil days, as he most assuredly has. May they find it as it is in Christ Jesus.

ELDER A. J. BREED left this city on the 13th inst. for Battle Creek, Mich., to attend a meeting of the General Conference Council.

THE case of Brother Ira T. Babcock, of Lego, N. C., charged by a Methodist neighbor with unlawfully doing farm labor on Sunday, was to have been tried on the 17th inst. The result of the trial has not yet reached us. It is somewhat significant that the complaining witness had to sign his name with a simple mark. One of the peculiarities of tyrannical laws is that they place good men at the mercy of ignorant bigots. The cases of Brother Nash, of Mississippi, and Brother Lewis, of Tennessee, on charges of Sunday labor, are each set for the March terms of the courts in which they are to be tried.