OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 24, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 42.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A district conference is now in session at Rome, N. Y., and will continue till the 29th inst.

The brethren at Ebenezer, Erie County, N. Y., are preparing to build a new church edifice.

At the last quarterly meeting held in Brooklyn, N. Y., seven members were added to the church, five by baptism.

The West Virginia Tract Society headquarters have been removed from Parkersburg to Newberg. Correspondents will address accordingly.

A new church was organized at Miami, Indian Ter., on the 5th inst., by Elders E. T. Russell and J. M. Rees, but we did not learn the number of members.

Meetings held at Wolcott, Ind., by Brother M. M. Kenny, have so far resulted in a dozen persons being convinced of the truths presented, among them a Baptist minister and his wife.

Since the session of the General Conference held last spring, over one hundred laborers—ministers, Bible workers, medical missionaries, teachers, and canvassers—have been sent to foreign lands.

A church of ten members was organized at Wilson, Niagara County, N. Y., on the 28th ult., and eight persons were baptized. Some of those who were baptized had never before witnessed a baptism.

Elder Wm. Hutchinson and wife, who have been laboring in West Virginia for some time, will sail for Ireland on the 23d inst. They have had a previous experience in the Irish field, especially in the northern part.

At the recent state camp meeting in Missouri twenty-seven persons were baptized. Five new churches were received into the conference, with a combined membership of ninety-one. The conference now numbers 1,500 members.

Of the new term of Union College, at College View, Neb., we hear this brief report, which says much in a few words: “The work of the school has started off nicely. There is a good attendance, and a spirit of earnestness characterizes the students.”

A brother and sister journeyed a distance of fifty miles on foot to attend the recent camp meeting at Parkersburg, W. Va. This was somewhat after the manner of coming up to Jerusalem in ancient times to attend the general gatherings of Israel.

The Methodist minister, near Farnsworth, Indiana, who advised members of his congregation to burn copies of “Bible Readings” which they had purchased, no doubt thought he was “doing God service” by suggesting a speedy way of getting rid of Adventist literature. But burning books is a very poor argument against their contents; even the Bible has passed through that ordeal hundreds of times, but it still lives and does its work.

Brother F. W. Bishop, a canvasser in Chile, writes encouragingly of the work in and about Iquiqui. He meets much opposition from the ministers and some leading men, but has good success in selling books. He also notes the fact that ten members of a Spanish church had begun to keep the Sabbath as a result of Bible readings. He is certain that a good work could be done there if we had the teachers, and papers and books in the Spanish language.