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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 41.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

ELDER W. S. CRUZAN reports the baptism of five persons at Willow Springs, Mo.
FROM a report of Elder W. A. McCutchen we learn that he is about to organize a church in Richmond, Va.
ELDER H. E. RICKARD, reporting tent labor at Bethel, P. Q., states that thirty-three have decided to walk in all the commandments of God.
As a result of meetings held at Sisson, Cal., Elder G. A. Snyder reports a company of fourteen Sabbath-keepers and a Sabbath school of eighteen members.
THE northern part of Wyoming has been segregated from Colorado Conference, and made a mission field under the direct supervision of the General Conference.
AT the recent meeting of West Virginia conference the following officers were elected: President, D. C. Babcock; Secretary, T. E. Bowen; Treasurer, B. B. Johnson.
NEW YORK CONFERENCE has chosen officers as follows: President, A. E. Place; Vice President, J. W. Raymond; Secretary, W. A. Westworth; Treasurer, W. A. Wilcox.
OUR London paper, Present Truth, of September 26, says that two workers had just left that city for Calcutta, and others were soon to follow. The same paper also noted the shipment of books to Burma.
ELDER WM. INGS reports that at the last quarterly meeting at Vacaville, Cal., a man came eighteen miles to be baptized, who never had heard a sermon preached by an Adventist minister. He is an Italian, and was brought up in the Catholic faith.
ALTHOUGH the recent local camp meeting at Missoula, Mont., was a numerically small affair as compared with many of the meetings in other localities, it is reported to have been an encouraging and profitable occasion. Ten were baptized, and a good interest was left in the place, to be followed up by further labor.
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AN excellent suggestion is found in the report of Brother M. S. Babcock, Montgomery, Ala., in a recent issue of the Review: “The boys who attended were very bad at first, and tried our patience severely, but we took the matter to the Lord instead of to the authorities, and now good order and excellent attention prevail.”
BROTHER CHAS. F. PARMELE reports encouragingly of the canvassing work in the Bahama Islands. Four Baptist ministers have taken “Great Controversy.” Of this book one reader, who is a magistrate and postmaster, says: “The book seems to have met with a quite favorable reception around here; it is spoken of quite highly. It lives on its merit. I have read it with much interest.”
As an offset to the tent labors of Elder G. E. Langdon and company at Cape de Moiselle Creek, N. B., some ministers and others announced that they would prosecute the first person who joined the Adventists and was found working on Sunday. Yet it is commonly maintained that seventh-day observers are not prosecuted because they keep that day, but for the violation of the Sunday laws.
THE factory inspector of London continues his Sunday visits to the International Tract Society’s publishing house, and there is a probability of further prosecution for Sunday labor. The Church of To-day, a Church of England paper, says: “The Adventists, let it be remembered, are not Sabbath-breakers, and pay the greatest regard to Saturday, but decline, on conscientious grounds, to be bullied into keeping Sunday.”
A LABORER at Red Rock, Mont., tells this incident: “A Methodist minister and the presiding elder came here and stopped overnight at my sister’s house. She gave them some papers and tracts, which they took freely; but the minister told a lady near Red Rock that the elder requested him to get all the Adventist literature he could and burn it, so others could not read it.” This statement, coming to the ears of the people, has been the means of stirring up quite an interest to read that which was to be so arbitrarily kept from them. Thus the wrath of man is made to praise God.
IT is seldom that we have all the ordinances of the Lord’s house celebrated on one occasion. But this was the experience of the Oakland church at the last quarterly meeting. Just after the roll call the baptistry was opened, and a sister was baptized by Elder H. F. Courter. This was immediately followed by the ordinances of humility and the Lord’s supper, under direction of Elder M. H. Brown. Such an event was no doubt of frequent occurrence in the early days of the church at Jerusalem immediately succeeding the day of Pentecost, when they, “continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. . . . And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” Acts 2:46, 47.