OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 26, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 38.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Canvassers have sold in Garrett County, W. Va., this summer over $1,000 worth of books.

Our veteran laborer, Elder Geo. I. Butler, has been holding a series of meetings at Bartow, Fla.

The tent laborers in both the cities of Baltimore and Washington report large and interested audiences.

Two brethren, Albert and Fred Berger, have arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and are engaged in the canvassing work.

Near Passaic Falls, N. J., August 31, three persons were baptized by Elder C. P. Bollman. A church was organized at Paterson on the 14th inst.

Elder A. J. Breed, superintendent of General Conference District No. 6, arrived in Oakland on the 19th inst., from a tour of the North Pacific and Upper Columbia conferences.

Elder J. L. Hansen, who is conducting the work among the Scandinavians in Brooklyn, N. Y., has rented Good Templars' Hall, No. 384 Atlantic Avenue, for Sabbath and Sunday night services.

Reports from the recent camp meeting at Denver, Colo., state that the outside interest was good throughout the meeting, the tent being packed at the evening services. At the request of citizens the evening meetings were continued for a time after the close of the regular camp meeting.

The steamer which sailed from San Francisco for Australian ports on the 19th inst., carried hence Brother W. H. B. Miller, with family, who has been connected with our publishing house in Oakland for the past two years. He will connect with the work in Melbourne, whence he came to this state. Sister Sarah McEnterfer accompanies them to join Mrs. E. G. White, and assist her in her work.

All our brethren who have been serving terms of imprisonment in Rhea County, Tenn., are now at liberty. The extent of preaching caused by their persecution will no doubt be deemed ample remuneration for the inconvenience of their experience. To those who have not been called to testify in bonds for the Master, the word comes with increasing force, “Be ye also ready.” No one knows what a day may bring forth.

There never will be a more favorable time for canvassing for our books and periodicals than now. A laborer in Maryland says, “I am canvassing where I canvassed two years ago, and can say that the field seems much riper than it did then.” But ripened grain, if not gathered in due time, soon begins to fall and decay. Neglect to gather a ripened harvest must result in loss of that which might have been saved. As in the days when the Master himself traveled about “bearing precious seed,” the “laborers are few.” And that, too, when “every mouth should be proclaiming, ‘Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.’”