OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 19, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 37.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

ON Pitcairn Island they have five regular weekly meetings.

CANVASSERS for our publications in Ohio report sales in two weeks aggregating $1,120.50. In New York one week's report sums up $691.10.

UNDER the direction of Elder O. O. Farnsworth, a tent has been pitched in Washington, D. C., at the corner of Tenth and E Streets, Southeast.

THE semiannual collection for the maintenance of the Orphans' Home in Battle Creek, Mich., will be taken in all our churches the first Sabbath in October.

As a result of meetings held at Quinda, Cal., by Brethren Frank Burg and Wm. Harmon, eight are obeying the truth, and a Sabbath school with twenty-five members has been organized.

ELDER E. E. ANDROSS' report of meetings held at Petaluma, Cal., gives an accession of nine persons to the company there, together with a continued interest and a prospect of erecting a house of worship.

At the camp meeting recently held at St. Blaise, Switzerland, there were about fifty family tents, besides two meeting tents, one for German and one for French services. The meeting was continued one week.

TENT meetings recently held at Fortuna, Humboldt County, Cal., by Elders Wm. Ings and A. J. Osborne, have borne fruit. Ten were led to accept the truth, and the expenses of the meetings were met by donations from the people.

ELDER D. A. ROBINSON reports that “a little more than a year ago we had one place in London where we held meetings; now, in and around the city, we have six places where meetings are held each week.” The Present Truth has now a circulation of over twelve thousands copies weekly.

ELDER A. W. BARTLETT, of Reno, Nevada, reports the curious spectacle of a Methodist minister trying to overthrow the word of the Lord by quoting the tirades of an apostate Adventist against his brethren who never did him anything but good. Well, Adventists have a good assurance that the law of God is sure and steadfast when its opponents can find no better weapon than the animosities of disappointed ambition.

WE take the following from the report of one of our laborers in Maryland: “I had an interesting interview with Father—of this place. I asked him if his church was in full sympathy with the idea of a concession with Protestants for better Sunday observance, which would really be exalting their own child—Sunday. He said yes, and not only Sunday observance, but all the church’s commands. These things almost startle us, and yet we know that Rome is fast coming to the front, and why not? If this is a ‘Christian nation,’ and Rome is a Christian church, and the oldest church, and the largest church, and if the majority has a right to rule, then certainly Rome should rule.”

THE title of the Australian Sentinel, published at North Fitzroy, Melbourne, has been changed to the Southern Sentinel. It is a live, 32-page quarterly, issued by the Echo Publishing Co., and devoted to liberty of conscience. It maintains a determined opposition to the encroachment of church and state union upon the God-given rights of the individual. The motto displayed upon the title-page is, “Keep the state and the church forever separate.” The change in title has been made with a view to extending its influence over a larger field, as it is the only journal of the kind published in the Southern Hemisphere. Price, 1s. 3d. (30c) per annum. Address, 16 Best Street, New Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.