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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 48.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

The brethren at Westlake, Idaho, are erecting a new house of worship.
The Arkansas brethren have decided to send the Sentinel of Christian Liberty to the members of the State Legislature for three months.
The address of Brother J. W. Watt, president of Vermont Conference, is changed from Barre to North Walcott, Vt. Correspondents will please take notice.
A church of thirty-one members was organized, and a new house of worship dedicated, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., on the 26th ult., by Brethren G. B. Thompson and F. H. De Vinney.
Brother A. G. Bodwell, of Mexico City, reports good success in selling our Spanish paper on Sundays. The sales on three Sundays were 800, 941, and 1,000. The time occupied each day was less than four hours.
The Reaper, College Place, Wash., says: “Brother Turner reports a good experience selling books among people of the Catholic faith. He left a book with the Mother Superior of a hospital. After having it examined by the priest, she bought it. He has sold several others to Catholics, and hopes to sell many more.”
At Coshocton, Ohio, November 2, a church of twenty-three members was organized by Brethren H. H. Burkholder, J. O. Miller, and W. W. Miller. Seventeen of the number have lately accepted the faith under the labors of Brother W. W. Miller. There were five others not present who expected to unite with the church at the first opportunity.
Because a number of the members of the church at North Yakima, Wash., reside on Natchez River, several miles from the town, it has been decided to conduct two church-schools, and to erect two school-houses. The house in the town has been completed and is now occupied, while the other one is under way, the school being carried on temporarily in a private house.
The new Iowa Industrial Academy, located at Stuart, forty miles west of Des Moines, was opened December 1. The Bulletin says: “There is a church-school in connection with the academy. Good, thorough work will be done in the academy up to the tenth grade. Students who finish the course will be as well equipped as those who teach in the public schools and have first-grade certificates.”
Sister Clara Pease, of Skippers, Va., writes to call attention to the importance of that locality as a missionary field. There is need of families to live out the truth in various parts of the country, and thus bring it to the attention of the people. It is an excellent place to raise fruit and vegetables, and therefore just the place for vegetarians to live and prosper. Many of the people have never heard of the message for these last days. For any information, address Clara Pease, Skippers, Va.
A sister writing to the corresponding secretary of the Sabbath-school Department of our General Conference, concerning the branch Sabbath-school work, gives an interesting experience. She began with but few children, but says in her letter: “Last Sabbath we had an attendance of forty-two. I am having some blessed experiences that give a deeper joy than anything the world can give. It means hard work, O yes, for every Sabbath we have to go out and bring them in, but the Lord has richly rewarded our efforts. I am becoming acquainted with many of my neighbors whom I would probably not have met in any other way, and almost without exception they are warm friends.”
A letter from Brother E. H. Wilbur and wife, who left Iowa in September for China, appears in the Workers’ Bulletin, from which we take this extract: “October 6 we came on board the Empress of India, at Vancouver, British Columbia, and after a continuous voyage of fourteen days, during which we sailed 4,200 miles, we arrived at Yokohama, Japan, Monday morning, October 21. We encountered two hard storms at sea, but the Lord verified His promise, ‘When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.’ At Yokohama, Brother W. D. Burden came on board to meet the Drs. Lockwood, from the Portland Sanitarium, who will open up the medical work in Tokio, while we proceed to Hong Kong, China. Our address will be 3 Arsenal Street.”