OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 40.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Elder W. H. Thurston says of the cause in Brazil: “We now have five churches and four companies, with a total membership of 251, and sixteen Sabbath-schools, with a membership of nearly 500.”

At Villisca, Iowa, Brethren B. E. Nicola and E. E. Gardner recently closed a series of meetings with twelve additions to the “little flock” who adhere to the keeping of the “commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”

Elder W. T. Knox, president of California Conference, has located his family in Oakland, which will hereafter be his headquarters, altho he aims to visit every church in California and Nevada during the conference year. His permanent P. O. address is 1059 Castro Street.

At Wakopa, Manitoba, August 21, Elder A. C. Bourdeau baptized nine persons, and as many more were to be baptized in a short time afterward.

Elder B. F. Purdham reports that ten have been convinced that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, in connection with meetings held at Norwood, N. C.

At Artichoke, Minn., twenty persons were baptized recently in the lake near that place, by Elder Stone, in the presence of a very large concourse of people.

Elder Geo. H. Smith reports the organization of three new churches in his district in Nebraska,—at Milburn, Mason, and Arcadia,—total membership about sixty.

At the recent camp-meeting held at Colorado Springs, Colo., Brethren W. W. Hills, B. W. Marsh, E. H. Curtis, and Jacob Kraft were ordained to the Gospel ministry.

The Maine Tract Society has been making a good record. The annual report in 1894 showed an indebtedness of $1,185.82. The report presented at the meeting a few weeks ago showed that this debt had been reduced to $314.89.

Elder J. M. Huguley reports the addition of twenty-four members to the church at Dallas, Texas. In his meetings there he was favored by the Dallas News with liberal reports of his discourses.

The following named persons have been chosen as officers of the Illinois Conference: President, N. H. Lane; vice-president, W. D. Curtis; secretary, Walter Foreman; treasurer, Illinois Tract Society.

A Sabbath-school of thirty members has been organized at Bolivar, N. Y., with the design of organizing a church at an early date. These were mostly Sabbath-keepers who were living within reach of that place, but unorganized.

The following named officers of the Missouri Conference were elected at the recent session held in connection with the camp-meeting at Clinton: President, W. A. Henning; secretary, James Cochran; treasurer, W. V. Tovey.

At a meeting of the Texas Tract Society in August, the following resolution was passed: “Resolved, That we encourage our people everywhere judiciously to engage in the work of distributing our literature; first, by systematically canvassing for our books; second, by canvassing for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and, third, by selling, loaning, and giving away tracts.”

At the late session of the West Virginia Conference it was resolved to request all in the conference to manifest their interest in the circulation of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The Monitor says that “Elder Underwood related interesting experiences of our sisters working in the saloons in Pittsburgh on Saturday nights selling the SIGNS. All our cities need such work.” The principal conference officers are: President, Geo. B. Thompson; secretary, T. E. Bowen; treasurer, B. B. Johnson.

From the report of Elder E. W. Farnsworth, president of the New Zealand Conference, in the Review, we learn of the vast importance of our periodicals, and the great good that may be done with them by men, women, and children. At Dunedin, a city in the South Island, “one sister, with the assistance of a young girl, is selling each week 575 copies of the Bible Echo, our Australian paper. As a result a deep interest is springing up.” He also states that “two sisters in Wellington are selling 430 copies of the Echo weekly, and quite an extended interest is springing up as the result of this work.” Wellington is in the North Island. A further statement is: “In the city of Westport, situated on the west coast of this [South] Island, some families secured some of our publications, and began keeping the Sabbath. Ten persons embraced the truth in this way. Brother W. M. Crothers then visited them, when eight more embraced the truth and were baptized.” Mention is also made of ten converts under the labors of Elder David Steed.