OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1906

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Nine new Sabbath-keepers at Olin, Iowa, is included in a report to the Bulletin by Brother E. G. Olsen.

Four young converts at Liberty Center, Ohio, and one adult at Defiance, are reported by Brethren W. E. Bidwell and John P. Gaede.

The address of C. H. Jones, Western Transportation Agent, is changed from Pacific Press to R. F. D. No. 18, Mountain View, Cal.

Twelve converts to the faith are reported in the Southwestern Union Record, by Brother M. H. Gregory, who has been laboring at Alpena Pass, Texas.

At Lorimor, Iowa, two sisters have responded to the call of the Spirit through the ministry of Brother E. W. Wolfe. Others are also much interested in the truths presented.

A general camp-meeting for Upper Columbia Conference will be held at Milton, Oregon, May 17–27. The president and vice-president of the General Conference are expected to be present.

In an article concerning our sanitarium at Madison, Wis., the Appleton Journal says: “Upwards of two thousand patients have received treatment in this institution, within the last two and one-half years, and a very large percentage have been permanently cured, and all have found relief who have gone there before it was too late.”

A letter from Brother W. J. Tanner, of Hayti, W. I., to friends in New Jersey, reports that his work is encouraging. He is making progress in the study of French. There are about fifty Sabbath-keepers there, all but three being natives of the island. Of fourteen he has baptized, twelve were from the Roman Catholic Church.

The employees of the Ingison Coal Mine, in North Dakota, have organized themselves into a tract and missionary society, with seventeen members. They also hold a Sabbath-school, and some other meetings that are attended by others than the members. They canvass some other towns in the vicinity, and have distributed thousands of “Signs of the Times Leaflets” the past winter.

The Nebraska Reporter gives some extracts of a letter from Brother J. H. Evans, treasurer of the General Conference, from which we take the following: “Our missionaries from all the distant lands report souls continually coming into the truth. In Mexico, where we have labored for so many years with apparently but meager returns in the souls of men, God has greatly blessed the efforts of our brethren the past year, and given us quite a goodly number of sincere, earnest people, who have given themselves to the message. In China, Japan, and Africa, in fact all over the wide harvest field, there seems to be no limit to the number of souls that could be brought into the truth had we only the men to place in these respective fields.”

The happy faculty of saying just enough was recently illustrated in Canton, China. Writing to the students of Elk Point, S. D., Industrial School, Brother E. H. Wilbur says: “I wish some of you young men could have been here the past two weeks to help us sell our new Sabbath calendars in Chinese. Yes, you could really have helped to sell calendars without knowing how to talk Chinese. Brother R. A. Caldwell, a canvasser from Singapore, was out with us two days and sold as many as any of us, tho all the Chinese he knew was what we taught him to say, ‘Yeet fun pie yat ko seen yat cheung’ (Monthly calendar, one cent for one piece). In the past ten days, by the Lord’s help, I have sold over 1,100 copies in the streets of Canton. Our streets don’t look like the streets of Elk Point, nor like the streets of Sioux City. Here the streets are not usually more than four to six feet wide.” This letter was dated January 25, and says: “About two months ago we organized our Chinese Sabbath-school with Dr. Law Keem as superintendent. We had seven classes and about forty members. . . . Mrs. Wilbur and I have now been in China a little over three years, and I should be very sorry if for any reason we should be obliged to leave this needy field.”