Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

Our Work and Workers

SUBSEQUENT to a successful tent effort at Martinsburg, West Virginia, baptism was administered to six souls.

AT the Eastern Pennsylvania camp-meeting twenty-three persons were baptized, and several others chose to be baptized at their home churches. Five at Pittsburg have received baptism, and five at Butler have embraced the message.

FIVE persons have been added to the Swedish church at Jersey City, New Jersey, by baptism. This rite has been administered to five at Rockaway, and three others who were prevented at this time will go forward later. Twenty-three were baptized at the camp-meeting.

ON a recent Sabbath six persons at Huntsville, Alabama, were buried in baptism, four at Elkwood, seven at Sylacauga, at Dothan six, at Pensacola four, and at Cool Springs six, where a church of ten members has been organized. Five have been added to the Oak Level church, and three at Montgomery have taken their stand to obey the truth.

AT two places in Korea churches have been organized, one with a membership of eleven, and the other of fourteen. At each of these places others are preparing for baptism, and it is anticipated that before the end of the year each company will have increased their membership to twenty or more. Three other companies are nearly ready for organization.

THE ordinance of baptism was administered to seven persons at Port Huron, Michigan, on a recent Sabbath, fourteen at Detroit, three at Lansing, ten at Oxford, six at Byron Center, three at Homer, eleven at Berrien Springs, two at Muskegon, where two more are obeying the truth, three at Denver, four at Lakeview, sixteen at Jackson, and four at Sandusky.

A NEW German church with twenty-six members has been organized at Alhambra, California, and others will join later. A church for the colored people in Los Angeles has recently been dedicated, and eleven persons have received baptism. Sixteen have been baptized at Turlock, three at Lodi, and subsequent to the Santa Rosa camp-meeting, fifty-five persons received this rite. Six new converts are reported at San Jacinto, six at Hemet, and twelve at San Bernardino. A church of twenty-nine members has been organized at Lindsay, another at Anaheim with a membership of twenty-two, and a Sabbath-school of about forty at Elmhurst.

SUBSEQUENT to the Alberta, Canada, camp-meeting twelve persons were baptized, and others were baptized later at their home churches; four were baptized at the Quebec meeting; thirteen at the Canadian Union Conference meeting; twelve at Hamilton, Ontario; thirteen at Harvey, New Brunswick; fourteen at Waldheim, Saskatchewan; and nine at Kamloops, British Columbia. The conversion of seventeen individuals at Napanee, Ontario, is reported; six at Petrolia; five at Arthur; and seven at Toronto. A church of thirteen members was organized at Nanaimo, British Columbia, and another of fourteen members at Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

THE rite of baptism has been administered to fifteen at Charleston, Illinois. Three at Chatham and three at Rockford have espoused the message. Report comes of a peculiarly interesting incident in Chicago, where a company of truth seekers were meeting weekly near Lincoln Park, were paying tithe, obeying all the commandments, and were strict health reformers. They had received no instruction from Seventh-day Adventists on these lines, but welcomed all the light which was revealed to them. This company is composed of educated people, some of them being prominent teachers in Chicago schools. They are able to speak and teach in several languages, and doubtless God has called them out to assist in proclaiming this closing message to the world.

AT Lassater, Texas, a church of nine members has been organized, and another of twelve at Jefferson, where three went forward in baptism. Ten have been added to the Oplin church, twenty to the church at Dallas, and three to the little company at Houston, Texas. Four have accepted the truth at Corsicana, two of whom have been baptized, and eleven were baptized at the South Texas camp-meeting.