OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 40.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

IN connection with the recent Maine camp-meeting, held at Augusta, fifteen persons were baptized.

Two more of our laborers in England, Brother Ellery Robinson and wife, have gone to India to augment the force in that far-away mission field.

The local camp-meeting at Sacramento, Cal., is in progress this week, and will close Sunday evening, the 11th inst. The ministers present are Elders A. J. Breed, N. C. McClure, E. E. Andross, and A. J. Osborne.

ELDER A. J. HAYSMER reports the baptism of five persons at Lucea, Jamaica. Arrangements are being made for securing property for church and school purposes at Kingston, the capital. A chapel has been erected at Spanish Town.

By a new law, which will be in operation January 1, in Germany, all our religious workers in that field under twenty-five years of age will be excluded. This will be a temporary disadvantage to the canvassing work, and to the selling of periodicals.

At the recent session of the New York Conference, held at Oswego Falls, three new churches were admitted: Albany, with nineteen members; Binghamton, with nineteen members, and Middletown, with twenty-two members. All the conference officers were reëlected.

At the publishing house in Hamburg, the message is being issued in thirteen different languages. Our ship missionary there was recently forbidden to continue his work, but through the mediation of influential friends a special permit was secured for carrying on the work.

ELDER A. J. BREED, superintendent of the Pacific Coast District, and Brother C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, started this week for Battle Creek, Mich., to attend a session of the General Conference Association. They expect to be absent some four or five weeks.

ELDER H. E. ROBINSON says that steps are being taken to prepare laborers in the Welsh language, and to enlarge our force in Ireland. Elder Washburn is to open the work in Cardiff, Wales, this autumn, and Elder Hope in Bristol, England. These are important points, in which but little has been done.

Reports from the Brazilian mission state that we now have four organized churches and nine Sabbath schools. At Curitiba, state of Parana, a brother named Guilherme Stein, a Brazilian German, has a private school of thirty-five pupils, which is giving good satisfaction. He is conversant with both the German and Portuguese languages. Many of his pupils, with their parents, also attend Sabbath school.

ELDER H. E. ROBINSON, who has charge of the work in Great Britain, notes the reception of a letter from a minister in an English town, stating that he and his company transferred their usual Sunday services to the Sabbath of the Lord, beginning September 12. They were anxious to become better acquainted with our people and work. They were convinced on the Sabbath question by reading our London paper, the Present Truth.

Brother Baharian reports to the Review the baptism of two converts in the Black Sea at Samsoun. The occasion greatly enraged the people of the Greek Church, to which the two candidates had formerly been united, but the enemy was unable to do any more at the time than to rave. Afterward, however, they succeeded in having Brother Jordan imprisoned. In order to please the Greeks, the pasha commanded our brother not to preach any more there, and to leave the city soon. Brother Jordan answered that he could not but preach the Gospel, and that he would not leave the city excepting by force. Then he was imprisoned. Brother Baharian, on hearing of the affair, called on the minister of police at Constantinople, who immediately sent an order to the pasha at Samsoun to release Brother Jordan, and also to allow the "Sabbatarians" to preach and to hold meetings freely. As heretofore noted, the minister of police at Constantinople is favorable to the "Sabbatarians," as our people are called, because they do not meddle with the political affairs of the country, as other Christians do.