OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 47.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

UNDER the labors of Brother John S. and Sister Lulu Wightman, at Gas Springs, N. Y., twenty persons have accepted the truth, and a Sabbath school of twenty-two members has been organized.

AT Fruitland, Wash., after a discourse by Elder W. W. Steward on the subject of "The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast," eight persons arose and took their stand in behalf of the commandments of God.

PROF. W. W. PRESCOTT was expected to arrive in London, from South Africa, about the 23d inst.

THE work is about to be opened in Bristol, England, Elder Francis Hope to follow the work of Bible readers with public meetings.

AT the quarterly meeting held at Modale, Iowa, October 17 and 18, five members were added to the church, making a total of fifty-one.

TWO sisters who had been recently baptized by Elder H. G. Thurston in Tuolumne County, Cal., were admitted to membership in the church at Stockton, on the 14th inst.

ELEVEN persons were recently baptized in Plymouth, England. Laborers report that many are convinced of the truth who are held back by business, friends, and other worldly things.

ELDER C. P. BOLLMAN, who has been connected with the American Sentinel for many years, has been transferred to the Southern field, where he will engage in the religious liberty work, filling the position heretofore occupied by Bro. D. W. Reavis. Elder Alonzo T. Jones now has charge of the Sentinel.

ELDER WM. HUTCHINSON has erected a portable tabernacle at Portadown, Ireland. There are three towns within a distance of three miles of Portadown, and the tabernacle, which will seat 300 people, can be taken to these or any other places as may be desired. There are many places where it is difficult to secure halls for continuous meetings.

AFTER attending the N. S. W. Conference at Sydney, Elder and Mrs. E. W. Farnsworth are to go, about the last of this month, to New Zealand. After holding a couple of general meetings, they expect to start a series of tent meetings at Christ Church. When last heard from it was expected that Elder S. N. Haskell would also go to New Zealand for a while.

ELDER E. J. WAGGONER has returned to his post in London, after attending meetings and institutes on the continent for about seven months. He reports an excellent institute in Constantinople, tho, owing to the troubles there, the brethren from the provincial districts could not attend. He says that God has wonderfully wrought to protect the work and workers in Turkey.

WITH reference to the position of the Signs in our work, Elder A. O. Tait, secretary of the International Tract Society, makes this significant statement: "By statistics that we have carefully gathered, we find that the Signs of the Times is bringing more people into the truth than any other publication that we are circulating; and in view of this important fact, it is incumbent upon each one to do everything he can to increase the circulation of this paper."

ELDER L. R. CONRADI writes as follows to the Review, from Hamburg: "Our publishing house is busy preparing the truth in thirteen different tongues, and lately a call has been made to provide Turkish tracts for the Balkan states, as they can not be printed or circulated where the sultan holds sway; but there are good opportunities to carry on this work in Rumania and Bulgaria, where there are still many Turks. Several of our brethren in Germany have been fined and imprisoned for not sending their children to school on the Sabbath. One case has even gone to the higher court at Berlin. Others have secured release, in one case even in a state college, the boy, however, being the first in his class."