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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 29, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 17.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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At Howard, Colo., twenty-one persons have accepted the Sabbath truth as presented by Brother B. W. Marsh.
The California State camp-meeting has been definitely set for June 3-13. It will be held at Bushrod Park, Oakland.
Tent-meetings in the interest of the colored people are being held in Louisville, Ky., by Elders Lewis Sheafe and J. R. Buster.
Elder J. G. Wood reports the addition of eight to the church in Cincinnati, and five to the church at Columbus, Ohio, within the past two months.
A new house of worship was dedicated at Binghamton, N. Y., on the 25th inst. Elders A. E. Place, S. M. Cobb, and other ministers were present.
Elder D. T. Bourdeau reports that an ex-priest of the Catholic Church, a professor of six languages, desires to be baptized and to prepare for labor amongst our people.
A missionary in Africa, not of our people, writes to the secretary of the Ohio Tract Society, asking for more copies of Our Little Friend, our denominational child's paper.
Elder G. H. Baber reports the baptism of twenty-five persons on a recent tour of five different points in Chile. Of the little church at Santiago he says, "Five can, and often do, preach the Gospel with fluency."
The Texas Reporter states that at Rockwell, in that State, a company of nine Sabbath-keepers were awaiting the arrival of Elder McReynolds to organize a church. There was a Sabbath-school of eighteen members.
From a Sabbath-school organized some four months ago at Aurora Springs, Mo., by Brother Edwin S. Richardson, thirteen have embraced the Sabbath of the Lord. Arrangements have been made for a series of tent-meetings.
On account of the transfer of Prof. E. A. Sutherland from Walla Walla College to Battle Creek, Mich., Prof. E. J. Hibbard, of Battle Creek, will fill the vacancy at Walla Walla the remainder of the term. Other changes of laborers are noted in the Review as follows: Elder H. L. Hoover, of Missouri, goes to New Mexico; Elder Luther Warren from Dakota to Upper Columbia Conference; Elder George B. Wheeler from Massachusetts to Washington, D. C.; Elder M. G. Huffman from Maine to Tennessee River Conference; Elder W. B. White from Nebraska to Indiana; Elder H. E. Robinson from England to Nebraska; Elder J. B. Goodrich from Quebec to Maine Conference; and Prof. J. L. Shaw and wife from Union College to Claremont, South Africa.Elder R. D. Hottel writes from Birmingham, Ala., that the Odd Fellows' Hall has been secured for Sabbath and Sunday night services. He says that the interest on Sunday evenings has been increasing for several weeks, and that the Signs is doing much to interest the people.
Brother T. D. Brackett reports the personal sale of 1,760 Signs in San Francisco in sixteen weeks, an average of 110 copies per week. What one man has done, others might do. Many people are perishing for want of the truth contained in the paper, and at the same time they "spend money for that which is not bread," and "labor for that which satisfieth not."
The new term of the Walla Walla College School of Correspondence will open June 1, 1897. A new line of work, viz., psychology, will be offered in addition to the other studies. Those desiring circular of school will please address Walla Walla College School of Correspondence, College Place, Wash. Inclose stamp for reply. Professor Hibbard, president of the college, says: "Besides having students in nearly every State in the Union, we have several in the West India Islands, and one in Cape Town, S. Africa."
One of our laborers in South Hackney, Eng., recently came across a young German who seemed to be somewhat interested in the Sabbath question. On further conversation, our brother learned that the young man had once lived in the United States, and had heard the truth on the subject from a young minister in California. He had embraced it, but, having lost a situation by his change of views, he became discouraged and gave it up. But he had not been happy, and was rejoiced to again meet one who held to the truth.
Prof. G. W. Caviness, late president of Battle Creek College, goes to Mexico to connect with the Spanish work, and is to represent the Seventh-day Adventist denomination on the Bible Revision Committee in that country. It seems that the only Spanish Bible in use there by both Papists and Protestants is a Roman Catholic translation, and very defective. Hence the movement for a new translation by a committee of all the Protestant missionary societies operating in Mexico. Brother M. E. Olsen, late secretary of the International Tract Society, also goes to Mexico to engage in the Spanish work.
At Lockport, N. Y., recently, a Presbyterian minister paid a visit to Elder A. E. Place, president of New York Conference, and, after some general conversation, asked for a Bible reading on the Sabbath question. They studied the subject about two hours in a most friendly spirit, and at the close the visitor said he would study the subject further, and added: "I am glad I have had this talk with you, if for no other reason than that I see I have had a wrong idea as to the real teaching of your people." There are a great many ministers and others who entertain wrong ideas of our teaching, and persistently misrepresent us, who have not the honesty to sit down and learn what our positions are.
A report from Boise, Idaho, to the Reaper, by Prof. F. W. Hiddleson, says: "We are just finishing a six months' term of school. We have enrolled twenty-eight pupils. . . . I have had not only the school work but the church work to look after. I have preached from two to seven sermons a week, and watched very closely the trend of legislation in the State house. We had the satisfaction of seeing two Sunday bills defeated, and of doing some work among many of the prominent men of the State. Several of the legislative body attended our Sunday evening meetings, and the governor was also present upon two occasions. Last Sabbath [6th inst.] six were buried with Christ in baptism, and there are several others that will join us on profession very soon, as well as several more to be baptized soon."
The latest news from our mission in Matabeleland, Africa, is that some relief from the dreadful outlook had been received. The government made a donation of some corn to help our brethren feed the children under their care. But they had come to the time when their supply of food was all eaten for breakfast, and they knew not where the next meal would come from. They assured the children that it would come from some source, and sure enough it did. Just as this allowance of corn was consumed, a donation of $117 came from the brethren at Cape Town. And so the Lord provides for his own. "Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." But we should all remember that God sends assistance to the needy through human agencies; he makes drafts that are his Holy Spirit upon the stewards of his means in the earth. Elder Frank Armitage and wife, of Nebraska, have been assigned as additional laborers at the Matabeleland Mission.