p. 14 | Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 24, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 42.

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Our Work and Workers

ELEVEN were recently baptized in the beautiful Kennebec River at Norridgewock, Maine.

SIXTEEN persons have been baptized at Jacksonville, Florida, and others will follow soon.

ELEVEN have been baptized in Confidence, Iowa, and vicinity, seven of whom were members of one family.

ELEVEN dear souls were buried in baptism recently at Blackberry, Minnesota, and eleven at Park Rapids.

TWELVE adults and six children are walking in the light of the truth as the result of an effort at Albany, Georgia.

THIRTEEN candidates went forward in baptism on the last Sabbath of the camp-meeting held at Shelbyville, Illinois.

SABBATH afternoon, September 9, the rite of baptism was administered in Lake Ontario to three candidates at Burt, New York.

B. F. KNEELAND, president of the New Jersey Conference, has accepted a call to the presidency of the West Pennsylvania Conference.

TWENTY-THREE recently received baptism at the Somabula Mission, South Africa, and six at Boschburg. These came out under great opposition.

AT the close of the girls' school which is conducted in Canton, China, by Misses Ida and Gertrude Thompson, five of the students received baptism.

SIX persons were recently baptized at Gravelford, Oregon, seven at Tillamook. Eight have taken their stand for the truth at Parkdale, and five at Redmond.

IN the Southern California Conference the past year 286 have been baptized and received into church fellowship. Eight new churches have been organized.

EIGHTEEN have been baptized at Hamilton, Ontario, and joined the church at that place, together with three others who were received on confession of faith.

W. J. STONE, president of the Indiana Conference, has been chosen president of the Virginia Conference, and H. H. Burkholder, of Ohio, president of the East Michigan Conference.

SIX have recently been baptized at Jena, Louisiana, and several more have commenced to obey the truth who it is believed will join later. A church has been organized at that place.

FIFTEEN have recently embraced the truth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, seven at Wilkesbarre, six at Harrisburg, and a Sabbath-school of sixteen members has been organized at Chambersburg.

OVER one hundred believers have been baptized in China during the last six months. A large number of these have accepted the truth wholly from reading literature which is sent out from the Chinese Press at Shanghai.

NINE candidates were baptized on Sabbath, September 9, at Park Rapids, Minnesota. Twelve have definitely taken their stand at Minneapolis, and nine at Blackduck, resulting from tent efforts conducted at these various places.

THREE in Morristown, Tennessee, have taken their stand for the truth, and many others are interested. Elder C. M. Kinney recently baptized four at Nashville. Several have been baptized at the Hillcrest School at Nashville.

BROTHER J. B. BECKNER, of Trinidad, British West Indies, writes that there is a good interest in Port of Spain. He baptized eight there recently, nine more at Guaico, and twelve at Aronca. Nine are waiting on the island of Saint Vincent.

BROTHER W. F. HILLS and wife sailed from San Francisco Wednesday, September 27, for China. They have been enabled to go to China through the liberality of a brother in Southern California, who offered to pay the transportation and support for one year of a man and his wife in China. Their help will be greatly appreciated by the workers in that needy field.

DURING the camp-meeting at Ladysmith, Wisconsin, eight souls were buried with their Lord in baptism. Two have recently been baptized at Portage, and others are interested; six have received baptism at Kenosha, five have commenced to obey at Ashland, and six at Spooner. At the camp-meeting at Ladysmith an ex-priest and his wife, a converted nun, accepted the truth.

DOCTORS D. H. and Lauretta Kress, who for several years have been connected with the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium, have connected with the work in California. Mrs. Kress will act as one of the instructors in the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists. Her husband will also engage in teaching in connection with the school, and in general medical work on the Pacific Coast. The daughter, Dr. Ora H. Kress, will connect with the medical faculty of the college.

BROTHER H. KUNIYA writes from Japan that there is an excellent interest in Kiosho, where tent meetings have been held during the summer. One gentleman, an idol-worshipper, has destroyed his gods, and is now happy in serving the true God. Another, a drunkard who happened in to one of the meetings, has ceased drinking, and other bad habits, and his wife is rejoicing over this fact, and has requested Bible readings. As a result of this effort, fifteen have accepted the truth.

BROTHER LUTHER WARREN recently baptized twenty-eight new converts in Portland, Oregon, and about twelve more will go forward in this ordinance soon. This is the result of the tent effort conducted there by Elder Warren during the last few weeks. Two more have been baptized into the Scandinavian church at that place, and several others are obedient. A church of twenty members has been organized at Silverton, five of whom have been recently baptized; and there are others who it is hoped will unite with the church soon. Three have been baptized at Salem.