OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A NEW house of worship is in course of construction at Jefferson, Mont.

ELDER J. F. BALLENGER reports seven additions to the company at London, Ont.

A SERIES of hall meetings was commenced in Alameda, Cal., on the 25th inst., by Elder H. H. Dexter.

ELDER E. A. MERRELL, of Philadelphia, reports the baptism of eight persons recently, and four subsequent candidates awaiting baptism.

A CANVASSERS' institute is in progress in Healdsburg, Cal. It will continue through the month of May, and is designed especially for the students of the college.

PROF. C. B. HUGHES, late president of the industrial school at Keene, Texas, sailed from San Francisco on the 29th ult. for Australia, where he will connect with the new school at Cooranbong, N. S. W. Prof. C. C. Lewis succeeds him at Keene.

THE brethren in Helena, Mont., are contemplating the establishment of a rescue home, where indigent and fallen women may be helped and started in a better life. So says Brother W. T. Henton, in the Bivouac. He also reports an addition of six to the church.

ELDER F. I. RICHARDSON reports the organization of a church of thirteen members at Mowbray, South Africa. This is the result of visiting and Bible readings, as he could not obtain a place in which to hold public meetings. Others were interested, and further additions were expected.

Of the work in Indiana, Elder J. W. Watt says:

"Halls, churches, and schoolhouses are open for us at present in large numbers. In view of this it was decided not to send out tents this summer, but to use these houses that are offered us. There will be three local camp-meetings and one general camp-meeting held in the State during the summer."

THE Review of April 20 contains an interesting picture of some of the instructors and pupils of our International School at Curitiba, Brazil. There are ninety-two pupils in the day school, and twenty-three students in the night school, besides some private students. The school was opened July 1, 1896, and is now under the supervision of Prof. Theo. Valintiner.

OUR missionaries in Tokyo, Japan, report encouragingly considering the time they have been in the country. They went there about six months ago. Brother Okohira gives Bible readings among former friends and acquaintances, while Brother Grainger is studying the language and reading the Bible with some English students. He is making good progress in the Japanese language, and expects to be able to converse in that tongue after a year's study. At last report he had learned five hundred words, and could "do something in written composition."

Of the industrial school for colored people near Huntsville, Ala., the superintendent, S. M. Jacobs, says:

"We have thirty students, ranging from 13 to 23 years of age. And if we were able to put up buildings to accommodate them, we could in a few days have fifty more. They are especially anxious to learn what the Bible says. I have often wished the youth and children of the north could come into our social meetings and see the earnestness manifested by those who have never had the privilege of schools. Can it be that many of these poor, ignorant people will be saved, and many of those who have had so much better advantages be lost?"

ON Sunday, April 4, five candidates were baptized at Lawton Springs, Nev., by Elder G. K. Owen. They subsequently united with the Reno church.