OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 13, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 19.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

Six converts are reported at Beverly, Kansas, as a result of the labors of Bro. E. A. Morey.

THREE members added to the church at Emporia, Kansas, April 18, is the report of Elder W. S. Hyatt.

BROTHER A. E. FIELD reports fourteen converts in meetings held in a schoolhouse near Spring Hill, Kansas.

APRIL 18 a church of nineteen members was organized at Miltonvale, Kansas, by Elder W. W. Stebbins.

ELDER R. M. KILGORE has entered upon his duties as superintendent of General Conference District No. 5, with headquarters at No. 18 W. Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo.

A SISTER over 107 years old recently united with the church at Topeka, Kansas. She retains clearness of mind, altho her hearing is somewhat defective. She attended meetings all day on Sabbath, April 10.

AT the recent quarterly meeting of the church at Graysville, Tenn., six members were added to the church. Seven were baptized, all but one being students of the academy at that place. There were present Elders G. A. Irwin, N. W. Allee, and R. M. Kilgore, all of the General Conference Committee. The meeting-house of this church is to be enlarged to more than double its present capacity.

A CHURCH of twenty-five members was organized at Morgan Hill, Cal., on the 24th ult., by Elder E. E. Andross. This company is the result partly of brethren moving in from other localities, and partly of the labors of Brother J. G. Smith. A new house of worship is already under way, and nearing completion. Elder Andross also visited San Jose on the 1st inst., and baptized six persons, five of whom had previously been admitted to the church, subject to baptism.

FROM the recent State meeting in Ohio there went out forty canvassers, about thirty of whom expect to devote their entire time to the work.

DURING two visits to Con Cow, Cal., one in March and one in April, Elder H. F. Courter baptized ten converts. These, with two others, were added to the church.

HEADQUARTERS of the Southern Tract Society have been removed from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga., 243 South Boulevard. Edgar Allee has been appointed secretary.

CANVASSERS in Jacksonville, Fla., a city of 35,000 inhabitants, report that they have placed an average of one book to every six families. They have also organized a Sabbath-school among the colored children.

ELDER WM. HUTCHINSON recently began work in Lurgan, Ireland, amid great prejudice, finding it difficult even to secure ground on which to erect a tabernacle building. And even after securing a lot, the owner was so deluged with false reports that he tried to retract the permission. At last report, however, this prejudice was giving away, and there was a fair attendance.

IN the Review of April 27, Elder J. N. Loughborough makes this statement: "At the last General Conference, I was released from district and local work, that I might be free to go and bear my testimony of the rise of the cause, etc., wherever the providence of God may indicate, and such labor be called for. . . . The forepart of the summer I expect to be in district No. 4, as shall be arranged by the superintendent of the district."

THAT the lines are being drawn on the people who "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus," was recently demonstrated in the vicinity of Oxford Mills, Iowa. There is a "union church building, erected for the use of all denominations," to which Adventists were contributors. The deed contains a clause stating that the church is for the use of any Christian denomination, without hindrance or objection, when not used by those to whom it is deeded. But when a Seventh-day Adventist minister wanted to use it, objection was made on the ground that the minister was "not a Christian," and the Adventists "not a Christian people." This is in harmony with the words of the Master. "Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake." The casting out in this instance was done in the name of Christianity, but the blind people who do such things do not realize that the rejection of the people who stand on the Word of God is the rejection of the Lord himself. This thrust at the Seventh-day Adventists is designed as a thrust at the law of God, of which Christ himself said, "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." And the apostle Paul says that God's purpose in "sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh" was "that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." It must not be supposed, however, that the brethren who were shut out of the "union church" gave up in despair, or were permanently hindered in their work. No, they have secured another place, and fitted it up for themselves.

ELDER C. A. HALL writes as follows to the Kansas Worker, concerning his new field of labor, Jamaica Island:—

"The past few months have brought many changes to us, both in our homes and in our labors and experiences. At present, my children are living in a cottage of our own in the northwestern portion of the island, twenty miles from the ocean, and over a thousand feet above it. The boys have a couple of acres of land, which they are digging and planting to tropical fruits and vegetables, among which are one hundred bananas and plantains, one hundred pineapples, and seventy-five orange trees, besides coconuts, breadfruit, yams, cocos, sweet potatoes, etc. All are enjoying good health and are becoming attached to their mountain home. Hattie opens a school today in our home, which will be an uncommon mixture of age and condition. The school starts out with the following pupils: Our three boys, an orphan boy that we have taken in, a girl whose parents wish to give us, and a girl whose parents desire us to take into our family to board and teach. These are of all shades. There are others to come in later. We expect to gather up more of the homeless orphans that are growing up in ignorance and crime, and try to save them for the kingdom of God. We have tried to interest our friends in America in behalf of these, but so far without success; so we will gather what we can feed and clothe, trusting in God for grace to train them in such a way that they may shine among the jewels in his kingdom. I go to the interior soon, to begin work with my tent again. The message is onward in this island. On every hand there are calls and entreaties for us to come and teach them the truth, and in every place where labor is bestowed there are honest ones who receive it. Our permanent address is Catadupa, Jamaica."