OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

ELDER A. J. BREED, superintendent of General Conference District No. 6, arrived in this city on the 13th inst.

THE Bulletin notes the dedication of a new house of worship at Bladensburg, Iowa, on the 18th inst., Elder C. A. Washburn officiating.

EIGHT new members were added to the church in San Jose, Cal., in connection with the quarterly meeting services on the 10th inst.

AT Brittain, Iowa, a Sabbath-school of twenty-three members was recently established in connection with meetings held by Elder H. M. J. Richards.

IN Cardiff, Wales, Elder J. S. Washburn and company have changed their meeting place to the largest hall in the city, and their contributions more than pay the rent.

WITH the arrival in Calcutta of Dr. O. G. Place and wife, Brother Edwards and wife, Miss Whiteis, and Miss Green, preparations are being made for medical work in that city.

OUR girls’ school in Calcutta is reported as doing well, and numbers seventy pupils. The Hindus in other neighborhoods are asking that schools be established for their accommodation.

A BOX of books and tracts has been sent to the island of Tristan d’Acunha, southeast of St. Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. This island is a kind of hermitage, containing some threescore people, who get mails from the outside world about once a year, more or less, by means of British naval vessels. The population has grown up from shipwrecked sailors and other stray people. The island belongs to Great Britain.

A LETTER signed by Bernard Schuer states that a Seventh-day Adventist minister is wanted to hold meetings in Regina, Jefferson Co., Mo. There is one family of believers, and a good opening.

AT Collins Center, N. Y., recently, Elder W. A. Westworth spoke on a Sunday forenoon in the M. E. Church, by invitation of the pastor. In return many of the congregation attended Brother W.’s meetings in the afternoon and evening.

WE learn from the Review that “Elder J. O. Corliss has gone to Chicago, by special invitation, to give a series of discourses on the subject of the prophecies and the Sabbath, in Willard Hall, of the Woman’s Temple.” This is the W. C. T. U. Building.

OF the Religious Liberty Library, No. 46, the pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Lynn, Mass., says: “Having carefully read your brochure on ‘Baptist Principles of Religious Liberty,’ I can but wish that every preacher in the land would read the same. It is a true note at the right time.”

ELDER D. T. Fero reports as follows of the work at Ashland, Oregon: “Six have begun Sabbath observance during the meeting. Five others have been added who were keeping the Sabbath, but never were members of the church; three of these by baptism. Three more were added by letter, making eight in all, with six prospective ones.” He also reports substantial improvements in the church building, and “the cause is onward.”

“It is possible,” says the Indicator, “that Brother F. H. Hicks, of Salamanca, N. Y., who for some time has held a very responsible position with the Erie Railroad, will be promoted to a higher position and located in New York City. He has been true to the Sabbath of the Lord, and all the officials of the road know that he keeps it, and the only conditions on which he would listen to the proposition of the promotion was that he should still be left free to hold to his faith and live it in his life.”

OF the work in Christchurch, N. Z., Sister Vesta J. Farnsworth writes, under date of March 16: “We are about to begin the erection of a meeting-house. Usually we wait till we have a church organized before such an enterprise is entered upon, but here it seems best to build first. We have had some precious victories in the work in this city, and expect the Lord to gather out a people who will be an honor to his name. We are having about one hundred children now at our children’s meetings, and they seem deeply interested.”