Our Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 27, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 25.

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Our Work and Workers

By Editor

FOURTEEN have been added to the believers at Jena, Alabama.

SEVEN were baptized and added to the church at Newburg, New York, on May 21.

MAY 27 six were baptized at Eagle Grove, Iowa, and two have been added to the church at Council Bluff.

BAPTISMAL services were held in connection with the dedication of our church at Portland, Maine, on May 27.

BROTHER STUREMAN reports eight who have recently been baptized and united with the church at Peoria, Illinois.

NINE persons were added to the church at Ridgefield, Washington, as the result of the meetings that closed there on May 17.

ON May 27 the brethren at Toronto, Ontario, opened their new church building for service at the corner of Bloor and Dufferin Streets.

OUR new meeting-house at Park Rapids, Minnesota, has recently been dedicated, at which time three were baptized and added to the church.

OUR new meeting-house at Grove, Kentucky, was dedicated on June 24. A Sabbath-school and Young People's Missionary Volunteer convention was held at the same time.

PLANS are being made by the brethren at Morrill, Texas, for a new church and school building; and five have taken their stand with the believers at Goodcreek, Texas.

ON May 28 our meeting-house at Lents, Oregon, was dedicated. Just previous to that date four were baptized; and eleven others who had been previously baptized were added to the church.

PASTOR C. M. GARDNER reports that he has baptized five into the church at Reno, Nevada. The interest in the work at Reno and Fallon is good, and he hopes for still further results.

BROTHER A. N. ALLEN sends the interesting word from the mission in which he is laboring in Peru that thus far during this year thirty-four converts have been baptized, fifteen of these being from the Inca Indians.

PASTOR W. W. SHARP reports, "I have recently baptized fifteen" at Seattle, Washington. This makes about one hundred that have been added to that church by baptism during his pastorate of five years in that place.

ON May 28 Pastor Morris Lukens baptized eleven at Hartford City, Indiana. This makes thirty-five that have been baptized and united with this church during the last five months. A few days earlier in May, in connection with the closing exercises of the Beechwood Academy, Pastor Lukens baptized three others.

PASTOR JOEL C. ROGERS reports that on March 4 he baptized twenty-five natives who had accepted the faith through the work in the Malamulo Mission, in South Africa; and on March 11 he went to the Monekera Mission, where he baptized twenty-five more. At Richmond, Orange Free State, Africa, Brother Tarr baptized five on March 4. The reports that are coming from all the workers in that field are very encouraging.

TEN were baptized at the recent camp-meeting held at Tulare, California; Elder Taggart baptized twelve at Farmington, California; four have recently accepted the faith in San Francisco; twenty-four have been added to the company of believers in Pepperwood, California; sixteen have joined with us in the observance of the Bible Sabbath at Cottonwood, California; and a church has been organized at Holtville, California.

As the result of a special effort with a tent in Wellington, Queensland, Australia, twenty-two have been added to the number of believers there, and plans are under way for the erection of a meeting-house. Four have been added to the church at Mt. Gambier, a good interest and baptism are reported from Penola, seven are awaiting baptism in the vicinity of Rockhampton, and twenty-one persons were baptized at the close of the camp-meeting at Petone, all in Queensland.