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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 5.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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WORK has been commenced on a new sanitarium at Des Moines, Iowa.
A COMPANY of twelve persons is a partial result of labor by Brother C. C. Webster at Richmond, Ohio.
FOR the year 1898 the increase in church membership in Wisconsin Conference was 265, making a total of 3,080.
AT Miltonvale, Kansas, under the labors of Brother I. A. Crane, six persons have begun the observance of the Lord's Sabbath.
AS A result of labor by Brother W. H. Granger, at Deshler, Ohio, a Sabbath-school of about thirty members has been organized.
AT Lane, Neb., seven adults and six children have taken their stand on the Lord's side as a result of labor by Brother F. A. Dewolf.
A FEW meetings held at Kickapoo, Wis., by Brother W. S. Shreve, have resulted in five young people making a start for the kingdom of God.
DECEMBER 25 a new house of worship was dedicated at Eureka, Wis., Brother Wm. Covert officiating. A church school is in progress at this place.
THE new church edifice at Dexter, Minn., was dedicated December 25, free from debt. The services were conducted by Brother Daniel Nettleton.
A REPORT in the Recorder notes encouraging progress in the mission at Peoria, Ill., and the addition of seven members to the church in that city.
AS A result of meetings held at Wayne City, Ill., Brother Charles Thompson reports twelve persons deeply interested in the truths presented from the Word.
THE mission in Buffalo, N. Y., is pressed to the full extent of its capacity in caring for the unfortunate victims of poverty and vice with which all large cities abound.
FROM the Reaper we learn that a lot of first-class machinery for the Walla Walla College bakery is on the ground, ready to be placed in position and set to work.
AT the quarterly meeting of the church in Harrisburg, Pa., held January 7, thirteen new members were added. Brother W. H. Smith has charge of the work there.
SIX persons were recently baptized at Spokane, Wash., by Brother G. W. Reaser, president of the conference. He reports that both the church and mission work in that city are in a "very encouraging condition."
AT Holdrege, Neb., a Sabbath-school of eighteen members has been organized, and cottage meetings are being held with encouraging success. Brethren F. Anderson, A. J. Howard, and Daniel Mauk are laboring there.
WORD comes from the Orient that Brother Baharian is holding two schools this winter—one in Turkey and one in Syria. Also that two Armenians, one from Constantinople and the other from Egypt, will go to Basel, Switzerland, to fit themselves for the work.
MEETINGS held in Chickering Hall, New York City, on Sunday evenings, under direction of Brother E. E. Franke, are drawing large audiences. On the opening night the main floor and gallery were both well filled, and the next Sunday night (January 15) they were crowded.
"MRS. ROSE DANN, of Omaha, has been meeting with excellent success in selling the special number of the SIGNS. On a recent week's trip in Iowa she sold 415 of the special SIGNS and 125 of the regular issue. We have also received some encouraging reports from others engaged in the work." So says the Reporter.
MRS. E. G. WHITE, now in New South Wales, strikes the key-note of woman's work for the Master, in the following practical utterance: "There certainly should be a larger number of women engaged in the work of ministering to suffering humanity, uplifting, and educating them how to believe—simply believe—in Jesus Christ our Saviour."
IN the Kansas Worker we note a report from Brother C. A. Hall to the effect that 144 persons have been received into church membership in Jamaica, and over 200 have covenanted to keep the commandments of God. Brother Hall has a native to assist him in visiting. His present address is Greenvale, Mile Gully P. O., Jamaica.
A LETTER from Brother E. Hilliard, who writes from Tonga, Friendly Islands, to the Minnesota Worker, says their last Sabbath-school report showed a membership of thirty-two. "The memory verse is duplicated on a typewriter in the English and Tongan languages, and given to each pupil to commit to memory during the week. At the close of last quarter one of the teachers had the children recite in concert all the memory verses of the past two quarters."
BESSIE F. STOWELL reports to the Review that "the church school opened in Toledo [Ohio] with six pupils; now, at the end of two and one-half months, it has nineteen, and more are expected.
For our manual training work we pieced a quilt for the mission that is just being started in Toledo. The children are young, all being under fourteen; but they did nearly every stitch, even the tying and finishing. The day we tied the quilt, a hygienic dinner was prepared for the children, to which they did ample justice."