p. 11 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 27, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 39.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A NEW house of worship is about completed at Stoughton, Wis.

A CHURCH of eleven members has been organized at Badger, Minn.

THE Wisconsin Tract Society has moved into new quarters, 577 Main Street, Fond du Lac.

FOUR persons have been added to our ranks at Gorham, N. Y., under the labors of Sister Lulu Wightman.

BROTHER D. C. BABCOCK has been re-elected president of Virginia Conference, and also of the state tract society.

BROTHER J. W. RAYMOND reports the organization of a church of twenty-eight members at Richburg, Allegany County, N. Y., on the 27th ult.

PROF. J. E. TENNEY, of the faculty of Battle Creek (Mich.) College, has been chosen to act as principal of the new academy at Woodland, Wis.

HEREAFTER the headquarters of the Polynesian, or South Sea Islands, work will be in Sydney, N. S. W., Australia. Brother E. H. Gates is in charge of this Polynesian Mission.

A REPORT of the local camp-meeting at Basin, Mont., in the Bivouac, says: "Eight souls were buried with their Lord in baptism. The healing power of the Lord was present, and souls were made free from infirmities."

AS A result of a few months of church school at Oakland, Wis., three adult persons have been led to accept the faith upon the principles of which the school is conducted. Through the influence of the school new life has been infused into the church.

AT the recent camp-meeting at Crawford, Neb., thirty-two candidates were baptized. This meeting was held to accommodate the brethren scattered through Northwestern Nebraska, the Black Hills, and Eastern Wyoming, and was fraught with a deep spiritual interest.

AT the tent in Baltimore, Md., after a recent discourse by Brother K. C. Russel, president of Chesapeake Conference, fourteen persons signified their intention to unite with those who "keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

ON the afternoon of the 9th inst., ten persons were baptized in the baptistry of the church in this city, by Brother C. M. Gardner. All these candidates united with the church in the neighboring city of Alameda, where Brother Gardner has been laboring the past three months.

THE Religious Liberty Association has issued another tract taken from the writings of Alexander Campbell against Sunday laws. It ought to have a wide circulation. It is No. 57 of the Religious Liberty Library, contains forty pages, and the price is 2 1/2 cents.

AT Darjeeling, India, Brother D. A. Robinson preaches every Sunday afternoon in the Alice Villa Hotel, and the Standard of that city publishes his discourses occasionally. The issue of August 1 contains a full-page lecture on the subject of immortality and the state of the dead.

AT the late session of the Missouri Conference, the following officers were elected: President, W. A. Hennig; secretary, L. W. Felter; treasurer, Missouri Tract Society. W. A. Hennig was also chosen president of the tract society, with James Cochran as secretary and treasurer. H. K. Willis was elected president of the state Sabbath-school association, and Jennie Nichols, secretary and treasurer. At this meeting forty-eight persons presented themselves for baptism.

AS THIS paper goes to press a teachers' institute is being held at Des Moines, Iowa. The object is to benefit those who contemplate teaching church schools in that conference. A notice in the Bulletin, referring to this institute, truly says: "We are living in the closing scenes of this world's history, and now, above all other times, should all unnecessary studies be weeded out, and only those things that are highly practical be taught." At this institute an outline of work will be planned for the coming year.