OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 25, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 43.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

At the recent camp-meeting at Allentown, Pa., twenty-one persons were baptized.

ON the 16th ult. two candidates were baptized at Cheswold, Del., making twelve at that place in about ten weeks’ time.

FROM the Keystone Gleaner we learn that the church school at Williamsport, Pa., has commenced its first term with very encouraging prospects.

SUNDAY evening, the 1st inst., Brother A. E. Place, president of Atlantic Conference, began a series of doctrinal discourses in Brooklyn, N. Y.

IOWA CONFERENCE is coming to the front in the matter of church schools. The Bulletin of the 3d inst. notes four—at Des Moines, Grant City, Iowa City, Sandyville.

WE note with gratitude the success of the brethren in Belfast, Ireland, in selling our London contemporary, the Present Truth. One brother recently reported a sale of 120 copies in one day.

BROTHER J. G. SMITH says that the success of the church school at Swank Prairie, Wash., shows the hand of God guiding His people. He also notes the addition of eight souls to the North Yakima church, by baptism.

IT was resolved at the late session of Nebraska Conference to select a suitable person for some foreign mission field, pay his transportation, and support him from the conference treasury—the field of labor to be selected by the Foreign Mission Board.

THE brethren in Washington, D. C., have commenced a church school, and Brother K. C. Russell notes that they have now four such schools in the Chesapeake Conference, with a prospect for others. Two persons were baptized in Washington on the 23d ult.

AT the recent session of Nebraska Conference, officers were elected as follows: President, N. P. Nelson; secretary and treasurer, J. F. Beatty; executive committee, N. P. Nelson, George M. Brown, G. A. Kirkle, A. S. Baird, G. Mathiesen; missionary secretary, Mary F. Beatty; missionary agent, O. E. Cummings.

A HEALTH food factory is to be established near Redhill, Surrey, England, about twenty-three miles from London, where a complete plant already installed for milling purposes, including water-power, with auxiliary steam-power, has now been secured. Within half a mile of this plant Drs. Kress have secured a large house, where they can receive patients and also continue the work of training nurses.

CONCERNING the World’s Harvest number of the SIGNS, Brother J. W. Westphal, president of Kansas Conference, writes: "I am sure that this is an important move. Much more should be done for this important paper, the SIGNS, than has yet been done. We will do what we can for it in this State. I think that there are greater possibilities before us than there were last year. Our last year’s experience in this matter will help us in this."

"The cities are teeming with iniquity. Satan suggests that it is impossible to do any good within their borders, and so they are sadly neglected. But there are lost pearls there whose value you can not realize until you earnestly seek to find them. There might be one hundred where there is but one, seeking diligently, prayerfully, and with intense interest, to find the pearls that are buried in the rubbish of these cities." Is this testimony true? If it is—and who will say that it is not?—then is it expecting too much to count on at least a score of workers in each of our larger cities who will spend at least two weeks in selling the World’s Harvest number of the SIGNS, the pioneer of the important work above noted?