OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 49.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

Six new members were added to the church at Moravia, Iowa, on the 20th ult.

As a partial result of tent-meetings held at South Webster, Ohio, fourteen persons have taken their stand on the truths presented.

ON Monday, the 22d ult., a German church of eight members was organized at Sherwood, Defiance County, Ohio, by Elder S. S. Shrock.

FOUR persons have recently begun to observe the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of labor on the part of members of the church at Saginaw, Mich.

ELDER C. N. SANDERS reports the baptism of four persons at Mancelona, Mich., who have been keeping the commandments of God for three years as the result of Bible readings.

THE laborers in the work with the Signs of the Times in Toronto, Ont., report excellent success. They had about three hundred short-term subscriptions at last account, and the list was still increasing.

OUR Spanish paper, El Amigo de la Verdad, published at Guadalajara, Mexico, has entered upon its second volume. Monthly, 50 cents a year. It is a good missionary document to send to Spanish people, and ought to be well patronized by our people.

AT Macksburg, Iowa, November 19, Elder H. M. Richards baptized nine candidates, having the use of the Baptist Church baptistry for the occasion, and a large audience to witness the administration of the ordinance. A new church building is now under way.

ON Thanksgiving day the church in this city sent out seventy-five baskets of provisions and about two tons of coal to needy families. The blessings of such work are always mutual; yet the giver has somewhat the advantage, for "it is more blessed to give than to receive."

A SPECIAL course of ten weeks, commencing January 5, has been prepared at Union College, Nebraska, for workers in the field who feel the need of better preparation for their work, and for others who desire the privilege of such a course, in order to enter some department of the work.

MRS. M. C. KENYON, of Lansing, Mich., writes to Field Echoes: "We report for the Earnest Workers' Band at this place, twenty-seven members. Thirteen of these are working with the Signs of the Times. . . . We are hopeful that the effort will result in much good, not only to those outside of our circle, but to the spiritual good of the church."

BROTHER WARREN LATHAM, of Spokane, Wash., has "demonstrated that the papers [Signs of the Times] can be sold successfully, and a good living can be made from the papers, thus making one independent." But he has been called from this work to take charge of the Workingmen's Home in that city, and must needs give up the paper work as a specialty. Of the work to which he has been called, he writes, under date of November 24: "We had nearly 100 men sleeping on the floor of our reading-room Thursday night, and thirty-one to our five-cent dinner to-day."

A CONVENTION of conference presidents and physicians is held in Chicago, December 7 to 17, in the interests of city mission and Christian help work. Elder W. T. Knox and A. J. Sanderson, M.D., respectively president of California Conference, and physician-in-chief of the St. Helena Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, are in attendance from California.

THERE is a Christian Help Band at Marshalltown, Iowa, "only a few," so the report in the Workers' Bulletin says. They are evidently helpers indeed. In the past year they have sent two boxes to Chicago and one to the South, and have now sent one to the Haskell Home, at Battle Creek, Mich. This last box contains 35 new garments, 7 new quilts, and 15 partly-worn garments.

THIS, among other instances of rescue work in Cleveland, Ohio, is told in the Welcome Visitor: "One poor fellow was on his way to Lake Erie to end his miserable existence. He felt as tho he were forsaken of all. Passing by the mission and seeing a cheerful fire within, he came to the door, was welcomed as a brother, and saved. He testified in one of the meetings, with tears running down his cheeks, of the kindness and love shown him, and this had saved him from a watery grave."

THE "Special School Number" of the Christian Educator, published at Battle Creek, Mich., is replete with matter pertaining to our educational work. It contains forty pages, eight of which are of illustrations of our various denominational institutions, mostly educational. The Educator is filling an important place in our literature, not the least of which are the departments pertaining to home teaching. Its low price of forty cents a year is not to be compared with its true value in the family.

ELDER I. H. EVANS, president of the General Conference Association (the business arm of the General Conference), arrived in California on the 3d inst., and left for Texas on the evening of the 7th. He visited the sanitarium at St. Helena, the college at Healdsburg, and the publishing house here in Oakland. It was his first visit to the coast, and, altho he was on a flying tour, those who had the privilege of a personal meeting were glad to see him, and hope he will come again, and stay longer.

IN reporting to the Review his labors in the Caucasus, Elder H. P. Holser says: "It is in this field that in one of our companies both men and women were imprisoned two days for every time they attended Sabbath meeting. They were a large majority of the village, and among their men were all the strong ones physically; yet a small, weak minority could bring all this hardship upon them for more than a year. This illustrates the injustice that may be wrought by a few unprincipled men when the State makes laws concerning religion. Such laws discriminate against the righteous in favor of the wicked. But for some time these brethren have been left to meet undisturbed; and in general there is less persecution than formerly in the Caucasus; the enemy, having experienced that the truth has come to stay, has abated his fury. It was in this vicinity that the truth first entered among the Russians; and, tho the first man to embrace it was soon banished, the seed sown by him has continued to grow and multiply until there are now over a hundred Sabbath-keepers in this vicinity."