OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 29.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

Six new members were added to the church at Newburg, W. Va., at the last quarterly meeting.

ELDER W. A. SWEANY reports the addition of four new members to the church at Wells, Minn.

DR. PAUL ROTH and wife and Brother Arnold Roth have gone to Europe to connect with the work in France and Switzerland.

AFTER an address by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, on the "Gospel of Health," at Willard Hall, Chicago, an invitation was extended to him to deliver a lecture at the same place once a month during the summer. The invitation was accepted.

ELDER J. W. WESTPHAL, who is engaged in work among the Germans, mentions the dedication of two houses of worship, one at Hillsboro, Kansas, and one at Cooper, O. T. These houses are adding to the influence of the cause in those communities. At Anvil, O. T., four were recently baptized and added to the church.

PROF. C. C. LEWIS, principal of Keene (Texas) Industrial Academy, informs us that that institution is prepared to give first-class instruction in the German language. A proficient knowledge of German is not merely an accomplishment, but it is a valuable aid in almost any calling in life, and especially to those who desire to enter the Gospel work. Prof. August Kunz, a native of Germany, and well known as an editor and translator, is the instructor.

THE laborer in the vineyard of the Lord may find many ways to introduce the Gospel. Any honest occupation which supplies what people need may be used as a means to this end. A case in point is the starting of a bakery in Charleston, S. C., by the wife of Elder I. E. Kimball, in order to give employment to several bakers who desired to keep the Sabbath, but could not do so where they were previously employed. The baking is done on health-reform principles, and is said to be "appreciated by many." Elder Kimball has been holding open-air meetings in one of the city parks.

FOLLOWING is an extract from a letter by Elder E. Hilliard, of Tonga, Friendly Islands, South Pacific Ocean. We copy from the Minnesota Worker: "We enjoy our island life very much, and have so much to do that we have but little time to think of America. I have a large yard, containing thirteen coconut trees, one tava tree, and four guava trees. By the help of the two native boys that we have taken into our family, I have set out forty-three banana plants, and intend to set out enough for 100. We have quite a fair garden this year, so that we raise about half or two-thirds of our living."

THE American Sentinel, the popular religious liberty journal, published in New York City, in addition to its usual store of timely instruction, is to have a department of "Religious Liberty for Young People," conducted by A. F. Ballenger, secretary of the International Religious Liberty Association. This is a good move. Now that extraordinary efforts are being made to educate the young people into the idea that religion should be enforced by civil law, that Christianity is merely religious politics, it is meet that they should receive special instruction in the line of true religious liberty, and the inevitable results of an incorporation of religious obligation in the policy of our national or State government.