p. 12 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 26.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

BROTHER J. R. McCoy, of Pitcairn Island, is now acting as ship missionary at San Francisco.

ELDER W. W. PRESCOTT will attend the camp-meetings at Berne, Switzerland, and at Berlin, Germany.

Six candidates were recently baptized at Alamosa, Colo., as a result of labor by Elders G. W. Anglebarger and C. P. Frederickson.

MAY 29 there were six and June 5 there were eight persons baptized at Durango, Colo., and church officers of the church were chosen and ordained.

OUR Foreign Mission Board is now located at 1730 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia. Elder Allen Moon is president, and W. H. Edwards is treasurer.

BROTHER G. RAULEDER, who has been laboring among the Germans in Los Angeles, Cal., has organized a German class in the Sabbath-school, and reports the baptism of three of his readers.

ELDER J. M. REES reports the organization of a German church of twelve members at Hygiene, Colo., as the result of labor performed by Elder Jacob Kraft. We now have two German churches in that field.

THE California Conference Committee has decided to close the San Francisco Japanese mission school, and in its stead to employ three of our Japanese brethren to labor among their fellow-countrymen as missionaries.

THERE are now six tent companies at work in Minnesota, located for the present at Clinton, Big Stone County; Batavia, Todd County; at Albert Lea, Freeborn County; Clayton, Faribault County; Fulda, Murray County, and Lake Benton, Lincoln County. At the latter place the privilege was granted to pitch the tent on the court-house ground; and of the 600 inhabitants of the town, one-fourth were in attendance the first evening without any advertising.

UNDER date of June 8, Sister Vesta J. Farnsworth writes from Christchurch, N. Z.: "It has now been a little over four months since we first came here. We now have a neat church, 28x58 feet, finished, and it was dedicated last Sunday evening. It has been a marvel to the people that it has been erected so quickly, or that it has been built at all, for there were but few here to take hold and help in such an enterprise. . . . The interest to hear the truth has increased since we began building."

AT Avon, Iowa, a minister of the Christian Church was anxious to have a debate with Brother F. A. Washburn, on the Sabbath question. His request was finally granted, and in course of the debate Brother W. asked his antagonist to give a scriptural answer to the following queries: "1. Where is there a text which states that the first day of the week is the Lord's day? 2. Where was the first day made holy? 3. Where was it ever blessed or sanctified? 4. Where is there any law for its observance as the Lord's day? 5. Was any one ever condemned by the Lord for breaking it? 6. Was it a regular stated time for meeting to break bread?" Of course the adversary of the law of God had to acknowledge that he could not answer the questions from the Word of God. They are good test questions, and in brief completely expose the Sunday-sabbath fallacy.